Aside from loving this show (even now) I consider myself fortunate to have seen this show as a child. Along with learning about math, I learned about satire, dry comedy, parody, logic, melodrama, god knows what else. I didn't even realize what "The Maltese Falcon" was until many years later :-)
Well, that's what's neat about problem-solving. Sometimes, you can learn a whole bunch of things from just 1 thing. And, sometimes, you can even learn a whole bunch of things from learning ABSOLUTELY NOTHING @ ALL.
THANK YOU!!! As a child I was never able to catch the last episode on Friday, so all this time I NEVER knew how it ended. As an adult now I get, "motorists all over the greater Los Angeles basin were staking out parking places in the freeway system in anticipation of the rush hour."
+Michael Glickman Something would always come up, baseball practice or something else. There was no DVR back at the time and I was too young to set up the VCR to tape it. I would be able to catch other episodes on Fridays, but for some reason whenever the Maltese Pigeon episode aired I was unavailable to be in front of a TV on Friday. Once they switched to NY and Pat Tuesday joined the cast I thought I would NEVER know how the mystery of the maltese pigeon ended.
There were a couple clues in Monday's episode that hinted at Maureen O'Reilly's trickery. First, notice at 8:29 how she insists on taking the sculpture out of the box instead of letting the men do it. This was probably because she didn't want them to touch the bird and realize it was made of ice. Also, watch closely at 9:26 -- you'll see that she quickly glances upward before leaving the room. She's likely checking to make sure the heat lamp is in place.
13:12 “The 2 men I was talking about in yesterday’s episode.” 😂 So now the characters are self-aware about being part of a TV show. 😮 Fourth wall broken.
Hysterical. Howard did a phenomenal job as Bogart! (Especially considering the suit that was so very un-Bogart.) And how often do you see a parody within a parody?! Nice Work indeed!
According to the CA criminal code, Maureen's sentence is probably going to be something like 2-6 years for the 459 and 16-36 months for the 487, for a total of 40 months- 9 years.
20:20 Kate lets herself out. - 20:25 She thanked George. Kate's tone's funny. 36:27 This part confused me as a kid. I missed the part where Maureen's bird was fake. 42:50 I never understood that accent.
Tchaikovsky did not write “Peter and the Wolf.” Prokofiev did. Oh man. My friends and I used to quote these Mathnet episodes all the time when we were kids. The 80’s were a great time to be a kid.
Unfortunately, no, this was Ritch Brinkley's only appearance on Mathnet. Can't recall any instances where an actor not playing a part of the police force appeared in two different episodes.
So no one mentioned how it was inappropriate that George was flirty with Maureen even though he's married. Kind of uncouth. Just something I was thinking about.
That always struck me too. I wonder if the fact that he was married was fleshed out yet (Like maybe they decided that in season 2. I don't recall the show well enough to remember if they mention him being married before this)
Yes, she is the first. Before her we had Colonel Flagg, I mean Clarence Sampson, or whatever, Yanos Proketzian, the two musicians, the brothers Karimazov, and Norman Mailbag. Although Sampson is not referred to as Flagg anywhere in The Problem of the Missing Baseball, he is played by Ed Winters, who played Flagg on MASH.
George = bonertown Kate = annoyed/jealous Martha = hellloooooooo George remember me? But seriously...they've established George is married. I'm super surprised a kids' show got away with depicting a married man clearly aroused by a woman who isn't his wife.
Yeah, this episode is the closest we get to Mathnet-as-a-soap-opera, I think. And I forgot to say in my original comment that I love the writers for days' worth of buildup to a "First Noel" joke.
Im convinced Martha cheated on George. In the Trial of George Frankly George says Martha went to visit her sister but he didnt sound too sure then in this epsiode he was ready to risk it all.
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So what happened to Jasper Stoutman? If he was in possession of the bird at the beginning of the mystery but it rightfully belonged to the people of Malta, then he must have stolen it at some point. Shouldn't he have been arrested as well?
We don't really know how Stoutman came into possession of the bird, or when. Those details probably weren't important to the story, so it's possible no one came up with a back story for him.
Clearly this episode predates general knowledge of sabermetrics, no responsible math education TV series would stress batting average so much these days.
No, I mean Frankly says "gallowsh." The Bogart imitator in Play it Again, Sam (the Woody Allen movie) talks the same way. Actually, I find that I detect this speech impediment more in the imitators than in Bogart himself. (If you google it, you'll find that some people claim to hear it and others don't...apparently it had to do with a scar Bogart had on his lip.)
There is a real Republic of Malta. It is located in the Mediterranean Sea, just south of Italy. Ii's capital is Valletta. It is mentioned in the Holy Bible, Acts 28.
