TGI – Kim Possible Episode 115 “All the News”

It’s been mentioned dozens of times on the podcast, and now it’s finally time for Danielle and Rider to meet Kim Possible & Ron Stoppable.

The gang is recapping the animated Kim Possible’s Season 1 episode “All the News” to not only experience Rider’s turn as a boneheaded jock, but also to answer the MANY questions our co-hosts have about the origin of Kim.
The gang navigates through unlimited storylines, a naked mole rat named Rufus and how one person could ever balance being a cheerleader and saving the world. 

Plus, find out how a Kim Possible quote could just sum up the future of the podcast - all on Pod Meets World!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
We got an email that I thought would be perfect
for us to discuss. It is from Nicole from South
Carolina and there was an article in The Independent that
I want to read to you guys.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Not all heroes wear capes.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Neighbor says his Batman pajamas gave him confidence to catch
a home invader.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Kyle Myyvett told officers he had gone to bed on
Tuesday night, but had later been alerted to the break
in by his home security cameras. So he got alerted
that there were some invaders, and he went outside and
found a man rummaging through his truck. The suspect was
later identified is Justin Shimple. Moments later, Mavett said he

(01:02):
found the twenty year old in his neighbor's garage and
he was still in his super NightWare, his Batman pajamas.
Here is a picture of him sick in his Batman pajamas,
adult man in adult man Batman pajamas.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
So this is hope for Will to become a superhero
in his superhero underwear.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
That's exactly why I wanted to bring it up the question.
I did think this was justification for Will and his underpants.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
There's no question. I just wanted you to know. Will
you're not alone?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
That's fine. First of all, the man has a wonderful pajamas.
Second of all, why has his picture taken or has
his real identity out there?

Speaker 5 (01:39):
I'll never understand, but that's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
You catch the criminal in your Batman pajamas, you tie
him up, you run back in your house, put on
regular clothes, and come out and go, wow, who did this?

Speaker 5 (01:50):
That's what you're supposed to do. Everybody knows that.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
The actual story of how he grabbed him.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Says, please tell me it was a battering.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
No, I never mind. I now can't see it because
I have to register for free to continue reading and
I'm not doing that, so anyway, no intention of doing that. Sorry,
independent your own anyway. He grabbed him by the shirt,
twisted his wrists behind his back, but he said those
Batman pajamas gave him the confidence, So it does.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
The problem I have with my with a full Batman
regalia at night is turning over with the with the
utility belt on the grappling hook gets caught on the
sheets that Sue likes, and she's like, you ruined another
set of sheets, and I'm like, yeah, but I have
kryptonite in the side, and yeah, it's so there's a
lot going on with a good utility belt.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
I would just like to say that if will I
never wish this for you, but if you ever did
have a home invader and you caught the person in
your Batman underwear, you would never be known as for
c again. Now this would be the most famous. You
would be making headlines left and right.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
So I have said though that if there is a
home invader, the only thing I have to do is
out than Susan.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
Yeah, everybody knows.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
You like to say you always need to be faster
than me. That's why I knew where that one was going.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
It's true.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
I just like somebody says, what do you do if
you're attacked by a bear? You just hope he can
outrun whoever you're with. That's all it comes down, no,
of course not yes, No, we don't want to be
already had the home invasion in the in the Boy
Metro World and Bill Daniels mister Feoenie ran him off.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
I know that's crazy. I wonder what kind of underwear
he had on at the.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Good Question next interview.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
I was gonna say, Bill Daniels as a superhero. What
do you think he's got one pair of underwear? What
do you think Bill Daniels is wearing as his superhero underwear?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
It wasn't he didn't he play like mister Captain Fantastic
or Captain Amazing or something like fantastic?

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Is it? Okay? So yeah, he was Captain Fantastic whatever
it is? Yeah, okay, gotcha.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I love it. I can truly picture it.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
I I that's all.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Unfortunately, picturing now is William Daniels in his underwear, and
it's kind of wishing he never brought.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Hands on his hips Captain Fantastic.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Underwear riding his scooter.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
A Welcome to Bad Meets World. I'm Daniel Fishl, I'm right.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Or Strong, and I'm Wilfredell.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
So we're going to give you a little background on
Kim Possible. Created by veteran Kids TV.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Writers Bob Schooley and Mark mccorkyll for the Disney Channel,
the animated action comedy ran for four seasons or eighty
seven episodes, from two thousand and two to two thousand
and seven. The titular character, Kim Possible, is a high
schooler tasked with saving the world on an episodic basis,
while also dealing with the rigorous ups and downs of adolescents.

(04:45):
She has her clumsy best friend slash sidekick Ron Stoppable,
and a ten year old computer genius named Wade, known
collectively as Team Possible. They primarily find themselves trying to
stop the evil doings of the mad scientist of Doctor Dracken,
and she go, did I get that right?

Speaker 5 (05:04):
You did?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
You did? Jeez? Well, do you remember how this job
came to you? I know you said you remember that?
Everybody read for it, including Neil Patrick Harris and John
Cena allegedly.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
How did you hear about it?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Disney called? You know, I was I was still big
in the Disney family.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
I was doing we'd finished Boy Mets World in two thousand,
but in between I had done a whole lot of
different shows for Disney through my You know, there are
these things called hold deals. So as Boy Metrol was
wrapping up, Disney kept signing me to these whole deals,
which essentially just said, we'll give you money if you
just don't go to another network right now. We don't
necessarily have anything for you right now in the moment,

(05:44):
but we'd like to hold you to our network for
a little while. And it's like a six month old
or something like that. So I did a number of
those whole deals in a row because they were trying
to find me different projects, and I had done a
number of shows from them, and then Disney Channel called
and said, we have this thing called kim Possible.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Do you want to come in?

Speaker 4 (05:57):
And I can't remember if I I must have. I mean,
that's one of the joys of the animation side of
the industry. Is very rarely, It's happened to me occasionally.
It's usually for small roles, but very rarely.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
Are you just offered things.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Even people that are do the voice of SpongeBob, you know,
Tom Kenny, even these big actors, they all we all
still audition.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
It's just your voice is gonna work, or your voice
isn't gonna work.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
It's it's kind of a great one of the things
I love so much about the animation side of the industry.
So I'm sure I went in and I read, you know,
they they sat down and I remember distinctly meeting Mark
and Bob, who are two just incredibly talented animation writers,
and we all got along really well, and Chris Bailey
was our original director, and yeah, we just kind of clicked.

(06:40):
I can't remember if I met Christy right off the
bat or not, but it was, uh yeah, it was
a fun process.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Okay, So I have so many questions because I've never
seen the show. I was in the show, watched it,
and then watched this episode, and I don't know what's happening.
Why is she a hero? How did she become a superhero?

Speaker 4 (07:00):
What?

Speaker 3 (07:00):
She doesn't have powers? Nope, she just the flying thing
backpack A ten year old helping her with technology.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
So like, what is her?

Speaker 3 (07:11):
How does this come about? What happens?

