Fanfic / Full Circle (Odd Squad)

Full Circle is an Odd Squad fanfiction. It was written by Agent0002 and was later republished with minor edits by lilac-kat, the story's beta-reader, on Wattpad with the original author's permission.

The story takes place after the events of Odd Squad: The Movie and follows the main characters of Season 1 and Season 2 as they attempt to fix the relationship of Olive and Oscar following their breakup.

It serves as an unofficial sequel to Ships Ahoy!, with the official sequel being Opalescent, and is part of the Ships Ahoy! 'verse.

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This fanfic contains examples of:

• A Round of Drinks for the House: Oona decides to treat Otis and Olympia to milkshakes that she's paying for. Olympia points out that the milkshakes are free, causing Oona to shout "Precisely!"
• Artistic License – Physics: Not that it needs to be said, but in Real Life, a parachute does next to nothing to stop a multi-ton ice cream truck from landing safely. Of course, since Odd Squad is a World of Weirdness, there is possibly some justification in the parachute working to prevent Olive, Otto, Olympia and Otis from crash-landing.
• Backing Away Slowly: This is the unisonant reaction of Oprah, Olympia and Otis when Oona tells them that by tugging on her lab coat's lapels and triggering an Instant Costume Change, she hasn't had to wash her clothes in months. They back up right into their respective dressing rooms.
  Oona: What? I didn't say I haven't changed my clothes in months, I said I haven't had to! Guys? Hey, guys? I still need someone to help me with my hair once you're done...
• Bad Liar: Otto is definitely lacking in skills in the realm of deception and lying, nearly letting the plan slip a few times when he invites Olive to 50s Night at Club 24. Luckily, she doesn't catch on nor does she sniff him out and confront him.
  • Later on, he pointedly tells Oona that he and Olive are going to a 50s Night and she needs to make outfits for him and his partner. Once again, Olive never manages to catch on.
• Benevolent Boss: Olive and Otto both qualify as these — Olive even moreso, since she takes the time to befriend a young, timid Maintenance agent and gives him a badge with Proportional Aging abilities like the one she wears.
• The Big Damn Kiss: Chapter 7 reveals that the "thing Olive did that surprised herself" from the epilogue of Ships Ahoy! was kissing Oscar, directly after deciding that they would remain as Just Friends — her first kiss since entering the relationship. Oona, watching security footage of the kiss as it happened, is so taken aback by it that she ends up fainting, and when she comes to sometime later and is told that Olive and Oscar kissing caused her to pass out, she ends up nearly fainting again.
  • The end of Chapter 16 has Oscar on the giving end of one of these just after he asks Olive to be his girlfriend for the night.
  • Another one occurs between Oswald and her boyfriend O'Daniel at the end of Chapter 18, to close out the story.
• Big "WHAT?!": Otto gives one of these in response to Olympia backing up her Olive/Otto ship that's so loud, it manages to stop the battle between Oona and Olympia.
  • Olympia herself later has this reaction to Otis telling her that Otto and Dr. O are dating.
  • Oprah has this reaction to finding out that O'Kane sent Oscar to the back entrance of Club 24 instead of the front south entrance.
  • This is the Noisemaker's reaction to Otis telling him to cause oddness in order to bring Olive and Oscar closer together.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: In Chapter 13, Oona begins talking about the events of "Oscar Strikes Back" before Olympia interrupts her and tells her that's a different episode and she needs to focus on the current story.
  • In Chapter 15, as Olympia and Oona can't speak directly to each other and Otis has to be a messenger, Olympia laments, "Why must my life be a plot device?"
  • Chapter 18 is basically this trope condensed into a single chapter, as Olympia, Oona and Olympia read the end credits, beginning with this exchange:
  Olympia: Oh come on, how cliche is that? The couple gets back together and dances off into the moonlight. I'm telling you, this is a bad fanfiction. Why don't we just play "The Time of My Life" and roll the end credits?
