Codename: Kids Next Door

So someone from the old crew sent a character sheet that shows the real name of the last unnamed member of Sector Z:

Watching Operation G.R.O.W.N.U.P again for the first time since it aired (and reran a few times that week probably).

Numbuh 1 within 2 weeks of being an adult got a job as an ice cream delivery truck driver. This is... actually pretty normal. What's funny is that he went from being 9-10 years old to being an adult with a noticeable aftershave for two weeks and his parents didn't say a thing.

And the way Numbuh 1 gets the age-changing device back from the Delightful Children? Demanding they hand it over to him because kids have to do what adults say. They are so ingrained in their 'goody-two shoes follow all the rules' brainwashing that they have to do it. I can't.

And then this gem

Edited by FOFD on Mar 21st 2024 at 2:34:00 PM

Given how often Father and his lackeys got their asses kicked by grade schoolers, he should have offered Nigel a job right there.

So the tall one is David, the helmet one is Lenny, the boy in front is Bruce, and the girl fans called Ashley is Alexsandra.

Still don't know who the fat girl in front's real name is (fans call her Oogie)

Wonder how my persona would look in KND style.

I've been thinking that Father should be the final big bad that KND needs to fight because he is pretty much the antithesis of what adult is supposed to be about.

A manchild who abuse his position as adult to oppress the children, yet doesn't take any responsibility of being an adult,

I mean, wasn't he the final boss of the show? Operation INTERVIEWS is about taking his pipe, and it ends by revealing he's responsible for the episode's framing gimmick.

It's been years and I still don't get why Galactic Kids Next Door didn't get picked up. Powerpuff Girls got a revival, Samurai Jack got a revival.

It's not as marketable as PPG, and Samurai Jack didn't have a proper ending.

Because Father was never truly defeated by Sector V or KND during the show, which felt to me that the show never had a proper final showdown between the heroes and their arch nemesis.

Besides, the entire plot of Operation INTERVIEWS was winning the Scavenger hunt to win the Delightful Children's birthday cake. While the Father's Pipe was the important scavenger item, it was just one of the plot device that needed for the actual goal of the heroes, the birthday cake.

Rewatching the show now, and I'm realizing it takes a while for the evil teens to show up.

Like, in their first appearance they do nothing wrong and it's the KND who screw up the situation and are punished by the narrative for it. That wouldn't happen in later seasons.

I miss when it was ambiguous and the KND were sometimes reactionary bad guys instead of all of Nigel's conspiracy theories being true. I just really great to dislike Nigel as a character and he becomes so super duper chosen one level important later on that I found it annoying.

To be pretty fair: If the unproduced GKND stuff is anything to go by, the bigger picture of the KND are the much worse villains than anyone else and Nigel being the chosen one by them is nothing remotely good since their MO to deal with adults is planetary genocide and Nigel is so radicalized he would've gone through with it on Earth.

Kind of out of left field for a bit but also shows some of the dangers of Nigel's mentality truly paying off

A bit further in my rewatch. Just realizing we don't get a school plot until season three, and a lot of Sector V's personal lives aren't that fleshed out yet. Nigel and his dad get the cool dueling Tuba episode, but that's about it.

I think there are still a few more villains to get introduced, but they've set into a pretty good recurring cast of villains, and I like most of them. Spankulot might have aged the worst as a concept out of all of them, though.

Wasn't Word of God that Operation ARCHIVE really is only a wild conspiracy theory and not canon? He also rants off so many things by the end that the teacher saying "They know" could just as easily refer to the cafeteria food being made out of Rainbow Monkies.

I mean, the ARCHIVE backstory does not mesh with operation ZERO where Father was seen as a child instead of being created as an adult.