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When Drakken has Shego steal the Pan-Dimesional Vortex Inducer again, he plans to use it for his new laser cannon. However, a mishap causes the device to open a portal into the television universe that sucks in Kim, Ron, Rufus, Drakken, and Shego. Now, they must navigate their way through various shows before the vortex obliterates all reality.

This episode provides examples of:

  • Beware the Nice Ones: The puppet characters from the kid's show are pretty jolly and friendly, but, as Drakken and Shego discover, they won't hesitate to unleash Mr. Sit Down on "meanies".
  • Book Ends: As Ron said it "This began with monkeys, and it's going to end with monkeys". Also, Drakken's first channel was on a puppet kid's show, and the episode ends with him and Shego stuck on that channel.
  • Brick Joke: Earlier in the episode, when Drakken was in the children's show, he ended up meeting Mr. Sit Down. At the end, when he and Shego end up back in the show, Shego ends up provoking another visit from Mr. Sit Down.
  • Captain Obvious: "You're a meanie!"
  • Continuity Nod: The PDVI first appeared and got stolen by a villain (Drakken went after it, but Dementor got there first) in '"Ron the Man"'. Also, one of the shows inside the TV dimension is "The Fearless Ferret".
  • Got Me Doing It: Shego's time on "Pals" got her using some lines, to her exasperation.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard:
    • Drakken's impatience with the cable installation guy has him threaten to blast him with a laser cannon if he doesn't hurry it up. The cable guy gets so scared by this that he accidentally plugs the cannon's power cord into the cable box's input jack, resulting in it opening a portal to the box's channels when fired.
      • His impatience later gets him and Shego in hot water at the end of the episode where after he had some repairs to his compiler opens a portal to what he believes is the real world despite Shego's reluctance. The portal takes them to the puppet show.
    • Shego's temper gets her in trouble later in the episode twice when she tries threatening TV show characters with energy blasts. First on That 1670s Show when she gets mistaken for a witch and the characters chase after her with Torches and Pitchforks. Then at the end of episode when she and Drakken are on the puppet show, the characters say they were looking for something the color green, prompting her to threaten them with her glow, which leads to her, alongside Drakken, being sat on by Mr. Sitdown.
  • I Know You Know I Know: Shego left an obvious clue that she'd stolen the Pan-Dimensional Vortex Inducer. Ron thinks the clue is too obvious, and that Drakken must be setting a trap... unless that's what Drakken wants them to think, in which case the way to surprise him is to walk right into the trap. This turns out to be exactly what Drakken was hoping they'd do.
  • It Will Never Catch On: Apparently, Ron's father and Drakken didn't get cable until now because they thought it was "just a fad".
  • Never Say "Die": Due to Disney Channel’s standards and practices, the “killing off” of the guy in the red shirt, as stated by Kim, is that he simply “never makes it back from a mission.” Which somehow makes the poor victim’s ultimate fate to be somewhat ominous and frighteningly vague.
  • Not so Dire: Worried that something bad may have happened to Ron and Rufus, Kim sneaks into the Stoppable-house do some investigating—however, it turns out that Ron and Rufus are just fine but have watching cable-TV all day. Although this could be subverted from a certain perspective.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Both Kim and Wade become very concerned when Ron misses both cheerleading practice and Bueno Nacho on Naco Night!
  • Ow, My Body Part!: At one point when he and Drakken fall into another show, Ron shouts, "Ah! My pancreas!"
  • Parody: The episode parodied famous TV shows under the guise of being sucked into TV Land.
  • Proud to Be a Geek: Wade is disgusted when Kim refers to the science fiction genre as sci-fi.
  • Red Shirt: Parodied when Kim is temporarily sent to a Star Trek-esque TV show and appears in a red uniform:
    Wade: This is the part of the show where they pick series regulars to go on a mission. Just make sure you're not the one wearing...
    Kim: ...A red shirt?
    Commander Kain: And...(to Kim) you! You're expendable.
  • Someday This Will Come in Handy: Ron's family has just gotten cable TV and Ron has been glued to it for so long he's memorized all the channels. Not something you'd need, right? Wrong. Trapped in TV Land with the hole that dropped him there threatening to undo all of reality, he knew what to switch to plug up the tear in the space/time continuum with a horde of monkeys.
  • This Is Reality:
    Ron: (upon hearing Shego stole the PDVI for the second time) Ah, man! A rerun!
    Kim: Too much TV, Ron. Real life, here.
  • Trapped in TV Land: Kim, Ron, Rufus, Dr. Drakken and Shego are pulled into a dimensional vortex crossed with a TV cable signal. Shows they visit: Friends (rendered as Pals) Space Passage (a Star Trek sendup, with Kim as a Red Shirt), Survivor in the Arctic, a kids' puppet show reminiscent of Teletubbies, Scamper and Bitey (a Tom and Jerry-style cartoon), Fear Factor, Alias, That '70s Show (reimagined in the Salem era as That 1670s Show), ER, Evil Eye for the Bad Guy (a supervillain's version of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy), The Fearless Ferret (a parody of the old Batman show and a Continuity Nod to a previous episode), The Hollywood Squares (albeit with giant triangles, resembling another Merrill Heatter show, Battlestars), a commercial for Bueno Nacho, Professional Wrestling, a cooking show, a talk show, and Animal Planet (rendered as Ape Island, to Ron's distress).
  • We Are Not Going Through That Again: After Team Possible gets out of the television universe, Ron notices that Drakken has cable, only for Kim to give him a furious Death Glare, convincing him to stick to video games for awhile.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: We never do find out how Drakken and Shego get out of the television universe.

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