History Recap / CodenameKidsNextDoorS4E5OperationCAKEDFOUR

* CreditsGag: Sector V enjoys eating the cake batter from the Delightful Children's cake while Numbuh 3 laments Numbuh 2 not winning. Numbuh 5 assures her he'll be fine, as he at least didn't come in last. Numbuh 4 is then shown still trapped on the small island begging for rescue.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Father when he sees the skatepark he's standing in front of is about to crack open.

** On that note: wonder where the hell "Farfegtubing" (this very page can't even decide how to spell it!) came from? [[TheWikiRule The series Wiki]] theorizes it's supposed to be a reference to ''Fahrvergnügen'' ("driving pleasure"), Volkswagen's sales slogan during TheNineties.

* BatmanGambit: Numbuh One destroys the Delightful Children's battleship, which takes them out of the competition. Turns out, this was all part of Father's plan, to have all of the other contestants fall into his trap.

* BigShutUp: Numbuh 2 when Father mocks all his father's Farfegtubing talk.

* ADayInTheLimelight: In a sense - this is the series' only full half-hour episode to be centered on Numbuh 2, not to mention the only one where he gets to fight Father (who's otherwise pretty solidified as Numbuh One's archenemy) directly. The writers even imply a bit of [[ItsPersonal personal history]] between Father and Numbuh 2's own DisappearedDad.

* EvilLaugh: Numbuh Four laughs maniacally as he mows everybody else down in his gigantic inner tube. Father also laughs after he blasts Numbuh 2 with a fireball, [[OhCrap only to stop pretty quickly]] when it ricochets right back at him.
* FairWeatherFriend: Nick, the reporter, seems to go out of his way to annoy people, especially Numbuh Two who he calls "the Lord of the Losers." When it looks like Numbuh Two is going to win the race, he changes his tune pretty quickly. When Numbuh Two goes back to save the other children, he goes straight back to his prior attitude.

* InsistentTerminology: "It's called Farfegtubing."
* KentBrockmanNews: Nick, the pre-teen reporter, is the one to tell us all about Numbuh Two's losing streak and the outcome of the race, all in a judgemental monotone.

-->'''Father:''' There is no such thing as Farfegtubing! Your father lied to you! Your father was a loser! Just like you! Just like that lousy innertube!
* RebuiltPedestal: In record time, too. At the very end, Numbuh 2 is disappointed to learn from his mother than his father did lie about winning the race every year. Her mentioning the old man kept insisting that Ol' Betsy would someday save the town's children, though, lifts Hoagie's spirits in a big way and restores his belief that his father was a winner, after all.
* ShipTease: Numbuh Four gets jealous when The Kid flirts with Numbuh Three.

* TimePassageBeard: Despite being stranded for only a few minutes, Numbuh Four sports one of these by the time Numbuh Three passes the island, which causes her not to recognise him when he calls for her to save him.
--> '''Numbuh Three:''' I can't shave you right now, Mister Old Man! I'm racing!

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Farfegtubing!"]]

** The DCFDTL's birthday cake is eaten by the town's children and Father's plans have been thwarted. But Numbuh 2 lost the water tubing race again. ''However'', he learns from his mom that while his dad did fib about the water tube ever winning a race, it was actually a KND device his father built for "saving the town's children". And Hoagie holds his head high, having a new appreciation for his father's "oridinary" water tube.
** And in the post-credits scene, when Numbuh 3 admits that she feels bad for Numbuh 2 (knowing how much he wanted to win the race), Numbuh 5 assures her that Numbuh 2 will be fine, pointing out that while he may not have gotten 1st-place, he at least didn't place dead last like Numbuh 4 did (the scene then cuts to Numbuh 4, showing that he's still stuck on the island).

* ShoutOut: The island Numbuh 4 ends up on after another racer destroys his tube is the same as the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' island.

* {{Jerkass}}: Father is definitely at his absolute worst in this episode, as his EvilPlan involves catching all the competitors into a skatepark to bake them all into a giant cake, which would've resulted in [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]] and [[MurderIsTheBestSolution mass murder]]. And there's his BreakThemByTalking to Numbuh 2. Not so much KickTheDog as skipping through the MoralEventHorizon!

* TheBigRace

* WackyRacing

* ADayInTheLimelight: In a sense - this is the series' only full half-hour episode to be centered on Numbuh 2, not to mention the only one where he gets to fight Father (who's otherwise pretty solidified as Numbuh One's archenemy) directly. The writers even imply a bit of [[ItsPersonal personal history]] between Father and Numbuh 2's own DisappearedDad.

* BittersweetEnding: The DCFDTL's birthday cake is eaten by the town's children and Father's plans have been thwarted. But Numbuh 2 lost the water tubing race again. ''However'', he learns from his mom that while his dad did fib about the water tube ever winning a race, it was actually a KND device his father built for "saving the town's children". And Hoagie holds his head high, having a new appreciation for his father's "oridinary" water tube.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Numbuh Two's mother excitedly tells him that ''finally'' a Gilligan has won the inner tube race. She's referring to Tommy, not Hoagie, who comes second-to-last and comes in at sixth-hundredth-and-thirty-fifth place.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Farfegtubing!"]]