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"Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E."
Season 4, Episode 50
M.A.U.R.I.C.E.
Mission: 092
Production Code: 411
Airdate: Jul 08, 2005
Credits
Writer(s): Mo Willems
Mr. Warburton
Gideon Kendall
Robert Kopecky
Storyboards by: Maurice Fontenot
Guy Moore
Bob Suarez
Jesse Schmal
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Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E. is the eleventh episode of Season 4 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on July 8, 2005 on Cartoon Network.

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Summary[]

Maurice, a member of the Kids Next Door is decommissioned. Numbuh 5 is saddened by it, and suggests that they monitor Maurice to make sure the teenagers do not recruit him.

Plot[]

The episode starts when a trio of Teens break into a 10 year old Numbuh 9's bedroom. Thinking that he is asleep, they try to fire their "Pox Gun" at him. Suddenly, Numbuh 9 leaps up and yells for the rest of his team, the old Sector V, and they bravely fight off the Teens. After the teens fly away, Numbuh 11 gives Numbuh 5 her hat.

Unfortunately, during the battle, the teenagers poxed Numbuhs 8A and 8B. Numbuh 11 decides to take implications of the failed mission, but Numbuh 9, or Maurice, counters that the mission was his idea and makes a vow that he "will never rest until he discovers the source of the teen's pox, and totally, utterly, completely, destroys it!"

Three years later at his decommissioning, Maurice (upset that he wasn't able to keep his promise) and the current Sector V are talking about how he discovered that the teens got the chicken pox from an unmarked island. Numbuh 86 appears and says it's time to blow out his candles. Maurice gives his heartfelt parting words before doing so. He is then decommissioned in front of the rest of the Kids Next Door (even Numbuh 4 cried inconsolably). This is a very sad moment for everyone.

Either the same day or the day after, Numbuh 5 is asked what she wants for her birthday by Numbuh 3. She loses it and shouts at Numbuh 3. Realizing her mistake, Numbuh 5 apologizes, explaining that she doesn't want a birthday because no matter how hard they work, they will eventually become teens. She even points out how unfair that an excellent operative like Maurice was decommissioned. Numbuh 1 then suggests that they monitor him and make sure that he doesn't join the enemy. It's revealed by Numbuh 2 at this point that when a KND operative is decommissioned, active KND operatives are forbidden to interfere with said operative's life from that point on, and let them live normal lives as teenagers. Regardless, they still plan to watch out for him.

Sector V spies on Maurice at first things look fine but Numbuh 5 becomes worried when a girl starts talking to him. Numbuh 4 starts to tease Numbuh 5 thinking she is jealous only to be found by Cree and the other Teen Ninjas. Numbuh 5 sarcastically asks the teens "You Delinquents lookin' for some street-fighting huh?", to which Numbuh 2 adds, "So why don't you try, fighting the street!" with the U.N.D.E.R.P.O.U.N.D.. With Numbuhs 1, 2, 3, and 4 holding off the Teen Ninjas, Numbuh 5 chases after the Flying Van only to be poxed by Cree's Chicken Pox Bazooka and falls into defeat. A week later, Numbuh 5 goes out on her own to find Cree. She destroys an entire teen naval convoy including the flagship with M.A.R.B.L.E.s, before getting one of them to divulge the location of Chickenpox Island. When she is there, she makes two terrible discoveries; Maurice has joined Cree's side and is now evil and the Teens have developed a Chicken Pox Cannon, capable of infecting every single kid at a "fairground" with the disease, thereby leaving teens three whole weeks to themselves. At first Numbuh 5 manages to push the two jocks into the chickens and stop Cree (at least for a moment) she then vows that once she destroys the cannon she is taking her sister in to finally be decommissioned. However Maurice takes away the marbles and Cree asks what’s she going to do now. Numbuh 5 then surrenders, accepting that she'll be a teen soon enough. Cree is so touched that she hugs her sister. Suddenly, every chicken coop on the island blows up. Cree immediately thinks that Numbuh 5 betrayed her but Maurice shouted, "Look out! The Kids Next Door are here!" a M.A.R.B.L.E. then hits her, knocking her into the flock of chicken, before being sucked into the cannon. It is revealed that Maurice was the one who threw the M.A.R.B.L.E. and tells Numbuh 5 to never give up.

Without anyone besides Numbuh 5 realizing, Maurice changes the course of the cannon and aims it at the pep rally at Cree's high school. He then reveals that some special agents, like him, who are completely loyal to the Kids Next Door are allowed to remain operatives, but must pretend to join the Teens and spy on them from the inside instead. However, he tells her that she can't tell anyone, even if they are in her sector. He advises that if she plays her cards right, she may be asked to join them. Numbuh 5 then leaves as Maurice destroys the cannon. Just then, Sector V arrives to rescue her, having received her "distress call" (which had been sent by Maurice). As they depart an exploding Chicken pox Island, Numbuh 3 berates Numbuh 5 (who is in tears) for running around with the chicken pox.

