50 Fun Facts About Codename: Kids Next Door

Where is the main headquarters of the worldwide Kids Next Door organization, itself a giant treehouse?

On the Moon sits the organization's treehouse command base. Sector V once staged a fake lunar colony in Hollywood so that adults sent up to settle there would never discover it.

Which small animals power the treehouse and weapons of Sector V in Codename: Kids Next Door?

Hamsters keep Sector V's base running, and it shows when they leave. In one mission they go on vacation, the treehouse loses power and Gramma Stuffum attacks the defenceless team.

Numbuh 3 of Codename: Kids Next Door is devoted to which line of stuffed toys?

Rainbow Monkeys are Numbuh 3's great love, and villains exploit it. The boss of the company that makes them once used her to track down real, living ones for him.

Father, the shadowy arch-nemesis of Kids Next Door, turns out to be which relative of Numbuh 1?

His uncle is the twist: Father is the brother of Numbuh 1's dad, Monty. The feud runs a generation deeper too, because the brothers' own parent is the tyrant Grandfather.

In a running Kids Next Door plot, what do Sector V try to steal from the Delightful Children every year?

Their birthday cake is the prize in a whole string of missions. One plan to pelt the party with eggs backfires when a chick hatches out of every single one.

What is wiped from Kids Next Door operatives when they are decommissioned on turning 13?

Their memories of every mission go, along with all knowledge of the organization. Those who dodge the process often turn villain, which is how the heroes gained teenage enemies who know their secrets.

What is the real name of the no-nonsense leader of Sector V in Codename: Kids Next Door?

Nigel Uno leads Sector V with total devotion. He neglects his girlfriend for missions so often that she once strapped a mind-control helmet on him to win his attention.

Kids Next Door met characters from which other Cartoon Network series in a 2007 crossover special?

Billy & Mandy shared the half-hour special, The Grim Adventures of the KND. In it Mandy tricks her way into running the whole organization while Numbuh 1 is stuck posing as Billy.

What decided that the Codename: Kids Next Door pilot would become a full Cartoon Network series in 2001?

A viewers' poll crowned the pilot in a Cartoon Network event called The Big Pick II, and first place came with a full series order. The runner-up, A Kitty Bobo Show, never became a series.

Numbuh 5 of Codename: Kids Next Door is known for which unusual way of speaking?

Using third person, a habit called illeism, is her trademark: she says Numbuh 5 where others would say I. The relaxed second-in-command of Sector V also doubles as the team's spy.

Which cheerful Sector V operative of Kids Next Door goes by the code name Numbuh 3?

Kuki Sanban is Sector V's happy-go-lucky medic and tactician. Her mother is the boss of Numbuh 2's mom, who once invited the whole family over in the hope of a promotion.

What nickname does Numbuh 2, the joke-cracking engineer of Sector V in Kids Next Door, go by?

Hoagie is short for Hogarth, the engineer who builds the team's machines. He once had to hide out with an Amish sector, hating every minute, while a mystery enemy kidnapped fellow scientists.

Numbuh 4, the short-tempered fighter of Sector V in Kids Next Door, is which nationality?

Australian Numbuh 4, real name Wallabee Beetles, is the team's brawler. His baby brother may be tougher still, having beaten several villains while still a baby.

Which cool-headed second-in-command of Sector V in Kids Next Door is known as Numbuh 5?

Abby Lincoln is the team's unflappable spy and a devoted hunter of rare treats. That passion has taken her aboard a pirate ship and across a desert to win back a stolen prize.

Which girlfriend of Numbuh 1 in Kids Next Door constantly competes with his missions for attention?

Lizzie Devine dates Numbuh 1 for most of the run and once even seized command of his team. The couple finally break up in season 6.

Which older sister of Numbuh 5 turned against Kids Next Door and became field leader of the Teen Ninjas?

Cree once led Sector V herself before escaping decommissioning. She still cares about her little sister and keeps hoping Numbuh 5 will come over to the teenagers' side.

Which little brother of Numbuh 2 keeps begging to join Sector V on missions in Kids Next Door?

