Operation: S.P.A.N.K.E.N.S.T.I.N.E.

"Operation: S.P.A.N.K.E.N.S.T.I.N.E."
Season 5, Episode 62
Mission:	113
Production Code:	62b
Airdate:	July 05, 2006
Credits
Writer(s):	Tom Warburton Andy Rheingold Grace Lu
Storyboards by:	Matt Peters Abigail Nesbitt
Episode Guide
Previous Mission "Operation: C.L.O.W.N."	Next Mission "Operation: H.O.T.S.T.U.F.F."

Stuffed Puffy Animal Now Kruelly Enacts Nasty Spanking To Investigator's Notable End

"Operation: S.P.A.N.K.E.N.S.T.I.N.E." is the second story in the tenth episode of Season 5 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on July 5, 2006 on Cartoon Network and follows up on the events of "Operation: C.L.U.E.S." in Season 4.

Information

Summary

Once-sweet Mushi Sanban has one thing in mind after Numbuh 2 got her grounded for forking Numbuh 3's Posh-Party Rainbow Monkey Doll- revenge. She plans his comeuppance by digging the Rainbow Monkey from its burial site at Plush Meadows Stuffed Animal Cemetery, and transferring Count Spankulot's powers into her Spankenstine Monster. The Sanbans and Gilligans are having desert together and Mr. Sanban is trying to make sundaes but becomes upset when he realizes they have no chocolate sauce. Meanwhile, Numbuh 2's grandmother was telling the kids about what she used to have for desert as a kid which annoys everyone. After Mrs. Sanban explains the dilemma to the family, she asks who would like to get the sauce. Numbuh 3 was wanting to. She chooses Numbuh 2, despite him explaining he has an issue with sauce. Numbuh 2 faces the monster at the local grocery store while getting chocolate sauce and being confronted by Joe Balooka, who accuses him of stealing despite the assurance the sauce was paid for. Numbuh 2 manages to help the Posh Party Rainbow Monkey remember who he is on the inside. Unfortunately Joe hits the Rainbow Money with a water balloon sending him into a power line and reducing the monkey to stuffing. After defeating the Spankenstine Monster, Numbuh 2 returns to the house to confront Mushi, however Numbuh 2 is out matched by Mushi's Crayon base powers. However, while hiding in the closet, Count Spankulot sucks out the stolen powers in the Rainbow Monkey doll to gain his powers back and unleashes a spanking wrath on Mushi for transferring his powers to stuffed animals. Count Spankulot then joins the Gilligans and the Sanbans for dessert, and Numbuh 2 then sneaks a sundae to Mushi, only to discover her riding away with King Sandy.

Ending credits

Numbuh 3 sits in between Spankulot and Grandma Lydia as they are shown telling each other stories about their childhood and desserts until she had enough and interrupts them by shouting "STOP IT!". Lydia asks Spankulot if he's married.

Featured

KND Operatives

• Numbuh 2
• Numbuh 3

Allies

• Kani Sanban
• Genki Sanban
• Grandma Lydia
• Betty Gilligan
• The Tommy
• Joe Balooka
• Stewie (debut)

Cameos

• Fuzzy (mentioned)
• King Sandy
• Knights of the Round Towel

Villains

• Count Spankulot
• Mushi Sanban
• Spankenstine Monster (only appearance)

Locations

• Plush Meadows Stuffed Animal Cemetery
• Numbuh 3's House
• Balooka's Grocery Store

Villain Technology

• Pizatronic Defibrillinationer Power Switcher (only appearance)

Other Items

• Posh Party Rainbow Monkey

Voice credits

• Ben Diskin: Numbuh 2
• Dee Bradley Baker: The Tommy
• Lauren Tom: Numbuh 3, Genki
• Candi Milo: Betty, Lydia
• Daran Norris: Count Spankulot, Joe Balooka, Spankenstine Monster
• Tara Strong: Mushi, Stewie
• Keone Young: Kani

Transcript

Operation: S.P.A.N.K.E.N.S.T.I.N.E./Transcript

Trivia

• The Posh Party Rainbow Monkey's tombstone reads, "the party ended too soon", a reference to its previous appearance.
• Stock footage from Operation: C.L.U.E.S. is used.
• This episode is a parody of Frankenstein.
• Hoagie's love of chocolate sauce is an allegory for alcohol addiction ("the sauce" is an old slang term for the drink).
• In the end, the ice cream sundaes have strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla, but Mr. Sanban only has a tub of vanilla in the beginning. 
• King Sandy doesn't talk and only laughs. He is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker instead of James Arnold Taylor in this episode.
• This is the only episode where Count Spankulot makes a vampiric bite; specifically, on the burnt-out Rainbow Monkey.
• According to Mr. Warburton, this was originally a Thanksgiving-themed episode, with cranberry sauce instead of chocolate sauce, and Mushi transferring the Count's power to every oven, creating an army of spanking undead turkeys. Cartoon Network said that it seemed more Halloween-based.
• Nigel, Wallabee, and Abigail don't appear in this episode, same with Operation: C.L.U.E.S..
• This episode was originally called Operation S.P.A.N.K.S.G.I.V.I.N.G. and as a 22-minute Thanksgiving special, but got cut down to 11 minutes and renamed. The original script was released on the KND Production Blog, but has since vanished.
• The scene inside of Balooka's Grocery Store when Numbuh 2 is at the checkout counter to pay for the chocolate sauce, is a reuse of the inside of the Supervillains Supermarket & Deli. Everything in this specific scene is identical to the Supervillains Supermarket.
• This is the first episode in which in Nigel and Wallabee do not appear in both two stories of an episode. Although only Wallabee does show up with Hoagie in the half-hour episode Operation: S.A.F.E.T.Y..

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