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"Operation: M.E.S.S.A.G.E."
Season 6, Episode 70
M.E.S.S.A.G.E.
Mission: 126
Production Code: 70b
Airdate: January 5, 2007
Credits
Writer(s): Tom Warburton
Andy Rheingold
Storyboards by: Matt Peters
Abigail Nesbitt
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Operation: M.E.S.S.A.G.E. is the second story in the fifth episode of Season 6 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on January 5, 2007 on Cartoon Network.

Information[]

Synopsis[]

President Eggbert Eggleston gives Numbuh 2 and old rickety the task of delivering a message to Muffy Jenkins, but the task may be difficult with the Six-Gum Gang in hot pursuit!

Plot[]

The episode begins with Hoagie (Numbuh 2), dressed in cowboy attire, roasting marshmallows over a campfire. He narrates about the hardships of his task of delivering passed notes to students, though he is more than glad to do it. Principal Sauerbraten however interjects to disrupt Hoagie’s little fantasy, revealing that his campfire was set up in the middle of the school hallway. Sauerbraten threatens Hoagie with detention, to which he extinguishes the fire and goes on his way via motorized toy horse he calls Old Rickety.

Hoagie makes a stop by the office of student body president Eggbert Eggleston. His assistant Wilson Woodrow gives Hoagie a mission to deliver a vital note to classmate Muffy Jenkins before the end of her lunch period. Hoagie accepts the mission. Immediately upon exiting President Eggleston’s office, he sees Duke, Runt and Lunk of the Six-Gum Gang waiting outside, scouting him as he rides off slowly on Old Rickety. Wilson steps out of the office and whispers something into Runt’s ear, who then orders the Six-Gum Gang to saddle up and ride off.

Moments later, the Six-Gum Gang turns the corner and gives chase to Hoagie. As Runt orders him to pull over, he notices Duke using his rocket horse to create a blockade for Hoagie, who jumps over him with Old Rickety. The three Six-Gum Gang members continue chasing Hoagie, who sends homework papers flying into the pathway of the gang members, distracting them momentarily. Duke and Lunk crash their rocket horses into the lockers while Runt narrowly avoids the pile-up to keep pursuing Hoagie. He gets the idea to lose Runt in the gymnasium, where apparently, people who go in don’t “make it out of there alive.”

Hoagie and Old Rickety ride around slowly through the gymnasium. The place looks completely deserted, but Hoagie knows not to let his guard down, for there might be troublemakers looking to ambush him. As he notices puffs of smoke in the distance (which turn out to be kids clapping erasers), an unseen foe shoots a dart at Hoagie’s cowboy hat. He immediately dives for cover. Soon after, he gets up to look around, and seeing that the coast might be clear, retrieves his hat. Just then, he’s tackled by a kindergartener and blacks out.

When Hoagie wakes up, he’s restrained with ropes in a chair, in a classroom, and surrounded by members of the kindergarten Crayoned Tribe. Below him is a bottomless abyss; several ropes hold his chair in place from falling. The kindergarteners are playing a game of Duck, Duck, Goose, led by Sits in Corner, and each time one of the kids gets goose, they use an axe with a slice of pizza for a blade to cut one of the ropes keeping Hoagie from falling into the wormhole. A fellow kindergartener, Gets Pigtails Pulled, runs in to stop Sits in Corner from dropping Hoagie into the hole. Before the game can continue, Chief Colors with Broken Crayons, the leader of the kindergarten tribe, enters the classroom to put a stop to everything. It’s revealed by Chief Colors that Sits in Corner was given an atomic wedgie by fourth graders long ago, making his predicament with Hoagie a personal one, since he is a fourth grader. Chief Colors orders two of the tribe members, Mother Dresses Funny and Still Wets Pants, to release Hoagie from captivity.

Hoagie, riding on Old Rickety, exits one side of the school and enters the other via a side door. Runt notices from the top of a hill on his rocket horse. Back in the school, Hoagie eagerly speeds down the hallway and to the cafeteria, which is within sight now. As he rides, he wipes out and sees he ran into a toy block blockade, possibly set up by a kindergarten tribe. His suspicions are confirmed when a rogue Sits in Corner jumps on top of him, defying Chief Colors’s orders to leave the big kids alone. Runt intervenes and orders Sits in Corner to hand over his lunch money, threatening him with another atomic wedgie. He gives up his money and is tossed aside by Runt. Hoagie then gets up and warns him to give Sits in Corner his lunch money back. He hovers his hand over his side arm, ready for a showdown. As they both stare each other down, Hoagie reaches for his side arm, but is immediately disarmed by the short-tempered and quick-drawing Six-Gum Gang member’s gum gun. Before Runt can fire another shot, Sits in Corner bashes him over the head with his pizza axe, knocking him out cold. He tells Hoagie that not all fourth graders are bad, and even allows him to keep his lunch money. They go their separate ways.

In the cafeteria, Hoagie goes up to one of the girls’ tables, only to realize he doesn’t even have the note. Runt, having come to, gives Hoagie the note; his reason for chasing him was to tell him he left the note in President Eggleston’s office. Hoagie confidently gives the note to Muffy Jenkins and walks off into the sunset, reveling in a job well-done.

The episode ends with Muffy revealing the note: Muffy – the Splinter Cell is REAL! President Eggleston.

Ending Credits[]

There is sepia footage of Hoagie, Eggbert, and the Kindergarteners signing a peace treaty in the cafeteria, in a room blowing bubbles, in another room pitching a fire and eating cookies, in a gym walking around in a circle, dancing, and then back in the cafeteria, cheering.

Featured[]

KND Operatives

Allies

Villains

Locations

2x4 Technology

Transcript[]

Operation: M.E.S.S.A.G.E./Transcript

Continuity[]

Pop Culture References[]

  • The girl who said "Who was that masked boy?" is also a Kids Next Door operative since she appeared as a cadet in Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S..
    • The line "who was that masked boy?" is a reference to "who was that masked man?" The line spone at the end of each Lone Ranger episode.
    • This episode may also be a parody of the 1990 film Dances with Wolves.

Trivia[]

  • This episode is adapted from the comic Operation: N.O.T.E.
  • Numbuh 2 is the only member Sector V to appear in this episode.
  • The "Kids Next Door Bologna Express" is a parody of the "Pony Express", a mail delivery service in 1860 in California.

Goofs[]

  • This was the first time that the Splinter Cell was mentioned. It's never revealed how Eggy knows about it, let alone why he'd be telling Muffy Jenkins.

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