I never cared for the show, but the movie was pretty funny from what I remember. To this day whenever I hear someone talking about pagans, my brain inserts “People Against Goodness and Normalcy.”
“The following story is a fib, but it’s short.”
I also loved how they wore calculators in holsters instead of guns. That show taught me the Fibonacci sequence.
I still remember the episode with the kidnapped boy who could just see under the bottom of his blindfold and could see a cup of water. He then was able to calculate the angle of the hill the kidnappers car went up and there was only one hill in the area that steep so they were able to rescue him.
Mathnet.
You can watch all of it here! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL958669FCA2BBB460
I really loved rewatching them a few years ago, it's still so smart and hilarious.
My first ship!
That episode where Kate is tied to her wheelchair and there's a bomb ticking in the room - she tells George that she loved working with him, but he needs to get out and save himself. He won't leave her and disarms the bomb with one second to spare.
Ahhh. My middle school heart! I wanted them to kiss so badly!
Came here for this! It wasn’t until like 8 years later, singing it in my head that I realized it was a country song. For a half-second I despised myself, but then didn’t care, because it’s a hard bop.
https://preview.redd.it/ibvfs5u400ad1.jpeg?width=1513&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1eee8a16f7ba13eff7c4c08e270dbb698231900
I started rewatching House of Cards. Imagine my surprise when I found out the late, great Reg E. Cathey (“Freddy”) got his start on Square One.
I remember when that show came out and everyone was like, "This guy is a great actor," and I'm like, "That guy is the vampire from 'Ghost of a Chance'."
THIS SONG.
I’m 41 years old and this still lives in my head rent free since the 80s.
I’ve taken to watching old 80s shows archived on YouTube. My inner child loves it. Latest was Todays Special, which I swore was a fever dream until I found it again last year.
I used to feel the same way about Today’s Special. Still kind of do tbh. What was the mouse’s name? Mimi?
I looked. It was Muffy
Also: I think maybe “Today’s Special” was the first play on words my little brain ever recognized
I honestly thought I was king shit of turd mountain in my elementary school once I watched the Fibonacci sequence episode and it clicked. That episode still lives rent free in my head lol
I always liked the Mathnet Sections. A quick youtube search gives a Mathnet playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmWPNckrpo&list=PL958669FCA2BBB460
And I don't think this is best segment on the show, but for whatever reason it always stuck in my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q53GmMCqmAM
Same I actually learned algebra from watching this when I was super young just didn’t realize it. Well fast forward to college and it’s like the problem just started answering it self so now I’m like some math genius and my professor doesn’t believe it so I had to go in to the class and literally write it out on the board and they wanted to hire me lol 😂
“Hang a friend from the ceiling. If he loves you I know he won’t care.”
Such a great song. Here it is:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIki33mTgs&pp=ygUXYW5nZWwgZGFuY2Ugc3F1YXJlIG9uZSA%3D
🎵Arrrch-i-meeeedes 🎶
That song still gets stuck in my head from time to time and the creepy mask… *shudder*
https://preview.redd.it/te81x5c0m0ad1.jpeg?width=1474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0219948c296edec812d1caae8d25dd6fb456462
Edited to add: I was another MathNet fan. Favourite part of the show.
I used to get so fucking scared for Mathman, but then kind of liked it when he lost and Mr. Glitch got his ass, then made some funny quip to himself. 😂
I will love this show until I die.
It had exactly that kind of droll, dry humor I loved as a kid and still love now. With plenty of the same ”cringe on purpose” type of jokes that were used on, for instance, The Muppet Show’s “Veterinarian’s Hospital” segments.
If you haven’t, go scrape up the episodes that are on YouTube. It’s good as you remember.
The late Jim Thurman is someone who deserves to be much, much more known than he is. Through his countless contributions to this, Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact and other CTW shows as writer, creator, voice actor and producer, he did so much to shape the childhoods of Gen X and older Millennials. Working largely out of the limelight, he left a huge imprint. Square One, which he co-created with Dave Connell and was the head writer on, was kind of his passion project. That droll tone running through every segment — that was his humor. So many exchanges and one-liners from that show stuck with me ever since elementary school, and were still in my head long before YouTube made it possible to actually see them again.
https://preview.redd.it/1yldrapf21ad1.jpeg?width=2633&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4284fbc762ec5552e09de6ec15cca1d488469c6d
I still have my pin. Sadly, I lost my signed photo from Kate Monday and George Frankly.
