"Operation: M.I.N.I.-G.O.L.F." | |
Season 1, Episode 05 | |
Mission: | 011 |
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Production Code: | 1KND08[1] |
Airdate: | December 27, 2002 |
Credits | |
Writer(s): | Mo Willems Mr. Warburton |
Storyboards by: | Jesse Schmal |
Episode Guide | |
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Miniaturization Is Now Issue - Golfing Opposite Looney Fanatic
"Operation: M.I.N.I.-G.O.L.F." is the second half of the fifth episode of Season 1 of Codename: Kids Next Door.
The episode premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on Friday, December 27, 2002.
Information[]
Summary[]
After Numbuh 2 beats a mini-golf champion at mini-golf, the golfer shrinks Numbuh 2, and many sights from around the world.
Plot[]
The episode starts with Sector V (minus Numbuh 2) running for their dear lives as they are chased by a giant kid named Big Brother (no relation whatsoever to the Big Brother of politics). Numbuh 2 then shows up in a D.A.R.T. and tries to hit Big Brother with it but misses. However, he ricochets about the neighborhood, ultimately hitting Big Brother in the head, and knocking him out. Sector V are walking home, but they don't get far when a golf ball hits Numbuh 2 on the head, knocking him out. When Numbuh 2 comes to, he examines the ball and it belongs to a fellow named Rupert Putkin. He feels weird about Sector V holding his ball and gets it back. Numbuh 5 is surprised that they have champions in mini-golf. Rupert tells everyone sharply that the game is called miniature golf. He then speaks arrogantly about how if he were to play Numbuh 2 "one zillion, billion times", he'd beat him each time. Numbuh 2 promptly accepts the challenge despite the fact that he had never actually played it before.
The two are now engaged in the game, which Rupert is very good at, while Numbuh 2 isn't, even though he managed to get a hole-in-one with a crashed plane. At first, Numbuh 2 shot the ball in the air and Rupert laughed and laughed himself silly but Numbuh 2’s ball hit a plane and got a hole-in-one anyway. Pretty soon, they reach the 18th hole, everything depending on whether or not Rupert can get a hole-in-one here or face living the rest of his life in disgrace. Obviously, Rupert is tense, and as Numbuh 2 tries to relax him by saying it's only a game, he is mad. This arouses Rupert's agitation and causes him to frustratingly swing his club about wildly. In the process, he accidentally hits the ball straight up and has no idea what has happened as it lands on the tee. Thus, he loses the game, and much to everyone's delight, Numbuh 2 wins. A reporter asks if he will go pro, but when Numbuh 2 declines, claiming that mini-golf is dumb, Rupert hears his words. By nightfall, Rupert is still at the course, and still kept hearing the words, “Kind of dumb,” echo in his head, and finally snaps (as does his club). Back at the treehouse, Numbuh 2 hears the door knocking. He answers and is blinded by a bright light.
When he comes to, he is surrounded by the world's historical monuments. He is pleased with where he is until a golf ball hits him on the head. Rupert (now calling himself the Great Puttinski) had shrunken the world's monuments (The Golden Gate Bridge, the Sphinx, the Eiffel Tower, etc.) with the Smallifying/Bigifying Ray, which are not replicas, and used the monuments as the courses in the Ultimate Miniature Golf Course, which is merely in someone's basement. Rupert had used the ray to shrink both the monuments and Numbuh 2, so they could have a rematch, only this time, Numbuh 2 would be at a "small disadvantage". Suddenly, Rupert's mother calls him for dinner, but doesn't seem to know that he says he's busy destroying his nemesis right now. His mom says he can destroy his nemesis later, but is still annoyed when he ignores her, and as they begin, the game begins. Numbuh 2 is constantly lucky with his swings and makes one hole-in-one after another. When Rupert and Numbuh 2 reach the final hole, Rupert is disgusted to learn they're both tied. But find it doesn't matter to Rupert because if he can get a hole-in-one through this hole, the Smallifying/Gratifying Ray will be activated and will shrink the entire Earth to the size of a golf ball so Rupert can play golf with the entire solar system and universe. Numbuh 2 will have nothing to do with taking a shot that can shrink the world, but is surprised when Rupert says that the miniature Numbuh 2 will be the ball! Numbuh 2 is now tied up and placed on the tee. He tells Rupert that he should not get worked up over a stupid game, and as Rupert yells, "IT'S NOT A STUPID GAME!" by yelling at Numbuh 2.
