Rufus vs. Commodore Puddles: Ron is planning to enter a monster movie in the upcoming Tri-City Film Festival, but finds Rufus a less than cooperative subject. Soon, he and Kim are off to Arizona to stop Drakken, who has stolen a shrink ray as part of plan to rob Area 51. However, after his poodle, Coomodore Puddles, takes a whiz on the device, it causes it to work in reverse, enlarging the poodle, which Drakken plans to use anyway. When the military proves unable to stop the giant dog, Kim & Ron try their hands, but are quickly defeated. Fortunately, Rufus exposes himself to the ray, defeating Commodore Puddles, while Drakken escapes in a spaceship with some angry aliens. Back at the film festival, Ron plans to enter what he shot on the mission, but due to it being classified, it was confiscated and replaced with a video of him potty training entitled "Ron's Big Day."
Day of the Snowmen: It's an unusually snowy day in Middleton, so the Possible family decides to enjoy it. Mr. and Mrs. Possible want to spend time together as a family, but the kids already have plans of their own: the twins head off to clean people's driveways to earn some extra money while Kim goes to hang out with Ron. Things take a turn for the worse when zombie snowmen start wreaking havoc across the city. Responding to a distress call at Middleton Mall, Kim rescues a pair of bystanders, one of whom is weather reporter Summer Gale. When the snow zombies begin assaulting the Possible house, Summer's cameraman forces her to admit she created them. Wanting more airtime, she used a weather machine to create a blizzard; worse, she took water from Camp Wannaweep, and the weird chemicals in it somehow animated the snowmen. While Kim & Ron head off to stop the weather machine, the rest of the family fights off the snow zombies. Eventually, the day is saved, and the water returned to Camp Wannaweep, when the eyes of a totem begin to glow...
"Rufus Vs Commodore Puddles" contains the following tropes:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The base is attacked by a giant Commodore Puddles, and later defended by a giant Rufus.
- Behemoth Battle: The fight between Commodore Puddles and Rufus, both turned giant.
- Blah, Blah, Blah: "Yadda yadda.".
- Brick Joke: While looking through Ron's old videos in his garage, Kim finds one entitled "Ron's Big Day" but he takes it from her. At the end, she finally gets to see what was on it.
- Cassandra Gambit: Area 51 deliberately leaks true information about its operations, expecting it to be dismissed as crazy conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, Drakken believes the stories and decides to attack the base to get his hands on the alien technology.
- Continuity Nod: Commodore Puddles was last seen briefly in ''Kimitation Nation'' as one of the sources of "mean and vicious" DNA for Drakken's pseudo-clones.
- Crazy-Prepared: The military apparently has plans in place for dealing with giant attacking poodles and mole rats.
- Embarrassing Old Photo: "Ron's Big Day" is an embarrassing old video for Ron, which unfortunately for him gets swapped with his monster video before being presented to the public.Young Ron: I make a potty.
- The Greys: A trio of them are on the spaceship Drakken attempts to purloin.
- Guns Are Worthless: The Area 51 defensive strategy includes giant dog treats, an arsenal of giant dog whistles and a giant dog cage, and in a worst case scenario the senior officers have the option to activate the facility's self-destruct over letting its secrets be revealed. General Simms' troops are seen armed with conventional M4 and M16 rifles, which don't see any use against the attack.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The Area 51 dog whistles do start pushing back Commodore Puddles into the giant dog cage, but the use of the whistle drives the army's own dogs crazy and results in them running over the troops and knocking over all the equipment.
- Improvisational Ingenuity: Drakken's original plan was to shrink himself down to microscopic size and infiltrate Area 51. Then Commodore Puddles pees on his shrink ray, causing it to malfunction and make things enlarge instead. Drakken decides to ride Commodore Puddles and lay siege to Area 51 instead, which proves to be quite effective.
- Insane Troll Logic: General Simms' explanation of Area 51's Cassandra Gambit:Gen. Simms: We've implemented a double-negative cover story; we make sure only to leak out information that is 100% accurate.Ron: But then, it's not really secret.Gen. Simms: That's exactly what we want you to believe.Ron: Yeah, but then... never mind.
- Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Kim's left shoe is knocked off during the fight, leaving her left foot bare. Rufus takes the shoe and uses it like a racecar. Kim fights in one shoe for the rest of the battle.
- Meaningless Villain Victory: Draken succeeds in stealing a flying saucer...but its alien owners are still inside, and clearly not happy about him being there.
- The Men in Black: Special Agents Smith and Smith are Kim's ride to the Mojave, as thanks for her helping them out with a highly classified security breach. They also swap out Ron's Area 51 monster video tape for "Ron's Big Day" at the end in the name of national security.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted; the two agents are both named Smith.
