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Codename: Kids Next Door: Young Espionage, Teenage Double Agents and Adult Tyranny
What if a kids' cartoon could teach us profound life lessons and still keep us laughing years later? Join JetBlackXtreme (aka Numbah 42) and co-hosts Kokugatsu (Numbah 69), Talos, Gundam (Numbah Z), and Professor Tuck (Numbah 007) as we celebrate the rich legacy of "Codename: Kids Next Door." We break down the show's complex narrative, from kids creating adults to the epic battles and the formation of iconic families. Talos emphasizes its timeless re-watch value, while J.B. highlights how the series was ahead of its time, especially in championing girl power.
We share our favorite moments and characters, from the ingenious 2x4 technology to unforgettable villains like Father, Grandfather, and the Delightful Children. Co-host Mira Jane sparks a lively discussion, reminiscing about childhood creativity and the imaginative gadgets we all tried to recreate. Kokugatsu and Agent Z engage in a playful debate over their monikers, adding a dash of humor to their admiration for the show’s evolution and its anime influences, including surprising twists like Numbah Five's sister and Nigel Uno's father's deeper involvement.
Tune in to hear us dissect iconic episodes, character dynamics, and the emotional impact of sibling relationships. We reflect on the series’ unforgettable villains and the eerie yet charming Rainbow Monkeys. Whether it's comparing the humor and storylines to other classic shows, discussing the timeless nature of the Delightful Children, or pondering the deeper themes of family and growing up, this episode is an enthusiastic tribute to the storytelling and character development that make "Codename: Kids Next Door" a perpetual favorite.
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what's good nerds? It's jet black extreme, aka number 42, and this is the zone podcast reviewing code name kiss. Next door joining me is kokugasu, aka number 69. We got talos, gundam, we got playboy and we have professor tuck, internationally known as number 007. Without further ado, kids next door. What can I say?
Speaker 1:This is a goaded cartoon. I don't care what anybody said. This cartoon is so goaded because at first you're thinking like, okay, a whole bunch of one-shot adventures where kids are trying to thwart adult tyranny and whatnot. You're thinking like, okay, it's kind of a fun. Excuse me, I have a hole in my throat, excuse me. You're thinking like it's going to be like this little fun cartoon where kids are going up against adults and whatnot. It's not going to really lead anywhere, right, no, continuity kicked in in the later seasons and, holy shit, it was like I honestly should have um thought of this when I was watching adventure times. Where isn't it funny how it's like some of these shows. You're thinking like, okay, um, some one-shot adventures like um, not really gonna have much of a plot, right, no, no, no, the plot's coming. And when it comes, oh, it changes everything, especially with the whole backstory about what went down.
Speaker 1:You know like, okay, check this out. So apparently it's more like the checking before the egg type situation, going on to where in the before, four times kids would just walk around and play and shit. And they were like, you know what we're bored, we need some new source of entertainment. Let's create adults. So they created adults for their amusement on, pick on and all that. And then one day, um, there's one adult, mr Wiggles Stein, who I am convinced is the ancestor of number one, his family, father and grandfather, and pretty much he just had fed up with the kids. So he administered the first ever spanking and they were like, uh, uh, we didn't like that shit. All you adults need to get the fuck out of here. And then the adults were like, nah, we gonna let these kids tell us what to do. No, fuck all that. So war happened and next thing, you know, the kids got a blast off into the moon.
Speaker 4:But they realized, oh, man, life's just not the same without adults.
Speaker 1:And adults were saying the same thing, like you know what, life's just not the same about those kids. So they were like, all right, let's get together and make this peace treaty, like, okay, we'll have this thing called families where we'll coexist with each other, you know. And then keep in mind this happened seven times, like there was. When you get to number zero, you find out that number zero, nigel's dad, number one's dad, was the pretty much the leader of the seventh age of kids next door. So this is way back and uh, oh shit, like it gets wild, like especially with uh, oh shit, like it gets wild, especially with teenagers turning out that, oh, they're secret operatives where they never really got decommissioned but they're still working with the kids and whatnot, and a whole bunch of other shit. God damn, you know what. Let me just open this up to the panel, starting with Talos. How are you feeling about Kids Next Door? Up to the panel, starting with Talos.
Speaker 2:How you feeling about Kids Next Door. First off, let me politely say to you, jb, let me politely say to you this, wholeheartedly Quit giving out our code names, quit giving out our operative names. I understand the foolish one, the foolish one up here. He's internationally known oh, hold up man and internationally known For nothing.
Speaker 3:We, we've all of me.
Speaker 2:We, we've all of me. But since we are all giving out these Our names here, our operative names, I might as well do it just nicely. I Am known as Agent Z of names. I might as well do it just nicely, I am known as Agent Z.
Speaker 1:He's not a number.
Speaker 5:He wasn't a number.
Speaker 2:Neither, though. The thing is, I was named for the lost sector.
Speaker 5:I'll fuck with that.
Speaker 2:So don't worry about it. Now, as far as it goes, review wise right. This is what I mean when I say this is a goat. This is one of the goats Because you won't get tired of this and it has rewatchability.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:This is what I mean. When folks be like, hey, nah, this is the goat, is it rewatchable, are you serious? No, no, no. I mean when folks be like, hey, nah, this is the goat, is it rewatchable, are you serious? No, no, no, no, are you going to get tired of it after a moment? Nah, you're not going to get tired of this. You're relatively like yeah, yeah, this withstands that test.
Speaker 1:This withstands the test of time you know what Talos I'm glad you said that, because this remind me of that one like I think it was like a two-part special to where essentially um number four was pretty much leading this uprise of the girls, you know, uh, girls trying to make everything girly and shit. And you notice how, like I feel like, um, the creator of this show kind of knew the direction that television Is going to go to where, okay, now it's going to be more about girl power and the future is female. And hey, man, I'm not trying to antagonize All that, but I'm just saying these cartoonists, they be on to something. Nah, I'll be like I'll be on your ass like Y'all be knowing something in the business, like y'all be Knowing something like way ahead, like On some Simpson type shit. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, like Cold dang kids next door definitely, um, withstand the test of time when you can go back Into the show and Rewatch the show and be like, oh, you know what, I did not Think of that when I was a kid. Like, okay, okay, uh, oh, you know what. I did not think of that when I was a kid. Like, ok, ok, you know what, let's go with Playboy. How are you feeling about Kids Next Door?
Speaker 6:Man, it's honestly, if I had to be honest with you, it's one of my favorite shows that ever came out on Cartoon Network. It had a big influence on, like my childhood in general because, like everybody you know, like as a kid you always pick characters and you'd go out and role play and all that stuff and so obviously we'd pick a number or operator and try to play out those characters and just act like we're on missions and stuff like that, even down to like wanting tree houses and stuff like that. Yeah, I used to like literally envy the kids in this. So it's just because they lived in like this big ass tree house and just did anything they wanted. They said they parents. But it's like now I can, just if I, if I wanted to, I ain't got to go to my room, I could just go to this big ass tree house. It's like a kid mansion, bro.
Speaker 1:That shit was like bro, listen, we had, we had a review on ed and netty recently and I keep thinking, you know what, imagine if the ed boys and the rest of the coldest that was in this universe, where you know they already building on out of like scraps and you know like, just slide to the kids next door and, um, get your hands on that two by four technology you know, yeah, that's the crazy part like they've made it, so they were so innovative, but like that was just the beauty of it, like it made.
Speaker 6:And I want to say, when you think of like real life kid geniuses and how they just make things out of like, you know what I'm saying, yeah, it's very possible that we could have real kids in this store. We could get a clubhouse. I mean we got some kids out here.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't put it past them.
Speaker 6:Especially nowadays. Man Technology is like you can do anything bro.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, let's go with T, with tuck. How you feeling about kids next door man? Internationally known oh good, lord, internationally known professor tuck, how you feeling about kids next door?
Speaker 5:listen, I want you to hear me very clearly when I tell you this. It's so many movie references Don't make no sense. I rewatched it again, like two years ago, bro, two years ago, and it still holds up. I'm talking about it's just that last episode, though I ain't gonna lie to you, that one shot of Father.
Speaker 3:Boy yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, oh. Remember when they had that, uh, I want to say they had like this clip show with uh, fuck, it was like some sort of reimagination, but with number four he was fighting the delightful children and it was like that drag mall z inspired type shit. You're gonna see that bunch in like cartoons, shows and whatnot, but still, though, it's like all the different references and all that shit.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I feel that yeah, I think it's one of the best cartoons that Cartoon Network ever produced. Like it ain't because of like nostalgia or nothing like that, but it's just because like the jokes, the writing, the visuals, and yeah, I know y'all already said it, but damn, 2x4 technology yeah oh and joining us now is Mira Jane.
Speaker 1:How you doing, how you doing.
Speaker 4:What's up, what's up, what's up, what up dog Mira Jane how you feeling about Kids Next Door.
Speaker 4:Hands down one of the greatest cartoons ever. Hands down? Ain't no argument. You can't argue with Kids Next Door. You can ever hands down, ain't no argument. You can't argue with kids next door. You can't argue. You can argue. Now we know I'm not gonna argue with you today. I'm just saying you're good, it's not what I'm doing today. It's not what I came here for. We came to talk about how great. Let's just talk about how cold naked kids next door had me outside trying to recreate 2x4 technology.
Speaker 1:We were out there like mini MacGyvers.
Speaker 5:I couldn't build nothing either. I felt like I was Hank Hill. I was Hank Hill for like two minutes. I was like no, I'm Bobby.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know, I get close with the 3D printing. I get kind of close.
Speaker 5:You know that episode where Hank told Bobby to go outside and then he gave up? Yeah, that was me, bro. I'm going back in the house to play the game, wow.
Speaker 4:Can't even use a power drill. How dare you?
Speaker 5:You know I can make some stuff, though you know what I mean, I feel that Alright, koku Gatsu.
Speaker 1:Last but not least, how you feeling about Kids Next Door man.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna be honest, I ain't got too much more To say than what has Already been said here, other than the fact how awesome the show is. First off, mirror Jane, welcome back. I have not spoken to you In quite some time. It is so awesome To have you back in things. So Definitely glad to have you Back again. Have you back in things so definitely glad to have you back again. Um, definitely going with uh top. Sorry not not saying it, agent z over here, okay, interesting, uh, definitely, you know number 69, one of the things I love most about internationally known.
Speaker 5:Number 69 internationally known. You got to say my name right.
Speaker 2:Internationally known, you gotta say my name right internationally known, you are not 69.
Speaker 5:I am 69, you're 007 no, I'm telling you number 69 internationally known.
Speaker 2:You gotta say my name let's say it like it is. I purposely didn't just say you at all. You're internationally known, I know you skipped over me.
Speaker 5:You looked at my name. I know you looked at it, coming back to where I am at.
Speaker 3:Thank, you so much. I know you skipped over me. You looked at my name. I know you looked at it Coming back to where I am at. Thank you so much. But first off, I'm with Mary Jane to the fact that I did try to recreate technology. Being MacGyver was kind of a big thing for me. I actually love breaking stuff down and trying to rebuild them back up again. I cannot tell you how many toys to recreate stuff and this was before Codename Kids story even came out. My first introduction I think I've mentioned this in a previous podcast for this show was when the first episode came out. Adult Swim was also when I watched it. That episode came out when it premiered was also the same premiere for Adult Swim on Cartoon Network as well too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember that day.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So literally right after that episode aired, adult Swim came on and I thought, oh, this is a continuation for the show, and then got surprised with Robot Chicken. So that was the whole thing in itself thinking itself but aside.
