Board Thread:PBS Kids/@comment-31322722-20180116210152/@comment-31322722-20180117200316

BeBeYouTiful wrote: Sussettey1 wrote: BeBeYouTiful wrote: Another thing, Slappy the sun, he was an odd problem fixed bc this Derick guy was happy but he was getting rained on so the agents gave him slappy instead. But Todd didn't want any problems fixed, even in an annoying way. ah, nice catch. I wonder if in this timeline, it happened before Todd took over, since that other guy wouldn't have known what future toast was without Odd Squad. Ohh that makes sense! In this timeline maybe todd was actually hired later than in the one we've been used to. Not that he was hired later, but that he took over later. You see, he was still hired in the same year as Olive would've been: 1997. In the following cases, whether Olive was present or not didn't make a difference, since Olive was not confident or independent until Todd came back and unleashed the pie-nado anyway. She would just go along with whatever Todd decided. So, that means that Todd still avoided solving the case of the dancing buildings and got fired at that very moment. We're going to assume that the time in between his departure and his return is the same. Only difference is that Olive was not there to stop the pie-nado.

I think I'm clever for this next part, but you might think otherwise.

In season 1 episodes, we know that Ms. O from present day hired Oscar, and Oscar worked in many different departments before founding the science department. If I remember correctly, in the movie, when Ms. O's predecessor was hiring in 1997, she said that Olive was "just like that Oscar kid", and rejected her. This means that:

1. Oscar was hired before 1997 in both timelines and before '83, because "...she [Ms. O] didn't hire anyone until the year of 1997" as put by O'Donahue himself. But the Oscar we see in the normal timeline clearly didn't know the story of how Oprah was put in charge and didn't seem to be present in the 80s years either. This might mean something else changed, but we still don't know what. She had to have hired Oscar before she got news that Oprah failed, but how, if it didn't happen that way in the normal timeline? Any ideas?

2. Oscar didn't get along well with Ms. O from that timeline.

Now, this Ms. O seems very judgemental, so I don't think she'd be able to tolerate Oscar's quirkiness. She probably fired Oscar, and that would mean that he wouldn't have been able to found the science department. Yet, Oscar was a scientist when he was taking care of the pie-nado door during the Academy student orientation. And he created the lock with his nose, remember? That's how Todd was able to open it. He'd created a gadget that could let him have different kinds of noses during his time as an agent. In the preview of what happened in the altered timeline, we see that he still chose Oscar's nose shape. (The science symbol on the lab door doesn't count because it was in the gift shop scene too, they probably didn't want to change it just for one scene.) So, what gives? I think, if we look deeper into the movie and the show, we could make a theory! What do you say?