About
Codename: Kids Next Door is an animated cartoon from Cartoon Network. The show focuses on Sector V, a unit of the titular organization and their ongoing battle against adult tyranny.
Origins
The show started out as spinoff to Patrick Warburton’s Kenny and the Chimp (below), which focused on different characters but was set in the same universe. A pilot of “Kids Next Door” itself, called “No P in the ool”, and an episode of the former show aired during a promotion Cartoon Network was holding dubbed the “Big Pick”[8], allowed viewers to vote for a concept and make it a new cartoon, Kids Next Door was the winner.
History
The show focused on the eponymous organisation which fought various forms of tyranny from adults against children, ranging from villains embodying common grievances such as Homework to various plots to rid the world of the KND or children all together. the technology thye used is built from wood and scraps being only kept together by unknown superscience. Various aspects of childhood are taken very seriously and there are parodies of media ranging from Indiana Jones to Dragon Ball Z.
The show lasted 6 seasons. And also had 2 movies: “Operation Z.E.R.O” which built on various characters and backstory and “Operation I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.” which served as the Grand Finale of the series, ending with the leader of Sector V being chosen to join an alien version of the organisation. There is also a crossover special with “The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy” and a Christmas episode.
April Fools Day Teaser
On April Fools Day, a video appeared on Youtube hinting at a possible continuation dubbed “The Galactic Kids Next Door”, A related clip as well as an unusual website popped up a few week before. In a week, the video received over 180,000 views.
Spread
On 4chan’s /co/ board there are 4120 threads for “KND”[1], 1469 for “Kids Next Door”[2] and 269 entries for “Codename: Kids Next Door”. As of April 6th 2015, searches on DeviantArt for “KND”[4] and “Kids Next Door”[5] yielded 30000-40000 entries. Tumblr also has many results under the tags “KND” and “Codename: Kids Next Door”. [6][7]
References
[1]Archive.moe – /co/ search results ‘KND’
[2]Archive.moe – /co/ search results ‘Kids Next Door’
[3]Archive.moe – /co/ search results ‘Codename: Kids Next Door’
[4]DeviantART – Seatch Results KND
[5]DeviantART – Search Results Kids Next Door
[6]Tumblr – Search Results: KND
[7]Tumblr – Search Results: Kids Next Door