Speaker 5 (07:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
You never you know, we don't ever find the origin story.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
I just starts with her maybe already being Kim Possible.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
That's possible. I don't remember it. I have, I have,
I have.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
I haven't seen them in a lot. I mean, like
I've seen the movie and I've seen an episode here
or there. If there are certain you know, famous episodes
are compossible. For the most part, though, I have not
watched Kim Possible since aired. I watched it when it
was on, so you know.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
She discovers something that makes her into kimpossible. No, I
think I recall old school.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Uh, like they do flashback episodes, because I remember her
in braces and stuff like that, So I think she
she find I think we do see how she went
on her first mission kind of.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Thing, but I don't remember what it was totally because
I thought it.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Was so interesting that she doesn't have a secret identity. No,
like everyone knows, yeah that this teenager who's a cheerleader
is also fighting crime.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Yeah, and they do a lot of really cool things.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
The things I do remember, like, for instance, because she
obviously when the show starts, isn't old enough to drive.
Somebody that she's previously saved in the past, who's usually wealthy,
gets her to her mission. So it always starts with
like her on a private jet and it's Britney Spears,
but it's not.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
It's you know, Whitney tears right.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
And she's like, hey, thanks so much for taking me
to hear Whitney and it's like, oh, are you kidding, Kim.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
I never would have made it to my last concert
without you.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
So it's always every week it's like some other person
taking her somewhere to go do this, But no, she
has no secret identity. She's just and she has to
fit in crime fighting along with cheerleading and I believe babysitting.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
So it's like she has to do all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
It was the Disney Channel's second original animated program. The
Proud Family was the first, and it was a critical
and fan favorite. It spawned two made for TV movies, toys,
video games, and a twenty nineteen live action movie that
I believe Will hates.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Also a fun fact, Kim Possible has a crossover episode
with Leelo and Stitch.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
It does. I got to be on Leelah. It was fun,
so fun.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
The show featured an almost uncountable amount of guest stars,
from Vivica A. Fox to Michael Clark Duncan to Adam
West to Mark Hamill to one Rider Strong, who we
will hear on the episode we are recapping today. Writer,
you have already said you did not ever watch the episodes,
even the ones you were on. So was this your
first ever Kim Possible episode?

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah? I guess so mine too. I'm not even sure. Yeah,
oh first watching? Yeah yeah, yeah, I've never seen it.
I feel like I have absorbed a lot of it
just from going to cons with Will and like hanging
out with Christy and like, so I kind of got
the gist, but yeah, like I ended up having more questions,
like how does she become a superhero high?

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I have no idea what the rat on Will's shoulder is.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
No, that's rue, Yes, that's his naked mole rap?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
What is Why is he there?

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Why?

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Because well, this is how you have to listen to
the naked mole rap that I did. So. Ron always
wanted a pet, but his father is allergic to everything
with hair, so the only thing that he could get
is a naked mulrat who's Rufus who is voiced by
the amazing Nancy Cartwright who does the voice of Bartsims.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
And why is Ron helping Kim all the time? Because
they're best friends and she needs a sidekick.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Okay, okay, let's jump into our recap.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
We are recapping Kim Possible season one, episode fifteen, All
the News. It originally aired November one, two thousand and two.
The synopsis Kim and Ron exposed TV stunt woman Adrenaline
as a fraud, and Ron's exaggerated profile of Kim for
the school newspaper results in the Star quarterback asking Kim
on an unwonted date, that's me, there you are. It

(10:38):
was directed by Chris Bailey, who also worked on another
Y two K cartoon in a very similar style to
Kim Possible Clerks the animated series. It was written by
Laura McCreery, who has went on to work on a
bunch of sitcoms like Young Rock, American Dad, Brooklyn nine nine,
and Superstore, to name a few. It stars Christy Carlson
Romano as Kim Possible, will Fredell is Ron Stoppable, Nancy

(11:00):
Cartwright also known as Bart Simpson as Rufus, Taj Mowrie
as Wade Load, Gary Cole is Doctor James, Timothy Possible,
and Gene Smart, one of TV's most popular characters. In
twenty twenty five, Debra vance On Hacks as the voice
of Doctor An Possible and then guest starring in this episode.
Some names worth pointing out Nestor Carbonell, who I know

(11:22):
from Lost SNL's Rachel Dratch, who is the villain in
the episode We Watched the Great Stephen Root from Office
Space as Barry and Right or Strong as dummy football
star Brick Flag, a role he was born to play writer.

(11:42):
Do you think one of the reasons you got the
call for this is because they knew your connection to
Will or do you think it was just random?

Speaker 3 (11:48):
No, I have to assume it's because it was a
boy meets world connection. Okay, because it was an offer,
you know, in contrast to what.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Will Will had to audition. You just got on.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Like some people who just get the episode to start.
And I was in college in New York, so I
just got a call like, Oh, they want you to
do this thing Will show. I was like, oh cool,
and went to a recording booth. I guess I talked
to Chris via satellite. I just remember the director and
having the conversation and getting into it and yeah, and
that was really fun to see what it was. Yes, yeah,

(12:19):
outside of what I was doing, I had no clue
what was happening.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
What was happening with the show.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah, and I.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Still kind of don't.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
I watched the episode. I had to watch it in
two parts. There were so many things going on. I
am not sure what I watched, but let's jump into
the recap. We start in the school hallway. Kim swings
open her locker and a slip of papers flutter out
of her high tech computer. She reaches for it, but
before she can grab it, Ron swoops in, snatching at
mid air.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Don't touch that.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Ron yanks out an entire stack of papers that have
piled up, including the one still clutched in her hand.
No offense, KP. But that's very sensitive material. She crosses
her arms. Really Then Rufus, Ron's naked mole rat sidekick
crawls onto Ron's shoulder and says, m hmmm, uh huh.
Ron explains it's a story I'm writing for the school paper,

(13:05):
hard hitting stuff. Kim reminds him, you're not on the paper, Ron,
They keep turning you down. No offense. Ron is adamant.
This is going to turn them around. It's an edgy expose,
I call, and then we cut to the school newsroom.
The editor of the paper is studying Ron's title math.
You'll never actually use it in the real world.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
It's not wrong.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
I love math, Ron braggs, I'm already working on a
follow up piece about Semi Collin's. The editor has a thought,
but is interrupted by a phone call. She barks into
the receiver. No comment is totally unacceptable. I don't care
if she's the principal and your mother. I want that story.
And she slams the phone down and throws the papers
at Ron. You're giving me nothing here, stoppable. Where's the
edge the angle? Do you want to get on the paper?

(13:46):
Write a story that makes me care? Ron clutches the
papers close to his chest. I'll do it. I'm a
born reporter. I can smell a story a mile away.
He confidently basks in his determination with his eyes closed.
Then he quickly realizes he's got nothing. Maybe Kim has
an idea.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
And this is where this is where I started my my,
my big like questions behind this show was like, okay,
so we've talked about this a lot, like how you
have steaks, you know, like how do you have steaks
and a kid's show? And I found it so interesting
that the steaks here are still primarily like normal high
school stuff, you know, like n school paper, right, And

(14:23):
you know, I guess for Kim, like the having to
deal with a date football and one of the date
or yeah, okay, but then everybody knows that they're saving
the world. Every sure, Yeah, doesn't that seem more important?

