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The idea grew out of side characters for Mr. Warburton's failed series ''Kenny and the Chimp''. The show featured five kids who lived next door to Kenny with no parental supervision. The five were simply troublemakers who enjoyed terrorizing the neighborhood. When the show fell through, they were retooled into the stars of their own show. The pilot was submitted for Cartoon Network "Big Pick Weekend", where viewers were allowed to vote on the next cartoon series. ''Kids Next Door'' reached the final three and was ultimately the winner.
The five kids became Sector V, a [[Five
Together, the KND of Sector V fight alongside their compatriots-in-childhood against numerous villains -- including the [[Creepy Child|The Delightful Children From Down The Lane]] (and their creepy father, Father), Numbuh Five's [[Face Heel Turn|traitorous teenage sister]] Cree, and the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Mr. Boss -- who hate children and want them enslaved.
The show was known for its consistent continuity and its use of the [[Story Arc]], as well as several [[Parental Bonus]] moments -- including an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the ''[[The Matrix|Animatrix]]'' short "The Second Renaissance" and a [[Musical Episode]] starring, ''of all bands'', [[GWAR]] -- that attracted fans [[Periphery Demographic|outside its intended audience]]. Another one of the show's big draws was the aversion of the [[
Episodes followed a specific naming pattern: the episode title is always "Operation: [X]" -- where [X] is an acronym (as an example: "T.E.E.T.H.") -- and both the acronym itself ''and'' the phrase it stood for (using the prior example: "Tooth Extracting Enemy Terrorizes Headquarters") served to give viewers a general idea of the episode's plot.
''Kids Next Door'' ended after six seasons, one movie (''Operation: Z.E.R.O.''), and a crossover with ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Animation)|The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' ("The Grim Adventures of the KND"). The [[Grand Finale]], "Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S." ("It's Now The Extra Really Very Interesting End Wrap-Up Story"), answered [[What Happened to The Mouse?|a few]] [[Codename Kids Next Door (Animation)/Headscratchers|questions.]] There are no DVD box sets, but various episodes have been released on compilation sets.
This show now has a [[Codename Kids Next Door (Animation)/Characters|character sheet]].
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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: The AI of Sector V's treehouse starts singing [[A Space Odyssey|Daisy Bell]] when Nigel tries to attend Lizzy's sister's wedding.
* [[All According to Plan]]: A plot twist so common that it's also a [[Running Gag]] for one character for a time.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: A few episodes end this way, most of the time with an [[Or Was It a Dream?]] vibe.
* [[Angels Pose]]: The series' logo.
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]
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** Cree considers Numbuh 5 to be this to her.
* [[Anthropomorphic Food]]: Grandmother Stuffem creates this to force itself into kids' mouths.
* [[Anti
* [[Art Evolution]]: Over the course of the series, the animation became more consistent and the colors became richer.
* [[Art Shift]]: "Operation: R.E.P.O.R.T."
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{{quote| "In the name of the One Supreme Ultra DNK Leader, Welcome... ''to the worst day of your lives.''"}}
* [[Badass Santa]]
* [[Badass Family]] / [[Big Screwed
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: As noted above, definitely present.
* [[Balloon Belly]]: All of Sector V after Gramma Stuffum's attack in "Operation: N.O.-P.O.W.U.H.".
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* [[Big Good]]: Numbuh 362
* [[Big Labyrinthine Building]]: a huge, labyrinthine, ''treehouse''.
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Lizzie in "Operation D.A.T.E.".
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]
** Numbuh Three's last name, Sanban, loosely translates to "third" in Japanese.
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** In "Operation: L.I.C.E.", the giant mutated lice are killed by cheddar.
** "Operation: T.H.E.-S.H.O.G.U.N." provides a particularly over-the-top example.
* [[Bond One
* [[Book Dumb]]: Numbuh Four is this, big time. {{spoiler|He even grows out of it big time, graduating from Harvard of all places and becoming a doctor.}}
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Numbuhs Two and Four.
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* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: The Delightful Children From Down The Lane.
* [[Brats With Slingshots]]
* [[Brick Joke]]: Of the "very long time" and "blink and you'll miss it", variety. In "Operation F.L.A.V.O.R.", Numbuh Five tastes the "fourth" flavor of ice cream, but is [[The Un
** Not to mention [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxSLzcvphCw&feature=channel_video_title Numbah 4's singing at the ends of the P.O.O.L. and M.O.O.N. operations].
