Another day, another failed scheme by Drakken. He hopes that his luck will change after attending the Super Villains Convention, where he can maybe pick up some tips and..."free" stuff. Meanwhile, Ron is preparing for his cousin's wedding, where he'll have to sit at the kid's table with Shawn, his vicious, seven-year old cousin. Kim and Ron hear about the convention and decide to do some investigating, but they didn't reckon with the Attitudinator, a device that can concentrate one's evil essence while distilling out the good.
As you can see, there is a lot going on here, and not all of it hangs together. First, there's a plot thread about Ron trying to be bad, figuring that bad boys get the girls, which turns into something of an afterthought until the last scene. While we're on the subject, the conversation during the airing of "Agony County" felt more forced than anything. I wasn't too amused by nice (and pale) Drakken, either. The idea started out funny, then wore thin. And you could've replaced Shawn with the gnome from "Mother's Day" and not lost a step.
The episode really picked up (however late in the game) when Ron absorbed Drakken's essence. It started out with merely his inner jerk (All us nice guys have one. Trust me on this.), starting food fights, but then he becomes a wicked super villain. A few of the touches I loved were a) the quote of "Toccata and Fugue" underscoring his evil, b) Will Friedle's uncanny Drakken impression and c) that Ron was a much better villain than Drakken could ever be. The ways he put Shego in her place were surprising and funny. Another highlight was the return of Jack Hench (of Hench Co. in "Ron the Man"). Don't know if it's the character or Fred Willard's voice work, but I enjoyed seeing him again.
Ron 'bad boy' Stoppable was bad for all the right reasons, but the rest of "Bad Boy" was bad for all of the wrong ones.
**/4
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