Thread by @AnarchyInDaUS

Ok honestly the Kids Next Door universe is dystopian as fuuuuuuck

Like the Delightful Children from Down the Lane are *like that* because they were brainwashed and tortured

Lizzie's debut episode involves her mind controlling Numbuh 1 with a "Boyfriend Helmet" that isn't like a top secret gadget, she bought it from an ad in a tween magazine and Numbuhs 5 and 3 treat it like its a common product

And the effects of said helmet become permanent when the helmet literally FUSES WITH YOUR SKULL

At least Professor Triple Extra Large just wants to make the world's perfect snow cone...even if he fuses himself with a variety of animals

Ok maybe its just nostalgia but I really appreciate how many chances this era of cartoons took. Like this episode contains no dialogue, just music, and is about how each member of Sector V deal with there being a fly in the tree house.

There's another episode that riffs on The Second Renaissance. Like...no kid was watching The Animatrix and understanding it. What kid growing up in the early 00s was familiar enough with Predator to get all those references in the lice episode?

And like, we ATE THIS SHIT UP, or at least the kids i grew up with did. Dont get me wrong, I still love modern cartoons and in no way am I doing the whole "UGGHHHH KIDS TV SUCKS NOWADAYS" cuz thats just lazy. They're different media environments

Oh and another episode includes an Indiana Jones esque treasure hunt that climaxes with the villain trying to dip Numbuh 5 into molten chocolate so he can literally eat her...like and he already did it to a bunny. Thats some dark shit

This literal baby is smoking a cigar

Oh boy I bet Numbuh 362 looooooved seeing Sector V humiliate themselves on a children's TV program

Out of all of the like monster of the week villains The Common Cold was always my favorite. I have absolutley no idea why

Oh, back to the dystopia thing. The KND literally have a full fledged military esque academy in Antarctica where they train kids on how to beat adults and like...it makes sense in universe since the Teens and Adults are literally genocidal

I just remembered the episode where the villain makes Apple crumbles out of PINK EYE CRUST! I...And like you watch kids eat them...🤢

Numbuh 2's mom has a soup cannon...ok, yeah why not

Why hello Numbuh 274, I remember you, youre plot relevent

"Last surviving Kids Next Door on the planet" well good thing yall have a goddamned moonbase

A moonbase that is, like, fully manned

I didnt know Amy Poehler was a Kids Next Door villain

Mega Mom and Destructo Dad were wearing masks that were literally just big versions of their faces and Numbuh 274 couldn't tell they were his parents?

YOU HAVE A WHOLE MOONBASE OF OPERATIVES WHY IS NUMBUH 4'S SUBSTITUTE A HAMSTER????

Ok I take it back, Numbuh 4 deserved to be replaced by a hamster

More dystopia: This episode features a Kids Zoo. As in a Zoo where teens and adults go to watch kids in cages as exhibits

I swear to god knowing the backstory of the Delightful Children from Down the Lane makes every encounter they have with Sector V absolutley disturbing

There is no bigger butt monkey in this entire series than the goddamned Toilenator

WHY DOES NUMBUH 5, SECTOR V'S SECOND IN COMMAND, NOT HAVE THE CODE TO TURN ON THE TREEHOUSE DEFENSE SYSTEM????

My boi the common cold is back!

Rainbow Monkeys are the official mascot of the gay agenda

Numbuh 3's bunny robot Hippy Hop just cannot catch a break. First it was smashed by a giant turnip and now it was smashed by Father's Big Bad Evil Machine

Yo the season 1 finale has so many callbacks. Hippy Hop, the Baby Ray Cigar, Numbuh 2's Fly Suit

Numbuh 1 got turned into an adult...but I guess Numbuh 86 and the decommissioning squad were busy

Tbf they dropped the ball hard with the whole Chad/Numbuh 274 incident, and the fact that Cree exists, so I wouldn't put too much stock in their abilities

"We don't have any of our 2x4 technology weapons" YOU HAVE A MOONBASE AND AN ENTIRE GLOBAL NETWORK OF KND SECTORS

FATHER IS THE COOLEST VILLAIN EVER

Fun fact he is voiced by the same VA that voices The Hunter in the episode of Dexter's Lab when Monkey gets kidnapped and has to basically replay Predator

Bro USE THE AGE RAY ON FATHER LIKE THE YOUD END THE KID GENOCIDE LIKE RIGHT THERE

On to Season 2

The Hunter i said was voiced by the same VA as Father is in fact named Simion

Considering the last time one of Numbuh 3's toys got damaged she legit blew up part of the tree house to get revenge...Numbuh 4 is IN SOME SHIT

The villain is trying to stop kids from drinking soda. Did...did Michael Bloomberg write this episode?