The final scene is at the Lincoln's house, where Maurice comes to see how they are doing (they are both sick because Numbuh 5 was poxed by Cree, as with Cree was by the cannon). Cree whispers to him that she has a plan to get back at KND. He listens and winks at Numbuh 5. She winks back.

During the credits, as Numbuh 5 walks down a street filled with adult villains seniors and teens, but one winks back at her, confirming that she is a teen operative.

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KND Operatives

Allies

Villains

Cameos

Locations

2x4 Technology

Villain Technology

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Transcript[]

Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E./Transcript

Trivia[]

  • This episode was inspired from when series writer Mo Willems was leaving the series after the fourth season, so he and creator Tom Warburton created the idea of an operative so impressive that everyone missed him when he was decommissioned. The character Maurice was named after him.[1]
  • The Teens Next Door is revealed.
  • In the end credits, Numbuh 5 passes by two kinds of people. The first kind are supposedly those who had been decommissioned at 13, as they are depicted with frowns, with pale complexions and clothing. When Numbuh 5 encounters a group of teens, one of the teens is assumed to be an undercover agent because of her more intensified complexion and clothing, along with a smile and a wink she gives Numbuh 5. After Numbuh 5 returns the smile, she passes by two smiling adults with lively intensified complexions and clothing, the second kind.
  • Maurice is currently the only character that Numbuh 86 feels remorse for decommissioning.
  • It's revealed that Numbuh 86 used to be a KND medic before she switched to decommissioning.
  • This episode is the first use of the phrase "Kids Next Door Rules". The fact that Maurice is the first to introduce the phrase and then the Kids Next Door use it after his decommissioning shows how beloved he was to the entire organization.
  • In the episode we learn that when a KND operative is decommissioned all active KND members are forbidden to interfere with the former operative's life and let them live as a teenager.
  • This episode marked Abby's eleventh birthday. It aligns with in the flashback; Numbuhs 86 and 5 were roughly seven to eight years old.[2] (Contrary to Warburton's Q&A answer, Numbuh 362 would've been nine years old around the time of the flashback, as she is twelve by the time she becomes Supreme Leader)
  • Cree was somewhere between 10 and 12 during her time in the KND with Maurice.[3]
  • Since it's rare for KND members to remain operatives secretly in the organization, it made sense why Numbuh 5 wasn't allowed to tell her teammates.
  • Numbuh 1 reads a magazine called "What's Right With Kids Today" and Numbuh 5 reads a magazine called "5ive".
  • Chickenpox is a real disease, though it looks nothing like the fictional version in the series.
  • This episode aired the same day Camp Lazlo premiered on Cartoon Network.
  • It's possible that Cree was a traitor to the Kids Next Door already at the time of the Chicken Pox incident with her sector 3 years earlier in the series as she built the chickenpox canyon herself and that operatives in her sector or in Global Command did not see this since she did not reveal that she was the cause of chicken pox herself until 3 years after the chicken pox incident in the series.

Series continuity[]

  • Cree was first mentioned in Operation: S.P.A.C.E. to be a former KND operative. This episode is the first on-screen appearance of her in the KND.
  • Former supreme leader, Numbuh 100, makes his first appearance in this episode.
  • Numbuh 5 has always highly valued her red hat, which is shown to have been gifted to her by Cree.
  • Numbuh 12 makes her first appearance since her debut in Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R..
  • This is the first time we see Sector V prior to Numbuh 1's time as sector leader. This is later shown briefly again in Operation: T.R.E.A.T.Y..
  • In every other instance of decommissioning (Operation: E.N.D.), the process has mainly been plungers forced into the victim's face. This time, it sounded like lasers being used on Maurice instead. This could also have been a hint to his decommissioning being faked.
  • Numbuh 5's birthday is revealed to be the following week. Numbuh 1 and 3's birthdays were previously shown in Operation: J.E.W.E.L.S. and Operation: F.A.S.T.-F.O.O.D., respectively.
  • Numbuh 5 mentions that Cree was never decommissioned before joining the Teen Ninjas. This is later mentioned in the 2x4 Technology Handbook's entry for S.K.I.D.O.O.D..
  • The end of the episode hints to Maurice and Cree now dating. This is later shown further in Operation: V.I.R.U.S. and Operation: P.A.R.T.Y..

Cultural references[]

  • Dr. Lincoln, father of Cree and Numbuh 5, is still a parody of Bill Cosby.