  Otis: Olympia, I'm pretty sure that's a song from the 1980s written for a movie set in the 196-
  ["The Time of My Life" begins to play]
  Olympia: Ha! [points at the ceiling] I bet this is the author's way of attempting to add in a clever sort of end-credit thank-you section...thingy!
  Oona: [awkward laugh] No, it's just that I hijacked the DJ booth. My OddPod must be on shuffle.
  Olympia: [mumbles] Plot device.
  Oona: Hmm?
  Olympia: Nothing!
• Brick Break: Oprah helps Oscar to build up his strength by having him punch through a wood plank. He ends up doing so successfully, but the impact ends up hurting his hand.
• The Cameo: O'Donahue and Opal both make appearances in the story as partygoers at 50s Night, something that surprises both Oprah and Otto as they didn't expect their significant others to come.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: When changing into his outfit for 50s Night, Oscar has to rip off his many layers of clothing, and once he's all dressed up, he goes out and strikes a pose in front of Oswald. As it turns out, he's not wearing pants, which she informs him of, and he quickly rushes back into his office to change.
• Crazy-Prepared: There just so happens to be molds of everyone's ears for use in making the earpieces. The molds are taken monthly for some reason, but it's convenient enough for Oona to make an earpiece out of.
• Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Otto goes to plug his OddPod into his docking station but fails to realize that the docking station is gone, causing his device to fall to the floor.
• Didn't Think This Through: Oscar eventually agrees to go to 50s Night at Club 24 and decides to make his own outfit for it, but he doesn't realize that he doesn't know what outfits in the 50s looked like until he manages to reach his sewing room and stares blankly at his sewing supplies.
• Does Not Like Spam: It's all but stated in Chapter 2 that Olive has a dislike for coffee — which is fitting considering she's a child who believes coffee is a drink made for adults.
• Dressed in Layers: Oscar somehow makes himself numerous outfits, and wears them all to show Oprah so she can choose which one. She ends up choosing the same one that Danny Zuko wears to the fair in Grease.
• Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Oscar admits to Olive that he's ready for the two of them to get back together again, and all she can do is wordlessly stare at him dumbfounded before she (initially) shoots him down.
• Evil Laugh: Oscar gives a mock one when Oprah jokingly tells him that he's doing a good job of not trying to Take Over the World.
• Faint in Shock: Numerous times between Olympia and Oona.
  • Oona ends up fainting when she sees The Big Damn Kiss between Olive and Oscar, described in the epilogue of Ships Ahoy!.
  • Olympia and Oona faint simultaneously at the end of Chapter 17 when they see another kiss between Olive and Oscar, causing Otis to try and revive them by dumping milkshakes on them.
• First-Name Basis: Although she and him have just met, Olive allows Oliver to call her by just that instead of by her title of "Ms. O".
• Gender-Blender Name: Oswald, a Scientist who serves as Oscar's Number Two, is a girl. The name "Oswald" is a boy's name.
• Genre Savvy: Olympia's well-aware she's in a fanfiction and brings up the fact numerous times while also demonstrating some genre savviness about romantic stories.
• Gratuitous French: When gifting a badge to Oliver, Olive tells him that there are three options for configuring the badge in French. Once Otto finds out about the pair's meeting in the Boiler Room, Oliver greets him and asks how he's doing in French, and him and Olive converse in French for a bit before Olive translates for Otto.
  Olive: You have got to learn French, Otto! We work in Montreal! A lot of our agents and clients speak French. In fact 56% of everyone here is bilingual and about 67% prefer French. Besides, I can't always be here to translate. That's the third time this week.
  Otto: I know, I know! I'm working on it.
  [Olive raises an eyebrow]
  Otto: Okay, so I'm not exactly working on it. But I am listening to the French translations of Soundcheck's songs! You gotta give me points for that!
