I feel like Mr. Fizz had raised the legal age for soda consumption just so the children just stop drinking it all, and he can have it all for himself to fuel his carbonated addiction. But regardless, even if the source of addiction is something harmless, addiction still takes a mental toll on a person's life.

@nevaehhamilton3493

5 ай бұрын

Addiction can come from literally EVERYWHERE, regardless of how harmless. There's addiction to social media, addiction to coffee, addiction to candy, and hell, there's even addiction to pickles! People can absolutely become addicted to just about anything. And all addiction should be treated the same way you'd treat any other mental illness: therapy, and medicine.

@Colonel_RamRod

5 ай бұрын

Been addicted to pain pill and soda at different points. Trust me, soda can eff your teeth up pretty bad. So it’s def not harmless per se 😂

@jeffgoode9865

5 ай бұрын

Caffeine and sugar are BOTH horribly addictive, so it was a very real, physical adduction.

@robbiewalker2831

5 ай бұрын

Thank goodness I go for diet soda. But yeah, despite the codename literally being short for “pre-teens oppose prohibition”, this episode seems more about addiction moreso than prohibition; because wouldn’t it be hypocritical to ban drinking a delicious beverage just so you can have it all to yourself over your own addiction problem? That’s not prohibition, that’s an oppression. Though, as someone who’s autistic, I can relate to Mr. Fizz in some ways; I love soda, and I have a hard time listening to people when hearing more than one voice speak in a jumbled mess; and while I’m trying to be calm, things escalate in a negative way that I needed a drink to calm my nerves; so despite Mr. Fizz being a villain, I’d be happy to share a cold one with him if he was more chill with children. If you want a better example of a “prohibition” episode, I say the SpongeBob episode with the Krabby Patty ban is more fitting, as it focused more on the “Speak Easy” angle than this KND Episode did.

@GarkKahn

5 ай бұрын

Also the quantity, something people don't understand is that the desired thing isn't about having it 24-7, but a form of escapism. If you have a "i need 1 XXXXXXX per day or else i can't go on" mentality then you're addicted, no matter if you consume a glass of water or an entire ocean

I loved this episode as a kid, but only TODAY did I realize this was about alcoholism and prohibition.

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

Right? Same here. As a kid, the alcohol references flew right over my head. I was confused as to why the adults would ban soda lmao.

@SageArdor

5 ай бұрын

@@DuskTillShawn this episode also makes me wonder, how many alcoholic adults today are alcoholics because they have an undiagnosed or unaddressed sensory processing disorder, and alcohol was their only way to cope without the stigma or exhausting process of therapy/medication/etc?

@ryanwilkins2233

5 ай бұрын

​@@DuskTillShawnRocko is your announcer.

@nevaehhamilton3493

5 ай бұрын

I learned about the Prohibition era of the 1920s in History class back in high school. One of the few things I remember were that Christians hated the idea of even touching a single drop of booze, hence the prohibition laws, the speakeasies, which were like underground bars that sold booze, and this mafia leader named Al Capone who only got arrested for tax evasion. It was a fun topic to learn about.

@dioshiba6066

5 ай бұрын

It was a bit obvious as a kid but maybe that’s just me being desensitized to history at the time it cane out.

Some root beer does have caffeine. It’s Barq’s entire thing. “Barq’s has the bite!”

@babypower14

5 ай бұрын

i love barqs its like the dark choclate of rootbeers but gotta watch the intake

@hiddendesire3076

5 ай бұрын

I always believed it was because their taste is sharper, rather than being more bubbly and fizzy like A&W, Mug, and numerous others.

@bimbodoki

5 ай бұрын

@@hiddendesire3076 well it was because of the caffeine haha

@babypower14

5 ай бұрын

its likely still super good feels like less sugar to but i doubt since sugar cane i believe is main ingredient most rootbeers@@hiddendesire3076

@donovanbradford8231

5 ай бұрын

I always thought that saying of "it has bite to it" came from from it having a stronger taste than say Mug or A&W which always seemed sweeter to me.

Seeing Chocolate boy one night helped me realize I had a problem with my addictions and helped me overcome the worst ones. I even had a printed photo of chocolate boy with his hand out and I glued photos of my bad addictions with a talk bubble saying "you don't need these".

honestly bottling kids feels like a punishment from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

@Nicholasmcmath-cr1xl

5 ай бұрын

Same

@comettamer

2 ай бұрын

Kinda, yeah

Just a point of trivia: some root beer brands do have a small amount of caffeine in them. Barq's specifically has around half that of popular colas.

