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Do you have any idea what that does to your digestive system? Good thing I brought some nice healthy vegetables! Back to privy. Privy is a podcast about bathrooms recorded here in my home bathroom. I am Hunter Hoover, your host from the throne of doom, which has been really what mine has been the last few days. Yeah, little bathroom check up here at the top. I'm on a weird. uh solid stool kick. It's not normal for me.
Generally, it's loosey goosey, but it's yeah, it's been very nugget uh centric. And so we're just learning, you know, we're learning how to interact in that space. I produced what I like to call a depth charge to today where you have the tiny like rabbit droppings and it splashes and hits you in the bung holio. I also had the other morning what I like to call a two burrito and cheeseburger emergency drop. And so if you you can probably put together what's going on there.
But yeah, those will make for a rough morning after. And the other thing, and this is just wild today at the day of recording. It's the first day of fall, ah so happy fall, it's official. For those of you that busted out your fall decor and your pumpkin spice BS, you did it too early. Now you may proceed. ah My wife has made a delicious loaf of pumpkin chocolate chip bread. And so I'm flying pretty high with those. I'm just gonna let you know. really fall for me.
It just really just means pumpkin chocolate chip season and it is the slow burn leading up to Christmas. So strap in y'all because it's going to be a fun ride. Also, I found it at long last after about a month of searching moderately diligently. I did in fact find and locate and have consumed Monster Mash cereal. So This is not a serial review podcast. We're not gonna do that. That already exists, but it's good.
Also my tirade, I will use this podcast as a platform to raise a common grievance that I bring forth every year against what should rightfully be called the Transylvania twist. Now, It has been mistakenly called the Monster Mash for many years, decades even. um And I'm here again this year. This episode of Privy will be my formal, Hunter's formal launch of the 2021 Transylvania Twist Takeover. So stay tuned, check out. Yeah, we gotta make some changes.
But it's the end of September and the day that this podcast actually releases and comes out, this episode, it's National Comic Book Day. If you didn't know that, today, the day this episode comes out is National Comic Book Day.
And comic books were usually assumed to be related to superheroes, but originally, When the first comic books were being made in America, that's where I'm at right now, it was a book, this original comic, the OG comic, was a book called The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Old Buck. Now, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this was probably some sort of propaganda. It was made in the late 1800s. And this is not going to be like your Batman's and your Spiderman comics.
But then again, neither is what we are talking about this week on privy. We're just gonna just splash right on in. In 2002, a little show debuted on Cartoon Network. It featured a group of kids who had a hideout in Treehouse. And the series was... was actually the result of viewer polls that Cartoon Network put out. Cartoon Network did this program and this, I don't really know, this agenda, I guess, called The Big Pick.
The Big Pick was a 53-hour marathon in which the network of cartoons allowed viewers to pick which cartoon pilots would debut in the following years. This is probably one of the most broken and you know, I'm not trying to speak ill of the Cartoon Network, but this seems like a dangerous approach. Putting your programming in the hands of children and teens. It seems like a bad idea. And it's a reminder that democracy has its limits. That's what we've learned here.
ah The show The show voted in ah was about a group of kid operatives who act as spies and secret agents while fighting crimes against being a kid. This show was Codename Kids Next Door or KND for the hip and cool. And honestly, the show was great. I remember watching this show growing up. Nobody, I think, ever called it Codename Kids Next Door. It was just called Kids Next Door.
And it had just enough like slights to the grownups in the show who are often portrayed as these like power hungry corporate bosses. um And also they're like teenage siblings and others show up as villains in the show and it's a really interesting look at what it means to be a kid is really what Codename Kids Next Door is trying to capture. Kids Next Door was only on the air for six years and it was, like I said, it was a phenomenal show.
