Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R.

"Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R."
Season 4, Episode 44
Mission:	082
Production Code:	405
Airdate:	February 21, 2005
Credits
Writer(s):	Mr. Warburton Mo Willems
Storyboards by:	Guy Moore Maurice Fontenot Quack Leard Bob Suarez
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Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R. is the fifth episode of Season 4 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on February 21, 2005 on Cartoon Network and is the fourth episode of the C.A.K.E.D. saga.

Information

Summary

The team is participating in the annual Toob-A-Thon and Numbuh 2 is using his dad's old float tube Betsy. But when the race takes an unexpected turn, Numbuh 2 received help from an unexpected ally.

Plot

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Numbuh 1 rants on about the Delightful's birthday and how Sector V is going to steal the DCFDTL's cake. But after revealing that the birthday is tomorrow, the rest of the team refuses in going along on this mission because they forgot tomorrow is Toob-A-Thon, a summer tubing race. Numbuh 1 tries to convince the others, but fails in doing so. The others mock Numbuh 2's old tube, a tube named Betsy when he and Betsy always comes in last place. Numbuh 4 and Numbuh 5 then start to argue who is better. Soon they all start arguing and it causes Numbuh 3 to scream at them and break them up from fighting, she breaks tearfully because she hates it when her members fight like that and explains what the tradition is all about until she turns evil saying Numbuh 3 will beat all of them in the Toob-A Thon race then everyone starts throwing stuff at her. Suddenly, a missile crashes, and the group discovers the DCFDTL talking to them in a hologram. The Delightfuls are saying that they gave away their cake this year and the only way to get the cake is to win Toobathon. At first Numbuh 1 says that when they do win they'll share it with everyone but the Delightfuls, but suddenly everyone says that they are going to win and have the cake all to themselves, which puts them back to fighting.

The race begins with Chip, the reporter talking about Toobathon. Everybody is in the race including the Delightfuls, The Kid and even Eggbert (Eggboy). The parents are also visible and we see a few new characters, such as Eggbert's father. Chip claims that anyone can win the race except Hoagie P. Gilligan. Numbuh 2 gets angry and says that his father won every Toobathon because he didn't use any dirty tricks or fancy moves. The Germans have one word to describe this: Farfigtoobin. Numbuh 2 visits the others who are making last minute preparations. Numbuh 5 asks Numbuh 2 why he always uses that tube every year even though he is able to design his own tube, he states that Betsy was the tube his father used to win Toob-A Thon. He is about to explain how it's only about the tube and the tuber but than all the participants are called to the starting line.

The Race starts off by the Delightfuls jumping the gun and getting an early start. They then reveal their trump card: a giant battleship attached to the underside of their tube. They then proceed to blast about half the competitors and eliminate them from the race. Numbuh 2 is in last place again.

Numbuh 4 is one of the first to be knocked out of the race when he attempts to mow down one of the nameless children, only for her to reveal that her tube is equipped with a multitude of sharp drills, puncturing Tubezilla and stranding Numbuh 4 on an island in the middle of the river. The race is largely between Numbuh 5 and Numbuh 1, who dominate the early part of the course. Nigel eliminated the DCFDTL by tricking their cannons into blasting their own ship, along with most of their hair. Numbuh 5 catches up and they both head for the finish line.

Numbuh 4 hears Numbuh 3 he tries to tell her to save him but she mistakes him for an old man due to a beard he has bizarrely grown. Ace shows up and starts flirting with Numbuh 3, infuriating Numbuh 4 in the process. Meanwhile, the DCFDTL call Father to tell him that they are out of the race. Numbuh 2 manages to find a different path that catches him up with the competitors. This is when Father reveals the first stage of his plan: destroy the dam at the beginning of the river and change the course of the race.

All of the remaining kids tube down the streets of town and fall into Father's trap: a giant cake tin filled with unfinished cake batter. All that's left is the final ingredient: water and a ton of tubing kids.

Numbuh 2 manages to find a whirlpool that would take him to the finish line, but learns of Father's plan from Nick just before he can cross the finish line, and chooses to sacrifice his victory in favor of saving the other kids. Numbuh 2 gets the drop on Father and deflects the fire blasts back at him, using a previously unknown feature on Ol' Betsy and breaking the cake tin in the process.

The race ends minutes later when all of the freed kids are carried down river by the flood of cake batter. And every last one of them managed to tie for first place, except for Numbuhs 2 and 4.

