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| Episode Number |
21 |
| First Aired |
May 16, 2003 |
| Production Code |
115 |
| Writer |
Patti Carr & Lara Runnels
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| Director |
Chris Bailey
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| Guest Stars: Richard Kind (as Frugal Lucre) Jeff Bennett (as Jerry, Earl, PA Voice) Rob Paulsen (as Local #1, Mascot) Lauren Tom (as Personnel Manager?) Jean Smart (as Cashier #1) Kerri Kenney (as Cashier #2?) John DiMaggio (as Cheese-lovin' shopper) Corey Burton (as ) |
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| Kim's aversion to discount shopping is challenged when she takes
on Frugal Lucre, the world's cheapest villain. |
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| Villain: Frugal Lucre
Animation Production by: Toon City Animation, Inc.
This episode is similar to an episode of Stripperella called "Crime Doesn't Pay...Seriously, It Really Doesn't", which also featured a cheap villian. |
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Kim: I need pants, as in fashion, as in NOT SMARTY MART!
Ron: I buy clothes at Smarty Mart.
Kim: (shudders)
Z-Boy Action Figure: Z-BOY HUNGRY!
Ron: Boo-yah! I need shampoo and underwear!
[Kim finishes taking care of preserve lunatics]
Ron: Way to go, KP! Take a victory lap!
Jerry: Not a good idea... (indicates a crocodile)
Ron: Not a sea cow! NOT A SEA COW!
Ron: Francis? No wonder the dude's twisted.
Frugal Lucre: (aiming pistol) (to himself) Wow, this is so cool.
Kim: (chasing preserve lunatics, takes out her compact mirror)
Lunatic #1: (chortling) She's gotta fix her make-up!
Lunatic #2: Cause we're sooooo good-lookin'. (swipes his hair back)
Kim: ....Not quite.
Ron: (looking at tires) I KNOW I don't have a car... But I can't resist these PRICES!
Kim: They aren't exactly the same! Smarty Mart boots come in black, Club Banana's are ONYX.
Lucre: Just 'cause I'm budget-conscious doesn't mean I'm not every bit as evil as the other villains. Oh sure, they have henchmen and their fancy lairs -- but I deliver the exact same evil at a fraction of the cost!
Kim: You're planning to destroy the internet with an old can of meat?
Lucre: Yes. I get expired food free, and death rays are expensive.
LUCRE: You might've stopped me this time, Kim Possible, but Frugal Lucre vill return! Hahahahaha! If my mom bails me out.
Kim: Okay Lucre, cough up the sausages!
Ron: Ewww. Rephrase, please!
Francis (trapping Kim and Ron in a net): This is when I should reveal my evil plan, right?
Kim (dejectedly): Go ahead.
Francis: Behold, Frugal Lucre's vorld!
Ron: Small world, Francis!
Francis: It was a closeout.
Middleton High School Sign: LUNCH SPECIAL - Vienna Sausage Surprise
Middleton High Sign: Lunch- Chicken Fried Sushi
Lucre: Soon the vorld's fortune vill be mine! ("evil" laugh)
Ron: Fortune?
Kim: You only asked for a dollar per person.
Frugal: As we say at Smarty Mart: "Every dollar counts."
Kim: What kind of self-respecting villain threatens the world from a Smarty-Mart?
Ron: (eating can of expired vienna sausages) These are still pretty good! And what an interesting color...
Ron: Swim, KIMMY!!!
Frugal: (On TV) I may not have a billion dollar laser weapon or pricy robot army, but I have something those big budget bad guys lack--
Ron: Cheesy accent?
Frugal: Computer skills!
Ron: 3,000 nationwide with a new store opening every week. This week...Poughdddkeepsie!
Kim: Why do you know that?
Lucre: This thing's loaded!
Kim: With what?
Lucre: Beef bullion, if you must know. Ever try to get the smell out? Huh? You can't! (laughs evilly)
Ron(panic):Giant amphibious naked mole rat!
Kim:Ron, that's a manatee.
Bonnie: I can't wait to tell the rest of the squad: Kim Possible is a Smarty Mart shopper!
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| Kim's skin tone is completely pink all the way through this episode, bar when she swims underwater.
^- Kay, I apologize for that mistake....Kim's skin-tone returns to normal from the scene that she goes to visit Lucre's home.
^-- Perhaps Kim was sunburned and it wasn't explained. She WAS out in the wild a lot from the beginning of the episode...
When Ron says 'Steel Toe versus Pain King!' his mouth doesn't move.
