The episode begins with Four and Three going into the Cosy Room, arguing because Four claims Three talks too much and offended her by claiming she can't keep quiet for two seconds. He then takes out a timer to prove it. Three asks what the timer is and Four calls it the "Beeper". Three then asks what the Beeper does and Four explains that it's a timer and will time how many beeps Three can keep quiet for. Three brags that she can keep quiet for ages and they agree on challenging her to stay quiet for ten beeps. Four says, "Ten whole beeps of silence!" to which Three says, "You're the one who's talking now!", so Four decides to officially start the count and the Beeper starts counting. However, Three finds it very boring and shouts, "Yah!" when it gets to nine, making Four smug. Three then decides that the Beeper can also time her being noisy and starts to time herself nattering away, much to Four's annoyance. At six, the alarm sounds.
Three and Four go to the Control Room, while Three brags about her ability to talk for a long time and Four is still annoyed. Agent 38 reports the problem: a boy is dragged off by a woman even though he hasn't finished up tying his shoe and a girl is being dragged off by a man even though she hasn't finished doing up her coat. So they send Five, who lands on a door.
Agent 54 then reports a waitress taking a man's food away before he can eat it and the Numberjacks and agents conclude that all three people were not allowed enough time. Five wonders who is doing it, then sees the Spooky Spoon and guesses that it's her doing. Spooky Spoon then says to Five that, yes, she is responsible for it. Five says that people need time to do things properly but Spooky keeps boasting, then points out two people who she didn't allow enough time to finish getting dressed.
Three fires up the brain gain machine with the instruction "Give them more time". The Spooky Spoon complies but makes the waitress move in slow-mo instead. Five then imagines a girl not getting enough time to wash her face and it getting so dirty that plants grow on it, and a boy not getting time to get ready in the morning so going out in his pyjamas, then having to stay outside for too long and getting covered in snow.
The agents suggest solving the problem by timing someone who is normal. Four gets the Beeper and Five finds a woman who has not been sped up or slowed down. They time her drinking for five beeps. They then time a boy doing his coat up for eight beeps. Spooky Spoon wants to have more "fun" but the Numberjacks make more brain gain and prevent the Spooky Spoon from time-changing the drinking lady and another boy doing up his coat.
The Spooky Spoon then chases Five around, threatening to "mess [her] up". She then makes her blink in slow motion and fall from a high structure. Thankfully, the other Numberjacks use Brain Gain to make her fall slowly. The Spooky Spoon says she will be around for a long time, but the Numberjacks set the Beeper to zero beeps, making her disappear. Five comes back and they do the recap. Four and Three then continue their argument about being quiet vs. being noisy and Five tells the viewers to look for things that tell time.
This episode provides examples of....
- Animate Inanimate Object: The main antagonist of this episode is the talking Spooky Spoon.
- Damsel in Distress: Five is briefly in danger when Spooky Spoon chases her.
- Evil Laugh: When she first arrives, Spooky Spoon laughs maniacally. She does another evil laugh after boasting about her antics to Five and when she makes the waitress move slowly.
- Flight: The flying Spooky Spoon features.
- In-Series Nickname: Spooky Spoon is called "Spooky" once.
- No Indoor Voice: Four lampshades how Spooky Spoon's way of speaking is frequently screeching at the top of her lungs, stating that she makes the similarly loud Three seem quiet by comparison.
- The Pig-Pen: The girl in Five's imagination, who doesn't have time to wash her face.
- Term Of Endangerment: Spooky Spoon calls Five her "numbery friend".
- Would Hurt a Child: Spooky Spoon seemed to want to hurt or kill Five by making her fall, and Five is only five years old.