But Numbuh 2 takes solace knowing that his father's prediction about his tube saving the lives of every kid in town was true. Even if he wasn't able to win.

In a post-credits scene, Numbuh 1 admits to the girls that he's actually kind of disappointed that the cake ultimately didn't get made, as the batter itself tastes amazing. Numbuh 3 then says that she feels bad that Numbuh 2 lost the race, especially with how much he wanted to win Tube-a-thon. But Numbuh 5 assures Numbuh 3 that Numbuh 2 will be okay, pointing that even though Numbuh 2 didn't win, he technically didn't lose in that he didn't place dead last. That "honor" goes to Numbuh 4, who's revealed to still be trapped on the island and calling for help.

Featured

KND Operatives

• Numbuh 1
• Numbuh 2
• Numbuh 3
• Numbuh 4
• Numbuh 5

Allies

• Nick
• Grandma Lydia
• Betty Gilligan
• The Tommy
• The Kid

Cameos

• Numbuh 65.3
• Numbuh 86 (mentioned)
• Numbuh 2's dad (mentioned)
• Monty Uno
• Muffy Jenkins (mentioned)
• Sammy
• Jessica
• Eggbert Eggleston
• Mr. Eggleston
• Willard Wallace
• Genki Sanban
• Kani Sanban
• Grandma Lydia
• Ugly Children
• KND Scientist

Villains

• Delightful Children From Down the Lane
• Father

Locations

• Sector V Treehouse
• River
• Evil Adult Industries, Inc. Skatepark

Villain Technology

• Missile
• DCFDTL's Warship

Transcript

Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R./Transcript

Trivia

• Nick said there was a 634-way tie where everyone won except for Hoagie P. Gilligan, but there's also Wallabee Beetles and the DCFDTL.
• In the audience you can see Numbuh 1's dad, Numbuh 2's mom, Numbuh 2's grandma, and both of Numbuh 3's parents.
• Numbuh 86's name is mentioned in this episode (Fanny Fulbright) when Nick the reporter was announcing who was in the lead, but she never appears on screen.
• Muffy Jenkins is mentioned to also be in the lead at the end, which could indicate that one of the girls at the front of the batter is Muffy:
  • A brown-haired girl riding a dark blue tube.
  • A girl with brown pig-tails riding a Rainbow Monkey-tube.
• This is the first episode to have premiered in 2005.
• Father's and the Delightful Children's plan to place all the children in a giant cake implied that they were ready to commit murder or cannibalism. However, the idea of eating children is common in fairy tales such as Hansel and Gretel. So, this idea didn't cause too much repercussion, if any whatsoever.
  • The plan was possibly to make the biggest cake ever (without literally any other kids to share it with).
• Someone did eventually come and rescue Numbuh 4 from the island.
• Farfigtoobin is a word that means the perfect melding between kid and tube into one perfect racing machine!
• The show is being very ambiguous about the status of Numbuh 2's dad.
• Nick debuts in this episode and become a semi-regular background character.
• A large amount of background music from this episode was recycled for Operation: V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E..

Series continuity

• Numbuh 4 pleads for someone to help him get off the island so that he doesn't have to swim. He learned to swim in the previous episode.
• Tommy is still going by "The Tommy".
• Numbuh 2's father is said to have many weird ideas. This comes back in the comic, Operation: T.R.I.K.E., where he builds a dangerous bike for Numbuh 2.
• Muffy Jenkins makes another unseen appearance, last mentioned in Operation: P.R.E.S.I.D.E.N.T..

Cultural references

• Two nerdy kids made their tube to look like Starship Enterprise from Star Trek.
• "Farfigtoobin" is a named after the '90s Volkswagen ad slogan, Fahrvergnügen.
• When Numbuh 4 was on the very tiny island, there is a coconut with a smiling face and a tally mark counting to 7. These are references to the 2000 film Cast Away where the protagonist, played by Tom Hanks, who is stranded on an island hallucinates a volley ball with a smiling face is sentient while making tally marks to keep count of how long he is staying on the island.
• Nick's voice and mannerism is based on American sports journalist, Howard Cosell.

