KND STORYBOARD PAGES (season four part 2)

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season four!

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46B: Operation: MATADOR

Writer: Mo Willems

Storyboard: Guy Moore

First appearance of

ERNEST

Fun Fact:

When we were auditioning voice actors

for sports announcer Nick.

we received a tape from actor

Dave Wittenberg.

On it was

one of the

WORST

Howard Cosell 

imitations 

in the history of

forever!

But there was

something about his voice that we really liked.

He had presence

and great energy.

So we tried him out as Ernest

on this episode

and Mr. Wittenberg killed it.

After that little test,

we used him for a ton of characters

including one of my favorites,

Numbuh 74.239

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47A: Operation: MUNCHIES

Writer: Mo Willems

Storyboard: Kim Arndt

Fun Fact:

This is one of those shows that would have

seriously benefitted

from today's technology,

Endlessly animating backgrounds.

Complicated vehicles that rotate.

Characters in obnoxiously detailed attack gear.

Asking an overseas studio to hand draw this kinda stuff 

is asking for trouble.

These days you can build a 2-D rendered 3-D model of a

S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G.D.A.R.T

and no one has to

suffer drawing it making a 360 degree turn!

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47B: LUNCH

Writer: Mr. Warburton

Storyboard: Kim Arndt

Fun Fact:

The premise of this

episode is a classic example of

what KND is all about:

GROWN-UP CAFETERIA WORKERS 

ARE TOO LAZY TO DO THEIR JOB 

SO THEY STEAL FROM KIDS.

And I still love this

piece of 2x4 tech:

THE LOCKAH-SOCKAH!

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48A: Operation: CLOSET

Writer: Mr. Warburton

Storyboard: Maurice Fontenot

If this wasn't a KND episode,

I think it would have made a fun live action movie

(using a lot of CG, of course)

With its epic avalanche,

grand scale,

and 

Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe-like journey

it could totally work!

Or not.

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48B: Operation: KNOT

Writer: Mr. Warburton

Storyboard: Guy Moore

FUN FACT:

I really liked this story but

it kinda got away from me.

Somehow we shipped the show too long 

(something we rarely did)

and we had to

cut out a TON of stuff when it came back.

We sped up dialogue

and cut down held shots

and finally finally finally 

got it to time.

But the story has always felt rushed and

choppy to me since then.

Bonus Fun Fact:

 If you think Moosk sounds 

similar to a ranger named

Minsc 

(from one of my all-time favorite RPG's

Baldur's Gate)

That's because they're both voiced

by the 

superb-amatic

Jim Cummings

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49A: Operation: SNOWING (part 1)

Writer: Mo Willems

Storyboard: Matt Peters

Fun Fact:

This is another story that came from a dream.

(When you're writing sooper huge epic stories every week

you tend to eat, sleep and dream stories)

The dream wasn't about a

snow day,

but it did have those school bus walkers

picking up children 

who were trying to escape

school.

A word of advice:

Keep a notebook next to your bed and

write down stuff you dream about.

You won't remember it in the morning!

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49B: Operation: SNOWING (part 2)

Writer: Mo Willems

Storyboard: Kim Arndt

Fun Fact:

Gallagher Elementary was

named after the fabulous

Mrs. Warburton

(nee Gallagher)

 but the radio also mentions

Kendall Prep

(after rockstar BG designer Gideon Kendall)

and

Myers Elementary

(after kick-butt character designer Todd Myers)

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50A: Operation: MAURICE (part 1)

Writer: Mo Willems

Storyboard: Maurice Fontenot

First Appearance of

NUMBUH 9

Fun Fact:

By this point in season four,

Mr. Willems had announced he was leaving to become

a failed children's book writer.

So he wrote a 

story about an outstanding operative named 

Maurice

(Mo's given name)

that everyone

desperately missed when 

he was decommissioned.

Ridiculous, right?

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50B: Operation: MAURICE (part 2)

Writer: Mr. Warburton

Storyboard: Guy Moore

Fun Fact:

We always got a

LOT 

of complaints from fans 

about how unfair

decommissioning is.

(and I STILL do)

But when this episode revealed

that there was actually an elite group of KND

operatives over the age of 13,

a collective sigh of relief 

could be heard around the faniverse!

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51A: COUCH

Writer: Mr. Warburton

Storyboard: Kim Arndt

Fun Fact:

I really wanted to give this board to Matt Peters

but it didn't fit into his rotation.

Not that Kim couldn't handle it.

It's just that this show was really about

big stoopid dumb guys and

Matt Peters

knows 

stoopid.

And I mean that in the most complimentary way possible.

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51B: Operation: LOVE

Writer: Mo Willems

Storyboard: Matt Peters

Fun Fact:

Everyone who touched this episode

NAILED IT!

Mo's songwriting.

The design team's costumes.

Matt's choreography.

And,

of course,

Steve Rucker's music.

We wrote the lyrics

but Steve made the songs 

SING!

Some of his best work on KND!

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52A: Operation: FERAL

Writer: Mo Willems

Storyboard: Maurice Fontenot

First Appearance of 

Numbuh 74.239

 Numbuh 71.562

and

Numbuh 275

Fun Fact:

After watching Disney's Tarzan

I thought that if a man could be raised by apes,

why couldn't a kid be raised by Rainbow Monkeys?

Bonus Fun Fact:

Numbuh 275 was based on a boy named Jacob

who made a request through the

 Make-A-Wish Foundation

to be a character on

Codename: Kids Next Door.

Sooper character design king Tom Evans 

made this drawing for him, too!

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52B: Operation: DODGEBALL

Writer: Mo Willems

Storyboard: Guy Moore

Fun Fact:

In the original story,

Numbuh Four was the Beetles of dodgeball prophecy.

But then Mo came in my office to tell me

that Wallabee had to LOSE the 

match with the Dodgeball Wizard.

Why?

Because his little brother Joey

was the Beetles of prophecy.

And I was all like:

Bonus Fun Fact:

This board was another of Guy Moore's

finest moments

although Cartoon Network did ask us to 

tone down some of

the urban destruction

during the dodgeball match.

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If you're still hungry for more,
head on back and grab seconds from
the previous seasons:

Season One (part 1)

Season One (part 2)
Season Two (part 1)
Season Two (part 2)
Season Three (part 1)
Season Three (part 2)
Season Four (part 1)