Zero the Hero is the 29th episode of Season 1. It originally aired on March 8, 2007.
Summary[]
It's Zero to the rescue when just for once, the other nine Numberjacks are the problem, not the answer!
Plot[]
Zero is messing around in the launcher room and pushes a button, which causes the launcher to make a noise. Not realizing what's happening and after a failed attempt to get Zero's attention, Three, Two, and One are playing hide and seek with Three being "it". After counting to ten really quickly, she finds One and Two in rapid succession and they disappear. Three is impressed for a few moments but becomes frustrated when they don't reappear and the alarm sends her to the Control Room.
When regrouping with Four, Five, and Six, Three tries to tell them about One and Two's trick, but they had gotten a call from Agent 33 with problems: a boy has one chef hat on his head, and a girl has two gardeners boots. Five agrees to go out there and sort out the problem but hears the strange noise in the launcher. She doesn't think much of it and Six, Three, and Four proceed with the launch as per normal.
Once out and about, Five searches for the children. She locates the boy but was surprised when Agent 55 finds Numberjack One, who says she didn't put the hat on the boy's head and can't move from where she is. Five then goes to look at the girl, then Three finds Two on the playground. He says he didn't put the boots on the girl and he's stuck as well. Three explains that One and Two had disappeared and must have reappeared outside, and she, Four, and Six hear something wrong with the launcher. Three disappears from the control room and Four rushes to fix the launcher, leaving Six to man the control room.
Five manages to find Three, who is inadvertently causing problems for the balloon man by giving him three wooden boards, which should have been with the builder. Meanwhile, Four's attempts to fix the launcher are fruitless and he ends up disappearing too. Five ends up finding Four at the builder's yard, while the builder has a tennis vest, a tennis racket, a tennis ball, and a tennis net: four things altogether.
Six has managed to contact Seven about the problem back at base, and she promises to get a hold of Eight and Nine. But, it turns out that Five has gotten stuck at the garden centre, and she accidentally makes five balloon animals appear. She tells Six it's up to him to sort things out if the bigger Numberjacks don't make it, and Six ends up disappearing too. He ends up accidentally giving a lady doing shopping some toys for a little boy: a scooter, a hovercraft, a telescope, a water pistol, a tractor, and a soccer ball: a total of six things.
Seven has managed to make her way down to help her friends, but she gets stuck too. She ends up giving the cleaner the ladies' seven bags. In the kitchen, Eight lands himself in trouble by giving the chef the girl's things: a doll, a toy elephant, a bottle of softdrink, a teddy, a skipping rope, a hoop, a snakes and ladders board game, and a bike: eight things total. Finally, Nine causes trouble for the tennis player by giving her three mops, three brooms, and three buckets from the cleaner, which makes nine.
Five then imagines all the problems being caused by all the Numberjacks... except she then realizes that they've forgotten about Zero. Five reports to Six that Zero is their last chance, and after an effort of shouting, Five manages to get Zero to turn the Brain Gain machine on. The agents help to count back and eventually, the problems are resolved and everyone goes back home. Nine then gives the challenge for the episode: can you count on more than Nine? Four then says he'll fix the launcher, once and for all!
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Trivia[]
- This is the final episode not to feature any of the Meanies.
- This is the first and only time there was no replay of the events of the episode.
- This is the most viewed episode in Numberjacks YouTube channel, receiving 50 million views. It is also the most liked video in the channel, receiving 93.7K likes.
- Jasper the Cat didn't appear in the sofa he's absent in this episode.
- This Episode won an award.
- This episode became a meme on TikTok where 7 says "Right I'm ready to help, Ah! Oh no, I'm not! I'm part of the problem too!"
- A clip of this episode can be found on Zero's page on older versions of the NumberJacks website.
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