Bro Root Beer doesn't even have caffeine

A prohibition era noir themed episode. Again, this show is is so cool with how it bends genres

They are bottling kids? IM TELLIN YALL THERE IS A LEGIT KIDS GENOCIDE HAPPENING IN THIS UNIVERSE

THIS GUY LEGIT BOTTLED 100,000 KIDS! BRUH

Bro these kids and their Father have tried to actually murder you on multiple occasions and yall are treating this obvious trap as a normal party?

And like even if it isn't a trap...THEY HAVE TRIED TO MURDER YOU WHY ARE YOU IN THEIR HOUSE AT ALL

Oh yeah its a trap, cuz of course it is

Ok so the trap caused Delightfulization which is later established to be totally permanent and basically a fate worse than death so again...this shows universe is fuuuuuuuuucked

Ok so the Delightfulization cause by the laser wasn't permanent because plot but honestly that makes Father's method of Delightfulizing the Delightful Children from Down the Lane even more fucked up

How many times is this show gonna make me type some form of Delightful or Delightfulization over the course of 6 seasons?

Count Spankulot is only like 1 tier above the Toilenator

Ok so it is totally canon that a complete stranger is legally allowed to spank people's kids in the middle of the night without the parents knowledge or consent...again...FUCKED UP

Mr Wink and Mr Fibb are creepy as fuck

Yes, even creepier than the spank happy vampire

CREE IS HERE

Real talk Kids Next Door taught me what bras were

The whole plot of this episode is Numbuh 1 and 2 finding out what a bra is, sneaking into Cree's room and stealing her bras. Which, like, is creepy BUT in their defense they really were Battle Ready Armor and Cree is a villainous teenager soooooo

Apparently the captions for Kids Next Door was paid for by the US Dept of Education. Huh.

Tapioca pudding does kind of slap tho

I'm honestly surprised its taken this long to introduce senior citizen villains

I think I'm done for the night lol

Ok im back for this last thing, This dude, who im pretty sure was also the camp counselor villain in season 1, is making fast food out of kids and feeding them to sharks. Like, im telling yall, child murder is a normal part of life in this universe

Ok knowing the backstory of Numbuh 1's dad makes his wanting to spend quality time with Numbuh 1 tear jerking as fuck since Numbuh 1 is kind of a dick to him

Ok but like, shouldn't Teens and Kids kind of be natural allies? Like, what teenager idolizes adults?

They literally have a prison on the moonbase for teen and adult war criminals

Numbuh 5 having her own subplot about her being a Ice Cream/Candy treasure hunter is dope as fuck

My headcanon is that the mythical 4th ice cream flavor is coffee flavored

I dont care that its yellow

Oh yeah i forgot Numbuh 274 is still supreme leader

WHY WOULD YOU PUT VITAL SYSTEMS THAT CAN BE TAMPERED WITH IN THE CELL INSIDE A PRISON TRANSPORT

Numbuh 86 and the decommissioning squad are, uh, incompetent, to put it mildly

86 herself is pretty insufferable

Numbuh 362 is an actual girl boss. Numbuh 86 could never

Numbuh 5 trying to explain the concept of death to Numbuh 3 is adorable

Some would say that Numbuh 4 beating up the hamsters for stealing his soda is overreacting but id do the same thing to anyone who steals my Dr. Pepper

The treehouse is haunted by souls of hamster who have died from the Kids Next Door using them to power the tree house via hamster wheels

There is something legitimately terrifying about the vengeful souls of exploited hamsters climbing out of the mouths of their skin suits

Hamster ghosts like soda. Yeah, ok, why not

More proof of the child genocide happening in this universe, a 10 year old got accepted into Oxford and the adults are planning to literally dissect and steal the child's brain

Oh yay Professor Triple Extra Large is back! And this time he's part octopus

Ok I jumped the gun on the dissecting brain thing. Its just Prof. XXXL trying to make a snowcone that won't induce a brainfreeze

I'm like 80% sure the VA for Professor XXXL also did voices for The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald

I would, without a doubt, be a regular customer at an all cheese restaurant

Ok why is there a huge shogun outpost in the middle of the town?

