"Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S."
Season 3, Episode 35
Mission:	066
Production Code:	309
Airdate:	August 06, 2004
Credits
Writer(s):	Mo Willems Mr. Warburton
Storyboards by:	Maurice Fontenot Guy Moore Bob Suarez Quack Leard
Episode Guide
Previous Mission "Operation: L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N."	Next Mission "Operation: H.U.G.S."

Gargantuan Ray's Advance Decimates Unprepared And Terrified Escaping Soldiers

InformationEdit

Summary: The Code Module is recovered by Sector V in time for Tommy to graduate. However, the information inside of it is used by Father to turn every single operative into an animal, leaving Tommy the last one who's not transformed into an animal since he removed his DNA from the Code Module in order to save the KND.

• Operative Debuts: Numbuh 202

• Villain Debuts: None
• Ally Debuts: Tommy Gilligan

• Locations:
  • Kids Next Door Moonbase
  • Delightful Mansion From Down The Lane

• Villain Technology:
  • Animalization Ray
  • Knightamatons
  • Missles
• ==Starring ==
• Tommy Gilligan
• Father
• Numbuh 1
• Numbuh 2
• Numbuh 3
• Numbuh 4
• Numbuh 5
• Numbuh 362
• Numbuh 60
• Numbuh 86
• Numbuh 44
• Numbuh 83
• Numbuh 84
• Numbuh 88
• DCFDTL

TriviaEdit

• This is the third Father episode, the next being Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R. Father also appears in Operation: P.R.E.S.I.D.E.N.T. between the two episodes.
• Numbuh 88 was heard turning into a rooster before Sector V were affected by the Animalization Ray. However, Father did not activate the Animalization Ray before Sector V came in.
• Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S. was originally an online game on CartoonNetwork.com that was similar to Galaga. The player chose one of the members of Sector V, each who had their own unique airship. The goal was to retrieve the Code Module from the DCFDTL, which explains why in the beginning of the episode Sector V comes with the Code Module and is all dirty. Also, if the majority of the players won, then the KND would win in the episode. However, if the majority of the players lost, then the KND would lose.

• The events of this episode later lead to Operation: I.T., but the entire plot where the KND turned into animals was never mentioned though. Tommy & his actions are considered a "dummy" act as a result since Father was then turned into a Kids Next Door operative. In Operation: I.T., rather than being thanked for saving the fate of KND, Tommy was derided for doing so.
• This is the second episode in which one of the characters are naked. Tommy Gilligan was nude when he misheard of the birthday suits. The first episode was Operation A.R.C.T.I.C.
• Numbuh 5 turned into a gazelle, most likely referencing her African descent (gazelles are mostly found in Africa).
• Numbuh 4 turned into a koala because he is Australian and koalas are mainly located on coasts of Australia.
• Numbuh 3 turned into a crane because she is very happy-go-lucky and a bit crazy to do so, which can relate to birds. Also cranes, often associated with Japan, Numbuh Three's ancestral home.
• Numbuh 2 turned into a hippopotamus because hippos are one of the most heaviest land animals (he is, as said by Toiletnator, portly).
• Numbuh 1 turned into a seal which is probably because of his bald head and that he often barks out his orders to his comrades (seals also bark).
• Numbuh 362 turned into a monkey probably because of her sleek and flexible fighting style shown in later episodes (monkeys are sleek and flexible when swinging through trees and avoiding predators).
• Numbuh 86 turned into a dog, probably because she yells a lot.
• Father turned into a leopard because they are vicious and very sleek.
• DCFDTL turned into sheep because sheep often flock or herd.
• During the ground battle all KND solders use ice cream based weapons, including Numbuh 86, who usually uses a M.U.S.K.E.T.
• Almost every KND plane/ship is featured in this episode.
• When Numbuh 86 was turned into a dog, Numbuh 44 says, "That figures." Her being a female dog at this point, this can be assumed to be a subliminal message.
• when Numbuh 60 was talking it's the parody of starship trooper when the KND say "we get you sir" and going to earth and the landing in the ground

GoofsEdit

• Numbuh 92 was shown as having been turned into a polar bear in an earlier scene as the Kids Next Door were retreating from the Delightful Mansion, but was also later shown as one of the operatives that managed to escape the animalization ray in the safe haven of the Moonbase Headquarters.
• When Numbuh 362 is talking about the KND Code Module being stolen, the 86 on Numbuh 86's helmet goes from yellow to black, then it's yellow again.
• When Father is talking to the DCFDTL Lenny's Metal Facemask on his Football Helmet is White than it ussaly is gray