Speaker 5 (14:38):
Wouldn't they be?

Speaker 4 (14:38):
Like you're right, I think it's actually No, I think
it's actually perfect because when you're in high school, there
is nothing more important than your everyday daily whatever is
going on in high school. It is the end of
like literally hearing that there's something's going on in another
part of the world. It's not nearly as important as
who likes who that day in the hallway of the
height school, right, Like, that's what I think is kind
of so genius about the show.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
But then Kim doesn't to care that much about is
that normal? Like that she kind of doesn't care that
much about what's going on in high school that it's
more Ron.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
That's like it depends what.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Yeah, there's certain episodes where things happen where you know
who's going to go to prom and who you're gonna ask,
And then it gets in as the show gets later,
it's Ron and Kim actually spoiler alert, actually get together
and the whole story is about ken of friendship.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
You know, do you overlook the person in front of you?

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Start dating?

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yeah, we're together for a whole season. They fall in love,
fall fully in love, and kiss at the dance.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
The possible stoppable romance.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, wait, aren't you guys? Isn't there like quite a
quite an age gap.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
No the same age. Yeah, okay, Ron was younger. Yeah no,
Ron was like and I think faster.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Than boys, just like he has.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Like annoying little brother vibes.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Well, yeah, he's supposed to have annoying he's supposed to
be annoying sidekick.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
But that's the whole thing is she's been overlooking him
and he falls.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
From annoying sidekick. Also has an annoying sidekick with the
mole rat.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
Okay, wow, wait a second, Wow, Rufus is not annoying,
He's amazing.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
And then Wade he's only ten years old?

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Wait? Wait is ten? He's a ten year old computer
genius and he never leaves his house.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Right, Wade and Ron seem the same, like.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
The same, right, they're not at all.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
By the way, this is if you watch since this
is the only episode you've seen, and I've talked about
this at conventions.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
My voice changes so much over the seasons.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, well I heard it right away. I was like,
that's not the ronstoppable Boys that I've heard.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
So yeah, at the end, he's all the way, KP,
what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (16:25):
We can't be here?

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Whereas this one was like okay, Kim, what's going It's
totally different.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
Yeah, so how does.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Wade get roped into the superhero trio?

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Let's wait till we get to wait?

Speaker 5 (16:35):
Oh yes, let's get it.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
We get here is where we.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Get the Kim Possible intro and a pretty iconic R
and B theme song from singer Christina Milion. And it's
basically about pagers and beepers, which is I just love it.
It's a total jam and it's not very traditional for
a cartoon. So then we are on the football field
the Milton cheer team, led by Kim Possible. They're practicing
on the field. After a strenuous routine, Kim tells them
to take five now alone. Ron appears and immediately asks

(17:00):
Kim for a favor. He needs a favor and an angle.
Kim can't help, but remembers how cocky he was earlier.
Why ask me your Kim walks away and Ron pulls
out his notepad as the football team passes by on
their way to the locker room. Okay, okay, which one
of you is failing a class but is still playing
in this weekend's game. No one answers, so Ron becomes frustrated.
He shouts, come on, one of you has to be
failing at something, catching the attention of one player. We

(17:23):
return to Kim, who's on the sidelines packing her things.
A few seconds later, Ron comes flying through the air
and crash his face first next to Kim. Defeated, he
sarcastically declares, I've gotten my story football team full of nice,
great guys who are not failing anything. Then star quarterback
Brick Flag walks up, stepping on Ron's back and giving

(17:44):
Kim a nonchalant do it writer.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Is it hay?

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Surprised by his acknowledgment, she stutters hey back, and he
follows it up by awkwardly complimenting her cheerleading outfit. Kim
responds even more awkwardly, thanks, it's my size. Brick continues
to compliment her. You know, I think what you do
is really amazing, Kim shrugs. Saving the world is no big, Brick,
c it's a huge deal.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
It is not. It's not.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
It's a big interesting to me that, like the pitch
for the show positions her as you know, super popular,
a cheerleader and saving the world, you know, because you
think about like Spider Man, right, like the whole point
is that he's saving the world. But Peter Parker is
like this nerdy like guy. It's cool that nobody notices,
and he's got to like play that. It's interesting that

(18:35):
they remove and that dynamic. Yeah, she's just.

Speaker 5 (18:38):
Well because every villain is just super bumbling and ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
And now, okay, so something is coming back to me.
I believe what happens is she's like going to her
first babysitting gig or she thinks she is, but something
gets screwed up with the website and she actually ends
up like saving the world by accident, and then so
she changes her website. Yeah, and so she changes her
website to then save the world, and Wade gets involved
by going to the website and sent you saying, hey,

(19:07):
I have information about this guy. And then he starts
becoming part of the team and like builds the communicator
and does all that kind of stuff, which is which.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Is perfect because at the time two thousand and one,
two thousand and two, the whole notion of like a
website and using the internet would have been mostly young
people who knew what was going on, and the adults
would have been like, what is what are these?

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Yeah? So that's that's what happened.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, so Brick clarifies, I mean, how you're always spelling
stuff in your cheers. It's so cool, he laughs, but
stops himself quickly. That's cool. Right before she can answer,
he walks off. Ron pops up with a huge grin
on his face. Kim asks, why are you looking at
me like that? And he reveals because I found my story.
I'm going to interview you the Kim possible, and Kim,
I won't accept anything less than the hard hitting truth.

(19:54):
I have to say. By the way this was set
up with Brick coming in and like him saying you
liked her outfit, and her not knowing how to respond
to that. I actually thought she did like him. I
was like, Oh, she obviously has a crush onme. She
doesn't know how to respond to this attention, like she
likes this guy.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
But no, instead it seems like she's just not interested
in dating at all.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Or she's asexual.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Absolutely, well, no, there was a big thing that so
she go apparently is huge in the gay.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Community, Like, but that's huge.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
I don't know, but a lot of people think there
was something going on between Kim and she go, oh,
that's like became the big thing in the fanfic family.

Speaker 5 (20:28):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
So now at Kim Possible's house, Kim Ron and her
brothers Jim and Tim are watching TV. It's a reality
show where a teenage girl named Adrenaline is dropped into
the woods without any food or water and tries to
survive while handcuffed to a bear.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
This is like so two thousand early commentary on what
was happening exactly reality shows were brand new and the
idea of like survivor of the show. But then also
I was thinking back, like this was the time of
like David Blaine. Do you remember when they would do
like all those weird stunts where he'd be like, yes,
I'm in a glass than you for three weeks.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
But it was also the time of Jackass, where the
kids were doing everything that Jackass was doing. It's like
kid breaks his arm by trying to jump off a thing.
So it was like the same stuff.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
So funny.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yep, Kim is on pins and needles. She jokes, at
least the bear won't go hungry. The boys join in
on the show's big catchphrase, what will she do next?
Kim rolls her eyes, Ron, I thought you came over
to interview me. He isn't hearing it. At the commercial,
got any chips? Then the show's announcer teases next they'll
go fishing for their lives. Kim turns off the TV

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and the boy's all grown. She says, this show is
a mind numbing waste of satellite frequencies. Ron nods in agreement.
You're right. Besides, I'm taping it at home. Kim lectures
them some kid is going to get hurt trying to
imitate that girl's stunts. On cues, Tim says to Jim,
let's see if we can sneak into the bear cage
at the zoo. Like adrenaline, Jim shoots up cool. Tim
grabs a piece of steak and ties it to his head.

