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This episode contains a song. The lyrics are on the transcript to prevent browser crashes.
A small red block falls from the sky. The block then grows a body. As she wonders who she is, a number 1 jumps on her. She sings and counts 1 of everything. She claims that she is number one!
Season 1
Episode 1
Air Date January 23, 2017
Level Red Level 1
Learning Competency The number 1 and its properties
Writer Ben Lee-Delisle
Joe Elliot
Director Simon Taylor
A little block falls out of the sky, meets her numberling and discovers one wonderful world, singing and counting to one.
One (debut)
One Wonderful World
This is the first episode for many things:
This is the first episode of Numberblocks.
This is the first episode with only one Numberblock, the second being "Ten in the Bed".
This is the first episode where a Numberblock sings in their debut.
The concept of this episode and Another One originated from an old comic, featuring the beta Numberblocks.
The first line of the series is "This is new.".
This episode mentions One Million, despite debuting in One Thousand and One.
The lyric “Maybe I can be part of something bigger.” foreshadows all the other characters that would appear later on.
This is the first Numberblocks episode One appears in where she is not the smallest Numberblock, followed by Zero's official debut.
The year "2016", instead of "2017", can be seen in the credits of episodes from Series 1 and 2, despite the fact that this episode aired on January 23, 2017.
With that in mind, the beta Numberblocks would have been conceptualized much earlier.
This can also be because they were planning on a December release, but due to being worked on in late 2016 (as seen in early concepts from that year), it was likely pushed to January because of delays.
Marcel McCalla, Teresa Gallagher and David Holt's names appear on the credits, despite none of them voicing in this episode.
This episode has the most reenactments done. Episodes such as Once Upon A Time retold the story, and ones like Land of the Giants are more like a "what-if?", only this time, with different numbers (such as Tens instead of Ones). This also happens in Twoland, with Twos instead of Ones. Here are a list of references in later episodes and shows:
Once Upon A Time - This episode retold One, alongside Another One and Two.
Land of the Giants - This episode, alongside the intro and certain episodes of Series 1, was recreated with x10 instead of 1.
One Hundred - As part of One Hundred's song, one part of the lyrics said "Remember when there was only one?".
Your Turn - Like in Once Upon a Time, the Numberblobs redone this episode as part of their show.
Twoland - One remembers this episode's events, and the episode was also reenacted with a different number again, this time with Two.
100 Ways to Leave the Planet - At the end, the new One in Numberland repeated the beginning of the episode as well as the very end of the song.
Colourblocks - The beginning of every character’s debut episode in Season 1 (except for Rainbow, Black and White, The Printing Crew and Grey) has the characters dropping down from the sky before gaining their bodies.
Go: The beginning of the episode has Go falling down from the sky, but unlike every other instance she is fully alive before landing.
In the "One, one tree" part, the Tree is untextured.