• Greaser Delinquents: Olive and Otto's outfits for 50s Night make them look like these, with the movie Grease also being part of the inspiration for the former's outfit.
• Gretzky Has the Ball: Otto's reaction to landing safely in the catcher's mitt is to yell "touchdown". Olive tells him that he's referencing the wrong sport, but she'll let it slide.
• Happily Ever After: Olympia throws this into the schedule of events in regards to The Plan as the last tidbit to getting Olive and Oscar together.
• Have You Come to Gloat?: Olympia asks this of Oona following their brief tussle over their invoked One True Pairings after Otis pulls his partner aside and tells her to calm down. Oona's response is "No! What am I, crazy?"
• Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: Averted. Gino and Sabatino Confalone decide to make Olive and Oscar's dinner on the house as thanks for them saving the world, and it's stated that this isn't the first time they've gotten free meals for their feat of heroism.
  Oscar: That's the third time this week that I've gotten my meal free.
  Olive: [laughing] This is my fifth.
  Oscar: Maybe we should save the world more often.
• Hidden Depths: Oona is quite the fashion designer, and has a very extensive collection of period-appropriate outfits, all from each time period in history and custom-made for her, Olympia, Otis, Oprah and Otto to wear. They're even sorted by time period, agent, color and region of the solar system. According to her, sewing is part of the required training for Head Scientists — hence why Oscar also has prominent skill as a tailor (which also extends to other Head Scientists like O'Quinncy, the Lab Director of Olive and Otto's precinct).
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This story introduces a character named Oswald, who is in the Science department and serves as Oscar's Number Two. Three years later and a different Oswald would be introduced to canon, a slight Expy of Oscar who is The Smart Guy of the Odd Squad Mobile Unit and is timid but can be brave when the situation calls for it. However, while the Oswald in this story is a girl, the Oswald in canon is a boy.
• Holding Hands: Oona holds Otis's hand in a death grip while watching security camera footage of Olive and Oscar breaking up. Otis, naturally, attempts to wrench his hand free the second he feels pain.
• I Always Wanted to Say That: Inverted. In Chapter 7, Olympia asks how she, Oona, Otis, Otto and Oprah are going to get costumes befitting 50s Night at Club 24 in the span of a day. Oona grins and says that they have no idea how long she's been waiting for someone to say that.
• Incessant Music Madness: It doesn't matter whether he's at a meeting or at a doctor's appointment — Otto will blast "Take Away Four/Gonna Add One Remix" from his OddPod no matter where he is, and at full volume to boot. This is what causes Olive to start hating Soundcheck again and drives her to put an ultimatum on her partner by threatening to destroy his docking station if he doesn't stop playing the band's music as often as he does.
• Instant Costume Change: In Chapter 13, Oona pulls on the lapels of her labcoat and her outfit suddenly transforms into an authentic 1950s-era dress.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: Otto gets proven wrong about his abilities numerous times in rapid succession.
  Otto: Besides, I'm just as qualified to run the whole Squad as you are!
  [Olive crosses her arms and raises her eyebrow]
  Otto: Okay, maybe not as qualified but I am just as trained.

  Otto: [rolls eyes] Have I ever made a huge mistake as Mr. O?
  Olive: What about the time when you left the Robot Princess Room open?
  Otto: Well, in fairness, that door is really hard to latch.
  Olive: Set the Breakroom on fire?
  Otto: Who knew that giraffe's milk and loganberry juice can be combustible when mixed with bran flakes?
  Olive: Set off the sprinkler system and coated 2 weeks' worth of paperwork in orange juice?
  Otto: Hey! That one wasn't my fault, that was the guy who installed sprinklers in the volcano room!
  Olive: And who approved the plans for the sprinkler system?
  Otto: That's besides the point. What matters is the undeniable fact that I am a great team leader.
• IPhony: Otto's OddPod, a reference to the iPod, makes a reappearance in this story.
