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| Episode Number |
19 |
| First Aired |
March 7, 2003 |
| Production Code |
114 |
| Writer |
Meg McLaughlin
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| Director |
Chris Bailey
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| Guest Stars: Tom Kane (as Lord Monkey Fist) Frank Welker (as Frank) Kath Soucie (as Rocket Booster #1) Russi Taylor (as Voice of Rocket Booster #2) Phil LaMarr (as Rocket Booster #3?) Shaun Fleming (as Rocket Booster?) Brian George (as Mystical Monkey Monk?) Bill Barretta (as ) |
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| Monkey Fist has his
eye on Frederick, a monkey astronaut, to fulfill a mystical monkey prophesy, and heads to the Space Center to monkey-nap him. The same Space Center, as it happens, where Dad is holding a meeting of his Little Rocket Boosters club, which his "Kimmie cub" is feeling too old to participate in. |
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| Villain: Lord Monkey Fist
Animation Production by: Toon City Animation, Inc.
Lord Fiske's manservant Bates does not accompany him in this episode.
Ron finally overcomes his fear of monkeys.
^--Actually, not really. Not until "The Full Monkey" does he truly seem to overcome his fear. And that's just for the one monkey (known as "Chippy") |
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Rocket Booster #3: You've got hairy hands...
Monkey Fist: And the feet to match!
Rocket Booster #3: Cool.
Dad: There's nothing "cool" about stealing a spacecraft.
Monkey Fist: Oh, really?
Dad: That's right! In fact, I'd have to say it's quite... "whack".
Monkey Fist: Doctor, I am guided by the ancient prophesy of the Mystical Monkey Monk....I am not whack.
Monkey Fist: Monkey Ninjas Attack!
Frederick: bRiNG iT oN.
Ron: No monkey touch! No monkey touch! No monkey touch!
Monkey Fist: Ugh...to waste such simian talent on a sitcom...
Frank the Gate Guard: Looks like someone has letting-go issues.
Kim: I've gotta go back. I'll suck it up and tell him I'm too old for the Rocket Boosters.
Ron: Or...you could write him a letter. Everybody loves to get mail!
Wade: Looks like your best bet is an air vent on the roof.
Kim: (disgusted) Isn't it always?
Kim: Look...Dad...I've been up the Amazon and down a volcano, I've dogsledded through the Arctic, swam the English Channel, scaled Mount Everest...not to mention acing the cheerleading Regionals.
Ron: So the Monkey Ninjas just vanished?
Rufus: Uh-huh. Coo-coo.
Mrs. Dr. Possible: What's the matter Kimmy? School or villains?
Dad: There are no weapons on the space station. It's dedicated to peaceful research.
Monkey Fist: Now that is whack.
Monkey Fist: But I was to be the ultimate monkey master! I was to be unstoppable!
Ron: Dude, it's not happening. Get used to it.
Dr. Mr. Possible: [Rule] No. 1: No boys. Ever.
Kim: Wade, Monkey Fist is inside Misison Control. We need a way in, and fast. Can you access blueprints?
Wade: You're talking highly-classified information, Kim. (tapping at keyboard) There's layers upon layers of encryption, and... (computer beeps) I'm in!
Mystical Monkey Monk: When I said "the leader of the monkey ninjas will be unstoppable", what I should have said was that the leader will be Ron Stoppable. My bad! Hope that didn't cause too much confusion.
Monkey Fist: Take a picture! It'll last longer!
Ron(trying to remove grate off of a ventilation shaft): Some tools would be nice.
Kim(rummaging through her backpack): Let's see. I've got lip gloss, smoke pellets, and today's history homework.
Ron: Wouldn't mind a look at that.
Kim: RON!
Monkey Fist: Kim Possible? And her monkey-phobic friend! What are you doing here!?
Ron: It's the Rocket Booster's open house. They have these rocket-shaped cookies.
Kim: We're here to stop you, Monkey Fist.
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| When Kim shoves Ron out of the Rocket Booster room, she has no backpack, yet when she is crossing the carpark she has one.
At the end, when Kim takes off her space helmet and throws it at Monkey Fist, he breaks it, but when Kim and Ron get off the space ship, she has her helmet back.