Goofs

• Before the race starts, Eggbert's casserole only has a single handle.
• Numbuh 2's air pump disappears after everyone are told to take their places.
• Numbuh 65.3's tube is purple in the overview shot before the race, but is gray in the close-up of Numbuh 2.
• Just before the race starts, the river is considerably wider than earlier.
• Numbuh 2 was at the front of the starting line before the race started, but there are several kids in front of him when the DCFDTL are shooting at them.
• When Numbuh 4 passed Numbuh 2 in the race, the "4" on his tube is the right way, and not backwards like earlier. This is also the case when Numbuh 4 starts ramming other contestants.
• Sammy started off with a light-blue tube painted with eyes and a grin. This tube is later used by a different kid instead.
• After Numbuh 4's initial yawn at the island, he keeps making noise even though his mouth is now closed.
• Numbuh 3 is cheering and yelling without moving her mouth when she is approaching Numbuh 4's island.
• When Numbuh 4 is trying to grab Numbuh 3's attention, the palm tree has moved to the other side of the island.
• The Kid lands next to Numbuh 3 and the two of them move a considerable amount before passing Numbuh 4, despite Numbuh 3 being practically next to the island a moment earlier.
• The name "Betsy" is sometimes not visible on Numbuh 2's tube.
• Both Genki and Kani looked sad when Numbuh 2 was approaching the finish line, but still joined in to cheer for him.
• When Nick is announcing before the cake mix comes, several people appear twice in the crowd: Betty Gilligan, Genki and Kani Sanban, Monty Uno and several unnamed adults.
• The people in the crowd also switch places when Betty hopes that Hoagie is in the lead.
• The skater kid, who did not even participate in the Toob-A-Thon, received a prize at the end.
• When Numbuh 2 comes to the finish line, the river between the stands are now gonme and replaced with a grass field.

Voice credits

• Ben Diskin: Numbuh 1, Numbuh 2, DCFDTL
• Dee Bradley Baker: Numbuh 4, DCFDTL, Numbuh 65.3, Tommy, Skater
• Lauren Tom: Numbuh 3
• Cree Summer: Numbuh 5, DCFDTL
• Jeff Bennett: Announcer, Hoagie Gilligan Sr.
• Jennifer Hale: Girls
• Maurice LaMarche: Father, Ship
• Candi Milo: Betty, Lydia
• James Arnold Taylor: Eggbert fans
• Dave Wittenberg: Nick, Announcer, The Kid

Tubes

Here is a list of notable tubes appearing in the episode:

• Numbuh 1: Numbuh 1 has a speedboat tube. At the beginning of the race, he destroyed the Delightful Children From Down The Lane's huge tube ship and was rivaling Numbuh 5 as they're on of the closest to winning at the point.
• Numbuh 2: Numbuh 2 has a tube named Betsy which is an old tube with patches and such. Imprinted on the tube is Betsy's name which is neatly written in handwriting. Betsy was punctured when Numbuh 2 crashed into Father, but later saved the day by deflecting Father's flames with built-in shields which seemed to activate when Numbuh 2 kissed it.
• Numbuh 3: Numbuh 3 was one of the ones who started out losing but got ahead of a group in the end. Numbuh 3 has a incredibly decorated tube and although she cares about winning, she enjoys spinning in her tube for some of the race.
• Numbuh 4: Numbuh 4 owns a tube named Tubezilla, an over-inflated tube with a painted face of a monster. Tubezilla was punctured when a girl used sharp weapons to break it, and Numbuh 4 ended up on a small island and came in last place. The name of Tubezilla is a parody of the extremely popular Japanese kaiju Godzilla, who is parodied by hundreds of popular culture media.
• Numbuh 5: Numbuh 5 has a chair tube which can fast foward.
• The Delightful Children From Down The Lane: The DCFDTL's tube at first seems small but in the end is revealed to be part of a giant warship with several laser cannons. Numbuh 1 destroyed it by making the lasers lock on him, then jumping out of the way as the were firing, thus causing the lasers to shoot one another.
• Numbuh 65.3: He has a tube with small buttons shaped like the Greek letter pi (π).
• Ace the Kid: The Kid has a flying tube black with jets.
• Jessica: She sat in a yellow tube and blew into a straw to act as a propeller.
• Willard: Willard sat on a red tube and used his sousaphone as an engine.
• Eggbert: Eggbert sat in a big cassarole, fit into a green tube, with two paddle oars and the Eggleston flag flying in the back.
• Tommy: Tommy raced on a purple tube without any visible alterations.
• Sammy: Sammy starts off with a light blue tube, painted with big eyes and a grinning mouth. He is later sitting on a plain dark blue tube.
• Unnamed Girl: A girl that had no known name had a tube with blades that destroyed Numbuh 4's tube.

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