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| Episode Number |
20 |
| First Aired |
April 25, 2003 |
| Production Code |
120 |
| Writer |
Bob Schooley & Mark McCorkle
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| Director |
Chris Bailey
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| Guest Stars: John DiMaggio (as Dr. Drakken) Nicole Sullivan (as Shego) Patton Oswalt (as Prof. Dementor) Fred Willard (as Jack Hench) Elliott Gould (as Mr. Stoppable) Andrea Martin (as Mrs. Stoppable) Peter Bonerz (as Rabbi Katz) Bill Barretta (as Jilly from Jersey?) Patrick Warburton (as Mr. Barkin) Raven-Symone (as Monique) Rider Strong (as voice of Brick Flagg) |
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| Ron feels like he's not a man -- until a bit of villainous
technology turns him into a muscle-bound hulk. But do muscles make
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| Villains: Dr. Drakken & Shego and Professor Dementor
Animation Production by: Starburst Animation Studio
Ron is Jewish. He had a bar mitzvah.
First appearance of Mr. and Mrs. Stoppable.
This episode was 20th in production and was the 20th one aired. Ironic.
Nicole Sullivan (Shego) and Patton Oswalt (Dementor) have worked together on 'King of Queens'. |
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Ron: It's ferociously cool. You go to temple, read from the Torah, and BOOM! You're a man! My rabbi even printed out a souvenir certificate, which he signed.
Barkin: Correction- which he did NOT sign.
Ron: No way! Rabbi Katz definitely...(looks)...did not sign it.
Drakken: USE THE POWER OF THE RINGS!
Barkin: I regret to inform you that Ms. Jenkins made a mistake many first-year teachers make... She ate the cafeteria meatloaf.
Class: (cringe)
Drakken: (sulking) I really wanted that Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer...
Shego: (of Ron) So he is as dumb as he looks.
Dementor: ALL will be TWISTED in a VORTEX of PURE CHAOS!
Drakken: (throws Vortex Inducer into a ventilation shaft) Let's get out of here!
Dementor: Did I mention that vortex will be the size of the state of NEVADA?!
Drakken: (laughs) We're in Nevada! How ironic.
Shego: It's six against two, how many can you take?
Drakken: Put me down for-- (hides behind Shego) None.
Shego: Oh good.
Barkin: Collage...that's a French word, isn't it? Points off for that!
Ron: SO MANY VOICES IN MY HEAD!
Kim: Ron, we're talking to you through a ventilation shaft.
(Vortex inducer beeps)
Drakken: What's that beeping?
Professor Dementor: It's been activated!
Drakken: Is that a bad thing?
Professor Dementor: Don't you have any idea what the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer does?
Drakken: It's something dangerous I'm sure, or else it wouldn't be top secret.
Kim: How dangerous?
Barkin: Stoppable, the ideal man is big and/or strong. You are neither.
Ron: I get by...
Barkin: You get rescued by a girl.
Monique: You're the dot!
Ron: The manly dot!
Jilly from Jersey: Welcome to Las Vegas, Las Vegas, chicky baby!
Kim: Yeah... Hi.
Ron: There was only one rule: have fun!
Barkin: (about Mrs. Jenkins) "Have fun?" No wonder the meatloaf got her. She's weak!
DEMENTOR's answering machine: Hello. I can't take your call right now. I've taken my entire staff and my newly acquired PAN DIMENSIONAL VORTEX INDUCER! and we're off to Las Vegas. Leave a message at the tone!
Kim: (to pile of Drakken's men) Ron? Are you in there?
Ron: (poking head out) Yo!
[ Kim sees Dementor's men being chucked by Shego ]
Kim: Ron, I gotta go. Can you and your muscles handle things down here?
Ron: (giving thumbs up) Yo!
Shego: I found Professor Dementor and his boys.
Drakken: Poised to frighten the free world with the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer?
Shego: No, they're chilling by the pool.
Drakken: The Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer!
Kim: Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer?
Ron: What do the rings have to do with the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer?
Drakken(to his henchmen): Use the power of the rings! Get me the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer!
Kim and Ron: Ohhhhhh.
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| When Drakken, Shego and his henchmen are climbing down the building, the henchmen change in number frequently.