Aside from loving this show (even now) I consider myself fortunate to have seen this show as a child. Along with learning about math, I learned about satire, dry comedy, parody, logic, melodrama, god knows what else. I didn't even realize what "The Maltese Falcon" was until many years later :-)
Well, that's what's neat about problem-solving. Sometimes, you can learn a whole bunch of things from just 1 thing. And, sometimes, you can even learn a whole bunch of things from learning ABSOLUTELY NOTHING @ ALL.
THANK YOU!!! As a child I was never able to catch the last episode on Friday, so all this time I NEVER knew how it ended. As an adult now I get, "motorists all over the greater Los Angeles basin were staking out parking places in the freeway system in anticipation of the rush hour."
+mstancl Why couldn't you watch on Friday?
+Michael Glickman Something would always come up, baseball practice or something else. There was no DVR back at the time and I was too young to set up the VCR to tape it. I would be able to catch other episodes on Fridays, but for some reason whenever the Maltese Pigeon episode aired I was unavailable to be in front of a TV on Friday. Once they switched to NY and Pat Tuesday joined the cast I thought I would NEVER know how the mystery of the maltese pigeon ended.
"My father was the first Noel."
I should not have laughed at that as hard as I did 😂
(Sings) "The 1st Noel the Angels did say...."
AGREED
"It's the stuff dinners are made of." As classic as the original.
I remember watching this episode as a kid and i was really excited to watch every episode after. Taught me afford about life. Love PBS
Thanks to this episode, I will ALWAYS know who wrote Peter and the Wolf.
There were a couple clues in Monday's episode that hinted at Maureen O'Reilly's trickery. First, notice at 8:29 how she insists on taking the sculpture out of the box instead of letting the men do it. This was probably because she didn't want them to touch the bird and realize it was made of ice. Also, watch closely at 9:26 -- you'll see that she quickly glances upward before leaving the room. She's likely checking to make sure the heat lamp is in place.
8:29, 9:26
Good eyes.
20:02....A baseball in the fireplace. I think we've seen that one before!!!
That’s a callback to the first episode!!
13:12 “The 2 men I was talking about in yesterday’s episode.” 😂 So now the characters are self-aware about being part of a TV show. 😮 Fourth wall broken.
They always were. Kate (and later Pat) mentions yesterday's episode at the beginning of every Mathnet.
Hysterical. Howard did a phenomenal job as Bogart! (Especially considering the suit that was so very un-Bogart.) And how often do you see a parody within a parody?! Nice Work indeed!
Bogart had a cleft palate and his contemporaries never thought he would make it big because of this.
Time Marks
Part 2
W/ Review 10:21
Direct 12:15
Part 3
W/ Review 21:18
Direct 23:25
Part 4
W/ Review 29:37
Direct 31:25
Part 5
W/ Review 36:41
Direct 38:54
Devon Ericson was also a contestant on Jeopardy with Alex Trebek in 1992.
I kid you not.
call back to the pilot episode at 20:05
The annotation at the end should be "Grand Theft Audobon"--a reference to the Audobon Society (birdwatchers.)
I think they did that joke on "The Case of the Willing Parrot."
43:00 Did he say you played me for a simp
hell of an eye-roll at 26:11...
She's like "Remember your WIFE, George?!"
Lol
I loved this show as a kid... not realizing just how genius it really was.
Pengarang cerita ini benar-benar jenius.Semua filmnya laku.
According to the CA criminal code, Maureen's sentence is probably going to be something like 2-6 years for the 459 and 16-36 months for the 487, for a total of
40 months- 9 years.
Hehehe the Maltese child is named Sphinx, that's a popular pastizzeria in Santa Venera ;)
20:20 Kate lets herself out. - 20:25 She thanked George. Kate's tone's funny.
36:27 This part confused me as a kid. I missed the part where Maureen's bird was fake.
42:50 I never understood that accent.
I never noticed that. I haven't seen "The Maltese Falcon" in quite a while.
Tchaikovsky did not write “Peter and the Wolf.” Prokofiev did.
Oh man. My friends and I used to quote these Mathnet episodes all the time when we were kids. The 80’s were a great time to be a kid.
Who comes late will bring perfection.
43:12 “You played me for a simp”. LOL. MathNET was red pill before red pill even existed. 😂
I think there's a tv show somewhere under all that blurry mess.
if he said that baseball teams 77-76 then it gotta be a regular picther duel lol
Not his impediment, just his voice. Bogart didn't have a speech impediment.
43:21 he imitates Bogart's speech impediment.
