r/whenthe • u/_Chicken20 • Apr 15 '26

the daily whenthe "It's cheating!!!"

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u/Eugenio507 Apr 15 '26

Great to see odd squad mentioned in the big 2026

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u/LordRT27 Apr 15 '26

Wait, that is what it is called in English? I have only ever known this show as "ett fall för KLURO", it is one of the only kid shows I actually really liked watching and can kinda remember.

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u/Yummypizzaguy1 Apr 15 '26

How did the names work for you? Iirc everyone's name started with an "O" in the show cuz its the "O"dd Squad

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u/LordRT27 Apr 15 '26

Now that you mention it, I do remember all names starting with "o", I do not however, remember the reasoning they gave, if they even gave any (I was pretty young when I last watched it). I just assumed it was a similar thing to why all names in Asterix and Obelix ended with -ix (I now also know that there was an actual reason for it, but I did not know that as a kid).

I know this answer might not be super insightful, but I sadly don't remember the reasoning if there ever was one given.

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u/LightningFerret04 Apr 15 '26

They’re the Odd Squad so their names happen to all start with O, I don’t think there’s a reasoning for it other than that

One of the villain’s names is Todd, he was a former Odd Squad agent and so the only agent with a letter other than O being his first name

I think what the other commenter was asking was if there was a regional change to a different letter or if the character names were all still the same.

Agent Obfusco (strange guy with the cowboy hat and mustache who only speaks in incomprehensible riddles) would be an interesting character to translate. His name is derived from the word obfuscate which means to take something and make it difficult to understand

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u/LordRT27 Apr 15 '26

I think I understood him right, I mostly meant that I don't know the reason there names would start with an o in Swedish, as the show is called "ett fall för KLURO", with the organisations name being "KLURO" and not "Odd squad", so it doesn't really make sense that all their names starting with an o in Swedish, but they still do, and I am not sure if a reason was ever given.

As for Agent Obfusco, I actually did look that up by finding the Swedish version of the episode literally called "Agent Obfusco" in English. In Swedish they actually renamed him to "Agent Obskyro" which would be derived from the word obskyr, which means, well, obscure.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '26

I think Todd has the best name because it’s just Odd but with a T in front.