Maybe there are a few aisles in Smarty Mart dedicated to animals, but Ron says he bought Rufus from aisle sixteen, whereas Lucre's snapping turtles are bought from aisle ten- 'next to the goldfish'. Aisle ten is also where Kim got some new pants from.
Frugal steals the microphone from the Smarty Mart 'Brain' mascot ('Vienna sausages- ten cans for a dollar!'). A crowd racing to get the sausages ensues, and if you slow it down, you can see the mascot running to get them too! He obviously should have known that there wasn't really an offer on.
^-- Or not. It's entirely possible that a guy hired to stand around in a brain suit might not be aware of every decision the store's management makes.
When Kim and Ron go to Kim's locker, the locker door Bonnie is behind has the handle/lock on the opposite side of the other lockers. Then when she closes it, the handle/lock magically jumps to the correct side.
When Kim and Ron enter the Smarty Mart where Francis works, there are NOT alarms but when Kim snaps the alarm tag on his store vest, there are alarms at the store doors all of a sudden.
^- Perhaps there is more than one entrance or exit in the store.
Why didn't Francis's Mom ask where his "friends" were when he went upstairs?
In the Smarty Mart where Frugal works, how did Ron know what aisle the Vienna sausages were in? He's never been inside the store. All Smarty Marts could be mapped out the same but I don't think so.
^-- I find that all stores like that *are* mapped out *exactly* the same. Trust me.
When Ron is taking the Vienna sausages out of everyone's shopping carts, the same girl in whose cart Lucre put the expired can of Vienna sausages is shown again.
^-- Maybe the girl picked them up again because she, like many of the other shoppers, couldn't resist a good bargain. Even if she didn't need it! Or want it!
^- Incorrectly a goof: When Frugal Lucre announces the "Brainstorm" on Vienna sausages, the girl whose cart he originally placed the expired can is seen among the crowd running for Aisle 22 - so she picked up another can.
When Kim is changing and throws her Smarty Mart pants down on Ron's face he says to Kim, "Retail Snob!" and Kim says SHUT UP according to the closed captioning....but it sounds like she's saying Shut ut!
When Ron Says "Boo-Yah! I need shampoo and underwear." Rufus waves up a blue dollar bill. This is a MAJOR goof because US bills are green.
^-- Money on this show has always been blue, it first being seen in "Number One." It's probably something used to make the show unique (or they just didn't want to use green. Cartoons don't exactly parallel reality you know).
^-- Interestingly, Kim pays for her Smarty Mart pants with a very green piece of currency.
^-- The blue dollar could have been an international piece of money. In other countries, the paper currency is sometimes blue or pink. Either way, Ron wouldn't be able to use it at a Smarty-Mart in the USA.
The second time Lucre interrupts a GWA match, the wrestlers vanish from the picture long before the ring does.
A few more goofs about the store doors at Smarty Mart where Frugal Works. The pad you step on to activate the automatic doors is missing when Frugal runs through the store alarms. Also the doors are a different color.
Wouldn't the Mall close the stores if the checkouts were down and people couldn't buy anything?
How would Bonnie know Kim got her pants at Smarty Mart if SHE doesn't shop there? Maybe Bonnie shops Smarty Mart also!
When Frugal Lucre checks his Amount of money that he's made from the "send a dollar to me" scheme, he has $17.28....How could he have 28 cents if he told everyone to specifically send him a dollar!
^-- We can't assume that those few who actually sent him money complied with his demand to the letter. Besides, "28 cents" is funnier.
Kim's eyes are a gray color in some shots, but when she's in the store, her eyes are green.
If Frugal Lucre is such a great computer genius, why couldn't he have figured out how to hack into the internet banking system and take a dollar from people's accounts? I check my bank account weekly via online, and most people wouldn't notice a dollar missing. My bank deducts a dollar monthly as a "service fee."
In the opener, just before Kim leaps from the swamp boat, its control levers are solid gray (as opposed to red and white).
When Ron leads "As in..." (following Wade's "It'll have to be an inside job"), his mouth doesn't move.
When Kim was looking at the pants they are different colors but when she starts running after Lucre they're all one color.
^--Actually, the pants she was looking at were knocked over and were lying on top of her. The rack you're looking at is a different one. But the ones that she was looking at before are still different colors.
^-- The original contributor had it right; the rack Kim finds herself under is not the circular pants rack, but the two-level skirt rack Lucre rams her with. Surprisingly, the skirts are consistantly colored (although one appears to have flown off in the collision).
In the beginning, Kim's wearing a life jacket, but while swimming, she must swim up to float.