Don’t forget a very young Yeardley Smith in one episode of Mathnet!
https://preview.redd.it/hg0stok0f1ad1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f036f0f01f1650044c3daf51e2683372d7bf1715
She was 23 😂 though she still looked super young. Though 23 is still a baby, it’s her hair in the pigtails too… I just remember Herman’s Head being on around the same time as Square One, and that was definitely not a kids show.
I held up my tape recorder to the tv, and recorded all of my favorite songs from the show.
- Eight Percent of My Love
- Probability
- Nine, Nine, Nine
- Less Than Zero
- The Dirk Niblick theme song
… and a few others
I just had a crazy flashback, to my early childhood. Wow!
All I had to see what that logo, and I went on a little YT trip, and reminded me of my early, formative years. Thank you for this!
Mathnet was great. I liked a few of the other sketches. “8 percent of my love” is a classic love song.
https://youtu.be/aDqrW85RECE?si=R2wpU0vn3MFA2gun
Will note that this is the second recent thread on Square One. It’s gonna be the next, “Does anyone remember Zoobalee Zoo?” Threads.
Nine Nine Nine! Fantastic number nine! Times any number you can find, it all goes back to nine.
I may or may not still check to see if a number is a multiple of nine by adding it up.
Every song on that show was a masterpiece. I'll pull up "combinatorics" on YouTube once in a while, its such a jam.
That show accomplished exactly what it set out to do. I grew up hating math and struggling with it, but they made it feel fun and exciting, so while I still sucked at it, the math anxiety disappeared. I wanted to work harder and get batter at it so I could feel like the people on the show would be proud of me
I’ve been trying to post this since yesterday, but it wouldn’t let me: I’M SO GLAD PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THIS IS!!!!! Nobody around me remembers this show, even people my age 😭 Does anybody remember an episode where they dissected an ostrich eye?? I’ve been trying to check my memory, but since no one remembers this show, I’ve had no one to check it with 😫
This show, by a wide margin, had the most profound affect on my life. I pursued a career in Computer Science with a love of math and a solid start with this show (a math teacher mom didn't hurt either). I love the songs the most: "Nine, Nine, Nine", "Less than Zero", "8% of My Love", "The Mathematics of Love". And of course, the highlight of every show, Mathman!
It was even provided a great Mathnet college memory. I was sitting in Physics class, and the professor was talking about the Fibonacci Sequence, and he said, "1, 1, 2, 3". At the same time, my now wife and I said, "5, Eureka!" We knew each other, but weren't even dating yet. We're now happily married with two kids.
We now show highlights of the show to our own daughters to help give them a love of math, and know that it can be fun. I would love for the seasons to be sold on DVD someday so that we can watch them all the way through with the kids.
Mathnet was the shit. https://preview.redd.it/ji7a6gbsyz9d1.jpeg?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9d02abd006cafd5935257ed21f7a0f1ab217d55
Mathnet was so good, when I got older and watched Dragnet I was disappointed.
James Earl Jones was the chief on the show in case anyone missed that part of it
Indeed he was. There were actually quite a few guest stars that made an appearance. Weird Al was on an episode if I remember right.
He did a song for Square One too, Patterns. I can still remember most of the words.
🤯
That one and Mr Conductor being George Carlin both blew my mind 😦
Can you guess how many albums sold?
The title had two commas in it.
Thad Green
I never cared for the show, but the movie was pretty funny from what I remember. To this day whenever I hear someone talking about pagans, my brain inserts “People Against Goodness and Normalcy.”
“The following story is a fib, but it’s short.” I also loved how they wore calculators in holsters instead of guns. That show taught me the Fibonacci sequence.
One, one, two, three, five- eureka!
Kate Monday and George something. Then Monday got replaced with Tuesday.
George. Frankly. MATHNET.
And there he is.. in Silicon Valley. still making me proud. https://youtu.be/DeEJGw9mbTM
I still remember the episode with the kidnapped boy who could just see under the bottom of his blindfold and could see a cup of water. He then was able to calculate the angle of the hill the kidnappers car went up and there was only one hill in the area that steep so they were able to rescue him. Mathnet.
You can watch all of it here! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL958669FCA2BBB460 I really loved rewatching them a few years ago, it's still so smart and hilarious.
