"Operation: C.A.R.A.M.E.L." | |
Season 6, Episode 77 | |
Mission: | 137 |
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Production Code: | 77b |
Airdate: | Nov 16, 2007 |
Credits | |
Writer(s): | Ben Wilgus Andy Rheingold Mr. Warburton |
Storyboards by: | Jesse Schmal Anthony Davis |
Episode Guide | |
Previous Mission "Operation: G.I.R.L.F.R.I.E.N.D." |
Next Mission "Operation: M.O.O.N." |
Candies Are Really Altering Many Extraordinary Lives
Operation: C.A.R.A.M.E.L. is the first story in the twelfth episode of Season 6 of Codename: Kids Next Door. It first aired on November 16, 2007 on Cartoon Network.
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Summary
Five years ago, Heinrich Von Marzipan discovered a way to create ancient golden caramels and to do so was to use a magic ritual that can only happen on the fifth night of the fifth month of the fifth year that sacrifices the most valued quality of a human victim and once done, it turns their greatest quality into five pieces of delicious caramel sweets with the flavor depending on the unique quality of the victim.
Using his own quality he created the caramels, and Numbuh 5, knowing he couldn't control his greed, left him behind, and after Heinrich ate all his candy he assumed there was no way to restore his true self and blamed Abigail for it.
Five years later he tricks Abigail into a truce and uses the ritual to steal her quality before doing the same to a number of KND operatives including Sector V. Later he begins to taunt the now nerdy and pathetic Numbuh 5 and eats all her caramels except one. But before he eats her last one Numbuh 5 reveals that she had Heinrich's last caramel all these years and was waiting for him to learn how to share his candy, but in a blind fury he pushes her out of the way and takes his caramel and almost eats it. Abigail tells his that by sharing his candy with her, simply putting it back in her hand will break the curse and return him to normal. Heinrich tearfully demands to know why he should believe her, and she tells him that he is more important to her than candy. Breaking down, he gives Abby back the caramel, thus ending the curse.
After finding out that sharing their caramels will break the curse, everyone is turned back to normal and Heinrich is revealed to actually be a beautiful young girl, Henrietta Von Marzipan. She used to be Abigail's best friend and former candy hunting partner. Henrietta decides to go to undo the wrongs she has done. As Henrietta and Abigail bid each other farewell, the rest of Sector V remains grossed out by the revelation, except Numbuh 4, who still insists on tracking down Heinrich. When Numbuh 1 explains that Heinrich is actually the girl they saw Numbah 5 hug, Numbuh 4 freaks out just as the screen turns to black.
Featured
KND Operatives
Villains
Cameos
- Mexican KND (debut)
Locations
- Sector U
- Kandacrunchalan (mentioned)
- Mexican Sectors
- Sector T (on map)
- Florida Sector (on map)
- Sector X (on map)
- Alabamian Sector (on map)
- Caymanian Sector (on map)
- Cuban Sector (on map)
2x4 Technology
- S.C.A.M.P.E.R.
- S.P.I.C.E.R.s
- Blue gun
- Gumball gun
- J.E.T.A.B.O.O.T.S.
- M.U.S.K.E.T.
- Shoe Guns
Villain Technology
Transcript
Operation: C.A.R.A.M.E.L./Transcript
Continuity
- Operation: J.E.W.E.L.S. explains that what happened in Guatemala was that Heinrich blamed Numbuh 5 for being caught with a bag of sacred caramels and getting grounded for a month, but here, it says that he blames her for being cursed by the caramel ritual.
- In a slight allusion to Operation: P.O.O.L., Sector V take on personalities that match their negative counterparts, though not exactly. Numbuh 2 becomes a brainless idiot instead of a hysterical joker like Negative Numbuh 2, while Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 4 are mostly indifferent and cowardly rather than cruel and evil like Negative Numbuh 3 and Negative Numbuh 4.
Trivia
- Numbuh 4's shoes are revealed to be guns.
- The following personalities that have been stolen reducing the operatives into:
- Numbuh 1 - leadership and decisiveness = indecisive dork with buckteeth.
- Numbuh 2 - intelligence = overgrown, drooling, brainless neanderthal.
- Numbuh 3 - sweetness = indifferent and uncaring goth girl.
- Numbuh 4 - courage = snivelling coward with buckteeth.
- Numbuh 5 - coolness = clumsy nerd with glasses, braces, and buckteeth.
- It's worth noting that when affected by the caramel curse, all of Sector V (except Numbuh 2) develop personalities that are similar to their DNK counterparts from the Negaverse.
- The notion that Henrietta's gender was switched is interesting given the fact that Benjamin Wilgus, one of the co-writers of the episode, later came out as a transgender.
Goofs
- Cowardly Numbuh 4's hoodie constantly changed from pink to orange.
Voice Credits
- Benjamin Diskin: Numbuh 1, Numbuh 2
- Lauren Tom: Numbuh 3
- Dee Bradley Baker: Numbuh 4, Heinrich, Mexican Sector operative
- Cree Summer: Numbuh 5
- Candi Milo: Henrietta