In frustration, he again flails his club around, but accidentally hits Numbuh 2 with it. Numbuh 2 starts rolling toward the hole that will activate the ray. As he reaches the hole, Numbuh 2 activates the ray, to Rupert's delight as he cackles evilly. But is unaware when Numbuh 2 then goes bouncing about after he gets flung from the hole, finally hitting the ray machine's switch so that it now is switched from "smallify" to "bigify", increasing the size of the monuments and Rupert, too. He starts to get really upset because, with each step, he is destroying his golf course. Meanwhile, Numbuh 2 is still bouncing around the room, causing Rupert to cry in tears for ruining his golf course. He finally hits Rupert in the head, knocking him out, while the shrink-ray machine destroys itself on one of the monuments. Back at the Sector V Treehouse, Sector V congratulates Numbuh 2 on saving the world twice in one day. To celebrate, they decide to play ping-pong... with the still-shrunken Numbuh 2 as the ball!
Featured[]
KND Operatives
Allies
- Female Reporter (debut)
- Betty Gilligan (referenced)
- Mrs. Puttkin (voice only)
Villains
- Big Brother (debut)
- Rupert Puttkin/The Great Puttinski (debut)
Locations
- Minigolf course (only appearance)
- Puttkin's basement (debut)
- Sector V Treehouse
- D.A.R.T. (debut)
- Miniaturization Ray (only appearance)
- Flaming Hole of Doom (only appearance)
- Flying Minigolf Windmill (only appearance)
Objects
- Puttkin Precision Golf Balls (only appearance)
- Submarine
Quotes[]
The Great Puttinski: IT'S NOT A STUPID GAME!
Gallery[]
Operation: M.I.N.I.-G.O.L.F./Gallery
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode to focus on Numbuh 2.
- This is the only episode where the Great Puttinski is the main antagonist.
- This is the last episode to have premiered in 2002.
- There are a number of odd characters appearing in the background during the mini-golf tournament, including:
- A man dressed as a bush with binoculars.
- A flight attendant holding a coffee mug and a white coffee cup.
- A man smoking a pipe while reading a newspaper.
- Rupert Puttkin stole some of the most famous world monuments for his mini-golf course: the Golden Gate Bridge, the Grand Canyon, the Empire State Building, the Great Wall of China, the Giza pyramids and the Sphinx, Niagara Falls, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, and a windmill from the Netherlands.
Series Continuity[]
- This episode introduces both Big Brother and the Great Puttinski, both of whom continue to appear in the background through the series.
- Puttkin's basement is seen again in the series final, Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S..
- Sector V later have their own Shrink Ray in Operation: S.P.R.O.U.T..
Pop Culture References[]
- In Rupert's fantasy of playing mini-golf with planets, he somewhat resembles Galactus from Marvel Comics.
- The idea of playing golf with planets is later used in the Futurama film, Into the Wild Green Yonder.
- Rupert Puttkin is named after "Rupert Pupkin" from the film, The King of Comedy.[2]
Goofs[]
- Numbuh 5's long hair is missing in some scenes of her in the background.
- In the scene with the crocodile-themed mini golf course, several silhouettes are repeated multiple times in the background.
Voice Credits[]
- Benjamin Diskin: Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 2
- Lauren Tom: Numbuh 3
- Dee Bradley Baker: Numbuh 4
- Cree Summer: Numbuh 5
- John DiMaggio: Big Brother
- Jennifer Hale: Computer, Rupert's Mom, and Reporter
- Rob Paulsen: Rupert Puttkin/Great Puttinski