Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E.

"Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E."
Season 4, Episode 46
Mission:	085
Production Code:	407a
Airdate:	May 06, 2005
Credits
Writer(s):	Mo Willems Mr. Warburton
Storyboards by:	Maurice Fontenot Bob Suarez
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Candy Hunting Operative's Chocolatized Opponent Literally A Touchy Enemy

Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E. is the first story in the seventh episode of Season 4 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on May 6, 2005 on Cartoon Network.

Information

Summary

Numbuh 5 tries to stop Heinrich, now a chocolate monster, from destroying her friends.

Plot

Abigail and her family have just finished eating dinner. Her father comments that it's nice to see Abigail and Cree being "friendly" again. They seem to be getting along, but they're pointing ray guns at each other underneath the table.

Their father suggests they have hot chocolate and marshmallows and Abby goes to get them, narrowly avoiding a blast from Cree's ray gun which their parents are oblivious to. She enters the garage and boards a space shuttle straight to mars to harvest “Fresh” mars-mallows. Upon her return, she slips in puddle of bitter-tasting chocolate and finds her house coated in it while her family has become petrified chocolate statues. On the wall, write in chocolate, are the words “I haff returned.”

Immediately realizing who’s behind this attack on her home, Abigail follows the chocolaty trail to the treehouse where the rest of Sector V are fighting off the attacker. Numbuh 2 takes a moment in the midst of the battle to sample the attacks, though Numbuh 4 admits he isn’t much a fan of bitter chocolate. Both are swiftly choco-fied and though Numbuh 3 tries to bring in H.I.P.P.I.E.-H.O.P., they follow swiftly after. Only Numbuh 1 remains and the attacker demands the location of Abigail, finally revealing himself to be Heinrich Von Marzipan, transformed into a chocolate monster. Numbuh 5 finally arrives and demands the release of her sector leader. Heinrich obliges and throws Numbuh 1 aside, to his dismay.

Hienrich explains she is the one that he wants and his current state is a result of his falling into the chocolate volcano from Operation: R.A.B.B.I.T. and fusing with the choco-lava, turning him into a creature that could turn anything he touches into chocolate. Though originally overjoyed at this power, the boy soon found that other foods he attempted to eat suffered the same effect (including the cheeseburger he deeply craved for), preventing him from ever tasting anything but bitter chocolate. Seeing his sadness, Numbuh 5 recommends going to the KND scientists for a cure, but he refuses, desiring only to obtain revenge on Abby. He fires a choco-blast at her, but she neutralizes it with her marshmallow gun and takes off when he tries to overpower her. She makes her way back to her house and once again boards her rocket, blasting off into space while Heinrich oozes his way into the cockpit. She maneuvers the ship to keep him off balance, but he manages to grab hold of her leg and slowly begins transforming her into a statue. Before he can fully choco-tize her, however, they’ve reached her intended destination: the sun. Caught in its rays, Heinrich begins to melt and when she finally dumps her remaining marshmallows supply onto of him, he’s rendered powerless.

Abigail sites her second-offer’s-log describing the de-chocolatizing of Heinrich’s victims, all except for Cree who “mysteriously” disappeared. The KND scientists managed to cure Heinrich’s condition and placed him in a jail cell in the Arctic Base, where Abby had one more task to complete.

Numbuh 5 pays a visit to the jail to converse with Heinrich during visiting hours and though he assumes she’s come to gloat, she simply passes him a paper bag and advice to “give [her] a call when [he’s] less bitter and a little more sweet”. Once she leaves, he opens her gift and is overjoyed at finding the cheeseburger he had been craving. In tears, he thanks her and happily begins eating, but is horrified to find pickles on his sandwich.

Featured

KND Operatives

• Numbuh 1
• Numbuh 2
• Numbuh 3
• Numbuh 4
• Numbuh 5

Allies

• Mrs. Lincoln (debut)
• Dr. Lincoln

Villains

• Cree Lincoln
• Heinrich Von Marzipan

Cameos

• Numbuh 23
• Numbuh 44
• Numbuh 83
• Numbuh 202
• KND Scientists
• Crazy Old Cat Lady
• The Iguana
• Toiletnator

Locations

• Lincoln Residence
• Mars
• Sector V Treehouse
• KND Arctic Prison

2x4 Technology

• Green Gun
• Refrigerator Rocket
• Space helmet
• F.I.S.H.O.T.G.U.N.
• M.U.S.K.E.T.
• Radio gun
• H.I.P.P.I.E.-H.O.P.
• V.E.G.G.I.E.
• S.P.I.C.E.R.
• Marshmallow Gun
• Spray Can Jetpack

Villain Technology

• Teen Ninja Gun
• Lollipop Gun (flashback)

