| "Operation: F.A.S.T.-F.O.O.D." | |
| Season 2, Episode 17 | |
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| Mission: | 034 |
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| Production Code: | 17b |
| Airdate: | October 24, 2003 |
| Credits | |
| Writer(s): | Mo Willems Tom Warburton |
| Storyboards by: | Guy Moore Quack Leard |
| Episode Guide | |
| Previous Mission "Operation: M.O.V.I.E." |
Next Mission "Operation: S.H.A.V.E." |
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"Operation: F.A.S.T.-F.O.O.D." is the second story in the fourth episode of Season 2 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on October 24, 2003 on Cartoon Network.
Information[]
Summary[]
Numbuh 3 is sent on a mission for her birthday: to get a fast food meal. The restaurant is shown to actually be for sharks, with kids on the menu as murdering, thanks to a new money-making scheme by Chester.
Plot[]
It's Kuki's (Numbuh 3) 10th birthday, and as she walked happily into her room, Nigel, Hogarth, Wally, and Abigail accidentally surprised her literally and Kuki got spooked and was on a beam but was as happy as can be, and, as Kids Next Door tradition, her birthday wish is granted by her fellow operatives. Kuki blew out her birthday candles and thought very hard on what to wish for. Her wish this year is to direct a mission. The team is shocked at this, as Hoagie and Wallabee thinking she'd want flowers or a unicorn or something similar to her tastes. But Kuki wanted to lead a mission. Wallabee then insults Kuki, insisting that she cannot actually lead a mission on her own and figured that she would mess up the mission before it even started. Kuki starts crying, which forces Nigel (who sympathizes with Kuki) into giving her a dangerous mission. The operatives arm themselves and invade a fast-food joint. Kuki goes in to complete the mission, while the others remain behind. While Kuki is inside, the other operatives praise Nigel for tricking her into believing that she is completing a "dangerous mission". The mission is simply ordering a kids meal from the newest fast food restaurant, Burger Frenzy. When Kuki enters and orders her meal, she discovers that Chester is running the business.
He then proceeds to turn Kuki into a burger by topping her with ketchup, mustard, lettuce, pickles, and tomato, before stuffing her in an over-sized fast food hamburger container.
At the drive-thru window, there is a family of great white sharks in a regular car (this car is full of water so they can breathe), who are ordering a kids meal for their son, who also happens to be celebrating his birthday - his wish was to get a kids meal from this exact restaurant (much to his father's anger of having to go up on land). Chester gives them the box (the one he trapped Kuki in) and the father shark gives him some gold coins, as they drive off.
Meanwhile, the rest of Sector V are getting restless, frustrated that Kuki can't even get a simple kids' meal (to which Hoagie speculates that there "must be a long line"). While sitting outside the restaurant, Nigel examines the sign in front, which reads: "Try Our New Kids Meal! Kids Meal Contains 1 Drink, 1 Toy, and 1 Kid On A Bun". Numbuhs 1, 2, and 5 begin to wonder about the meaning of this advert. Wallabee says that perhaps it is a typo, and he later points out the car full of sharks. Suddenly, the team realizes that "kid on a bun" meant a literal kid, and that kid being Kuki. And Chester was turning his Kids Next Door victims into a burger to feed to sharks. The shark family of a mother, father, and an impatient son buy the burger by drive-thru and are constantly arguing and bickering with each other during the entire episode. They race to stop the speeding car, which is heading back to the ocean.
Inside the car, the shark pup is arguing with his father, saying he wants to eat his birthday meal right there in the car instead of waiting to get home. This angers the father shark, and he repeatedly yells at him, angering the mother shark, to which she says many times: "Don't you yell at my baby!". Right before turning to get onto the dock, the mother gives in and tells her son that he can eat his meal if he stops whining. The shark pup opens the burger box and licks his lips before eating his special birthday burger.
Meanwhile, Sector V shoots a hook at the car, which eventually detaches, and costs them time in reloading. They take aim and shoot one last time as the car heads up a dock, but miss by only a few inches. The car splashes into the water, and the burger box resurfaces and opens to reveal a huge burger crumb and a mustard stain, but no Kuki, much to the team's horror. Wallabee shouts, ''Numbuh 3!" in despair. He thought Numbuh 3 was dead.
