Now entering Kids Next Door recap: Operation: B.R.E.A.K.U.P.
This mission follows Wallabee Beetles on one of his off days hanging out at home. Whether inside or outside, his games and activities inevitably lead to the smashing of his mom's vase, always the same vase, and always she seems to have a replacement and a reprimand for him. Finally, she puts her foot down and tells him that if he breaks her "last", "priceless" vase she'll send him to ballroom dancing school... then leaves to get baby Joey more Kangaroo milk.
While conducting the "Indoor Moto-cross Turbo Championship" in the living room, some kid hops into the Beetles' living room and steals the vase. The kid high-tails it to the arena with Wallabee in hot pursuit. Wallabee comes into the arena to find hundreds of kids watching a game of "vase-ball". A game set up like baseball, except that kids use their parent's fragile, collectible, breakable knick-knacks instead of balls.
Overwhelmed by the sight, Wally forgets the vase, puts on a uniform, and gets up to bat, almost instantly gaining praise from the crowd for his artist's skill in breaking. But when the next pitch is his mom's vase, Wallabee switches from baseball batter to football running-back and tries to get off the field and out of the stadium with the vase in one piece. Things get complicated when he hides in the office of his old boss and nemesis Ernest and finds out that Ernest plans to send out a message to all the kids' parents to get everyone grounded. After finding Wallabee, Ernest engages him in a showdown in the stadium cellars where thousands upon thousands of glass, porcelain, and other fragile dinnerware are being kept. All of it is watched by the fans in the stadium. For a while, the two seem pretty well balanced, but eventually, Wally emerges as the winner. However, his victory short-lived as he overhears Ernest's phone message being sent to everyone's home.
In the end, all the kids except Wally end up grounded, the sports-casters Nick and Chip extol his the great mark he left on the game and how he'll be remembered by all kids who love to smash things. As the screen goes black, we can hear the vase finally breaking and his mother angrily screaming "WALLABEE!". It's unknown if she follows through with her earlier threat.
End Transmission
Tropes included in this episode:
- Overly Long Gag: Wallabee keeps breaking his mom's vase with different objects.
- Parents Know Their Children: When she has had enough of Numbuh 4 breaking her vase, Mrs. Beatles threatens to send him to what Numbuh 4 first assumes is military school, if the vase is broken when returns home. Mrs. Beetles corrects him that she was going to send him to ballroom dancing school, which Numbuh 4 considers a worse prospect than military school.
- Priceless Ming Vase: Wallabee is in charge of not breaking it for the day.
- Smash to Black: The episode ends this way, accompanied by a Glass-Shattering Sound.
- Too Dumb to Live: Ernest should have known better than to leave his name in what's supposedly an anonymous message.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: At the very end before the "End Transmission" text appears (per above), it was unknown after the vase breaks whether or not, Wallabee got sent to ballroom dancing school.
- You Are Grounded!: In the end, all the kids except Wallabee got grounded after the vase-ball game, Nick and Chip included.
