| "Operation: S.A.T.U.R.N." | |
| Season 4, Episode 45 | |
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| Mission: | 084 |
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| Production Code: | 406b |
| Airdate: | April 29, 2005 |
| Credits | |
| Writer(s): | Mo Willems Mr. Warburton |
| Storyboards by: | Matt Peters Abigail Nesbitt |
| Episode Guide | |
| Previous Mission "Operation: S.I.T.T.E.R." |
Next Mission "Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E." |
Stuff Abducted Turns Up Revolving Nowhere
Operation: S.A.T.U.R.N. is the second story in the sixth episode of Season 4 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on April 29, 2005 on Cartoon Network.
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Summary[]
When Numbuh 3's Rainbow Monkeys go missing, the team goes into space to find them. They then discover Rainbow Monkeys make up Saturn's rings. While looking for her missing stuffed animals, Numbuh 3 discovers that the one behind the monkey-napping is a rejected sentient Rainbow Monkey doll named Ramon-4, who thought if he can't be loved, then no other Rainbow Monkey can be loved! Will he let the Rainbow Monkeys go, or will every Rainbow Monkey drift alone in in the dark cold reaches of space forever?
Synopsis[]
The episode begins with Numbuh 3 searching for a missing Slumber Surprise Rainbow Monkey in the middle of the night at the Treehouse. It isn't just one monkey that she's been missing, but all other Rainbow Monkeys all night. She confines to her only other Rainbow Monkey toy and thought of the one person who would dare take her toys, much to her anger.
Numbuh 3 winds up into Numbuh 4's room and angrily accuses him of being jealous thus giving him a reason for stealing her other Rainbow Monkeys even though he tells her that he hates Rainbow Monkeys. While they were arguing, a beam of light shoots down and lifts her other Rainbow Monkey into the sky. Numbuh 3 saw it being floated up and tries to bring it down, but she was being lifted up in the process. As a result, Numbuh 4 sounds the alarm to wake up the other operatives.
In the sky, Numbuh 3 saw other beams of light shining down into the town, taking all the other Rainbow Monkeys from the kids. She loses her grip and falls to her certain doom until her teammates recues her in a S.P.A.C.E.R.C.H.A.S.E.R. and pursues the toy. Numbuh 2 gives the vehicle more throttle due to the toy flying away at the speed of light where the pursue bypasses the Moonbase. As they were pursing the Rainbow Monkey, Numbuh 4 powers up the clamp while Numbuh 5 gets a perfect aiming shot at the toy. Once the targeting was locked, Numbuh 4 activates the clamp, only for the machine to start suddenly losing power in the pursuit and lost the Rainbow Monkey.
Now stranded in the middle of the vacuum of space, a robotic voice calling itself RAMON-4 declares that Sector V leave the space immediately or suffer the consequences. Despite the warning, Numbuh 1 insisted on going forward to rescue a Rainbow Monkey (5 according to Numbuh 3), and the team switched to manual propulsion system, which is actually the controls turning into bicycle peddles. Using Numbuh 3's scent of her Rainbow Monkeys with her heart, the team peddles tirelessly through the emptiness of space across the Solar System. After a exhausting journey, they finally came to the destination of where Numbuh 3 presumed to be the exact location of her Rainbow Monkeys: Saturn, with a ring full of Rainbow Monkeys.
She and Numbuh 1 exits the vehicle and floats themselves over to a giant Rainbow Monkey where her toys are located. After Numbuh 3 retrieves them, the other Rainbow Monkey toys started to attack them. Numbuh 1 was being sucked into the giant Rainbow Monkey while the other smaller ones start ramming themselves into the ship. Numbuh 3 cries out that Rainbow Monkeys weren't made for fighting or bringing harm until the voice of Ramon-4 chastised about such claim and abducts Numbuh 3 through a beam of light.
Numbuh 3 finds herself in a white room full of Rainbow Monkey with a single mechanical entity being claimed as Ramon-4. There, Numbuh 3 discovers that RAMON-4 is actually the the remains of Rainbow Monkey 4ever, a living Rainbow Monkey doll created by the United States government in their own image, who were competing with the Russians to develop space-age technology. Unfortunately, the monkey was hated by kids due to its dorky appearance, and was ejected into space by the scientists to cover up their failure. While drifting through space, Rainbow Monkey 4ever's plush body rotted away, and his metallic skeleton slowly started to connect with other pieces of floating junk it had collided with until they formed the vast robotic entity that it is today. As punishment on the people who had rejected him, he developed sentience and began using his now godlike powers to take away all of Earth's Rainbow Monkeys.