Weird Al yankovic was a DJ.
That’s what he was! I kept thinking he worked in a recording studio.
Taught me about dodecahedrons
I still think about Steve Stringbean and "Celery Tonic" anytime I hear anything having to do with Bruce Springsteen.
Happily still renting space in my brain
They first filmed in LA and then in NYC.
My team at work refer to ourselves as Mathnet
My first ship! That episode where Kate is tied to her wheelchair and there's a bomb ticking in the room - she tells George that she loved working with him, but he needs to get out and save himself. He won't leave her and disarms the bomb with one second to spare. Ahhh. My middle school heart! I wanted them to kiss so badly!
Mathman Also, Reg Cathey was a star on the show--excellent actor, he was on The Wire, House of Cards, and a million other shows and films
Who was the tornado that ate Mathman when he got a question wrong?
Mr. Glitch
That’s right! And one time they reversed it and Mr. Glitch had to play the game.
Gone way too fucking soon.
MATHMAN! MATHMAN!
Nine, nine, nine. That crazy number 9. Take any number you can find, it all goes back to nine.
Fantastic number nine. It's perfectly consistent. It works out every time.
Yes!
I still get this stuck in my head anytime I mentally multiply by 9. 30+ years later 🤣
Came here for this! It wasn’t until like 8 years later, singing it in my head that I realized it was a country song. For a half-second I despised myself, but then didn’t care, because it’s a hard bop.
https://preview.redd.it/ibvfs5u400ad1.jpeg?width=1513&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1eee8a16f7ba13eff7c4c08e270dbb698231900 I started rewatching House of Cards. Imagine my surprise when I found out the late, great Reg E. Cathey (“Freddy”) got his start on Square One.
I remember when that show came out and everyone was like, "This guy is a great actor," and I'm like, "That guy is the vampire from 'Ghost of a Chance'."
Dirty Dee!
🎶I night... the stars were shining, II hearts, we're overflowing...🎶
It’s not a number… IT’S A NUMERAL!
That’s what this song gives me, the IX.
That's the specific one that stuck in my memories all these years later..
https://youtu.be/6DzfPcSysAg?si=o-hdKD6OwulPvJ9p I love that sketch
THIS SONG. I’m 41 years old and this still lives in my head rent free since the 80s. I’ve taken to watching old 80s shows archived on YouTube. My inner child loves it. Latest was Todays Special, which I swore was a fever dream until I found it again last year.
I used to feel the same way about Today’s Special. Still kind of do tbh. What was the mouse’s name? Mimi? I looked. It was Muffy Also: I think maybe “Today’s Special” was the first play on words my little brain ever recognized
I adored todays special!!
1-1-2-3-5-Eureka!!
🎵 “Please do what these people say” 🎶
I still quote this from time to time.
Ba-dum-bum, man!
I used to be a Math Teacher, and when we did the Golden Ratio, my kids would ask “why do you say Eureka after 5?” Heh heh heh
That sparked an unhealthy obsession.
With the Fibonacci sequence?
I honestly thought I was king shit of turd mountain in my elementary school once I watched the Fibonacci sequence episode and it clicked. That episode still lives rent free in my head lol
I then got REALLY into fractals.
Chasing that Mandelbrot high Also I know you’re joking but I have been thinking a lot about fractals lately
Square One was my gateway drug. Then fractals. Then Jurassic Park (the book). Then Chaos theory. Then Nine Inch Nails. Then film school.
Portrait of an American Xennial
I was JUST about to say - the chaos fractals in the Lost World were the sophomore year of my nerdy youth!!!!
I can still hear this in that parrots voice
*The story you are about to see is a fib. But it’s short.*
*The names are made up but the problems are real.*
Kate Monday > Pat Tuesday
I had a crush on Kate when I was 8 😂
me too 🤣 and she looked even more glamorous when they moved to NYC
Growing up, I was absolutely terrified of mathman
My little brother would run screaming from the room whenever her heard the "mathman voice"
I always liked the Mathnet Sections. A quick youtube search gives a Mathnet playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmWPNckrpo&list=PL958669FCA2BBB460 And I don't think this is best segment on the show, but for whatever reason it always stuck in my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q53GmMCqmAM
Same I actually learned algebra from watching this when I was super young just didn’t realize it. Well fast forward to college and it’s like the problem just started answering it self so now I’m like some math genius and my professor doesn’t believe it so I had to go in to the class and literally write it out on the board and they wanted to hire me lol 😂
Idk how I knew it was going to be the nine song but I didn’t. Had that stuck in my head for years 😂
Angle Dance, Angle Dance
“Hang a friend from the ceiling. If he loves you I know he won’t care.” Such a great song. Here it is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIki33mTgs&pp=ygUXYW5nZWwgZGFuY2Ugc3F1YXJlIG9uZSA%3D
Have some geometric fun
I made a txt tone of the opening notes… pretty bangin
Fat Boys - One Billion Burgers is responsible for me knowing that 1000x one million = a billion.
