Operation: G.R.O.W.U.P.: Getting Really Old Will Upset Plans
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Operation G.R.O.W.U.P.: Getting Really Old Will Upset Plans is the first half-hour episode and thirteenth broadcast episode of the Cartoon Network's series Codename: Kids Next Door. The Kids Next Door's archfoes, the Delightful Children from Down the Lane, defeat them and turn Numbuh One into an adult.
On the sidewalk, Numbuhs Two through Five are 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's 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 they have, a striding tripod with tentacles. 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 a ray to turn him into an adult!
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.