* [[Broken Streak]]
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** Not to mention {{spoiler|Numbuh Zero and Father}}.
* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]: In "Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.", KND scientist Numbuh 74.239 claims he has taken the Delightful Children From Down The Lane's cake and announces a scavenger hunt for it. {{spoiler|Numbuh One}} wins -- only to find out that {{spoiler|the scavenger hunt was a test to see who will be chosen to be the representative of Earth in the Galactic KND, and the promised cake was actually just a cupcake, which 74.239 happily scarfs down}}.
* [[Card
{{quote| '''Stickybeard:''' ''([[Minion With an F In Evil|to Dumb John Silver]])'' '''You're supposed to be an EVIL pirate!'''}}
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]
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* [[Closer Than They Appear]]: The mirror on one vehicle says "Missiles in mirror may be closer than they appear".
* [[Colony Drop]]: In [[The Movie]], they {{spoiler|drop the moonbase on the [[Big Bad]], to little effect. [[Batman Gambit|It's just a distraction to get him in position to get his memory wiped]].}}
* [[Colour
** Numbuh One/Nigel, "[[The Hero]] / [[The Leader]]" - Red
** Numbuh Two/Hoagie, "[[The Smart Guy|The Inventor]]" - Blue
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* [[Creepy Monotone]]: See directly above. The Delightfuls subvert this a few times, though, most notably in "Operation: G.R.O.W.-U.P.", mainly to highlight just how ''scary'' an angry Father was.
* [[Crossover]]: "[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy|The Grim Adventures]] of the Kids Next Door"
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Sector V, initially. Being the main characters of the show, it's implied at first that they're the ''only'' Kids Next Door operatives; however, when the organization is shown to have teams across the globe, Sector V is shown to be one of, if not ''the'' [[Let's Get Dangerous|best around.]]
* [[Dark Horse Victory]]: "Your new fourth grade president is.... EGBERT EGGLESTON!"
* [[A Day in The Limelight]]
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* [[Dope Slap]]: Numbuh Five dope-slaps Numbuh Four after the latter eats some Coco Nut Logs despite being allergic to coconut.
* [[Drinking Contest]]: The ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' parody episode replaces the alcohol with mugs and sacks of pure sugar.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Both unintentional and subverted with {{spoiler|[[Incendiary Exponent|Hotheaded]] Numbuh Three in "Operation: H.O.T.S.T.U.F.F.". Subverted because while her house is about to blow up due to her [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|messing with the thermometer]], she doesn't care, because she has power over the house, though it's not exactly suicide.}}
* [[Dude, Where's My Reward?]]: Tommy Gilligan saves the organization, but doesn't get re-enlisted due to security measures.
* [[Eleventy
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Numbuh 86's real name is Fanny. The joke has some [[Unfortunate Implications]] when you realize what the Scottish-accented Fanny's name ''means'' in her homeland... Further implications abound when you take into account the fact that she's a complete [[Straw Feminist|FemiNazi]].
* [[Epic Fail]]: In "Operation: D.A.D.D.Y.", Mr. Boss intends to save money by cutting the hair of his own children instead of taking to them to a barber. [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100816181353/knd/images/c/c6/Numbuh_85.jpg The resulting haircut on his son is impossibly bad.]
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Subverted by Black John Licorice; according to Stickybeard's sea shanty, he would even steal candy from his own mother.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Plenty of villains in the series have shown to do this: for example, Stickybeard saves Sector V from the giant white asparagus because while he steals candy from kids, he won't allow anyone to be forced to eat asparagus.
* [[
* [[Expy]]: Moosk in "Operation: K.N.O.T." is obviously an Expy of ''[[Baldurs Gate]]'''s Minsk, right down to both characters being voiced by [[Jim Cummings]].
* [[
* [[Face Heel Turn]]
** Cree and Chad after they turned 13.
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* [[Flash Back]]: Used to open "Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E.", "Operation: H.O.M.E.", "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E." and "Operation: T.R.E.A.T.Y.".