Speaker 1:But aside from that is like you said, we had like, uh, they did kidnap door and teen times was popping off at the same.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, um, one of the things I like about kidnap store is also the fact that, um, aside from the references yes, we have the dragon ball z references people at that point was like, oh, you'd like, even if it was like, oh, I don't watch anime or nothing like that, but you watch cartoons. If you watch knd, you saw the episode when number four went into like super saiyan in order to fight the frieza hydra of the delightful children from down the lane. At that point you couldn't say you didn't watch dragon ball z anymore. You knew of it up that at that point as well, too, so famous that it had to be there. And that's not the only anime references, there's multiple. We have Inuyasha references, that's in the show. We have Astro Boy references. There's so many anime references. So funny thing is that when the creators came out for K&D on the first season, you'll notice that there's not so much in continuity. That actually starts with season two. The reason being is that they weren't sure if the series was going to be popular or not.
Speaker 3:Um, during that time cartoon network had some running issues on stuff. We had shows like um, class of 3000. You know that came out a little bit later on. That wound up never getting a second season because of some issues. Um, and there's a bunch of different shows. We had chowder. We had my gym partner is a monkey around the same time as well too. Um, foster zone for imaginary friends was like super big and that was like the biggest thing people really wanted to watch. Um, so I wasn't sure if they were going to be this was going to be popular or not. So when knd, the first season, popped out it didn't pop out until right before Adult Swim. It was pretty much like, if you watched it, it was the last show before. Like, for most kids were able to watch before their parents cut off the TV because adult shows were about to come on at that point. So it was purposely put at the very end because they weren't sure if it was going to be popular or not, because they weren't sure how it was going to work with things.
Speaker 3:These are kids who are doing stuff and talking back to adults. That's literally the main premise, as we already discussed with the storyline. That's the main premise of the show is kids talking back to adults, having their own stand on things and still trying to do stuff. These kids battle adults. They're fighting against doing their homework, they're fighting against brushing their teeth. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this, and they weren't sure if it was going to cause too much of an uproar. Funnily enough, it didn't. It was one of the shows that, as much as it was so exaggerated and kept pushing that, seeming to push that so much, kids actually did not battle their parents because of KND. So they weren't sure if that was going to be the case and that was why they were nervous about putting this show out. But it became popular and then we started getting during, like middle day, right after school day, on run times where kids will actually be able to see it a little bit more.
Speaker 3:Um, and the last thing, right before we truly dive into it is, yes, the storyline for this wound up becoming so popular and blowing up that they had no idea. Um, so a lot of the other number characters, a lot of these extra storylines is hilarious to know that they came off with this shit off the top of their head. Number five sister her storyline was not supposed to be that whole. Oh, she's um, actually a secret operative this whole time. That was not supposed to be the case. She was a villain the entire time. Um, that was actually what was supposed to happen until towards the end, when they're like, hold on, we need to make a big switch because they finally started coming together, being like, no, we need to actually have a big bad guy, the bbg being the actual adults themselves.
Speaker 3:Um, nigel uno's dad. One of the things about it is that it starts about season four. Yeah, I think it's like three or four, I think it's more. Four is when you start seeing hints of nigel's dad, of number one's dad, possibly knowing a little bit more than expected like he seems like you know, he always comes off, this super goofball. But then it's like, okay, now we're starting to get hints of some little things that's in there. That's when they really started coming together with the idea of oh, he's related to father. Oh, grandfather is trying to make a comeback. This dude has been gone. We don't even know who he is. You start hearing secrets of him hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1:can I just pause and say it just like I said in the beginning to where I was like so, nigel, it uncle is father. That means delightful children, assuming that father adopted, such as he after brainwashing them, are his cousins. Grandfather is his grandfather and his mother is number 999. You're crazy.
Speaker 3:Yep, it's a lot, bro, it's a lot. But yeah, a lot of these storylines did not start coming in until a little bit later. They weren't even sure. So most of the episodes from season one to season two was just random. As random as those episodes were, they were literally fucking random. They had no idea. It was just kind of putting shit together and stuff and then they finally was like hey, let's actually kind of build these characters and stuff. This series keeps getting renewed for another season. We got to come up with something. So they came up with an actual storyline also that world build.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying right, and also one of the funniest things about it too, is that the very ending still has controversy, and the reason being is because they did not know how to end the series. They wanted to end it with beating grandfather, but they could not continue the show anymore because I think the writers had other stuff that they were going to do. So they were trying to retire the series, so they weren't sure exactly how to end it. So there's still some controversy with the whole nigel becoming a moon operative and a space operative and stuff, and then everyone else kind of just staying there and retiring out, type of thing. It still became a little speculation onto that not speculation, um, a little like discord onto that, because some people was like, oh, I didn't really like it that much. They really had no idea how they were going to end the series. So it kind of was just like a hey, we just kind of trying to end it out right now.
Speaker 1:This is kind of what we got oh, okay, I remember how essentially uh number one got selected to go into the galactic pigs next door and yes, they had the whole interview thing with number five, number four, number two was there and pretty much talked about recapping the final events and whatnot. But the funny thing is, like, at the very end, number five and apparently you know, know, like they didn't, they didn't lose their memories upon uh, you know, getting older. So they still have their memories of being a knd operative and they hear that uh number one's coming back from the moon base. And the thing is I heard that to this day, cartoon network is teasing some sort of return to kids next door by talking about galactic kids next door. You can check it out on twitter, if you will check in to see if they're still talking about it. But they were going on about it for a while saying that, oh well, we are kind of interested in galactic kids next door, you know, just gotta have the pieces in place, I guess it gotta be so dope.
Speaker 5:I'm trying to tell you, I'm trying to be internationally known kids next door.
Speaker 1:I feel that, okay, I got a question for y'all. Favorite villain Go.
Speaker 3:Toilinator.
Speaker 6:No, for real though.
Speaker 3:For real, though, dude is highly slept on. Keep in mind, he's the person that all the time, everyone rats on him. He's nothing and stuff like that. He's just like Ed from Edd n Eddy Get him angry, let him actually get angry. No, 2x4 technology works Against him whatsoever. He doesn't have the plot armor of Jo whatsoever. He has the plot. He doesn't have the plot armor of jojo, he has the fucking plot.
Speaker 3:Armor of boba bo for fucking bobo, like bobo bobo bobo for y'all who don't know if y'all ain't seen that it's a goofy off the wall fucking series, but for real, he has the plot. Armor of bobo. He's literally. If he just gets angry and decides, fuck this shit, it's not gonna work on me, it don't work. You could throw whatever you want at him and his toilet paper and erases everything, it's gone. He will. He's snatched up. He's defeated multiple knd operatives, not just our first, not just our main five. He's defeated multiple knd operatives just because he got angry. When he's not angry, he's goofy. Yes, he's easily defeated, but you get him angry. Nobody stands a chance against this guy for some weird reason. And then the last thing onto this how is it that this dude can teleport wherever he wants to go from a damn toilet. And, matter of fact, even more so, even more so into this.
Speaker 3:There's an anime right now that's on amazon prime. I haven't seen it yet. I think it's like k koi, something like that, and the story of that premise is literally the main character gets flushed down the toilet and sent to another world. I shit you not. That is literally the fucking story of this anime. But it's also the thing of like this dude can teleport wherever he fucking wants in the toilet, and then on top of that he has a fucking throne. He's the goofiest one, but he's the only villain that has an actual lair, that has a fucking gold toilet and gold and jewels. Every this nigga is rich out of wazoo for no fucking reason and yet he gets no respect for no on road gallery.
Speaker 5:That's what I'm saying he must be flushing some crazy stuff. Man, he is rich.
Speaker 3:He literally is bro.
Speaker 5:My favorite villain gotta be Professor Triple Extra Large bro Alright explain that one. My boy is funny, bro. He's so cool, he's fascinating, and he had a little short with Kenny and Chimpy. That in and of itself should have been turned into his own show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was kind of like extra with shit too. Playboy favorite villain.
Speaker 6:Mine would be Count Spankula, the vampire who went around breaking them folks houses and spanking.
Speaker 1:I mean, I kind of get that one because, like bro, he was like busting into places, spanking kids turning them into playboy. Playboy, you fine with somebody just walking around spanking people for no random reason bro hey, man, to be fair, there'll be a lot of dudes running around spanking girls asses out of nowhere though he needs to be under the jail.
Speaker 6:He was. I'm not denying none of that, I'm just saying villain wise, he was about what he was about. You know what I'm saying? That was just some weird creep shit, but it's the fact that he just did it so like, effortlessly, like. I don't know the, I don't know who thought of that shit.
Speaker 3:Bring me that ass right now. Spike that shit.
Speaker 6:It's like being a PG booty warrior, oh my gosh. But no, it's like what happens if you've been bad for Christmas. Instead of getting presents, countanker, look, come and put hands on your ass not gonna lie.
Speaker 3:that would terrify me like a motherfucker to understand that if I didn't do the shit that I was supposed to do, it was just gonna be some random motherfucker that pops up in the middle of the night and while I'm supposed to be sleeping it says, hey, your ass is mine, and just starts spanking my ass. I don't know, bro, that would scare me half to death. But then I also have to have, like you know, start calling the police on this nigga too. Like I cannot.
Speaker 6:In the middle of the night, like why are you sleeping? Like, oh my God.
Speaker 1:You're creeping around trying to spank me.
Speaker 6:You don't even know this man. What did I do to you?
Speaker 1:Oh, that one episode where Set to Be set Count Spankula up on the first place to be spanking kids. And I'm like bro, the fact that you put Set to Be put hit out on kids for Spankula. Bro, you know what Mirror Jane favorite villain.
Speaker 3:I think she got scared with the count's comment. What you doing, man?
Speaker 1:yeah, I did okay. Uh, how about then Talos, your favorite?
Speaker 2:All right, well, father.
Speaker 1:Well, of course, fair enough, Father.
Speaker 2:That man put them on their ass, that man put them on their ass. We're going to say it like this that man put them on their ass so much it made no sense. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, father's it. I mean, if we got to include everybody, if we include everybody, including movie-wise grandfather's it yeah.
Speaker 3:I definitely decide with grandfather on that. One bro Like grandfather was about that business. I understand on that one bro like grandfather without that business.
Speaker 2:I understand on that one grandfather still on business. What do I know if I'm supposed to grandfather still on business?
Speaker 1:yeah, I was you know, I wouldn't say he's my favorite. Uh, hold on Playboy. Was it you that had something?
Speaker 6:No, I was trying to mute myself. I accidentally did that.
Speaker 1:Okay, my bad, I don't know if I would say I have a favorite, but you know who kind of stuck out for me? Dad, who was formerly known as number 274. Okay, he was cool and shit up until he was about to turn 13 years old and he was pretty much trying to brainwash his fellow operatives to make him forget that, uh, oh, uh, he's not turning 13 this year, but, um, his parents sent out, uh, invitations for birthday parties. Like fuck, they fucked up my plans. So essentially, this dude was ready to send a whole moon base into the sun just to avoid getting decommissioned. Pretty much. Well, I'm going to say he got decommissioned, but because with number 86, and we're going to talk about this bitch too, by the way Essentially he was able to keep his memories, but he's pretty much kicked out.
