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| Votes Cast: |
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| Episode Number |
26 |
| First Aired |
August 15, 2003 |
| Production Code |
213 |
| Writer |
Bill Motz & Bob Roth
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| Director |
Steve Loter
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| Guest Stars: John DiMaggio (as Dr. Drakken) Nicole Sullivan (as Shego) Reggie Hayes (as Dr. Freeman, Microwave) Susie Essman (as Sadie (voice)) Jeff Bennett (as Toaster, Blender, Ghost Car) Kirsten Storms (as Bonnie) Patrick Warburton (as Mr. Barkin) |
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| Kim Possible can do anything! Except pass Barkin's driver's ed
test. Inventor Dr. Freeman has been kidnapped by Drakken for his
brilliant tech inventions. Freeman's talking car not only leads Kim
to Drakken, but also helps her with her driver's test. |
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| Villains: Dr. Drakken & Shego
Animation Production by: Starburst Animation Co., Ltd
This is the third time Kim ever uses a gadget that's not made by Wade.
First time that Shego has appeared in an episode and has not fought with Kim.
Drakken's plot in this ep is a reworked version of the "Crush" plot. In that ep, the video game factory was originally going to be a car factory. Even the production numbers are nearly the same (113 vs. 213). |
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Shego: Y'know, for someone who's supposedly a mad genius, I'm not seeing much of the "genius".
Drakken: Keep it up, Shego, and you'll see plenty of the "mad".
Shego: (sarcastically) Ooh, scary man.
Ron: Never underestimate the power of the Slurpster!
Rufus: King size!
Kim: Check the motto: I can do anything!
Ron: Right, you can do anything. Including fail.
BARKIN: This isn't jolly ol' England, Possible!
KIM: Huh?
BARKIN: Right side!
Drakken: Kim Possible, you think your car's all that, but it's *not*!
Rufus: (slurps drink too fast) Oh! Brain freeze.
Kim: You techno-rock, Wade.
Sadie: K-turn? Honey, I'll give you the whole alphabet.
Ron: (to the stereo) You wait until the blender and I are about to mix it up to mention this?
Ron: When the chips are down, Ron Stoppable takes charge! ... Now which one of these pedal thingies do I step on to make it go-go?
Drakken: Bet you can't fix my death-ray either!
Sheego: Don't push it. Can you not?
Ron: So, as you see from this very conclusive demonstration, it's not so much that I lost control of the car, as it is they built the gym too close to the parking lot.
Bonnie: Don't choke.
Kim: Only when I see you.
Dad: Need a ride to school, Kimmie?
Kim: Already got one.
Dad: With a boy...?
[ The tweebs stop mid-spoonful ]
Kim: No, a self-driving computerized sport utility vehicle.
Dad: Okie dokie! As long as it's not a boy.
Sadie: (to Kim) Can you really do anything?
Ron: Oh, yeah! Y'know, except a K-turn.
Ron: Is using a calculator in algebra "cheating"?
Kim: I don't use a calculator.
Ron: OK, well, is cutting and pasting stuff from the internet and calling it a term paper "cheating"?
Kim: (Stares) You are kidding, right?
Ron: What?!
Kim: I cheated! Well, Sadie cheated for me, but the guilt is still major.
Ron: You cheated?
Kim: She just did it!
Ron: I'm sorry, let me rephrase. You cheated... and you didn't let me cheat too!?
Ron: Yeah, yep, that's a talking blender alright.
Rufus: Ohhh, creepy.
Mr. Barkin: Even dotted the I! Magnificent! A++
Film: ...and what a swell car it was. Downright nifty for going to sock hops and soda parlours...
Kim: What's a 'sock hop'?
Ron: What's a 'soda parlor'?
Ron: (Upon seeing Sadie for the first time) Ghooooost caaar!
Shego: (interrupts Drakken's rant) He's building an army of robots.
Drakken: Why do you do that? The evil rant is one of the best perks of the job!
Shego: Yeah, well, it's BORING.
Barkin: Squirrel!
Kim: Squirrel? Is that like a K-turn?
Barkin: It's like a squirrel!
Kim: Seat belt, check. Mirrors, check.
Ron: Hot metal, check! Could you just floor it, please?
Bonnie: He said THAT?! Well, he just went from hottie to "nottie"!
Bonnie (on cell phone): Well, of course he's a frube! But he's a beautiful frube!
MHS Sign: Driver Education Starts Today
MHS Sign: Gym Closed For Repairs
MHS Sign: Kim Possible Student Driver of the Year
Blender: I-I-It was all so chaotic.
Ron: Yep. Uh-huh. That's a talkin' blender, alright.
Rufus: Oh, creepy!
Microwave: I just remembered.
Kim: Spill.
Microwave: Their body temperature was at 98.6 degrees.
Ron: Oh, great! That narrows the list of suspects down to let's see... everybody in whole wide world!
Sadie: Try the toaster!
Toaster(to Kim and Ron): Truth be told I was concentrating on making the toast. It was a perfect golden-brown.
Ron: Good man.
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| Kim takes Barkin's driving test three times, each time wearing a different outfit. It's not surprising, then, that someone might become confused: During her second, Sadie-assisted run, Kim can briefly be seen wearing the long-sleeved teal shirt she wore during her first attempt, rather than the white-with-a-pink-heart t-shirt she begins and ends the second in.
When Mr. Barkin asks Kim in the car, "What are you doing?" Kim says "Starting the car", but she was reaching for the gearshift.