I say was because The last murmurings about the show came in 2016 when there was a spin-off show proposed, but it did not get the green light. know, 2016 rolls around, the show's pushing 15 years old, and uh somebody's like, hey, you know, we should make a spin-off. Now, here's what I'm gonna say. If they had only waited just a little bit, because nowadays, this is prime.
territory like you can't be a show from the 90s early 2000s which out without getting some weird remake so maybe they should try this again because I guarantee you there is a streaming service just itching to toss some reboot 90s and early 2000s cartoon into their lineup to just hook those viewers yeah I guarantee yeah bring back Kids Next Door in the year 2021, 2022 of Our Lord.
And I bet you any money, there's a streaming service that'll pick that noise up quicker than you can say code name Kids Next Door and people will watch it. It would be a delight. You know what would be a sweet spin? Now that I'm just rambling, we're not getting to the potty talk yet. Now I'm just rambling.
You know what would be a wild spin for that show is if it kind of like Rugrats All Grown Up, but If it like tracked these characters numbers one through five when now they are this many years removed because the last episode aired in 2018 or 2008 I'm sorry and so many of the like this is 13 years later like these are not kids anymore these are not children and so if it was now them as the adults what sort of fun antics and things could we play with in that?
Hey, Cartoon Network, TM, TM, September 20, it's your IP so I'm not gonna TM it but the idea is here. Yeah, it was, so Kids Next Door was an excellent show but it was also a comic book and remember, today, the day this episode comes out is National Comic Book Day in case you forgot. We have to connect these dots because Hunter is stretching this time. And the Kids Next Door comic book, which now you can kind of get a feel for it by being almost a 23 year old cartoon. I move.
I was in second grade when this show came out originally. What the heck? And I was in middle school when it ended? That's just wild to think. Kids Next Door had many issues of a comic book, including one that featured a crossover between Kids Next Door, Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, Ben 10, and other Cartoon Network shows.
That- That comic sounds either like a very cool trip down memory lane and it's like Super Smash Bros or the Marvel's Avengers except for late 90s early 2000s Cartoon Network characters and it it sounds either like a hot mess or a very cool trip. Kids Next Door also had a number of comic strips featured in a Spanish newspaper wherein like, think Garfield in its style, but the kids are fighting crimes against being a kid, know, like flossing your teeth and eating your vegetables.
Things that, now that I think about it, when I'm watching this show, was like, yeah, forget these fools. Forget that broccoli. that green noise straight out of here. And now I'm looking at it, I'm like, if this dang child could just please, just eat the leafy green thing. It will make them live longer. It will make them more powerful. It will, as my son often puts it, it will give me more power. Eat your leafy greens. And I think in saying that, I just became a kids next door villain. cute.
The other reason that we are talking kids next door, because you know a lot of times there's these moments where we get into it here and we're like for goodness sakes, this is privy dang it. When is he gonna start talking about poop and farts in the bathroom and flushing the toilet? Well, we're getting there because, yeah. The other reason we're talking about this is when you try and find... So it's comic book, National Comic Book Day.
And so I went out and I was like, man, I could do a sweet like, I could talk about all the super cool like, bathroom related superheroes and super villains and it'd be super cool. And here's the thing, those aren't very... We're in short supply of bathroom related super villains and superheroes. um It's a pretty dry offering. Like, there ain't nobody turning up out here. So, some, here's the deal. Some super villains and superheroes use stink.
And they use various ways to administer that stink to their opponents. And that's too general. Because stink does not narrow that down to the stink that is produced from your booty hole. Some superheroes, like, yeah. Kids Next Door, though, the reason we are chatting about KND has what is both one of the lamest and most toilet-related villains of all time. The Toilet-nator. Yes, the Toilet-nator. Remember, early 2000s kids programming.
The Toilet-nator... is for lack of a better way of saying it a wuss. He's a very very weak villain and his alter ego is Lou Pottingsworth. So Lou as in the toilet and potty potty pottingsworth. there's fun wordplay in his name and that's why we're here.
The Toiletnator is actually a uh running gag of the show in that the kids themselves could honestly they couldn't give a rip about this dude in most cases that the kids and evil adult industries incorporated the evil organization that the kids are fighting against often views the Toiletnator as a laughing stock to be ignored or mitigated or sent out so he is out of the battle so that way he's not messing everything up. The Toilet-nator. High caliber super villain.