^-- There could be a spare helmet on board. I think a space program would be prepared for a situation where equipment breaks.
The security guard from the Blandsfield Zoo can be seen helping Frank the booth guard (now inexplicably voiced by a different actor) restrain Lord Fiske at the episode's end. Guess they just needed some generic security, and someone either wasn't paying close enough attention, or assumed viewers wouldn't be.
Kim's shirt doesn't fit, but Ron's does? It may be due to the series' established style though...
Why does Ron seem to be the only one who knows Monty Fiske's real name, calling him "Monty Freak"? Kim and Wade don't seem to know. And wouldn't Kim's dad know about Monkey Fist? Kim would have most likely told him.
^-- What are you basing any of this on? Kim may call Fiske by his assumed name, rather than his given name, but that doesn't mean she's unaware of his alternate identity -- indeed, she refers to his monkeyness as "Lord Monkey Fist" in the final act. Besides, I fail to see what difference this makes to the episode, one way or the other. Further, regarding your second question, I can find no evidence that Dad *didn't* "know about Monkey Fist". Care to clarify?
^-- Maybe they call him Monkey Fist because he isn't really Monty Fiske anymore. He's abandoned all elements of his past life, meaning that he's not really the same person. Follow?
When Rufus chews through the roof, it becomes jagged and rigid. When they go down, it is now perfect again.
^-- When do we see the vent again after Rufus has chewed through it? That shot's immediately followed by a wipe to Ron dropping from a ventilation shaft into a Space Center hallway.
When Kim and Frederick approach the space station, Dr. Possible says to Frederick, " Reduce rockets to max speed." How can you REDUCE to the maximum??
^-- Incorrectly considered a goof: Dr. Possible says "match speed", not "max speed". You'd have a brilliant goof there, though, otherwise, I'll admit.
If no boys are allowed EVER, wouldn't Ron not be allowed to be Kim's sidekick??
I doubt that's what Dad meant by "no boys" (and Kim doesn't seem to think of Ron as a "boy", in that sense, anyway).
The bearded scientist's mouth doesn't move correctly with the words.
How could Frederick's suit have the WHOLE English language in just six buttons?!
^-- Creative license. And it's a pretty big leap to assume the suit was equipped with a database of the entire English language, given the limited vocabularly Frederick displayed in this episode.
^-- It may not have had the entire English language, but Fredrick DID say (or at least pushed buttons to say) more than just six words.
^-- True, but it's silly to assume that each button corresponded only to one specific word; that'd be unbelievably inefficient. While the folks at "KP" may not have worked out a functional system (and who would expect them to for a single episode?), there are certainly ways to accomplish more than six tasks using a six-button input configuration.
As Monkey Fist and his monkey ninjas seal off mission control, the number of Rocket Booster hopefuls jumps from five to six. By the end of the day, no fewer than eight potential Boosters rush Kim as she exits Dad's shuttle. Late arrivals, perhaps?
When Kim and Ron are fighting Monkey Fist and his ninjas in space, Frederick turns the artificial gravity off, but, while the other characters start floating, Frederick and several background objects remain grounded. Why didn't they float as well?
About the Zero-gravity goof: Maybe some of those things were bolted down. (KIM7813)
When Kim answers Ron at the door of her house, her hair is parted on the
wrong side (her left as opposed to her right, which is normally where it's parted on).
Kim gets locked in a closet by Monkey Fist. How could she get locked *in*? All locks lock on the inside. The only way this is possibe is if Monkey Fist had a key to the closet.
When one of the Rocket Booster children says "I think she's my babysitter", the girl with blonde pigtails is the one whose head is moving, implying that she is saying the line. But when we cut to a wide shot halfway through the line, the black-haired kid standing next to her is the one whose mouth is moving.
Monkey Fist's chin switches between pointy and squared off at different points in this episode.
At one point when the Mystical Monkey Monk appears to the monkey ninjas at the end of the episode, his monkey lacks any lighter coloring on his face.
After the artificial gravity is turned off. Kim is capable of moving through the air with out pushing off of anything. This is a physical impossibility.
How is it that Monkey Fist and his ninjas are knocked out after falling only about twelve feet? It doesn't make sense.
