Line #74 Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorS4E4OperationPOOL


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3	'''Now loading Recap for Operation: P.O.O.L.:'''
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9	Numbuh 4's new pool is actually [[PortalPool a portal]] to an AlternateUniverse of the KND world where [[MirrorUniverse their counterparts known as the DNK (Destructively Nefarious Kids) are evil]]. [[BizarroUniverse The kids do all the adults job whereas the adults sit around and play video games.]] While swimming in the pool, Lizzie is captured by an evil opposite of herself, Eizzil Enived (Lizzie's name backwards), and Nigel follows the captor back to her home universe. Unfortunately, it seems the invasion hasn't been stopped just yet...
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11	!!This episode includes examples of:
12	* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
13	** Negative Numbuh 86 and a few other DNK members start laughing when Positive Sector V mock Negative Numbuh Four and his goatee.
14	** Negative Numbuh 2 makes a pun about Negative Numbuh 4's cow-ardice and goat-ee that has everyone but Numbuh 2 laughing, as he doesn't find it humorous.
15	* AmbiguouslyChristian: A Bible can be seen in the Little Traitor Dudes' home upon entering, but considering it's an alternate universe it's unknown what their actual faith could be.
16	* AsideComment: After Negative Numbuh 86 tearfully admits that she wants to pretend to be a [[PrincessPhase pretty princess]] rather than an imposing soldier, Numbuh 2 leans over to Numbuh 3 to whisper that she's definitely Numbuh 86's opposite.
17	* BaitAndSwitch: The first half ends with Numbuh 1 and Lizzie emerging from the pool and gasping for breath, making it look like everything worked out... and then "Numbuh 1" smiles and reveals [[IdenticalTwinIDTag his missing tooth]].
18	* BaitAndSwitchSilhouette: The negaverse counterpart to the Delightful Children From Down the Lane, the Little Traitor Dudes For Children's Defense introduce Numbuh 1 and Lizzie to their "Daddy" who initially appears to be a {{Sinister Silhouette\|s}} like Father, only for him to step out of shadows and reveal that his appearance is that of an ordinary man.
19	* BeardOfEvil: Negative Numbuh 4 invokes and lampshades this trope.
20	* BrickJoke:
21	** At the beginning, Numbuh 4 complains that he'd rather go to the beach since he'd at least be able to get buried in the sand. TheStinger during the credits shows that they filled the pool with sand to cover the portal, and Numbuh 4 is happily buried up to his neck in sand.
22	** Numbuh 1 and Lizzie wonder if Negative Numbuh 2 is a great comedian. Negative Numbuh 2 only cracks one joke, but it makes everybody laugh (well, everyone except Positive Numbuh 2, that is).
23	* CardCarryingVillain: All the counterparts, but Negative Numbuh 4 especially as TheNapoleon-like EvilGenius proudest of his villainy.
24	* ColdBloodedTorture: Negative Numbuh 4 subjects the positive KND to this ForTheEvulz upon capture. Of course, being a children's show, viewers have a ScreamDiscretionShot as we hear the KND yelling in torment before we see them in the aftermath in tattered clothes and groaning in pain.
25	* ContinuityNod: In TheStinger, Numbuh 4 sings his "buried in the sand" song from "Operation: B.E.A.C.H.".
26	* CowardiceCallout: When Negative Numbuh Four brags to Numbuh Four that he's his exact opposite by calling him stupid, he counters by saying that if what he says is true, it means that he's a coward.
27	* CowardlyLion: In spite of his fears, Numbuh 4 finds it in himself to learn to swim to save his friends. TheStinger shows that he still prefers being buried in sand over swimming, however.
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29	* CurbStompBattle: Numbuh 4 is shown to have beaten the utter crud out of the negaverse counterparts of his friends and Eizzil.
30	* DecoyProtagonist: Despite the first part of the episode focusing on Numbuh 1 and Lizzie's escape from the Negative World, it's Numbuh 4 who actually gets to beat his own negative counterpart and save the day.
31	* DefeatEqualsFriendship: When Eizzil beats Negative Numbuh 4 back into the negaverse, she declares "get out of my ''friend's'' world", implying that Numbuh 4 beating her and the other members of the DNK up caused her to warm up to him.
32	* DefiantCaptive: Apart from briefly asking "Why are you doing this?", the KND and Lizzie refuse to break and even crack jokes at Negative Numbuh 4's expense. While he's torturing them.
33	* DirtyCoward: Negative Numbuh 1, taking pleasure in bullying Numbuh 4 (someone smaller than him) with his fear of swimming up until Numbuhs 2, 3 and 5 tell him to quit it. Eizzil also has shades of this, backing down whenever someone more assertive than Negative Numbuh 1 talks back at her. Ultimately, Negative Numbuh 4 is the biggest coward of them all. He relies on bodyguards and striking fear into others in order to maintain his tyrannical rule.