Speaker 1:The kids next door and the next, you know, cree uh invites him in to become one of the teenagers and he was pretty much um being a very convincing villain. Uh, right from jump, like keep in mind that the whole episode with him um being quote-unquote decommissioned, uh, right after that it was like a new season, I think it was like season three, maybe season four. And then, here it comes chad, as a teenager, um, joined the football team and whatnot, and he was pretty much a fairly good antagonist, up until you realize that the whole time chad was working with Number Infinity at the Galactic Kids next door and he was undercover the whole time and I was like, oh, that double agent, shit. Okay, it's kind of like Maurice, that one episode with Maurice and Ancri where he was number 13. Well, no, not number 13. Number something, number 9. That's what it was. He was number 9. Oh yeah, number thirteen was that Unlucky kid, but anyway, number nine. Uh, he Never got decommissioned but, uh, he was a Teenager and essentially Kree thought, oh well, you know, let's just uh, recruit him into the cause, because remember, uh, kree was number 14 or something, um, somewhere in the teens, and so of course you wouldn't know maurice, but you know, trying to recruit maurice, but turns out he was double agent the whole time.
Speaker 1:But I don't know, I just kind of like the whole double agent um angle they had going on for like a, for like a minute. You know, storyline wise, I just kind of liked it like that. But of course I would say, father, grandfather, the delightful children. I kind of liked the root beer guy, he was funny. That one nurse that gave the kids pink eye, I forgot her name. But like now you bringing back some nasty shit, don't do that. That one nurse that gave the kids pink eye, I've got a name.
Speaker 3:But like man, now you bringing back some nasty shit. Don't do that, bro. That shit made my stomach turn. When I watched the episode I was like, oh, fuck, no. And then number two went back to eating the same shit pies too and like nigga, that's fungus, that's fungus from a nigga's, from people's eyes. Like that's fucking disgusting it was.
Speaker 1:It was their apple crumble, uh recipe. It was like I crush it. And then she had like this new recipe too, and um, hoagie, that you know, that's his real name. Well, he was like eating on the new shit and it was like what's this made from? And then, um, I think it was like number 86, like sneeze, and that was like some sort of indication, like yeah, like just imagine it's not being in that. So I'm like you're a nurse that's one step from cannibalism, bro.
Speaker 3:Look, I can't even say too much on that because that the worst part about it is it's like that's a really great thing to bring up, especially after shit from nowadays man. It's the fact that like that was a whole big thing because it was so many nurses who swear that COVID was fake, even though they were there at the hospital and they would tell you stories about how people have died and said their immune system was just uncompromised, it wasn't working, and it's like they just weren't getting better from these colds. It just seems so bad and it's like the doctors keep saying it's covid, but it was. Like they swear up and down no, I wasn't covid. No, covid ain't real. No, covid ain't shit. And I'm like bruh, y'all are nurses, y'all here supposed to be saving my life. If you don't believe that the illness is real, you're not gonna take the proper steps to save my life. I don't. I don't feel comfortable. That nurse is the same thing and the worst part about it, she's a school nurse, so that's even worse. That's your first line of defense.
Speaker 1:Hell, no yeah, like what the fuck? Uh, who else? Uh, you know, I'm just kind of naming um villains. I remember uh sticky beard, I remember him, uh, night brace, nightbrace. The Cat Lady, lunch Lady and Mr Boss, mr Wink and Mr Bib. You know what that was funny With Mr Wink and Mr Bib? But I didn't guess. I didn't really click what their name meant At first until I realized, oh, I get it, they're liars, wasn't one of them?
Speaker 3:like a fucking meant at first, until I realized oh, I get it, they're liars. Wasn't one of them like a fucking seal or walrus or some shit?
Speaker 1:Yeah, one was like a walrus and the other one was like some sort of Water buffalo. Yeah, water buffalo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was weird, so mutants Gotcha.
Speaker 3:I mean, would you call a mutant chimera, like real shit? I don't shit, I don't know. Um man, you sitting here listening all villains. But I did want to mention one thing to catch, so going to do the delayed as a cook. I did want to mention one of the things I like about a lot of shows, like this show powerpuff girls did it, dexter's laboratory did it as well.
Speaker 3:That was the name yeah, grandma stuffums and, um, hell, what was it? Even, uh, teen titans did it too. And the fact that, like there's always this big thing about kids being afraid of eating vegetables and shit, and the premise of each of those episodes and how they beat those villains is that the only way to beat them was to eat the vegetables. Like there was just nothing they could do about that except for just eat the fucking vegetables. I found that one so very interesting, especially considering that number two saved everyone from foodstuffs. He was like, oh yeah. He was like, oh, he was starting to finally get full. He couldn't eat no more and then finally was starting to get too much, but he would eat up everything.
Speaker 1:There's so many good things into the show that was like hella memorable yeah, like the whole thing with King Sandy and number three sister turning evil. There was a whole thing with President Jimmy, number five rival rival heinrich. You know the that one. Um, I think it was like swedish kid that was like also into, like really into candy and shit. A whole bunch of shit, like the cheese ninjas and, uh, ice cream men. Fuck like they fought so many different people. I'm like Jesus Christ man. Do you have a favorite episode?
Speaker 6:Favorite episode. You know that's the thing about KND. There's so many episodes, I don't even know if I've seen all of them, but I'm pretty sure I've seen a lot of them. Now the thing is, if I had to pick a favorite episode, oh it's he. You're making it hard enough because I'm thinking of a good bit. But the thing is, when I think of favorite episodes, some of these episodes highlight some of the characters. You know what I'm saying. So I like certain moments. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6:So it's like it's not just the episodes, because kid and snitch story was more than just a cartoon, like y'all can agree that there were messages in some of these episodes, that's, that's what make it hard to pick one favorite episode, but I would say one of the movies was one of my favorites, you know? Or, as a matter of fact, no, no, no, I take that back. The episode where, uh, I don't know, I think it was the movie the episode where his, where uh, nigel's dad had to help them. You know what I'm saying yeah, that's the movie. That was the movie. Okay, yeah, yeah, that was it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I liked that one man, hey man, that was a good movie, though it was.
Speaker 6:That was real heartfelt, that shit blew my mind bro I can't say I can't pick one movie.
Speaker 3:I've been one episode.
Speaker 1:It doesn't have to be one, I'm like.
Speaker 4:I said eight episodes.
Speaker 1:Just throw something at me.
Speaker 3:Shit. The one with number two was supposed to begin babysitting by number five, sister Cree. Oh yeah, man bro, that boy did everything he could. He had the skin rugbed out, had the damn fireplace lit and everything that boy was. He swore he was like. I may be that may be underage, but I'm finna, get me something listen, listen.
Speaker 1:Between kids next door Dexter's lab uh, ed and eddie. What is up with these cartoonists essentially giving up the implication that, oh yeah, smash the babysitter?
Speaker 3:I mean, unfortunately, this shit do be really happening and not not all of them go to jail like they should, but still, uh. But there's one. Look, I'm gonna be honest, as when I was a kid, I obviously there was a girl that was older than me that I had a really big crush on and just like with all these situations it was, it wound up being someone who was kind of close by, like it was a friend of my sister, it was his big sister and shit, and she was I'm beyond. She was fine as hell, bro, like it was. Just it was like shit, I would come over. Like when I come over to this I wouldn't even be playing video games half the time, I'd be like yo where your sister at like I'm not even gonna lie.
Speaker 3:I was, I was that dude, I was that dude. I'm not to lie on today.
Speaker 1:I would give you the serious side. If you asked me that I'm like why are? You asking?
Speaker 3:No question, I was clear. I was not one of those ones I'm just trying to figure out. I was straightforward. I'm like bro, your sister, fine I'm on a mission.
Speaker 3:Your sister fine, I was like number two. Your sister fine, I don't talk to he's like you know she's way older than you. Okay, still won't shoot my shot, oh gosh. Another episode wound up being my favorite was with number three. Crazy enough, I never thought this would be like a favorite episode for mine, but one with the rainbow monkeys. There's so many episodes of rainbow monkeys. When they found out the rainbow monkeys was real, oh yeah, it was like being swayed and oh, number three showed the fact that she was ballistic.
Speaker 3:Um, like that was pretty much. My favorite part of the episode was just like number three says that she can get that. Um, another one, also with number three, for me is going to be with the giant rabbit. When they was like getting their ass tore up by the giant cat lady and number three popped up with that fucking giant bunny rabbit on mech, I was like oh shit, wait. I said we got real mechs on this can I pause and say that?
Speaker 1:um one, like when I was getting ready for the review, one person on YouTube was saying like oh, number three is supposed to be the medic. I'm like, since when did she did medic work? Like hold on, hold on, like I don't know.
Speaker 3:So that actually is true. Every sector is supposed to have a team leader, a backup leader, a main mechanic, and you're supposed to have like a medic and then like number four in this case would be like uh, the main expert yeah, the combat expert.
Speaker 3:So that was supposed, like everyone was built a very specific way, like it was on purpose to make sure that everyone had all of that. But, um, yeah, so number three was the medic. Number three was so goofy, but there are episodes that do have her to, where she shows up with the first aid kit and she's able to bandage up people. Sometimes she does it correctly. Most of the time she doesn't. Ah, granted, yeah, now, granted, they're kids, they're not supposed to be perfect at that shit, like type of thing like this.
Speaker 1:This is what it is, but it's um, yeah I can kind of picture it being a bubbly nurse too when you think about it. But definitely not like the one nurse with the apple crumple.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean not that shit, no, and I think, um, so I would say probably my last favorite episode, that my last like favorite moment that I would highlight is the one where we get um number five and her sister finally like innocence makeup per se, like because, like throughout the whole series, it's just straight up like number five, just like why do you hate me so much? Like what did I do? Why do you hate me? And then like she's like no, I don't hate you, like I do actually love you. But that's like it's just how things are, like I'm a teenager, you're a kid, we just don't mesh well together. You just do shit that just aggravates me to no end and I just get angry and just like trying to just like come at you and shit. It's just like I don't do it because I don't do it to make you angry, I do it because, like, I just want your attention, like I just I love you.
Speaker 3:And I guess that one kind of stuck to me because in fact I'm a little brother and for me, like for me and my closest um brother, when I'm a close brother me, I'm like my, my older brothers, like we grew up in the household, just single mom. But the thing about it is it's like for me and my other brothers, like it's an eight year difference to me and my eldest brother's 10 year difference that's a whole different fucking generation, bro. Like that's 80s babies to 90s babies, like they're 80s kids I'm a 90s kid. That's a whole, almost damn near different generation and shit. So there would be stuff that I would always feel left out on. I would be like I want your attention, like I just want to like feel like I'm you know your brother, like I feel like I could talk to you, feel like we could do shit together.
Speaker 3:So that episode kind of resonated with me onto that one. So, just like playboy mentioned, there's definitely a like a message in the episode and I like that. There's some moments like that. Um, I think there was a reddit post onto that episode as well, too, that there was some kids, like some people talked about, say, yeah, that episode, let me know to actually talk with my older siblings or talk with my younger siblings and be like you know what. Maybe this is what it is. Is this what's going on? And actually trying to talk versus just like oh my God, you're always aggravating me or oh my God, I'm always aggravating them. Just that moment of no, like for real I love you, like I'm actually. Just. I want your attention, I want to play with you, but it's difficult because our age difference is so different.