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In "Operation: P.O.O.L.", {{spoiler|the Delightful Children's good counterparts are called the "Little Traitor Dudes for Children's Defense", indicating they may have been defectors from the KND's [[Evil Counterpart]], the DNK}}. In ''Operation: Z.E.R.O.'', {{spoiler|it's revealed that the Delightful Children are KND operatives turned "traitor", although they were brainwashed, mirroring their [[Mirror Universe]].}}
* [[Four
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: "Operation: E.N.G.L.A.N.D." shows us that Sector E and the "Rowdy Hooligans from Across the Square" put aside their differences to relax and tell jokes. Numbuh One questions why they don't fight each other, and they respond that fighting over a Rainbow Monkey library book is something that Americans would do.
* [[Frothy Mugs of Water]]: Parodied in an episode where root beer is treated like actual beer, complete with references to U.S. Prohibition. In fact, all soda is pretty much treated like alcohol in the KND universe. And then there was the ep where Numbuh Five and Stickybeard had a drinking contest, by downing huge frothy mugs of pure sugar.
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* [[Grand Finale]]
* [[Growing Up Sucks]]: Oh so very much.
* [[Half
* [[Hammerspace]]: Where the KND store most of their cool gadgets.
** There is an episode where Numbuh One pulls out at least eight weapons one at a time from nowhere, only to be blasted by Cree.
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* [[Hypno Trinket]]: The Boyfriend Helmet.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: In one episode Lizzie criticizes Nigel about his weight when she's much fatter than he is.
* [[I Ate What?]]: Features in "Operation: P.I.N.K.E.Y.E.", where Numbuh Two is eating Nurse Claiborne's crumbles as he's investigating the mystery epidemic of pinkeye going around the school. Once it gets out that it is Claiborne herself who was the one infecting the students with pinkeye, it also becomes apparent that she was using eye crust for her crumbles, making Numbuh Two gag at the very fact that he was eating them. However, at the very end, he goes back to eating them. However, Numbuh Two may have second thoughts after finding out that the filling of the crumbles is {{spoiler|mucus.}}
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: "Operation S.O.M.E.T.H.I.N.G. -- '''S'''tring '''O'''f '''M'''eticulously '''E'''ncoded '''T'''ext '''H'''andily '''I'''ncludes '''N'''aming '''G'''ag"
* [[I Can't Believe
** Hoagie (Numbuh Two) was so addicted to chocolate sauce that he used to bathe in it. Eventually he had to sign up to Chocoholics Anonymous.
** In the KND universe, candy is the number one source of happiness. If a child is kept from candy too long or is given a non-candy substitute, they go through an exaggerated form of withdrawal.
** In "Operation: L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E.", Black John Licorice challenges Abigail (Numbuh Five) to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|gulping down mugs]] of sugar. Numbuh Five's sugar level becomes so high that her eyes widen and she begins to shake violently.
* [[Idiosyncratic Wipes]]: [http://photobucket.com/albums/v494/codemodule/misc/transitions/ Examples found here].
* [[In Medias Res]]: Many per episode.
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* [[Insulted Awake]]: Happens to Nigel Uno a lot.
* [[Instant Armor]]: Evil teenagers use Battle Ready Armor [[Fun With Acronyms|(or B.R.A.s)]] to fight the KND.
* [[Instant Plunder, Just Add Pirates]]: ''Candy'' pirates.
* [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake]]: Seven of the episodes feature the KND trying to take the cake from the Delightful Children from Down the Lane, who refuse to share it with anyone. To make it worse, said DCFDTL brag and boast about it, giving the KND justification. The cakes seem to vary, in both appearance and what happens to it (as in destroyed).
** To start, the first one (used in "Operation: C.A.K.E.D." is a normal one. It is {{spoiler|destroyed by accident}}.
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** The fifth one... ("Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E.") {{spoiler|well, three words. [[Star Wars|Death Star-sized]]. It functions both as an ice cream cake and as a battle station that would destroy all the ice cream on Earth. It is destroyed when one of the ships is shot down, cutting the cake in half.}}
** The sixth one ("Operation: S.I.X.") is a doozy, {{spoiler|because it pulls a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|delicious]] irony -- the KND delivers the cake to them.}} Unknown if the KND retaliates or if the cake is destroyed. Probably not destroyed, because in "Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.", {{spoiler|Numbuh Two said that they brought the cake back in one piece... once, but that did not stop Numbuh 74.329 from Pulling Sector V out of the Cake stealing mission and giving the case to Sector W.}}
** The seventh one ("Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.") {{spoiler|is almost taken by Sector V, but the DCFDTL gets away. Unfortunately, it is stolen by another operative, who put up a scavenger hunt to see who gets the cake. Numbuh One wins, but it turns out [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|it is a cupcake]]. It is destroyed when the operative who stole it ate it. It turns out the scavenger hunt was a test for Numbuh One to see if he was ready to join the Galactic KND.}}
* [[Jerkass]]
** Numbuh 86 can be one sometimes (to boys at least), but we can also count her as a [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]].
