Five's imagination

When problems happen, Five imagines what would happen if they don't sort them out, often involving what would happen to the Dancing Cow.

The imagination sequence is a two-dimensional boiling line animation.

## **Imagination sequences:**

### Season 1

#### The Trouble with Nothing

* Zero might make someone's clothes disappear
* Traffic lights might disappear
* Zero might make The Dancing Cow's spotlight and stage disappear.

#### Going Wrong, Going Long

* Someone's nose getting longer
* The Dancing Cow getting longer
* A bike getting longer and taller

#### Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow

* A bubble turning from a sphere to a cube
* The sun turning from a sphere to a cube
* A football turning from a sphere to a cube

#### In, Out, Shake It All About

* Tongue pops out and teeth pop out and chase someone
* Getting popped out of bed
* Whole bedroom popped outside

#### One More Time

* The sun rising over a bridge gets a second sun
* Everything has two shadows
* A bird flying over a bridge several times, going on forever

#### Forward Thinking

* If traffic went backwards, cars, trucks, and other vehicles will hit each other.
* If a ball went backwards, it can hit you.
* If time went backwards, people would get younger.

#### Seven Wonders

* Four candles get turned into seven
* Shapes with four sides get three extra sides, making seven
* The Dancing Cow would have three extra legs to worry about

#### Getting Heavy

* Instead of a hamster, it's an elephant
* Instead of a butterfly, it's a cow
* Instead of a goldfish, it's a whale

#### Belongings

* Hamsters can't swim in water like fish
* Sharks can't graze in fields like the Dancing Cow
* The Dancing Cow can't become the Flying Cow like birds

#### 4 He's a Jolly Good Fellow

* The four legs from a chair disappear
* The four legs from a table disappear
* Four fences of a field are taken and the Dancing Cow dances off
* The Dancing Cow's legs are taken

#### Boxing Day

* A snake is put in a box, a very long thin box
* Traffic lights are put in a box, a very tall box
* A tree is in a box

#### Out of Order

* Watching TV before turning it on. How boring would that be?
* Getting in the bath before getting undressed. How soggy would that be?
* Falling asleep before getting into bed

#### Nine Lives

* Three candles on a cake might become nine candles that and it would be a cake for a 9 year old
* Goldilocks and the Three Bears becomes Goldilocks and the Nine Bears
* Three crying babies become nine crying babies

#### Takeaway

* One sun gets taken, making it dark everywhere
* One cloud is taken, and there's still more to bring rain
* One raindrop is taken, so many are left so it wouldn't be noticeable

#### Stop and Go

* Birds stop flying in mid-air
* The Dancing Cow stops dancing and is just The Cow
* A person moving house has their house moving with them.

#### Off Colour

* No more red roses
* No more green grass or leaves
* No more blue sky
* No more bright yellow sun

#### A Game of Two Halves

* People are left with half their favourite storybooks
* People wouldn't be very comfy if their beds are cut in half
* The Dancing Cow is cut in half. Half a Dancing Cow would only have 2 legs, and she'd fall over

#### Out for the Count

* You'd get the wrong number of candles on your cake, so instead of five, you'd get six or seven or eight
* People's stories might be ruined, such as having Goldilocks and the Four Bears
* The Dancing Cow might have five, six, seven or eight legs, as many as a spider.

#### The Container Drainer

* Drink cartons have no drink in them
* Balloons have no air inside
* Swimming pools have no water to play in

#### Tens Moments

* A monster with one head gets ten heads
* The Dancing Cow becomes ten Dancing Cows
* One sun gets ten suns and everything burns and dies

#### Say What You Mean

* Someone gets a dolls blanket that's far too small
* Someone gets a bike that's much too big
* Someone gets too much ice-cream

#### One Won

* All bits of cereal except one is taken
* A plant only has one leaf and one petal
* Only one person is left while the rest run away

#### Tricky Sixes

* Six worms make a tricky six in someone's lunch
* Six bears make a tricky six in someone's bed
* Six sharks make a tricky six in someone's bath

#### May The Fours Be With You

* A domino with two lots of four is eight, which might go mad and spoil the game
* An instrument is played eight notes and then goes mad
* An octopus gets up from the water and chases people all over the beach.

#### Best Estimate

* Trying to choose which plate of sandwiches has about four and they go strange.
* Trying to choose which pot has about three plants and they behave strangely
* The Dancing Cow can't choose which set of shoes has four shoes, and they dance on their own.

