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Kim Possible - Sink or Swim
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| Episode Number |
2 |
| First Aired |
June 7, 2002 |
| Production Code |
111 |
| Writer |
Julie Du Fine & Amanda Rudolph Schwartz
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| Director |
Chris Bailey
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| Guest Stars: Justin Berfield (as Gil / Gill) Patrick Warburton (as Mr. Steve Barkin) Tara Strong (as Tara) Rosslynn Taylor (as Crystal) Corey Burton (as Dr. Lurkin, Officer Hobble) John DiMaggio (as Camp Counselor) |
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| The cheer squad is stranded overnight at Camp Wannaweep, where
Ron spent the "worst summer of all time," in part because of a bullying bunkmate, who has since mutated into a toxic lake creature. |
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| Villain: Gill
Animation Production by: Rough Draft Korea Co. Ltd.
Ron is kissed by Tara [On the cheek] after saving them all
First episode Kim doesn't wear her mission outfit.
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Ron: Oh, Bonnie. You remind me of the cruel kids at camp -- sticks and stones.
Tara: (gasp) They called you names?
Ron: Yes, while they were hitting me with sticks and stones.
Rufus (running down and leaping off of Gill's head): PSYCHE!
Gill: Aren't you wondering how I jammed all of your communications?
Kim: Equipment stolen from Telecommunications Camp?
Gill (half shocked): Lucky guess.
Bonnie: You know, just because you saved us doesn't mean you're not still, you know, you. But it would really stink if that jerk had turned us into mutants. And you were kinda brave, and all.
Ron: (high fives Rufus) Who rocks?
Bonnie: (sighs) You do.
Barkin: It's... Dripping and oozing muck, and... Gah!
Ron: Mr. B., what exactly is "It"?
Barkin: Freakish. It's, it's... Makes me ill to visualize it...
Kim: Oh, come on, I'm sure I've faced worse. (pause) Did you say "oozing muck"?
Gill: So, Ron. Did you ever hear why they shut down the camp?
Ron: Uhhh... No.
Gill: It turns out -- oh, you're gonna love this -- the lake had been polluted with runoff from the Science Camp!
Ron: I thought that was Band Camp...
Gill: No, that's Band Camp.
Ron: Really? I thought that was Clown Camp.
Gill: No, that's Clown Camp!
Ron: (laughing) Oh, yeah. I love those clowns.
Ron (backing away): Hey, Gil... (nervous laugh) Maybe this is a good time to sing the "Camp Wannaweep Friendship Song".
Ron (panicked): Rufus, didn't you check to see if we had enough gas!?
Rufus: (sheepish laugh) Uh-oh.
Barkin: That's the guy.
Ron: He is freakish.
Gill: I heard that, Squeeb! Remember me?
Ron: Not really... And, I gotta tell you, I think I'd remember.
Gill: Oh, c'mon, Ronnie, think; we switched places. You took my Arts and Crafts, and I took your swim time.
Ron: Gil!?
Barkin: Gil...?
Kim: Gil, who?
Gill: Oh, I am no longer "Gil". Now, I am "Gill"!
Ron: Uhhh... What's the difference?
Gill: I added an 'l'. You know, as in "gill". As in these things that grew when I mutated!
Ron (making net): Mr. Rabbit comes out of his hole and hops around the tree....
Ron: (surfaces) Ok, that water is WAY too funky.
Gill: (does the same) Ya think!?
Gill: Did I mention that contact with this muck will turn you into a mutant? Just like me.
Kim: Well. You left that part out.
Barkin: This is SICK and WRONG!
Bonnie: (screams) There is no way they are going to let a squad of mutant cheerleaders in the competition!
Gill: THERE IS NO COMPETITION! Don't you get it? It was all a trap. And guess what, Ronnie -- you're next!
Counselor: Gil, weren't you in the morning swim group? You're supposed to be in Arts and Crafts, right now.
Gil: There's no way I'm getting out to make some stupid wallet.
Counselor: You stay in there too long, you're gonna wrinkle up like a prune.
Gil: Yeah, right! (and dives underwater)
Gill: So. He ditched you.
Kim: He did not ditch us, ok? He obviously-- (motorboat engine noises) er, found a motorboat! So he could--
Bonnie: Totally ditch us.
Gill: He's out on the lake? My lake? How dumb can he be?
Gill: Oh, I know all about your life, Squeeb. It's been going great, hasn't it?
Ron: I-- I've got some complaints, but who doesn't?
Gill: Is one of your complaints that you're a stinking mutant?!
Kim: So, you were behind the blowout on the bus, and everything! Why?
Gill: All part of my plan... to have revenge on Ron Stoppable!
Ron: Part of me is terrified. And yet part of me is flattered.
Barkin: CHEESE and CRACKERS -- I'm mutatin'!
Gil: I still say you're a squeeb.
(Ron glares at Gil as Gil blows raspberries)
Ron: We'll see who's the squeeb at the end of the summer when you're all wrinkled up like a prune and I got a suitcase full of handmade wallets, potholders, and lanyards.
(flashback to the present)
Ron: That was the last time I ever saw Gil.
