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Score:
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Low BudgetEpisode Number: 21 Season Num: 1 First Aired: Friday May 16, 2003 Prod Code: 115 |
(Kim and Ron corner Frugal Lucre)
Kim: Okay, Lucre. Cough up the sausages.
Ron: Eww! Rephrase please! (edit) (Ron tries to throw Kim and inner tube, but it is eaten by a crocodile)
Ron: Well, donuts always fill me up. (edit) Bonnie: I can't wait to tell the rest of the squad; Kim Possible is a Smarty Mart shopper! (edit) Ron: Giant amphibious naked mole rat!
Kim: Ron, that's a manatee. (edit) (Lucre points a water gun at Kim and Ron)
Ron: Drop it, mama's boy!
Lucre: Am not! And don't come any closer. This thing's loaded!
Kim: With what?
Lucre: Beef bullion, if you must know. Ever try to get the smell out? Huh? You can't! (he laughs)
Kim: Ewwwwww. (edit) Frugal (On TV): I may not have a billion dollar laser weapon or pricy robot army, but I have something those big budget bad guys lack--
Ron: Cheesy accent?
Frugal: Computer skills! (edit) Ron: (eating can of expired Vienna sausages) These are still pretty good! And what an interesting color. (edit) Kim: What kind of self-respecting villain threatens the world from a Smarty-Mart? (edit) Frugal Lucre: Soon ze vorld's fortune vill be mine! (evil laugh)
Ron: Fortune?
Kim: You only asked for a dollar per person.
Frugal Lucre: As we say at Smarty Mart: "Every dollar counts." (edit) MHS Sign: Lunch - Chicken Fried Sushi (edit) MHS Sign: LUNCH SPECIAL - Vienna Sausage Surprise (edit) Frugal Lucre: You might've stopped me this time, Kim Possible, but Frugal Lucre will return! Hahahahaha! If my mom bails me out. (edit)
Kim: Okay, Lucre. Cough up the sausages.
Ron: Eww! Rephrase please! (edit) (Ron tries to throw Kim and inner tube, but it is eaten by a crocodile)
Ron: Well, donuts always fill me up. (edit) Bonnie: I can't wait to tell the rest of the squad; Kim Possible is a Smarty Mart shopper! (edit) Ron: Giant amphibious naked mole rat!
Kim: Ron, that's a manatee. (edit) (Lucre points a water gun at Kim and Ron)
Ron: Drop it, mama's boy!
Lucre: Am not! And don't come any closer. This thing's loaded!
Kim: With what?
Lucre: Beef bullion, if you must know. Ever try to get the smell out? Huh? You can't! (he laughs)
Kim: Ewwwwww. (edit) Frugal (On TV): I may not have a billion dollar laser weapon or pricy robot army, but I have something those big budget bad guys lack--
Ron: Cheesy accent?
Frugal: Computer skills! (edit) Ron: (eating can of expired Vienna sausages) These are still pretty good! And what an interesting color. (edit) Kim: What kind of self-respecting villain threatens the world from a Smarty-Mart? (edit) Frugal Lucre: Soon ze vorld's fortune vill be mine! (evil laugh)
Ron: Fortune?
Kim: You only asked for a dollar per person.
Frugal Lucre: As we say at Smarty Mart: "Every dollar counts." (edit) MHS Sign: Lunch - Chicken Fried Sushi (edit) MHS Sign: LUNCH SPECIAL - Vienna Sausage Surprise (edit) Frugal Lucre: You might've stopped me this time, Kim Possible, but Frugal Lucre will return! Hahahahaha! If my mom bails me out. (edit)
When Kim and Ron arrive at Francis's door step, Kim's finger is ready to press the door bell in the middle of the door. But when they do a close up, her finger is in the side of the door, getting ready to press the door bell.
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When Kim paid for the Club Banana pants, she pulled the money out of her pocket despite the fact that she was wearing the new pants, in which she wouldn’t have had money within them. Also, the huge shirt Kim was wearing because she needed new pants didn’t have any pockets, so it seems illogical that Kim could pull the money out of her pocket when she didn’t have no pockets to hold the money in the first place.