34	* DisproportionateRetribution: The leader of the DNK threatens Eizzil alone with banishment to the broccoli mines, despite that Negative Numbuh 1 was just as responsible for letting the real Numbuh 1 and Lizzie escape.
35	* DudeNotFunny: Numbuhs 2, 3, and 5 admonish Negative Numbuh 1 for trying to push Numbuh 4 into the pool.
36	* EmpathicEnvironment: The negaverse is overcast and dark until Negative Numbuh 4 is oust from power.
37	* EveryoneHasStandards: The KND may not be big on being respectful, but even they [[DudeNotFunny don't see any humor]] in bullying Numbuh 4 by pushing him towards the pool.
38	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Negative Numbuh 4 cannot understand why anyone wouldn't want to [[LetsYouAndHimFight fight their friends for the honor of joining his ranks.]]
39	* EvilDoppelganger:
40	** The DNK are this to the KND, and their members have opposite personalities. To contrast, the LTDFCD and "Daddy" are the {{Good Counterpart}}s to the DCFDTL and Father.
41	*** Eizzil hates Negative Numbuh 1 (though she comes to like him after he [[TookALeveLInBadass grows a spine]]).
42	*** Negative Numbuh 1 is very wimpy.
43	*** Negative Numbuh 2 is actually funny.
44	*** Negative Numbuh 3 is a cruel girl.
45	*** Negative Numbuh 4 is smart and a MilesGloriosus.
46	*** Negative Numbuh 5 is an uncool geek with buckteeth and glasses.
47	*** Negative Numbuh 86 is timid and wants to act traditionally feminine.
48	** The DCFDTL are represented in the negaverse by the [[InvertedTrope "Little Traitor Dudes For Children's Defense"]] (LTDFCD), as a SurferDude themed LaResistance who live with their kind and caring (if cowardly) father in a trailer.
49	* EyeDentityGiveaway: The Negative doppelgangers can be discerned from their original versions by looking into their eyes.
50	* FaceYourFears: Numbuh 4 overcomes his fear of the water and teaches himself to swim in order to get to the negaverse and defeat his evil self.
51	* FisherKing: The Negative world is under constant cloud cover for the majority of the episode. Once Negative Numbuh 4 is defeated, they finally part to reveal the sun.
52	* FlunkyBoss: Negative Numbuh 4 turns out to be this. As Numbuh 4 tells him, he doesn't need anyone to pick his fights for him so Negative Numbuh 4 must be the opposite.
53	* ForTheEvulz: Negative Numbuh 4's reason for torturing positive Numbuhs 1, 2, 3, 5, and Lizzie.
54	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
55	** The LTDFCD have "traitor" in their name, implying that they were former DNK operatives who defected. ''WesternAnimation/OperationZero'' reveals that the Delightful Children are brainwashed KND operatives.
56	** Daddy inexplicably looks like a human while Father is a {{Sinister Silhouette\|s}}. ''Operation: Z.E.R.O.'' would reveal Father wears a bodysuit and looks exactly like his mirror-world counterpart.
57	** Negative Numbuh 1 slips and asks Numbuh 4 if he can go to ''his'' treehouse before correcting himself.
58	** The Negative members of Sector V are shown floating up into the negaverse after Numbuh 4 beats the crap out of them, but Eizzel is suspiciously absent. When Negative Numbuh 4 attempts to flee to the Positive universe in order to restart his conquest, Eizzil is waiting for him and kicks him so hard back through the portal that he flies onto the concrete.
59	* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Played with; the heroes can tell friend from foe by looking in their eyes. Both Numbuh One and Four are able to immediately tell they weren't talking to their LoveInterest and reveal that, when looking into Eizzil and negative Numbuh Three's eyes, there is no kindness like in their positive counterparts. But, thanks to [[BlackBeadEyes the artwork style]] the audience themselves can't tell the difference. In the ending scene, Nigel comments to Eizzil how her eyes have now changed (after her HeelFaceTurn) and look much kinder.
60	* HeelFaceTurn: The entire DNK, barring Negative Numbuh 4.
61	* HorribleHousing: The LTDFCD live in a tiny trailer with old food boxes littering the shelves. It's a dark inversion of the BigFancyHouse their villainous counterparts live in.
62	* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Or rather identical counterpart ID tag. Except for Lizzie and Eizzil, there's always some trait that marks the main cast apart from their counterparts.
63	** Positive Numbuh 1 has heavy chains on until Negative Numbuh 1 loses a tooth.
64	** All the positive KND members get minor ClothingDamage (thanks to the ColdBloodedTorture) that their counterparts lack.
65	** Negative Numbuh 5 has glasses and a dorky smile.
66	** Negative Numbuh 4 has a BeardOfEvil that he's very proud of.
67	** Negative Numbuh 2 and Negative Numbuh 86 have a negative sign next to the numbers on their helmets.