In the scene when Wade says "Frugal Lucre strikes again", Wade smashes his cup with his hand. However, shortly afterward, his cup is back to its regular shape in the same place...
unsmashed
. New cup?
Look at the desk at the Smarty Mart where Kim goes to find out who Lucre is. When she goes over to the computer, there is no little 'Z-Boy' who later fell when the manager returned.
Why did Kim and Ron ask Wade to figure out where Frugal was broadcasting his message from when he was plainly wearing his Smarty Mart vest and button as he was making the broadcasts?
When Kim is in disguise to sneak into the personal manager's office, her hair is tied in a ponytail by a band. When she takes off her hat, her hair comes undone on it's own, as if it was pulled thru the hat's adjuster
When Kim and Ron confront Lucre in his house, he traps them in a net. Yet when they first enter the basement, there is no net on the floor.
During the scene when Wade strips out Frugal's voice from his message, they replay the message. If you listen, you'll notice that the voice comes in at a different spot.
Re: $17.28-- Perhaps one of the contributors was a foreign power, so when Lucre converted their currency to US dollars, it equalled 28 cents.
After Lucre's e-mail blackout, when Wade is able to get in touch with Kim again, Wade yells, "Frugal Lucre Strikes Again!" This stunt was the first time Lucre attempted anything, so how can he have "struck again" if he hadn't struck before?
When Ron finally finds the expired can of sausages with the computer virus on it, he yells, "1999!" referring to the expired year, but the closed caption says "$19.99." Even an expired can of sausages wouldn't be priced nearly $20.00.
When Kim buys her "emergency pants," the clerk allows her to wear the pants and sit on the counter so the label can be scanned. Most stores do not permit this practice because shoplifters tend to try on clothes and then wear them out of the store after removing the tags.
When Kim is uploading Frugal's file from the personnel manager's computer (upload in progress), the buttons on the front of the Kimmunicator are missing.
The cashier from Club Banana can be seen behind Ron and the "processed cheese" customer (maybe she works at Smarty Mart in her off hours).
^-- Yes, but the Smarty Mart in Philly?
Nitpick: How can the brain mascot costume take on the expressions of the person wearing it (when he confronts Kim in the hallway, and when Frugal takes the microphone from him)?
Frugal didn't give out an address for people to send their dollars to.
Re: Blue dollar: Maybe it was a gift certificate. (KPR)
^-- Maybe, but few candy drives accept gift certificates (see: "Number One").
^ - Remember, Frugal said he sent everyone an e-mail. In that e-mail, there would likely be instuctions on where to send the money.
After Kim and Ron's "R: I buy clothes at SmartyMart""K: *shudder*" exchange, Ron folds his arms and gives Kim a look. His right eye partially crosses over the bridge of his nose.
Including considerations for lighting, Wade's skin tone changes several times in this episode, sometimes in the same set of shots (most notably when he's talking to Kim from her locker computer)
After Kim's discovered that Frugal Lucre is Francis, she runs up to Ron in the tire section, holding a piece of yellow paper in her right hand. When it shows Kim again after Ron's line, the Kimmunicator is suddenly where the paper was, with the slip nowhere to be found.
When Kim and Ron go to Smarty Mart to access the Personnel files, Ron's turtleneck collar is colored red rather than black when he's greeted at the door.
Coloration Goof: When the manatee first comes to the surface and Ron screams that it's an aquatic naked mole-rat, the bottom of his shirt is colored red when Kim corrects him.
Lucre could probably have hacked into people's bank accounts very easily. It would have worked, and would've been very illegal. However, it's much more villainous to deliver an ultimatum to the world and then shut down the internet. He was going for evil, remember?
This goes back to the "cartoons don't parallel reality" statement made about halfway through this list, but I don't see how Kim and Ron can think this scheme doesn't measure up to other baddies' plans. If there are as many folk in Kim and Ron's world as there are on our planet---and if everyone would have responded to his demand (not likely, I know)---Francis could have had (depending on exchange rates) five and a half to six BILLION dollars. That ain't chump change. (Well, it's not $17.28.)
Response to $17.28 being due to foreign conversions: Not likely the case, since Lucre requested that (quote not verbatim) "everyone in the world sends me a dollar...or the monetary equivalent, given the current rate of exchange."
When Kim says, "I need to go home and change" she puts down the Club Banana pants on the counter and then when she gets home she has them with her to change into.
^Or, knowing Kim, she's probably got several pairs of the same pants at home.