• It's a Long Story: Olive says this in response to Oliver's question of why she wanted the Boiler Room at the Montreal Precinct to look like the one at the Toronto precinct and why its Power Source is orange juice. However, Oliver is persistent, and eventually she cracks and tells him the story.
• I've Heard of That — What Is It?: This exchange, after Olympia and Oona get done explaining the concept of shipping to Otis.
  Olympia: Anyways, the point of this is that shipping is wanting two people to be a couple. Do you get it now?
  Otis: Yep! I completely understand.
  Oona: You still don't understand, do you?
  Otis: Nope, not a clue. Do you think you could repeat all of that?
  Olympia: [sighs] This is gonna take a very long time.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Olympia wants Olive to be with Otto as her invoked One True Pairing despite Olive being in love with Oscar. As Otis and Oona talk with Olympia about various ship pairings, Otis asks his partner if she wants Olive to be happy, or if she wants Olive to be with the person that she loves, and when Olympia sees The Big Damn Kiss between Olive and Oscar, she eventually decides to help for the sake of Olive's happiness.
  • In Chapter 16, Olive and Oscar both realize that entering a more serious relationship with each other would mean that they would have to quit their jobs at Odd Squad, and neither one of them wish to do that for the sake of the other. They decide to compromise by being reserved for each other — not Just Friends, but not an Official Couple either.
• Jaw Drop: Olympia goes slack-jawed when she sees Oona pull up a GIF she had saved on Pinterest and Otis realizes that they're referring to romantic relationships.
• Just Friends: Olive and Oscar remain Amicable Exes and are still friends with each other after breaking up, with neither one of them wishing to have another Relationship Upgrade. This ends up zig-zagged in Chapter 16, where they decide to stay in limbo, between just being friends and being boyfriend and girlfriend — more reserved for each other, in a sense.
• Kids Driving Cars: It's revealed in Chapter 13 that Oona can drive, but she had to have hands-on experience — as in, she taught herself how to drive while driving. Otis is quick to ask Olympia if they're really going to put their own lives in the hands of such an incompetent driver.
• Kissing the Ground: Upon returning to Earth, Otto flings open the door of the ice cream truck spaceship, gives a hearty cry of "Earth!" and begins to kiss the ground. When Otis looks from him to Olive incredulously, she tells him that yes, this is normal fare for Otto.
• Lame Comeback: When Otis asks Olympia and Oona what shipping is, Olympia pins all duties of explaining the concept on Oona. When Oona says that she should explain it as she's Otis's partner, Olympia fires back with, "Well you're his...Scientist!"
• Lazy Alias: While discussing how to get Olive and Oscar back into a relationship, Oona offers code names for everyone that are just different spellings of the name "Caitlyn" — Catlyn for herself, Katlyn for Olympia, Caitlyn for Oprah, Kaitlyn for Otis, and Kaitlin for Otto. Naturally, Oprah shoots the idea down.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: There are quite a few moments of this throughout the story, most of which are Self-Deprecation.
  • At the end of Chapter 6, Otis explains to Olympia that "this isn't just some fanfiction that you can change without hurting anyone".
  • In Chapter 9, after Otis tells her all he knows about Club 24, Olympia remarks, "This whole thing is like a poorly-written fanfiction."
  • In Chapter 10, Olympia is insistent that the story feels like a bad fanfiction and that Oona giving herself more work on top of the work she already has is a cheap plot device. She even breaks the fourth wall at one point by saying that she knows "this isn't just a fanfiction".
• "Lesson of the Day" Speech: Olive crams one into her story of her and Oscar's relationship rollercoaster, which she gives to Oliver.
  Olive: Listen, this is your life lesson for the day. If you are ever assigned to work with someone, always listen to and work with them, even if you hate them. I didn't do that, and it nearly cost two lives.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Otto keeps attempting to ask why Oona and Olympia are fighting, but gets absolutely no response from Otis, so all he can do is scream "What is happening?!" repeatedly as he tries to comprehend what he's seeing.