Tommy finally becomes an operative, then gives it up within a single mission. He deletes himself from the organization's code module to foil Father and carries on alone as a vigilante.

What kind of animal is Bradley, the honorary Numbuh 6 of Sector V in Kids Next Door?

A skunk rescued from the streets by Numbuhs 2 and 3, Bradley was made an honorary operative. After a car hit him, he was converted into a cyborg to save his life.

Father, the silhouetted villain of Codename: Kids Next Door, attacks operatives with which power?

Fire is Father's weapon, wielded from inside a suit that shows only his silhouette. When a doctor sent him away for a day, teenagers threw so wild a party at his mansion that his own children called Sector V for help.

Which drink do the adults of Kids Next Door make illegal for anyone under 13 in a bootlegging mission?

Soda pop becomes contraband once the legal age is raised. Numbuh 2 is caught selling it illegally in a bar and stumbles on an industrialist's plot to bottle children.

Which villain, really named Lou Pottingsworth III, do Kids Next Door and fellow villains rate the lamest?

The Toiletnator is shunned by heroes and villains alike. When other villains capture the Sector V treehouse, he arrives sure he is finishing the heroes off and undoes the whole scheme.

Which actor voices Stickybeard, the candy-loving pirate captain in Codename: Kids Next Door?

Mark Hamill plays the sugar-crazed captain. His pirate crew once raided the Sector V treehouse for its sweets and carried off Numbuh 5 along with the loot.

Which corporate villain of Kids Next Door turns out to be the dad of the Head of Decommissioning?

Mr. Boss runs Werk Co. and ranks second among the organization's enemies. The reveal comes when operatives rescue a small boy from a haircut and end up fighting the boy's dad.

In the Kids Next Door pilot, Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb anger local children by extending what at the pool?

Adult swim time is the excuse the two villains use to keep children out of the neighborhood pool. The short, No P in the Ool, went on to win the contest that turned the idea into a series.

In Kids Next Door, Numbuh 5 searches a temple for the legendary Fourth Flavor of which treat?

Ice cream has a long-lost extra flavour in the show's mythology, and only someone with pure taste buds may taste it. Numbuh 5 is kidnapped and made to find it for the Delightful Children.

What does Numbuh 4 accidentally eat in Kids Next Door, forcing his team to stop it being digested?

A Brussels sprout counts as an emergency for Sector V. The rest of the team launch a rescue in the style of the film Fantastic Voyage to reach the dreaded vegetable before his stomach does.

Fanny Fulbright, Head of Decommissioning in Kids Next Door, is better known by which operative number?

Numbuh 86 is also the organization's Global Tactical Officer. Her constant yelling wears down the boys of Sector V when they have to hunt an escaped prisoner alongside her.

In the Kids Next Door finale, Numbuh 1 says goodbye to Sector V in order to join which organization?

Galactic KND fights adulthood across many planets, and it picks Numbuh 1 as its first operative from Earth. A hidden faction had been quietly assessing him all season.

Which legendary discovery do Sector V of Kids Next Door find hidden in the depths beneath their school?

The Fountain of Youth tempts the team with the chance to stay ten years old forever. They are led to it by a classmate who has strangely aged into an old woman.

Rachel McKenzie, Supreme Leader of the Kids Next Door organization, is known by which operative number?

Numbuh 362 grows so weary of command that she once tried to resign. Her little brother leads Sector W, the younger team that races Sector V in the series finale.

The Delightful Children From Down the Lane, who serve Father in Kids Next Door, are revealed to be what?

Brainwashed operatives of the long-lost Sector Z stand behind the five prim villains. Their team had been missing for so long that many in the organization thought it was only a myth.

Knightbrace, the tooth-obsessed vigilante of Kids Next Door, was forced to work in which kind of family shop?

A candy store is where the would-be dentist landed after dental school expelled him for trying to put braces on babies. Watching sweets ruin children's teeth turned him into Knightbrace.

Which little sister of Numbuh 3 turns villain in Kids Next Door and creates the monster Spankenstine?

Mushi turns bad out of jealousy after wrecking her big sister's new toy. She later kidnaps a villain to build her monster and get back at Numbuh 2.

