While on a mission, Kim and Ron once again have a run-in with Drakken and Shego. However, during the fight, Kim rips her trademark cargo pants—her mom can't repair them and Club Banana no longer carries them, and not even Smarty Mart sells the cheap knockoff versions of them anymore. Because of that, Kim decides to try and find a new mission outfit for herself. This is coupled with the pressure of college admissions setting in.
Meanwhile, Drakken builds a college/lair to house his new machine that unites the continents back into Pangaea.
In the end, Kim manages to get a new attire for her missions that's both fashionable and practical, and she and her friends manage to save the Earth, once again.
This episode provides examples of:
- Artistic License – University Admissions: Ron not getting any colleges interested in having him attend. While not the greatest student he has other accomplishments, not the least of which being Kim's sidekick, which should have counted for something. As well as being a member of the football team with a school record to his name should have earned him interest from at least one college looking for a student-athlete for their team. Then again, it could just be him being a No-Respect Guy.
- Baddie Flattery: When Kim shows up at Drakken's college lair in her new outfit, Shego actually compliments her on her new look.
- Brick Joke: The Middleton High Reader Board displays "Senior Prank Week" earlier in the episode, then later has been presumably rearranged by a senior to read "earn keeP Sir Wonk".
- Call-Back: Kim's mission outfit becoming a worldwide phenomenon in "Kimitation Nation" is referenced when she comments on the implausibility of no copies of her outfit existing anywhere that she can purchase.
- Cheap Costume: Invoked but ultimately averted — Kim reluctantly resorts to looking for "the cheap knockoffs" of her old mission outfit at Smarty Mart, without success.
- City of Adventure: Middleton has a surprising range of different scientific institutions.
- Costume-Test Montage: At one point, Kim tries on a series of outfits. Ron and Rufus give them all the "thumbs down."
- Didn't Think This Through: Drakken didn't account for the earthquakes his plan would cause.
- Failed a Spot Check: While Ron was checking out the college that he can potentially enter, he walks past a statue of Drakken, and only realizes that he's in Drakken's new lair when he walks in on them.
- Follow in My Footsteps: Kim's mom and dad both nudge her to consider going to the college they graduated from, but don't really push it beyond getting her to take a campus tour.
- Gone Horribly Right: Kim coats herself in a flubber-like material in attempt to defeat Drakken and Shego. While it does succeed at making her too fast for Shego's plasma blasts, the longer she spends jumping around, the more speed and energy she builds up until she can't stop. According to James, she'll have to reach the speed of light until the compound breaks down.
- Heads-Up Display: Kim's dad builds her a spacesuit-like outfit with a heads-up display Kimmunicator built into the faceplate. Unfortunately, he put the display front and center, interfering with Kim's vision when Wade called in the middle of a fight with Shego.
- Hope Spot:
- The Fashionistas design the perfect new outfit for Kim, but destroy the sketch when she refuses to help them escape prison.
- Later subverted when The Tag reveals that Rufus memorized their design and simply copied it for the one he shows Monique.
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: One of the mission outfits Kim tries is a set of anime-type armor built by her brothers. It does manage to briefly incapacitate Drakken and Shego... as they laugh hysterically at the sight.Drakken: Oh, Shego, my sides hurt!
Shego: I know! I know! Where are the Fashion Police when you need 'em? - Insistent Terminology: Drakken continually asserts that he's a college dropout, not a reject. They admitted him, and he left of his own accord.
- It's Been Done: Ron points out that Pangaea used to naturally exist several hundred million years ago. Drakken decides to quickly rename the supercontinent "Drakkengaea" to distinguish it.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Shego comments on Kim wearing the same mission outfit "season", after "season", after "season".
- Like a Surgeon: The episode cuts from Kim getting hit with a steam blast in the opening fight to a hospital scene where Kim's mother declares that there's nothing she can do and Ron desperately asks if she can sew up the damage. It is then revealed that Kim is fine but her mission outfit is ruined.
- Meaningless Villain Victory: Sorta. Drakken's continent-uniting machine actually succeeds, but the resulting earthquake destroys his new HQ and the machine.
- Moral Guardians: A minor case. James builds Kim a bulky suit of armor for her mission outfit that covers everything except for her head and gives absolutely no shape to her figure. He complains it's in response to her old outfit constantly baring her midriff.
- Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Kim's mission outfit from the past three seasons is permanently discontinued, forcing her to switch to the outfit she uses for the remainder of the series.
- Our Founder: Drakken has a statue of himself at the University he created as a cover-up for his new lair.
- Refuge in Audacity: Because Drakken built his lair by concealing it as a college, he managed to secure government grants to build almost everything he needs for the lair and his scheme, minus a few key parts he still needs to steal.
- Self-Disposing Villain: Drakken never stops to consider the massive earthquakes that would be generated by literally moving the planet's continents together, resulting in his machine being shaken apart.
- Spanner in the Works: Ron stumbles into Drakken's lair/college because he decided to apply to every college and was particularly hopeful about recently-founded ones since they can't afford to be picky.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: See Meaningless Villain Victory above. The consequences of Drakken's machine succeeding aren't explored in any way, apart from a throwaway line implying Kim can now walk to colleges in other countries.