@sonicmastersword8080

2 ай бұрын

Kids have also have been known to drink coffee in some cases.

It's interesting how these shows often hide the real idea with something toned down. But also unfortunate that they had to tone it down.

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

I totally see what you mean. This episode was so different from the rest though and I love it lol. Where other shows would barely touch the subject, this episode went full force haha.

@wraithreaper22

5 ай бұрын

I mean I see your point, but they are literally 10. Most 10 year olds don't struggle with alcohol addiction so it wouldn't make any sense to "not tone it down" because then it would be ridiculous and absurd. They would have to completely redo the episode from the teenagers perspective which would make a lot more sense.

@SergioLeonardoCornejo

5 ай бұрын

@@wraithreaper22 their parents do...

@wraithreaper22

5 ай бұрын

@@SergioLeonardoCornejo ok but that has nothing to do with them, or either of the points you or I made. So what about their parents? Most of the time in the show we don't even see their faces. Back to the points we were making, the teens would have been better IF they just made it alcohol. KND isn't that kind of show though so the kids and rootbeer made perfect sense. Especially since caffeine is a problem in and of itself.

@SergioLeonardoCornejo

5 ай бұрын

@@wraithreaper22 you don't understand. Kids do notice alcoholism. They do see alcohol as a problem if they see its effects. In fact before media was baby proofed, alcohol and drunkness were actually shown. Example, old Disney films.

I think the name Mr. Fizz was a reference to Mr. Freeze from Batman , especially with his combat suit

@jessicapinkman-hd4bw

5 ай бұрын

maybe since the show had a lot of bizarre references to other pieces of media such as alien terminater star wars Indiana Jones spider-man harry potter monster house maybe the godfather pirates of the carribian Moby dick star trek i think numbuh 5s dad is literally Bill Cosby which hasn't aged well dragon ball z superman chalkzone dawn of the dead the matrix the animatrix super mario that ice cream monster from the second episode kind of resembles bowser James bond lord of the rings the powerpuff girls maybe dexters laboratory reboot sheep in the big city xmen which was actually a large source of inspiration for the show as a whole myasakis castle in the sky which is another large inspiration as it's where the gigantic tree house sector v have came from west side story who framed roger rabbit the evil talking baby in the really weird episode mr b could be a spoof of baby Herman being essentially a middle aged adult in a babies body and with the cigar and his brooklin accent tarzan king kong the shonen mech battle series Gundam which serves as the inspiration for a lot of the fight scenes in the show Bram stokers Dracula and of course batman so this is likely

@michaelnally2841

3 ай бұрын

@@jessicapinkman-hd4bwwell good news it wasn’t bill cosby playing Numbuh 5’s father.

@jessicapinkman-hd4bw

3 ай бұрын

@@michaelnally2841 🤓

I have a softspot for junkies and addicts we all been there

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

I feel that for sure. There are a lot of addicts in my family and it's so hard to get out of that lifestyle when you get wrapped up in it. As someone with a really addictive personality myself, I empathize with people who struggle with addiction.

The fact that I watched this episode at my alcoholic grandparent's house as a kid without understanding at ALL what this episode was actually talking about, tells you all you need to know about how I obliviously bumbled through life as a child.

The only thing I remember about this show is The Delightful Children from Down the Lane. What great character design!

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

Right? The Delightful Children always creeped me out as a kid lol. They remind me of The Twilight Zone.

@Chimeragui

5 ай бұрын

@@DuskTillShawnI assume that was the whole point given their backstory.

@mhollis1989

5 ай бұрын

The Delightfuls were my favorite villain(s).

@manoftruth0935

5 ай бұрын

@@DuskTillShawntheir entire lives are a twilight zone story. Or rather… their brains. If you know what I’m referring to, there should be ZERO doubt you know.

@nathanvertil7355

2 ай бұрын

@@manoftruth0935 I see what you did there.

Yeah I can never forget Chocolate Boy from Hey Arnold or Linus from the Peanuts Gang when he came down to his blanket, and now he went through withdrawals if he was separated from his blanket.

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

I totally forgot about Linus and how intense his attachment to his blanket was! Chocolate Boy is a whole other story lol. I felt so bad for that poor kid.

Is crazy how this episode is based on prohibition

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

Right? It's mind blowing how "in your face" it is too. Like, they didn't even really try to hide it or do it subtly lmao.

