Mathnet - Case of the Willing Parrot (Recap & Finale) Pt.2

[OneWeirdDude]

I finally remembered what else I wanted to say about this case: I think this was the only one in which the villain appeared in every episode but the last. Or rather, he never appeared in Friday's episode. (Apparently, he never appeared in Monday's or Wednesday's, either.)

[MrsShirotora]

This is so awesome in ways that I did not appreciate when I was seven.

[Choumaru]

And this is why I can never go into a tiled room without counting the tiles. Always solves the problem of boredom in public restrooms though!

[wednesday55]

@Choumaru You never know when you'll uncover a treasure!! :)

[Wow4181]

I remember watching this episode of Mathnet when I was 4 or 5 years old and that was back in the late 80's, that nostalgia is still just as amazing as when it was when it first came out.

[adamssean6494]

I remember this when I was a kid. Wasn't that Tom Bosley who played the criminal?

[LegalShield3000]

you can tell this was while when Monday said "can I use your phone, I want to call for backup"

[spiked200]

he walked in front of the beverly hills hotel.....without permission or white shoes......throw the book at the dirty bum!!!!

[tstohs1]

I wonder why they chose 513 for the number at the bank... sum of the first two powers of 9?

[tedmania1]

this is the best episode of the series!

[jpchase1987]

@tedmania1 You can say that again.

[PolizeiPaul]

Who played Norman Tedge?

[tyrese3745]

@PolizeiPaul That would be actor Geoffrey Lewis (who played Orville Boggs, Philo Beddoe's best friend/manager in the 1978 comedy "Every Which Way But Loose" and its 1980 sequel "Any Which Way You Can").

[DeathMage]

I have never forgotten about this episode. I loved the way the wall was done.

[Snakecharmer95]

Louie: Big Bucks Big Bucks no whammy's STOP!

Host: you stop on 5000+ONE SPIN

LOL

[melskunk]

This is a lot funnier than I remembered.

[czerwony45]

I don't remember Kate Monday being so pretty.

[wednesday55]

@czerwony45 I do. I thought she was *gorgeous*!!!! My six-year-old self was right.

[VanillaLimeCoke]

Anyone know the actor of the bad guy? He looks so familiar.

[ninefatstalks]

OMG, he was stapled to the chicken!!!! HAHAHAAAHAHAAHAAA!!! Little Louie should have filled in for Johnny Carson back then.

[maptahoe]

This is my favorite episode too! Thanks so much for posting! 1 1 2 3 5 Eureka!

[Devhux]

Wow.... the first Mathnet link I find also was my favorite episode. This actually introduced me to the Fibonacci sequence back in the day.

[hypotriox]

this was my fav epi from this show! i always loved square one tv and the clue type epi too.

[owenpeterson]

When I was little, at the end of the case whenever the Mathnet seal came up I always gave a salute.

[XberrycupcakesX]

lol i remeber watching this in elementary school, or middle school i forgot, anyway....i have been looking for these kinds of videos, thank you for sharing!

[itachiuchiha369619]

i think my favorite part was when he suggested carry and the parrot said "Carry me back to old Virginia"

XD

[fredaberry]

was monday always that frigid?

[LandauCalrisian]

Awesome. I wonder about the punch line about the born again beauracrat and the overstuffed sofa. Everything else made sense. Thank you to everyone who put this together.

Salut,

Matthew

[theygotrhythm]

Wow, that chalkboard drawing of the tiles is immaculate. Those Mathnetters have some serious skiils.

[OneWeirdDude]

@theygotrhythm Yeah, seriously. I thought at the time that they has somehow transferred the photograph onto the chalkboard or something, as little sense as that makes to me today.

[ComradeSephiroth]

Write out the traditional sequence:

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, etc...

Now for every number greater than 5, subtract the largest multiple of 5 that you can without going below 1, and you get:

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 3, 3, 1, 4, 5, 4, 4, etc...

This is the pattern on the wall. They combined Fibonacci with modulo-5 congruences! But I didn't understand the concept of congruences until years later.

[ComradeSephiroth]

The mod-5 congruence pattern expanded:

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 3, 3, 1, 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 5, 2, 2, 4, 1, 5, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 3, 3, 1, 4....

It repeats every 20 terms. The key was found behind the second tile in the 19th and final row (which is supposed to be 1 instead of 2)

Interestingly if you change the 19th term to 2 and continue:

...2, 2, 4, 2 (oops), 1, 3, 4, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2..... you set up a tightly-repeating loop.

[wschmrdr]

Another notice: after 3 numbers, the 4th and 5th are repetition. Plus, all of the numbers, 1-4, are repeated (5 couldn't be, or it's be perfect repetition). Or the first two are repeated, then three are not.

[ComradeSephiroth]

I don't get what you are saying here, could you clarify?

[wschmrdr]

11, 235, 33, 145, 44, 325, 22, 415, 11, 235, etc.

Not to mention, the digit to look for prior the repetition is ALWAYS 5. If it were 10 blocks up rather than 5, that would be 0, there'd be 13 numbers between each repeat, but once again 4 repeated numbers (11, 77, 99, 33), before we return to 11.

[MenacerPhan]

That had to be my favorite episode of the whole series. Thank you so much!

Five! Eureka!

[rocky4x4]

WOW! I followed this series religiously! The good old days!

[youkaiseto]

God. Flashbacks! I remember this specific episode. Damn. I even remember the sequence... LOL

[splinterlake]

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, Eureka!

[foxofthesouth3]

OPEN IT!!

[beem1981]

Fibonacci...the BEST episode!!!

[Abercr0mbie4life]

what a snobby little bastid, those actors so looked like they hated each other.

[unclefestus]

to cogit.... to cogita.... to do something and to solve.

[patrickballoonman]

Cogitate. That means to think seriously and deeply about something, or to ponder, meditate, or consider. On occasions, Bob Barker used that word on TPIR when it came to the final two contestants bidding on the showcases. "I'm going to give you a moment to cogitate, and then I'll await your bid."

[unclefestus]

Ah, thanks. I just never heard that word before.

[familypictures1980]

Ha Ha Ha.....Grand theft feathers!! That's a good one.

[christianphantom]

love mathnet forever!

[pbscraze]

Now will you please do the fundings?

[netfacemohaa9876]

so corny...(shudder)...

[vanni9283]

Grand theft feathers! lol!!!!

[gramcrackr]

... until he began to molt.

[surgeaholic]

i thought Georgechecked the banks.

[sometimesdee]

He checked the bank *accounts,* not the safe deposit boxes. Or maybe he didn't have enough time to get to the Next to the Last National Bank.

[thwyter]

One of my favorite Mathnet episodes.

[hamsterama]

This was so great! The parrot is really cute, too. This was one of my most favorite Mathnet serials when I was little. I'm amazed by how much of this I remember after not having seen this since the early 1990's!

[JCStrickland]

The joke by the bird cracks me up when i need it.