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LIST OF TV SHOWS IN THE “KIM POSSIBLE” UNIVERSE
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List of TV shows in the KP Universe |
| Language |
English |
| Type |
Unknown |
| Date Written |
October 19, 2007 |
| Author |
TransWarpDrive |
| Author Comments |
Not Available |
| Wordcount |
2674 |
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Adrena-Lynn - Features the stunts (now known to be fraudulent) of a certain extreme teen.
Stuff on Fire - Reality show used to fill in the vacancy left by the cancelled "Adrena-Lynn" show.
Man Overboard - Reality show set on a boat where contestants are voted off said boat by their peers. The show's cameraman, Judd, got Kim a ride on the boat so she could get to the Seniors' island (in Oh Boyz), in return for her saving him from a rhinoceros stampede during the taping of another show (see below).
Teasing Wild Animals - The reality show where Kim saved Judd from the stampede (see above entry).
Truth or Volcano? - Another reality show, as bad as "Man Overboard," according to Kim's friend Judd.
The Fearless Ferret - Old TV rerun featured on the "TV Trash Heap" cable network. Timothy North, the show's star, and Rudolph Farnsworth, who played the villain White Stripe, believed the whole thing was real for years after the show had been cancelled. (This is a spoof of the 1960's "Batman" series starring Adam West, who voiced Mr. North in this ep.)
The Mod Quad - Another "TV Trash Heap" rerun, this show was about four hippies who became undercover cops. (This show parodied the 60's show, "The Mod Squad.")
Laugh Riot - Yet another "TV Trash Heap" offering, this show featured zany characters telling jokes, dancing with pretty girls, scampering about in silly costumes, and riding around on tricycles. (This one parodied the 60's comedy show, "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.")
The Adventures of Scamper and Bitey - A cartoon show on cable TV that Ron discovered after his dad finally gave in and had cable installed in the Stoppable home. (Parodies the "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.)
The Running of the Monkeys - A show that takes place on Ape Island about a monkey stampede. Kim, Ron, Rufus, Drakken and Shego all get pulled into this show when Drakken's ray gun, powered by the Pan-Dimensional Vortex Inducer, crosses its beam with the cable TV signal. (Parody of various nature documentaries on such channels as Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, etc. This show is “also a riff on the Running of the Bulls, a hoary annual event held in Pamplona, Spain which inevitably attracts dullard Americans who learn they cannot outrun two tons of horned angry animal,” according to MrDrP.)
Cooking With Cactus - A show on cable that Ron says he wants to watch, after Kim takes the remote away from him.
Evil Eye for the Bad Guy - A show that features a trio of guys in tights and capes who give fashion and hideout makeovers to deserving villains. Drakken receives one from these guys while trapped in the cable vortex. (A parody of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," about a bunch of gay men who give fashion advice to heterosexual males.)
Unnamed children's puppet show - This is the show where Drakken first lands in the cable vortex. He insults the cast of puppets, who call him a meanie, then introduce him to "Mr. Sit-Down." (Possibly a spoof of the “Teletubbies.”)
Space Passage -This is the show that Kim first lands in after she's caught in the vortex. She's mistaken for a member of the spaceship's crew, and sent on a mission aboard a shuttlecraft. (Obvious parody of the original "Star Trek" series.)
Pals - Shego's first stop in the cable vortex. It's a sitcom about a bunch of friends who hang out in a coffee shop. One character on the show uses the word "moopy" to describe her bad experiences, introducing that word to the KP vocabulary. (Obvious parody of "Friends.")
Unnamed medical show - Kim and Shego meet up here, after Kim leaves "Space Passage" and Shego exits "Pals."
The Real North Pole - Kim lands on this reality show set in the Arctic, where she's promptly voted out of the igloo, and told by the show's host to hand in her fish. After doing so, she leaves the igloo and contacts Wade on the Kimmunicator so he can send her elsewhere in the vortex. (Like "Man Overboard," this show spoofs "Survivor" and all its spin-offs and imitators.)
That 1670's Show - A sitcom set in the days of the Pilgrims, when America was still a British colony. Kim, Ron, Drakken, and Shego stop here just long enough for Shego to threaten the cast with her plasma power, whereupon the cast members, brandishing rakes and pitchforks, call her a witch. (Parody of "That 70's Show.")
Unnamed talk show - Ron and Drakken end up here after being pulled out of "Evil Eye for the Bad Guy." Ron sits behind the host's desk and interviews Drakken, who sits on the couch and talks about the book in his lap, which, it turns out, is all about him (has his picture on the cover and is simply titled "Drakken"). (Spoof of all talk shows, like "The Tonight Show.")
Emergency Pet Groomer - In this show, Ron and Rufus are walking down the street when a van screeches to a halt next to them. A man, jumping out and grabbing Rufus, scolds Ron for overgrooming Rufus, then proceeds to give the little guy some long red hair which is combed over his head and into his face. (A take-off on all the veterinarians' shows on "Animal Planet.")