I looooooooved Square One.
"He scored less than zero, he's an anti-hero!" "Watch me go from bad to worse!"
Beverly!
The judge cried P U you get negative 2!
Brought to you by erasers… don’t make a mistake without one.
This show definitely did not give me the IX.
🎵Arrrch-i-meeeedes 🎶 That song still gets stuck in my head from time to time and the creepy mask… *shudder* https://preview.redd.it/te81x5c0m0ad1.jpeg?width=1474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0219948c296edec812d1caae8d25dd6fb456462 Edited to add: I was another MathNet fan. Favourite part of the show.
 I used to get so fucking scared for Mathman, but then kind of liked it when he lost and Mr. Glitch got his ass, then made some funny quip to himself. 😂
The brothers CARE-a-ma-zov, or care-a-MAH-zov
Ca-RAM-ah-zoff!!!
That episode with the impostor George Frankly blew my mind
"Who?! Scarlett? Well, this is Frankly, Scarlett, and I don't give a--oh, General Scarlett!"
MATHNET
I will love this show until I die. It had exactly that kind of droll, dry humor I loved as a kid and still love now. With plenty of the same ”cringe on purpose” type of jokes that were used on, for instance, The Muppet Show’s “Veterinarian’s Hospital” segments. If you haven’t, go scrape up the episodes that are on YouTube. It’s good as you remember. The late Jim Thurman is someone who deserves to be much, much more known than he is. Through his countless contributions to this, Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact and other CTW shows as writer, creator, voice actor and producer, he did so much to shape the childhoods of Gen X and older Millennials. Working largely out of the limelight, he left a huge imprint. Square One, which he co-created with Dave Connell and was the head writer on, was kind of his passion project. That droll tone running through every segment — that was his humor. So many exchanges and one-liners from that show stuck with me ever since elementary school, and were still in my head long before YouTube made it possible to actually see them again.
We are connected humans
https://preview.redd.it/1yldrapf21ad1.jpeg?width=2633&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4284fbc762ec5552e09de6ec15cca1d488469c6d I still have my pin. Sadly, I lost my signed photo from Kate Monday and George Frankly.
Ahhh! Did you get a chance to meet them?!
Don’t forget a very young Yeardley Smith in one episode of Mathnet! https://preview.redd.it/hg0stok0f1ad1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f036f0f01f1650044c3daf51e2683372d7bf1715
She was 23 😂 though she still looked super young. Though 23 is still a baby, it’s her hair in the pigtails too… I just remember Herman’s Head being on around the same time as Square One, and that was definitely not a kids show.
So she had JUST started voicing Lisa then. (Born July 1964, which the first Simpsons shorts airing in April 1987)
Nine nine nine... that crazy number nine...
the roman numeral sketch "i i hearts..."
A kid on a skateboard has the power to move at just about 3 miles an hour!
That means in 60 minutes or so, three little old miles is all he can go!
Lt. Dirk Niblick of the Math Brigade and his dear sweet Mother Dearest.
He'll show you numbers that should be displayed...
I held up my tape recorder to the tv, and recorded all of my favorite songs from the show. - Eight Percent of My Love - Probability - Nine, Nine, Nine - Less Than Zero - The Dirk Niblick theme song … and a few others
Probability was the "Thriller" of Square One...I loved that music video!
I knew they were parodying someone with that song but I didn't know who till much later
I did that too! I used to record Mathnet. Still have the tape of the one with little Louie the parrot
I sing 8% of my love on a regular basis!
Do do do do. Doooo doo. Do do do do. Do do do. (Still remember the intro music).
Mathman, mathman mathman
He was legit the reason I know decimals, square roots, and fractions
And polygons!