Goofs[]

  • Chickenpox is described as one of the Teen Ninjas usual weapons, but has not been mentioned prior to this episode.
  • Maurice's room is much smaller in the beginning of the episode than later.
  • Maurice's door is open when the teens attack, but closed when the KND arrives. It also opens the wrong way they enter.
  • Numbuh 8a & 8b are in the dresser to the right of the window and Maurice is knocked back left of the window. These somehow switch when the teens run away, so the twins are on the wrong side of the room. They are now inside of the pile of clothes that Maurice was knocked into instead.
  • The chair in Maurice's room disappears when the teen run away.
  • Numbuh 5 and Numbuh 11 are also missing from the room after the teens run.
  • The order in which the KND enter after the attack change between the wide shot and the close-up.
  • The pile of wood from the dresser moves from just behind the door to several feet away.
  • Numbuh 86 was just standing with Numbuh 100, but has moved to the other side of the bed when Maurice starts his speech.
  • Maurice's door was never closed, but his mom opens it when she enters.
  • The amount of kids in the room has increased when Maurice continues his speech. Chad is now standing next to Numbuh 100 and the brown-haired boy with glasses now appears twice.
  • When the shot pans over the faces of Numbuh 86, 362, 65.3, and more, the background should be the wall with the window, but instead it's a wall with a door.
  • At Maurice's birthday, Numbuh 60 is sitting next to Numbuh 362 in the crowd, but can also be seen sitting next to random characters a second later.
  • After presenting the cake, Numbuh 86 is missing from the stage until she says Maurice can blow out his candles.
  • Numbuh 5 escorts a seemingly decommissioned Maurice out from the chamber, but she is still sitting in her seat when Numbuh 86 dismisses the crowd.
  • Numbuhs 2 and 4's couch is positioned towards the TV where they play games, but the couch has moved closer to Numbuh 5 (and past the TV) when she talks about becoming a teenager.
  • When Numbuh 1 is getting out of his chair and drops his magazine, the back side is blank until it fully lands on the chair.
  • After he suggests monitoring Maurice, the magazine is gone from the chair.
  • The van in Maurice's driveway is later missing when the teens drive away.
  • The trash can is on the corner of the property when Maurice dumps the trash bag, but moved to right in front of the house when he talks to Stacey.
  • Maurice's van is brown, but it turned purple in the shot zooming in on him and Stacey during the fight.
  • When Maurice is picked up by the van, the trash can is now in the street instead of on the sidewalk.
  • The teen with the white hat spins his chair around before he runs away, but his chair is un-spun when Numbuh 5 enters the control room of the ship. The chair is then seen spun around again when Numbuh 5 grabs the teen with sunglasses.
  • As Numbuh 5 is walking towards the teen with sunglasses, smoke can be seen outside of the window. That was not visible through the window when Numbuh 5 entered the room.
  • There are no teens visible in the water when the final ship is sinking.
  • Cree's first shot at Numbuh 5 destroyed the railing on one side of the platform. The railing is somehow back when Maurice appears.
  • Despite grabbing three M.A.R.B.L.E.s, Maurice is only shown holding one in his hand.
  • Numbuh 5 threw her hat on the floor of the platform and it disappeared.

Voice credits[]

Gallery[]

References[]

Codename: Kids Next Door Episodes
Season One Episodes

1. Operation: C.A.K.E.D./Diseasy Does It/No P in the Ool
2. Operation: I.-S.C.R.E.A.M./Operation: C.A.N.N.O.N.
3. Operation: N.O.-P.O.W.U.H./Operation: T.E.E.T.H.
4. Operation: P.I.R.A.T.E./Operation: C.O.W.G.I.R.L.
5. Operation: T.U.R.N.I.P./Operation: M.I.N.I.-G.O.L.F.
6. Operation: O.F.F.I.C.E./Operation: A.R.C.T.I.C.

7. Operation: L.I.C.E./Operation: L.I.Z.Z.I.E.
8. Operation: T.H.E.-F.L.Y./Operation: P.O.I.N.T.
9. Operation: C.A.B.L.E.-T.V./Operation: C.A.M.P.
10. Operation: T.O.M.M.Y./Operation: C.H.A.D.
11. Operation: P.I.A.N.O./Operation: Z.O.O.
12. Operation: Q.U.I.E.T./Operation: R.A.I.N.B.O.W.S.
13. Operation: G.R.O.W.-U.P.

Kids next door s1

Season Two Episodes

1. Operation: C.A.T.S./Operation: P.O.P.
2. Operation: S.P.A.N.K./Operation: D.A.T.E.
3. Operation: S.U.P.P.O.R.T./Operation: T.A.P.I.O.C.A.
4. Operation: M.O.V.I.E./Operation: F.A.S.T.-F.O.O.D.
5. Operation: S.H.A.V.E./Operation: O.O.M.P.P.A.H.
6. Operation: F.L.A.V.O.R./Operation: K.I.S.S.

