"Operation: B.U.T.T." | |
Season 3, Episode 31 | |
Mission: | 058 |
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Production Code: | 305a |
Airdate: | July 16, 2004 |
Credits | |
Writer(s): | Mo Willems Mr. Warburton |
Storyboards by: | Kim Arndt Jesse Schmal |
Episode Guide | |
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Operation: B.U.T.T. is the first story in the fifth episode of Season 3 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on July 16, 2004 on Cartoon Network.
Information[]
Summary[]
The DCFDTL plants Numbuh 1 from his swim trunks and get photos of his disproportionately huge buttocks. They black mail him with them.
Plot[]
The episode starts with the team making Nigel take a day off at the beach; he hates this idea. But Sector V made him take a day off by forcing and dropping him. Numbuh 1 wanted to have fun by going on a mission but there weren’t any available. Numbuh 1 was thinking about what to do. Soon, a robot crab pinches his swimming trunks off, exposing his naked backside. Everyone on a ship and on land saw Nigel’s buttocks and laughed and pointed. He tries to hide in the beach by hiding in the ocean, tricking everyone about something “over there” but saw his butt,and fails. Numbuh 1 had an idea to leave. He used a big wave to wash up on land. Nigel dig underground and plowed under a towel where a large woman sat on him, landed in a large man’s basket and peered from inside, hid in an umbrella but an old man accidentally closed it with Numbuh 1 inside. Later, naked, he sneaks himself into his room back at the treehouse where Wallabee loses to Kuki in a video game. Numbuh 1 managed to sneak into his room without the others noticing and he put his clothes on. Nigel comes out and says he's quitting the team. Numbuh 5, 2, 4, and 3 watched sadly as their poor team leader Numbuh 1 left. Numbuh 3 is blind from what he said until Wallabee angrily begins to lose his sanity and goes into a temper tantrum, but sloppily, spells out to Kuki that Nigel is leaving, "J-A-W-N, Gone!" causing her to cry. Once he's gone, Abigail tries to figure out why he quit while Wallabee tries to cheer up Kuki. Hoagie finds a picture and note in his room and shows it to the others. The note said, “Leave your team behind, or we’ll put your behind in the school yearbook. The picture is of Nigel's nude butt, and a bribery to put it into the school yearbook unless he quits the team. Hoagie saw “one big butt”. Numbuh 4 saw how big Numbuh 1’s rear end was and he and Numbuh 3 laughed and laughed. Abigail tries to get the team to save Nigel, but Kuki, Wallabee and Hoagie laugh at Nigel's butt and make jokes about it as Hoagie said that they had to get to the “bottom,” of this, unless they put a “big” section in the “rear”, and Hoagie said that if he were Numbuh 1, he would turn the other “cheek”. This causes Abigail to lose control and start laughing with her friends as they laugh and laugh themselves silly.
Meanwhile, Nigel sadly goes to the DCFDTL's mansion where the DCFDTL say that he will be delightfulized by the Delightfulization Chamber. Nigel says this isn't part of the deal, but they say that they can do anything to Nigel now, holding up the negatives. At first, Nigel is able to make off with them and outrun the five, but he is ambushed by thousands of robot crabs with cameras. Numbuh 1 kicked the crabs and pounded them and flew from wall to wall. The crabs succeed in ripping his pants off, revealing rainbow monkey briefs. The DCFDTL laugh themselves silly and says this is better than the butt picture any day and the Delightful Children told the robot crabs to be prepared and are about to take pictures of the rainbow monkey underwear instead when Sector V comes in, save Numbah 1 and takes the trousers, shorts and skirts off of the Delightful Children from Down the Lane, revealing not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, but 5 big butts and Numbuh 2 said, “And that’s a big butt,” and Numbuh 3 said, “5 big butts,” and they laughed at the Delightful Children. The embarrassed DCFDTL run away with countless crabs taking their pictures, while Numbuh 1, having already reclaimed the negatives, changed his mind on quitting the team. Although Kuki was puzzled on how such a huge tushy could fit on the picture, Abigail said that Nigel had a big day. The team continues cracking more jokes against their leader, since Numbuh 2 said, “Not as big as his butt,” as he, Numbuh 3, 4, and even 5 laughed and laughed themselves silly although he is clearly not amused.