His powers as stated are the power to quote control toilets, whatever that means, and can shoot toilet paper from his arms. And if I remember the show, there's times where he can like make the water like spray up and out of the toilet. And if my current employer phone, if one of my employers could chime in on anything, it's this. You don't want your toilet to go in reverse. More on that later. But he has the power to control toilets and can shoot toilet paper from his arms.
The toilet paper from his arms, I remember, he often uses that as a wrap-em-up tool. He can shoot it out and it like mummy wraps his opponent. So not terrible, but I don't know if you've ever messed with toilet paper. It takes like none strength to get through that stuff. It's literally the thinnest paper you could find. Which is wild that that's what we use to remove the poop from our butt with just mere millimeters between our finger. That...
And this maybe would have been a power that could have come in handy a couple years ago during the Create Toilet Paper Panic, you know what saying. ah But I digress. The Toilet-nator is the saddest type of villain in that he exists. The Toilet-nator exists and he... does what he does. He seeks to destroy Kids Next Door because he wants the approval of Mr. Boss, the leader and like the elder of Evil Adult Industries Incorporated.
He also, I should say, and this is where I will probably draw some fire from the Kids Next Door fan and fans and community, but in my opinion, well, my opinion, where in my opinion, he doesn't make much sense to the world other than being a joke in and of itself. if that's his reason for existing, I'm all on board. Like I'm all good with a potty joke and literally like living embodiment of a bathroom joke. I'm cool with that. But he doesn't make much sense to the world.
Because most of the villains and most of the bad guys in Kids Next Door are, they go along with the things that we would expect a kid to hate. Like broccoli and asparagus and flossing and no recess and being grounded and spanking and there's all these different heroes that capture these things that kids view as negative in their lives. and they put them as these like villains for the kids next door to defeat. But the toilet-nator just what does he stand for? Toilets?
Like he's just the he's just a human embodiment of a toilet gag. Like Mr. Boss doesn't even like him. He doesn't have the same affection because Mr. Boss is often seen like trying to get this dude out of the way. Get him out of the way. Like I said, it's kind of sad. The Toilet-nator, and this is why like when I say, hey, we need to do better out here with these toilet related superheroes. But, so what makes this guy tick? Like, how does Lou Pottingsworth get to be the Toilet-nator?
Like, what's a guy gotta do, you know? Spiderman got bit by a spider, and Batman had trauma. So like, how do you get to be the Toilet-nator? In one kids next door comic called Operation Histories and every one of their episode, well most of their episodes are named Operation something and the word stands for something. It's like an acronym. We get the Toilet-nators uh origin story as well as his alter ego.
Now, he used to be an executive at Evil Adult Industries Incorporated but When the kids attacked the building site for the producing a new vegetable, asparagus, Lou Pottingsworth in that attack was trapped inside of a porta potty where he hid for safety. It was knocked over during the fight and then buried under the rubble of this destroyed situation. the comic book states that Lou Pottingsworth had to survive on nothing but urinal cakes. Urinal cakes.
man, that's another topic for another day, urinal cakes. Why are they called cake? Why? They already look like candy, big candy, to little kids, and then they hear their parents say, hey, yeah, that's a urinal cake. Guess what? You know there's children that have tried.
he's stuck inside this porta potty and he's feasting on these urinal cakes, then whether actually in an act of divine intervention or in Pottingworth's mind due to again sustaining himself on urinal cakes for so long, he is visited by a toilet deity who bestows him with the powers of toilets. So after being visited by this this toilet being and being given the power of toilets He used his new powers to punish kids who wrote on the bathroom.
Well, ahaha now we're getting to the bottom of it See, this is this is a thing now. We have an answer. What is his deal? Why is he a bathroom related kids next door here or villain and this is why because he used to punish kids who wrote on the bathroom wall, who vandalized the bathroom, who would throw TP all over the place to gag each other, and, God forbid, they forgot to flush. Now here's the thing. Y'all gotta be flushing out here. You just gotta flush the toilet.