Even though the episode clearly states that the kids are drinking soda, the fact that it’s being served inside beer mugs would’ve had the censors go crazy on this episode for that alone nowadays. Not saying that the shows that come out today are all bad (there were bad shows in the early 2000s too), but I do miss when kids shows were more blunt about the things that they were talking about. KND was super action packed and quite heavy on the symbolism and messages they conveyed at times. And this wasn’t a show aimed at teens or anything like, it was aimed at young kids.

@roonkolos

5 ай бұрын

Knowing it's specifically root beer the mug design makes sense knowing how barrels are a common association with that specific kind of soda BUT!!! You still make an incredibly great point regardless. Hell, maybe choosing that kind specifically was why they did so. Who knows

@AlyceMalyce

4 ай бұрын

I can remember getting rootbeer in mugs, especially at places like A&W back before it got bought by KFC, a lot of restaurants would serve rootbeer and rootbeer floats in glass mugs. But I get that it might have had some trouble nowadays with watch groups who forget these things.

@sonicmastersword8080

2 ай бұрын

It was a family show. You could rewatch it as an adult and understand a completely different perspective and layer of the show.

I was already in my teens when this series aired and my stepfather drank alcohol casually so I already knew this was a jab at prohibition even if it was technically restriction rather than outright ban like the CatDog episode mentioned in another comment. Likewise I recognized that Fizz was meant to be an alcoholic ("It’s a bit early for soda") thus him being the likely figurehead of the age restriction on soda is also meant to be another form of adult hypocrisy which the series was unapologetically critical of by its own creator’s word if I recall correctly.

tl;dr knew this was about alcohol right away as a kid, probably because i grew around drunks. im noticing a trend in the comments. a lot of people didn't realize this was about alcohol until years later. i was 10 ish when this came out. i was a little older and into history so i was aware of speakeasies already. i grew up on Sentara. anyways the point im getting to is, I knew this was about alcoholism even if i didnt know fully what alcoholism was at hat age. i grew around destructive drunks and addicts.

@GarkKahn

5 ай бұрын

I kinda realized it I joined the dots and related their situation with the prohibition, but failed to get the whole picture until i grew up

This dude really got drunk and started fighting a bunch of 10 year olds

Also, Mr. Fizz's character design and accent are both a reference to Ricardo Montalbán's character, Mr. Roarke from the show, "Fantasy Island." I can't think of any connection between the themes and style of this episode and that show, so I think it was just something the creative team liked and decided to go with.

@mitchfletcher2386

Ай бұрын

Actually, Jeff Bennett made up the voice while he was recording for Mr. Boss (another character on the show he voices), and the crew loved the voice he came up with.

For a long time, I misremembered this episode as the trapped kids being turned into root beer and Fizz drinking a whole bottle at the end looking for kids who hadn't turned yet The idea of which, scared me a lot more than it should have.

Damn this brought back some memories. And this show can go into major dark territory. I never care for those loony creepy theories that people were into for the longest time- but some of them actually really work with this show. This as an example, Mr. Fizz being the type of adult to bottle emotions is literally parents and adults that do not understand children predominantly due to their own emotional upbringing. So him acting this way is entirely justified- in his own mind and very likely to anyone of his age and similar upbringing. Is it right?? We all know that’s a fek no- but generational trauma is still its own brand of trauma and villainizing it, though justified in some eyes, can be seen as its own heartless cruelty as he has been hardwired to think that way. Father is another one to look at when taking HIS father as an example (and if you dig the lore it actually goes back MANY generations) you can easily see why he is the way he is. But it all pivots on people that say I don’t want to be my parent because they know it can be better (look at Numbah Zero as key example). If you stop and look at the adults as kids- yes you see the villain because kids can only see as they feel. But now as adults- we feel on an entirely different level. That being said- him stuffing kids in a bottle is horror movie crap and I’m the adult going to jail for kicking his ass.

@SeanWinters

5 ай бұрын

Very often, quietly dealing with emotions, denying them for the sake of stoicism etc. is confused for "bottling up"(what a load). The boiler theory, the idea that we need to "let off steam" is a roundly discredited theory. Otherwise the purge would make sense. There's nothing wrong with "bottling up" emotions as an adult, or whatever you'd rather call it, the fault lies in people justifying bad behavior afterwards.