When Drakken climbs out of the pool he slicks his hair back into spikes, yet when he orders his henchmen to attack his hair is flat again.
When Wade show's Ron's new energy signature, the signature appears by the entrance. Ron takes a step back to see the signature move and the signature moves all the way over to the other side of the building.
When Ron's stuck in the ventilation shaft, one of his hands is pressing against the wall outside of the shaft (so he can raise his hand about Rabbi Katz's comment) and then, when he's trying to get the ring off, he realizes his other hand has somehow wedged between his chest and the bottom of the shaft.
^-- I think the key concept here is not so much that his left hand was stuck, but that he couldn't squeeze it past his now-enormous chest to remove the ring on his right hand. The implication, then, is that his left became wedged-in as he attempted the above, some time after we last saw it free.
When Ron is in the ventilation shaft, and reaches to get the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer, he bends the shaft out of shape. Then later, the shaft appears to be perfectly straight.
Nitpick: The second (re-used) shot of Jilly from Jersey jumping in surprise was completely unnecessary.
Why would Ron hold Kim upside down too?
^-- Kim and Shego's upper bodies were in the shaft; Ron had little option but to grab them by their feet... and it's fairly difficult for even the unnaturally strong to hold someone right-side-up by their ankle.
Kim's upper lip is all but missing as she stares at the heap Ron's made of Drakken's henchmen.
As seen in two out of three instances of the below-mentioned recurring shot: Drakken's scar is under the wrong eye, as the cels have been flipped horizontally for their reuse.
When Kim is reading from the stack of client correspondence on the receptionist's desk at Henchco, she mentions Señor Senior Senior. SSS is not known for using henchmen.
^-- As evident by this episode's plot-essential ring, Jack also deals in villainous technology, which the Seniors use in spades. To site a specific example, the jet packs the Seniors fire up in "Animal Attraction" are very similar to those Dementor's goons employ, suggesting, perhaps, a link back to HenchCo.
Nitpick: When Drakken and Shego step out of the elevator, the indicator lights are reversed from the norm - usually the light to indicate "up" is lit in green, not red.
How exactly does Dementor leave the mountain lab? He's not wearing a jetpack, and we explicitly see all his men take off without him. I guess it's possible they swept back in after him, but that doesn't seem very efficient/safe.
Drakken's henchmen have always looked muscular (or bulky) when we've seen them in previous episodes, yet here they are 98-pound weaklings until the acquisition of the molecular muscle enhancer.
(About Ron picking up Shego and Kim) What seems more awkward than Ron picking up Kim is that he drops both, before he heads into the vent!
At the end of the episode, after Rabbi Katz signs Ron's bar mitzvah certificate, he says, "There you go, Ronald - now it's official." As he says "now it's official," Ron appears to mouth the phrase a split second behind Rabbi Katz - suggesting that this was to be Ron's line before a script revision, and either the animators started to draw it that way, or added Katz's mouth motion and didn't clean up Ron's.
^-- It looks like Ron just opens his mouth, forms an "Ooh!" shape with it, then smiles toothily. It's possible this wasn't meant to represent dialogue.
After Ron says "The manly resort", Kim slaps her hands over her eyes. However right before that she was holding the Kimmunicator and her books, she could not have put them away that fast.
During Wade's "energy signature" line, the screen of the Kimmunicator is missing its light blue border.
Nitpick, I guess: The animation used for Ron's "manly dot" and "manly resort" lines are the same.
The movement of the manly dot is completely out of proportion with Ron's movement.
^-- (Regarding switching lights) This seems to be a recurring theme in KP and is also evident in "The Fearless Ferret" when Ron confronts the two thugs who are trying to break into the car. (The traffic lights in the background are (from top to bottom) green, yellow and red) |
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Recurring character
At least KP doesn't keep changing the scholars of a school randomly: A spiky blonde-haired, blue-eyes boy in a red sweater is in several episodes, depicted in this one right behind Kim in class.
Analysis of Analysis
Because it's animation, several characters are re-used in the background from episode to episode, presumably rather than design new ones in the series' style.
DYN?
There is a recurring shot of Drakken looking surprised- first after Dementor produces the vortex-inducer, then just before Dementor leaves, then when Dementor pulls the vortex-inducer away from Drakken's grip. .
Señor Senior, Sr....