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Jim follows his lead and they run off, yelling who
shah in excitement.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
That's so there's Kim Possible's famous for cat phrases. It's
just what they did. So boo yah was Ron's, what's
the stitch was Kim's. And the two twins were always
hicc a bita boo whosha, and they never he never
knew what any of them meant they just made up
catch phrases yep.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Ron asks Kim, aren't you going to stop them? Kim shrugs, Nah,
the zoo's locked this time the night with the boys gone,
She's ready, all right, Let's get this hard hitting interview
over with. By the way, that felt like a Disney note. Yeah,
it felt like we have to acknowledge that she someone
would go after them, that she saves the world wide
like full Disney. No, it's locked, it's lost.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
She's not kidding. I also want to meet Hat, but
that's a whole different thing.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Now with the boy's gone, she's ready. All right, let's
get this hard hitting interview over with. Ron sets up
the recorder on a coffee table and begins very professionally,
So what's it like to be you? Kim just folds
her arms in annoyance. Now in Adrenalines, Van TV star
Adrenaline is boasting to her cameraman ratings are up, merchandise
sales are up. He responds with concern, hmm, copycat incidents

(22:59):
are up too, Adrenaline scoffs. It means they're watching. Not
my fault if the little dweebs aren't careful. The cameraman wonders,
maybe they don't get it that you fake the stunts,
then glances at the bear, now docile sleeping in the
back of the van. Adrenaline has hurt enough. Whatever the
point is, if we're going to stay on top, the
next stunt has to be bigger, more extreme. She gives
a Devi a smile. I'm thinking, bungee freaky. It's freaky,

(23:25):
this foil.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
You know, it's interesting that she's like the self promoting,
fake powerful woman. Yeah, you know, like as opposed to Kim,
who's like really just saving the world. Does not understate,
it does not have to do interviews unless Ron is
forcing her to do it, And then you have the opposite,
you know, which is well.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
If you're going to be a hero, everyone needs to
know that you should also be humble about.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
It, right of course.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Yeah, wait, Rid, you've you've bungied and skydive, right, yeah,
bungee jumping seems like it would.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Be far more scary, Am I wrong?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Yeah? Wait, yes, it's far more scary.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yes, it's far okay because you can see the ground, right,
I have to step off the ledge, I mean like
when you well, also, I skydive tandem. So it wasn't
you doing it? You know, I'm saying somebody or somebody
was on my back right stepping out of the plane.
But there's something about the distant at the height that
is like, yes, it's more abstract. You know, where you're
stepping off the ledge of a bunget, you're like, oh god,

(24:21):
I'm falling.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
Which almost more fun?

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (24:26):
I God, that's a good question. I don't know. I
was so young man, I would not I would never
do either. Now that's the thing, like nowadays, I won't
do either of these things. I actually had more fun
bungee jumping.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
I think, yeah, I could see that too, because you
kind of bounce up and you do that.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
But I was fifteen, you know, no clue what was
going on.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
I get for smoking at fifteen, but you're jumping off
of buildings and everyone's like.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
Cool, I signed a waiver.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
I think more people have died smoking from smoking than
people have died from bungee jumping.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
Way more people die from bungee jumping.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
So then we're in Ron's bedroom.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Ron is hard at work listening back to his interview
with Kim. We hear her explain I'm not so different
from anyone else, except that you know I have an
arch foe or two. Rufus shakes his head. He's not impressed.
Ron agrees you're right. After watching Adrenaline Russell abear, Kim
kind of pales in comparison. Ron rewinds the tapes to
a different section. Kim says, sure, I'm busy, but what
teenage girl isn't. Ron rewinds the tape again. Boring, he

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asks Rufus, where's the angle? He presses play again, and
Kim admits it feels good to help people. Ron has
heard enough. He slams his head down on his desk
while Rufus pretends to gag. We hear more from Kim.
We have an awesome team this year. Brick Flagg was
totally hot. In last week's game, Ron and Rufus's eyes widen.
Ron replays the line brick Flag was totally hot. Ron

(25:42):
has struck gold. He replays it over and over again.
Totally hot, totally hot, totally hot.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
It's the invention of clickbait.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yes, from the survived like the reality show exploitation era,
into the influencer air where we're seeing all here guyss
ahead of its time.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
It was Ron has got his story. Then we're back
in the school hallway. Kim shuts her locker and is
approached by a cheerleader with the school newspaper. Kim, I
think it is so great what you did? Kim needs
more detail, which was The cheerleader explains, I mean to
risk utter embarrassment and total rejection like that. She reveals
the headline to Kim. Cheerleader Kim possible thinks quarterback Brick
Flag is hot hot by Ron stoppable. The cheerleader tries

(26:24):
to reassure him before she walks away, will totally be
here for you for when he dumps you. Then right
on time, a confident brick Flag appears. So, Kim, you
think I'm hot. Kim tries to explain, actually, what I
think I said was? Brick interrupts her cool, what are
you doing Friday night? Kim, trying to politely say no,
tells Brick, well nothing, I mean, I mean nothing with you. Brick,

(26:44):
who is not getting the message, simply asks pick you
up at eight. Kim stutters, oh, I uh, But before
she can dissuade him, Brick turns to some nearby guys. Hey,
she thinks I'm hot. Then he streuts off. Kim hides
her face in her hands, and then we're in the
school afeteria. Ron is grabbing some food when Kim comes
charging at him. So I think brick flag is hot.

(27:05):
A nearby student overhears her and exclaims it's true.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
She just said it herself, So high school, it's so.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Ron excitedly asks Kim, did you see it my name
in lights? Well and ink? Actually? But still, Kim slams,
are trade down? You ferociously misquoted me. Ron defends himself, WHOA,
I may have done a tiny bit of rephrasing, but
come on, you'd think a crime fighting cheerleader would give
a more interesting interview. The paper liked my story so
much they're giving me a column. It's his turn to
order food, so he says, I'll have an omelet whites only.

(27:34):
The lunch lady proceeds to slop a brown pile of
mush onto his plate. Ron tells Kim she must not
know who I am. Kim says, I'm not sure I
know who you are, but Ron continues to bask in
his new found fame. So I'm thinking I should cover
the big date with the Brickster, what time should I
be ready? Then two girls, bum rush, Ron, you have
to sit with us, and I'm having a little get
together tonight, No biggie, just fifty of my closest friends.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
You have to do a.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Write up for the paper, Ron wonders, I do? She explains,
How else will the social outcasts know what they've missed?
Ron innocently suggests you could invite them, but both girls
break out into hysterical laughter. Ron, you are so funny,
he shrugs at Kim Checulator kp Duty calls, hah, he said, dudey.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
I thought the same thing last night was like, Oh,
Daniel's gonna say, he said Duty.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Kim sits down at a lunch table with her food,
and then Brickley quickly slides up next to her. Hey, Kim,
nice lunch, did you say? Brickley?

