User:Prenesh25/Sign of the Times

Sign of the Times is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of Numberblocks. It is the 76th episode overall.

Synopsis
Super-speedy Eighteen discovers a faster way to add a number together lots of times.

Plot
Eighteen and Ten are both racing together. Attempting to out of speed Ten, Eighteen soon enters his 3×6 arrangement and splits into six Threes to speed up. Soon, he accidentally crashes into a scarecrow and destroys it. Upon realising this, when Ten arrives, he simply shrugs this off and states that it is a plus sign. He soon realises it could mean that he can add up really fast, so he does so. Ten, impressed, asks if he can do it again.

As such, he does it again, but doing it slower by revealing he simply repeatedly added lots of times: 3+3+3+3+3+3. Eighteen soon tells her to make a three-block-wide rectangle; during which Sixteen appears, trying to plant square potatoes, though wondering where the scarecrow is. Eighteen awkwardly ignores and gets ready to see how fast Ten can add up. Splitting into five Twos, she does it slowly, which gets on Eighteen's nerves. Sixteen soon offers to try and do it faster for Eighteen; unfortunately, due to the amount of Twos, she does it slower than usual. Eighteen causes Sixteen to lose focus, which causes her to do the equation all over again; with it having gone so slowly, Eighteen creates a tornado that knocks everything into an x shape. He soon realises the scarecrow stand has been knocked down, and gets an idea to use it as a faster way to add up.

He picks up all the pluses and mashes them into the "times" sign. He asks how many Twos there are; eight. This makes 8 times 2. He soon tests it out; it works, and is much faster than usual- Eighteen soon prompts Ten to do the same, and he soon follows. Afterwards, he soon accidentally reveals he did break the scarecrow. Soon, crows come in, and Eighteen jokingly takes the scarecrow's place.

Trivia

 * The name is a pun on "times", as in multiplication.
 * This is the first episode to involve multiplication with the times sign. Previously, the Numberblocks would've used arrays and repeated addition, but from here on out, multiplication will be used.
 * This is the fifth episode where One is absent and third episode where Two is the smallest.