- Police Code for Everything: The Area 51 garrison has a scenario code for a "full frontal assault by a giant canine", as well as "rescue by giant subterranean rodent".
- Toilet Humor: At the beginning of the episode, Commodore Puddles pees on the shrink ray, shorting it out and causing it to work in reverse. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that "Ron's Big Day" is a video of when Ron was being potty-trained.
- Urine Trouble: Drakken ignores Commodore Puddles' whimpering and Shego's nudging, continuing to work on his shrink ray as the poodle gets increasingly desperate. Finally, the poor dog can't hold it in any more.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Exaggerated. The garrison at Area 51 are armed with conventional firearms rather than Family-Friendly Firearms, but never use them against Commodore Puddles as part of their defensive strategy even when the Area 51 underground facility is about to be breached, instead preferring to destroy the entire facility to prevent its secrets from falling in Drakken's hands. When General Simms ordered his troops to "bring out the big guns", Kim expressed distaste with the implication that they're going to gun down Commodore Puddles before Simms quickly clarified that it was an expression referring to their giant dog whistles.
"Day Of The Snowmen" contains the following tropes:
- Berserk Board Barricade: The Possibles board up all the windows and doors due to the snowmen converging on their home.
- Brutal Honesty: The Tweebs comment that Summer Gale wears more makeup than "the younger weather ladies." She is not amused.
- Call-Back:
- Summer mentions the weather machine she got had only been used once for "some attack on Canada".
- The water that creates the winter storm was taken from the lake at Camp Wannaweep.
- Chekhov's Gun: The discontinued five alarm Diablo sauce Ron uses to warm his hands is later used to take out some snow zombies.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Kim has this after the snowmen start attacking her house.Kim: I don't get it! Why are they after me?
Ron: Everyone's after you! You should be used to it by now.
Jake: (glares at Summer) Go ahead. Tell them, Summer.
Summer: Cork it, Jake!
Kim: Tell us what? Hold up. The mall, then here? They're not after me...they're after you! (points at Summer) - Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: After Kim figures out the connection between Summer and the snowmen, the former explains that she had bought a weather machine to get more air time. As they brainstorm theories as to why the snowmen have come to life…Kim: A weather machine needs a lot of water to create a storm this big.
Summer: I got the water from some lake. "Wannasob"? "Wannacry"?
Kim and Ron: Lake Wannaweep! - Foreshadowing: Summer Gale asking her cameraman about her makeup while they are ambushed by snowmen hints at both the fact that she's behind the snowstorm and her motivation several story beats before the reveal.
- Here We Go Again!/The End... Or Is It?: After the water is returned to Lake Wannaweep, a wooden totem's eyes are seen glowing green.
- Karma Houdini: Summer suffers absolutely no consequences for deliberately creating a massive snowstorm (which is quite bad enough even granting that the evil mutant snow zombies were an accidental side effect).
- The Load: Summer Gale provides nothing during the defense of the Possible household, cowering in her corner while they fought off the snowmen. Her cameraman Jake is a Dirty Coward who callously suggested throwing Summer out to the snowmen to save their own skins but also cowered in the corner with Summer.
- Mundane Utility: Jim and Tim plan to use a particle beam they invented to clear people's driveways of snow.
- Off with His Head!: The most effective way to destroy a snow zombie (besides melting it) is to knock off or smash its head, which Kim does several times.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Summer has a small one after Kim figures out the cause of the living snowmen.
- Kim and Ron have one when Summer reveals she got the water to power the weather machine from Lake Wannaweep.
- Our Zombies Are Different: They're snowmen, for one thing.
- Punny Name: Summer Gale.
- Shout-Out: Several to Living Dead Series including fighting several snowmen in a mall, and one jumping on the windshield as the heroes drive off.
- Mrs. Possible gets attacked in the kitchen when she opens the fridge, like the protagonist's mom in Gremlins.
- The confrontation against the single, gigantic Snowman, and then its melting, screaming "death", are like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man scenes from Ghostbusters (1984).
- While revisiting Camp Wannaweep to dump the toxic water back into the lake, Ron paraphrases Al Pacino from The Godfather Part III: "every time I think I'm out, they draw me back in!"
- Sick and Wrong: Ron quotes this trope verbatim in regard to the snow zombies.
- The Siege: While Kim and Ron go off to deal with the weather machine, Kim's family defends their house from the snowmen trying to reach Summer Gale.
- Snowlems: The combination of the weather machine and the contaminated Lake Wannaweep water creates a snow zombie infestation.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Since they're made of snow, the heroes inflict cruel punishment on the snow zombies that would be much more disturbing if it was happening to humans.
- Zerg Rush: The snow zombies generally collapse after one solid hit, but it's hard to stop them all because of their sheer numbers.