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I'm keeping it. We're holding on to it. She eases
into it.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Thanks, listen, I'm glad you're here.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
He laughs. I'm glad I'm here too, and he leans
in closer. Kim pumps the brakes. No no, no, no, no, no,
I mean about Friday night.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I uh, I'm just not sure.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
If Brick interrupts her again, if we should do dinner
or a movie. I had the same debate, but then
it hit me. Hot dogs at the theater. Kim's phone
goes off and she gasps with relief. It's weight on
her communicator. It's an early version of FaceTime. She pleads
with them, save me. Brick sneaks a look, Hey, you're
Kim's computer, dude, everybody knows everything about.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Of course, she's world famous. She's a world famous save
the worlder person.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
So why doesn't she leave school. I'm just a career lady,
like you're the world.

Speaker 5 (29:15):
He's not making money.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
We were dropping out of school for a TV show.
My god, I think Kim could take a break because
she's got and she's also the head cheerleader.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
That's very important.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Why that's important important to her?

Speaker 5 (29:27):
She loves it.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
But I also love that Ron's instantly popular. The second
he starts lying.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Essentially exactly, it is clickbait. Wade retorts, and you're that.
Kim thinks you're hot, dude. Brick poudly smirks, Yeah, yeah,
that's me. Kim starts to get up from the table.
Excuse me, I have to go. She tells Brick she'll
see him on Friday. Then we're in the school hallway.
Kim swings open her locker and focuses on Wade on
her communicator. He jokes he seems nice. Kim rolls her eyes. Okay,

(29:54):
spit it out, computer dude. Wade reveals you got an
IM pop pop porter the.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Frozen Food King.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
He needs your hope. Apparently he's been robbed. This is
where I was like, do we need one more storyline?

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Do we need we need one the action storyline? We
need the actual right I know, to save.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
The world too. That's also you got an I Am
Pop Pop porter the Frozen Food King. Like we're already
adding another storyline. Maybe they could have simplified. Are you
kidding any aspect of this one?

Speaker 5 (30:24):
This from you? With everything you're doing in your life.
You just like the stars and everything.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
I like you.

Speaker 5 (30:32):
You add a storyline a week to your life.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Last night watching this show, I felt like this is
the thing that throws me over the edge, kills another
show with.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
A fine fine impossible adding a third story?

Speaker 5 (30:53):
Can I ask a question, did either of you watch
this with your children? No?

Speaker 1 (30:56):
No, why I have barely seen my children, and.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
This is a perfect time to sit them down and
stare to screen together.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
That's my kids would not be able to follow these storylines.
I am Pop Pop Porter, the frozen food King. Give
me a break. Before Kim can even respond, Ron appears
with his notepad. I smell a scoop. Kim pushes him
away and asks Wade, what was stolen? Now we're at
Pop Pop Porters. The owner of the establishment, Pop Pop
Porter fries out my pop popcorn shrimp who. Kim looks

(31:26):
around his warehouse filled with blimps and asks, Pop Pop
you brought us out here because someone stole a crustacean.
I don't get it. Pop Pop Porter gasps shrimp force
one was my favorite. He begins to cry my favorite.
Ron asks a blimp should be easy enough to spot.
Kim takes out her communicator and asks Wade to search
for UFO sightings, anything about Earth being invaded by giant

(31:48):
sea creatures. Wade gets to work. Let's see giant pig
in Belize pterodactyls in Pittsburgh. Then Wade finds it. Giant
shrimp attacks New York City. Yeah, then we're in the

(32:12):
busy streets of New York City. Cars are honking at
each other surrounded by skyscrapers. We see a large shrimp
blimp slowly pass by the duo or on the ground. Wade,
still on the communicator, tells them you're on target. I'm
tracking the blimp to just around the corner. Ron and
Kim run down the street and start hearing a woman
repeat the word what over and over again over a speaker.
Kim recognizes that voice. Then the shrimp blimp hovers right

(32:34):
over them, and Ron notices something. It's Adrenaline. The TV
star yells what again, now coming directly from the blimp.
Everyone in the streets except Kim finishes the catchphrase and
pumps their fist. Will she do next? Ron can't believe it.
What a story. He pulls his camera out and is impressed.
Adrenaline is a real hero, but Kim reminds him she

(32:56):
stole that blimp. Ron is offended. This is art, KP.
Sacrifices must be made. Adrenaline is now hanging out of
the side of the shrimp blimp. Tonight, I will attempt
the ultimate extreme action. I will bungee jump from this blimp, blindfolded.
Freaky on cue.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
I'm sorry, but isn't this is the only thing, This
is my only problem with the episode, because other than
that's perfect.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
Television, isn't blindfolding yourself make it less scary?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
No? Yeah, I would think no, really no, because I
would want to see when it's over. No, for me,
knowing like when the rope is going to kind of
bounce back would at least give me something to look
forward to, like, Okay, I'm almost to the end of
the rope. Having no visual idea, I think would make
it would be scarier for me.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
But I could see both arguments.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Okay, having done it, I will.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Trust your judgment, I think too.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
On cue, she jumps, but her bungee rope snaps. Everyone
in the crowd starts screaming as she be lines to
the ground and then tense.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
A part of the plan was it supposed to snap?

Speaker 5 (34:01):
Yes, probably to make it to give it.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
More and then where nobody can see her, and then
she appears correct, totally.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Right, that's why nobody saw Kim savor. Yeah, what's the problem.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
That's problem? Is it a magic trick?

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Because I thought the same thing. Then she's like, I'm fine,
and no one goes wait, how did that?

Speaker 5 (34:20):
Yes, right, there's no answer for that.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
It's like it's like, how does she get out of
being handcuffed to a bear?

Speaker 1 (34:25):
It's like you don't ever see it, like if with
a magic trick, you'd see it happen and be.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
Like, what she's making it?

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Well.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
When we return, Adrenaline is still free falling. Kim thinks
fast and transforms her backpack into a rocket, launching her
into the sky. She grabs Adrenaline as she descends.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
And you know where she got this? Flying rocks?