Bonnie: So... you've been a loser for, like... ever.
Gill: Science? Science made me this way.
Ron: Are you sure it wasn't the clowns?
Gil: Look at Ronnie, the squeeb's scared of the water.
(Gil dives underwater then comes back up spitting water at Ron)
Ron: AHHHHHHH! I am not scared. The water is green, it stinks and I'm pretty sure I've seen the fish glowing at night.
Gill: Ron, you are still a squeeb! (gets dropped into a fish tank thing) And you always will be!
Gill (in fishtank): I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!
Ron: Get normal soon, Gill!
Ron: There I was, hiding in the hollow of a tree. (Beat) And then the woodpeckers came.
Ron: Pop Pop Porter's Food-Style Pork Wafers have enough preservatives to last for decades!
Tara: (takes a bite, then swallows) It's... not... so bad. It's definitely food-style!
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Gill claims that he mutated into the swamp creature from swimming in the toxic lake, so why didn't anything happen to Ron or Rufus while they swam in it for like half an hour while they fought Gill? In addition, Gill also said that anybody covered in his mucus would also begin to mutate, but he coated Kim, all the cheerleaders, and the coach in that stuff, yet only Coach Barkin changed in any way.
^-- Incorrectly Considered a Goof: Barkin was the first to begin mutation because he'd been exposed the longest. Further, Ron was barely in the lake for half a minute of screen time, and was at the dock in time to stand over a still-gasping Gill. I see no indication that anywhere near "a half an hour" had past between these events.
When Gil's telling the Counselor how he's not getting out of the water, his eyelids are skin-colored. But when they show him before he dives under, his eyelids are black.
When Gill is talking to Ron, there seems to be a bunch of errors on his nose.
When Gill is saying "you took my arts and crafts," and also when he's saying, "they shut down the camp," one of his nostrils disappears.
Also when Gill is saying, "It turns out, and you're gonna love this, the lake had been polluted by run-off from the science camp," first his nose turns dark green, then it goes back to normal, then it turns dark green again, then it goes back to normal again, and then the outline of his nose becomes a full circle (like a pig nose) when it is only supposed to be a half circle.
During Gill's confrontation with Ron in front of cabin 13, Tara is on Bonnie's right. Then, when Ron dives down his escape tunnel she's on Bonnie's left. Then, when Gill is taunting Kim, Tara is back on Bonnie's right again.
^-- That's the squad's other blonde cheerleader on Bonnie's right, initially, but you're right -- the positions of the captive cheerleaders are far from consistent. Referring to the as-yet-unnamed mostly by hair color, their positions are, from left to right...
Cabin explosion to commercial: [Blonde-Straight], against the wall; [Black-Straight], wall and ceiling; Bonnie, pinned to bunk post; [Lighter-Black-Mole], pinned to other post; [Purplish-Wavy (Rosslyn Taylor)], wall; Tara, hanging from ceiling; [Red-Wavy], pinned to third post.
Post-commercial: [Red-Wavy], in foreground, seemingly from high above.
After Ron's escape: Same as before, but with Tara pinned to the second post (to Bonnie's left).
As Gill, et al., hear Ron's motorboat: Tara, pinned to a heretofore unoccupied bunk post (to Bonnie's right); [Blonde-Straight], hanging from ceiling, [Purplish-Wavy (Rosslyn Taylor)] pinned to bunk post (to Bonnie's left)
Right after Ron says "And 'It's' back there!" The "13" on Cabin 13 is missing, then it appears again.
When Ron and Gill are fighting in the lake, Gill's hair for a moment turns green like the color of his muck.
When Gill says "All part of my plan...to have revenge against Ron Stoppable" the fin on his left foot is missing.
Nitpick to Incorrectly considered a goof: You claim that Barkin changed first because he'd been exposed the longest, but in truth, when Gill starts spitting out his mucus at people, he hits Kim first, then the other cheerleaders, and finally traps Barkin to a tree LAST. So why is Barkin the FIRST to mutate if Kim was the one exposed to the mucus the longest? Is it because she's the star of the show?
^-- Incorrectly considered incorrectly considered incorrect (Whew!): Remember that Barkin was snagged long before the others were aware of Gill as anything more than a phantom threat, and his arms bound by muck to his sides.
I thought only the girls in Kim Possible had their upper lip shaded in, but in this episode Gil does too.
^-- I doubt it's as much an issue of shading, as it is of Gil's having a pronounced upper lip. This "fish-like" feature is among those presumably designed to tie together his two forms.
^--Gil isn't the only boy with his upper lip shaded. In Tick-Tick-Tick, Vinnie too has his upper lip shaded.
When we first see Gill after he is captured, he is in Ron's handmade net. Yet, when he is dropped into the giant fishbowl moments later, he is on a canvas stretcher.
Gill says the competition that the cheerleaders were going to didn't exist because it was all a part of his revenge plan. So either Gill is as skillful at faking invitations as he is jamming telecommunications equipment or someone at Middleton High is (or was) not doing their job properly.