Speaker 1:And it's much younger. Could you step down to mine kind of understand. Maybe we can find like a balanced middle or some shit like that. So you know, rainbow, rainbow monkey, you know, as a middle child, I kind of feel that's where, yeah, uh, I'm glad that my relationship with my younger sister and my older siblings are good, but this kind of makes me wonder, like, okay, so it's almost as if they didn't really hate each other. It's more like they just they were just butting heads because the status quo, because, oh, as a teenager I'm supposed to uh, be opposed to you, but you're my family, so I can't, I don't really hate you um, personally, it just on principle, is more'm a kid, you're a teenager, pretty much like what Kookie Getson says, like it's just how things are. So I don't know, yeah, I feel that. I feel that, um, fellas, you got any favorite episodes or moments.
Speaker 2:Um, once again, it's very much hard to be like oh, you know what's your favorite moment, but one that relatively, once again, relatively sticks out to me is when sector z got freaking revealed. Ah, yeah, from the movie. When sector z got revealed, it revealed. It was like wait yo. So this right here is what really made me be like yo. So how deep does this go? Because now you're like yo. This is some K&D lore is really freaking cruel. Look at it.
Speaker 2:Because a lot of stuff, there's a lot of agents that are like oh, these are some legends, but what happened to them? We don't know, we don't know. And then when you go deep, diving into the lore of it and you're like, oh shit, this is what actually happened to them. Yo, that's fucked up.
Speaker 1:Hey yo Real quick into him. Yo, that's fucked up. Hey yo real quick. That's a problem. I mean, it's kind of to a lesser degree, but it for some reason.
Speaker 1:I just keep thinking of this one moment where you remember the whole episode with the following the youth to where Leaky Leona or something like that was trying to guard this following the youth and the delightful children was trying to get to it and whatnot, and long story short, it was like of guarded, following the youth and the delightful children's trying to get to it, whatnot, and uh, long story short, um, it was like this moment to where number five was making such a big deal about, uh, healthy, um, the leaky girl, um, and then number four was like, well, what's the big deal? Why? Why y'all taking this so seriously? It's like because the last time, um, I let a kid down, when you got kidnapped by delightful children, um, it was something I can never on live down and it was like what you do? That was so bad. Now, and then number one was like they made me bald and then, oh, what that shit right there.
Speaker 3:That shit right there fucked me up. That shit right there fucked me up like horrible. I was like wait, nigel had hair, wait, you're permanently bald. Yeah, I agree with you. I was like what the hell?
Speaker 1:No context, context. What happened? What did they do? How did it happen? What the Lord? I'm just saying it's like they just be dropping shit on you To where, just when you think that, oh well, uh, you think, um, it's not gonna really mean much In the long run, but turns out that sometimes things have continuity To where I'm like, hey man, like what the? When you really think about going back into number zero, operation Zero. Your own cousins did that to you, fuck Well, adoptive cousins. I don't really know for sure, I don't know if that's even confirmed.
Speaker 3:It's adoptive cousins.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're basically like adoptive cousins.
Speaker 1:I mean, of course, they refer to father as father. So I was like, because you know they were set their Z, so I'm like, were they adopted by him? Ok, OK, yeah, your own cousin did that to you. I'm like fuck, fuck, fuck, OK, I'm like fuck.
Speaker 3:Fuck.
Speaker 1:Fuck oh.
Speaker 3:Mmm, I promise you, I'm looking it up right now and literally there's nothing else there. The only thing that ends with that is literally just. It happened from Delightful Children from Down Lane, before number one was actually recruited into the KND. It was like right before then that she's been holding that forever.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3:There's nothing else other than that.
Speaker 6:It happened before he got in.
Speaker 1:Hold on, hold on. Well, almost, for some reason it kind of reminds me of Fillmore just a little bit, but not that he was on the wrong path and Ingrid pretty much brought him in. Nothing like that, but it's more like damn. Can you imagine that the incident is what inspired him to not only become a K&D operative but to lead a fucking sector? And I'm like shit, give me a drink.
Speaker 3:Damn Talos you done brought us some real shit, I mean once again, once again.
Speaker 2:I look up theories so I understand like what? Not only that, not only that. As operative Zeke, I'm the storyteller. I tell the story.
Speaker 5:I understand that.
Speaker 2:I write, I write, I write basically what is known and I try to give you the ending. So I'm out here looking, I'm always looking and, as such, like there are a lot of, like I said, there are a lot of theories. There are theories that, hey, one which started off as a quote-unquote little joke of a little nightmare that everybody remembers, of the copypasta, where it said that Nigel basically had cancer.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I heard that one.
Speaker 2:However, there's a theory to that that, as he said, they made him bald. There's a theory that they gave him cancer, but they gave him a cancer in a way that those in K&D figured out a way to stop it, so it wouldn't kill him. The only thing for me on to that is the fact that, like cancer doesn't make you bald, is the chemotherapy that does and that's where they're going with it, and I'm like yo, okay, that would be real, real sickly if that's what they did to this man like.
Speaker 4:I ain't gonna lie to y'all. That just fucked me up welcome to the zone podcast right.
Speaker 3:Matter of fact, I'm gonna go ahead and throw this now, since Taliesin bringing this shit up with the delightful children down lane question is about this is that I had to understand? It made me think about this shit, because I'm looking at the, because, you right, they pulled up creepypasta shit for me when I'm looking this up. And that's even worse. How old are these kids? Like 10? No, but that's the thing. Keep in mind. They're well known for being in sector Z, and then you got a chance to see. There was a brief moment we saw pictures of them and they were the same age when they got reverted back temporarily. So when they got turned to the life of yes, basically, they will never be able to grow up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if you round up looking into it, they're supposed to be the same age as Nigel's dad. He led them.
Speaker 1:When you think about it, the way they look and all that is like they're almost zombified version of themselves. So yeah, I can kind of see it's weird. Oh yeah, they can never age because father's idea is that these are supposed to be the golden example of model children. Everybody be like these delightful children here, but the whole gimmick is they can never age, so they'll forever be that model.
Speaker 3:So why would they need the Fountain of Youth?
Speaker 1:No to destroy it, they want to fuck it up for our other kids.
Speaker 3:Uh, okay, but yeah, it was one of those things I had to look up. I'm like, wait, how old are they? And I'm like, holy shit, they are, they're permanently kids. They're supposed to be Nigel's dad's and father's age. And I'm like, oh shit, that's fucked up. Imagine being forcibly forced to be a kid for the rest of your life, like peter pan wanted to be a kid. But it's right, monster girl from fucking um, invincible, yeah. And it's like, holy shit, you're forced to that shit. And it's like damn, I couldn't imagine. On top of the continual mind control, all of them are forced to have the same fucking eye color, when their eye color is clearly supposed to be different. And then, on top of that, do they all shower together? Because remember, when they got reverted back, that they were like pulled together like a magnetic force, like they were forcibly stuck together.
Speaker 1:It was the one kid with the helmet. It was like he was kind of temporarily split apart from them and he was hanging out with a KND. But he had a change of heart and he's like kind of. So I'm like, um, please tell me, y'all don't bathe together.
Speaker 3:That's a real question, oh God. Well, hold on a second If we can, if we can revert this to something possibly positive. I know, uh, number number 007. Dudes does have to go, but real quick, if I could jump back. Mirajane, we never got a chance to ask you about your favorite villain.
Speaker 1:oh my bad but yeah, go ahead, mirajane, I'm with you who's my favorite villain?
Speaker 4:whoa, mega Mom and Destructo.
Speaker 1:They were the funniest villains to me looking like human Funko Pops yeah that was crazy, especially when they teamed up the funny part was when number three pointed out well, if there's a mom, where's the dad? And I was like oh shit.
Speaker 4:Foreshadowing. No, how about some quality time with the strop, though, dad, that joke had me weak. What I just this episode made me die laughing because they were really trying to be freaking parents. I don't know. Those were kind of my favorite villains because they were like they were really your parents.
Speaker 1:I like the part where on number 274 it's like Mom.
Speaker 4:Dad, dad, you're embarrassing me for my friend right and they thought number one, like the fact that their misconception of number one rather than 274 was like that's the reason, that's why they're there and I'm like you know they're kind of awesome for that, not gonna lie, just to assume that number one's the better spot. That's why they're there and I'm like you know they're kind of awesome for that. I'm not going to lie, just to assume that number one's the better spot. But those are my favorite villains for sure. Honorable mention was that? What episode was that? The rainbow episode with the rainbow monkeys? That pilot?
Speaker 5:That's a fact.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like first of all, favorite episode because kooky number three that's my girl. She go ham, I was ready. I was so ready for that and I love kooky so much. She's just like the epitome of who I was growing up as a kid, because I was definitely absolutely like that, just losing my mind over my stuffed animals. I still have all of my collection, which is a little bit probably TMI, but I still have like a deep collection of stuffed animals hold on hold on what was that I forgot?
Speaker 1:oh, the one episode with Mr Fluffykins and number four fucking destroyed it. And then he had to be the replacement and like, say, the line number four, I love you.
Speaker 4:That was so cool. Oh my God, say it again, I wish I would have had a number four growing up. That stuff bears a lot more fuss, but yeah, those are some of my honorable mentions. That was my favorite, though as number 69.
Speaker 3:Mega mom, destructive dad, will always scare me forever if y'all don't remember that actually that number 69 was in the same sector as uh, as number 274 so ah, shit 69 was frozen in ice but nah, for real though.
Speaker 1:How about um mighty mom and bro, like look, they was fucking terrifying With the fucking freeze power? And that's the funny part too is how A lot of these villains almost Succeed, except with One outlier. There's always an Outlier in these episodes when like ah, damn.
Speaker 3:I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 1:Other than that, they almost Win, they usually almost win, they usually almost win. But okay, let me Hold on. Did I miss anybody?
Speaker 3:Tuck Playboy it's supposed to be Tuck, it's Tuck. Anyway, it's Tuck's turn on Favorite moments.
Speaker 1:Number 007, favorite moment.
Speaker 5:I would probably say, the greatest moment Is when Number T had to quit, when number T had to quit and then he came back as Darkwing Duck.
Speaker 1:The Tommy.
Speaker 3:The Tommy that niggas know.
Speaker 5:Bro, that was a great moment, bro.
Speaker 1:The fact that he went all the way through to become an operative and still had to wind up leaving anyway all that shit the continuity, remember the continuity to where, like, okay, there was this whole thing where Tommy was the only one who loved after this whole takeover and shit and then, but hold on.
Speaker 1:I like the parts where, essentially, the only way to beat father was to make um father into a candy operative, make him into an animal and reverse all the other shit. But at the same time it goes back to where number 362, the um leader of the uh, moon base kids next door, um, the you know, the leader of this galaxy's kiss next door um, essentially she was like you know what, I'm burnt out, I'm done with this job. Y'all have it.
Speaker 1:Tag, you're it I'm like whoa, I don't want to be it. And then next thing, you know, um, somebody fucked up. I think it was either, uh, some, a main character. I forgot who. I think it was either Tommy or someone else. But point being is that Father got tagged and they were like oh well, remember, tommy, put my DNA in the code module, so that technically makes me a kid Next door operator. Oh damn, tommy, I remember that shit.
