"Operation: M.A.T.A.D.O.R." | |
Season 4, Episode 46 | |
Mission: | 086 |
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Production Code: | 407b |
Airdate: | May 06, 2005 |
Credits | |
Writer(s): | Mo Willems Mr. Warburton Alison Wilgus |
Storyboards by: | Guy Moore Quack Leard |
Episode Guide | |
Previous Mission "Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E." |
Next Mission "Operation: L.U.N.C.H." |
Misbehaving Agent Teases Adults During Organized Recreation
Operation: M.A.T.A.D.O.R. is the second story in the seventh episode of Season 4 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on May 6, 2005 on Cartoon Network.
Information[]
Synopsis[]
A new sport is in town, called Bully Fighting, where bullies use adults as the bulls after hyping them up on coffee. Numbuh 4 participates in the sport, but his teammates disapprove, because they only fight evil adults. After a twist of events, will Wally see the error of his ways?
Plot[]
Wally becomes a Matador in the local bully fighting arena, where, in a parody of bull fighting, he taunts and defeats a man who attacks like a bull. When he gets back however, the team asks where he's been, and Numbuh 3 exclaims in horror that he went bully-fighting again.The other operatives point out that they only fight evil adults, and that the ones used for the bully fighting are treated inhumanely by the bullies, who drug them up on coffee to make them act the way they do. Numbuh 4 ignores them, and sneaks out to go bully fighting again while the others try to defeat Soccer Mom, despite telling Numbuh 1 he'd go on the mission.
However, to his horror, the next bully he has to fight is his dad, hence he realizes that what the other operatives said are right. When Wally's dad comes to his senses (thanks to a smack from Numbuh 4), he tearfully relates how he and the other dads were lured to the arena after being told that a "conference detailing how to be better fathers" was occurring at the arena, but it all turns out to be a trap, as they were then captured and force-fed coffee until they were out of control, and forced to fight. Wally turns against the kids running the bully-fighting, and frees the fathers who were being held prisoner.
Meanwhile, as the other operatives (except Numbuh 4) are heading to the soccer field to save the kids enslaved by the Soccer Mom, they get rapidly attacked by soccer balls, causing them to crash land in the football field, and both Numbuh 2, 3 and 5 got stuck in the net, while Numbuh 1 got buried in the ground, with his bald head painted like a soccer ball. Soccer Mom also unsuccessfully attempts to get the enslaved kids to kick the ball, as they all end up crying, wanting their fathers back.
The fathers are later seen trampling Soccer Mom, and reuniting with their children who were enslaved by her. By the end of the episode, Wally has proven to redeemed himself to the other operatives through his deeds of freeing the imprisoned dads, defeating Soccer Mom and the Bullies, reuniting the enslaved children with their dads, and saving the other operatives despite having goofed up through all that bully fighting. However, Wally suddenly goofed up again, when he mistakes Numbuh 1's soccer ball-painted head for a real soccer ball, and (off-screen), proceeds to kick him, which sends Numbuh 1 screaming in pain as the screen cuts to black.
Post-Credits Scene[]
Numbuh 4 playing with his dad and both getting chased by a vengeful Ernest and his throng of bullies.
Featured[]
KND Operatives
Allies
- Sydney Beetles
- The Fourth-Grade Interleague Soccer Team (debut)
Villains
- Ernest (debut)
- The Bullies (debut)
- Soccer Mom (debut)
Locations
2x4 Technology
Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- The bully fights are a parody of bull fights.
- The word "matador" is another name for bullfighter.
- It's unknown if Soccer Mom was working with the Bullies, as all the dads found their kids on the soccer field.
Series continuity[]
- This is the first appearance of Soccer Mom.
- This is the first time we see Mr. Beetles' face.
- The stadium used for bully fighting is later used in Operation: B.R.E.A.K.U.P. to play Vaseball.
- Numbuh 4's involvement in bullying is later brought up in Operation: B.U.L.L.I.E.S..
- Numbuh 4's pool is still filled with sand from Operation: P.O.O.L..
Cultural References[]
- The opening scene of this episode, as well as the first bully fighting sequence, parodies the classic Looney Tunes cartoon "Bully for Bugs".
- When Numbuh 4 was at the treehouse elevator, he was whistling "Les Toreadors" by George Bizet.
- Numbuh 4 uses Homer Simpson's popular catchphrase, "D'oh".
- Nigel becoming a soccer ball head could be an homage to "Football Head", the favorite nickname of Arnold Shortman from Hey Arnold!.
- Sperg from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy can be seen in the audience several times and later chasing Numbuh 4 and his dad, only to later be chased away by the freed dads.
Goofs[]
- All of the lolipops on the ground disappear when the first dad is released into the stadium.
- When Numbuh 4 enters the briefing room, Numbuh 2's shirt doesn't have the line going down the middle.
- No one is actually on the soccer field when the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. is crashing.
- After Numbuh 4 slaps his dad, he doesn't have stubble or his five 'o clock shadow, but when Numbuh 4 tells him where he's at, he has one.
- When the teens start walking towards Numbuh 4, the teens inside the ring can also be seen in the stands.
- The iron bars actually have enough space between to allow the teens to wedge through.
- When Ernie yells "charge", the two big bullies that lifted the gate have disappeared.
Voice credits[]
- Ben Diskin: Numbuh 1, Numbuh 2, Bullies
- Dee Bradley Baker: Numbuh 4, Dads, Bullies
- Lauren Tom: Numbuh 3
- Cree Summer: Numbuh 5, Bullies
- Jeff Bennett: Sydney Beetles
- Grey DeLisle: Soccer Mom, Girls
- Dave Wittenberg: Ernest, Bullies