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The cashier from Club Banana can be seen behind Ron and the customer attempting to buy cheese, despite the fact that the Smarty Mart they were at was in another city.
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When Kim is uploading Frugal's file from the personnel manager's computer (upload in progress), the buttons on the front of the Kimmunicator are missing.
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When Kim buys her "emergency pants," the clerk allows her to wear the pants and sit on the counter so the label can be scanned. Most stores do not permit this practice because shoplifters tend to try on clothes and then wear them out of the store after removing the tags.
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When Lucre crashes the internet causing the electricity to go out, Wade managed to get in touch with Kim again, in which he yells “Frugal Lucre Strikes Again!” This stunt was the first time Lucre attempted anything, so how could he have struck again if he hadn’t struck before? It could be implied that his initial warning was the first time he struck, but we really don’t know for certain.
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During the scene when Wade strips out Frugal's voice from his message, they replay the message. If you listen, you'll notice that the voice comes in at a different spot.
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When Kim and Ron confront Lucre in his house, he traps them in a net. Yet when they first enter the basement, there is no net on the floor.
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When Kim is in disguise to sneak into the personal manager's office, her hair is tied in a ponytail by a band. When she takes off her hat, her hair comes undone on it's own, as if it was pulled thru the hat's adjuster
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Look at the desk at the Smarty Mart where Kim goes to find out who Lucre is. When she goes over to the computer, there is no little 'Z-Boy' who later fell when the manager returned.
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In the scene when Wade says "Frugal Lucre strikes again", Wade smashes his cup with his hand. However, shortly afterward, his cup is back to its regular shape in the same place...unsmashed. New cup?
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In the beginning, Kim's wearing a life jacket, but while swimming, she must swim up to float.
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When Kim was looking at the pants, they are different colors, but when she starts running after Lucre, they're all one color.
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When Ron leads "As in..." (following Wade's "It'll have to be an inside job"), his mouth doesn't move.
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Kim and Ron mock Frugal Lucre’s scheme because they don’t believe it matches up towards the other villains’ schemes. However, if the entire world did send Frugal Lucre the dollar he requested, he would have had roughly five and a half billion to six billion dollars, which is much more than Ron had in the episode Ron Millionaire, which is quite a lot so shouldn't Kim have realized that his plan was better than most thought?
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Kim's eyes are a gray color in some shots, but when she's in the store, her eyes are green.
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When Kim shudders when she finds out that Ron buys clothes at Smarty Mart, Ron folds his arms and gives Kim a look, though at that scene his right eye partially crosses over the bridge of his nose.
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Including considerations for lighting, Wade's skin tone changes several times in this episode, sometimes in the same set of shots (most notably when he's talking to Kim from her locker computer)
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When Frugal Lucre checks the amount of money that he’s made from his scheme, he has $17.28. However, he requested everyone send him a dollar so how did he manage to obtain 28 cents? It could be assumed that people from other countries sent in money, but he requested that everyone send in exactly one dollar’s worth in accordance to the exchange rate, so he shouldn’t have been able to get the 28 cents.
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Wouldn't the Mall close the stores if the checkouts were down and people couldn't buy anything?
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A few more goofs about the store doors at Smarty Mart where Frugal Works. The pad you step on to activate the automatic doors is missing when Frugal runs through the store alarms. Also the doors are a different color.
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The second time Lucre interrupts a GWA match, the wrestlers vanish from the picture long before the ring does.
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Why didn't Francis's Mom ask where his "friends" were when he went upstairs?
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When Kim and Ron enter the Smarty Mart where Francis works, there are no alarms by the doors, but when Kim snaps the alarm tag on his store vest, there are alarms at the store doors all of a sudden.
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When Kim and Ron go to Kim's locker, the locker door Bonnie is behind has the handle/lock on the opposite side of the other lockers. Then when she closes it, the handle/lock magically jumps to the correct side.
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After Kim's discovered that Frugal Lucre is Francis, she runs up to Ron in the tire section, holding a piece of yellow paper in her right hand. When it shows Kim again after Ron's line, the Kimmunicator is suddenly where the paper was, with the slip nowhere to be found.
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Frugal steals the microphone from the Smarty Mart 'Brain' mascot ('Vienna sausages- ten cans for a dollar!'). A crowd racing to get the sausages ensues, and if you slow it down, you can see the mascot running to get them too! He obviously should have known that there wasn't really an offer on.