Speaker 5:Tommy started out as a little jit man, you know what I mean. So he knew he was going to be number two, number T. And then when they called him out, after he went through all the court stuff, they called him out and they said, uh, number T, number.
Speaker 1:T no the continuity.
Speaker 5:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:And then having to leave. I forgot. Y'all reminded me that to become a candy operative you have to stick your fucking finger in your nose and stick a booger in a machine and it registers you, yeah.
Speaker 5:From going to a really plotless to such an intricate plot like this joint was crazy. Everything was a callback to something else. That's why Tommy was golden man Low-key. If he wouldn't have quit he had been one of the greatest. That's what I'm trying to tell you. His technology stuff was a bit ahead of his time, thanks to his brother. So anything, anything with um, with uh, number t and anything with number five, number five was ahead of her time oh, y'all remember the ice cream episode.
Speaker 1:You know the fourth flavor. I like that episode. I kind of want to know what that fourth flavor was, because I swear if it was lemon I'd be pissed, because I'm like bro, I know lemon's good, but I wouldn't say so good that it was like elusive.
Speaker 5:But yeah, number five cool like the other side of a pillow bro in case most people don't remember, number 5 was actually.
Speaker 3:She stepped down. She was actually supposed to be a leader of sector V, but she stepped down and gave it to number 1. But she is also the oldest member inside of sector V I forgot that she's actually 12 and so literally by the end of the series she's actually supposed to have been getting ready to be decommissioned and she was one of the few people that was willing to accept that, because most knd operatives are usually against it or scared, sometimes afraid, and want to run away. She actually did not. She was willing to accept being decommissioned, which is a fun, which also is the reason why she was actually going to be selected to follow in with her sister's footsteps and be one of the ones who go through a fake decommission in order to infiltrate with the teenagers. That was just a fun fact into number five. I loved her, I love, I dove so much into her story.
Speaker 5:The interactions with number five and her sister was so dope bro.
Speaker 1:Can I just mention how I'm, you know, once again prepared for the podcast. It just clicked to me how Abigail's name, abigail Lincoln, kind of reminds me of Abraham Lincoln. I'm like no wonder why she's so solid.
Speaker 3:Oh wait, wait, Matter of fact, hold on Something else. This one did not age well. There's one thing about um candy, and specifically with abigail and kia, that that does not age well, and that's their dad and the fact that he's based off of bill cosby. Yeah, that doesn't age well, that doesn't age well. During the time that was a big thing. They were just like, oh bro, he always talked about the good, but you and you know we got to do it and it was like, oh yeah, he's supposed to be based off of Bill Cosby and now like, well, that didn't age well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it got cursed energy now Like it's used to Kaizen. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, damn Okay Well um, okay, one of my favorite episodes, the lizzie episode because this chick was so obsessed with nigel and or should I say nigey that this chick was prepared to have her boyfriend wear this helmet and be mind controlled into attacking his own friends, just because, oh, I don't like you spending all this time with your friends, you need to spend more time with me. You know that type shit. And I was like, oh, and then that one part where he was telling number one keep in mind he was brainwashed and he was fighting number five and you're just jealous. And then it's like jealous.
Speaker 3:JB. I got love for you, bro, but fuck you on that cause. You just brought back some PTSD ass on me and you know what the fuck I mean. You know exactly what the fuck I mean. Who Lizzy reminds me of?
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I'm just saying though. It was just crazy. I'm like hey, yo chill, you know what else? Another episode that I liked, the one with the pianos where number four got into the accident and then he got replaced by the hamster. By the way, uh, with the hamsters and joaquin, I like how hamsters power the fucking tree houses, and not only that, but these hamsters kind of come in clutch, especially that one episode. It was like this musical with all grandma stuff. I mean it was like the slam witch versus joaquin being like um gig with, uh, grandma stuff. I mean it was like the slam witch versus joaquin being like um, gigantified and shit, and honestly, that was kind of lit back as a kid I think the scariest thing was when the fuck doing the um, fucking hamsters went on vacation.
Speaker 3:There was work. Number one was super excited. They was asking how's everything's power? Just power bodies, thousands of hamsters. And da, da, da, da. And it's always amazing. And at that exact moment they stopped running on the wheels, put on their sombreros and then bounced and he was like where y'all going? Where y'all going. And then number two was like oh yeah, it's time for that vacation. No, no. Number three was like oh yeah, it's time for their vacation. They're going on vacation. Like what do you mean? They're going on vacation. It's like if they're not the one powering everything, they power all of our 2x4 technology. They're not here, we're left defenseless and at that point they all got fucked up. The hamsters are the clutchest pets in this entire series yeah, um, another.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I'm just pretty much spitting out favorite episodes and moments in those episodes, um, pretty much until we run out of time. Oh, I remember I forgot the name of the episode, but essentially they were going up against what was supposedly Boss Baby before Boss Baby and he had this cigar. That ages people up and then they fucking when they got to dealing with that baby and then center b was like and this, not important anymore, just chucks out the window and then next thing, you know, delightful children picks it up and was like oh yeah, plans with this. So that leads to Operation Grown Up. By the way, I like how they named these episodes, where they'll put in an acronym for it and then they'll explain it before they get on with the episode when Operation Grown Up stands up. It's short for Getting Really Old Will Upset up. They're short for getting really old will upset plans. I like that. I like how they two-thirds of the time do that. For the old series I did, but essentially that came full circle to where they used the cigar against number one. He got turned into an adult, the treehouse got destroyed, they pretty much. It just seemed like all hope was lost Up until you know, they were like forced into a showdown with Father and all that shit. That really was the first episode where Father made his introduction, so that was one of the keystone episodes in my opinion.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, some of the characters from Eerie's episode have some continuity going on, like, for instance, operation Kate, to where it's always like every time the Delightful Children have a birthday party life with children have a birthday party they force all the rest of the kids to uh go to their party and they'll pretty much have all the fun while the kids just be strapping chairs, like just watching them have fun.
Speaker 1:I'm sitting there like bro, y'all supposed to be the model of the uh, well-behaved children and yet you're being straight up sociopaths where watch me eat all this birthday cake and you don't even get any. But uh, you know, usually at the end of all these episodes the kids end up getting the cake. There was even this one, there was even this one time to where, like they kept doing this like two, three, well, five times, okay. There was even this one episode, there was even this one time where they kept doing this like two, three, five times, okay. So almost like one per season when, essentially one of my favorite ones was when they had to do the whole fucking enter to race, to go get the cake and all that, and then it just became this whole shit.
Speaker 3:But uh, you had something to add on cook, we got to oh yeah, just adding on to the whole um, the thing about them being delightful and being like the model kids they're supposed to be, the model kids for adults. Most kids who are models towards adults are generally assholes to other kids because they have this whole thing of like I'm better and shit like that. I grew up with that shit all the fucking time it was so that to go so goddamn aggravating. And then right now, even with my kids and seeing them in school and seeing the kids at their schools and shit, it never stops. If you got that one person that's like, oh, they're supposed to be the model student. They milk that shit as much as possible. They always act right in front of the parents, they always go tattletale, they always motherfucking snitches and shit Always some shit that they cause themselves.
Speaker 1:You know what? You know what? That's funny because I don't even call snitches under 18 snitches, I just call them Randall'sles.
Speaker 3:Little Randles, you know, play from our recess, because every time I think of a snitch In school, I think of Randall Is this true KD I love because Whenever this show showed up, whenever this episode was going to come on, I didn't give a fuck about what else was on. I didn't want to watch Nickelodeon at the time, I didn't want to watch Disney at the time, unless it was like a new episode or something else that I ain't seen that was coming up at the same time. I was like I've already seen the episode. I'm going to go watch KND.
Speaker 1:I would specifically choose KND To watch Because it was just fucking awesome between knd adventure time regular show and a few others, though, like what talus was saying rewatchability to where a lot of these episodes are just one shot and you can go watch this episode. You will love it and you don't really need to do a whole lot of homework to watch knd, aside from the keystone episodes where we're pretty much talking, but then again there's not a whole lot of Keystone episodes. That's what makes K&D so rewatchable to where it doesn't feel like homework watching the whole fucking thing. In fact, let me talk about another favorite episode of mine. Well, I have a whole bunch of favorites, but that's why I say I don't really have a number one favorite, but I have favorites that I definitely remember Operation Butt.
Speaker 1:This is the one where the Delightful Children was blackmailing number one with a photo of him in his swim trunks and he was wearing rainbow monkey underwear. They saw his ass and apparently it's like big. So they made an old shit about that. I remember it was funny as hell. There was another one. Well, I did mention King Sandy, but I did like the episode where he was introduced to it. He keeps trying to marry number three but that doesn't pan out, you know, kind of like oh well, if that's an incel type shit where, like, if you don't marry me, I'll kill you over possessive and shit, bro.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if I can only mention one quick thing, because I know we're nearing the end of time, onto it, um, is the fact that, like, I guess in tune with this month, this month is like it's still, uh, the time of recording is june, so it's still father's day, as well as also men's mental health awareness. Um, I guess still want to talk about fathers in this show. Oh yeah, june 10th, of course this month. Um, but definitely talk about fathers in this show. Oh yeah, june 10th, of course this month. Um, but definitely talk about fathers in this show and how everyone's relationship with their father is.
Speaker 3:Uh, with number one, he was so dismissive of his dad because he swore his dad was just lame and boring and was just like oh my god, you're just the lamest fucking dad ever. You never understand me, and shit, all the way up until we find out that, oh, he was like the original legendary operative number zero and you're like wait what? You're the one who's like oh my God, that's my dad, holy shit. And then stuff like that and like at that point he was like oh my gosh, my dad is actually fucking awesome and stuff, but it's still. Throughout the series you can see that his dad has literally tried to understand him but is understanding now, once you really have watched the whole series and understanding how things happen to him, that his forced decommission is that his forced decommission literally corrupted him. It wound up not being a case of oh, he just like forgot how to do normal knd shit. It literally stupefied him, unfortunately, because when he switches he's like the most intelligent, calm collective. It didn't matter what the fuck he was in, he knew how to get out of the situation. Even if he wasn't able to fix it, he would tell nigel nigel, you're the one that's got the fixes. You got to do this.
Speaker 3:And he was like on there on the plan, on the point onto it, and it's like an exact opposite and it's one of those things that you can understand why some characters be afraid of being decommissioned. Because of the fact it's like they decommissioned literally made him, unfortunately, fucking stupid and it's like holy shit that that could be kind of scary to see how that might wind up going as far as you're just supposed to forget candy. But if your entire life is candy, everything is candy. Everything he learned was because of candy. He forgot damn near all of that shit and it was just like he just became, uh, seeming almost like mentally handicapped, which is honestly a whole insane thing in itself.
Speaker 3:Um, and of course you understand, father was just absolutely not a good fucking stepdad to the life of children from down the lane. He was absolutely horrible, um, constantly trying to spoil his children but constantly wanting to go after every other kids and just being the an absolute, the worst example of a dad. And it's hilarious in the aspect of him being called father, because most people, when they associate with father, is someone who does take care of their kids, versus it's like, oh, that's just a dad per se, like it doesn't really sometimes be present, sometimes not, so it's a very interesting entendre into that that they have that name and his character being an exact opposite he may be your father, but he ain't your daddy.