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Spiders
So, there's another animal added to Ron's list of fears.
DYN? #1
Ron's Camp Wannaweep flashback to bunking with Bobo has been lifted frame-for-frame, shot-for-shot from "Monkey Fist Strikes".
DYN? #2
As he's introduced to Dad's Rocket Boosters, Frederick is playing the same "Asteroids"-like video game that Ron plays in J.P. Bearymoore's Pizza Party-Torium ("Coach Possible").
DYN #3
The sequence when Rufus frowns at Ron is the same clip from "The Twin Factor" (with the exception of his arms being redone).
Missing line?
Anyone else think they cut a line between "Frederick, you cannot fight destiny; it's just not done" and "Otherwise, things here could get very... ugly"? I mean, these two don't even quite make sense back-to-back, and the shift in Tom Kane's reading suggests, to me, a transition from an absent bit of dialogue, as well.
Analysis of Missing Line?
Maybe it was a technical error. You know, maybe Tom Kane coughed or something. That or the writer didn't check the script before they went into production (i.e. they didn't read it to make sure it flowed).
The Ever-Changing Rocket Booster Club
The kids in the Rocket Boosters are consistently the same group, until Monkey Fist comes in. Then the girl with straight light brown hair vanishes and is replaced by the boy with glasses (that examines Monkey Fist). From that point on the kids and their number vary, most notably at the scene where Kim and Ron return in the space shuttle (there weren't that many kids in the mission control room!).
Monkey Ninjas Chasing Ron
Only 3 monkey ninjas (of 4) appear when Kim and Ron first find Monkey Fist. So what happened to the 4th ninja? And when the 3 that are there chase Ron, during the chase it goes from 3 to 2 ninjas. That can be explained by saying that perhaps the other one went in another direction. My youngest sis noticed this one (I wanted to give her credit).
Analysis of Monkey Ninjas Chasing Ron
Worse still, there are no less than eleven monkey ninjas in Bueno Nacho at the episode's end.
Disney Reference, Sort of
This first aired in the states with a karate episode of Proud Family preceding it.
Mr. Dr. Possible's behavior
Mr. Dr. Possible's behavior in this episode is so far out of line with all the others seen to date that it's hard to understand. While I'm sure Kim's parents are concerned for her every time she goes on a mission, her father has never displayed the kind of overprotectiveness he shows here, despite the fact he has actually seen Kim in action a few times. And how is the "no boys, ever" supposed to square with the Josh Mankey conversation? While Dr. Possible is clearly uneasy on the subject of Kim and boys, I don't think he tried to actively dissuade her.
DYN?
When Rufus is punching button to get the door to open inside the rocket the beeps make the melodic beeping of a few musical bars from "The Barber of Serville"
Re: Analysis of Missing line
Here's my guess: After saying, "Frederick, you can not fight destiny; it's just not done," maybe Tom paused because he was expecting the voice director to say cut, but the track kept on rolling!
Ron's Destiny
At the end of the episode, the Mystical Monkey Monk says that Ron Stoppable is the Monkey Master; but Monkey Fist clearly said that the Monkey Master would receive a sign(Ron never gets any sign). Thus, I theorize that Ron and Monkey Fist are *both* destined Monkey Masters; and, in a future episode, they'll face off in a final confrontation, deciding who will be the Ultimate Monkey Master.
Re: DYN? #3
Also, the the animation and voice of Rufus saying "Wahoh" was also reused from "The Twin Factor" when Drakken tells Kim and Shego to "destroy the little bald thing". |
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Ron: Get yer stinking paws off me, you filthy monkey!
A parody of Charlton Heston's classic line from 1968's "Planet of the Apes":
"Get your stinking paws off me, you d---ed dirty ape!"
Ron: I told you, KP, never trust a monkey!
It may be coincidental, but the punchline (such as it was) to one of Brak's more popular "School Daze" stories for "Cartoon Planet" (featured on "Space Ghost's Musical Bar-B-Que", the series' first commercially available compilation CD) was -- that's right:
"I told you, never trust a monkey!"
More Info
Fredrick: none
Actually, the whole monkey astronaut idea came from Tim Burton's 2001 remake of the classic Planet of the Apes. |
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