Line #27 Recap/KimPossibleS1E7NumberOne


1	At Middleton High, Bonnie makes a play to become the MHS-cheerleading captain, much to Kim's displeasure. However, before she can do much about it, Kim is recruited by [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction Global Justice]], a world peacekeeping force, to locate [[KidnappedScientist Professor Sylvan Green]], a retired scientist who's gone missing. To help her, she is partnered with [[MeaningfulName Will Du]], one of GJ's top's agents, a [[NoSenseOfHumor humorless]], [[RulesLawyer by-the-book]] man whose arrogance rubs her the wrong way.
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3	While Kim and Will look for Professor Green, Bonnie creates a new routine for the squad and organizes a fundraiser by selling chocolate bars, which earns them new uniforms. Meanwhile, following up on the trace of "hyperactic acid" left at the professor's house, Kim & co travel to the black market, and learn via Big Daddy Brotherson that a large amount was purchased by Duff Killigan, a Scottish rogue golfer. The heroes quickly travel to his [[IslandBase island-based castle]] and free the professor, learning that Duff plans to use the professor's experimental fertilizer formula (which can make plants such as grass grow at an extremely fast rate) to turn the entire world into his own personal golf course.
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5	Tracking Duff to Japan (the first country where he was banned from a golf course), Kim defeats the villain by using a dandelion, which, combined with the super grass, traps Duff in a giant puff. Will thanks Kim for assisting him, with an angry Kim complaining about his arrogance, [[TomatoInTheMirror not seeing how it compares with her and Bonnie]].
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7	But when they arrive back at the high school, Kim decides to let Bonnie become the new captain--Bonnie and the rest of the cheerleaders are surprised by this, so Kim elaborates by acknowledging that all the stuff Bonnie did for the squad was very impressive. She's unanimously voted in as the new cheerleading captain for Middleton High School.
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9	Bonnie's excited about finally being the captain, figuring that she's now done with having to work hard. But Kim points out to Bonnie that, as captain of the squad, she's got more responsibilities than the rest of the cheerleaders do and is going to have to continue doing the hard work she had done to gain the position in the first place. The episode ends with an upset Bonnie storming off after hearing this revelation and Kim making estimates with Ron about how long Bonnie will last as the cheerleading captain before giving it up.
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12	!!This episode provides examples of:
13	* ADayInTheLimelight: This episode introduces Duff Killigan and is the ''only'' episode featuring him as the solo villain.
14	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: While Bonnie succeeds in usurping the position of cheerleading captain from Kim (albeit with the surprise of Kim giving Bonnie her support), she now has to deal with all the ongoing work that comes with being the captain of the squad, since she has more responsibilities than the rest of the cheerleaders do.
15	* ComicallySmallBribe: Kim is able to get Big Daddy Brotherson to spill the beans about Duff Killigan by offering him a bar of chocolate "with chewy nougat".
16	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Combined with WantingIsBetterThanHaving--Bonnie apparently didn't realize (at least not until Kim pointed it out to her) that, as the cheerleading captain, she's got more responsibilities than the rest of her fellow cheerleaders and is going to have to continue doing the hard work she put into gaining the position in the first place.
17	* EvilIsPetty: Duff Killigan's plan; not only is he going to use Dr. Green's grass-growing formula to turn the entire world into a golf course, he clarifies that it'll be his ''private'' course.
18	* FailedASpotCheck: Both Kim ''and'' Will fail to notice Killigan's exploding golf ball landing right between them while they're reading up about him on their communicators. Good thing Ron didn't.
19	* FeetOfClay: Although Will Du is said to be Global Justice's top agent, and maintains a professional attitude throughout the episode, he turns out to be pretty much useless in the field.
20	* HiddenDepths: This episode proves that Bonnie's truly passionate about cheerleading and she's (surprisingly) competent enough to actually lead and motivate their squad, and even comes up with some pretty good routines and gets the squad cool new uniforms (that are only seen in this episode). The only thing she couldn't handle was simply having to continue doing the hard work she had done to gain the position in the first place.
21	* HypocriticalHumor: At the end, Kim complains about how Will is arrogant and can't conceive that anyone can actually do something good on their own, unaware that is [[PlotParallel the exact same attitude she's had towards Bonnie for the entire episode]], until Ron subtly points it out.
22	* ImprovisedWeapon: Kim and Duff both fight with DualWielding golf clubs--Kim wins, naturally.
23	* KickTheDog: The first thing Will Du does upon meeting Ron is paralyze him and Rufus with his stop watch because Ron came within one foot his person.
24	* KidnappedByAnAlly: Kim's introduced to Global Justice by being suddenly dropped down a trapdoor into a pneumatic tube.
25	* KidnappedScientist: Played with. Dr. Green was a weapons expert in the 1960s, but his once-top secret missile defense system is of no real significance in the current decade -- [[EverybodyKnewAlready Kim and even Dr. Green himself point out to Agent Du that virtually anyone can look up Dr. Green's work at a place like a public library, as it's since been declassified]]. What Killigan ''really'' wants is the super grass-growing formula that Dr. Green had developed in his free time as a hobby.
26	* NoSell: Will Du's stopwatch merely bounced off Killigan when he first tried using it. [[ShockAndAwe It worked the second time, though.]]
27	-->''[Will tries using his stopwatch on Killigan. It bounces off.]''\
28	[''{{beat}}'']\
29	'''Killigan:''' Are yeh daft, lad?
30	* NotListeningToMeAreYou: At the start of the episode, Kim thinks that Ron's not paying attention to her venting about her current woes. Ron [[AvertedTrope averts]] it by quoting her back word-for-word, much to her shock.
31	* PaletteSwap: As previously mentioned, one of the things Bonnie does in her ploy to replace Kim as the MHS-cheerleading captain is get their squad new uniforms--while the squad (minus Kim) goes crazy for them, if you look closely enough, the new uniform is just a color-swapped long-sleeved version of the original uniform.
32	* PretenderDiss: Will Du is quite disdainful of Team Possible, believing that world-saving confrontations with villains should be left to trained professionals like the employees of Global Justice.
33	* QuicksandSucks: Duff has this around his castle lair, though the group only seems to sink up to their necks.
34	* ShoutOut:
35	** "Check it out: [[Series/GilligansIsland Killigan's Island]]."
36	** Kim warns Bonnie that trying too hard at cheerleading will make her spontaneously combust. [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer What would ever give Kim that idea?]]
37	* StatusQuoIsGod: Though Bonnie manages to gain the position of MHS-cheerleading captain in the end, the next time that we see all the cheerleaders together again, Kim's back to being the captain--obviously, this means Bonnie gave the captainship back to Kim at some point. However, we never find out just how long Bonnie lasted as captain--when Kim and Ron were making their estimates at the end of the episode, Ron figured that Bonnie would only last a month while Kim gave her "two weeks, tops."
38	** Likewise, the new cheerleading uniforms that Bonnie got for the squad are never seen again after this episode--in fact, Kim and her fellow cheerleaders keep their original uniforms until ''[[Recap/KimPossibleS4E1IllSuited Ill-Suited]]'', in which they finally get new uniforms that actually '''stay that way''' for the rest of the series.
39	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The whole relationship between Kim and Will.

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