When Kim says "Sadie cheated for me", it sounds as though she says "Seedie cheated for me"
Following Kim's second attempt at Barkin's test, her locker door opens the wrong way and the handles for every locker on her side of the hallway have been flipped. Kim shuts the door almost immediately and the handles are correctly aligned by the next shot, but when the "goofed" background is reused shortly after, the door jumps open again.
When Mr. Barkin first exits the car, you can tell no one is sitting in the driver's side.
In the beginning we see Dr. Freeman's house with a garage on the left side of the screen. Later, when S.A.D.I. takes Kim to the house, we see the car parked outside with no garage.
In act two, Sadie vaporizes the driver's ed car, but the car returns in the end for Kim to retake her test in. Another car?
^-- Potentially even a passive Sadie.
When it's Bonnie's turn to take the test, there is a girl in a yellow shirt at her end of the line. Seconds later, as Barkin yells at Bonnie to go, an entirely different girl stands in her place.
The second time Kim is remembering what Barkin and Ron said, their lines have been switched. Barkin says "right of passage" and Ron says "doorway to adulthood".
Nitpick: I have noticed that in this episode (as in many others) that Bonnie, Tara and the other cheerleaders are wearing their uniforms, however Kim is not. Seeing as how Kim is Captain of the squad, why is she not wearing her uniform also? Especially if it's game day.
^-- It might not necessarily be a game day whenever you see them in uniform. Athletes at my school are allowed to wear uniforms to school, whether there is a game or not. Maybe the girls just prefer the cheerleading outfits. Or, from a technical standpoint, it would take too much money to design outfits for minor background characters.
When Ron is walking back from his first Driver's Ed crash, there are splotches of oil or grease on his pants in the long shot that are not there in the close up shot of Rufus.
When the Destructo-Bots are randomly shooting each other, Drakken is clearly seen jumping far out of the way of a beam that lands and makes a small crater. The next shot with him shows him crawling out of the now MUCH bigger crater.
After Ron pulls Rufus from the RC car, as he and Kim walk away, the car is missing from the ground.
Nitpick of all nitpicks: In the "Ghost Car" film, it refers to Judy's car as a "keen little COUPE", but actually the car is a 4-door...a SEDAN. :)
Ron says something about driving in Denver steel but they live in Middleton.
_^_Actually, Ron was talking about getting behind the wheel of "Detroit" steel, and people all over the world have used that reference to American cars, even those that [i]aren't[/i] made in Detroit, Michigan.
(It's been a while since I've seen this episode, so bear with me) Kim has to drive S.A.D.I.E. out of Drakken's headquarters because the blast from Shego's ray damaged her internal guidance system, or something, meaning she could no longer drive herself. But when S.A.D.I.E. confesses to having cheated on Kim's driving test, she clearly pulls up to Kim on her own, sans driver.
How did Kim know about the button hidden on Sadie's clutch?
Wouldn't the government stop Dr. Freeman from making a car with laser canons and missiles? |
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DYN? #1
The remote control that Ron uses to steer the toy car is the same one used by the tweebs to control their robot in "Grudge Match" and to control their rocket in "Naked Genius".
Re: DYN? #1
The remote control seems to have become the recurring remote of Season 2 (i.e. almost everyone will use it). In Season 1, it was a small, single buttoned remote.
Re: DYN? #1
Now that's what you call a "universal remote".
FYI #1
The "K-Turn" is more commonly referred to as a three-point turn.
Tara...
At the very start of the ep, during the far-away shot of Kim and Ron walking through the hall and talking, Tara is seen at the side leaning against a locker, talking to a *boy* ...
DYN? #2
The computer scan of Kim is very similar to the scan done at the beginning of the opening credits sequence.
DYN? #3
The scene where Bonnie says "Of course he's a frub, but he's a beautiful frub" reuses cels from "Queen Bebe" (when Bonnie is kidnapped).
Age
When Kim says "As long as it's before night and I have a licenced driver in the car." I my state that is considred as a 15 year old with a permit. Does that mean Kim is only "15"?
Judy's "Ghost Car"
The so-called "keen little coupe" that wasn't a coupe is anything but little. It appears to be a 1955 Buick Special Sedan, with the roof of a 1957 Buick Sedan. Note the wider portholes on the front fenders and the lack of a B-Pillar between the two doors.
Re: Kim's Age & Driving Legally
Many states have actually raised the legal age for a learner's permit thanks to heavy political lobbying, so it's likely that Kim is 16. However some have raised the legal age as far as 18!
RE:FYI #1
Also, I'm sure you noticed that, ironically, Kim starts with a "K".
Common Design
Drakken's distructobots look a lot like his Ultimate Robot Warrior from Crush.
DYN-4
This is the first time there's an episode with Drakken and Shego in it, but Kim and Shego don't fight. |
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No Speaker: No Quote
The smart car thing is reminiscent of K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider.
Ron: That drink holder looks large enough to hold a king-size Slurpster!
The "Slurpster" must be a rip-off of 7-11's Slurpee.
Driver's Ed Film: The Ghost Car
A reference to the classic Driver's Ed films from the 1950s though the 1970s including "Signal 30" (1959), "Wheels of Tragedy" (1963) and "Highways of Agony" (1969), all featuring the gory aftermath of fatal accidents. More Info
None: Gear Shift with Booster Button
The stick stift with the small red button on it used for making SADI go super-fast is a direct reference to a similar device in the film "Men In Black."
None: Ron screaming
Ron's screaming (after the commercial) emulates the classic painting The Scream.
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