Operation: G.R.O.W.-U.P.

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Operation: G.R.O.W.-U.P. (Getting Really Old Will Upset Plans) is episode 113/13 of Codename: Kids Next Door, the season finale for Season 1 and the first double-length episode of the series. It premiered March 7, 2003.

1 Plot/Synopsis
2 Notes
3 Quotes
4 Trivia

[edit] Plot/Synopsis

On the sidewalk, Numbuhs Two through Five, after a candy run, were attacked by the Delightful Children in a flying vehicle with a projecting boot that kicks the Kids Next Door. Numbuh One arrives just in time to wreck the machine and tells the Delightful Children that, "if you ever want your butts kicked, you know where to go" -- to the Kids Next Door!

Returning to their mansion, the Delightful Children are confronted by Father, a shadowy figure with a pipe who can project fire (and may be some type of demon). Father has lost faith that the Delightful Children can destroy the Kids Next Door, but they persuade him to give them one more chance with the deadliest vehicle. An ongoing thunderstorm foreshadows the Delightful Children's attack on the Kids Next Door at their treehouse that destroys it and overwhelms each Kid in turn. But the Delightful Children reserve the worst fate for Numbuh One -- they use Mr. B.'s Age-Changing Cigar (from Op. CABLE-TV) to turn him into an adult!

(commercial break)

In the wreckage of the treehouse, Numbuh One (real name: Nigel Uno) is despondent, for he can't lead the Kids Next Door if he's not a kid. Two weeks later, Numbuhs Two through Five meet Nigel again when he's driving an ice cream truck and only serves adults. Frustrated with Nigel's negativity, Numbuh Five and the others plan an assault on the Delightful Children's mansion to get that ray to change Nigel back to a kid. In the study, the two groups fight over the ray, aging and un-aging each other just before Nigel bursts through the window driving the ice cream truck. Nigel tells the Delightful Children to give him the ray; they have to because he's an adult, and the Children have to obey adults.

Then Father bursts in and fights Nigel for the ray. Nigel's backed against the now-spilt contents of the ice cream truck; he and the other Kids use the ice cream as missiles to counter Father's fire and weaken him. Nigel uses the ray on himself and then smashes it, leaving the Delightful Children to care for the now-weakened Father.

Back at their ruined treehouse the next bright day, Numbuh One thanks his friends for believing in him and they start building their new treehouse -- the closing credits use scenes of the rebuilding as background.

[edit] Notes

Team Episode, but mostly centered around Numbuh 1
Villains: The Delightful Children From Down The Lane and Father.
We meet Father for the first time (instead of him just being a name the DCFDTL constantly refer to), and we also see the Really Really Incredibly Destructive Machine in action.

[edit] Quotes

Father: Bravo Mr. Uno. You successfully managed to outwit a bunch of children, But the question is-- do you have what it takes to play with the BIG BOYS?!?! (bursts into flames)
Numbuh 1/Mr. Uno: Yeah, Yeah nice fireworks! I'll see you in pre-school! (Cigar gets knocked out his hand)
Numbuh 1/Mr. Uno: AAARGH!
Father: We won't be needing toys now will we Mr. Uno?

Numbuh 1: Know this, Delightful Children; if you or your father ever want to get your butts kicked, you know where to find the Kids Next Door!

Numbuh 1/Mr. Uno: Now if you'll excuse me. I have to... get a job.

Father: At first those Kids Next Door were a minor nuisance. That is why I entrusted you with their destruction. But because of your failures, they constantly interfere with my schemes to have adults... rule the world! That angers me. I will no longer tolerate failure. Destroy the Kids Next Door... (flames up)... OR ELSE!!! (pause) Well... (flames up again)...WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!
Delightful Children From Down The Lane: Can we borrow the Really Really Incredibly Destructive Machine? Pretty please???
Father: Ohhhhh...well, okay, but I don't want so much as a scratch on it when you're done! Got that?

Numbuh 1/Mr. Uno: Now hand over that age-changing device.
Delightful Children From Down The Lane: Why should we listen to you?
Numbuh 1/Mr. Uno: BECAUSE, I'm an adult, and goody-goody children like yourselves have to obey adults. So, gimme.
Delightful Children From Down The Lane: (Look at each other) No fair! (Give it to him)
Numbuh 1/Mr. Uno: Who said life was fair?

Father: I should have destroyed you and your miserable friends a long time ago! I was certain my children could handle such a minor annoyance, But they are a disappointment.
Numbuh 1/Mr. Uno: That must run in the family.

[edit] Trivia

This marks the first appearance of Father, though he was mentioned in Operation: C.A.N.N.O.N. and Operation: Z.O.O.
This continued the cliffhanger at the end of Operation: C.A.B.L.E.-T.V.

Preceded by Operation: Q.U.I.E.T./Operation: R.A.I.N.B.O.W.S.	Codename: Kids Next Door episode Operation: G.R.O.W.-U.P.	Succeeded by Operation: C.A.T.S./Operation: P.O.P.