Speaker 3:That part. Oh yes, Fucking Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm surprised that internationally known number 007 hasn't said anything yet.
Speaker 6:But Thank you for saying my whole name.
Speaker 5:I appreciate it wow.
Speaker 3:So number two's dad is not really present in the whole show, which is a very interesting dynamic. That is seeming. I don't know if he's, if his mom is a single mom you don't really see number two's dad like at all no, no, he was like.
Speaker 1:No, no. The whole episode with, uh, the inner tube, with barber tube and whatnot he was like mentioned like almost like a legend. But I'm assuming that, yeah, he's gone, like okay, hoagie gilligan senior, apparently.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's briefly mentioned, but inside of the comics is actually. You get more information about him. So yeah, that does he's. He's kind of left out in the show in case people don't know. Yes, there is a comics as well for knd. If you never read it, they kind of hit up some extra lore. But yeah, his dad, his face, is always covered in the comics as well too. So yeah, we don't. He's just not really there. You don't really see too much into him. So I can't really say anything on to that. Number three's dad and number four's dad are both fucking awesome as dads. Hold on.
Speaker 1:The dinner episode when number two's mom and Tommy and whatnot. They were getting together because you know, keep in mind that number two's mom, number two's mom and tommy and whatnot. They were getting together because, you know, keep in mind that uh, number two's mom, number three's mom, uh, worked together under mr boss and that had the whole dinner. And I like the part where um pretty much uh number two was playing detective, uh who's um stabbed um number three, rainbow monkey. We know it was all the sister um, because you know she was just jealous and shit. But the whole point being is that oh, uh, I just want my um babies to play um, be nice to each other. Is that so wrong?
Speaker 3:I was like you know what fam I feel that I feel that true, okay, oh, you know he does have some points with, like, the hokimobile, where he actually helps um tommy like also build shit too. Okay, it's also that. But you know um number three. Number four is dad fucking awesome dads. They're goofy but they support their kids like you can in those few moments that you see them. There's one of those. They're. They're literally the dads. That's like I may not understand everything, oh yeah, and it's like I may not understand like everything that you do. I may not understand you as a person per se, but you're my kid and I'm still going to support you and it's like no matter every single time you see them. That's just the way they are all the way until, like the whole zombie parent episode, like zombie parents in the movie, one episode where his face was actually revealed.
Speaker 1:Hold on, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 3:Wasn't it that same one during the work? It was the dodgeball episode. Oh, the dodgeball, okay, and you know we already talked about number five's dad, so I'm going to go ahead and move on from that one. Unfortunately, but I don't know, is this one of those things that we do kind of have some moments of dads and moms in the show and getting a chance of like, seeing how they interact, of understanding, like, because most of the villains don't have kids? If I'm, yeah, most of the villains don't have kids except for, like, obviously, grandfather and father, but all the other villains they're kidless yeah.
Speaker 1:Destructive dad, yeah true.
Speaker 3:Keep in mind for him. He's also trying to support his son. He swore, like you said earlier, he swore he should be number one. Number one's the best number and it's like no, nigel's only called number one because his last name is Uno. The numbers actually don't make a difference. The numbers is not even the order that you're actually brought into the knd at all almost like I want to.
Speaker 1:I want to take it that uh, numbers is more like jersey. You know, like uh, football well, not really football more like basketball jersey. You know, like some people just get assigned a number, you know some.
Speaker 3:Some are assigned to, some choose it because, remember, there's like 65.3, there's a um 6.14. Like one person literally wanted to be called pi, but instead of calling themselves that, they just called themselves agent. Like number six one, 6.14. It's like okay, I guess. Like they had the freedom of choosing their numbers that they want to be. So some people chose, like if it was a number that was already taken, you had to pick a different one. But other than that it was like no, this is kind of what I wanted. Like number one slot. Nobody wanted to be number one and so he was like, yeah, your last name's uno. So yeah, I guess you're just number one. Like that's just what it is.
Speaker 3:And then they kind of keep you in mind as well for every sector you're going to be into as well. So there's like a few operatives like 274 was paired up with like 69, 68, 69, 70 and 71. And he's just the only random odd number out in sector F. But other than that, most of the times they assign you a number based on whatever sector you're going to be assigned to, and usually you have the freedom of choosing what number you want to be per se. Yeah, I can see what you mean as far as the jersey, because in some cases, yeah, if someone got decommissioned, you have the option of taking their number. If you want to like, either step up into their lineage or something like that, so you had the freedom to do that too, I guess speaking of, uh, other operatives and other sectorsors.
Speaker 1:Another episode that I remember was the Nerd episode, you know, when there were nerd zombies and they were like, obsessing over this, what did they call that Trading card Shit? They had this whole trading card game Going on and they were trying To Covering this ultra rare car. So you know, it's one of those episodes that appealed to the nerds and it was really funny how it seemed like oh so you have this girl, uh, but you rather talk about trading cars than talk to this girl.
Speaker 1:You know, so I guess that just goes to show how sometimes boys just aren't interested in girls that much at that age. And also, you know nerds, they just don't. They don't have the strong. You know what. I'm just gonna bring it up again, that one episode of Gravity Falls when Grunkle Stan was like only nerds think that charisma is a superpower. It was kind of one of those things. Was there another one that I want to mention? Feel free to throw anything out.
Speaker 3:Keep in mind. Also, since you mentioned about trading cards, I can't actually find it. I don't remember exactly what the trading card in the game, what the trading card game in the show is, but there is actually a trading card game for Codename Kids Next Door specifically. You can actually buy the cards and there is actually a game that you can play with the K&D to fight with the operatives versus the villains or operatives versus other operatives and stuff like that. So there is a trading card game, like an actual game that you can play and you can go buy the cards online.
Speaker 3:Another thing of how popular this show was they actually had a trading card game and I actually did not know this. I'm actually upset. I would have definitely bought these. Apparently at the time they were in target and toys r us and hobby lobby stores this bullshit. I knew this. I don't.
Speaker 3:I can't really think like there's so many good episodes, but how many that I really just want to specifically highlight.
Speaker 3:I mean the best storyline to me, um, obviously, I mean I definitely love grandfather's whole storyline and his just absolute boomer.
Speaker 3:Feel like, really, I think that was that was a whole play on boomers and you'd be like, oh y'all just lazy, I don't want to do nothing and I'm gonna make you do whatever.
Speaker 3:And it's one of those things like he attacked not just the kids but adults as well too, because it was just like no, yeah, none, all y'all a week, I'll just letting your kids walk all over you type shit, and just became the ultimate takeover and shit, and so that was like a big play on boomers at the time and it becomes way more apparent now to where you really like there's a whole big thing about was the gen gen alpha versus gen z and um and gen x and then um, even more so with the boomers as well being a whole big thing in itself of like, um, everyone being mad about boomers with the whole buying houses and stuff right now, because how trying to get a house nowadays is significantly different than it was way back then.
Speaker 3:So I know there's a whole big thing into that. Uh, my favorite storyline would be with the moon base, not the first time it got attacked, but the second time when the teenagers took over, like when the teenagers were able to actually infiltrate the boom base itself and you know, kree managed to wind up getting away at the time, but they almost like she was on the squadron.
Speaker 1:I remember it was Yipper.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, okay it was. But yeah, that segment with the teenagers being, um, actually infiltrating the moon base and finding out that they were like constantly secretly having secret meetings disguised as like parties and secret meetings disguised as like parties and shit. But it was like, oh, we're just having house parties, it's just regular parties, and then like to everyone else it seems that way, but they're like, okay, put the party shit away. It's time to like dive down into this. We need to find out how we're going to break into this. Uh, to the knds, we need to go ahead and destroy this shit. And it was like holy shit, wait, this is actually evil. Wait, this is actually Evil Plans. Wait, this is actually. The KND was not joking, this is actually real.
Speaker 3:But I love that storyline on how that kind of played out. Otherwise, I can't really say there's too much else that I want to highlight into it. I mean, we have it's rewatchable. Some stuff is one shots, some stuff have a good storyline to it that you can watch. Obviously, we remember the fucking villains.
Speaker 3:You can remember the episodes you did talk about, with every episode having the operation, the title and then the title being a breakdown of a quick summary of what actually happens in the episode. Like the ice cream episode is titled Operation Flavor and it's about the flavors and stuff, and so that was the whole thing in itself. It's just there's so many great episodes to go back and watch and that probably one of those things like if you go back here and try to binge it now, you might find more episodes. You're like, oh man, that was so cool, that'd be something pretty interesting, like maybe to bring up and talk about this like little hints into stuff. I mean, obviously there's a whole lore to Rainbow Monkeys as well too, and that one dude who's fucking hunting them and shit, because he wanted there to be no more actual rainbow monkeys, because he only wanted the toys to sell.
Speaker 1:Hold on. Remember when he was trying to whisper or something like some sort of devious plan and like you never really know what he was doing, but they were like saying like oh, that's so horrible. I was like, wait, what do you say? What are you going to do with them?
Speaker 3:You're just supposed to use your magic. You're supposed to just know that it was so evil that it's so diabolical. Um, what was it? I think that was the same. And then, like the one with the parent oh, with the bring your dad and bring your daughter to work day, with the fact that they um, that they wanted to be in the K&D actually had to save the parents that moment with number three, and number four actually had to save the parents in that moment, because the fact that the parents were about to be forced to work forever because the dude was supposed was going to send the kids out into this fucking space, oh, I felt like that.
Speaker 3:That episode was very similar to me. That took courage to count the dog with that one episode with the um, was it? The fake veterinarian would take people's pet, like take people's dogs and ship them and send them to space into like fucking pluto or some shit and so. But yeah, it was like he was trying to force him to. He said, now, if they don't have families to go home to, then there's no reason for them to ever leave work. They'll be stuck here forever.
Speaker 1:I'm like, oh, I was like nigga, I'll fucking quit trying my ass like damn speaking of villains, like I just remember one villains where I'm like bro, first of all. He kind of reminds me well, I know it's gonna be like a shrek reference, but uh, y'all remember robin food from the one episodes where, okay, uh, lizzie and Nigel was just trying to eat their lunch. So they were just trying to eat because Nigel just had too much work going on. It's like, oh, you don't want to spend enough time with me and anyways, these grown-ass men will infiltrate this school to steal lunches from kids. Bro, that's petty, that's real petty. Portrayed this school to steal lunches from kids. Bro, that's petty, that's real petty.
Speaker 3:That's some diabolical shit, bro.
Speaker 1:We talk about devious, diabolical shit. I'm like, bro, there's grown-ass men trying to take little kids' lunch, money and shit. And I'm like, bro, this is what we were talking about with our whole lunch programs where kids eat free and blah, blah, blah and you're just going money and shit. And I'm like, bro, like this is what we were talking about with our whole uh lunch programs, where you know, kids eat free and blah, blah and you're just gonna take that away from them.
Speaker 3:Like really and then the worst part about he's lazy he's supposed to cook the food to give out to people, because this whole thing is supposed to be like oh, he takes it, he steals the kids lunches and then gives it to the senior citizens, the old people who need to eat, but then the senior citizens can't fucking eat the food because they ain't got teeth.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about how number two's grandma and her gang are actually like senior citizen villains and they made like a whole big deal out of tapioca and shit, and they had this anti-aging cream uh go ahead yeah, yeah, we'll, we'll stop you.
