I was messing around with stuff today and found that you can pre-store a New Kid command and activate it in certain situations. Could be useful for setting up dungeon skips ahead of time, plus it can be used during cutscenes.

Basically during a screen transition (this can also be between most doors/rooms) or a regular new kid switch you would hit select, then press A on New Kid while the screen is fading out. If done right, your next A press (or start during cutscenes) will immediately bring up the New Kid menu interrupting whatever is happening. I believe this works by queueing the "GET" command but overwriting it with New Kid, which the game just lets you do in most situations for some reason.

I'm not as familiar with meteor police % but could this be used to regain control in Fred's lab as the little police dude is running through it? Edit - in this video there was already a capture cutscene involving purple tentacle to bypass the new kid lock out in the lab.