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When Kim and Ron go to Smarty Mart to access the Personnel files, Ron's turtleneck collar is colored red rather than black when he's greeted at the door.
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Coloration Goof: When the manatee first comes to the surface and Ron screams that it's an aquatic naked mole-rat, the bottom of his shirt is colored red when Kim corrects him.
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When Ron says 'Steel Toe versus Pain King!' his mouth doesn't move.
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In the opener, just before Kim leaps from the swamp boat, its control levers are solid gray (as opposed to red and white).
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Maybe there are a few aisles in Smarty Mart dedicated to animals, but Ron says he bought Rufus from aisle sixteen, whereas Lucre's snapping turtles are bought from aisle ten- 'next to the goldfish'. Aisle ten is also where Kim got some new pants from.
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Spin City:
Interestingly, Richard Kind guest stars as Frugal Lucre in this episode. Richard Kind used to portray Paul Lassiter on Spin City. Paul was also cheap. (edit) Stripperella:
This episode’s premise is similar to an episode of Stripperella called “Crime Doesn’t Pay. Seriously, It Really Doesn’t”, which also featured an incredibly cheap villain. (edit) Smarty Mart Manager: Free shipping on all purchases over 25 dollars!
This is a reference to Amazon.com, in which their online shopping provides free shipping to all purchases over 25 dollars. (edit) Kim: Smarty Mart?
Ron: Where smart shoppers shop smart!
This is similar to the line from the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness movies, in which the character Ash worked at S-Mart, and often said “Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart”. (edit) Futurama:
When Ron is watching wrestling through a window of an electronics store, the store is called Victoria’s Circuits, which is a play on Victoria’s Secret, a chain of lingerie stores often present in US malls. The same play on words was also used in a Futurama episode that involved Bender reading an advertisement from a magazine. (edit) PA Voice: Attention Smarty Mart shoppers, brainstorm in aisle eight! For the next then minutes, Pop Pop Porter’s Pizza Bagels are two for a dollar!
This is a reference to K-Mart’s Blue Light Specials, in which they typically announce the sale in a similar fashion. (edit) Wal-Mart:
Smarty Mart is a reference to the big department stores, such as Wal-Mart, in which those stores have nearly everything available and offer huge discounts on their wares. (edit)
Interestingly, Richard Kind guest stars as Frugal Lucre in this episode. Richard Kind used to portray Paul Lassiter on Spin City. Paul was also cheap. (edit) Stripperella:
This episode’s premise is similar to an episode of Stripperella called “Crime Doesn’t Pay. Seriously, It Really Doesn’t”, which also featured an incredibly cheap villain. (edit) Smarty Mart Manager: Free shipping on all purchases over 25 dollars!
This is a reference to Amazon.com, in which their online shopping provides free shipping to all purchases over 25 dollars. (edit) Kim: Smarty Mart?
Ron: Where smart shoppers shop smart!
This is similar to the line from the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness movies, in which the character Ash worked at S-Mart, and often said “Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart”. (edit) Futurama:
When Ron is watching wrestling through a window of an electronics store, the store is called Victoria’s Circuits, which is a play on Victoria’s Secret, a chain of lingerie stores often present in US malls. The same play on words was also used in a Futurama episode that involved Bender reading an advertisement from a magazine. (edit) PA Voice: Attention Smarty Mart shoppers, brainstorm in aisle eight! For the next then minutes, Pop Pop Porter’s Pizza Bagels are two for a dollar!
This is a reference to K-Mart’s Blue Light Specials, in which they typically announce the sale in a similar fashion. (edit) Wal-Mart:
Smarty Mart is a reference to the big department stores, such as Wal-Mart, in which those stores have nearly everything available and offer huge discounts on their wares. (edit)
Episode Vital Stats
Episode: Low Budget
Season Number: 1
Episode Reviews: 5
Season Number: 1
Episode Reviews: 5
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Score: 7.9 Good 59 votes
Score: 7.9 Good 59 votes
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good: 15 (25.4%)
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perfect: 10 (16.9%)
Other: 8 (13.6%)
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