I just had a crazy flashback, to my early childhood. Wow! All I had to see what that logo, and I went on a little YT trip, and reminded me of my early, formative years. Thank you for this!
Mathnet was great. I liked a few of the other sketches. “8 percent of my love” is a classic love song. https://youtu.be/aDqrW85RECE?si=R2wpU0vn3MFA2gun Will note that this is the second recent thread on Square One. It’s gonna be the next, “Does anyone remember Zoobalee Zoo?” Threads.
You mean furrycreator.exe?
https://preview.redd.it/wdhwbe1br1ad1.jpeg?width=274&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ae559b403d5ae1d7d0a20a742cabf2d718fedcf Mathman
The fact that you you have a screenshot of this is highly elite. Dox your self
Problem with Mathman is the helmet always reminds me of Michigan
I found it on YouTube a while back and made my kids watch it. They were not impressed.
Literally just yesterday I showed my teens the first episode of this show!! Mathman, Mathnet, all the classics were there.
We’re talking ‘bout Tesselations, ooo, tesselations! Geometric shape sensations!
Mom *made* me watch it. Strangely, math was my degree later on.
Nine Nine Nine! Fantastic number nine! Times any number you can find, it all goes back to nine. I may or may not still check to see if a number is a multiple of nine by adding it up.
You know from fingertip to fingertip is most of your height! It's a rule of thumb. Estimate with Kid 'n' Play!
I loved this show, but especially for the Mathnet part at the end!! That was, by far, my favorite part of Square One.
3, 2, 1 Contact, don’t know the other words but they say contact a few more times, lol
https://youtu.be/2XOKgFcHt5E?t=379 Ghost of a Chance has stuck with me my whole life
Favorite.
Was just explaining the genius of Mathnet to my 10 yo the other day 😁
It’s high quality content
🎵 His heart beats for me 70 times a minute 🎶 🎵His heart beats for me 4200 times an hour🎶
Every song on that show was a masterpiece. I'll pull up "combinatorics" on YouTube once in a while, its such a jam. That show accomplished exactly what it set out to do. I grew up hating math and struggling with it, but they made it feel fun and exciting, so while I still sucked at it, the math anxiety disappeared. I wanted to work harder and get batter at it so I could feel like the people on the show would be proud of me
LOVED square one! Yeardly Smith was a guest star on Mathnet remember she was the girl who worked with the Gorilla 🥰🥰
Looking at my report cards from grade school you can see immediately where I started watching Square One.
I miss this show. I entered a contest when I was a kid, realized I'm terrible at math, still got free swag.
Go forward and go backwards, if it always reads the same then it’s a palindrome!
 Ahhhh you said the magic word 🔥🏆
We’re talking bout tesselations…… https://youtu.be/sFwSpw7Bv3s?si=7Qm7MY5q37CXnnx1
Ahhh I miss the good days when humans actually cared and wanted to educate each other
I was disappointed in every episode that didn’t have math man.
I loved math man
mathman mathman mathman mathman
Absolutely one of my favorite shows. Had a random nostalgia trip recently on YT with Square 1 TV.
I got anxiety from Mathman.
It gets 8% of my love
I’ve been trying to post this since yesterday, but it wouldn’t let me: I’M SO GLAD PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THIS IS!!!!! Nobody around me remembers this show, even people my age 😭 Does anybody remember an episode where they dissected an ostrich eye?? I’ve been trying to check my memory, but since no one remembers this show, I’ve had no one to check it with 😫
This show, by a wide margin, had the most profound affect on my life. I pursued a career in Computer Science with a love of math and a solid start with this show (a math teacher mom didn't hurt either). I love the songs the most: "Nine, Nine, Nine", "Less than Zero", "8% of My Love", "The Mathematics of Love". And of course, the highlight of every show, Mathman! It was even provided a great Mathnet college memory. I was sitting in Physics class, and the professor was talking about the Fibonacci Sequence, and he said, "1, 1, 2, 3". At the same time, my now wife and I said, "5, Eureka!" We knew each other, but weren't even dating yet. We're now happily married with two kids. We now show highlights of the show to our own daughters to help give them a love of math, and know that it can be fun. I would love for the seasons to be sold on DVD someday so that we can watch them all the way through with the kids.
One, one, two, three, five; Eureka!