Operation: K.N.O.T./Operation: C.L.O.S.E.T.

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1 Operation: K.N.O.T.
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[edit] Operation: K.N.O.T.

Kids' Necks Overwhelmingly Tied

[edit] Plot/Synopsis

This episode begins with Numbuh 1 (who not only is British, but his bedsheets look like the flag of Great Britain) being awakened by his mother calling his name. Groggily, he gets out of bed and the next thing he knows, a snake-like creature that resembles a necktie attacks him!

After the opening credits, we see Numbuh 1's mom (well, most of her body except her face) sitting quietly at the table downstairs working on a crossword puzzle while the sounds of yelling, fighting, and crashing are heard. Then Numbuh 1 crashes downstairs in a heap... with the tie around his neck! His mom comments on how handsome he looks in his new tie for school, but Numbuh 1 tells her that not only is it not cool, it nearly killed him. Numbuh 1's mom just tells him to hurry along before the school bus arrives and hustles him out the front door. Numbuh 1 tries to explain that he looks like a dork with the thing around his neck, but she slams the door shut before he can finish.

Reluctantly, Numbuh 1 walks down the sidewalk with his lunchbox in hand. Unbeknownst to him, however, a stranger is lurking in a bush behind him, watching him. He reaches out his hand and touches his tie. Numbuh 1 quickly grabs the mysterious adult and throws him to the ground in front of him. The tie falls off. Numbuh 1's lunchbox turns into a gun, which he levels at the stranger and orders his hands up. The adult just laughs. He says that he should be happy to have his necktie removed. Numbuh 1 discovers what had happened and is astonished. The stranger, who has a very thick Russian accent (and refers to Numbuh 1 throughout this episode as "Comrade 1"), introduces himself as Vin Moosk, the famous tie hunter. Numbuh 1 doesn't like him very much. Moosk says he heard that Numbuh 1's school had just passed a new dress code, in which boys have to wear ties to school. He asks Numbuh 1 if he would like to join him in going to find and destroy the eggs that hatched the neckties so kids would never have to wear ties. But first, he needs the KND's 2x4 technology weapons to do it. Numbuh 1 doesn't trust adults and smells a trap. Moosk just says that although Numbuh 1's tie had been removed, there will be another one waiting for him tomorrow and then the day after and the day after, but not the day after that, since that's Saturday and then there's Sunday. Numbuh 1, growing tired of this, says he gets the point. Moosk hands him the map of "Tieland", where the ties come from, in case Numbuh 1 decides to go with him. But as he leaves, Moosk warns Numbuh 1 to "choose quickly, because time and ties wait for no man!"

That night, in "Tieland", Moosk and two other comrades (one named Windsor and the other named Froggy McDougal, who looks very frog-like and had his finger bitten off by a tie from the 1970s) are sitting around a campfire, contemplating whether or not Numbuh 1 will come. Eventually, he does with a whole backpack full of KND weapons. He tells Moosk that while it appears he has no record of any anti-kid activity, he still doesn't trust him. They all introduce themselves and then go into a deserted temple, which as Windsor explains, was originally (and still resembles today) a shopping mall (called the "Tieland Shopping Mall"). Now it's deserted with only ties living there.

As they head through, Moosk levels his gun at Numbuh 1 and fires! Numbuh 1 ducks from the long plume of white liquid that passes over him and starts accusing Moosk of trying to attack him. Moosk was really firing at a giant tie. After Moosk fired, the tie was covered in a white stiff liquid, starch. Moosk explains that if that tie got around Numbuh 1's neck, he'd become an office flunky. Numbuh 1 questions why Moosk hates ties. It happened that Moosk was an accountant in a business firm. One day, when he was trying to concentrate on his work (and he was wearing a tie), he was growing more and more uncomfortable in his seat. His tie was really itchy. Finally, Moosk snapped under the strain and he grabbed his tie and yanked it off and ran off to become the anti-tie man he is today. Back at the present, another giant tie arrives. It's the Queen Tie and its breath hits Froggy in the back. Froggy has been turned into a businessman! He goes off to attend to some business. Meanwhile, Numbuh 1, Moosk and Windsor escape to the center of the temple, full of tie eggs.

They ready to blow up the place as the Queen Tie arrives. They place starch bombs everywhere. But Moosk can't find the detonator needed to set off the bombs. Luckily, Windsor has it. Then the Queen Tie breathes on him! But as we discover, the tie's breath has no effect on him for some reason. Moosk and Numbuh 1 are amazed. The reason the monster's breath doesn't affect Windsor is because he is actually wearing a tie! It turns out Windsor is a junior executive. Moosk was the star accountant at Windsor's father's business. After Moosk rejected his tie and escaped, the company's stock went into a nosedive and Windsor's father was livid. Windsor decided that in order to get Moosk to go back to his job, he would lure Moosk to the Queen Tie so that Moosk could wear ties whether he liked it or not. Windsor also decides that Numbuh 1 would make a good executive, too. Windsor then asks if Moosk will do it the easy way or the hard way. Moosk, to Numbuh 1's disbelief, says that Numbuh 1 should wear ties... over Moosk's dead body. He then shells out some Spray Starch guns and fires at the detonator. The starch covers the detonator and it explodes. Starch flies everywhere and Windsor is covered in it. He sics the Queen Tie on Numbuh 1 and Moosk. The tie goes after them.

Numbuh 1 and Moosk retreat. Outside, a SCAMPER arrives to pick up Numbuh 1 and Moosk. Only Numbuhs 2 and 4 are aboard and they, too, have neckties on. Numbuh 1 and Moosk try to jump on, but the tie wraps its tail around Moosk's leg and pulls him and the SCAMPER back. He tells the boys to just go. There will always be someone trying to make him wear ties. But the boys are young and they should not wear ties. Moosk concludes that if he could save kids from wearing ties, he will have done good. So Moosk lets go of the SCAMPER and starts wrestling with the Queen Tie until it explodes. The ties around Numbuhs 2 and 4's necks die and fall off. Numbuh 4 asks Numbuh 1 who Moosk was and Numbuh 1 sadly replies, "A comrade."

Back at his job, Moosk is once again wearing a tie. Windsor gleefully tells him that Windsor's father needs those budgets reports ASAP, so Moosk will have to work all night again. Windsor also gives Moosk a delivery package. Moosk opens it up and it's a can of Spray Starch. Moosk goes crazy fighting ties again. We pull out of the building to reveal who the delivery man is: Numbuh 1 in disguise.

[edit] Notes

Numbuh One episode
Villains: Windsor and the Queen Tie
Ally Debuts: Vin Moosk
This marks the second time an adult tries to help the KND since C.O.W.G.I.R.L.
Also, we finally see what Numbuh 1's mother looks like (sort of).
LOTR Reference: Froggy, Moosk's other comrade besides Windsor, resembles Gollum for the LOTR trilogy.
KND Technology used: LUNCHBOCKS, Spray Starch, SCAMPER
Villain Technology used: Ties