The escape from the Cheese Mines is very Temple of Doom

Why do I feel like Numbuh 1 giving a bed time order is pretty antithetical to the KND

Youre telling me that the Kids Next Door cannot disseminate classified information to anyone other than the lead operative of a sector? Even the second in command? That seems horribly prone to causing problems. Oh wait, yeah, thats the whole point of this episode

Like under what circumstances can Numbuh 5 officially assume operational control of Sector V if Numbuh 1 is incapacitated? I need these answers

Kids Next Door taught me what bras are but they never explained the difference between normal socks and tube socks

Another experimental episode that has every member of Sector V retelling part of a story and each one is animated in a different way

Lol wtf even is copyright

The cake episode dont really add a ton to the lore but...uh...Numbuh 1 and Lizzie's relationship isn't what I would call particularly healthy

Wait. So. The cake is alive? And they were still gonna eat it? I mean, sentient mustaches are canon so I guess I buy it

Why hasn't Mushi been sent to the Kids Next Door academy in Antarctica?

So Cree was a 2x4 tech expert and was Numbuh 11

Mushi is the emotional center of this show

Numbuh 5 blasting her sister out of an airlock was cold. Effective...but cold. AND THE FACT THAT MUSHI HELPED!?

Apparently Numbuh 92 is Timmy Turner

Wait, are you telling me Cree is such an effective evil genius that every time she loses its literally a part of her plan?

"Where would we find knights on a beach!?"

...idk. maybe the big sand castle?

Ah so the football helmet kid from the Delightful Children is actually an undercover KND operative? I am button mashing X to doubt

My button mashing paid off. Ok, break time

I love how Numbuh 2 can just buy jet fuel at the hardware store

I feel like a kid who actively stops the KND from flying would be treated as an active threat by the organization and not just an annoyance for Numbuh 2 to deal with

Father has an entire Ninja Army on retainer

This shows portrayal of Japan is uh...not culturally sensitive to put it very mildly

"Mr. Train Driver san"...oh boy

"Little girl san"...OH BOY

Why did Numbuh 3 take a plane to Japan when the rest of Sector V were already there

Numbuh 1 is scheduled for decommissioning? Oh wait...its Numbuh 86 so im now taking bets on how bad she has fucked this assignment up

Literally the entire Decomissioning squad is completley incompetent

Numbuh 86: "I dont make mistakes" Merida, your entire career is nothing but fuck ups

Wait, Numbuh 274 is supreme leader why can't he just call off the decommissioning? I mean, I know why, but like Numbuh 1 should be questioning this

Bro just let Tommy join the KND, send his ass to Antarctica. He'll be out of your hair for at least a little bit

Ok I get Sector V got their memories wiped but how do they not believe Numbuh 1's explanation? They are LITERALLY ON THE MOON

Also, broken window on the moon base apparently doesn't cause catastrophic decompression

Numbuh 274 doin suspicious stuff...I wonder whyyyyyyy

Numbuh 274 is 13 and has been Supreme Leader for 5 years? MOTHERFUCKER WAS 8 WHEN HE BEGAN LEADING THE WHOLE ORGANIZATION????

I mean they ARE floating to the sun so thats bad but like...they're drifting. The moon is 150 million kilometers so...they got time to figure shit out

Wait 86 offered recommissioning but like (tbf this hasn't been established in universe yet) the recommisioning device built by Numbuh 0 is locked in the museum in Antarctica and like, doesnt work

I love how boarding school is always presented as literally prison in American media

Also I'm glad we finally get a Numbuh 4 solo episode. He seems to be the least developed member of Sector V

I have to say I was not expecting "Boarding School that forcibly turns boys into girls" as a plot point

Oh I thought I already tweeted this but last episode Numbuh 274 escapes decommissioning and joins Cree, cuz she's more persistent than...uh...very persistent things

Oh boy this episode is basically the future of the Terminator films except instead of killer robots its Girls trying to destroy the Boys

Ok so this episode takes place 75 years in the future and the Kids Next Door have been destroyed, but Numbuh 4 restarts it so thats officially the 8th Age of the KND (the normal show takes place during the 7th, after Numbuh 0 recreated it to defeat Grandfather)

HIPPY HOP IS BACK

Ope Hippy Hop got smashed again. Thats 3/3

Uh the mission specs were sent 3 terasecs before mission control spoke to Numbuh 1? A terasecond is 1 trillion seconds...