How is it that Kim, just having put on the pants from Smarty Mart and buying them at the register, have money in the pocket? Did she have Ron hold her money while she was wearing that big shirt? Cuz it didnt seem to have any pockets.
Nitpick: Why does Ron eat the expired sausages? If I'm correct, sausages are made from pigs, and we learn that he is Jewish, meaning that he shouldn't eat any pork. Pig isn't "kosher". |
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Mrs Lerman
Frugal's own mother is happily witnessing him broadcasting a message in a Smarty Mart.
'I need pants!'
This is the second time that it has been mentioned on the show that someone needs pants, the first being in Downhill. Barkin: Stoppable! I need pants! and in LB, Kim: I need pants, as in fashion, as in NOT SMARTY MART!
DYN#1
The Mysterious Background Man and Woman are in the crowd that make a rush for the sausages. I know I'm obsessed with them, but they appear in *every* episode (Even in Mr. Possible's flashback in "The New Ron." And they are exactly as they are present day!).
DYN? #2
Perhaps the Club Banana clerk and the Philly Smarty Mart clerk are related - they look almost exactly the same, except for the hair color (same hairstyle, even!).
DYN #3
KIM: Maybe next time he'll spring for piranha.
This line is a possible reference to "The New Ron," where Ron advises Señor Senior Sr. on how he could turn his home into a lair, one of which is buying a lagoon to fill with piranha (Why? "To eat the good guys").
Ulterior motive?
In July of 2003, the Wal-Mart chain of discount superstores received an oversized cartload of exclusive "Kim Possible" merchandise. Might this help explain the episode's odd "discount is not a dirty word" moral?
DYN? #4
Kim uses her Club Banana membership card to open the door into the personel manager's office.
FYI #1
The two locals are caricatures of creators/writers Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle (Bob being the tall, bearded one and Mark the short, round one).
Did you notice this? I found it difficult..
Notice that if you have subs on, it says that Frugal says "Every Smart Mart affialiate". True. But, the first time I watched it, I was sure he said "Every Smart Mart in Philly". I just realised both would have worked. --KimPossibleRocks
Ron and Kim
This is the first and only time Ron calls Kim "Kimmy".
RE: Ron and Kim
So not. I remember that in October 31st Ron said, "But soon our little Kimmy sinks deeper and deeper." Not quite the same, but he still referred to her as Kimmy.
DYN? #5
Frugal is the only male KP villain without black(or brown) rings around his eyes.
Have the Tables Turned?
In the beginning of this episode, Kim looses her pants(that's Ron's gag). Though out the episode, Ron is the only one who takes Frugal seriously(at first). And at the end, Kim chases Frugal so that he doesn't notice Ron trying to save the internet(Ron's usually the distraction).
DYN?
Once again, Kim finds out the Ron isn't as clueless as he looks. Because of him, she starts shopping at Smarty Mart. |
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Kim: "Smarty Mart"?
Ron: Where smart shoppers shop smart!
Okay, this is really obvious, but Smarty Mart is a really exaggerated version of one of those convenience stores where they have just about EVERYTHING.
PA Voice: "Attention Smarty Mart Shoppers, Brainstorm in aisle 8! For the next ten minutes, Pop Pop Porter's Pizza Bagels are 2 for a dollar!"
This is referring to Kmart's Blue Light Special. "Attention Kmart Shoppers!"
Ron: Pain King vs. Steel Toe!
Ron watches a GWA wresting match through the window of an electronics store called "Victoria's Circuits". "Victoria's Secret" is a chain of lingerie stores often present in US malls.
Kim: "Smarty Mart"?: Ron: Where smart shoppers shop smart!
Everybody's favorite shotgun-totin', chainsaw wielding demon fighter Ash (from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness) worked as a clerk at S-Mart: "Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart!" More Info
Smarty Mart Manager:: Free shipping on all purchases over 25 dollars!
This is also true of one of the most popular online stores, Amazon.com.
None: Frugal Lucre
Frugal means to be cheap. Interesting ^^)
Store Name: Victoria's Circuits
While also being a play on words regarding the ladies' underwear store the gag itself was inspired by a magazine of the same name (spoofing the same store's famous catelogue) being read by Bender on [i]Futurama[/i], the episode "The Route of All Evil."
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Frugal means cheap or inexpensive, while lucre comes from the word lucrative, meaning bringing in lots a money. kinda ironic dont ya think? Lucre is inexpensively bringing in lots of money, just like his pseudonym suggests. And for those of you who dont know what a pseudonym is, its a pen name for a person, sorta like R.L. Stein from the Goosebumps series.
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