Off Colour

**Off Colour** is the 17th episode of Season 1. It originally aired on February 20, 2007.

## Summary

Spooky Spoon wants to be the most colourful character around, by taking other yellow, red, and blue things – Four is out to stop her, once and for all.

## Plot

Three is searching for something in the Cosy Room and accidentally hits Four in the face with one of her toys. Six asks what the matter is and Three says that she can't find something. When Six asks Three to specify, Four reveals that she lost one of her "slidey shapes". Four is still sulky about being hit in the face and suggests she tidy them up despite her still playing with them, but Six offers to help and asks what the shape looks like. Three says it's a circle and Four finds a blue circle, but Three wants a yellow circle. They gather up the yellow items and eventually Four finds it but Three doesn't let Four and Six take the credit.

The alarm sounds, they race to the control room, and Agent 88 reports a problem: some things are going missing. Namely, a little girl's pens, paints, and building blocks. Three wants to go out, but Six thinks Four should go out as he found Three's shape. Neither Three nor Four are certain about this, but then Five points out that Three is good at using her brain and figuring things out, so she'd do well in the control room.

Thus, Four is sent out (Five is a little concerned about the goldfish watching but Six thinks they'll just forget) and lands on the little girl's shirt (but not the one she's wearing). Then, one of her plush toys disappears. An agent wonders if the missing items have something in common, and Three observes that they're all yellow.

Another agent reports strange goings-on by the river, so Four heads over to investigate. A man's dinghy disappears, and Six suggests foul play. His suspicions are confirmed when Spooky Spoon shows up and steals another man's raincoat. Then, a man playing wheelchair basketball's shirt disappears, along with another man's shoes, however, those clothes were not yellow— they were red.

Three wonders why Spooky is taking red and yellow items, and she explains that she wants the world to be less colourful because she thinks she looks boring next to the colourful items. By the time Four arrives at the gymnasium, all the red shirts are gone and so is Spooky Spoon.

Agent 88 calls in, saying that Spooky is now stealing blue things— she swipes a car, a backpack (belonging to the same man who lost his shoes) and the blue shirts belonging to athletes in the same wheelchair basketball game (so now they can't play due to not knowing who's on what team).

Five imagines Spooky Spoon taking some roses and grass, turning the sky white, and finally taking the sun. Four then realises that if Spooky Spoon is taking blue things, she could take him— and she does, making him disappear. Understandably, the other Numberjacks are very worried and angry.

The agents suggest bringing blue back into the world to retrieve Four, so they start up the brain gain machine. He comes back but is phasing in and out of existence, so they use one of Four's buddy blocks. Four comes back completely and uses the brain gain to put the other blue things back.

The agents think of a way to "sort out" Spooky Spoon— send her a whole slew of colours. So, the Numberjacks put everyone's buddy blocks in the brain gain machine and everyone imagines colours. This makes Spooky change colour, but she can't make up her mind which colour to be, so she flies away screaming.

The missing yellow and red items return, as does Four, and they recap the episode. In the Cosy Room, Three sorts her slidey shapes by colour, but a blue star ends up in the "yellow" section. She considers starting again, but Four puts it in place instead. Then, Five asks the viewers to find a red, yellow, and blue thing.

## Numberjacks' Speech

[Alice] Lots of things were going missing, and they were all yellow.

[Jonathan] I went out.

[Laura] It was Spooky Spoon taking the yellow things.

[Oliver] Then she started taking red things.

[Laura] And the blue things.

[Jonathan] And then she took me.

[Laura] Jonathan's buddy block helped rescue him.

[Jonathan] And then we sorted Spooky Spoon.

[Alice] She could not make up her mind what colour to be.

[Oliver] And we got all the colours back into the world. Another good job done.

## Characters

Numberjacks: 3, 4, 5, 6

Agents: 88, 34, 25, 100

## Quote

Three: Red things! Spooky started taking RED things!
Five: But why?
**Spooky Spoon:** I'll tell you why. I am tired of all these lovely colors in the world because they made me look BORING!!!!!

**Three:** Boo! What a meanie!
Spooky Spoon: Ahahaha! Just TRY and stop me! AHAHAHAHAHA

## Trivia

* This is the second time Three does not use the Brain Gain Machine in this episode.
* Leslie Carrara-Rudolph makes a cameo appearance in this episode, when trying to open the car.