Speaker 5:No, eat this shit, bro. We don't need this at all. But now that I get older, bro, tapca, the pudding not that bad. I used to pick on my grandma, bro, but, like tapioca, not that bad at all.
Speaker 1:Hey, no, funny enough they had this one episode, inspired by Fantastic Boys, with the Brussels sprouts and while they were making this whole thing, where, okay, they string down microscopically, trying to extract the brussel sprout before effects happen to number four, but I shit you not. Back when, um, I was working at a different restaurant and they were serving brussel sprouts and they had like caramel lines or whatever shit they had going on, I tried those shits. I'm like bro, like what the fuck these kids talking about? These shits good if you cook them right? Yeah, they shits good. What the fuck are these kids talking about? These shit's good If you cook them right? Yeah, they shit's good. What the fuck you talking about? I was snacking on those bros, bro, for real, but then it got rid of it and I was sad, but you know, life happens.
Speaker 3:Change happens.
Speaker 1:You know I already mentioned the soda episode. I like that one. Actually, that was the one episode where number two had the best lines Well, you know best jokes where the rest of the game was actually cheering him on. It was like, oh shit, he actually got jokes.
Speaker 3:The fact that there's a whole play on the fact that every single joke he says is absolutely lame.
Speaker 1:and then number five, just like come on, man oh and also let's talk about um the bizarro world episodes where there was like negative number one through number five and um number negative number four was the big bad and all that shit and um it was like completely reversed and shit. Like they had like diverse um personalities and shit. I like that episode but it's funny how number two, negative number two, in that world has better jokes than and even number two is like hey, I don't get that one.
Speaker 1:I'm like yeah, see, that's, that's your problem, because your jokes are lame. His jokes are funny.
Speaker 3:You're not built the same problem because your jokes are lame, his jokes are funny. You're not built the same.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's right, because negative number four had a goatee.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was so weird, they couldn't even. They had to give him a black goatee onto that as well, like it's just. Yeah, that's right, it wasn't k and d operators, they were dnk operators oh, oh.
Speaker 1:It was like something devious, nefarious kids or something like that yeah, something.
Speaker 3:It was just because they, they were children who, um, oppressed the world. They, they were literally what the adults like crazy. All the adults felt like, oh, the kid's gonna take over and it's gonna be absolute hell, and it's like in that backwards world. Yeah, that's exactly what the fuck happened. It's like that those kids took over like everything would have been just fucking hell shit but then you go back to uh operation zero again.
Speaker 1:Well, not operation zero, it was the one episode where uh number one was given the backstory as a class presentation, that once he was like man, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. You get an F and then dismiss the class. And then he made that phone call with the Apple phone. Funny enough you know Apple phone, but anyways, he made that call like they know and I was like technically they already did.
Speaker 3:But it's like in this world, kids running shit is sounds bad, like oh shit, like no true but then also, I think the funniest thing is how they, how he won, how number four won and the fact that he's like oh wait, you're everything, like finding out that you're literally everything, that I'm not the exact opposite. So you find out that, um, what was his name? Because wallaby is number, is number four, so he doesn't go by negative number four, he goes by like eballo or something like that. Eballo like he's like wallaby in reverse, and you find out that he's actually a fucking coward, that he's actually scared as shit to be able to fight and do anything, and it's like that's why you didn't fight for him.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So it was like play on this one, because that episode was the one to highlight. Because number four has always been considered the dumbest one of everyone. He runs into shit head first. He doesn't always think shit through Versus. In that episode he was able to actually use his head. He's like wait, they're using my head, that's right. Hold on a second and then, you know, be able to actually figure out the way to actually fix everything. So we do have those character growth moments that you wind up loving as well too. Number three loves learn to like calm down a little bit like. She still stays her big bubbly personality, but she learns to calm herself down bro, she gets angry, though she literal fire in her eyes she reminds me of Sakura
Speaker 2:a little yeah cause.
Speaker 3:You know, you got that whole. She switches almost a completely different personality hold on, I got it.
Speaker 1:It was destructively nefarious kids and well, you were right on that part. But uh, I like how uh lizzie's name backwards is isa envied, really, because you know her name. Her name is lizzie divine, but backward it's like isa. Isa envied what?
Speaker 3:you remember that thing before, like a while back before. That was like spell your name backwards. That's your Dragon name. That's exactly what the fuck it sounds Like yeah, but funny enough.
Speaker 1:I'm like you know it kind of works for her.
Speaker 3:Oh no, the only cool thing about her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, and the whole arts with Uh, the fourth grade presidentmy had this thing for her and he like, pretty much, come, this corrupt um president trying to get to her and shit. I thought it was cool too. But uh, before we close this one out, um mirror, james playboy, y'all got anything y'all want to add on, because I know it was like us was doing like old back and forth the whole time.
Speaker 2:No, y'all good, Y'all can do everything I want to no I don't want to.
Speaker 5:I'm sitting here cackling, bro. I feel that Okay. Okay, luke, you got anything you want to add on? I mean it.
Speaker 1:I feel that, okay, okay, uh, luke, you have. You have anything you want to add on Before I mean it was briefly mentioned before.
Speaker 3:The only other thing that I love Was Mushy. Mushy was just Absolutely.
Speaker 1:That's her name, yeah.
Speaker 3:Fucking diabolical Shit. She was so fucking diabolical and I fucking loved it Every single time she showed up in the episode you knew it was going to be some bullshit.
Speaker 3:You just knew some bullshit was going to happen. And you know what's the bad part about it is the fact that I literally have a five-year-old girl right now and I swear to fucking God, she acts just like Mushi, and I'm not even joking. So I want y'all to understand if y'all for those who've seen the show, listening literally every episode of Mooshy's, in all the crazy shit that she says and the shit that she does, that's exactly what my fucking daughter does, bro, I swear to God, it's so when I say they got that kid so down accurate. A five-year-old kindergartner is so fucking accurate. I feel that that's the point. My daughter loves pink too. Same shit.
Speaker 3:Oh, before I accurate, I feel that, oh, oh that's the point. My daughter loves pink too.
Speaker 1:Same shit, oh before I forget, I forgot I wasn't gonna mention number 86 and how, with this chick she's so high, strong and loud and shit. But at the same time I thought it was kind of funny how she was so anti-boy that I can't say who, but. But some people were alluding to thinking that I think the reason why she doesn't like boys is because she really likes girls, like, really likes girls. And I'm like, um, I don't know about all that, but, like I said, with whole kids things like sometimes they're not really into relationships and love when they're like kids. But that was kind of a reach. But I kind of see where you're coming from at the same time number two was all in for relationships.
Speaker 3:Number two was like trying to be the fucking Sanji of the whole show, trying to be the fucking Brock of the whole show, trying to be the fucking um brock creole, the damn time.
Speaker 3:Um, honestly, based upon the age, that wouldn't be too far-fetched to have, like, considering the fact that once you reach I think for like most girls once, because it's the whole thing girls, mature, fashion and boys um, most boys don't really hit that like they'll have crushes but they don't really hit that age of like really seeming that they really like someone until like the age of like 13, 14 and stuff like that, which would make sense of why it is that 13 is the age of decommission. Um, at the time too, not just because, oh, what it's like, oh, it's because you're a teen, you know 12 doesn 12 doesn't say teen, but once you say teen you're a teenager, so now you have to be decommissioned, type thing. But it's also still about 13 is around when most boys hit that. For a lot of girls it hits earlier, so usually about 10, a little bit older around that time is usually when girls start having that moment of they really might kind of start to see what it is that they might like and stuff, so it wouldn't be too far-fetched.
Speaker 5:Where do you get this age from?
Speaker 3:One psychology.
Speaker 5:My daughter is nine, I just need to make soap. Okay, so look. I have a 5-year-old daughter and I have need to make sure, okay.
Speaker 3:So, look, I have a five year old daughter and I have a 14 year old daughter. So, aside from psychologists, I have a kind of a general agreement onto that as well too. Yes, for, like, my eldest daughter was pretty much about 10 ish. That was around the time that it was like you know what's funny about all of that, though?
Speaker 1:the funniest part about all of that, though the funniest part about all of that, is how, growing up, I had some girls made it out to sound like oh well, just because girls mature faster than boys, they just try and make it sound like, oh, they're so much better than boys. But meanwhile, in my situation, it just seemed like y'all are being such braggarts about it. It's, you're making it very seemed like y'all are being such braggarts about it. You're making it very ironic that I'm the one being mature about the whole thing to where I'm trying to be cool about it, and you're just trying to lure over this invisible superiority over me. And I'm like, hey, bro, it's not that deep.
Speaker 3:You know, I don't know. Everybody has different personalities, so it becomes. It becomes different, it becomes different. So, yeah, it's generally about that age. Once hormones really start kicking in, you're going to start seeing changes in personality and I hate to say it but I'm just going to be honest with you. She's 9. Uh, yeah, around the time she turns 10 or 11, expect a huge personality change because it becomes a point from being a kid to now, like I'm starting to question things now, like most kids have questions, but they ask questions just to kind of get a quick answer and we'll move on. Once you hit that like age of really diving into stuff, when you want to understand the lore of a question, like the actual background of it it is, it moves on from a question that's just like okay. So the answer to this question is not that, why it doesn't become, why this, why this why this?
Speaker 1:oh, it becomes why. I was just about to say that doesn't make sense. I was about to say, oh, you know that, one thing to work. You know, kind of like johnny from uh, ed and netty and some other kids where they made it really annoying, to where, uh, they always keep asking why and I'm like bro bro and most kids when they ask why they don't really care about the answers like they'll think about it sometimes and then they'll move on to the next subject.
Speaker 1:So fucking nah I know what y'all doing. Y'all trying to annoy my person because it's getting me to uh snap is what y'all live for yeah, but yeah, um, but that, why changes?
Speaker 3:like you'll, you'll hear the difference in it. Why, like, it doesn't become, why it becomes, why, like, the base changes. Everything is so different and you can feel that there's, there's more intent to this. They don't want just a simple answer. They want a more detailed answer because now I'm thinking about it further, it's a real thing, be be, be prepared, it's okay.
Speaker 3:Like, don't be scared of it. That's the first thing I'm telling you. Do not be scared of it. Do not be scared of the why. If you're scared of it, your kids will know, and then it becomes a big thing as far as like, okay, you can't give me the answer, why can't you give me the answer? And it becomes a whole thing into itself. Don't be afraid to answer the question. This is a thing for everybody, really, you know. Just don't be afraid to answer the question and don't be afraid to say I don't actually know the answer. It's a good question, I just don't really know the answer to that. That's okay.
Speaker 3:If you're honest and genuine, everything is fine. If it sounds like you're lying, it's a problem. It's going to be a problem every fucking time, but that's all I got to answer that, um, and keep in mind, like I told you, like you can see, that a lot with some of these, with the, the girls in the show, because even um, even number five, she had crushes, like she had a general crush and remember like there was a whole episode where she was upset about that but she was like why am I crushing so hard on this boy? And he's obviously like supposed to be the bad guy.