@RogueT-Rex8468

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@SeanWintersexactly. But- as I’ve seen from my own experience. It’s still a tragedy because “every adult you’ve ever seen was a kid at one point in their life” but people in that life ruined them and somehow twisted them into thinking that was how it’s meant to be. Some can change…. Others just can’t. And that’s the biggest tragedy of it all.

Loved this show as a kid! disappointed that we might not see the sequel series (maybe one day..) but looking back on it now, I love the irony how the adults, especially the villains are just as childish, if not even more than the heroes who are actually children!

@GarkKahn

5 ай бұрын

Children have an excuse for being childish Adults not really

I'm a simple guy. I see KND on a thumbnail, I click it

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

KND is a rabbit hole that I'm so excited to go down further. It's such a fun and unique show! Thanks for clicking :)

@numbuh1507

5 ай бұрын

​@@DuskTillShawnno problem. Also, have you watched The Rhino and The Redbill animated short?

One quick correction: There are root beers that contain caffeine. Barq's has 22mg of caffeine per 12 oz., and there are various smaller brands of root beer that contain caffeine. In general with soda, unless it explicitly says it does not contain caffeine, you should always assume that it's caffeinated, and even after that, you should always check ingredient lists.

@nuclearcatbaby1131

5 ай бұрын

That’s the rule with brown soda. Fruit flavored/colorful soda generally doesn’t have caffeine (unless it’s Big Red or Big Blue)

Watched the entirety of KND back in September. Truly one of the best CN shows ever made

I loved Codename KND growing up, heck I even drew a fanart of the show involving Pokemon and Digimon. Looking back, I can agree that Operation: P.O.P. is an allegory for alcohol addiction and the Prohibition Era, not to mention Mr. Fizz literally bottling up children to control their rambunctious energy is a representation of parents and adults resorting to unorthodox methods to tame hyperactive kids while ignoring their feelings about restricted freedom at their expense

Even when I was young, I knew this episode was about addiction and age restrictions. The reason why I love this episode though because I myself loved drinking root beer and the writing was on the wall once the episode started out with the kids essentially having their own bar while Mr. Fizz himself was hogging up all the barrels every chance he could when having a glass.

Oh my god, this was a real gem of a show. A personal headcanon of mine that makes the show way funnier (and even more wholesome) is that this is all a massive game played between kids and adults in their communities. Like it's all LARPing. I know it doesn't always work for many episodes but as an adult I can't help but think how fun that kind of childhood that would be if you had the whole community in on some silly spy role play. I also remember Numbah 5 growing increasingly annoyed with Numbah 2's jokes as the series went on, then later everyone else got annoyed. It was a good running gag. Edit: Also, I remembered that they handled the topic of spanking really well by using vampire tropes to show how violent parents can make kids repeat the violence. So the show is really pro-child.

Every time I see the word "Prohibition," my mind moves towards the roaring 20s where alcohol was banned and led to the illegal business of bootlegging. I believe both the gangsters and Italian mafia took part in it. The antagonist of this episode was obviously a reference to the mafia since gangsters more commonly wore long coats I believe. The mafia was known for wearing its fancy suits, and the two red handkerchief folds in his white suit gives it away too

@aaaaaaaaaaaaa373

5 ай бұрын

Mr. Fizz is also clearly involved in production, while he's using the law to shut down his competition

Mr. Fizz is one of the most underrated knd villain.

I like the Bane reference with Mr.Fizz. Hoogie used Fizz weakness to Soda just like Batman exploited Bane's Venom In-take. Fizz Blew Up while Bane got Over Roided and passed out. Plus Fizz's addiction to Carbonated water, just to calm his nerves, is similar to how in Batman Beyond; Bane got so addicted to Venom he needed just to keep his heart going.

The “Name and Address Withheld” joke is awesome

This is the episode that introduce me to KND when I was very young, and seeing this again and learning the implications as an adult is something.

Have you ever seen the episode of Recess called - 'The Economics of Recess'? It's such a good microcosm to understanding Capitalism. I love Recess so much so many episodes were such bangers.

My favorite little bit in the episode actually is that he's specifically making Fiz find Numbuh 5 at the end. A lot more was made of the relationship between Numbuh 4 and Numbuh 3, but Numbuh 2 and Numbuh 5 also had a canonical romance that you sort of have to go back and look for. It was just a tiny little character detail to give a little added depth to the whole deal.

13:10 - 14:15 I think him being like that is his own twisted way of the "I don't want them to end up like me" thing, with a dash of projection with the insults.

