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| Episode Number |
23 |
| First Aired |
July 25, 2003 |
| Production Code |
203 |
| Writer |
Gary Sperling
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| Director |
David Block
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| Guest Stars: Raven-Symone (as Monique [as Raven]) Brian Posehn (as Larry) Shawnee Smith (as Vivian) Nika Frost (as Zita [as Nika Futterman]) Tom Kenny (as Fen) Corey Burton (as Robot Rumble Ring Announcer) Rob Paulsen (as Theater Boy #1, Robot Rumble Scanner) Phil LaMarr (as ) Stacy Sibley (as ) |
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| Ron tries to make his move on new girl Zita Flores while Kim investigates a missing super robot in the underground world of robot pit fighting. |
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| Villain: Fen
Animation Production by: Starburst Animation Co., Ltd |
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Ron: What kind of chance do I have with a girl like that anyway?
Kim: (to Monique) Honest opinion or best friend fudge?
Monique: Fudge it, girl.
Kim: Exactly where do you find these "rules"?
Ron: They're unwritten.
Monique: Oh, like: "Don't call a guy the same day you get his phone number."
Ron: That's one. And: "I don't stand a chance with that girl." That's another.
[ Kim pulls out a tin of Kissy Girl lip gloss ]
Ron: Acid to melt the locks?
Kim: Chapped lips. *Mmmah!*
Scanner: (Scanning Dad) Retina scan... Confirmed.
Scanner: (Scanning Ron) Retina scan... Who... are you?
Ron: (of a sappy date movie) Come on, life isn't anything like that.
Boy #1: What do you know about life?!
Wade: Ron, Kim is waiting for you outside the theater.
Girl: She is? That is so sweet!
Wade: She needs you.
[ Couple "Awwws". ]
Boy #2: Hurry, dude!
Girl: Kim's waiting for you!
Scanner: Member identification.
Larry: Imperial Senator Bernalus. (to Kim) My code name.
Scanner: Identity confirmed.
Larry: Stay close, and don't embarrass me. (puts on gigantic embarrassing helmet-thingy)
Ron: The rules aren't gonna like this.
Kim: (to Ron) Come on, Casa-NO-DUH!
Ron: Don't hurt me, robot!
Vivian: Don't cry, he's challenging your robot.
Ron: I knew that. I wasn't crying.
Vivian: Whimpering.
Ron: Well put.
Ron: She almost saw us!
Kim: Who?
Ron: Zita!
Kim: So?
Ron: (Sigh) See it through her eyes, Kim. You, me, boy, girl...
Kim: Yeah, so?
Ron: Seemingly coming out of a date movie - together.
Kim: You and me on a *date*?
Ron: It could happen! I mean, you know, not that we would, you know, but if someone didn't know that we were just best friends and they saw us together at the feel good film of the year, well, conclusions may be drawn!
Kim: Yeah, uh huh, Ron, I'm going to say something I've never said to you before.
Ron: What?
Kim: You're thinking too much!
Ron: Unless - if Zita saw us together, that would make me unavailable - unattainable - thus desirable.
Kim: Thinking too much!
Ron:(surprised, seeing Zita in the ticket window) That is very much not Lamar.
Monique:(of Ron's attempt to talk to Zita) Mr. Smooth makes his move.
Ron: *Holding up hair* Lookin' clue-ish!
Ron: Girls are big on grudges.
Kim: Says who?
Ron: The rules.
Ron: Blond with wild man... so by the rules.
Kim: What did you do, buy a ticket to every movie?
Ron (defensively): Nooooo, that would be stupid!
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| Near the end of the episode, Ron takes a ticket from Lamar which is covered with sweat. This couldn't logically have happened, since the ticket seems to come out of a mechanical dispenser, which a person wouldn't touch.
^- Lamar probably loaded the roll of paper that would be used to print the tickets into the machine himself, thus explaining why the tickets are wet.
Wade appears on the screen, yet when the movie is being shown there are several little scratches and dark spots, which would indicate a projector.
