| "Operation: T.E.E.T.H." | |
| Season 1, Episode 03 | |
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| Mission: | 007 |
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| Production Code: | 1KND03[1] |
| Airdate: | December 13, 2002 |
| Credits | |
| Writer(s): | Mr. Warburton Mo Willems |
| Storyboards by: | Joe St. Pierre |
| Episode Guide | |
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Tooth Extracting Enemy Terrorizes Headquarters
"Operation: T.E.E.T.H." is the second story in the third episode of Season 1 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on December 13, 2002 on Cartoon Network, and marked the first appearance of Knightbrace.
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Summary
Numbuh 3's teeth are cleaned by a dental-obsessive villain, Knightbrace.
Plot
It starts with Numbuh 3 happily walking down the street and eating candy. During this, her hideous and dirty teeth and gums are revealed. Then it shows the inside of her extremely salivating mouth and her giant tongue along with the excess dripping of dirty saliva under her yellow teeth which soaks her lollipop. Numbuh 3 had walked around the block near the candy store again and accidentally went into an alleyway.
When she takes a wrong turn, that is near a dentist place, the sun suddenly becomes a moon and then a light's turned on followed by an evil laughter. Then Numbuh 3 turns around and sees the shadow of a stalker and screams while the stalker grabs her and steals the candy she carries got spilled. Then Numbuh 3 comes out with a red toothbrush and discovers that her teeth are clean and shining extremely brightly. Then she screams one more time, louder and a villain named Knightbrace with a red toothbrush, he's seen on the roof and laughs, maniacally. Then he jumps from roof to roof and disappears.
The Sector V team's waiting for Numbuh 3 to come back from the candy store. After the Sector V Team scolded Numbuh 3, they discover that when Numbuh 3 shows her teeth, they shine brightly, causing the team to go into shock. Then Numbuh 1 claims that his teeth should look like the rest of the team's and that it's discovered that the entire group (except Numbuh 1) has horrible teeth. Then Numbuh 5 suggests they go get some candy for Numbuh 3's teeth and then Numbuh 1 agrees and said, "To the Candy Store!"
The team, using Numbuh 3's teeth as a flashlight, walked to the candy store. Then Numbuh 1 tells Numbuh 3 to look ahead and a dentist named Dr. Sigmund Teef appears in front of the kids and offers a complimentary check-up. Then Dr. Sigmund Teef shows the kids to the door and is disappointed when the team then ignores the dentist and walks away. Numbuh 4 even calls Dr. Sigmund Teef a freak. Next to the dentist is the candy store where the team discovers that the candy store's closed. Numbuh 2 humorously says, "Closed?! But it’s only midnight!!". As the team leaves, the door suddenly opens and then the candy man tells the kids to come back. The Candyman, Mr. Jelly, lets the kids in with a friendly wave from Numbuh 3. Then the kids stuff themselves with candy from barrels using bags. Then Numbuh 2 asks if Mr. Jelly has any taffy, and then Mr. Jelly nervously says that they're fresh out. Then Mr. Jelly sends the kids away with Sector V smiling and walking down the dark aisle. Numbuh 4 and the rest talk about Mr. Teef (the dentist) and demonstrate how they'd fight off the dentist. Numbuh 4 eventually stops talking to the kids about happiness and the rest of the team doesn't bother to look back. The team goes back to the treehouse where they find Numbuh 4 with giant braces, sitting on a chair mumbling and trying to talk. Then Numbuh 5 calls this being bracified. Then Numbuh 1 discovers a tag with a purple tooth that threatens to brush after meals or snacks, or else. It also says, “Signed, Knightbrace.”