7. Operation: G.H.O.S.T./Operation: F.U.G.I.T.I.V.E.
8. Operation: T.H.E.-S.H.O.G.U.N./Operation: C.O.L.L.E.G.E.
9. Operation: R.E.P.O.R.T./Operation: B.R.I.E.F.
10. Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-T.W.O./Operation: S.P.A.C.E.
11. Operation: B.E.A.C.H./Operation: U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R.
12. Operation: D.O.G.F.I.G.H.T./Operation: T.R.I.P.
13. Operation: E.N.D.

Kids next door s2

Season Three Episodes

1. Operation: F.U.T.U.R.E.
2. Operation: A.F.L.O.A.T./Operation: L.E.A.D.E.R.
3. Operation: U.T.O.P.I.A./Operation: R.O.B.B.E.R.S.
4. Operation: F.O.U.N.T.A.I.N.
5. Operation: B.U.T.T./Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G.
6. Operation: A.R.C.H.I.V.E./Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R.

7. Operation: P.I.N.K.E.Y.E./Operation: K.A.S.T.L.E.
8. Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-T.H.R.E.E./Operation: L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N.
9. Operation: H.U.G.S./Operation: J.E.W.E.L.S.
10. Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S.
11. Operation: T.R.I.C.K.Y./Operation: U.N.C.O.O.L.
12. Operation: P.R.E.S.I.D.E.N.T./Operation: H.O.S.P.I.T.A.L.
13. Operation: S.P.R.O.U.T./Operation: H.O.U.N.D.

Kids next door s3

Season Four Episodes

1. Operation: R.A.B.B.I.T./Operation: F.L.U.S.H.
2. Operation: F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E./Operation: C.L.U.E.S.
3. Operation: N.U.G.G.E.T./Operation: M.A.C.A.R.R.O.N.I.
4. Operation: P.O.O.L.
5. Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.O.U.R.
6. Operation: S.I.T.T.E.R./Operation: S.A.T.U.R.N.

7. Operation: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E./Operation: M.A.T.A.D.O.R.
8. Operation: L.U.N.C.H./Operation: M.U.N.C.H.I.E.S.
9. Operation: K.N.O.T./Operation: C.L.O.S.E.T.
10. Operation: S.N.O.W.I.N.G.
11. Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E.
12. Operation: L.O.V.E./Operation: C.O.U.C.H.
13. Operation: D.O.D.G.E.B.A.L.L./Operation: F.E.R.A.L.

Kids next door s4

Season Five Episodes

1. Operation: N.A.U.G.H.T.Y.
2. Operation: E.L.E.C.T.I.O.N.S.
3. Operation: D.U.C.K.Y./Operation: D.I.A.P.E.R.
4. Operation: B.U.L.L.I.E.S./Operation: F.I.S.H.Y.
5. Operation: B.R.E.A.K.U.P./Operation: S.A.F.A.R.I.
6. Operation: V.I.R.U.S./Operation: O.U.T.B.R.E.A.K.

7. Operation: C.A.N.Y.O.N./Operation: H.O.L.I.D.A.Y.
8. Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E.
9. Operation: R.E.C.R.U.I.T./Operation: D.A.D.D.Y.
10. Operation: C.L.O.W.N./Operation: S.P.A.N.K.E.N.S.T.I.N.E.
11. Operation: H.O.T.S.T.U.F.F./Operation: M.I.S.S.I.O.N.
12. Operation: L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E./Operation: H.O.M.E.
13. Operation: I.T.

Kids next door s5

Season Six Episodes

1. Operation: S.A.F.E.T.Y.
2. Operation: E.N.G.L.A.N.D./Operation: A.W.A.R.D.S.
3. Operation: R.E.C.E.S.S./Operation: H.A.M.S.T.E.R.
4. Operation: W.H.I.T.E.H.O.U.S.E.
5. Operation: S.P.I.N.A.C.H./Operation: M.E.S.S.A.G.E.
6. Operation: B.R.I.D.G.E./Operation: S.I.X.
7. Operation: T.R.I.C.Y.C.L.E.

8. Operation: C.R.I.M.E./Operation: P.A.R.T.Y.
9. Operation: D.O.G.H.O.U.S.E./Operation: P.L.A.N.E.T.
10. Operation: S.C.I.E.N.C.E./Operation: A.M.I.S.H.
11. Operation: G.I.R.L.F.R.I.E.N.D.
12. Operation: C.A.R.A.M.E.L./Operation: M.O.O.N.
13. Operation: T.R.E.A.T.Y.

Kids next door s6

Movies and Specials

1. Operation: Z.E.R.O.
2. The Grim Adventures of the KND

3. Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.
4. The Lost Cases of the Tree House

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