CNF Talkback: Kids Next Door (6/11/04) [ENCORE @ 10:00]

[Red]

Codename Kids Next Door: Operation F.U.T.U.R.E.

Friday, June 11th, 2004

It's Once Again Time For a Cartoon Network Fridays Talkback

Numbah 1! 2! 3! 4! and...uh...5! on CNF Tonight! (All Times are EST)

Time: 7:00pm

Reruns: 10:00pm

Synopsis

F.U.T.U.R.E.
Somebody thinks Numbah 4 is a girl, he says he's not, and the lady says he'll turn him into one. That's all I got from the preview.

Later Tonight: What's New Scooby Doo? And Billy and Mandy

Next Week: New Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon through Monday-Friday, and KND, Billy/Mandy and The New Scooby Doo.

NOTES

• R.I.P. Ronald Reagan
• I will be doing new Yu-Gi-Oh Talkbacks along with Duck Dodgers at the end of the month.
• Since I am a Mod now, I can do a new grading system with more that 12 choices.

Let's Begin!

[Freedom Fighter]

No one's reviewed this yet 45 minutes after the episode aired? Wow.

Okay, first of Season 3... I thought it was okay. A Numbuh 4 based plot which once again touches on his dislike for being around girls. How does he end up in these situations anyway? And to add to that, time travel episodes are always hit-and-miss.

I liked that we got to see Numbuh 3's granddaughter, Sally Sanban (weird that she has the same last name... maybe they did it so kids would pick up on her relationship... if it wasn't her look), as well as an old Numbuh 4, and what would be the grandkids of Numbuh 1, Numbuh 2, and possibly Numbuh 5 too (no confirmation on the last one)?

I didn't like the plot in general, though. Yes, some boys hate girls and vice versa. But enough to want to change every boy in the world into a girl? Hey, does this include the men, too? And where are the other adults in the future? Speaking of which... how did Margaret get a time machine? Then again, we're talking about series with kooky gadgets, rockets that take kids to a base on the Moon, and other such stuff.

Favorite moment... at the end, when '75 years later' Numbuh 4 is about to disappear, he tells himself, the present day Wally, that he regrets that he never asked out...

It doesn't take much to figure out who he wanted to say, huh? I swear, the show's been pushing a lot of hints lately. Either get them together already or stop with them! It's driving me crazy!

And I know far too well what happens everytime there's a speculation of two characters on a show getting together.

Oops, almost forgot to mention... new ending! The credits show on half the screen while a repeating scene on the right. This episode's? The 'future Margaret' robot stomping on the 'girlyfier' ray gun.

[Xfox]

The first half of the episode was good. Maybe because Numbuh 4 is one of my favorite characters and I like watching episodes centered around him. It had a sense of fun.

The second half kinda fell apart, mostly because of logistic problems (some of which FF mentioned). Though it's always tough to get time-travel episodes of any show to make perfect sense.

Overall, pretty good though.

[shogunthethird]

wow, I didn't catch much of this episode but from what I saw it was highly reminiscent of Dexter: Ego Trip with the bloated enemy and all that (and frighteningly enough, Margaret or whoever the old bag was with the mega-girlyfier cannon but if she were skinnier and without the technology she'd be my old college social studies teacher....she absolutely HATED males, especially independantly thinking ones, but that's a rant for another time

[CookieS]

They've really been developing Numbah Four since mid-way through season 2. I wonder what's up with that?

[True Noir]

There was only once that I saw this show besides last night. Last night's episode was pretty good. I liked it a lot to be honest.

[Pokejedservo]

It was one of the better written episodes in the series, both me & my older brother would agree on that.