^-- In my area, we have digital projectors. Maybe the film was poorly filmed and when it was transferred to a digital format, it couldn't cleaned up digitally or the projector was dusty. (KIM7813)
^-- I've never experienced a digitally-projected movie, but I very much doubt that dust on the projector lens would create such an ever-changing pattern of lines and specks.
During the Robot Battle, when Wade is controlling the robot, why would Wade need both the keyboard and the joystick to just move the robot? The robot isn't doing anything but moving so Wade's key pushing would be pointless.
^-- Speaking of the superfluous, besides making the Kimmunicator look more like an RC racer, what purpose did the sprouted antenna serve?
Where was Rufus' skeleton when Ron passed through the X-ray machine?
Why would Zita need Annie's nametag anyway? She could just go without one till her nametag was made.
^-- In many service jobs, the nametag is part of the uniform, and you don't go without one. It makes the customer feel better if they can see your name (even if it isn't really your name -- the customer doesn't know that).
As Kim, Ron and Larry go down the elevator, Kim is talking but her mouth doesn't move.
In this episode, the Kimmunicator's sample tray opens outward from the front. In "Kimitation Nation", it extends upward from the top.
^-- Wade is constantly updating the Kimmunicator; perhaps the tray was relocated to make room for a new gizmo. The bigger question here may be: How did so seemingly solid a tray slide in and out of a space several times too small to accommodate its entire length?
When Kim, Larry and Ron are riding down the elevator-thing to the Robot Rumble, Kim changes positions between the moment of the long shot and the close-up of her and Larry. (During the long shot, she is facing towards him. In the close-up, she is facing away from him.)
Larry picks up the helmet-thingy from the curb before he goes in to the Robot Rumble, but it wasn't there in the wide shot as Larry, Kim and Ron pull up to that area.
When Ron and Kim walk out of the elevator, the bottom of Ron's shirt turns red.
In the closed captioning, whenever Fen is mentioned, Fen is spelled "Phen".
During Ron's "If someone didn't know that we were just best friends..." ramble outside the theater, Kim's mouth and nose seem to "droop" a bit as she closes her eyes, as if a cel overlay of her expression had slipped. Her nose moves from between her eyes to across her left eye.
The lighting in the Robot Rumble area must have been especially dark or rather unusual, like a filter, because Kim's normally green eyes appear brown during those scenes.
^-- ICaG: The light in the Robot Rumble has an obvious red tint to it; red and green make brown.
When Ron says "Seemingly coming out of a date movie - together," the bottom of his shirt is red.
When we first see that the subway train is actually Ron and Rufus with the Kimmunicator, it shows that the light is coming out of the center of the bullhorn. Later, the light is being beemed out of the Kimmunicator screen.
Maybe not a goof, but Fen's skin has a definite greenish cast in the final scenes in the magnet room that it didn't have before. |
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Bigger Eyes for Monique
Monique has become a main character. Why? Because she has bigger eyes. I mean, there aren't any other main characters with dots for eyes. Although some nonmain characters have big eyes. -alienk11
DYN 1
In an odd reversal, as Oliver's shadow falls across a gasping Kim, cels have been
modified from a shot in "Crush" in which Kim is obscured not by shadow, but by light.
DYN? #2
Ned (still in his Bueno Nacho uniform) can be seen several times at the Robot Rumble -- and he's apparently gone back to brunette.
DYN #3
Ron must have a fair amount of money in order to be able to buy so many tickets (There are several theories: 1) Naco royalties [Plot point for "Ron Millionaire"], 2) D-Hall Money [assuming they had been doing this for a long time], 3) Money saved by shopping at Smarty Mart, or he's just thrifty)
Oliver
Oliver could be (I'm guessing physique aside) Vivian's ideal boyfriend. He was kind, stood up for her and was extremely smart.
DYN? #4
As Dr. Possible gets his retinas scanned and the door opens, you can hear a bell jingle (some stores have bells on their doors and as you open the door, the bell jingles).