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* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Jimmy McGarfield in "Operation: S.N.O.W.I.N.G.".
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]: "Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G."
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Nigel finding out {{spoiler|his father, uncle and grandfather are Numbuh Zero, Father, and Grandfather respectively}} in the movie. Nice hat trick.
** Added bonus reveal from the CN comic book: {{spoiler|The Toilenator is Wally's uncle.}} The story was written by Mr. Warburton, it must be canon.
* [[Made of Diamond]]: Grandfather. They {{spoiler|crash a moonbase on him and he dusts it off like it was nothing!}}
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** All of Sector V:
*** Numbuh One is Nigel Uno -- "uno" is Spanish for "one", since he is the leader.
*** Numbuh Two is Hoagie P. Gilligan, Jr. -- appropriately enough, a twofer reference: Bob Denver's character ''Gilligan'' was second-in-command of the S.S. Minnow on ''[[
*** Numbuh Three is Kuki Sanban -- "sanban" is Japanese for "number three", and "Kuki" is a reference to Numbuh Three being a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
*** Numbuh Four is Wallabee Beetles -- there were four members of [[The Beatles]], even though Numbuh Four is Australian (as implied by his accent and the name Wallabee [wallaby]), not from Liverpool; plus, the number four is considered bad luck in Chinese culture (similar to the number 13 in Western culture), and Numbuh Four has the worst luck of all the Sector V operatives.
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* [[Naked People Are Funny]]
* [[Naughty Is Good]]: The perfectly well-behaved Delightful Children from Down the Lane are villains; the heroes are rebellious, mischievous, and disobedient but fight for the rights of kids everywhere.
* [[Negated Moment of Awesome]]: The Cyclocannon. Right after Sector V finishes morphing their bikes and counting down from five, Tommy shows up and [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|does what he does best]], crashing right through it with his bike and destroying it.
* [[Never Bareheaded]]: One of the Delighful Children never takes off his football helmet.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]
** One by both Gilligan brothers. Early on, Tommy sticks one of Father's boogers in the decommisioning machine to count him as a member of the KND and turn his transforming ray on him. [[Chekhov's Gun|Later,]] during a tag game to decide who will take 362's place, {{spoiler|Numbuh Two is rushing to find somebody to tag in the last few seconds, and he tags the first person he finds on the other side of the door he opens. [[Oh Crap|Tag,]] [[Big Bad|Father,]] [[Oh Crap|you're it]]!}}
** The end of "No P in the Ool", where Numbuh One tries to hijack Mr. Fink and Mr. Fib's chair machine, only to accidently acticate the drill on it, which subsequently drains the pool, meaning neither side wins.
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* [[Oddly Visible Eyebrows]]
* [[Official Couple]]: {{spoiler|3×4, 2×5 (maybe), and Nigel×Lizzie temporarily}}.
* [[One
* [[Operation Blank|Operation: B.L.A.N.K.]]: Complete with [[Fun With Acronyms|acronyms.]] Below is an example.
** "Bland Lame Acronyms Now Kool"
* [[Our Werebeasts Are Different]]: Our Werepoodles Eat Homework.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Count Spankulot is a vampire who spanks "naughty" children and can turn others into "spank-happy" vampires [[Power Limiter|by spanking them gloveless.]]
* [[Paper
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: Numbuhs One and Five. Justified in that the former is Sector V's head and the latter is his second-in-command/right-hand woman. To a lesser extent, the members of Sector V who aren't romantically interlinked to each other.
* [[Portal Pool]]: To the [[Mirror Universe]].
* [[Power Limiter]]: Count Spankulot can turn others into "spank-happy vampires" by spanking them gloveless.
