OPERATION: TAPIOCA (Teens And Pudding Inconvenience Our Childish Agents)

mini-synopsis: the KND battle evil teens and clean up tapioca pudding.

summary:

teens are escaping with a truckload of goods! but never fear, Numbuh Two is on it--he heroically thwarts the evil teens' plans, earning him the praise and admiration of all his teammates.

cut back to reality. Numbuh Two is relating his daring exploits to his Grandma at a retirement home, but she seems more eager to get rid of him than anything else. and she keeps calling him "Tommy" instead of "Hoagie." he returns to the Treehouse, where his teammates are not at all competing to give him accolades. it turns out the truck that the teens were stealing was full of tapioca pudding, which is, as Numbuh Four describes it, "the grossest flavor of pudding." and Numbuh Two is blamed for the truck having crashed into the Treehouse, resulting in the necessary cleanup that they now have to do.

Numbuh Two is given the job of inventing something to get rid of the tapioca, and he's up late working on it. he's then suddenly attacked by the evil teens! Hoagie sets off the Teen Alert alarm, but the teens suddenly freak out for reasons unknown and retreat. when the other KND answer the distress call, they don't believe Two when he tells them what happened. it doesn't help that he tried to make himself out to be a hero. back at the retirement home, we discover that the evil teens are none other than Numbuh Two's grandma and her friends, using anti-aging cream to...youngify themselves.

the next day, the "teens" attack again, and they and the KND battle. the "teens" seem to have the upper hand until the cream wears off, and they once again revert to their wrinkly, senile selves. Numbuh One orders an attack but Two intervenes--she's his grandma, and besides, they're really, really old. but when the KND stand down, the "Senior Citizen Squad" "age-a-tizes," forming a mecha-type thing. they grab the KND, tauntingly inform them that they'll be taking the tapioca, and launch into a long lecture about "hard work and determination and good hygeine" prompting Numbuh Four to scream, "just take it already!"

2x4 technology of the day: the MERRY-GO-ROCKET (Monstrous Electron Rocket Rotates Your Grown Opposition 'Round On Carnival Kontraption Eliminating Teenagers)

quotable quotes:

Numbuh Two: "you guys can't hurt my grandma and a bunch of old guys! look at 'em! they're just confused and tired! they can't even drive the speed limit, let alone harm us! fighting them would be like taking candy from a baby...without getting any candy!"
Old Guy (Sheldon): "what are they saying? is it time for bingo?"

bizarro's blathering: this episode introduces everyone's favorite mean old bat, Grandma Gilligan (a.k.a. Lydia) who will go on to be bitter and ruin social events in episodes to come.