Wouldn't Ron have found out that Gil mutated during the summer while he was still in camp? Unless the camp directors were secretive about Gill's mutation. Which leads to a slight plothole--wouldn't Gill's parents have been notified about their son turning into a swamp creature or something like that--does Gill even have parents!?
^--Not necessarily. The mutation process could have taken longer on Gil (as opposed to the transformation on Barkin) because the intensity of pollutants in the water might not have been that strong (and since he swam in it almost all the time, that's would be a lot of exposure, so it wouldn't matter how much pollutants there were). And they might have told Ron about Gil's mutation, but he was so busy having the worst time of his life (being harassed by wild chimps, massive amounts of bugs, poison oak, woodpeckers, other campmates, etc.) that he wasn't really listening. As for Gil's parents, I don't know. I think you got something there.
Gill says he wants revenge on Ron, right? Well, what for? It was Gill's choice to stay in the lake, Ron didn't force him to. If anything, Ron should be the one holding a grudge against Gill, because he bullied him.
^-- Gill would want revenge on Ron because he took Gil's arts and crafts time, allowing for him to be in the water longer. So, instead of just going into the water once a day, because of Ron's switch, Gil got to swim twice a day. I think that Gill feels that, if Ron hadn't asked to switch, the counselor wouldn't have changed the activity roster and he would be normal today.
^-- Not to mention, it doesn't even seem like Ron asked Gil if he minded switching activities. He kinda went ahead and just asked to switch on his own. So that could be another reason for Gil to want revenge on Ron, he might have felt that Ron did it on purpose.
When Gill says, "So... he ditched you," the fin-thing on top of his head is light green.
As Tara eats the pork wafer, her
bellybutton is missing.
Solution to Barkin being the only one to mutate: I suppose it's possible that there's a two-time rule. Like Barkin got hit by the mucus two times, therefore he mutated while no one else did.
Seen from the outside, the bus looks pretty big (like your normal school bus), but the inside is small as it only has 4 rows of seats.
Ron's secret stash contained pork wafers. However, in "Ron the Man", we find out that he's Jewish.
^. Not necessarily a goof. My Dad's Jewish (Mom's Catholic) and he does eat pork on rare occassions. Most notably in egg rolls. And a Jewish acquaintance of mine once told me that some Jews will eat pork if it's what's being served so as not to seem rude. And let's not forget, there are Catholics who eat meat on Fridays, even though that's a no-no. It all depends on how devout you are, I guess.
^-- Also, it is artificial pork. Perhaps that doesn't count.
Ron's pockets frequently change from cargo pants pockets to normal pockets throughout this episode. |
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DYN #1
When Ron ducks into cabin 13 in his flashback, the arrows that get stuck to the door seem to make a sad face.
DYN? #2
This is apparent in other episodes, but Kim's cheerleading shoes are the only ones with visible laces (or velcro straps).
Tara
Tara (first seen in "Bebes", and heard in "Mind Games") is given a name in this episode -- one to match that of her voice actress, Tara Strong.
DYN? #3
The bio-hazard truck has an Earth with crossbones on it! GENIUS!
DYN? #4
When Ron is in the middle of Lake Wannaweep after his engine "runs out of gas" and looking along the surface of the water for Gill, the score mimics a part of the *Jaws* score.
DYN
When Ron is in the boat, he is wearing a life jacket AND swimmies. If he is a good swimmer, there would be no need at all to wear swimmies, unless perhaps he cannot swim well. [Also kind of a goof, but I was rather just wondering why he would wear them]
No lines, sort of.
Wade has only two short lines in this whole episode.
Ron's fears
Ron mentions that Bobo the Chimp(the source of his monkey fears) was tick infested. So Ron's fear of monkeys and ticks have a related source.
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The Lake: It's green and stinks
Almost all Summer Camps on lakes have problems with algae blooms. In my case, Camp Brinkly, the algae was brown and green, it stunk, and when you got out you'd look like a swamp monster, dripping in ooze and muck.
Justin Berfield: None
In Malcolm in the Middle, Justin Berfield, who plays Gil/Gill here, plays Reese, who is a mean older brother
Justin Berfield #2: none
Gil makes fun of Ron for being "scared of the water" in Malcolm in the Middle in the first season Waterpark episode, Reese makes fun of Malcolm for being "scared of the waterslide." Also in the same episode (and in some of the other Malcolm episodes) Reese was out for revenge on Malcolm. More Info
Tara: It's just like one of those horror movies. Teens stranded at a camp. All alone in the middle of nowhere. And then some weirdo starts to pick them off. One by one.
Tara's description of "one of those horror movies" matches that of the original "Friday the 13th" movie.
Ron: (While making a knot) Mr. Rabbit comes out of his hole and hops around the tree...
This scene is reminiscent of a scene in Jaws in which Chief Brody is trying to make a knot. (The rope was tied to a barrel, which would be used to catch the shark)
Ron: Mr Rabbit...
This is also how many cub scouts are taught to make the bowline knot.
Ron: Mr. Rabbit...
I remember that Sarah was taught how to tie her shoelaces this way in 'Raising Helen'.
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The plot of the monster Gill stalking everyone bears a slight resemblance to the novel Beowulf, when the monster Grendel stalks the Danes. |
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