From September 12, 2015

A surprising new study released last week confirms that the world-renowned Agent Olive and Agent Otto, hailing from Precinct 13579, say "Whaaaaaaaaat?" at the same time approximately 65 times each day. 

Their boss, Ms. O, confirms this conclusion to be perfectly plausible. "They talk at the same time a lot when they get excited. And they get excited every time they solve a case. It makes perfect sense." she said.

This assumption is misleading, however. According to the average of the only two known statistics for how many cases Olive and Otto solve together each week - 30 and 7 - they only solve approximately 2.64 cases each day. Which means the other 62.36 times they say "Whaaaaaaaaat?" have to be outside the scope of actual cases solved.

When asked about this, Agent Olive stated, "I have to file my paperwork now. Please leave me alone. Go talk to Otto."

And so Otto was asked about this. "I dunno, I mean I've only been on the squad for a handful of months, and I think a lot of stuff my partner and I run into around headquarters is pretty odd, too. So we probably do say it a bunch of times. Also Soundcheck songs sometimes have a lot of whaaaaaaaaats in them and I make Olive sing them with me sometimes, so..." Otto said, extremely concisely.

It is now being looked into whether the claim about Soundcheck songs sometimes having a lot of whaaaaaaaaats in them is in fact true.

The conclusion of 65 times per day was reached after researchers followed the dynamic duo around 23-and-a-half hours a day for 82 days and noted every time the pair uttered the aforementioned quote in unison. This involved making audio recordings of their daily lives, from solving cases to arranging desk pencils to eating snacks to brushing their teeth after eating said snacks to paying close attention to what they said in their sleep after deciding halfway into the study to spend nights at their work desks instead of continuing attempts to barricade the researchers from entering their private homes. The 82 different results were then averaged by highly-skilled Odd Squad scientists with the aid of many Calculatorinators, and though final results varied across a wide spectrum, the number every scientist decided to agree on was 65.

 Said researchers can neither confirm nor deny whether any leading questions concerning ridiculous subject matter were asked in order to provoke a fair amount of the whaaaaaaaaats.