I completely forgot about this K.N.D episode. Wow it’s barely subtle.

Great episode. I was actually very into CN in my early 20s and the way they snuck in adult references in their shows kept them entertaining. And as corny as Numbuh 2's quips were, no one could deliver them like he could. "It looks like fizz is the end for you!" Still great even though I'm still a big kid at 44

There was an epadoe of Catdog that played out like Porbation. Randel Rabbet who owns the town and is maye made Burgerbones illegal because he dossn't own that company. So cat sets up a speakeasy and Dog eats all the product.

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

Oh man, I remember that episode! It was a good one for sure!

@mitchfletcher2386

Ай бұрын

"Just Say CatDog Sent Ya!"

This is one of the shows I have yet to go back in watch. The entire premise of this show hit me right at home & I felt how hard it was to grow into a “teen.” I always thought it was so cool how the ideas in this show were told. I love conspiracy/meninblack type stuff & this just was great. If I go back in watch now I feel like I might get REAL nostalgic & sad bc this show was WAY DEEP at the end. *i NEED all rainbowmonkeys as well i

I find it amazing that Mr. Fizz calls the kids "caffeine-crazed brats" when root beer doesn't have any caffeine in it at all.

@evandaymon8303

5 ай бұрын

There's more different kinds of sodas then root beer. Although your point still stands. Kind of weird

@evandaymon8303

5 ай бұрын

Had look it up turns out root beer does have caffeine in it but it's small amount

@samanthawright9589

5 ай бұрын

​@@evandaymon8303not all of it

I think that a lot of the Number 2 centric episodes did this kind of thing. My favorite being the dinner party with Number 3’s sequel episode where they used chocolate sauce as a pun for getting drunk.

I wouldn't mind more videos like this one. This episode really shows that addiction is real and that prohibition is always a bad idea.

@lornadune2506

5 ай бұрын

Have you read the book angela's ashes? In real life, prohibition wasnt a wholly bad idea, it had some merit. The father in angela's ashes frequently spends all of his wages on alcohol, leaving his wife and children starving. Half of the six children Angela has throughout the book die, malnutrition and poverty being the primary cause. In real life, at the time, a man could completely screw over his family because of alcohol addiction and their wives typically had very little ability or power to leave. Not to mention a drunk man is much more likely to abuse his wife, and at the time there wasn't much she could do about it

KND was a show we were lucky to have as kids it paid homage to classic movies (King Kong, Spaghetti Westerns, and Jaws) to Comics like X-Men and F4 to tackling big issues like addiction with this episode and talking about Number 2's chocolate addiction this show was amazing and the way it ended still makes me cry

This episode kinda came true. In the summer of 2020, the Mexican government put black restriction stamps on all foods, especially Coca-Cola soft drinks, because it believed children were consuming them. As a result, it hurt sales of their products, which explains why the commercials seem uncreative and dull. And they barely sell promotional toys, pogs and keychains.

oh nice, i've been going through a bit of a KND hyperfixation lately myself! it was my first real fandom experience as a kid and the show still holds a very special place in my heart. there are very few shows that have the same vibe KND has, it was so unique and pulled off its themes perfectly

My favorite Jeff Bennett voice is Clay Bailey from Xiaolin Showdown.

I got the alchohol references immediately because i watched a lot of heavy movies as a kid lol plus my dad is a historian as a hobby

Mr. Fizz is one of my favorite villains from the series. As for favorite episode, it has been a while since I last watched the show, but I don't think I can ever forget the one I saw first. The Grandma Stuffum episode Operation: F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E.

It's nice of you reviewing this episoda.

I just LOVE Cree Summers. She voiced 2 of my favorite sassy characters. Numbah 5 and Foxy Love.

Awesome! A new DTS video! Happy Holidays!

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Shady! :D Happy Holidays to you too.

Your channel is so cosy and nostalgic. I love your cartoon network show theories and longform videos. Please do some on samurai jack. That is untapped potencial for this channel if i ever saw one

I don't remember if I'd watched all of the series back in the day, but I distinctly remember not seeing this guy again as the villain. And he was pretty competent as far as KND villains go.

Now I remember who the voice of Mr Fizz is. Jeff Bennet! I remember him from Class of 3000, he was Principal Luna.

Awesome, just found a new channel about 90's cartoons to watch! Subscribed.

