"Operation: R.E.C.R.U.I.T."
Season 5, Episode 61
Mission:	108
Production Code:	509
Airdate:	Jun 12, 2006
Credits
Writer(s):	Andy Rheingold Tom Warburton
Storyboards by:	Jesse Schmal Anthony Davis
Episode Guide
Previous Mission "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E."	Next Mission "Operation: D.A.D.D.Y."

Really Excitable Child Rookie Undergoes Impossible Test

InformationEdit

An eccentric child named Bobby is obsessed with the KND, and has great desire to join. After mailing 38 videos to them, he abruptly receives a message on his computer that reads "r u in?".He is then lead to an abandoned KND treehouse, where he is given the decision to continue life as a normal kid, or to face the danger of being a KND operative. After choosing to be an operative, Sector V gives him various missions, but can he handle it?

• Starring:
  • Sector V
  • Bobby
  • Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb
  • Crazy Old Cat Lady
• Locations: Old abandoned treehouse, Mr. Wink and Fibb's house, Crazy Old Cat Lady's house
• Villain Technology: Bobby costume

Trivia and GoofsEdit

• This episode contains many parodies of the movie The Matrix.

1. The red and blue lollipops Nigel offers Bobby are similar to the red and blue pills Morpheus offers to Neo.
2. The saliva milking plants parody the large Matrix machines.
3. Dialogue is heavily borrowed as well, from Numbuh 2's "...You haven't even met him yet.", and "Hang onto your heiny, kid, 'cause you're goin' for a ride.", to Numbuh 1's "You just might be...the one.".
4. Nigel informs Bobby of the microwave-clone-saliva-dishwasher conspiracy in a blank background.
5. When we first meet Numbuhs 3 and 5, both girls act like Trinity does, with some minor differences in attitude.
6. When Bobby is playing on his computer, he gets a message from it like Neo does in the Matrix.

• Bobby turning out to be a robot could hint at Terminator and several other cyborg movies.
• That plot twist is leaking with holes because how could Bobby have DNA and a solid background if he doesn't exist? But considering the Interesting Twins are extremely smart at being masters of disguise they may have known about this and made sure to not make any giveaways and/or plot holes that might expose them too quickly before they revealed themselves (possibly off-screen). (The DNA may have been one of theirs but genetically altered to prevent the KND from knowing it's them.)
• After Bobby chooses the boysenberry candy, while Nigel is explaining Bobby's mission, we see Numbuh 3 off to the side, eating the cherry lollipop. If the cherry lollipop truly DOES make you forget about the Kids Next Door, and would have erased Bobby's memory of the meeting, wouldn't the same happen to Numbuh 3? However, as Sector V knew Bobby was the Interesting Twins, the cherry lollipop probably does nothing, so this could actually be seen as foreshadowing to how Sector V knew it was them the whole time.
• This is the second and last appearance of the Interesting Twins From Beneath the Mountain.