"Operation: R.E.P.O.R.T." | |
Season 2, Episode 22 | |
Mission: | 043 |
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Production Code: | 22a |
Airdate: | December 5, 2003 |
Credits | |
Writer(s): | Mo Willems Mr. Warburton |
Storyboards by: | Matt Peters Abigail Nesbitt |
Episode Guide | |
Previous Mission "Operation: C.O.L.L.E.G.E." |
Next Mission "Operation: B.R.I.E.F." |
Ridiculous Exaggerations Possess Occasionally Real Truth
"Operation: R.E.P.O.R.T." is the first story in the ninth episode of Season 2 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on December 5, 2003 on Cartoon Network and was the second "art" episode in the series.
Information[]
Overview[]
When a KND Sector fails a mission, all of the operatives involved must give a personal account of the mission and what went badly. The episode consists of the very obviously exaggerated and inaccurate reports of Sector V after a failed mission.
Plot[]
Numbuh 1's Report
The episode begins with a three-dimensional computer-animated sequence similar to ReBoot, introduces a CGI Nigel materializing in a mostly featureless grid-based plane. In the opening narration, Nigel explains that it is his task to retrieve "the goods", which appears as a floating white box. Placed throughout the space between Nigel and his objective are several obstacles and booby traps, which he quickly gets past. After he obtains the box, another trap is activated which in the process of escaping, Nigel drops the box, which then floats away from him as he lies on the ground while the voice of the Delightful Children From Down the Lane "thanks" him for picking up the box for them.
Numbuh 2's Report
The next scene introduces a superhero Hoagie as "Numbuh Two Guy" in a stereotypical lighthearted comic-book setting. While mild-mannerly reading comics in the park, Numbuh Two Guy hears a cry for help from Nigel old bean, who tells him that the "Devious Villains From The Consortium of Crime" have stolen the goods. He locates them using his "Penetra-vision" and confronts them, demanding that they hand over the box. When they open the box to him, it contains his one weakness, akin to Superman's Kryptonite. Before he passes out, Numbuh Two Guy punches the box out of the villain's hands and sends it flying away.
Numbuh 3's Report
Hoagie's story is followed by a very childish and crudely-drawn sequence similar to the Canadian cartoon show, Stickin' Around, in which a stick-figure Kuki meets "Boxy", here portrayed as a living toy block, and declares him her best friend. After a brief montage of them playing and singing Just Boxy and Me, Kuki encounters a five-headed monster who demands she hand over the box. The blissfully oblivious Kuki willingly gives Boxy to the monster without any resistance and seemingly having no problems with abandoning her so-called "best friend".
Numbuh 4's Report
The next sequence is a parody of Dragon Ball Z, with Wally as Goku or in his case "Numbuh Four Go", and The Delightful Children From Down the Lane as Frieza fighting over the "Rectanguloid Power Charm". Animesque Numbuh Four Go uses a Kamehameha-like gumball attack, which seemingly defeats the villains. They then return and activate their "Full Power Evolution". In response, Numbuh Four Go uses his own Super Saiyan-style transformation, which unfortunately does nothing other than cause his hair to grow to a ridiculous size. He is defeated and loses the Rectanguloid Power Charm, vowing to never fail again as the scene ends.
Numbuh 5's Report
Abigail's story is a surreal cartoon in a style somewhat resembling Mo Willems' The Offbeats set to the jazz-tinged music. Carrying "the goods", Abigail is pursued by The Delightful Children From Down the Lane, who in this scene share one body with five heads. They furiously yell "Give us that box! It's ours!", and when Abigail remarks that it is not, they tell her to check it for herself. When she looks inside the box, while the music played adding loud blaring trumpets, causing all of them to jump and Abigail to drop the box. She picks it up and looks again, to the same effect. She makes a disgusted remark that it's anchovies, revealing that the box was nothing more than a pizza, and they had the Delightful Children's order the entire time. Abigail tosses the box at them, which they catch and say "Thank you" very sarcastically before taking their leave.
In the End...
After all five segments, the episode finally cuts to reality, where Numbuh 86 is yelling at the members of Sector V for failing a simple mission: picking up a pizza. (The morons thought the mission was to steal the pizza from an enemy, instead of just picking up an order.) All five look down shamefully as the screen brightens and the black words "End Transmission" (in a list of pizza toppings with the text's box checked) come over in the screen.