Those are not beer kegs they used to make soda in barrels before they had factories to make them how they do now, soda was made the same way fermentation is done only to the point where there isn't alcohol content higher than .5%. (everything with sugar has a small alcohol content even fresh fruit off a tree)

i like how mr fizz was pretty much bane down to exploding from an OD of venom/root beer

babe wake up new dusktillshawn just dropped !!!!

I never seen this episode before but my personal favorite is mostly the one where they lose power in the treehouse

I Love Your Channel & Videos

I grew up watching Kids Next Door and I always loved the spy theme of this show. Have you seen Disney's Recess? It also had a similar military vibe that also featured kids as the main characters.

@DuskTillShawn

2 ай бұрын

Oh, man. I LOVE Recess. It's such a good show. I'm planning to make a longform video about it soon :D Thanks for your continued support, my friend! I really really appreciate you!

@AnimationBliss

2 ай бұрын

@@DuskTillShawn You're welcome!

Operation: P.O.P.

The ironic thing I love about this episode is, as a kid (before this show was even aired) Root Beer became my favorite soda simply because I thought it was Beer for kids. Its still my favorite soda and in a weird way, I got addicted to it so when this episode game out while I was in middle school, I felt *extremely* called out

"Get yourself an ice cream headace" i love when kids shows make pg insults that are actually creative.

This is one show I love looking back at and seeing what I missed, like there was this one episode where number 1 and 2 find out number 5's sister Cree got some new bra's (which they think is battle ready armor (which they are in the end)) and they end up stealing them and putting them on and when Cree tells them to take them off, number one tells her "think we'll put them to better use. Now I ended up realizing they had just called her flat.

I remember watching this and I thought I was pretty clever for seeing the parallels to prohibition. The whole adiction angle completely went over my head.

Awesome video :D

Loved it so much❤

The government in the world of KND seems corrupt. A lot of adults use their powers/jobs to make kids miserable. Some examples being Father, Mr Boss, Nurse Claiborne and Chester.

I love codename kids next door and I love this episode too

Thank you for mentioning that Root Beer is caffeine-free. I remember watching this as a kid and being frustrated with Mr. Fizz saying that kids were getting “hopped up on caffeine” even though the only kind of soda kids ever drank in KND was root beer.

Personally, well first admittedly I wasn't the brightest kid in school or at home or at all I was a little scheisse, i thought Mr Fizz was turning the kids into the root beer because why else was he keeping kids in bottle instead of just putting them into a room with nothing to do or sending them to their parents.

Me, several years after this episode airs, learning about prohibition in high school: Hey, wait a minute....

I forgot how many jokes with Numbuh 2 were either "HEEEYYYYY ITS HOAGIE WAZZ GUD" or "Hey did you know I'm a black market?" Love that guy

When he's messing with the conveyor belt, turning it on and off does require it to move back and forth so it's believe that it could be used to shake Mr. Fizz and fizz him up

i watched alot of Kids Next Door as a kid and this just brought back a wave of memories. My favorite episode would have to be Oparation L.I.C.E. Just remember that so well for some reason.

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

Oh man, just thinking about that episode gives me the creeps lol. That was such a good one though!

@shcdemolisher

5 ай бұрын

Ah Lice, aka the kid friendly Aliens inspired episode.

Man, I gotta give serious props for this background art like holy cow.

I love your videos so much!! The nostalgia makes me so happy and brings me back to my childhood wanting to experience it now with my baby girl🩷

@DuskTillShawn

5 ай бұрын

Awww, thank you so much! I really appreciate your support. :)

@neyssamarie0420

5 ай бұрын

@@DuskTillShawn you 100% deserve all the support and subscribers you’re videos are amazing☺️

This in my opinion was peak cartoon network. And this episode in particular was always one of my favorites. I have always enjoyed history even when I was younger. So I picked up on the prohibition tropes really quick. This episode really covers two things in my view. The big one being conformists (for a lack of a better word) vs rebellion. Which episode does with subtlety of a hammer. The machine bottling kids is a reference to Pink Floyd’s Another Brick In The Wall video which used a meat grinder to illustrate the point. And even though censors were still pretty lax back then they wouldn't have gotten way with that. Plus a bottle fits the theme of the episode better. The second thing this episode covers in a more subtle way is addiction through Mr. Fizz. It's aimed squarely at alcohol (again it fits the theme) with some the lines he says “Its to early for soda” and the like. But it can be applied to any addiction. Mr Fizz is clearly going through mood swings and is generally being irritable early in the episode. Those are some of the most common withdrawal symptoms. And when he has a drink as he is getting ready to fight he becomes much more even-keeled. So while the episode does point to the volstead act and says “Yeah that’s stupid”. It's being used more as a vehicle for the moral in the episode.