Speaker 3:He's like I'm not supposed to be okay, yeah yeah, and she yeah, and she was like so in like infatuated she could not figure that shit out and she was just absolutely against it. That's just a normal hormone thing, that's just happens like some people say, attraction's not a choice it's a lot of times it's not once. You you could choose. You can't always choose who you're attracted to, but you could choose who you want to stay with based on your attraction. So that's, you have a choice of who you choose to be into.
Speaker 1:But that's why I say that I don't really have a type. I mean, yeah, I might like this girl or that girl, but like, hey, man, like honestly, I'm not even going by an actual criteria. It's more like I just like this girl. You know, I fuck with her. You know, like I feel myself being compatible with her, I vibe with her. You know what I mean. Like it just got to be something about her, that's my whole thing. I guess the whole attraction thing just goes into place where I'm like I don't know what it is about you, but I'm just interested.
Speaker 3:You know, Well, I don't think I have anything more to do with K&D, but I am actually just out of curiosity. Is there anything else from me or Jane? Because I'm actually really curious. You've been pretty quiet and I know I'm actually really curious. You've been pretty quiet and I know you like K&D. When we was in school we would talk about it. We would talk about this show. Yeah, I'm bringing that up.
Speaker 2:I'm bringing up middle school. You remember that? Yes, I remember that I don't understand. Remember that, yes, I remember that. What?
Speaker 1:Is there something y'all want to talk about?
Speaker 3:I don't know, I'm just. What happened in middle school. I just know she has a huge love for rainbow monkeys.
Speaker 4:Oh God, oh wait, you did not come to my my eighth grade birthday party, did you?
Speaker 3:no, I, I didn't really go to a lot of people's birthday parties because it's not nothing to shoot, but yeah no, I'm so glad you did it.
Speaker 4:No, oh, I did have a huge love for rainbow monkeys and and uh, somebody bought me a rainbow monkey that was one thing I was.
Speaker 3:One thing about you I remember in school was the fact that she was like, yeah, she absolutely fucking loves rainbow monkeys. Like she was like she absolutely loves rainbow monkeys. And I felt bad because, like, I actually drew and I do feel bad. It's just weird bringing this up so many years later. I I actually had drew a rainbow monkey for you, but I was upset because it was in my sketchbook. In that same sketchbook I also had drew a mermaid for somebody else and somebody fucking stole my sketchbook and I never got it back.
Speaker 3:I know who did it, still to this day. I'm not going to say his name right now, but I know who the fuck did it. Fuck his ass. Um, the only hint that you get to his name is um, from devil may cry, that's all I'm gonna say. But still, uh, he was the only one. He stole it. Mad as hell. But I did wind up drawing you a rainbow monkey. I just never got a chance to give it to you, so I'm sorry about that I, I am so mad If you never saw this.
Speaker 4:I'm so mad. Middle school me just got so upset Because I had the biggest obsession. First of all, I had the biggest obsession with anything that was Care Bear, anything that was Teddy Bear related.
Speaker 1:So number three was literally my idol and I think about it, rainbow Monkeys kind of give me that whole super monkey pinball slash, care Bear slash, teletubbies type vibe.
Speaker 4:You're not wrong. You're so not wrong. Like, and not only that, I will say one thing is, I had the biggest crush on number four and that was the weirdest thing for me number four I did, I did, I don't know why. In middle school I had the biggest crush on number four and like I just felt like he looked Like a boy band idol and then he had Anger issues and I could solve them.
Speaker 1:I mean, his last name was Beatles, so I.
Speaker 4:It just fit, you know, and I thought I could Help him with his anger problems.
Speaker 1:Oh, you wanted to fix it, not keep being toxic. I thought I could help him with his anger problems. Oh oh, you want to fix it, not you being toxic.
Speaker 2:I can fix it, not you being toxic Talking about something. I can fix it, but then again, but then again.
Speaker 3:I want you to understand something.
Speaker 2:Right number five. Sister, I ain't gonna front you. I don't care you can call me toxic, but I was like hear me out.
Speaker 3:I can fix her.
Speaker 2:Like I was that way. I was like hear me out, I can fix her.
Speaker 4:Exactly See.
Speaker 3:Problem is she got too much time on her hands. Let me take away some of that time. No, I will tell you this Problem is she got too much time on her hands.
Speaker 4:Let me take away some of that time, girl. No, I will do this. I learned about bras from Cree and I appreciate that bra episode.
Speaker 1:Oh man, no, no, no, they're called Battle Ready.
Speaker 4:Armor.
Speaker 1:You just Like that and it's like what's the matter?
Speaker 4:teenager, Listen, and it's like what's the matter, teenager, listen, tell me why. That's what I told my niece because, like me and my niece, we're kind of close in age, oddly enough. But that's what I told my niece. I was like this is what bras are? They're battle ready armor. You can't go anywhere without your battle ready armor. This girl went to her kindergarten teacher and told her that and crazy.
Speaker 1:Nowadays, most people don't want them just imagine all these women out there coming home from a long day and it's like today was so draining. I need to strip all this battle radio off.
Speaker 4:I'm just going to start saying that again. That's how I'm going to come home.
Speaker 6:Jesus Christ. But look seriously, though, right While we're right here touching the slight subject of Rainbow Monkeys, jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:But look Seriously though, right, while we right here touching the Slight subject of Rainbow Monkeys, I want y'all to know something Rainbow Monkeys reminded me of Freaking Furbies. I know they were based off Care Bears, but they reminded me so much of freaking Furbies, so fucking creepy. That's the reason why I always felt like number three had demonic powers, because I was like, look them little shits do not listen to anybody but her. That's true, them little shits didn't listen to nobody else but her. Everybody else was a party.
Speaker 3:They were ferocious monsters that drooled rainbow saliva that part. They were adorableerocious monsters that Drove Rainbow's saliva that part.
Speaker 4:They were adorable.
Speaker 1:The way they were changing colors and shit Like the thing is.
Speaker 2:When she found out that they were, you know what they actually look like, and everybody was like oh my god, they're not cute, they're monsters. Nope, not to her. Oh no, they're the sweetest thing ever.
Speaker 4:Like I said, I think they confirmed in like an episode that she can, like she has the ability to smell out rainbow monkeys.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, she was able to find their secret hideout and everything the place that they really live at, and shit.
Speaker 1:Follow your nose.
Speaker 3:Oh, my god Look look, I think the most diabolical rainbow monkey it probably misunderstood still was the one where mushi wound up finding a rainbow monkey that died and re and resurrected that ship and gave it caps, bankula's powers, and oh god you said it the fact that she was damn you playboy.
Speaker 3:Hey, the fact that she was a beast in that rabbit mech, though that's what I'll tell you like that. She was in there just having a good old time, but she knew what every button was. So he was like, oh, she's probably not gonna know how to. They literally doubted her. It's like she's not gonna know how to operate this probably not gonna know how to.
Speaker 1:They literally doubted her. It's like she's not gonna know how to operate this rabbit man like she sometimes she crashes it well she crashed on purpose she would crash it.
Speaker 2:yeah, exactly, she would crash it on purpose. Because when it came down to it and folks like all right, nah, no, she's gonna mess it up, nope, she's up there butt mashing, but she's literally whooping ass and I'm just like yo, nah, nah, something ain't right.
Speaker 3:Something ain't right. It was built for her. She knew what she was doing.
Speaker 4:She made button mashing to a whole new level.
Speaker 3:Bruh, people used to hate button mashers when they come down to playing Tekken. This shit, really, I was. No, she was. She was a beast with two. You'd be like God damn how she pulling off all these combos Like there's nothing. I just don't understand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she, she just knew that was just her, but hold on.
Speaker 3:The rainbow monkeys was the evil, though. Like I do agree with you on that Furby shit, like I don't know, like I still I y'all already know this. I have talked about this before. My kid, my daughter, my youngest daughter, has a furby that she absolutely loves and it listens and talks to her. Fuck that little shit. That thing is creepy as hell. Um, I hope it never comes back to life again. I will never replace the batteries. Fuck that shit. Um, but for reals. But for reals, though, it's just the fact that the Rainbow Monkeys was like I get the whole, like the stuffed version of it being so cute and everything. Yeah, the real ones was the real ones was diabolical as hell.
Speaker 3:They were still cute, Because most people, most people don't understand. This is the thing. This is people that be like oh, I want a pet monkey. You have no idea what it means to have a fucking pet monkey. Pet monkeys can claw your face off, they can literally rip the face off of your head and you're going to be walking around like Joker from New 52.
Speaker 2:That part right there he goes, there he goes.
Speaker 3:This is not a joke. That is legit, real. Even worse than that having a monkey if they just get angry with you a normal defense mechanism for a monkey. And the fucking rainbow monkeys did do this shit as well too. They just got away with it because they have special shit. Their shit is just extra special Monkeys throw their shit at you and it instantly gives you an infection. Instantly Like no, you do not want them. Damn pet monkey. They made it cute in the show, but real life no.
Speaker 4:Evil. It's funny you mention that they do do that, and I think there was an episode where we find out the name of the episode I think it was like in Operation B-U-T-T and we find out number one where's Rainbow Monkey underpants?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Secretly Allegedly.
Speaker 4:Allegedly, allegedly.
Speaker 1:Wait, what are they called? Because I know my Little Pony. They call dudes that like that shit bronies. So what would be the equivalent for dudes that like rainbow monkeys? What would they call that shit?
Speaker 3:Rainbow bronkeys or something.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. We will let it die here and now let's resurrect.
Speaker 4:rainbow monkeys. Rainbow monkey love.
Speaker 3:Alright, mushi, we're not making no Frankenstein count. Spanky little monkeys. Now, let's not do this. Let it die, leave it alone. We're not doing Pet Cemetery, we're not doing this.
Speaker 4:I mean they do kind of remind you of Gremlins. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3:That's even worse. You mean spraying with water and then they're now gonna kill me. Yes, exactly, thank you. Thank you for proving the point.
Speaker 4:But gremlins were cute too.
Speaker 1:The part when they decided you know what, let's make Rainbow Monkey so advanced? They have like AI chips installed, so they have like intelligence and whatnot.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness, just bring up every single horror kitsch game. Why don't you? We're not even talking about the Furbies and Gremlins Now. We're talking about toys. Now we're talking about the. What was the show Small? Soldiers, Small Soldiers that's what it was Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing that back up again, when they put the fucking military grade chips in the toys and the toys went ballistic and tried to kill people.
Speaker 1:Yes, thank you so much Aw man, you know what, me and Tattoo, we're going to do the review. By the way, we're definitely going to review Small Soldiers, but for real. Real, though, before we close. Anybody else got anything y'all want? Um, anybody.
Speaker 3:I'm done once. Once Mary Jane said that she liked Gremlins. I was done with this. We're done now.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, gotcha alright, ladies and gentlemen, with that being said, thank you for listening to us rant and ramble to the you for listening to us on Ranting Rambles to the end. Remember to follow us on social media, stay nerdy. Remember that great things are coming and for all, the kids at heart out there, never grow up. Well, you know, metaphorically, you know like, keep that childlike wonder, like, keep that imagination flowing. But you guys do have to grow up because you know like, keep that style, like wonder, like, keep that imagination flowing, but you guys do have the world, because you know you're an adult, you got shit, you got bills to pay and all that. You know. You know kid at heart. That's what I mean. With that being said, y'all take it easy. Have a good day, good afternoon and good night. Kids next door, we're out.
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