#### On and Off

* You're on your bed, and you're popped off your bed
* The decorations are on your cake, then suddenly they're off
* The clock is on the mantle piece, and falls down and breaks

#### Zero the Hero

* All the Numberjacks had been causing problems:
	1. The boy had trouble with the chef's hat
	2. The girl had trouble with welly boots
	3. The balloon man has wooden boards
	4. The builder has a tennis racket
	5. The gardener has balloon animals
	6. The lady is holding a skateboard
	7. The cleaner is holding various packages
	8. The chef is riding a bike
	9. The tennis player has a bucket and mop
* Five realises Zero can save them

#### Bad Circles

* Wheels might come flying off cars and trucks
* Pizzas might go mad (splatting onto everyone's faces)
* A trampoline becomes far too bouncy, getting someone to land in a tree

#### Famous 5s

* Instead of paddling with a foot, you paddle with your hands
* Instead of scooting with a foot, you scoot with your hands
* You skip with your hands instead of your feet, and use your feet to turn the rope.

#### Fair Shares

* One bull suddenly has three horns and the other bull only has one.
* One car has six wheels and the other car has only two.
* One clock has four hands and the other clock has zero, making it useless to tell the time on them.

#### Being 3

* Three clouds might get taken
* Three wheels are taken off a bike
* Three flags are taken off a sandcastle

#### Into the Teens

* Four wheels turn into fourteen wheels on a racing car and crashes.
* Four fingers and a thumb on a glove, five, would get turned into a glove with fifteen digits
* A crab with six legs would get sixteen legs.

#### Slide and Turn

* The sun would rise and set in the sky randomly
* A rectangle window would slide all over the house
* A door is slid and turned to a point a person can't get in their house

#### Six of One

* A chocolate bar would be shared out before being joined up again
* An ant's six legs would be moved to one side
* A shoelace's six holes would be moved to one side

#### Time Trouble

* There's not enough time to wash your face and plants would grow everywhere
* You'd walk around in pyjamas due to there being not enough time to get dressed
* If given too much time outside, you'd be out there for ages and ages and get covered in snow

#### 1, 2, 3, Go!

* You could have one backpack, two heavy backpacks and three really heavy bags
* One bowl of lovely soup, two bowls of not very nice soup and three bowls of horrible soup
* One scary monster, two scary monsters and three monsters so scary they scared together.

#### More 4

* If you had glasses and sides didn't match, that would look weird, and they might fall off your head
* The Dancing Cow might get an extra horn on one side and her legs may move to one side and she'd fall over
* Without a pair of matching wings, a butterfly may not be able to fly properly at all

#### Almost Human

* Four wouldn't be good at riding a bike
* Four can be a good student but he wouldn't be very good at playing in the playground
* Four wouldn't be a very good racing car driver, a doctor or a pop star

#### Two, Four, Six, Eight!

* People may stop using two hands.
* You'd go straight from being three years old to being five years old
* Boxes would fall apart because they have six sides
* A spider would only be able to use seven legs instead of eight

#### Round and Round

* A digger's pattern on it's side might make it go dig, chuck, flip
* A dancer's pattern on her costume might make them go trip, splat, bounce
* A plane might go dive, loop, climb, and making the passengers very sick.

#### Square Dancing

* A girl is square dancing because her 'diamond' is a tipped up square on her t-shirt
* A bath might be square dancing because it's on square tiles and water would be tossed out.
* A house might be square dancing because of it's square windows, and everything would be tossed out.

#### Data Day

* The pencils play musical chairs and when the music stops, they might break
* The knife and fork might play pass the parcel, only it's pass the *bread!*
* The things in your bathroom might get into party mood and get water everywhere.

#### How? What? Check!

* What's the problem? Eight spiders with one leg each; a number problem. How to solve it: one spider with eight legs. Check: right number of legs for a spider, problem solved.
* What's the problem? The basket is too small; wrong sized basket, a size problem. How to solve it: make the basket bigger. Check: basket big enough, problem solved.
* What's the problem? The house was on the shore, then in the ocean, a place problem. How to solve it: put the house back on land. Check, house in right place, problem solved.

### Season 2

#### Ups and Downs

* A bike is turned upside down and someone sits on it, feeling a lot of pain.
* A tree upside down would have it's roots sticking up and birds would be very confused.
* If your bathroom was upside down, water would be everywhere and you couldn't go to the loo.

#### On the Move

* People would stop and count their feet each time they walked.
* Or their fingers every time they moved.
* People would count sheep each time they moved, and then fall asleep.