Back at the restaurant, Chester is congratulating himself on his plan to round up all the kids in the neighborhood, feed them to hungry sharks, and make a fortune by selling "Kids' Meals". In the background, we see Kuki covered in ketchup and mustard dangling from the piping in the ceiling, meaning she escaped before the sharks got their order and Nigel was right when he said that Numbuh 3 would pull through and Kuki’s happiness, cheerfulness, and cuteness made her escape her fate. When he realizes she's still alive, Chester worries that the shark family will want their money back. Kuki attacks him and they have a battle, with Chester ending up as a burger just as she did.
Kuki walks outside to find her furious teammates about to break into the restaurant. They realize she's alive and all joyously crowd around her, to which she says that it was, "the super funnest birthday mission ever!", and they leave.
Back inside, Chester is still in the box when he hears car horns. The next scene shows many cars full of sharks circling the restaurant, probably wanting a burger.
Featured[]
KND Operatives
Villains
- Chester
- Shark Family (only appearance for all)
- Shark dad/Gil
- Shark mom
- Kid shark/Bruce
Cameos
- Other sharks (only appearance)
Locations
- Sector V Treehouse
- Burger Frenzy (only appearance)
2x4 Technology
Villain Technology
- Burger assembly line (only appearance)
Transcript[]
Operation: F.A.S.T.-F.O.O.D./Transcript
Trivia[]
- The restaurant is called Burger Frenzy, which is similar to feeding frenzy (when multiple sharks all eat at once).
- This is probably the first episode where Sector V shows desire to potentially commit true brutal violence, as Wallabee was carrying an axe, Hoagie wielding a baseball bat, and Nigel and Abigail were running with a battering ram for revenge when they thought Kuki had been eaten.
- When Sector V arrived at the restaurant, the sign said one kid on a bun.
- When the sharks were driving away, the father shark made a reference to the fact that sharks have to keep moving in order to survive when he saw a red light.
- This is arguably the darkest plot a KND villain has ever made, due to the depths of selling children as food for hungry sharks.
- The idea of selling kids as meals to shark families is an exaggeration of the stereotype that sharks are man-eaters. In reality, a shark would most likely avoid consuming a human as humans are, by rule, unsuitable as prey for sharks due to a large number of bones and not enough fat. Interestingly, this works in favour of these kids meals being essentially "junk food" as junk food is also unsuitable for a healthy diet.
Series Continuity[]
- This is another episode where animals are depicted as villains.
- This is the first time Numbuh 3 leads a mission. The second time is in Operation: F.E.R.A.L..
- This is one of the 3 episodes where one of Sector V's operatives has a birthday. Numbuh 5 would have hers in Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E., and Numbuh 1 during Operation: J.E.W.E.L.S..
- It's very likely that J.E.W.E.L.S is set before this episode. [1]
- This is the first time Chester's evil plan is to run a fast-food restaurant. The second time was in the comic, Operation: S.C.O.U.T.S..
Pop Culture References[]
- When the KND first latch onto the sharks mini-van the father shark calls the child shark "Bruce", this is probably a reference to Steven Spielberg's movie Jaws in which the mechanical shark they used was also called by that name.
- It may also be a reference to the Walt Disney Pixar film from 2003, Finding Nemo, which also featured a shark named Bruce.
- When Numbuh 4 misses Numbuh 3, It makes a reference to The Movie Rio (2011).
Errors/Goofs[]
- When Numbuh 1 wishes Numbuh 3 a happy birthday, Numbuh 2's hat is not drawn on so he appears bald.
- The white stripes on Numbuh 5's sweater is missing when they're waiting for Numbuh 3 outside the Burger Frenzy.
- The ketchup and mustard are gone from Numbuh 3 when Chester is carrying her into the burger box.
- The burger box is missing from Bruce's lap during the car chase scene.
- When Wallabee was on top of the grappling hook helping Abigail, the sign behind Abigail has a backwards D and a D turned in the right direction instead of KND on it; after that, it says KND.
- Even though Numbuh 3 is dripping wet with ketchup and mustard while hiding in the ceiling above Chester, she is completely clean when she swings down to kick him.
- When Bruce said "Oh great!" upon seeing the red light, there is a typo in the caption: the uppercase O was replaced by a number zero.
Voice Credits[]
- Benjamin Diskin: Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 2
- Lauren Tom: Numbuh 3
- Dee Bradley Baker: Numbuh 4
- Cree Summer: Numbuh 5 and Shark mom
- Tom Kenny: Chester and Kid shark
- Kevin Michael Richardson: Shark dad
Gallery[]
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