Back at the treehouse, after Kuki defeated Wally at video games again, Nigel proposes a beach trip that everyone tackles with enthusiasm, having finally overcome his hatred of the beach and wanting to treasure all the times of spending more time with the team. Then he shows that he's wearing a lock and chain around his recently-found trunks as insurance.
After the "end transmission", his butt picture was briefly shown.
Featured[]
KND Operatives
Cameos
Villains
Locations
2x4 Technology
- S.C.A.M.P.E.R.
- Camera
Villain Technology
- Robot Crabs
- YesDear 5000 (picture)
- Delightfulization Chamber
Transcript[]
Operation: B.U.T.T./Transcript
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Numbuh 1's room is shown to have a door shaped like the number "1."
- In this episode, Wally cries in front of his teammates for the first time.
- This is the first time Hoagie actually gets his teammates to laugh at his jokes - notably Abigail.
- Hoagie is fatter than anyone else in Sector V, yet he laughs at Nigel's big butt and the DCFDTL's big butts. This may have more to do with the proportions of butt sizes compared to the rest of the body as Nigel's rear is rather large compared to his general size.
- When the DCFDTL exclaim "This is almost better than your butt shot!", listen carefully to them and you can hear Abigail's voice. This is because both of the Delightful girls were voiced by Cree Summer.
- Although it is not shown how Numbuh 1 retrieved his lost swim trunks which were stolen away by one of the robot crabs at the beach, it is possible that he retrieved them somewhere in the DCFDTL's mansion while the robot crabs are distracted with taking photos of the DCFDTL's butts off-screen.
- According to Tom Warburton, the pitch for the episode was "BUTT PHOTO BLACKMAIL."[1]
- The picture of Numbuh 1's butt appears in the crossover, The Lost Cases of the Tree House.
Series Continuity[]
- On the back page of a magazine, it shows the Boyfriend Helmet that Lizzie used on Nigel in Operation: L.I.Z.Z.I.E..
- The man whose picnic basket Numbuh 1 hid inside of, later returns in Operation: M.I.S.S.I.O.N. as a bowler.
- This is the first episode with Numbuh 1 going to the beach, as he refused to do so back in Operation: B.E.A.C.H.
- This is the second time Numbuh 1 is seen naked. the first time is in Operation: A.R.C.T.I.C., alongside Numbuh 2, 3 and 5.
- Numbuh 1's secret love of Rainbow Monkeys is later visited in Operation: S.A.T.U.R.N.. In this episode, his secret love for Rainbow Monkeys is hinted by his Rainbow Monkey underwear.
- In Operation: P.O.O.L. Numbuh 1 doesn't have locks and chains around his swim trunks when swimming at Numbuh 4's house pool, meaning that he had already overcome his butt-based embarrassment after the events of this episode.
Pop Culture References[]
- When the robotic crabs chase after Nigel up the wall, he uses Mario's signature wall kick.
- Two Looney Tunes references were made in this episode:
- After the robotic crab snips off Nigel's trunks, he digs through the sand, a la Bugs Bunny.
- Nigel uses Daffy Duck's catchphrase "You're despicable!" when arriving at the Delightful Mansion.
Errors/Goofs[]
- After the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. flies off, the beach behind Numbuh 1 is completely empty of people.
- After Numbuh 2 closes the snacks cabinet on Numbuh 1, he disappears from the cabinet in the next shot. Numbuh 4 is even still looking at where Numbuh 2 was just standing.
- As Numbuh 1 is walking away from the treehouse, the front lawn to his house is missing. His front door now connects directly the sidewalk.
- Numbuh 1 walks the street to the left from the treehouse, but is then somehow far away to the right from the treehouse later when he approaches the Delightful Mansion.
- In the same shot, the outside of Nmbuh 3's room is missing the big red "3."
- After grabbing the negatives and running away, the negatives can no longer be seen in Numbuh 1's hands.
- Lenny's mouth guard is angled into a frown already before Sector V pull off the Delightful Children's pants.
- One of the skirts Numbuh 3 is holding was ripped from the waistband, but both of the Delightful girls have their waistbands intact and are missing the lower parts instead.
- The back cover of Numbuh 5's magazine is empty at the end of the episode.
Voice Credits[]
- Ben Diskin: Numbuh 1, Numbuh 2, DCFDTL, and Umbrella guy
- Lauren Tom: Numbuh 3 and Girl #1
- Dee Bradley Baker: Numbuh 4, DCFDTL, Big guy, and Game voice
- Cree Summer: Numbuh 5, DCFDTL, and Girl #2