• The Matchmaker: The story mostly revolves around Oprah, Otto, Otis, Oona and Olympia sharing this role and aiming to get Olive and Oscar back together as boyfriend and girlfriend. Of course, since Olympia, Oona and Otis are avid Shippers on Deck (the former two far moreso than Otis), they're more than happy to help, though Olympia's and Oona's invoked Ship-to-Ship Combat gets in the way briefly. Oswald, Oscar's assistant, as well as her boyfriend O'Daniel, also have roles in the plan, but they're relatively minor.
• Moment Killer: Olive and Oscar are eating at The Confalones restaurant as friends, but when Olive calls Otto and he asks them how their date is going, the topic veers into their breakup, ruining the casual mood.
• Nervous Tics: Oscar scratching his neck is a nervous tic of his that occurs often whenever he's around Olive.
• Not a Date: Olive and Oscar aren't going on a date to The Confalones restaurant, instead going as casual friends, but Otto certainly seems to think that it's a date, and he ends up embarrassing Olive by loudly asking her if she's on a date in full hearing range of Oscar.
• Obviously Not Fine: Oona tries to convince Oprah that making her dress, in addition to all of the other things on her to-do list, isn't too much, but her brain is thinking the complete opposite.
  • Later on, when Olympia offers her help in assisting Oona with her duties in regards to The Plan, Oona shoots her down and says that she's fine. Olympia is persistent, however, and doesn't let up.
  Olympia: Oona, I've worked with you nearly every day for months now. If I've learned just one thing in that time, it's that you're only this calm when you're completely, and I mean completely, freaking out. Now come on, I'll go get Otis, we'll order a cheese-free pizza, and all work together on this.
  Oona: No, really Olympia, I'll be fine. I'm sure you've got things to-
  Olympia: Look at me, Oona. You remember that day Ms. O gave me a room and I descended into mathness because I couldn't say no? Well, you have the exact opposite problem, you can't stop saying no. Now, if you don't want to descend into mathness and, y'know, ruin everything, I suggest that just this once you say yes and let me help.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: Otis finally manages to understand what shipping is, but then asks what Pinterest is. Olympia responds aptly by groaning and doing a Face Plant into the Ball Room.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted in a rather subtle way. Olive, the Odd Squad Director of the Montreal precinct, meets Oliver, a young Maintenance worker, but "Oliver" is commonly known as the male counterpart to "Olive", making it somewhat the same name if only separated by just one letter.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": In Chapter 5, Oona uses Olympia's computer to explain to Otis what shipping is. Olympia freaks out, thinking that Oona has hacked into her Pinterest account, but Oona tells her that she just put in Olympia's password. When Olympia asks the Scientist how she figured out her password, she points to the pictures of Olive and Otto that Olympia has framed and enshrined on a nearby filing cabinet.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: Although Otto doesn't have very much strength compared to those like Olive and Oprah, he somehow was able to break a board after receiving training from Olive and O'Quinncy, something that Oscar expresses surprise at.
• Product Placement: This fanfiction does feature Bland-Name Products, but also features real-life brands like Pinterest and even real-life bands like Nirvana.
• Proportional Aging: Oliver asks Olive about how aging works in Odd Squad, since some Maintenance workers don't receive badges with the capability to make their wearers age slowly. Olive offers to explain it to him the next day if he meets her in the Boiler Room for lunch tomorrow, and she eventually gifts him a badge of his very own so he can age slowly in a similar manner as her (although the speed of aging is based on the wearer).
• Reentry Scare: The story opens up with Olive, Otto, Olympia and Otis attempting to land their ice cream truck spaceship upon reentry, with Oona using a catcher's mitt generated by a Catcher-inator to prevent the spaceship from crash-landing. It ends up working and the spaceship lands ten feet off of the ground, but when Oscar turns off the Catcher-inator too early, the ship plummets the rest of the way down, although everyone turns out unharmed.
