"Operation: P.O.P."
Season 2, Episode 14
Mission:	028
Production Code:	201
Airdate:	October 03, 2003
Credits
Writer(s):	Mr. Warburton Mo Willems
Storyboards by:	Matt Peters Abigail Nesbitt
Episode Guide
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Preteens Oppose Prohibition

InformationEdit

The legal age for drinking soda has been changed to 13, so numerous underground soda bars have appeared. Numbuh 2 is caught selling illegal soda at a local bar by Mr. Fizz, who takes him in for questioning. Numbuh 2 remains defiant, even after Mr. Fizz reveals the rest of his team has already been captured, and their combined angry ranting causes the villain to storm out for a drink.

While Mr. Fizz is gone, Numbuh 5 uses Numbuh 2's rare #73 Yipper Card - payment for his soda shipment - to open the door of the interrogation room. As Numbuh 2 complains about the action bending the corner of his new card, Mr. Fizz sends his goons to recapture the kids. Numbuh 1 leads the team through a door to hide, but they find themselves in a shadowy factory where children are being stuffed into bottles.

As Sector V gazes at the horrible process, Mr. Fizz appears, bragging that his plan will keep children under control and unable to drink soda. Stunned at the evil scheme, Numbuh 5 declares that Mr. Fizz is crazy and that "Nobody bottles the Kids Next Door!" The others agree with another round of cacophonous ranting; combined with the ever-present sounds of machinery around them, the racket causes Mr. Fizz to snap.

With a bellow of "SOOOOOODAAAAAAA!!!", Mr. Fizz encases himself in armor made of soda barrels, bottles, and miscellaneous plastic parts. He proceeds to unleash a furious barrage of ultra-sticky soda, pinning Numbuh 4 to the conveyor belt leading to the bottling machine. In response, Numbuh 1 sends Numbuhs 2 and 3 to stop the conveyor belt while he and Numbuh 5 free Numbuh 4. Seeing this, Mr. FIzz aims at Numbuh 3, but a thrown bottle from Numbuh 2 throws off his aim - and causes him to hit Numbuh 1 instead.

Dodging Mr. Fizz's high-sugar shots, Numbuh 5 jumps on the conveyor belt to save her trapped comrades. At the same time, Numbuh 2 pulls a lever to stop the machine, inadvertantly sending Numbuh 5 flying into the bottling mechanism. As Numbuh 3 jumps on the main conveyor belt, Mr. Fizz pins Numbuh 2 with his soda and reactivates the machine, bottling Numbuhs 5, 1, and 4 in rapid succession. As Mr. FIzz jumps onto the conveyor himself, bent on forcing Numbuh 3 into the bottler, Numbuh 2 manages to free himself and stop the machine once again. Unfortunately, he is a little too late to save Numbuh 3, who stumbles off the belt and into a bottle.

Frustrated, Numbuh 2 restarts the machine, causing Mr. FIzz to stagger forward. Struck by inspiration, Numbuh 2 begins rapidly switching the machine on and off, shaking the villain as he yells protests. After a while, Numbuh 2 stops the belt for good, allowing Mr. Fizz to swear vengeance; before he can do anything, the carbonation in his suit bubbles over, causing his armor to explode spectacularly.

In the aftermath, the freed kids enjoy bottles of soda as Numbuh 2 forces a defeated Mr. Fizz to open bottles in search of Numbuh 5.

QuotesEdit

• Bartender: Always a pleasure doin' business with the Kids Next Door. How's about a frosty one, on the house?
• Numbuh 2: Well, I never say no to a cold one!

• Mr. Fizz: Children! If only you could bottle their delightful precociousness...until they've grown up!

• Mr. Fizz: A bit early for soda. I need something to steady the nerves.
• (Mr. Fizz drinks some soda and spots the KND escaping, causing him to spit it on the window)
• Mr. Fizz: (coughs and chokes) Security...!

• Numbuh 2: What's going on here, Fizz?
• Mr. Fizz: Before I came along, children were completely out of control; drinking gallon after gallon of sugary soda; chugging it down like animals, wide-eyed and hopped up on caffeine! It was MADDENING! So, I had an idea. Why not take the little rulebreakers, and throw them in a can?! Or, should I say, bottle? (laughs)
• Numbuh 5: Okay, two things! One...you crazy. And two...nobody bottles the Kids Next Door!

• (Against a backdrop of machinery and Sector V's ranting)
• Mr. Fizz: Wait, let me explain, because I...I - no, because I - alright, come on, just shut up so I can explain my plan...I just want - GAH!...Stop it! I mean it, now!...Look, I need just one...stooop!...I - just - need - a - a -SOOOOODAAAAAAA!!!
• (Mr. Fizz summons a suit of soda-powered battle armor)
• Mr. Fizz: Now, who wants a drink! Ha ha ha ha!

• Numbuh 2: Looks like fizz is the end for you!
• (A bottled Numbuh 5 is lowered into a crate of soda)
• Numbuh 5: Where does he come up with this stuff?!

TriviaEdit

• This is the fourth Numbuh 2 episode.
• This is the first Mr. Fizz episode, the second being Operation: S.I.X..
• This is the first appearance of the soda control officers, who also appear in Operation: W.H.I.T.E.H.O.U.S.E. and Operation: S.I.X..
• Mr. Fizz yelling, "I need fizz!", his armor, and the merging with it are a parody of the 1980s cartoon, toyline, and comic "The Centurions", in which the merging scene spoofs how the Centurions would merge with their weapons in the cartoon.
• This is obviously a parody of the American prohibition act, except instead of alcohol, the prohibition is on soda.
• Obviously, soda is not really illegal for anyone under 13.
• There is no caffeine in actual root beer. However there is a similar soda that does have it called cola.
• At the end of the episode, Numbuh 2 has Mr. Fizz looking for Numbuh 5, not the whole team. While this might imply Numbuh 2 has feelings for her, it's also possible he already found Numbuhs 1, 3, and 4 already. Either solution is acceptable.