Speaker 1 (34:43):
She has it.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
It's all she has, all kinds of she gets everything
from Wade.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
I think we we did establish that.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
Wait is cue? Wait is her cue? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (34:52):
But as she holds her in her arms, a wig
and a blindfold come off and reveal it was just
a dummy. Kim groans, Okay, that's it's really annoying. Then
the real Adrenaline proclaims freaky, she's pridefully standing on top
of a building, pretending like she just pulled the stunt off.
The announcer yells she's okay, and the crowd cheers. Ron

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starts photographing the now harolded Adrenaline. She made it rufus
my friend guess who got a front page photo. But
after a few shots, he notices Kim still holding the dummy,
now on top of another nearby building. Ron can't believe
his eyes. It can't be. It was just a dummy.
She didn't even fall. See, this is convoluted. This is convluted.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
So nobody saw Kim say her, No one.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Saw Kim save her. No one is expecting an answer
for how she still ended up okay, even though the
bungee cord snapped. Just by saying she's okay, everyone's like, great,
I buy it.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Whatever it was.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
He has a little mix between like, like I was saying,
like the David Blaine Magic trick factor, where it's like
how did she do it? Or she's actually doing something
extreme and cool and surviving it. It's kind of doing both,
and I'm just yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Right right, all right, We're back in the school hallway
with the big game on Saturday, back at the lockers.
Kim begs Ron to just get over it already, but
he can't. Sorry, KP, but discovering that your action hero
is a big fake is not something you can just
get over.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
In general, I think my problem with this show, or
my criticism of the show, my inability to understand this
show is that it seems like like all the good
ideas are thrown at every character at once. So it's
like Kim is cheerleader, super popular, regular high schooler and
a superhero and awesome at that, and like in.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
This fine and literally Kim possible. She can do anything.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
She could do it.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
But then even the villain is also like it's like,
if you have one idea, you don't counterbalance at all.
You just it's like a hat and a hat and
another hat, and they're all like, Okay, she's all of
those things for everybody.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
Yeah, it's a cartoon for ten year old girls.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Kim scoffs. And this is coming from a wrestling fan,
and I loved the crossover of all of our interests.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
Ron is a huge wrestling fan.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
I love that he shrugs. I don't get the connection.
Kim opens her locker and gets Wade's newest video report.
Looks like Pop Pop Porter got so much publicity he's
not pressing charges for the blimp theft. Back to that storyline,
which wait, I could have forgotten about, right, Pop Pop
Pop Pop Porter Kiss stolen blimp.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
I didn't need to go back to.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
What every want to sell out. Everyone's a sellout is
the idea. So hey, man, if you get.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
You got the good publicity, get the clicks, then then
it works.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Ron is furious, so she's getting away with it. Wade reveals, well,
I was able to highlight the key areas on that
photo file, and with that he prints them out a
piece of paper and Ron starts reading it to Kim.
She calls herself extreme, the big fake. Kim sarcastically adds,
with Ron in mind, imagine that lying to the public
just to build your own reputation. Ron doesn't get the
irony disgusting nap Well adrenaline might get a pass from

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pop pop, but Ron Stoppable smells the story. We see
a spinning newspaper with the headline analin a fake, And
the next day they're back at Kim's locker. As she's
watching the news, the anchorwoman reports and in our top story,
Ron Stoppable of the Middleton High School newspaper reports that
extreme teen Adrenaline is an extreme fake. Ron comes running over.
I'm in the paper too, I'm national baby. Kim reads

(38:16):
the article out loud, ace reporter Ron Stoppable, heralded for
breaking the story of TV fake Adrenaline's ratings plummet faster
than her fake fall. Kim is annoyed. Can this get
any more annoying than her communicator rings? It's Wade, He alerts, Kim,
it's your brothers. We're in the hospital. Kim is confused.
You were doing what? Jim, who had a broken arm,
answers bungee jumping out of a blimp like Adrenalin. Tim

(38:40):
with a broken leg, ads, only we didn't have a blimp,
so we used the roof. Jim pipes back in, and
we didn't have a bungee cord, so we used yarn.
Their dad, doctor James Timothy Possible is there as well,
that Adrenalin is a menace. Their mom doctor and Possible ads,
and she didn't really bungee jump out of a blimp.
Don't you boys watch the news? Jim responds, Now, the

(39:00):
only show we watch is Adrenaline. Then Jim realizes, hey,
it's time, and he clicks on the TV. It's a
different newscaster and reports that Adrenaline is a fake. Coupled
with a rash of copycat stunts across the country, that's us,
Tim exclaims as he tries to high five his ailing brother.
The reporter continues, it has prompted this network to cancel
adrenaline in favor of more responsible programming.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Least realistic part of the whole episode. No network, cancel it.
Tonight's programming.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Everyone gets a raise double.

Speaker 5 (39:33):
Have any of you.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Ever tried to imitate anything you ever saw on screen
as kids?

Speaker 5 (39:38):
Did you ever like try to fly?

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Or?

Speaker 3 (39:41):
I mean I definitely recreated action sequences in my living room.
Like I remember like watching along with Friends and being
like you, No, I'm Indiana Jones running away from the ball.
So you'd recreate scenes.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
But I would copy Oprah. I would sit and interview people.
I would sit in my sink with a hair brush
as a microphone, and I would interview.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
We're here today and.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
I would interview people.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
That's the only thing I Why are you sitting.

Speaker 5 (40:06):
In a sink?

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Because I could face myself in the mirror like a camera,
So I would sit in my sink. I also sat
in my sink to do my makeup until I was
like thirty years old.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Like you literally get up and sit How do you
how with the with the thing hanging over.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Well, it doesn't always hang over. Sometimes your sink is
flush to your countertop. But even still, I would I
would say I did have like a just a little
uncomfortable on your rear end. But when I do my makeup,
I like to get really up close to like do
my mascara and stuff, and so standing in front of
a counter where I have to then lean over, I
would just prefer to be as close as possible. So
I sat in my sink to do all kinds of things,
interview people, do my makeup?

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Yes, well, I do remember Shilah, and I heard that
people went over Niagara Falls and barrels.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
Oh, So we had a barrel at our house and
there was a big hill off the side of our
house that went down into the redwood forest. We would
get in the barrel and roll each other down, hurt
ourselves so badly that the only thing we could do.
We decided then we needed padding, So we inflated like

(41:11):
a raft that you would use in a pool, like
an inflatable raft. We inflated one of those and put
it in the barrel as padding. But I was the
only one small enough to fit. So my neighbor Hayes
and Shilah would stuff me in the barrel and throw
me down the hill and see how far I could get.
The goal was to go as far as we could
through the woods, banging into trees like smoothing.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
And then eventually I wore a motorcycle helmet and the padding.
But like I said, I was the only one, so
that was lots of days, so lucky, no brand damage.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
Didn't you just say that?

Speaker 1 (41:47):
So stay tuned for an extra hour of stuff on fire.
Satisfied watch that all day. A satisfied Kim turns off
the TV. Excellent, Now I can focus on the looming
disaster in my social life. On the foot fall field,
the cheerleaders are once again practicing their routine for the
big game. They're interrupted by Ron, surrounded by a posse
looking good. Kp Ron has become very Hollywood very quickly.

(42:08):
Oh don't worry, baby, I'm not going to forget about
the little people who got me where I am today.
I'll be there Friday night to cover your date with Brick.
With that, and excited, Brick comes running over. Cool, her
Date's going to be like Newsworthy, Kim size and throws
her pom poms in the air. She has to do something. Brick, Wait,
we need to talk. Brick nervously asks, did you just
say we need to talk? That's exactly what Amelia said

(42:30):
last year when she dumped me. He quickly corrects himself.
I mean when we, you know, broke up. Kim clarifies, Well,
you can't really call it breaking up if we haven't
even Brick interrupts her. I was a rack. I totally
blew it in the big game against east Side. He
lets that sink in and smiles. So what did you
want to talk to me about? Oh, Kim, size just

(42:52):
that I can't wait for Friday either.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
So's the w Why does she care.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
So much about the game on Saturday? Why doesn't you
just go.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
Choo?