Numbuh 2 asks, "What's a Knightbrace?" Numbuh 5 claims it has to be the dentist while Numbuh 4 is trying to say, “Mr. Jelly.” Numbuh 1 says that they shouldn't jump to conclusions. Numbuh 1 makes a plan to lure the enemy and tells Numbuh 2 to get more candy. Suddenly, Numbuh 1 discovers Numbuh 2 and 5 are gone and saw Numbuh 3 was the only one remaining and notices the treehouse door is opened with a few leaves blowing in. Then Numbuh 1 comes out and looks around finding Numbuh 2 and Numbuh 5 tied together by a web of dental floss and talking. Numbuh 1 decides that Dr. Sigmund Teef is behind all this. Nigel decided to teach Dr. Sigmund Teef a lesson for messing with Sector V. Numbuh 3 then accidentally shines her teeth and blinded Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 4 accidentally hurt Numbuh 1’s foot and with his braces.
Then the Sector V Team goes to the alley where Numbuh 3 was attacked, and then they hide while they wait for Knightbrace to attack a fake Numbuh 1 puppet surrounded by candy. Then Knightbrace comes, laughs evilly, and scrubs the decoy rapidly with the red toothbrush. Numbuh 1 comes from a garbage can and calls the signal to Numbuh 3, who shines her light at Knightbrace, who gasps and ends up being attacked by the team, who comes to battle him. Knightbrace angrily asks, “You dare interrupt my sacred mission?! I am the brush and you are the black,” Then Numbuh 1 is hit with toothpaste, gluing him to the nearby fence. Knightbrace then says, “Now brace for impact,” and throws his headgear like a boomerang at Numbuh's 5 and 2 which knocks them down and flies back into his mouth. Then Knightbrace uses a giant red toothbrush at a singing Numbuh 3 to pound her. Knightbrace misses Numbuh 3, who takes evasive action from Knightbrace’s foot long toothbrush and dances away. Numbuh 3 then shines her teeth at Knightbrace much to his annoyance and causes him to use a mirror stunning Numbuh 3. Knightbrace jumps into a nearby window to escape.
The team follows Knightbrace to Dr. Teef's office and search around for him. While they are looking, Knightbrace suddenly comes below and attacks Numbuh 1. Numbuh 4 uses his braces to hurt Knightbrace's foot, causing him to jump up and down. Then Numbuh 3 shines her teeth at Knightbrace, who goes crazy. Numbuh's 2 and 5 come over tying their floss together and knock Knightbrace down. Knightbrace was a little hurt. Suddenly, the door opens and then the team discovers Dr. Teef isn't behind Knightbrace, as he just came into the room. Numbuh 1 unmasks Knightbrace and discovers that he's revealed to be none other than Mr. Jelly!
Then Mr. Jelly reveals that he wanted to be a dentist ever since he was a child (as seen when he practiced it on his dog), but was kicked out of dental school for trying his attempt of putting braces on babies. With no other choices, Mr. Jelly had to work in his family's candy store and watch children constantly enter to buy and eat candy (which he calls "cavity-inducing treats"). It was too much for him to bear, so he became the vigilante Knightbrace to correct all the damage he did.
Dr. Teef states to Mr. Jelly he and the other dentists told him he can't force children to clean their teeth, but fails to stop Mr. Jelly, who suddenly jumps onto Dr. Teef's chair and uses it as a weapon. Mr. Teef tries to convince Knightbrace to stop, but chickens out and dodges a toothpaste blast. Soon, Numbuh's 2 through 5 are glued to the wall with toothpaste. Mr. Jelly is about to finish off Numbuh 1, and then nearly succeeds doing so, until Dr. Teef comes in and throws a whip of taffy at Knightbrace. Mr. Jelly sees this and eats it and then finds that it's discovered that it's his only weakness, which was why earlier Mr. Jelly pretended he didn’t have taffy. He continues to eat it, but fails to notice the taffy getting stuck in the machine, and causing Numbuh 1 to be freed. In the end, Mr. Jelly is tired from eating taffy and his machine's covered with taffy, keeping it from moving. Then Mr. Teef claims that his brother-in-law will take the candy store and offers the kids, a free check-up again. The team laughs and Numbuh 4 calls Mr. Teef a freak once again, just to make him very annoyed again.