They wasted no time in making Chad (Numbuh 274) into a main villain

Numbuhs 5 and 3 are about to beat the shit out of Lizzie

You'd think the "Annual We Hate The Kids Next Door Barbeque" would be like a high value target for Kids Next Door High Command. Like, this organization never utilizes their full military potential that we know they have

You watching Numbuh 1 absolutley freak out after seemingly watching Numbuh 2 literally die is kind of gut wrenching

Ok this episode is legit kinda terrifying considering all the kids are getting literally eaten one by one

DID NUMBUH 5 LITERALLY GET SAVED BY STICKY BEARD?????

Forgot to tweet on a couple episodes so here's my thoughts:
Operation UTOPIA: Utterly horrifying. The idea of adults trapping kids in a simulation essentially to make them obedient slaves? Almost as bad as Delightfulization.

Operation FOUNTAIN: These two part episodes are easily the highlights from this show. Each season has a couple and they are all fantastic. The fountain of youth being underneath the school and the episode essentially being another Indiana Jones adventure is dope

Ok now back to actual live tweeting

Numbuh 1's hatred of the beach because of his workaholism (is that a word?) is funny, but he has a point. If I was a secret agent kid I'd definitley have more fun fighting evil adults than swimming in the ocean

Oh he lost his trunks, thats the literal worst

The ad on Numbuh 5s tween magazine for the Boyfriend Helmet from episode 2 is again proof that this world is the worst kind of dystopia

Hes resigning because he...lost his swim trunks?

Good job Numbuh 1, you just traumatized your whole team because you lost your swim trunks

Someone needs to tell Numbuh 4 that "Gone" isn't spelled "J-O-W-N"

This episode establishes, as official Canon, that Nigel Uno has a phat ass

Oh yeah, leaving a group of cadets alone in the Academy in Antarctica seems like a great idea. What could go wrong???

Father can transform his appearance? I feel like that would be more useful than just impersonating Numbuh 86

Yeah leaving the Code Module completley unguarded was a real cash money move

Apparently Father is canonically interested in KND autographs

ITS THE SECOND RENAISSANCE EPISODE! this episode is a literal work of art

I love how the Treehouses are like ancient structures created at the beginning of time

So I think this episode is *implying* that the adult that started the adult/kid conflict was Father, but that gets retconned by Operation ZERO

Lol I love how Cleveland is the Canon homeland of the exiled adults

It can be assumed that *most* of this episode is probably not canon because future episodes contradict a lot of it and Numbuh 1 probably isn't the most reliable narrator. But the fact that the teacher acknowledges that "They Know..." some of it is probably true

Everytime Numbuh 86 shows up i die a little inside. Little Merida is so insufferable

Numbuh 4 going undercover as Numbuh 4-30-Teen-7 is...genius?

Ok the revelation that Numbuh 86 doesn't have any friends is kinda sad

Its kinda heartwarming that Numbuh 12 just takes the fact that 86 has no friends and just says, "Hey, we're friends now"

I enjoy the idea that all the Kids know eachother because their all literally war buddies and went to the Antarctic Academy together...which is also kind of a dark revelation

NUMBUH 12 IS A TRAITOR

Oh God oh fuck the Teens/Adults have the Code Module

Thats actually a bad. The Code Module contains info on every KND operative

I swear to god The Rainbow Monkey song is the most infuriating ear worm ever

Mushi may be adorable but let's not forget that she's also a cold hearted bitch when she needs to be

Numbuh 3 calling Mushi an airhead is...ironic?

Possum-chasing-mauling-fun rainbow monkey...uh...what?

Lol everytime this show needs to dip something in acid or lava they just make it nacho cheese

King Sandy is a cradle robber

Ok this scene made me spit my drink out

Now its the Pink Eye Apple Crumple episode!!!! Another absolutle classic

Why does Numbuh 86 care that Numbuh 2 isn't in math class? Isn't school like antithetical to the KND?

Yeah I could have told you that calling Numbuh 86 "toots" was uh not a good idea

Can you infect waterbaloons with pink eye? That sounds like a hilario...I mean terrible prank

The school nurse is using Pink Eye crust as the topping for her apple crumbles. Yuck

Ah the 3rd Cake episode. These are always fun

Numbuh 2 may be smart but a reminder that Intelligence is knowing eggs go *in* cakes (he's got that) but Wisdom is knowing eggs don't go *on* cakes (he ain't got that)

Numbuh 2 is only good at one liners in his solo episodes

The Delightful Children eating a birthday cake covered in literal chicken shit is actually hilarious

Ooooohhhh Count Spankulot is back!