Which undercover group can top KND operatives join at 13 instead of truly being decommissioned?

Teens Next Door agents only pretend to be wiped, then spy on the teenagers from inside their ranks. Even they cannot stay forever, because real decommissioning follows at 20.

Which animator, once lead character designer on Pepper Ann, created Codename: Kids Next Door?

Tom Warburton, credited on screen as Mr. Warburton, has never let the idea go. Years after the finale he released an animatic pitching a sequel, and fans petitioned the network to make it.

The Teen Ninjas of Kids Next Door wear B.R.A. suits, an acronym standing for which phrase?

Battle Ready Armor is the combat suit of the teenage villains who work for Father. Numbuhs 1 and 2 spend a whole mission trying to learn its secrets.

How must a Kids Next Door Supreme Leader who wants to resign hand on the job?

A game of tag is the required way to resign, and whoever is tagged takes over. When Numbuh 2 accidentally tags Father, the organization's worst enemy becomes its commander.

Professor XXXL of Kids Next Door kidnaps Numbuh 1 to test snow cones because the boy is immune to what?

Brain freeze never troubles Numbuh 1, which makes him the ideal test subject. He walks into the trap while trying to rescue a ten-year-old supposedly accepted into college.

Monty, dad of Sector V's leader in Kids Next Door, was secretly which legendary operative number?

Numbuh 0 was a hero from so long ago that most operatives thought him a myth. Recommissioned in the TV film, he defeats his own parent, the tyrant Grandfather, for a second time.

Which illness sweeps the school in a noir-style Kids Next Door mystery investigated by Numbuh 2?

Pink eye claims victim after victim while Numbuh 2 plays the hard-boiled detective. His question is whether the cases are a coincidence or the work of a certain school nurse.

Heinrich Von Marzipan, candy-hunting rival of Numbuh 5 in Kids Next Door, is finally revealed to be what?

A cursed girl named Henrietta was behind the villain all along. A ritual with golden caramels had taken her femininity years earlier, and learning to share her sweets broke the spell.

What is the name of the ship sailed by Stickybeard and his Candy Pirates in Kids Next Door?

Sweet Revenge is no ordinary ship, since it carries its crew through the air and over land as well as by sea. Its cabin boys are named Chewy and Gooey.

Which future picture-book author was head writer on the first four seasons of Kids Next Door?

Mo Willems came to the series after creating Sheep in the Big City for the same network. He left the show to concentrate on his books, which include Knuffle Bunny and the Elephant & Piggie series.

The Kids Next Door began as troublemaking neighbours in which earlier cartoon pitch by the same creator?

Kenny and the Chimp got only one short, about a boy and his chimpanzee minding a lab full of deadly diseases. The rebellious children living beside the hero were then spun off on their own.

Which voice actor plays both Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 2 in Codename: Kids Next Door?

Benjamin Diskin voices the leader and the engineer of Sector V alike. He later won a Daytime Emmy for playing Gonzo and Rizzo in the revival of Muppet Babies.

KND added Codename to its title because another network was developing which similarly named show?

Pigs Next Door was in the works at a rival channel, so the planned title, The Kids Next Door, had to change. The fix gave the cartoon its spy-style name.

Numbuh 5's older sister once led Sector V of Kids Next Door under which operative number?

Numbuh 11 once commanded the same treehouse her little sister now defends. She escaped decommissioning and went on to become an apprentice to Father.

Chad Dickson, the Kids Next Door Supreme Leader caught hiding his 13th birthday, held which number?

Numbuh 274 led the whole organization until he was caught concealing his thirteenth birthday. A late twist reveals that he was secretly still an operative, working undercover among the teenagers.

Which school in Kids Next Door has James Nixon McGarfield as its fourth-grade President-for-life?

Gallagher Elementary is where Sector V go to class. Its scheming class president, whose name mashes up those of several American presidents, turns out to be allied with Father.

In the Kids Next Door TV film, Grandfather turns captured treehouses into factories making which food?

Tapioca is the fuel Grandfather runs on, so his zombified slaves are forced to keep making it. He needs the strength to find and destroy the Book of KND.