Transcript

Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E./Transcript

Trivia

• This is the first appearance of Abigail's mother, Mrs. Lincoln.
• When Abigail's parents are chocolatized, they have no faces, when everyone else does.
• It's revealed that marshmallows originate from Mars.
• It's revealed that Wallabee doesn't like dark/bitter chocolate.
• Despite appearing, Numbuh 3 and Cree have no dialogue in this episode.
• In the end of the episode, you can see the Toiletnator talking to a man and a woman dressed up similar to him in the Arctic Base visitation room, who were most likely meant to be his parents (or adoptive parents).
  • However, this may be contradicted with the revelation in Operation: H.I.S.T.O.R.I.E. that the Toiletnator is in fact the long-lost twin brother of Numbuh 4's father, Sydney Beetles.
• The Iguana is also in the visitation room, talking to a woman who is likely his mother.
• The third villain in the visitation room is the Crazy Old Cat Lady, who is talking to an elderly man with a dog-like appearance.
• This is the second time we see a villain melt into liquid. The first time was in "Operation: I.-S.C.R.E.A.M." when the Ice Cream Monster melted when Kuki turned on the heater.
• The melting point of chocolate is between 86 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit, which explains why Abigail was just fine when Heinrich started melting.
• The Kids Next Door Arctic Base is shown to have at least one laboratory.

Series continuity

• This episode is a sequel to "Operation: R.A.B.B.I.T.", with Heinrich becoming a chocolate monster at the end of that episode and appearing as the monster in this episode. Also, Heiny references the events of Operation: R.A.B.B.I.T. while explaining to Abigail how he became a monster.
• It's also revealed that Heinrich Von Marzipan hates pickles. This is later referenced in the comic, Operation: C.H.O.C.O.-L.O.G..

Cultural references

• Heiny's turning things into chocolate and its drawbacks are a reference to the story of King Midas, where the titular king gained the power to turn anything he touched to gold, only to find the blessing to be a curse.
  • The desire to eat a plain hamburger could've taken inspiration from Disney's Silly Symphony: The Golden Touch that also tells the tale of King Midas.
• The way Heinrich can create chocolate bridges and coat things in chocolate is similar to Iceman from the X-Men.
• Abigail's "second officer's log" at the end is a parody of the captain's log from Star Trek.
• The plot is similar to the film Monster A Go-Go.

Goofs

• When Abigail stands back to allow her ship to fully emerge from the ground, we can see the garage door behind her, but both cars have disappeared.
• There is no chocolate trail outside of Abigail's house when she returns from Mars.
• The door to the garage goes through several changes after Abigail returns: it is initially a closed blue door, then the door is missing when Abigail slipped in the chocolate, before turning into an entirely different door with a window when Abigail sees the chocolate-covered kitchen.
• After Abigail slips in the chocolate, she never gets up but is still somehow standing at the same height as she was sitting relative to the garage door in the next shot.
• The garage door is now a back door out of the house.
• Abigail opens both doors to the living room, but only one of the doors is open when Cree falls over her.
• Cree is somehow able to roll away from Abigail, despite having one arm stretched out which would stop the rolling.
• After pushing Cree away, Abigail runs to her right which is the wrong direction because the living room was just in front of her.
• Heinrich blames Abigail for why he became a chocolate covered monster, when it was actually Jessicia who caused him to fall into the chocolate lava in Operation: R.A.B.B.I.T.
• When Abigail reads the writing on the wall, she is standing between the table and the window, but she was actually standing between the table and the door, which would give the scene a different framing.
• Numbuh 2 is covered in chocolate after eating it off the wall, but is completely clean after Numbuh 4 has tried a bite.
• The sound of Numbuh 2 enjoying the chocolate goes on longer than intended, even after he finished the chocolate is staring at Numbuh 4.
• When Heinrich's chocolate is slowly covering the treehouse floor, it has to cover the same areas several times, as the coverage is happening too quickly to fit the scene.
• The Lincoln garage roof is somehow repaired when Abigail is being chased by Heinrich, despite the big hole that was there earlier from her trip to Mars.
• When Abigail is about to take off in her ship in the garage, we can already see space outside of her ship's windows.
• The size of the hole in the visitation room changes from a low and long hole, to a taller hole that better fits the bag that Abigail brought to Heinrich. The hole returns to original size when Abigail leaves.
• We can see the Toiletnator talking in the background, but there is no sound.

Voice credits

• Ben Diskin: Numbuh 1, Numbuh 2
• Dee Bradley Baker: Numbuh 4, Heinrich, Toiletnator
• Cree Summer: Numbuh 5, Mrs. Lincoln
• Kevin Michael Richardson: Dr. Lincoln

German-English Translations

• Liebchen - Sweetheart (Lady Love)
• Und - And
• Nein - No
• Mein - My
• Sehr gut - Very good
• Ja - Yes
• Ach Du Liebe - Oh For the Love Of
• Ze - The

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