I don't know how to say it any other way, but like, yeah, you just gotta flush it. Just do it. It's easy. Don't forget to flush, you know what saying? I mean, it's for real right now. He started out Lou Pottingsworth in the television show before he was given his backstory in the comics. He started as what would be as a... It was supposed to be a one-off joke.
It was supposed to be this kind of throwaway gag with this toilet supervillain, but then he stuck around because, remember, Kids Next Door came about because the children voted on They said, we want that show with the teens, how can we say teens? The kids who are fighting adults for no vegetables and shorter school days, no school at all. He started as a gag in this show and stuck around because the same kids that said, want kids next door, they said, we want the toilet-nator. They liked him.
They thought he was ridiculous, but they liked him. They liked the toilet-based not-so-super villain. You know, somebody has to be the foil. Somebody has to be the one who is the jester and takes the fall. And the toilet-nator is that guy. He is the ridiculous, stupid villain that the kids next door needed, that people wanted to stick around. And he went from being a one-off joke to a regular villain that has a lot of screen time. Dee Bradley Baker voices the toilet-nator.
And I want to note here, until I began to look at this, I didn't really know who Mr. Baker was. But Dee Bradley Baker voices characters from over 443 different shows or movies. Some of which, and these are just a few, include all of the Bad Batch 5 from Disney's Bad Batch. Yep, all of them. All five of the Bad Batch. He voices them all. D.O.G. from Milo Murphy's Law, Perry the Platypus. Perry, what a guy.
Like, my son or daughter has a Perry the Platypus that when I click it, it makes the Perry the Platypus noise. That was probably Dee Bradley Baker that came up with that. I love Perry the Platypus. I had no idea that Toiletnator and Perry the Platypus were related to this. He also plays Daffy Duck in Space Jam. Like, the dude has the chops.
He is uh a voice actor extraordinaire and he was tasked with bringing the Toiletnator, the guy behind all of those characters and many more, voiced the Toiletnator in Kids Next Door. Some of those are more higher caliber. roles than others, but here's the deal. He voiced the toilet nader. It's like, you get it, it's like the Terminator, don't I explain it?
Yeah, it's wild to think that this one-off character was voiced by this dude that has like a pretty astounding list of things that he has done as far as voice acting. So, the thing is though, on comic book day, we're kind of forced to talk about the toilet-inator because here's the thing, there ain't many superheroes to talk about. like, that ain't right. There needs to be a better bathroom-related superhero, a higher caliber bathroom-related superhero.
Captain Crapper, the Amazing Lou, the Porcelain Maniac, something. As far as powers, the power to manipulate someone's Like just Use your use your brain space with me for just a minute Imagine the Joker We all know him. He's doing his whole thing. You know, you want to see a magic train?
He's doing that whole and he's doing the thing with the bus and he's got to choose between the bus Philippi all that stuff and then all of a sudden Like when he's doing his whole bit, he's like you want to know how I got these scars. I have to go and he just bum rushes out of the scene holding his butt Because who's that standing behind Batman? It's the brown streak and the brown streak has made the Joker almost flat soil himself fart propulsion, constipation powers.
There's plenty of untapped territory here. And as far as powers, know, like, yeah, there's a lot to work on. And so if you have other ideas for a bathroom related superhero, share it. Tag the show at privycast. And if you're brave, use the hashtag Toilet Hero, hashtag Toilet Hero. I wanna see what's out there. If you know of a toilet superhero that I was unable to find, it's probably out there, I probably should put this call out there, but like, yeah, find it and send it to me.
I wanna see this stuff. Happy National Comic Book Day everybody. ah We're gonna start reading more reviews as those come in, so we would love for you to do so. We would like to thank Kevin McLeod for the use of Bar Room Ballet as our intro and outro music. You can find Kevin's music at incompetech.org and he's licensed under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0. Thanks Kevin. This has been another episode of Privy. Thank you so much for joining us. And now...
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