@donovanbradford8231

5 ай бұрын

Loved the Pink Floyd nodd as I know the song but have never seen the video for it. But the series is a goldmine of references and it so fun to go back and watch it to see what you missed as a kid.

Love your little house the kitchen is so cute

Oh this sounds like the KND episode with coffee ☕ that one was craaaaaazy

0:28 Love the SpongeBob reference, that actually cracked me up.😂

The AI generated kitchen is just too good. Sink faucet on the stove? Sign me up! I don't mind the continuity errors of the conveyor belt or the bottling machine since I don't watch cartoons for continuity in places I'm only ever gonna see in a single episode. I also feel like they avoided Dr. Fizz probably because they wanted to avoid any chances of some Dr. Pepper knockoff saw them using the name they use for their knockoff and decide to get lawsuit happy. Finally, my personal favorite episode is definitely Operation F.O.U.N.T.A.I.N. as episodes involving the fountain of youth or other means of causing age change (regression and/or progression) in characters have always been some of my favorite episodes in shows.

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Hahahahahaha I have a love hate relationship with it. It's was too funny not to utilize for this video though 🤣

I was a kid who didnt grow up on CN, mostly because of a combination of respect for my parents and their strange approval of exclusively scooby doo on the network, but i would catch the occasional episode of KND at parties with my extended family and the kids around my age and fell in love with it then. Even now, i have nostalgia for the show and need to get around to watching it in full for once. That is the weird part: nostalgia for a show i barely watched.

this was such a Unique show especially the one where I can see why Numba 1 made his history report because he was spewing out their lore which is a clear depiction of when people irl spew lore to our world that others consider conspiracy. also when they shown the school through the reports eyes you see a factory which means they some of the people in the show know of things that'd i'd type here but i know people would just reply to me of how Idiotic it is or that it's a conspiracy even though so much ""conspiracy"" is real.

KND was one of my favorite cartoons growing up. That and Megas XLR.

I love the fact that "Lime Ricky" which is the name of an actual cocktail was the password

They had more episodes portraying addiction than just this. Im surprised you didn’t do an honorable mentions. They have the chicken nugget episode, the pie crumble episode (that turned out to be eye crust), that rainbow monkey cereal episode.

Loved the show, especially when they did stuff with teens like when number 2 became one. Their brain drain when you get too old was pretty traumatic.

In the Latino dub the caffeine argument made a bit more sense thanks to the fact that in this dub the beverage was simply called "soda" throughout, which in a lot of places is used as an umbrella term for all sweetened fizzy drinks including cola, and since at no point they specified what kind of soda it actually was we all just assumed it was a caffeinated one and never questioned it. Either way I love this episode and this series as a whole, great video, keep it up.

5:13 "Caffeine Crazed Brats" Ironically, Root Beer was one of the sodas I drank the most growing up because it typically didn't have caffeine. Caffeine makes me too hyper. Haha

KND was certainly a interesting series in my childhood that cover adult topics but twisted them into more kid friendly ways we would not understand until we are older now.

Foster's, the Powerpuff girls and hey arnold also did addiction episodes. They were all great too.

As someone who has to keep their caffeine intake to nearly 0, I can tell you that while MOST root beer doe not have caffeine, there are some that do for 'flavor.' Namely Barq's. I had to learn what sodas I could and couldn't have as a kid, as well as certain candies.

If you ever end up in Seattle, do the Underground or Underworld Tour. They go through an area that was used as a speak-easy in the 1920's.

knd is so funny with its history references. they did an episode on the gold rush and they were looking for chicken nuggets in the river. which sounds gross. theyd be all soggy! i loved it.

My favorite episode was operation archive as it gives us the complete backstory of the adults in KND

I was a tween, when it came out, as I was partially raised by my step dad, whom was addicted to alcohol (beer and wine) and cigarette smoking, and my mother was not happy, and fearing I was going to a “drunk druggie” at adulthood. This KND episode STILL hits hard, even after 20+ years ago!

I want a dvd collection of this show so bad

At first, i thought this was going to cover about coffee and that it makes adults go crazy if they haven't drank it for a while. I forgot this root beer episode existed. Man, KND have some crazy, yet very imaginative episodes