#### Very Shapely

* A sandwich would be very difficult to eat if they changed shape
* A TV wouldn't be able to fit everything on the screen.
* A car's wheels could change and cars would bounce up and down and people would be getting sick.

#### Wee Three Phone Home

* A car has one steering wheel, then two, then three! And the driver wouldn't know which one to use!
* The Dancing Cow would have four legs, then five, and six!
* "Then the next thing might be..." before Five can continue, Six interrupts her.

#### Did You Notice Anything?

* Someone's paint brush might get extra bristles and it makes a huge mess and the artist wouldn't notice.
* Someone's playing an instrument and a bird flies inside, laying an egg and it splats everywhere, and they wouldn't notice anything!
* Someone could be riding a bike and it turns into the Dancing Cow, dancing a jig, and you wouldn't notice even if you fell off and the Dancing Cow fell on you.

#### Measured Response

* A slide might get very short, or too long and Too whizzy.
* Trees might get very short and hit a person, or very tall and get above an aeroplane.
* Roads might get very long or very short, so short the buildings are crammed together.

#### Think Again

* The whole world would have one tree, with one branch, one leaf and one twig
* Only one insect would exist with only one leg and have a hard time climbing
* There might be only one bird with only one wing, so it couldn't fly.

#### Carry on Counting

* People would have to start counting again when there's more toys that show up.
* A shepherd was counting the sheep and it would start again when more sheep get there and they wouldn't be counted.
* If tires are changed on a car, you wouldn't want to start again when the last one arrives, otherwise you'd never win the race.

#### A Record in the Charts

* If Zookeepers didn't have the information what animals like to eat, they might feed leaves to the seals and fish to the giraffes.
* You might buy anything at the shop, including the worker, and not know what things you need or what you don't need.
* People might not be able to make a car properly and it falls apart when it comes out.

#### Half Time

* A bird would only have one wing instead of two and wouldn't be able to fly.
* The Dancing Cow would go from having four legs, to two, to one, and she can't dance at all.
* A spider would have eight legs, then four, then two, then one, and spinning her web would be very difficult.

#### A Close Thing

* People are too far away to play together properly.
* A book gets too close and you can't read it at all.
* A lion is too far away to see, or too close and puts the person in danger.

#### A Circle At Both Ends

* Tins of food spilling everywhere in the supermarket.
* A drinking straw making soda go everywhere.
* A cheesecake splats right in the chef's face. It could be very messy!

#### Matchmaking

* Two people have one raincoat each, but one raincoat means someone will get soaked.
* Three dogs are happy with three bowls of food, but with only two bowls, one dog is going to go hungry.
* Four people are flying kites, but only two kites between four people isn't very fair.

#### A Different Sort

* People with straight hair are each other, and so are people with curly hair.
* The trucks are each other on the road, and all the cars are each other.
* The blue vehicles are then grouped, as are the silver ones.

#### Areas of Concern

* A lid on the box would shrinking too small, or growing way too big.
* The stamp on a postcard would be so small the postman wouldn't see it, or be so big he couldn't carry it.
* The sticker in a book could be so small it doesn't fit, or it gets so big it sticks someone to the book.

#### The Dreaded Lurgi

* The Problem Blob might make things go up and down again, and people would be stuck in a lift all day long.
* Two people on a bench are going up and down as well as round and round.

#### Fraction Action

* A seesaw might get split in half because the two children wanted it.
* A skipping rope is split into thirds because the three children wanted it.
* A bath is split into quarters because the four people wanted it.

#### Interesting Times

* Playing football in the dark would mean you won't see the ball and it could go anywhere.
* The teacher falls asleep during class.
* The sun and moon rise and fall without knowing what time of day it should be.

#### More Ways Than One

* The painter starts using his feet to paint the room
* The painter then starts throwing the paint.
* The painter gets the Dancing Cow to dance the paint on the walls.

#### Hundreds and Thousands

* There would be a thousand birds...
* then just one hundred birds...
* then ten birds...
* Then just one!

## Specials:

#### Counting Down To Christmas

* The Shape Japer might Change The Antlers Of The Reindeer So They Can't Pull Santa's Sleigh
* The Shape Japer might Change The Chimney Pot If Santa Did Arrive
* A Cracker Gets Really Big With A Giant BANG!

#### Seaside Adventure

* Balloons Become Heavy & Fall Down & People Become Light & Float Up!
* Monsters Become Tiny & Cute & Babies Become Huge & Scary!
* Instead Of The Sun Being Bright & Hot, The Sun Will Be Dark & Cold!