"Operation: E.L.E.C.T.I.O.N.S."
Season 5, Episode 53
Mission:	096
Production Code:	501
Airdate:	Sep 30, 2005
Credits
Writer(s):	Tom Warburton Andy Rheingold
Storyboards by:	Kim Arndt Matt Peters Jesse Schmal Abigail Nesbitt
Episode Guide
Previous Mission "Operation: F.E.R.A.L."	Next Mission "Operation: D.U.C.K.Y."

Enemy Launches Evil Campaign To Inflame Our Noble School

InformationEdit

Summary: The DCFDTL become the new presidents of fourth grade and for their first act: send Numbuh 1 to jail. Numbuh 1 has one chance to save himself in court which blows as the DCFDTL are judges and find him guilty in less than a few seconds. The lawyer for Numbuh 1, Numbuh 1.50 a hour is dumbfounded and soon, a battle erupts in the court room. Numbuh 1 is locked in permanent detention similar to a prison with the Six Gum Gang as guards. Numbuh 1 suspects the DCFDTL rigged the polls, which they did. The campaign manager, Woodrew confirms this information and with the help of Numbuh 4 and 5, breaks free with a stretchy gum substance. Meanwhile, the evil DCFDTL usurp power over the grades and become the leaders of all the grades. The DCFDTL have a conversation with Chad Dickson and it is discovered that the DCFDTL have made a deal with Hendry Middle School. The DCFDTL want to go to eighth grade so they make a deal with Chad that they'll use the kids as slaves for the teens and the DCFDTL would go to eighth grade.

Nigel discovers this plot and reveals this to all of Gallagher Elementary, thus having a battle with the teens approaching Hendry Middle School. The school uses battle bikes to attack the teens. The teams are split into grades. The teens prepare and use their advanced tech on the children. Thus starts a epic Star Wars Death Star battle as there is a target to hit thus leading to victory. Soon, the leaders of the grades, bikes are broken meaning they can't get in the school. Numbuhs 3 and 4 land in the swimming pool. There are also drinking fountain guns in Hendry Middle School that resemble the Death Star's turbolasers, which took out several kids. The third grade is the second-to-last ones to fall and the closest and maybe last ones are, Numbuhs 2 and 1 as they battle for they're lives and are attacked by Chad, and two other teens. Numbuh 2 sacrifices himself, bashing into Chad's cronies, thus leading to the climax. Numbuh 1 shoots a tennis ball at the target, the principal's office. The ball misses and Chad celebrates, but isn't careful and slips on the tennis ball from Numbuh 1 thus crashing into the principal's office.

The principal explodes in anger and his voice in so loud, it collapses the school. Meanwhile, Numbuh 2 tells the the team that he did all he could and it is revealed Numbuh 1 made it out of the school before it collapsed. The end shows Numbuh 1 about to say his speech for winning the election but Woodrew announces that the winner is Eggbert. Numbuh 1 asks who would vote for him and the entire Sector V walked away whistling. The end credits shows Eggbert preparing his campaign with a commercial. A scene is shown from Operation Z.O.O

• Operative Debuts: Numbuh $1.50 an hour
• Villain Debuts: Principal Hendry
• Ally Debuts: Wilson Woodrow
• Starring:
  • Numbuh 1
  • Numbuh 2
  • Numbuh 3
  • Numbuh 4
  • Numbuh 5
  • Delightful Children from Down the Lane
  • Wilson Woodrow
  • Six-Gum Gang (the DCFDTL's personal Hall Monitors)
  • Hall Monitors
  • Chad Dickson
  • Teen Ninjas
• Cameos: President Jimmy Nixon McGarfield
• Locations: Gallagher Elementary School and Hendry Middle School

Gallagher technology: Bikes with cannons

• 2x4 Tech: G.U.M.M.B.O. and Baseball
• Villain Technology: Gum Guns, Fountain Guns, Battle Ready Armor and advanced bikes

TriviaEdit

• Numbuh 1 makes reference to several past Gallagher-related missions in his speech, from the following:
  • The Six-Gum Gang's bus raids and homework thefts in Operation: R.O.B.B.E.R.S..
  • Valerie's homework-eating spree in Operation: H.O.U.N.D..
  • Gramma Stuffum and her Food Army working the school's cafeteria in Operation: F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E.
  • President Jimmy turning totally evil and ruining the first snow day of the year and kidnapping Lizzie in Operation: S.N.O.W.I.N.G..
• When Chad is talking to a classroom in the middle school, the undercover KND agent Numbuh 5 saw in the credits for Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E. can be seen. This may explain how the KND knew where the weak point in the middle school was.
• This is a parody of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Return of the Jedi. Chad is Darth Vader, Nigel is Luke, and Hoagie is Wedge Antilles.
• This is the second episode that has many Star Wars parodies, both of which took place at Gallagher Elementary.
• The battle is an blatant parody of the Battle of Yavin and Endor:
  • Hendry Middle School is the Death Star.
  • Gallagher Elementary is Yavin 4.
  • The Water Cannons are Turbo-Lasers.
  • The way the 3rd graders entered Henry Middle School and were wiped out is just like how Gold squad entered the Death Star trench and were wiped out.
  • One of the tricycle riders (via communications) says "Hey! The Water Cannons have stopped!", which is similar to the line "The guns! They've stopped!".
  • Chad's lines echo Darth Vader's. One such line, "I'm on the leader!", was a quote said by Vader himself.
  • Chad has wingmen that both get knocked out.
  • Numbuhs 3 and 4 play the role of Biggs Darklighter.
  • Numbuhs 1 entered the school with Numbuh 2 and Numbuhs 3 and 4 (on the same bike) just like how Luke entered the trench with Wedge and Biggs.
  • The principal's office is the Exhaust Port.
  • Unlike in the movie, the tennis ball (Proton Torpedoes in the movie) misses. Instead, Chad hits it.
  • Numbuh 1 escaping the school mirrors the escape from the Death Star II in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, when Lando Calrissian & Nien Nunb are escaping the massive, still-under-construction station in the Millenium Falcon.
  • The attacks in the Middle School also mirror the Alliance fighters flying into the Second Death Star's superstructure to attempt to destroy the main reactor, with TIEs pursuing them into the structure.
• When Numbuhs 3 and 4 land in the pool, Numbuh 4 isn't freaking out like he usually would when he's in water.
• When Numbuh 1 is using the G.U.M.M.B.O. to swing out of permenant detention, he swings in a similar manor to your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
• In uno's speech is based in the scene of independence day where the president is in speech