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Tick-Tick-Tick

Episode Number: 4    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Friday June 14, 2002    Prod Code: 101
When Kim is tardy when going to class, she is sentenced to detention. Meanwhile, Drakken and Shego start their next evil plan.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley
Director: Chris Bailey
Star: Nancy Cartwright (Rufus),  Tahj Mowry (Wade),  Will Friedle (Ron Stoppable),  Christy Carlson Romano (Kim Possible)
Recurring Role: Nicole Sullivan (Shego),  John DiMaggio (Dr. Drakken),  Gary Cole (Mr. Dr. Possible),  Jean Smart (Mrs. Dr. Possible),  Shaun Fleming (Jim and Tim Possible),  Kirsten Storms (Bonnie Rockwaller),  Patrick Warburton (Steve Barkin)
Guest Star: Nancy Cartwright (Computer Voice),  Maurice LaMarche (Professor Acari),  Brad Garrett (Big Mike),  Phil LaMarr (Vinnie),  Diedrich Bader (Junior)

Notes

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Animation Production by: Starburst Animation Studio. (edit)

Quotes

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(At detention)
Mr. Barkin: (annoyed) Detention is supposed to be a punishment; a time of quiet suffering!
Ron: You didn't count on the Kim factor.
(Kim is polishing the detention gang's nails)
Big Mike: I like sparkles
Junior: I'm next, dude!
Vinnie: Hey man, I'm next!
(Barkin sighs)
Kim: Guys, what do we do?
Junior and Vinnie: Take turns
Kim: Right! (edit)
(After Drakken is beaten)
Ron: Situation...
Kim: ...resolved
Barkin: Not quite. Say what you will about me, but Steve Barkin is...
Kim: ...though but fair, I know. (edit)
(Barkin and the detention gang enter Bueno Nacho whilst Kim throws Shego at Barkin)
Junior: (to Vinnie) See? This is why I never come here, dude.
Dr. Drakken: Shego has failed! But she never fails! Nooo! (Drakken slams his head into the control panel and hits a button)
Computer Voice: Detonation sequence activated
Dr. Drakken: Uh-oh!
Kim: Oh, no!
Dr. Drakken: Aaah! Get me out of here (presses wildly on the control panel)
Vinnie: Cheerleader's nose is gonna blow!
Junior: That's weird.
Wade: I can't disarm something that small! We gotta get the nano tick to let go! Aargh! There must be some way to burn the circuits!
Ron: This calls for the most dangerous chemical known to modern man... Diablo Sauce! Stat! (Ned throws Ron a pack of Diablo Sauce)
Shego: Drop the hot sauce, and step away from the nose!
(Big Mike sits down on top of Shego)
Kim: Uh, wow.
Big Mike: Nobody messes with us! Right, Kim?
Kim: Uh, yeah! Right, Big Mike.
Ron: Make nice later. Right now let's flick this tick. (Ron starts to pour hot sauce down on the tick) Easy... Easy... That's right, you squeal all you want. I gotcha. Almost... there. (Ron takes the tick into a straw)
Ron: (panicked) The tick... is in the straw, the tick is in the straw! The tick is in the straw, what do I do? What do I do? (edit)
(Kim is fighting Shego in Bueno Nacho)
Kim: (throws Kimmunicator to Ron) Get Wade on the Kimmunicator! There's got to be a way to get this thing off!
Shego: Allow me!
Wade: (On Kimmunicator) Ron! How's Kim?
Ron: (screaming to Kim) Wade wants to know how you're doing, Kim!
Kim: Fair!
Ron: Fair. (edit)
(Drakken and Shego are hovering outside of Bueno Nacho)
Dr, Drakken: If you just tell me what to do, I could do it!
Shego: What did we agree on?
Dr. Drakken: I... don't touch anything.
Shego: Yeah!
(Shego lifts off and crunches the roof of Bueno Nacho with the gravatomic ray)
Dr. Drakken: (pouting) I could've done that!
Shego: But can you do this? (Shego jumps down and into Bueno Nacho) Kim Possible has something that belongs to us!
Kim: (jumping on another table) Guess what? I don't want it.
Shego: It's on you? What.. like.. stuck?
Kim: Hello! It's not a nose ring.
Dr. Drakken: Take her whole nose if you have to!
Shego: (igniting her hands) Works for me! (edit)

Trivia

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This is the first of two occurrences where Kim's cheerleader uniform comes up to reveal her underwear. The second one happens during the Bueno Nacho fight in Ill Suited. (edit)
This was supposed to be the first appearance of Dr. Drakken, but due to Disney airing the episodes out of order, he appeared in the earlier episode titled Crush. (edit)
This is one of two episodes where Barkin has blond hair, the other being Royal Pain. He has brown hair for the rest of the series. (edit)
When Kim is "introduced" to Vinnie and Big Mike, the lines in her hair disappear. (edit)
When Kim looks in her compact mirror and finds the nano-tick on her nose, the explosive part of it is missing. (edit)

Allusions

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You Only Live Twice:

The scene where Shego drops through a hole in the floor and comes out a tunnel to face Dr. Drakken recalls a similar scene in You Only Live Twice where Bond falls down a similar tunnel to meet the man that is to be his contact in Japan. (edit)
Shego: And her...chum.

In the old Batman tv series, Batman would refer to Robin as "old chum". This implies that Ron is Kim's sidekick. (edit)
It's Tough to Be a Bug:

When Ron touches Prof. Acari's computer screen, all the butterflies resting on it fly away. This is similar to a scene in the Disney attraction, It's Tough to Be a Bug, (also directed by Chris Bailey) where a similar effect is employed. (edit)
Dr. Drakken: Enough chitchat! My pets are famished.

If you notice, Kim and Ron are over a pool of sharks. Near the end of the James Bond movie, Live and Let Die, Bond is tied up and the villain slightly cuts his forearm to lure in sharks. Of course, Bond gets out of danger thanks to one of his gadgets (same thing with Kim and her elastic constricting lipstick). (edit)
Kim: "Haunted Island"? "Keep out, 'meddling kids'"? Puh-lease.

Reference to Scooby Doo, which involved a group of teenagers hoofing about a mysterious, often "haunted" locale before exposing its resident spook as a fraud, at which point the un-masked culprit would invariably pout and claim that he (or she) "would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids." (edit)
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"Exciting"
This episode is about when Kim has a little bomb on her nose.
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"Character development"
One of the best!
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"Series classic"
This is an oldie-but-goodie!
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"Series classic"
This is an oldie-but-goodie!
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