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[Dino and Coop singing]

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Darlene hears a knock on the door, and she’s stoked. [Darlene dances in excitement]

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She knows it’s the delivery guy bringing all the sweet new furniture she’s ordered

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for her new office.

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But as Melvin the delivery guy drags in the furniture, it quickly becomes clear that Darlene

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may have messed up.

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All this furniture isn’t going to fit.

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Darlene wants to cry.

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What’s she gonna do?

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It’s not like she can put a desk on top of a couch.

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Disaster would surely follow. [Desk stacked awkwardly on top of a couch]

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Melvin the delivery guy tells her…"never fear…

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Melvin is here!"

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He knows how to solve the problem lickety-split…

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Because that’s just the kind of thing delivery guys do.

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Darlene is like…"Umm, OK, I guess.

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So what do we do?"

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Melvin first sketches up a quick floor plan of the office.

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It’s to scale and everything, because Melvin is super awesome like that. [Melvin smiles and put his thumbs up]

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Darlene doesn’t get what Melvin is doing.

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He tells her that all of this could’ve been avoided if she’d added together the lengths

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of the pieces of furniture she ordered to make she sure they fit the room’s dimensions.

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Darlene is like…"Is that some secret delivery guy language?

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Cause I have no idea what you’re talking about."

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So Melvin breaks it down for her.

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He shows her on the floor plan where one wall of her office is 10 feet long.

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But she wants to put a desk there that’s 5 and a 1/2 feet long and a couch that’s

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6 and a 1/2 feet long.

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Now, Darlene is seeing her horrible mistake.

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She adds up the dimensions of the furniture, using her amazing fraction adding skills, [Darlene gasps as she understands]

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and sees that together they equal 12 feet.

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There’s no way that 12 feet worth of furniture is going to fit along a 10 foot wall.

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Darlene is ready to give up, go home, cry, and eat a pound of brownies.

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But Melvin suggests that she just put the couch on another wall instead.

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So they sketch it out on the floor plan and check to see if it fits with the other furniture.

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It does.

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Awesome Melvin strikes again!

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The two tables Darlene ordered for the lunch room are a different story. [Darlene and Melvin into the lunch room where the two tables are piled on top of each other]

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The wall is 15 and 3/4 feet long, and both of the tables she ordered are 8 and 1/4.

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8 and 1/4 plus 8 and 1/4 is 16 and a 1/2, which is definitely bigger than 15 and 3/4.

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Melvin tells Darlene that he believes in her.

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He knows that deep in her heart, she knows how to solve the problem.

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Determined to show the world that she’s perfectly capable of ordering office furniture

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for herself, Darlene goes online and finds some smaller tables. [Darlene sits in front of a computer]

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One is 6 and 1/4 feet long and other is 3 and 3/4.

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She adds them together and gets 9 and 10.

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Darlene knows 10 is less than 15 and 3/4, so these new tables will surely fit along

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the lunch room wall.

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Melvin leaves, confident that the next time he returns all of Darlene’s furniture purchases [Melvin drives away in his van]

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will surely fit.

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All in a day's work, for Melvin the Magnificent.

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What?

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Every superhero needs an alter-ego.

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Brainy delivery man works as well as anything else. [Mevlin in super hero costume flies off like superman]

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