Reply to DYN #3
Another reason he may have the money is maybe from his Bar Mitzvah. In a Bar Mitzvah you receive approximately $5,000 (trust me, I know, I am a Jewish teenager). His parents may have let him keep some of the money he made.
DYN? #5
Justine Flanner (Kim's science partner in "Partners") can also be seen in the audience at the robot rumble.
Competition
Ron definetley had some competition for Zita at the movies. Almost every time he was in line, there were only guys in front of or behind him.
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None: None
The robot fighting thing is possibly a reference to the TV show "Battle Bots." A show which features robot fighting.
Fen: Walking (and kicking) legs
The robotic legs that run amok in Fen's lab are a reference to the 1993 Nick Park claymation film "The Wrong Trousers" featuring the characters Wallace (the master) and Gromit (his dog).
Mr. Dr. Possible: Talks about an artificial intelligence for a top-secret Jupiter mission.
In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL-9000 is the intelligent computer aboard a spacecraft headed for Jupiter. While the mission is not top secret, the true purpose is.
Schwarzenegger #1: X-ray machine at Space Center
Last seen in a security checkpoint in "Total Recall" (1990).
Schwarzenegger #2: Robot pursuit scene
The robot climbing on the back of the railcar mirrors the mental hospital escape scene in Terminator 2 where the T-1000 climbs up the back of the police car that John and Sarah Connor are escaping in.
Schwarzenegger #3: Oliver's unmasking
Oliver is very similar to Stan Winston's T-800 endoskeletons (though definitely less evil looking).
Ron: There are 'rules' for this sort of thing.
Ron was sort of wrong about the "rules" being unwritten - "The Rules" are a series of relationship help books for women by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider. More Info
None: The Robot Rumbles' personnel identification machine
Said machine is very similar to a security device used in Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" (though the one in "Brazil" looked more like an eyeball)
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Zita's name could possibly be a reference to "The Zeta Project." This was "Batman Beyond" spinoff that aired on the WB where Will Friedle (Ron) guest starred as the voice of Batman (who he voiced regularly on the orginal series).
Ron: Changed my mind, thought I'd catch Meeting Cute instead
"Meeting Cute" was the title for an early episode of Matt Groening's comic strip "Life in Hell." That particular strip also dealt with a loser (Binky the rabbit) trying to work up the courage (and constantly saying he didn't have a chance) to ask out a cute girl rabbit (Sheba).
Ron: Changed my mind, thought I'd catch Meeting Cute instead
Actually, "Meeting Cute" is a writers' slang for the scene in a story where the protagonist meets their love interest.
Ron: "My Little Puppy 2; Puppy's Pride"
"My Little Puppy 2; Puppy's Pride" is a combined reference of My Little Pony and Pound Puppies, two cartoons based on toy-lines from the 1980's.
none:: Near Train Collision
The scene where the train headlight heads straight in Kim's direction references the train collision scene at the end of the Disneyland attraction "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride".
none: none
Vivian's first two initials (VF) match Victor Frankenstein's initials. Victor Frankenstein is a character in Mary Shelley's book, "Frankenstein", which was made into a movie. Just like Vivian, Frankenstein created his own living being, but his monster wasn't a robot, whilst Vivian's creation (Oliver) was.
None: None
The X-ray machine Ron does the leg thing with is almost identical to the one in the Herge comic book "The Adventures of Tintin: Destination Moon". The two policemen in the series (Thompson and Tompson) split up to look for a "criminal". One Thompson, instead of finding a criminal, almost got scared to death by a "skeleton". The other Thompson doesn't believe him, and goes down the hallway... and sees the skeleton! What they are unaware of is that they are looking at each other through an X-ray - Thompson #1 was looking at Thompson #2 through the X-ray (who was standing in front of a "screen"), and goes back to tell Thompson #2. Thompson #2 then goes back (alone) to check it out, while Thompson #1 stands in front of the "screen". Thompson #1 then sees Thompson #1 through the X-ray. |
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