43:21
if i remember correctly, stoutman also portrayed a criminal in a previous [or latter] mathnet
Unfortunately, no, this was Ritch Brinkley's only appearance on Mathnet. Can't recall any instances where an actor not playing a part of the police force appeared in two different episodes.
I think that George Likes that Other Lady, I can tell by the way he's looking at her.
Again, thank you
So no one mentioned how it was inappropriate that George was flirty with Maureen even though he's married. Kind of uncouth. Just something I was thinking about.
Hey she was kinda a babe and to be fare I had no idea he was married when I was a kid...😂
That always struck me too. I wonder if the fact that he was married was fleshed out yet (Like maybe they decided that in season 2. I don't recall the show well enough to remember if they mention him being married before this)
Correction: He mentions his wife here in this episode! Shame on you, George! SHAME!
@@SJHFoto Exactly. I noticed that too. I know Martha is an unseen character but even so...
Don’t you guys get it? He only acted that way to get her to put her guard down and confess!
This is the first, or at least one of the earliest, episodes in which the perpetrator was a woman. As best I can tell!
Then there was Hestor Phestor! :P
That's true! That one was a favorite of mine. I've seen it several times since finding it on UA-cam.
and also, there were other female perpetrators
Sybil Divine, I.O. Privacy and Lauren Bacchanal played by the late Tony Award Winner Tammy Grimes
I've seen all of those, except I.O. Privacy
Yes, she is the first. Before her we had Colonel Flagg, I mean Clarence Sampson, or whatever, Yanos Proketzian, the two musicians, the brothers Karimazov, and Norman Mailbag.
Although Sampson is not referred to as Flagg anywhere in The Problem of the Missing Baseball, he is played by Ed Winters, who played Flagg on MASH.
George = bonertown
Kate = annoyed/jealous
Martha = hellloooooooo George remember me?
But seriously...they've established George is married. I'm super surprised a kids' show got away with depicting a married man clearly aroused by a woman who isn't his wife.
Yeah, this episode is the closest we get to Mathnet-as-a-soap-opera, I think. And I forgot to say in my original comment that I love the writers for days' worth of buildup to a "First Noel" joke.
Im convinced Martha cheated on George. In the Trial of George Frankly George says Martha went to visit her sister but he didnt sound too sure then in this epsiode he was ready to risk it all.
@@wesleybullette5966 Knock it off!!
I've always detected a bit of sexual tension between george and Kate as well
2:00 -- Shouldn't that be 5/14, not 14/5?
No. 5/14 would be a whole number above 1. Averages are less then 1.
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So what happened to Jasper Stoutman? If he was in possession of the bird at the beginning of the mystery but it rightfully belonged to the people of Malta, then he must have stolen it at some point. Shouldn't he have been arrested as well?
Statue of limitations. Besides which, it might have been stolen by someone else and bought by him
@@SJHFoto *Statute
@@OneWeirdDude You're right! Thanks-I don't know what I was thinking
@@SJHFoto Might have been a typo.
We don't really know how Stoutman came into possession of the bird, or when. Those details probably weren't important to the story, so it's possible no one came up with a back story for him.
Is it just me, or do George and Ms. O'Reilly seem a bit like Batman and Catwoman in this mystery?
Only Batman’s not married.
No, I was talking about the movie on which this mystery is based.
Clearly this episode predates general knowledge of sabermetrics, no responsible math education TV series would stress batting average so much these days.
13 watchers each day, average.
No, I mean Frankly says "gallowsh." The Bogart imitator in Play it Again, Sam (the Woody Allen movie) talks the same way. Actually, I find that I detect this speech impediment more in the imitators than in Bogart himself. (If you google it, you'll find that some people claim to hear it and others don't...apparently it had to do with a scar Bogart had on his lip.)
Paused at 29:33 it was O'Riley
Oh really?
Maybe Miss O'Reilly wanted a nice place in the 'birbs.
I thought George was a happily married man.
Good catch
COOL
George, I’m so disappointed in you. 😅
NICE
it is pigeon not falcon
Agreed. :)
Desperate men are the worst!
Maybe him and his wife have an open relationship
There is a real Republic of Malta. It is located in the Mediterranean Sea, just south of Italy. Ii's capital is Valletta.
It is mentioned in the Holy Bible, Acts 28.
Thanks. I reckon we know.
The lad playing Noel Sphinx Jr has the wrong accent.
Only a person who did mistake.Trust me.
He said gallowsh, not gallows.
I 'member
Matt Smith so does Pepperidge farms...
Wmb
Is anyone else annoyed by the way he makes his 5s?
+Kelly Stout that's the way I make them
With tiny bodies and giant lines? But they might topple over!
Only a person who did mistake.Trust me.
Only a person who did mistake.Trust me.