...is mentioned very briefly in this episode.
'GWA rocks!'
DYN? #2
Jack Hench's private jet is of the same design as the plane Mr. Geminini flies in "The Twin Factor".
DYN? #3
At Hench Co, an elevator music version of "Call Me, Beep Me" is heard.
Jilly From Jersey
I'm convinced that Jilly From Jersey is some sort of in-joke among the KP staff. I mean, that part could have been done by any faceless (not literally) person. Plus, the way that Drakken said it. It's got to be some sort of in-joke.
DYN? #4
When Wade is telling Kim about Hench, she responds with "Who?" At this moment, the shot of Kim is taken from "All the News" (although Kim's cels have been repositioned slightly to our left).
DYN #4...Part 2
Another scene taken from "All the News," when Kim slaps her hands over her eyes in dispair. Specifically, in "AtN" she does that after Brick has made a date with her and then turns to some guys and says "Hey! She thinks I'm hot." In "Rtm" the same clip is used after Ron says: "The manly resort!"
DYN #5
After Monique says: "See, I never would have guessed that." She giggles. That's Tara's giggle from "Sink or Swim" before she kissed Ron.
DYN? #6
After Drakken and his henchpersons have been cut loose into the pool, Dementor teases Drakken by whipping out the vortex inducer ("Looking for *this*?"). Somewhat bizzarely, as the Professor tucks the canister behind his back, the sequence used is frame-for-frame identical to the initial reveal -- it's just been shortened slightly, its sparkle overlays removed, and its order, of course, reversed.
DYN?
Speaking of Señor Senior, Sr. (and Junior), the guy with towels that tells Drakken he needs a room to access the pool has a haircut (not to mention head!) just like Junior's. Le Goop!
Note
Unlike the rest of the female characters (with the exception of DNAmy), Mrs. Stoppable has no visible upper lip -- more consistent with the male character style.
DYN? #7
When everyone gasps after Barkin says "She ate the cafeteria meatloaf," had Ron covered his eyes, he, Monique and Kim would have replicated the famous "hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" monkey trio.
Dr. Drakken's Henchmen
Dr. Drakken's henchmen (after being beefed up with the rings) look similar to Jack Hench's henchmen.
DYN? #8
When Ron is in the vent and he thinks he's hearing voices in his head but they're really outside the vent, this occured in an episode of Even Stevens titled Raiders of the Lost Sausage (aired before this KP episode).
Shego-not that greedy after all
In this episode, Shego stole all of the rings except for one, so this means she isn't that greedy after all, because she only took as much as Drakken needed, not as much as she wanted.
RE: Shego-not that greedy after all
Also, when she realizes that the PDVI is going to wipe out Nevada, she tries to save the day. Odd since Drakken and Dementor both prepared to leave the state.
DYN? #9
Is it just me, or does Ron seem dumber (for Ron) when he's wearing the ring. Could that be a side effect of the Molecular Muscle Enhancers?
Re: DYN? #5
In "Downhill", Bonnie also uses Tara's giggle when she waves to Kim's parents.
DYN? #10
When Kim and Ron have their backs to each other when they're
surrounded by the Hench Co. henchmen, it resembles
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Very, very loose reference- so loose it might drop off- but in 'the Lord of the Rings', of the rings given out to each race, many are rings of power... in this episode, a ring gives out strength.
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Jilly must be (it's the only reason I can think of why he's there) a reference to the Rat Pack such as Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and the coolest cat of them all, Frank Sinatra.
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The "Las Vegas, Las Vegas" hotel is probably a play off the "New York, New York" which is a New York themed casino/hotel in Las Vegas. More Info
Ron:: "Yo!"
Ron repeatedly uses the word "yo". This word is associated with Sylvester Stallone, particularly his MANLY, muscle-bound character of Rambo.
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Jack Hench's role in supplying henchmen for villains is similar to that of Marvel Comics' Taskmaster, who runs training centers for thugs who are then hired by some of Marvel's main villains.
Jack Hench: (Sing-songy) I don't think so!
Hench's (Fred Willard) line and its delivery are taken directly from a "catch-phrase" coined by Mike LaFontaine, a character from [i]A Mighty Wind[/i] (also played by Willard) who launched a failed comedy show featuring several catch-phrases that never caught on.
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