In the last shot, the employee at the pizza restaurant is seen calling for the Kids Next Door.
Featured[]
KND Operatives
Allies
- Flowers (only appearance)
- Boxy (only appearance)
Cameos
- Mummy (only appearance)
- Pizza Boy (only appearance)
Villains
- Delightful Children From Down the Lane/Devious Villains from the Consortium of Crime/New Spooky Friend/Delightfulons
Locations
- Digital Space (only appearance)
- The City (only appearance)
- The Park (only appearance)
- Mummy's tomb (only appearance)
- Beach
- Salon
- Unnamed rocky terrain (only appearance)
- Void-like space (only appearance)
- Moonbase
- Pizza parlor (only appearance)
Objects
- DCFDTL's Pizza/The Goods/Rectanguloid Power Charm (only appearance)
- Ham
- Gum Wad Attack (only appearance)
- KND's Pizza (only appearance)
Songs
Transcript[]
Operation: R.E.P.O.R.T./Transcript
Trivia[]
- In Hoagie's story, the anchovies on the Delightful's pizza weaken him -- this implies that Hoagie doesn't like anchovies. This seems a little odd, because when it comes to his eating habits (particularly compared to not just Sector V but the KND as a whole), Numbuh 2 seems the least picky, as he's been shown to happily gobble down even Gramma Stuffum's cooking.
- When the Delightful Children are talking in Kuki's story, Abigail's voice can be heard, as Abigail is voiced by Cree Summer, who voices the female Delightful Children.
- Despite Nigel and Abigail being the members of their team with the most common sense, they fail to realize how idiotic it would be to steal a pizza from an enemy. It wouldn't be to their liking.
- This episode is one of the very few when the Delightful Children talk out of near-perfect sync. In Abigail's story, while they were running after her and yelling, other things being shouted at once could be heard, in the voices of different people in the bunch as well.
- The first time it happens in the series is in the pilot episode, Operation: C.A.K.E.D., when an angry Laura Limpin briefly startles them when trying to hand them a red birthday present, proving that even under Delightfulization, their individual emotions can surface.
- This was the second "art" episode of Codename: Kids Next Door; the previous one was Operation: T.H.E.-F.L.Y., and the next ones being: Operation: A.R.C.H.I.V.E., Operation: F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E., Operation: L.O.V.E., and Operation: S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
- Sector V did their reports about a “box” with the Delightful Children in 5 different ways:
- Numbuh 1’s report was in a 3 dimensional world.
- Numbuh 2’s report was in a comic book.
- Numbuh 3’s report was in a drawing.
- Numbuh 4’s report was in an anime of Dragon Ball Z.
- Numbuh 5’s report was in a cartoon Pink Panther-like World.
- This is the only episode in which the text "END TRANSMISSION" was different, located in a pizza topping list.
- The comic Numbuh 2 is reading is titled "Hi Ho".
- This is the first time someone other than Benjamin Diskin voices Numbuh 2; Dee Bradley Baker voices Numbuh 2 Guy.
Production Notes[]
- Benjamin Diskin helped Dee Bradley Baker during Numbuh 4's screaming scenes as Ben was a fan of Dragon Ball Z and made sure Dee knew to yell DBZ style.
- Each segment was made with a different artistic style:[1]
- Numbuh One = CGI computer animation
- Numbuh Two = comic book style
- Numbuh Three = naive kiddie drawings
- Numbuh Four - anime style
- Numbuh Five = UPA style (ala Mo Willems)
Pop Culture References[]
- Nigel's story is a reference to The Animatrix.
- Hoagie's story is a reference to the Superman comic book series.
- Kuki's story is a reference to ChalkZone and SpongeBob SquarePants, with Boxy somewhat resembling SpongeBob.
- Wallabee's story is a reference to Dragon Ball Z.
- Abigail's story is a reference to UPA Cartoons, but also is reminiscent of Mo Willems' The Off-Beats & Sheep in the Big City as well.
Errors/Goofs[]
- Benjamin Diskin is not credited as a voice for the Delightful Children.
Voice Credits[]
- Benjamin Diskin: Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 2
- Lauren Tom: Numbuh 3 and flower #2
- Dee Bradley Baker: Numbuh 4, DCFDTL, and Numbuh 2 Guy
- Cree Summer: Numbuh 5, DCFDTL, and flower #1
- Jennifer Hale: Numbuh 86 and flower #3
- James Arnold Taylor: Pizza boy