Line #12 Recap/KimPossibleS2E1NakedGenius


1	After Ron fails yet another algebra test, Kim and Wade try to help him, but to little avail. Soon, after, Ron and Kim head to a military base in Iowa to prevent Drakken from getting his hands on "Project Phoebus", a top-secret military experiment. During the fight, Rufus is exposed to the project, which turns out to increase one's intellect, and Ron uses him to do well in school. This impresses his algebra teacher, Miss Whisp, who decides to "share [his] genius with the world", resulting in Ron attending symposiums and creating cold fusion reactors and other things, much to his displeasure.
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3	Meanwhile, Kim and a jealous Wade are suspicious of Ron's newfound intelligence, but their attempts to give him a test fail, as Rufus manages to get all the questions right. So Kim travels to locate Dr. Zeruda, creator of Project Phoebus and now living in a cabin in the woods, where she learns what it does. At his lair, Drakken attempts to design a new doomsday weapon, but finds himself unable to do so. Seeing a news report about Ron's accomplishments, he shows up to one of his lectures and kidnaps him to force Ron to build the device for him.
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5	While Kim searches for him, she learns from Wade that Rufus is the true genius, which means Ron is in big trouble. After locating Drakken's latest lair, she heads in just as Drakken is about to feed Ron to his piranha for failing him. Using a new goo weapon given to her by Rufus, she incapacitates the villains, but finds herself surrounded by Drakken's new robot henchmen. Fortunately, Ron's makeshift death ray works and destroys the robots, allowing them to escape. With Kim's help, Ron gets the hang of algebra, while Wade again tries to prove his genius against Rufus'.
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8	!! This episode contains examples of:
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10	* AchievementsInIgnorance: Ron ''somehow'' actually made a working doomsday device as Drakken wanted him to.
11	* AirVentPassageway: But used by Rufus, instead of Kim and Ron. Justified, since Rufus is a naked mole-rat small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.
12	* AllJustADream: Played with; Ron wakes up in class after Miss Whisp gives him an F, happy it was all a dream... until Miss Whisp gives him an F anyway.
13	* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: More so than Rufus usually has. In fact, it's a major plot point.
14	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Among Ron's listed accomplishments were designing a new International Space Station, creating the first ever cold fusion reactor and finishing Schubert's unfinished symphony.
15	* AwesomeButImpractical: The drilling vehicle Drakken wanted to buy, which had heated seats and lumbar support, but, as Shego notes, "it also had a sunroof, which, on a subterranean vehicle seemed a little, I don't know, pointless."
16	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Ron was happy to use Rufus' intelligence to help him pass algebra, but then Miss Whisp made him tour the country doing various speaking engagements.
17	* BuffySpeak:
18	--> '''Drakken:''' Why am I not brilliant? Brillianter? More brillianter?
19	** And later:
20	--> '''Drakken:''' This isn't over Kim Possible! You capture us, we'll just come back more evil than before! Eviller? More eviller? Less... not-gooder?\
21	'''Shego:''' Please stop talking.\
22	'''Drakken:''' Okay.
23	* CallBack: When Kim tells Ron he's capable of doing algebra, there's this exchange:
24	--> '''Ron:''' Realize my potential? Heard it, lived it, bought the movie rights. Ron Stoppable is "Potential Boy," coming soon to a theater near you.
25	** Then later, after Kim is suspicious of Ron's new intelligence:
26	--> '''Kim:''' Saw the sequel to "Potential Boy," it was called "Genius Boy"; good acting, but the plot seemed a little farfetched.
27	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Where Project Phebous is stored by the military.
28	* ExactWords: After Miss Whisp admits her suspicions that Ron couldn't have done the homework himself, he assures her that no other "person" did the assignment for him. Since Rufus is an ''animal'' that helped him, he's technically correct.
29	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: While Kim and Dr. Zeruda are talking about Project Phoebus, the latter notes that it's good thing Drakken didn't get ahold of all that brainpower. However, this makes Kim realize that if Drakken wants the brainwaves, he'd be going after the one that he believed had them, namely Ron.
30	* GoneHorriblyRight: All Ron really wanted to do was pass algebra. Rufus completing the work for him was done so well Ron gets dragged into the spotlight, something he clearly doesn't want, and later gets him abducted by Drakken.
31	* GroundedForever: When asked how much trouble he got into after the truth of his (lack of) genius is exposed, Ron mentions that Ms. Whisp wrote the infinity symbol on his detention slip.
32	* HeadDesk: The result of Wade's attempts to teach Ron.
33	-->"Ow! Ow! Ow!"
34	* HiddenInPlainSight: Drakken's lair appears to be located in the middle of a suburban area, yet no one notices or minds the large lair standing in their midst.
35	* MechaMooks: Drakken uses robots designed like [[AnimatedArmor suits of armor]], since his normal henchmen are apparently "at a wedding."
36	** Which is a CallBack. Drakken explained Shego's absence previously with this as a half-remembered reason, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot which is also the real reason]] as Creator/NicoleSullivan was attending a wedding when that episode was recorded.
37	* NoodleIncident: Kim once helped Bernice save her artist's colony from a busted dam.
38	--> '''Kim:''' No big, it was just like patching up a crack in my fishtank back home, only it took a lot more gum.
39	* OhCrap: Drakken has a brief gasp of shock when Ron fires his grappling hook gun straight at him, having just barely enough time to duck in order to dodge the spike that proceeded to embed itself in the wall behind him.
40	* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder:
41	--> '''Ron:''' ''(after learning of Rufus's new genius)'' Do you know what this means?\
42	'''Rufus:''' ''(shrugs)'' Uh-uh.\
43	'''Ron:''' Me neither, but it's got to be good.
44	* ShoutOut:
45	** Wade: [[Film/{{Highlander}} "There can be only one!"]]
46	** One of Wade's genius test examples is to discuss the popularity of sailor uniforms in Main/{{Anime}}. [[note]] Or "Japanimation" as he calls it [[/note]]
47	** Zeruda claims to be old poker buddies with Bill Gates, the late Jonas Salk, creator of the polio vaccine, and the late John Nash, subject of Film/ABeautifulMind.
48	* StatusQuoIsGod: According to Zeruda, the effects of Project Pheobus would eventually wear off, meaning Rufus's intellect would return to normal at some point, though it was still shown to be in effect in the final scene of the episode.
49	* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: Wade's opinion of Ron's (and later revealed to be Rufus's) newfound genius. Apparently, he treats his role as genius as SeriousBusiness.
50	* TooDumbToLive: Kim comments that Ron couldn't count to twelve without taking off his shoes, although he does [[CharacterDevelopment grow out of it]].

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