• The Scream: Oona, already overloaded with things that she has to do in addition to creating outfits for Oscar, Olive, and Otto, hits her limit when Oprah asks her to make alterations on her outfit. She produces a gadget (the Personal-Soundproof-Room-inator) from her Hammerspace spine, zaps her head to create a foam orb around it, and lets out a blood-curdling scream that is in full hearing range of Oprah despite the intent of the foam orb being soundproof.
• Series Continuity Error: This story calls attention to the continuity error present in Odd Squad: The Movie of Oscar making Investigation agent suits for Olive and Otto despite them being in the Management department as co-Directors at that point in time.
  Oprah: Oscar! The clock is ticking, do you want our four best agents to be smashed into oblivion?
  Oscar: Well, heh, technically Olive and Otto are Ms. and Mr. O now, not agents. Actually I'm not sure why we made them normal agent uniforms, when really they should've...right, never mind, I'm on it!
• Serious Business: Olympia and Oona are so into shipping that they consider it important enough to wage battle over it. When Oona's invoked One True Pairing of Olive/Oscar ends up being the victor, she treats Olympia as though she's suffered the loss of a loved one, and in order to make Olympia accept another pairing besides her OTP, Oprah and Otto decide to show her the footage of when Olive and Oscar nearly drowned in the Boiler Room, and of when they kiss for the first time.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Olympia mistakenly believes that Olive and Otto are dating. When Otto gets wind of this belief, he becomes disgusted and explains that he and Olive are Like Brother and Sister.
• Shipper on Deck: Both Olympia and Oona lean into this trope hard. Olympia believes that Olive and Otto are dating even though their relationship is strictly sibling-like, while Oona ships Olive and Oscar. Once Otis gets a firm grip on what shipping is, he confides in Oona that he ships Olive and Oscar as well.
• invoked Ship-to-Ship Combat: In-universe. Olympia and Oona constantly butt heads over whether Olive/Otto or Olive/Oscar is the better ship, to the point where they end up having a Showdown at High Noon over which is the superior ship.
• Shout-Out: A few of the couples that Olympia and Otis bring up when describing shipping to Otis are Han Solo and Princess Leia, Lizzie and Darcy, and The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.
  • In Chapter 13, when Otto finishes up his outfit for 50s Night, he looks in the mirror and gives the iconic "Ayyyyy" catchphrase of The Fonz. Shortly after, he talks about buying a motorcycle, and Olive shoots the idea down.
  • At the start of Olympia's and Oona's battle in Chapter 6, the theme song from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is noted to be playing in the background.
  • In Chapter 17, Oona has the DJ play "Earth Angel", stating that Marty McFly's parents couldn't resist it.
• Showdown at High Noon: Oona and Olympia have one of these as part of their invoked Ship-to-Ship Combat, with Oona brandishing a projector as her weapon while Olympia wields a binder, while Otis, Otto and Oprah look on.
  Otis: Oh dear, we're in for it now.
  Otto: In for what?
  Oprah: I warned you that this would happen if we got both of them involved.
  Otto: What would happen? What's happening?!
• Sickening "Crunch!": Subverted. Oscar goes to punch through a small plank of wood and manages to do it with a snap sound. He starts shaking out his hand, believing that he broke it, but the snap turns out to have been from the board, which has been broken in two. Regardless, Oscar asks for an ice pack for his hand.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Oona, natch, which Otis lampshades by beginning to ask how she can do that before he's interrupted.
• Take That, Critics!: The original author gives a heartfelt response to a hate review that the beta-reader got on one of her own stories, which is placed in the Editor's Note.