Unnamed game show - In this show, celebrities sit in a triangular frame, much like the square grid on "Hollywood Squares," while the contestants pick one celeb at a time to answer trivia questions and score points. In this show, Kim, Ron, Drakken, and Shego all end up on the panel along with characters from other shows they've visited while in the vortex.
Unnamed cooking show - Ron, Rufus, and Drakken stop here. A Martha Stewart-like lady talks about cooking a dish called "fried naked mole rat," at which point Rufus leaps out of a cook pot and into Ron's hands while Drakken and the host talk about cooking the creatures.
Unnamed "Fear Factor" type show - In this reality show, Kim and Shego find themselves on the roof of a 90-story building, harnessed to bungee cords, and being interviewed by the host, who asks them if they're scared by the prospect of jumping. Shego asks the host if he's afraid; then when he wants to know why he should be, she grabs onto the host and leaps off the roof with him. Kim follows Shego down, annoyed by her antics.
Unnamed pro-wrestling show - Kim and Shego find themselves in the ring with two of the GWA's wrestlers, Pain King and Steel Toe. They easily leap out of the way as the two wrestlers charge at them from opposite corners.
The Klieg Report - Fashion diva Elsa Klieg reports on what's hot and what's not in the world of fashion in the KP universe. In the show we saw (in "Kimitation Nation"), she introduced "Poofy Pink"and "Kim Style" to an unsuspecting world.
The Six Tasks of Snowman Hank - An animated Christmas special starring Snowman Hank, a living, talking snowman, and all his forest friends (a group of assorted woodland creatures). This is a typical feel-good Christmas special which extols the virtues of brotherhood, charity, and family unity, especially during the Yuletide season. This show is a favorite of both Ron and Dr. Drakken. The discovery that they both have a common love for this show causes Ron and Drakken to put their differences aside, and work together to escape the Arctic wilderness they crash-landed in after Drakken's spacecraft blew up in orbit. When Kim and her family locate Ron up north on Christmas Eve, they and Drakken declare a holiday truce and celebrate Christmas by singing songs from the "Snowman Hank" special. (This show, a prominent plot device in "A Very Possible Christmas," is a spoof of most Christmas specials, which tend to be overly sentimental at best. Snowman Hank was patterned after the snowman character, voiced by actor Burl Ives, who narrated the 1964 TV special, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Incidentally, that special, which went on to become a perennial favorite at Christmastime, is currently available on DVD - forty-two years after first airing on NBC.)
Xtreme Xmas - An action-packed TV special featuring snowboarders, skiers, and snowmobilers racing and performing daredevil stunts at the North Pole, which was scheduled on television in place of the "Snowman Hank" special (see above entry). Needless to say, Ron and Drakken were bitterly disappointed by the pre-empting of their favorite holiday show.
Blizzard Watch - a segment of the local news covering a massive blizzard that unexpectedly hit the Tri-City area (Upperton, Middleton, and Lowerton), anchored by weather forecaster Summer Gale. Gale actually brewed the storm by using Drakken's weather machine (from "Job Unfair") and contaminated water from Lake Wannaweep in order to get herself more air time on the news. Her plan backfired, however, when the toxic water caused all the snowmen built by the locals to come to life and go on a rampage.
The Evening News with Tricia Labowski - Local TV news show seen in Middleton.
Agony County - A prime-time drama about the romance between two young people, Danny and Charity. Danny's a photogenic "bad boy" who treats Charity like dirt, yet she still loves him. As they watch the show (in "Bad Boy"), Kim and Ron comment on how the producers keep hinting that Charity and Danny will finally get together which, Kim says, "will end the series." (This show is a spoof on programs like "Dawson's Creek" and other youth-oriented dramas currently seen on television. Kim's comment about the characters' getting together ending the series is a reference to shows like "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," where the lead characters' falling in love did end the series; as well as KP fans' comments on how a K/R coupling would do the same to the "Kim Possible" show.)
Unnnamed soap opera seen in "Sick Day" - This show, watched by Kim and the other characters while resting in bed with their colds, featured a young couple whose arch-enemy developed a brain-switching machine, then switched the couple's brains around. At one point, Duff Killigan is heard ranting at the characters, "Just because ye have her brain in yer head, doesn't mean ye can't love her!" (This show is both an inside joke, making reference to Drakken's brain-switching machine in "Mind Games," and a parody of some of the more ludicrous plots used on various soap operas down through the years.)
The Supreme One and You - Not really a TV show, but a propaganda video produced by Future Shego (from "A Sitch in Time"). This video was designed to inform Shego's subjects (she's taken over the world, remember?) as to their proper place in her regime as her obedient subjects. It's shown as part of an indoctrination class led by a future Bonnie Rockwaller, in what used to be Middleton High School and is now a "reeducation center" for brainwashing troublemakers.