Numbuh 1 randomly waking up from his spank induced coma to say he's gonna go find Numbuh 5 isn't suspicious at all

Ok all the kids being transformed into spank happy vampires is pretty terrifying

Oh hey, a King Kong episode, except here Kong is a giant rainbow monkey

Numbuh 4 may be dumb but you can't deny he gives a shit about his team and does have at least some common sense

Numbuh 5's candy treasure hunting episodes are the literal best

Numbuh 5 makes a perfect Indiana Jones and Heinrich von Marzipan makes an amazing Belloq

I truly believe this show should be studied

King Two Tons Of Candy is just funny to me

Wait did Numbuh 4 really not know they were Sector V?

Numbuh 60 is a regular Sergeant Major Johnson

How did they not teach Tommy what a BIRTHDAY SUIT was in boot camp?

So Father's Animalization ray only affect KND operatives but doesn't affect the Delightful Children? Uh...but...it kinda should?

Tbh Tommy is definitely better suited to being a solo character than an addition to Sector V.

Numbuh 5 is infinitly better at one liners than Numbuh 2 and its not even close

Why do cartoons always say Cul de Sac? I've never heard an actual human say that but I always here cartoons say it

I like to think that everytime anything crashes into the Treehouse, it just becomes a permanent addition

Honestly this show also has stellar sound design

Ah Night of the Living Dead but with nerd zombies lol

The operative in the hospital is a hamster isn't it

Numbuh 3 only gets this worked up over hamsters

Oh hi Cree

Wait so Cree has used a drill to scramble the brains of 13 other operatives? W T F

Oh not a hamster, its Bradley the Skunk

The 4th Grade President, James Nixon McGarfield, apparently is powerful enough to make demands of the schoolboard

Homework eating werewolf huh

Tiny Puddle Poodle Pea Pod. Worst dog name ever

Lol a literal cat scan

Lets be honest Brussels Sprouts are literally the worst vegetable. Those things are disgusting

I love how the toiletnator is the villains butt monkey

HIPPY HOP IS BACK

Hippy Hop has been smashed :(

SEASON 4 BABY

Another Numbuh 5 Treasure episode! And this one is based off Temple of Doom

Heinrich trying to make a chocolate bunny out of a real bunny is fucking demented

Heinrich got Temple of Doomed himself. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

Numbuh 3's mom is a fuckin bitch

Clue, but the victim is Numbuh 3's rainbow monkey

Genki Sanban is not very...genki

We've known Mushi was a sadistic monster for a while now, so this isn't a huge surprise

Oh my god this is amazing

GRANDMA STUFFEM IS BACK WITH A FUCKIN ROCK OPERA?????

This music fuckin slaps

KND prisoner exchange. Numbuh 1 says they aren't giving up anything of value, Toiletnator walks out. Yeah that checks out

The macaroni museum of art...that holds the rainbow monkey lisa

Pretty sure there is no more formidable force of nature than when Numbuh 3 is angry over someone doing something bad to anything related to Rainbow Monkeys

Wait, Numbuh 5 made the Rainbow Monkey Lisa?

In the midst of a chicken nugget gold rush the Delightful Choldren show up at Numbuh 1's saloon wearing a singular belt. Honestly I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this episode

BAR FIGHT

I...I think this is the first time Numbuh 4 has called Numbuh 3 Kuki

This show has a fascination with Westerns

"When I look into Lizzie's eyes I can tell she's not a jerk"

Relationship goals honestly

HOW DOES NUMBUH 1 JUST KNOW ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF A MIRROR WORLD DIMENSION?

Oooh I wonder who this big bad evil mysterious voice with a vaguely Australian accent is in this mirror dimension

Negative Numbuh 86 is actually more insufferable that normal 86

Oh shit negative numbuh 1 and negative Lizzie have crossed into the real world

Oh shit now all of negative Sector V have crossed over

Numbuh 4 can tell Negative Numbuh 3 isn't Numbuh 3 because of her eyes. Again, adorable

Ok so this episode proves that Numbuh 4 is a legit badass

Another Birthday Cake Episode!

Farfegtuben...far...feg...tub...en

This episode is a tube race