Codename: Kids Next Door, also known as Kids Next Door or by its acronym KND, is an American animated television series created by Tom Warburton and produced by Curious Pictures. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 6, 2002 and ended on January 21, 2008 after six years.
The series came about as the result of a viewer's poll by Cartoon Network. It briefly aired on Miguzi at 4:00 p.m. The current stratus for this show is "Playing on Cartoon Network Video", meaning that it's not on Cartoon Network but you can watch it on Cartoon Network Video. Since some time in 2010, the series came back to Cartoon Network as reruns. Sometimes the show comes on weekdays at noon.
Broadcast as two episodes per half-hour (except for a few half-hour episodes), the central characters of the series are five ten-year olds who operate from their treehouse against the tyranny of adults and teenagers. The central characters make up what is known as Sector V of a worldwide organization called the Kids Next Door.
The show revolves around the main home operatives of Sector V — Numbuh One (Nigel Uno), Numbuh Two (Hoagie P. Gilligan, Jr.), Numbuh Three (Kuki Sanban), Numbuh Four (Wallabee Beatles) and Numbuh Five (Abigail Lincoln). Their mission is to fight crimes against kids, such as homework and flossing, committed by adults, senior citizens, teenagers, and other "evil" children. They make up what is known as Sector V of a worldwide organization called the Kids Next Door.
Production
Warburton created a pilot episode for another show, Kenny and the Chimp. Originally, there was a group of children who called themselves "The Kids Next Door" among the recurring characters, and would often get Kenny into trouble. The plot-line was then changed to focus on the group of kids alone, and later, the kids battling adulthood. In 2001, the show's pilot episode, "No P in the OOL", won a Cartoon Network viewer's poll, and as a result, Codename: Kids Next Door wasgreenlit to become a series.
Reception
Common Sense Media wrote that the "silly cartoon is too violent for youngest viewers."
Awards and nominations
In 2005, The series won The Best Television Series for Children Award at The Ottawa International Animation Festival for "Operation: A.R.C.H.I.V.E.", which was written by Tom Warburton and storyboarded by Guy Moore. The following year, "Operation: L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E." won the Festival's Collideascope Award for Television Animation for Children.
Gallagher Elementary School | Delightful Mansion From Down The Lane | Camp Lemmeouttaheah | Cavity Cave (Video Game Location) | Chickenpox Island | DNK Treehouse | Hendry Middle School | Kids Zoo |
McClintock High School | Mr. Jelly's Candy Store | Romantic Burger | Supervillains Supermarket & Deli | Sprinkle Puff Donut Shoppe | St. Rita's Preparatory School | Tasty Taste Ice Cream Factory | Tieland Commons Shopping Mall | Balooka's Grocery Store | Burger Frenzy | Cowboy Kids Treehouse | Dr. Teef's Dentist Office | Fluffy Meadows Rainbow Monkey Retirement Home | Great Library | Hap-Happy Land | Lime Ricky's Bar (a.k.a. KND Soda Speakeasy) | Memorial Hospital | Numbuh 2's House | Numbuh 3's House | Numbuh 4's House | Numbuh 5's House | Numbuh 86's House | Pinhead Lanes Bowling Alley | Plush Meadows Stuffed Animal Cemetery | Rainbow Monkey Happy Sugar Land | Rainbow Monkey Island | Supervillains Supermarket & Deli | Sure Would Forest Senior Center | Tepid Waters Swim Club | The Alamode | Sectors
Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip • The Flintstones: On the Rocks • The Powerpuff Girls Movie • Party Wagon • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: House of Bloo's • Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation: Z.E.R.O. • Class of 3000: Home • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Good Wilt Hunting • Re-Animated • My Gym Partner's a Monkey: The Big Field Trip • Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo? • Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure • Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen • Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix • Ben 10: Race Against Time • Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S. • My Gym Partner's a Monkey: Animal School Musical • Underfist: Halloween Bash • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Destination Imagination • Ed, Edd, n Eddy's Big Picture Show • Ben 10: Alien Swarm • Firebreather • Level Up • Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens • Regular Show: The Movie • Untitled Adventure Time film