"Operation: B.U.T.T."
Season 3, Episode 31
Mission:	058
Production Code:	305
Airdate:	July 16, 2004
Credits
Writer(s):	Mo Willems Mr. Warburton
Storyboards by:	Kim Arndt Jesse Schmal
Episode Guide
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InformationEdit

The episode starts with the team making Numbuh 1 take a day off at the beach; he hates this idea. Soon, a robot crab pinches his bathing suit off, exposing his naked backside. He tries to hide in the beach but fails. Later, naked, he sneaks himself into his room back at the treehouse where Numbuh 4 loses to Numbuh 3 in a TV game. Numbuh 1 comes out and says he quitting the team. Numbuh 3 is blind from what he said until Numbuh 4 spells out to Numbuh 3 that Nigel is leaving. Once he's gone, Numbuh 5 finds a picture and note in his room and shows it to the others. The picture is of Nigel's nude butt, and a bribery to put it into the school yearbook unless he quit the team. Numbuh 5 tries to get the team to save Nigel, but they are too busy making fun of Nigel's butt to do immediate action. Meanwhile, Nigel goes to the DCFDTL's mansion.

The DCFDTL says that he will be delightfulized; Numbuh 1 says this isn't part of the deal, but they say that they can do anything to Nigel now, holding up the negatives. At first, Numbuh 1 is able to make off with them and outrun the five, but he is ambushed by thousands of robot crabs with cameras. The crabs succeed in ripping his pants off, revealing rainbow monkey briefs. The DCFDTL says this is better than the butt picture and the crabs are about to take pictures when Sector V comes in and takes the pants off of the DCFDTL. The DCFDTL run away with countless crabs taking pictures. The team cracks more jokes against their leader, although he is clearly not amused. Back at the treehouse, Numbuh 1 proposes a beach trip that everyone tackles with enthusiasm. Then he shows that he's wearing a lock and chain around his trunks as insurance. After the "end transmission", his butt picture was briefly shown.

TriviaEdit

• The climax of the episode is similar to the SpongeBob SquarePants episode The Secret Box, where Patrick sees an embarrassing picture of SpongeBob from a Christmas Party at the end but will never mention it, knowing it will break their friendship forever.
• This episode mentions nudity, and stars a nude Nigel through a great portion of it. However, nothing drastic in particular is actually shown, since this had to be appropriate enough to show on television.
• Numbuh 2 actually gets his teammates, notably Numbuh 5, to laugh at his jokes in this episode.
• One part is similar to Chrissie's death in Jaws.
• Most likely for the viewers enjoyment, Numbuh 4 puts his arms around Numbuh 3 when they are laughing, indicating that he has a crush on her.
• It also shows that Numbuh 4 cares about Numbuh 3's feelings when he accidentally made her cry; he felt guilty and tried to cheer her up by playing with stuffed animals, although episodes like Operation: C.A.T.S. and Operation: H.U.G.S. suggest that he hates snuggling, and funny voices.
• In this episode, you see Numbuh 4 cry in front of his teammates for the first time.