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah, if you take one for the team, it's.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
A bad, bad, bad message for girls.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Well, here's a question. Is Brick really this dumb or
is he manipulating her?

Speaker 5 (43:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:11):
I think he's manipulating.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
He's gaslighting her.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
He's gaslighting her.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
He's a narcissist.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Exactly if you think with me, if you don't go
out with me, the whole the whole team is gonna
lose you. What others depending on you to sleep with me.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Kim.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yeah, you better. You better put out Kim because otherwise
I don't know if I can make the game.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
The game and she goes off. The game is important
for my cheerleading life.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
I can, I can. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
I think you guys are really giving Kim possible.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
I'll be honest with you. She's in an impossible situation.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
She's a girl, can do anything.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
She can do that, she can do anyone.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Brick makes a fist cool, then he walks away. Kim
says to herself, I am so toast. Adrenaline's van. Adrenaline
is driving cameraman writing shotgun. When she comes to an
abrupt stop, she is so toast roll the camera. Her
cameraman reminds her, Hello, Lynn, we've been canceled. Adrenaline barks back,
We're not canceled until I say we're canceled. So the
cameraman begins recording.

Speaker 5 (44:12):
This is going to be us.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
By the way, we're gonna be doing the podcast three
years after everybody stopped listening.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Doesn't over until it's over ourselves.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
We still meet on Zoom every week.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
We need those numbers.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Maitlyn a lonely highway. A desperate mission. Tonight, I will
pull my greatest stunt yet, revenge against Kim possible and
Ron stoppable. How's that for a teaser, he says, good,
It would be better if we had an audience. Adrenna promises, Oh,
we will, and then they drive off. We're in the

(44:45):
school hallway. Yes, we're in the school hallway. Kim tries
to use the communicator, but it isn't working. She hears
a ring from the hallway payphone and answers it Hello,
it's wait on the other line. Sorry to use a landline,
but the satellite is down. Kim asks, what's the stitch?
Another catchrase. Wade explains it's not just the communicator. Video
signals all over the world are getting messed up. More storylines,

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satellite storylines. Okay, Kim's house, Kim's dad is feverishly working
on the TV as the boys yell at him, whack
it again, dad, You have to make it work. What
good is having a broken leg if you can't sit
and watch.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
TV all day?

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Then Kim's mom enters, maybe this is a good thing.
We can have some quality family time. The boys are
not happy about that suggestion, and they want this fixed.
You're a rocket scientist, can't you do something? Their dad figures, well,
I could put it in geosynchronous orbit, but I'm not
sure how that would help. Then Kim enters through the
front door. Her mom lets her know. Oh, Kimmy, your
boyfriend called while you were out. Kim groans, he's not

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my boyfriend. Her mom explains, that's not what Ron said
on the Ron report. She notices her daughter is stressed.
Is something wrong, honey, you have our undivided attention. Kim
doesn't look like she believes them. He admits the TV's broken.
So Kim explains, Ron made up a story about me
liking the quarterback and now I'm stuck dating him or
we'll lose the big game. Meanwhile, there's a worldwide satellite crisis.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah, she's got a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Yeah yeah. Her mom puts her arm around her. Kimmy,
you have to be honest with Brick. If the football
team loses, it's not your fault. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (46:13):
Advice bad advice, No bad advice.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
She adds, I can't help you with the satellite thing.
Jim points to the TV.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
She's literally a cheerleader, so she's supposed to cheer him up. Yes,
she's supposed to the gosh.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
No, no, no, no, no. Your job, as not as
a cheerleader, is not to cheer up the individual players.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
You're the hype person. Yeah, that's your job.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
For the audience watching, to make them support the team.
You are not unemployee too.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Yeah, you got to keep the keep spirits.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
The team should not be paying attention to the cheerleaders
because they need to keep their head in the game.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Yeah, she's all tense and broken hearted.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
I was a high school musical reference, by the way,
and you didn't even know you made it.

Speaker 5 (46:55):
Keep your head in the game, it's actually get your
head in the game.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
That's our Okay.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Jim points to the TV. I don't think you have
to worry about dating Brick tonight. Brick is on screen
talking to someone off camera. Hey, I thought you said
Kim wanted to meet me here. It's adrenaline, she insists, Oh,
she'll be here. Jim and Tim are thrilled adrenaline. Their
dad scratches his head. I thought she was canceled. Commentary
on nobody ever is really canceled? You know so much?

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Yeah, he tries to change the channel, but.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
He can't escape her face. Kim reveals, well, I think
we know who's jamming the satellite transmissions. She opens her
communicator to call Wade, but Adrenaline is on that too.
Tonight it's Ron Stoppable Kim Possible versus me in extreme combat,
and to raise the stakes, I have Kim's boyfriend. Kim
screams into her phone.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
He is not my boyfriend.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Her family is disturbed. She groans, don't worry, I'm going,
and then she's out the door.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
I think was Adrenaline's plan here, because she becomes a
secure Kim Possible. She's trying to kill Kim posses. I mean, yeah,
I was just kind of I don't I think if.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
She's yes, and if she if she bests Kim Possible
on the air, she's back as Adrenaline and gets but
how is.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
She gonna best her?

Speaker 1 (48:09):
She knows Kim's gonna come and try to save him,
and so what's gonna be what she or let him
die so stop Kim from so Kim stopping Kim.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
From being able to save him?

Speaker 5 (48:19):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (48:19):
So so Brick was gonna die? Okay, yeah, all right.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
Brick or Ron. She just to choose.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
That makes sense, okay. Out in the middle of nowhere,
Kim and Ron are riding a motorcycle through the forest.
Ron points out the only thing down this road is
the old Middleton Fairgrounds. Kim adds that and adrenaline and
pulls out her communicator. She points out exactly where Lynn is.
It's a carnival. Ron notices the location in wines that
place is haunted. Plus I lost like ten bucks trying
to win a stuffed hippo. Kim does not feel bad

(48:48):
for him. If it weren't for you and your stories,
we wouldn't be here. And then we're in the haunted carnival.
Kim and Ron carefully enter, and Ron, frightened of what's
around him, announces this place gives me the creeps and
screams when he hears a howl. Rufus sticks his head
out of his pocket and says creepy and goes back
into hiding. Ron tries to quietly walk back to the motorcycle,
but Kim grabs him to keep him walking. Then all
the lights and rides turn on. A bright light shines

(49:10):
directly onto them and we see Brick Is sitting in
a roller coaster car all tied up Adrenaline's voice echoes
through the park. High school quarterback Brick Flag takes the
ride of his life and only one person can save him,
his beloved girlfriend Kim Possible.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Well, was there was always like a showdown end of
every episode.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
I don't know if it's every episode, but yeah, yes
we do.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
With the locations always kind of yeah yeah, I remember
at one one one time it takes place at Ron's
old camp camp.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
Wanta weep?