Featured
KND Operatives
Allies
- Dr. Sigmund Teef (only appearance)
- Dr. Teef's brother-in-law (mentioned)
Villains
- Knightbrace/Mr. Jelly (debut)
Locations
- Mr. Jelly's Candy Store (only appearance)
- Alley (only appearance)
- Dr. Teef's Dentist Office (only appearance)
- Sector V Treehouse
- Numbuh 1 Dummy (only appearance)
- Restrictive Braces (only appearance)
- Dental Floss Web (only appearance)
- Toothpaste Shooters (only appearance)
- Giant Toothbrush (only appearance)
- Dental Assault Chair (debut)
Quotes
Numbuh 5: Finally! Candy time!
Numbuh 1: Uh oh, looks like we've got a problem.
Numbuh 2: Closed?! But it's only midnight!
Numbuh 1: We'll just have to come back first thing in the morning.
Trivia
- This episode takes place almost entirely at night.
- It is shown that Numbuh 2, 4, and 5 all have dirty teeth, but they never look like that.
- Numbuh 1's teeth are noticeably cleaner than his teammates' teeth. This might also explain why he doesn't open his mouth to show Numbuh 3 what hers should look like.
- This is the first episode without the Delightful Children From Down the Lane.
- To give Knightbrace extra nightbracey effects, voice actor Tom Kenny hooked one finger into his mouth while recording his lines.[2]
Series Continuity
- This is the first Knightbrace episode, the next being Operation: M.U.N.C.H.I.E.S..
- When after Mr. Jelly becomes nervous, the gang starts to leave and Numbuh 1 says put the bill where they pay later at their Kids Next Door account. This is the only episode that the KND ever have an account since they usually pay.
- Numbuh 4's bad teeth come back in the comic Operation: T.O.O.T.H.F.A.I.R.Y..
- That same alley is later repurposed in Operation: H.O.M.E..
- In a later episode Operation: D.I.A.P.E.R. Numbuh 2, 3, 4 and 5 now wear dentures as the result of tooth decay due to the dirty teeth they had in this episode.
- Despite Numbuh 3's teeth being cleaned-up by Knightbrace in this episode, that episode heavily implies that sometime between the events of this episode and Operation: D.I.A.P.E.R. her teeth has been restored to her original dirty state like all her other teammates.
Pop Culture References
- Knightbrace is mostly a parody of Batman, but the way the KND unmasks him is a parody of the end of the Scooby-Doo cartoons.
- The way Knightbrace shoots toothpaste out of his wrists is a spoof on Spider-Man. As is also the way he way he had Numbuh 2 and 5 hang in a web of dental floss.
- The way the Kids Next Door fought Knightbrace in the room is similar to The Fairly Oddparents episode "Shiny Teeth" (which also aired in 2002), where Timmy Turner fights Doctor Bender.
Goofs
- In the opening of the episode when Numbuh 3 is skipping around the city, she starts out outside of Mr. Jelly's Candy Store, turns around three corners and ends up outside of the candy store again.
- The window Knightbrace jumps into was boarded up only moments before.
- Knightbrace jump into a window on the right side of the alley and somehow ends up in Dr. Teef's office, which was on the left side of the alley (and was shown to not have any windows into the alley).
- After Sector V entered Dr. Teef's office and Numbuh 5 tells Numbuh 1 to look out, she does not have a gold ring in her right ear.
- Mr. Jelly's nostrils disappeared and reappeared multiple times throughout the episode.
Voice Credits
- Benjamin Diskin: Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 2
- Lauren Tom: Numbuh 3
- Dee Bradley Baker: Numbuh 4
- Cree Summer: Numbuh 5
- Jeff Bennett: Dr. Teef
- Tom Kenny: Mr. Jelly/Knightbrace
Gallery
Transcript
Operation: T.E.E.T.H./Transcript