American Starmaker - Nationwide talent show on which contestants sing, dance, or otherwise perform, then get critiqued by a very nasty host (described by Ron as a "snarky TV pretty-boy"). This host is so mean, he actually makes Kim uncomfortable just watching him. Drakken uses some of his brainwashing shampoo to hypnotize the show's producer into getting him a slot on the show, in order to sell his shampoo to the public and take over the world. With Wade's help, Kim gets a slot on the show to compete against Drakken, but while she's fighting Shego offstage, Ron goes on and sings "The Naked Mole Rap" to defeat Drakken, who's hauled off to jail. (Obvious spoof of "American Idol.")
Downloaded music awards show - Live rock music awards show, broadcast from an outdoor amphitheater. Kim and Ron crash-land on the stage after preventing Shego from stealing an orbital superlaser's control box ("Kimitation Nation"), and Kim's mission clothes inspire Elsa Klieg to create the "Kim Style" fashion line.
Unnamed "Alias"-type spy show - Kim and Drakken drop into this show, which takes place in a nightclub. Kim finds herself in a martial-arts fight with a young woman with bright red hair, who keeps demanding that Kim tell her what she wants to know regarding the whereabouts of a "device" of some sort. When Kim points to a big beefy guy who looks like a bodyguard and asks the woman if perhaps he might know something about the device, the woman apologizes to Kim. When they both go to ask the man about the "device," Drakken butts in and asks if the device is for moving between dimensions. The big guy grabs Drakken by his lapels, and Drakken backs down just before Wade pulls them both out of there. (Obvious spoof of "Alias.")
Life With Mr. Jiggy - Sitcom starring a chimp named Mr. Jiggy, whose character lives with an unnamed human male. In the scene from that show viewed by Lord Monkey Fist (in the episode "Monkey Ninjas in space"), Mr. Jiggy is seen wearing eyeglasses and a smoking jacket as he reads a newspaper while sitting in a wingback chair. Meanwhile, his human roommate is trying to convince Mr. Jiggy to put on a dress and go on a date with the human's boss, posing as his roommate's sister.
Oh Boyz concert - Televised concert performance of the "Oh Boyz" singing group, a favorite of Kim and her girlfriends at the beginning of the episode "Oh Boyz."
Unnamed documentary on the "Knowing Channel" - Documentary on Lord Monty Fiske and his archeological activities, before he gained the Mystical Monkey Power and changed his name to Monkey Fist. (Kim mentions having seen the documentary in "Monkey Fist Strikes.")
Born to Shop – Reality show about shopping hosted by cat-food heiress, socialite, and quick-service restaurant spokesperson Camille Leon. (As described by Ron during “Trading Faces.”)
Job Swap – Reality show in which people of different professions trade places for a day. In the clip we saw (“Trading Faces”), a surgeon’s in a football game’s line of scrimmage, shocking the player in front of him with defibrillator paddles, while the quarterback whose place the doctor took, is seen in the hospital’s ER, catching, then throwing, a patient as if the poor guy were a football. (Obviously a spoof of similar place-trading shows seen in real life, such as “Wife Swap.”)
Reality TV show awards ceremony – This show, hosted by the same guy we saw in “Man Overboard,” gives awards to various reality shows in the Kpverse.
Captain Constellation – a science-fiction TV show which ran for three seasons in the Kimverse. Both Kim’s dad and Ron enjoy watching this show; however, Kim hated it when it first ran. During the events of “Clean Slate,” Kim’s dad, in an effort to get her to like it, inserted a time-compressed version of the entire series amongst all the family pictures, films and videos he showed to help Kim recover her memory. His plan backfired, however. Kim still hates “Captain Constellation,” but now she remembers the entire series perfectly. (A spoof of the Gerry Anderson series “Thunderbirds,” “Captain Constellation’s” catchphrase, “Rockets are go!” is a reference to “Thunderbirds are go!” from Anderson’s show.)
Mid Day Middleton - Local talk show featuring people from, and topics of interest in, Middleton. Broadcast in the middle of the day (hence the name), it’s hosted by an obnoxious host named Sturges. Bonnie and Ron are interviewed on this program (“Homecoming Upset”) after being crowned Homecoming King and Queen. ( A spoof of all those daytime talk shows; the host reminds me of Jay Leno.)
The Flippies - If not a TV show, then at least a set of videos aimed at the toddlers. This series (shown in “Oh No! Yono!”) features a group of singers in brightly-colored clothes who sing and dance to entertain the little ones, and get them to dance along too. Ron’s baby sister, Hana, loves these videos. Her dancng to the Flippies videos proves crucial in the climactic fight against Lord Monkey Fist and Yono the Destroyer. (Obviously a spoof of “The Wiggles,” and other such musical shows for very young children.)
Ballroom Dancing with “B”-Movie Actors - A dance competition featuring second-rate actors that Drakken enjoys. He fell asleep while watching this show, and dreamed up a plot (“Clean Slate”) to take over the world involving a miltary supply train carrying food for the soldiers and a distilled serum made from his brainwashing shampoo. (Obviously a spoof of “Dancing With the Stars.”) |
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