Line #5 Recap/KimPossibleS1E5Downhill


1	The Middleton High sophomore class is off on a ski trip to Mount Middleton, when Kim learns that Bonnie has invited her parents along as chaperones, causing her no end of problems as she tries to stop them from embarrassing her.
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3	Meanwhile, reports of a snowbeast lurking in the mountain have Ron trying to locate it for the ''Weekly World Wonder'' paper, which is offering a $5,000 reward for a picture of the beast. Teaming up with Barkin (who has promised him a 2% cut of the reward money), the two don't find the beast, but do locate a portly woman named Amy Hall, who takes a shine to Barkin, much to his chagrin.
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5	Things come to a head with the Possibles when Mr. Possible overhears Kim tell Ron about ending up in "humiliation nation" and decide to leave. Meanwhile, Amy inadvertently leads Ron, Rufus and Barkin to the "snowbeast", which turns out to be one of her creations, as she's a mad geneticist nicknamed [=DNAmy=].
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7	Amy takes then three back to her lab and exposes Barkin and Rufus to her "genetic zipper" to merge them into a "naked mole man". Having heard about [=DNAmy=] from Wade, Kim comes to the rescue, and is captured by the creatures, but manages to escape by turning the snowbeast against its master. Barkin and Rufus are then restored to normal. After Amy's lab is destroyed, Mr. Possible arrives to save them all from an ensuing avalanche using his new snowboard. Amy is arrested.
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9	At the end of the episode, Kim apologizes to her parents for all that stuff she said about them--but Mr. and Mrs. Possible, realizing they had overstepped their boundaries in order to be seen as "cool" by Kim's peers, also apologize for how they acted by way of Kim's mom explaining, "[Your father and I] were teenagers once too, and I guess we just forget what it's like to feel embarrassed by your parents." And in a nice bit of karma for what their daughter's rival did, Mrs. Possible reveals that they invited Bonnie's mom along as a chaperone, and it turns out that Mrs. Rockwaller is just as embarrassing to her own daughter (if not more so).
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11	!!This episode provides examples of:
12	* AbhorrentAdmirer: [=DNAmy=] is this to Barkin.
13	* AffablyEvil: Amy is extremely cheerful and bubbly, even as she perpetrates her [[MadScientist crazy experiments]] on unwilling victims.
14	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: PlayedForLaughs with Kim.
15	--> '''Kim:''' Let them go, [=DNAmy=], or I'll...! ''(sees what she's holding)'' Pandaroo, Superstar edition? They only made 12 of these!
16	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Kim's parents and Bonnie's mother mortify their kids by telling everybody their "cute" nicknames, etc.
17	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Barkin learned this the hard way about Amy.
18	--> '''[=DNAmy=]:''' You're just a meanie, Stevie! But I can fix that.
19	* BigDamnHeroes: As Kim, Ron and Barkin [[spoiler:try outrunning the avalanche triggered by the destruction of [=DNAmy=]'s lab, Mr. Possible swoops in on his rocket-powered snowboard to rescue them]].
20	* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: What many assume the "snowbeast" is. It's actually more of a rhinoceros/bunny hybrid thing.
21	* ChekhovsGun: Early in the ski trip, Mr Possible is about to reveal his self-created snowboard (from "a few items around the Space Centre") and Kim stops him, thinking it'll be one more embarrassment. When an [[spoiler: avalanche occurs from [=DNAmy=]'s lair exploding, Mr. Possible saves Kim, Ron, Rufus and Mr Barkin by zooming them all to safety on his ''rocket-powered'' snowboard.]]
22	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After [=DNAmy=] has one of her minions grab the camera.
23	--> '''Ron:''' She wants the reward! ''(minion crushes camera)'' ...Or not.
24	* InformedFlaw: Mrs. Possible mentions that Kim still sleeps with Pandaroo, but she's never been seen doing so before or since.
25	* IronicEcho:
26	** Kim tells Ron she can't help him because she has to spend the whole trip doing damage control on her parents and that she's in "humiliation nation", unaware her father overheard her. Later, Kim encounters her parents again and Mrs. Possible suggests they leave because "we wouldn't want Kimmie to be in humiliation nation."
27	** When Kim accuses Bonnie of inviting the former's parents as chaperones on purpose, Bonnie mocks that she's being paranoid. Later after Ron accidentally snowboards snow onto Bonnie, she angrily says he did it on purpose, to which Kim teases, "''Now'' who's paranoid, Bonnie?"
28	* LaserGuidedKarma: Bonnie spent the episode relishing in the embarrassment Kim felt in regards to [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents her parents]]. At the end, Mrs. Possible reveals that she called over Bonnie's mom to help chaperone, and Mrs. Rockwaller is shown to be just as embarrassing to Bonnie.
29	** To a lesser extent, she gets covered in snow by Ron as she's trying to ridicule Kim again.
30	* LegoGenetics[=/=]MixAndMatchCritters: [=DNAmy's=] creations.
31	** And, as a less evil and InUniverse-fictional example, Cuddle Buddies.
32	* LipstickMark: Amy leaves one on the window of the police car to Barkin after she is arrested.
33	* NakedPeopleAreFunny:
34	** One of the embarrassing stories Kim's parents told was that of two-year-old Kim taking off all her clothes in the middle of the ski lodge during the Possibles' first ski trip.
35	** After Naked Mole Man is 'unzipped' back into Rufus and Barkin, Kim and Ron hurry to pick up Rufus... and realize he's wearing a shrunken version of Barkin's clothes. They look over to the other capsule...
36	--> '''Barkin:''' ''(complete with CensorSteam)'' Stoppable! I need pants!
37	* PlaygroundSong/NinetyNineBottlesOfBeer: Replaced with pop on the way to Middleton.
38	* ObfuscatingStupidity: On the bus, Barkin pretends not to believe in the snowbeast of Mount Middleton because he wants the reward for himself and doesn't want the entire class hunting after it. He does recruit Ron and later Wade in his endeavor, though.
39	* OutrunTheFireball: The destruction of [=DNAmy=]'s lair [[spoiler:triggers an avalanche that Kim, Ron and Barkin try to outrun, before Mr. Possible swoops in on his rocket-powered snowboard to save them]].
40	* PartingWordsRegret: Discussed. After escaping from [=DNAmy=]'s lair, Kim mentions that she needs to find her parents and apologize. [[spoiler:Cue the rumbling of the mountains as an avalanche is triggered]].
41	--> '''Barkin:''' [[OhCrap You might not get the chance.]]
42	* SaveTheVillain: As [=DNAmy=]'s lair begins to self-destruct, Kim tries to pull her away so they can escape. However, Amy can't bear to leave without her Cuddle Buddies and stays inside as the others escape just before it explodes. She makes it out unscathed and is arrested by the police.
43	* SickAndWrong: Barkin refers to [=DNAmy=] as such and her response is the quote under BewareTheNiceOnes.
44	* SpottingTheThread: Barkin making note of how the "snowbeast" listened to [=DNAmy=] and how she referred to herself as its "mommy" is what [[HeKnowsTooMuch gets himself and Ron captured]].
45	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Kim certainly doesn't collect Cuddle Buddies and has only logged on the website a few times because "they're a good investment."
46	* TheyCalledMeMad: "They said I was mad at the Cuddle Con."
47	* UnhandThemVillain: Kim attempts this, but gets distracted by a rare Cuddle Buddy.

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