68	* IgnoredEpiphany: Numbuh 4 finds Negative Numbuh 1 and Eizzil's actions suspicious, but gets distracted thinking about pizza before he comes to a conclusion.
69	* JustJokingJustification: When Sector V admonishes Negative Numbuh 1 for trying to push Wally into the pool, he tries to brush it off by saying he was only joking.
70	* LogoJoke: The scene transitions in this episode have the KND logo replaced with a logo for the Destructively Nefarious Kids.
71	* MachiavelliWasWrong: As soon as Negative Numbuh 4 is exposed as a coward, his soldiers abandon him because they're tired of living in fear.
72	* MiningForCookies: Being sent to the Broccoli Mines is considered the harshest punishment the negaverse has to offer.
73	* MirrorUniverse: The premise of the episode.
74	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Numbuh 4's CurbStompBattle with Negative Sector V. All we see is him sucker punching Negative Numbuh 3, his PreAsskickingOneLiner to Negative Numbuh 1, the screams from his victims and them emerging beaten from the portal later.
75	* OneManArmy: Four single-handedly beats the entire Negative Sector V to a pulp.
76	* OutOfCharacterAlert: Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 4 both realise Eizzil and Negative Numbuh 3 aren't their positive counterparts because their eyes give them away as callous {{Jerkass}}es.
77	* PortalPool: Opened by the DNK into Numbuh 4's pool.
78	%%* ThePowerOfFriendship: See SpotTheImpostor below.
79	* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
80	** After sucker punching Negative Numbuh 3, Negative Numbuh 1 weakly attempts to defend himself and his teammate, only for Numbuh 4 to grab him and deliver this:
81	-->'''Numbuh 4:''' Well, what are ya waiting for, princess? Let's ''dance''.
82	** Eizzil delivers one before kicking Negative Numbuh 4 back into the negaverse, having come over to Numbuh 4's side in the time since he fought off the rest of Negative Sector V.
83	--> '''Eizzil:''' Get off my friend's world!
84	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Negative Number 4 has red outlining his eyes rather than black.
85	* RousingSpeech: Negative Numbuh 86 gives one to Negative Numbuh 4's troops to inspire them to stop taking his orders.
86	* ShipTease:
87	** Numbuh 4 near-instantly figures out that Negative Numbuh 3 is an imposter by [[GoodEyesEvilEyes looking at her eyes]]. Rather tellingly, this is '''exactly''' how Numbuh 1 was able to deduce that Eizzil wasn't Lizzie. While Numbuh 4 ''[[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend claims]]'' that "[[ThePowerOfFriendship It's called being a friend]]", it doesn't explain why he failed to identify Eizzil and Negative Numbuh 1 this way right away.
88	** In the end, Numbuh 3 tells Numbuh 4 she's proud of him for learning to swim and hugs him, to which he smiles and hugs her back. They take a moment to laugh together before jumping through the portal to go back home.
89	* SdrawkcabName:
90	** Eizzil.
91	** Even the acronyms for the evil Kids Next Door and good Delightful Children From Down The Lane have their acronyms backward as the Destructively Nefarious Kids and the Little Traitor Dudes For Children's Defense respectively.
92	* TheStinger: Numbuh 4 having a pool party on his own terms: by having said-pool filled with sand so he can be buried in it up to his neck.
93	* SmartBall: Numbuh 4 has this moment when confronting his Negative self:
94	-->"[[ArmorPiercingResponse Well, If you're my opposite... then]] [[WhamLine that makes you a COWARD!]]"
95	* SpotTheImpostor: Pulled off twice: Numbuh 1 was able to determine Eizzil wasn't Lizzie when he followed them into the Negaverse, then when Numbuh 4 meets up with the negative counterparts of Numbuhs 2, 3 and 5, he determined just that with Negative Numbuh 3.
96	* StatusQuoIsGod: Played with. Numbuh 4 has learned to swim by going through the portal, and Numbuh 3 even lauds him for this. However, just because he ''can'' swim doesn't mean he ''wants'' to. All the same, he prefers to transfer the swimming pool into a sandpit pool.
97	* SurferDude: The Little Traitor Dudes For Children's Defense are dressed in swimwear and have Californian accents.
98	* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: After spending the whole episode and presumably much of his reign sending everyone who displeases him to the Brocolli Mines, Negative Numbuh 4 is forced to work them after the rest of his troops abandon him.
99	* ToiletHumor: When the pool bubbles around Numbuh 2, 3 and 5 think he farted in it.
100	* TooDumbToLive: Numbuh 4 sees "Lizzie" and "Numbuh 1" acting suspicious. His thought process? [[RebusBubble "2 + 2 = Pizza"]].
101	-->'''Numbuh 4:''' Makes sense to me!
102	* TraitorShot: Negative Numbuh 1 reveals his true identity when coming out of the pool when he shows off his tooth gap.
103	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Numbuh 4 has to deal with learning to swim in order to use the PortalPool.

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