  Why do I waste my time writing fanfiction for a kid's show? Because a story needs to be told. Because it brings happiness, if only momentarily, to people who don't want to smile. Because Odd Squad is a show about the value of friendship and teamwork, even when you just want to fight your own battle. Because a story has the power to make someone laugh two seconds after they've cried, to feel every emotion you're capable of, to think. Because it makes me feel good. Because it sparks my imagination. Because I can't sleep. Because it's a hobby and a passion. Because the only way anyone will ever know the full story is if we tell it.
• Tempting Fate: Defied by Olympia, as she has to tell Oona that an agent who says some variant of "X doesn't have a case today" causes Oprah to pull a Stealth Hi/Bye and load work onto them.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Otto requires three bottles of hair gel for his hair to get it to look like that of a greaser's. He starts by taking one bottle of hair gel and dumping the entire contents of it on his head, and by the time he's done, his head is more full of gel than it is actual hair.
  Olive: You know, I think the entire hair product industry could survive on just sales to you and Soundcheck.
  Otto: Probably.
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: In Chapter 1, Oscar nearly calls Oprah by her title of "Ms. O" before he corrects himself and refers to her by her correct name.
  • Chapter 2 opens with Olive and Oscar walking into The Confalones restaurant and correcting the titular brothers by referring to themselves as Ms. O and President Oscar, respectively, following their promotions.
• They Just Dont Get It: Olympia and Oona attempt to explain what Shipping is to Otis by bringing up romantic couples from various pieces of media like Star Wars and Pride and Prejudice, and boil it down to the simple definition of "when a person wants two people to be a couple". He doesn't get it, and two hours later, Olympia's ponytail has come undone, Oona's lab coat is hanging from a beam on the ceiling (somehow), and one of the latter's suspender straps has broken. Humorously, how Otis manages to grasp the concept is by watching the rather-famous three-second GIF of Vladmir from Tangled making two ceramic unicorns kiss, stating that he's a visual learner.
• They Were Holding You Back: Olive doesn't want to enter a relationship with Oscar again because she feels that she is holding him back, stating that the two of them breaking up was what allowed Oscar to become President of the Scientists. Oscar assures her that isn't the case and that he willingly decided to stay with her for many years past his two-year Investigation prerequisite.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Otis gives an exasperated "Oh no" when he sees Oona barge into the truck to bring out the "heavy ammunition".
• Three... Two... One...: Otto walks in to his and Olive's office, and Olive begins counting down as he goes for his docking station and finds it missing.
• Trademark Favorite Food: While Olive's signature drink being herbal tea was established in Ships Ahoy!, this story reveals Otto's signature drink to be chocolate milk.
• The Un-Reveal: It's never stated what Weird Team did to Oscar's office at the Odd Squad Academy, but whatever they did, it appeared to have been quite terrible.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Odd Squad agents dating is a normal occurrence that happens every few years — two agents start going out, one of them transfers or quits, and then they break up. It's so commonplace that Oprah tells Otis, Olympia and Oona that under normal circumstances, Odd Squad wouldn't get involved.
• Wham Line: One from Olive closes out Chapter 15 as she realizes exactly what's going on.
  Olive: Oscar, they set us up.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: In Chapter 13, Olive and Otto praise two agents for stopping a villain who is mistakenly referred to by Otto as "Ping-Pong Paster" before Olive tells him his name is actually "Fred Who Really Hates Ping-Pong". Otto is quick to ask what kind of a name that is, only for Olive to tell him that Fred's a new villain and he should cut him some slack.
• Women Prefer Strong Men: Oscar has been working out for fourteen years so he can impress Olive. Eight of those fourteen years, however, were spent playing Wii Sports instead of doing things like going to the gym and lifting weights.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Subverted. Quite a few wrenches are thrown into the plan — Oscar is sent to the wrong side of Club 24, O'Donahue making a surprise appearance, and essential agents to the plan like Otto and Oprah are taken out by some reason or another. The plan is repeatedly revised as a result, but it doesn't end up working because Olive and Oscar find out they're being set up and decide to remain in the spot between Just Friends and an Official Couple in terms of their relationship.

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