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Want to weep?

Speaker 5 (49:41):
Yeah, So there's like all that.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
So yet I was like, Okay, I can see the
thematic connection of like the Carnival, right, like she's she's
making a carnival out of television and entertainment.

Speaker 5 (49:50):
And Scooby Doo. Yeah, but I was also like, couldn't
have been.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
The big game, couldn't have had the big showdown?

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Like might have been connected or like at a TV
studio or where she like she's ornimate fans and you
got to animate the stadium and you got to meet
you at Okay, I don't know. I was just like
this seems a little random and just like you just
picked the location out of that oh the old carnival,
We'll do that.

Speaker 5 (50:14):
Yeah, I say a huge carnival. There's like underground tunnels
that go to places. It's like, well, this is this
carnival is enormous.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Well, Ron adds and mate, Kim yells out drop the dramatics.
This isn't a game, Adrenaline agrees, exactly, it's real, it's
extreme and it's freaky. She hits the switch so that
Brick's car begins to move down the tracks. Adrenaline warns
them the clock is ticking. Kim bursts into a sprint.
Come on, Ron, but then Adrenaline presses another button and
the floor below them wobbles and throws them into the building.

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They eventually land on a big, green, squishy surface surrounded
by funhouse mirrors. Adrenaline appears all over the room, asking
I wonder how the quarterback is doing. We see Brick
going round and round the roller coaster at a very
high speed. Back inside, Kim tries to kick and punch
the mirrors to get to Adrenaline, but a trapdoor opens,
throwing him down a slide and right into the bumper cars.
Adrenaline is sitting in one, ready to strike. Kim grabs

(51:05):
Ron just before he would have been hit. Adrenaline starts
to tamp Kim again playing games when poor Brick is
hurtling towards his doom. What kind of girlfriend are you?
We can still hear Brick screaming from the roller coaster.
Then we're back at Kim's house. Kim's family is watching
everything unfold on the TV, and her dad points out
that adrenalin doesn't play fair. Kim's mom yells, come on, Kimmy,

(51:26):
show him what you got. Little Tim and Jim ad
go get her adrenaline. Their dad reminds them, Jim, Tim,
there will be no rooting for your sister's foe. Then
we're back at the carnival.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
It's a big carnival.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Big Kim swings into a bumper car and crashes into Linn,
throwing her off the ride. With that, Kim starts running
to the roller coaster to save Brick, but suddenly here's
Ron yell Kim. She turns around to see Ron, now
tied up by adrenaline. She pushes a button and ascends
into a spinning chair ride. Ron yells out, no, please,
this ride always makes me throw up. He continues to
scream as he spins around and around.

Speaker 5 (51:59):
He always gets caught and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
Until he gets his monkey kung fu powers and then
he becomes pretty.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
It's not a real thing.

Speaker 4 (52:05):
That's a real Wait, who gets Ron gets monkey kung
fu powers? But he gets a he becomes a full
on monkey kung fu master and it just kicks everybody.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
It's great, okay.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Kim looks up at Brick still on the roller coaster,
and then back down at Ron. Who should she save first?
Ron's rope begins to snap, so Kim swings down to
the ground on a line of flags and presses a
button to stop the swing completely. Adrenaline sneers, ooh, that
move's gonna cost you, and then Lynn knocks Kim right
into a gondola. The quarterback is almost out of time
and you're going the wrong way. Ron is also still

(52:38):
hanging by the rope Adrenaline. You cannot do this, Lynn asks,
And why not? Ron explains, I'm the one responsible for
you being canceled. I called you a fake Brick. Here's
this from the roller coaster. What and why does Brick
hear that?

Speaker 2 (52:53):
And care?

Speaker 3 (52:55):
I have no idea, Well, because I need to hear
the next.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Sure, he needs to see her the next part, But
why why he cares? Who wrote this article about adrenaline.
I'm not sure. It's not like he's her producer or
her cameraman or something. Ron continues, I guess it takes
one to know one. I made up that stuff about
Kim liking Brick just to sell my story. Brick is listening. Oh, harsh,
Ron goes on. Hush, Ron goes on. But the thing is,

(53:18):
if the fake part about you is what people like,
well what good is it. Lynn realizes that what he's
saying is true. Ron adds, from now on, I'm keeping
it real. Lynn agrees me too, starting with my very
real defeat of Kim possible. She then maniacally laughs in
his face. Ron admits, Okay, that didn't work. Kim still

(53:38):
on the gondolus, He's a break in the roller coaster
track that Brick is still writing. She jumps out of
the people mover, deploying her rocket wings and grabbing Brick
just in time. Wants on the ground. Kim unties him.
Let's see what will I do next. She grabs adrenaline
and flies her high into the sky. Lynn warns her, Uh,
I do extreme stunts for a living. You think I'm
afraid of heights? Kim reminds her, you fake extreme stunts.

(54:01):
Let the world see how brave you are when there's
real danger.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
This is when Susan said to me she should just
fly her up really high and drop her.

Speaker 5 (54:07):
I'm like, oh, so kill her. Your answer, she should Okay, She.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Flies the villain around in circles. Not so extreme after all?
Are you? Lynn doesn't answer, so Kim asks again, are you?
Lynn finally answers no, shaking her head in fear, and
we're back at Kim's house, Jim and Tim, Cy and
Unison watching very closely on the TV. Now she tells
us the haunted Carnival. Kim, Brick, and Ron watch on
as Adrenaline is taken away in the back of a

(54:35):
police car. Kim turns to Brick. Listen, I'm sorry you
almost plunged to your death on worldwide television. Brick interrupts her.
Kim stop, I get it now. Kim wonders you do.
Brick says, sure, you had that skinny guy exposed adrenaline,
so she'd freak out and set up this whole save
Brick thing just to prove you. Dug me, Kim, You're
nice and all, but you try too hard. If you

(54:56):
just ask me out, that's cool. But this is too much.
I'm sorry, but it's over. Then he walks away. Ron
is shocked. I can't believe it. Kim agrees, I know.
Ron imagines the newest headline quarterback sacks Kim possible she
has a dislocated heart and will be out for the
remainder of the season. Rufus physically shuts Ron's mouth and
thanks the little creature, and that's our show.

Speaker 5 (55:20):
Loved it ten out of ten, No do.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
So what what does Brick think that he.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
She tries too hard?

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Tries too hard?

Speaker 1 (55:29):
But what's the the skinny guy? So Ron Ron set
this up so that I didn't think this show was
going to be too hard for me to understand. But
I because you're watching it, it's wrong.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
It's there's a lot of layers going into there's so
many layers.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
I thought, oh, fun a cartoon, and then I was like,
I have some meaning of life questions.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
Well you're going to get it when you started episode
one and watch the four seasons.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Eighty five episodes, you're going to get it. Yeah, I'll
understand it that I figured it out. I really love
the thought the song though I'll tell you that it's
great song themesong, Oh yeah, pritty darn great. Well, thank
you all for joining us for this episode of Podmeets World.
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