Upon hearing his tragic story, Numbuh 3 takes pity on RAMON-4. Despite its flaw design, Numbuh 3 still accepts Ramon-4 as a Rainbow Monkey which moved Ramon-4 with joy that there was a child who would love him even if his design was bad.
This action caused the other Rainbow Monkey toys to stop attacking and rescue Numbuh 1. With the other Rainbow Monkeys back in Numbuh 3's hand, the ship regains power thanks to Ramon-4 and Sector V leaves Saturn as Ramon-4 has finally fulfilled his original purpose, to be loved by children. Now content with himself, RAMON-4 sends all the monkeys back to Earth.
Ending Credits[]
There is a montage of Rainbow Monkeys being returned to their original owners. In the end, Numbuh 1 is revealed to be among the overjoyed owners, but discreetly hides his rainbow monkey under his pillow.
Featured[]
KND Operatives
Villains
Locations
- Sector V Treehouse
- Memorial Hospital (background)
- Kids Next Door Moonbase
- Space
- Saturn
- Rainbow Monkey Research Laboratory
2x4 Technology
- S.P.A.C.E.R.C.H.A.S.E.R.
- Space suits
- B.O.N.G.O.S.K.O.P.E.
Songs
Transcript[]
Operation: S.A.T.U.R.N./Transcript
Trivia[]
- Near the beginning of the episode, Numbuh 4 is seen dreaming that Numbuh 3 tells him that she likes him and kissing his pillow in his sleep. He starts to say (still asleep) "You know how I feel... I think you're really-" only to be scared awake by the real Numbuh 3 shouting at him, making him blush.
- It's revealed that Saturn's rings are made of Rainbow Monkeys.
- In the end of the episode, it was raining Rainbow Monkeys from Saturn. Numbuh 3 was watching them happily like a meteor shower while Numbuh 4 was carrying an umbrella to protect himself.
- Strangely, it's Numbuh 4, in a rare moment of intelligence, is the one to remark that you can't smell anything in space, since there is no air.
- In the end sequence, one more Rainbow Monkey is delivered to the treehouse but rather than be another one of Kuki's, this one belongs to Nigel.
Series continuity[]
- Numbuh 4 was the one to pull the alarm, which he also does in Operation: G.H.O.S.T..
- In Operation: R.A.I.N.B.O.W.S., Numbuh 3 can track down Rainbow Monkeys with her nose, but in this episode, she said she can smell it with her heart.
Cultural references[]
- "Super Sleuth Rainbow Monkey" is dressed to look like the classic detective character, Sherlock Holmes.
- This episode features several references to classic science fiction films:
- The journey to Saturn and discovery of a large, unexpected object in orbit there are a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Note that while in the film the mission's destination was Jupiter, in Arthur C. Clarke's novel it was Saturn.)
- When Numbuh 1 orders Numbuh 2 to activate the backup propulsion system, he plays four musical notes on his keyboard. They are the first four notes of the five note alien melody from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
- Ramon-4 taking his name from those letters left on his nameplate when the rest have been covered over by rust, and subsequently the revelation of his full name (Rainbow Monkey 4-ever), is based on V'Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, as are the space walk sequence and the visual design of the episode's conclusion.
- There is a reference to the Cold War, but instead of nukes and rocket science, the American and Soviet Russian scientists were designing Rainbow Monkeys.
- The Rainbow Monkey Research Loboratory was located in Area 49, a parody of the military base Area 51.
Goofs[]
- Numbuh 3 yells at Numbuh 4 from outside of his boxing ring, even though there is no platform outside of the ropes.
- When other beams appear in the sky to steal more Rainbow Monkeys, they never actually hit any houses, only the front lawn or backyard.
- All of the other beams disappear when Numbuh 3 looks down.
- The treehouse is also not visible when she looks down, even though she was pulled straight up into the air.
- Both Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 3 are missing from the big red Rainbow Monkey when Numbuh 2 sees Numbuh 1 sink into the big doll.
- Ramon's nameplate has been shown to rust since leaving Earth, although this physically impossible, for the rusting process only can occur in the presence of oxygen, of which there is none in space.
- The equipment in the Rainbow Monkey lab is reflected in the floor, but the scientists are not.
Voice credits[]
- Ben Diskin: Numbuh 1, Numbuh 2, Boy
- Lauren Tom: Numbuh 3
- Dee Bradley Baker: Numbuh 4, Boy
- Cree Summer: Numbuh 5, Girl
- Jennifer Hale: Computer, Girl
- Daran Norris: RAMON-4
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