* [[Power
* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: Wally's response to his crush on Kuki:
{{quote| "She. Just. Owes. Me. A. Quarter."}}
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* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: {{spoiler|Leaky Leona, who turns out to have been using the Fountain of Youth to maintain her 10-year-old form for the past 300 years.}}
* [[Rebus Bubble]]: '''2 + 2 = Pizza'''
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Two groups.
** Numbahs One and Five.
** Numbahs Four and Two.
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* [[Shout Out]]: Loads and loads of these.
** Character-specific:
*** The antagonists, The Delightful Children from Down the Lane, seem to be based on the antagonists in co-creator Mo Willem's 1996 ''[[Ka Blam! (Animation)|Ka Blam]]'', sketch, ''The Off-Beats'', known as "The Populars".
*** Father appears to be based off of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.
*** Numbuh 86 is possibly a [[Shout Out]] to [[From Russia With Love (Film)|Rosa Klebb]], another [[Hot Blooded|hot-tempered]], [[Evil Redhead|red-headed]], [[Does Not Like Men|boy-hating]] operative with a grating accent and a grudge against [[James Bond|a British agent]].
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* [[Third Person Person]]: Numbuh Five says she makes referring to herself in the third person cool!
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: Numbuh 13 is very unlucky, so unlucky that he's spent his entire career being foisted from one team to another because misfortune always befalls his new comrades.
* [[This Cannot Be!]]: "But that's [[Buffy
* [[This Is a Drill]]: The ending of "No P in the Ool".
* [[Time Passes Montage]]
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'''Numbuh Four:''' What? What’d they do that was so bad?!?<br />
'''Numbuh One:''' [[Noodle Incident|They made me bald.]] }}
* [[What Do You Mean
** One episode features a hardware-store owner who wants to eliminate two aviators who bought their plane parts from him. Why? Because they kept ''smudging his counter with chili''. [[Disproportionate Retribution]] much?
** This show as a whole is built on this, to an ''[[Animal Farm (Literature)|Animal Farm]]''-esque degree. Anything that is kid-oriented is ''good''! [[Paranoia Fuel|Anything that is adult-oriented or that adults make kids do for their own good is ''vile and evil''!]] Which makes the existance of [[Rule
** This kids = good/adults = bad thing is taken to such a degree that in "Operation: P.O.O.L." it is made to be a bad thing that the adults were doing the things kids do (playing games, getting allowances, etc.) while kids do the things adults do (go to work, taking care of the adults) on a relatively daily basis. How funny that the actions are only awful when they're not being done by their accepted respective age groups.
** It's normally only shown to be bad when the supervillains take it to extremes; the KND are normally shown having really good relationships with their own parents, even when 86's father is {{spoiler|Mr. Boss}}, and they even state in some episodes that they only fight evil adults. The supervillains' plots are normally something most normal adults in the series would likely have a problem with if they knew (in some cases, this is shown actively).
** And at the end of "Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.", it's revealed that {{spoiler|adulthood is literally a disease. One that's spreading unchecked across the universe}}.
* [[Well
* [[We Will Have Euthanasia in The Future]]: A G-rated version: All KND Operatives have to be decommissioned at the age of 13, and their memories of being in the KND will erased. There are teenage operative double agents though, and evil teenagers who escaped decommissioning.
* [[Whole Episode Flashback]]: "Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S."
* [[Whole
* [[
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: The Delightful Children accidentally start a TV-Y7 version of this trope by trying to kiss up to teenagers. They're forced to ask the Kids Next Door to [[Save the Villain|help them stop the party]] before Father finds out; the KND are honor-bound to agree.
* [[X
* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save The World]]: Not in that particular order.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://knd.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The KND Code Module.]
* [[The Worf Effect]]
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* [[You Know What You Did]]: "Operation: D.O.G.F.I.G.H.T."
* [[You Meddling Kids]]: "Operation: C.A.M.P."; a angry camp counselor yells at a skunk, the one later used in the [[Tomato Surprise]], after the KND freed a bunch of [[Brainwashed]] campers.
* [[You Monster!]]: Numbuh 86 to Father, in "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E.", after the destruction of the KND ice cream storage.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]
** Or rather a [[Zombie Apocalypse|Senior Citizombie Apocalypse]] in [[The Movie]].
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