Graduation, Part 2 — kimpossible

Graduation, Part 2

Production Number:	422
Season:	4
Executive Producer(s):	Bob Schooley Mark McCorkle
Writer(s):	Thomas Hart Brian Swenlin
Art Director(s):	Unknown
Dialogue Director(s):	Unknown

Broadcast Information

US Broadcast Number:

87

Disney Channel US Premiere:

September 7, 2007

Merchandise

iTunes Releases:

Unknown

After both Kim and Drakken have been taken captive, Ron and Shego must race to rescue them from the clutches of Warmonga and Warhok, and together the four of them must find a way to save the world from alien invasion.

Characters in Order of Appearance

(Final Appearances)

Plot Summary

Mission

Villains: Warmonga and Warhok
Evil plot: Abduct Dr. Drakken and Kim and then invade their home world in revenge.

Personal Storyline

Everyone (except Kim) has gathered in the Middleton High School auditorium to regroup. Barkin is crying hysterically, prompting Nana to banish him to the nurse's room. Meanwhile, Ron, Dr. Possible, and Wade are trying to figure out what is happening. The entire world has been taken over by Warmonga and Warhok. They take out the world's electricity, and then proceed to attack with indestructible tripod-like robots. Ron and Dr. Possible rush off to find a rocket to rescue Kim with at the Middleton Space Center.

When Ron and Dr. Possible reach the Space Center, they are confronted by Shego, who joins the two as they race inside, using a generator to power the place. When Dr. P informs Shego that him and Ron will be flying the rocket while she stays behind, Shego objects and steals Dr. P's space suit, leaving him in his boxers. Shego and Ron then jet off in the rocket to go into space to save Kim and Drakken.

As Shego and Ron approach Warmonga's ship in space, Shego doesn't know how to get them inside. Luckily, Ron figures out that they can enter through the garbage shoot. Inside the ship, Kim and Drakken are left alone and imprisoned. Drakken discovers that his mutation can sprout tendrils which obeys his commands, Drakken then uses the tendrils to help him and Kim escape and destroy the canon. Drakken and Kim run out and meet up with Shego and Ron.

The four run down to the ship's noisy control center. Nobody can figure out how to shut down the ship, until Ron points out the obvious: an off switch. Rufus finds the off switch and turns it off, making the ship begin to plummet.

Realizing what has happened, Warmonga and Warhok run over to the four and proceed to fight them. During the fight, Warmonga makes the mistake that Shego and Drakken are a couple, calling her "The Blue Imposter's battle-mate"- a claim which Shego furiously disputes, a little too furiously, objecting both Warmonga and Kim, saying that there is NOTHING going on with her and Drakken. Warmonga then asked why Shego felt so threatened by her the first time the alien appeared, and why she jetted into space this time to save him, Shego objects again, saying "maybe because you're 9 ft tall?!". Later, Ron uses his space suit to blast off Warmonga and Warhok and flies off, carrying Drakken on his back. Shego does the same with Kim. Warmonga and Warhok follow on their gliders. Everyone escapes the ship just as it explodes in Earth's atmosphere, and they fight in midair as they glide to the ground. After landing, Drakken and Shego run off, and Kim and Ron are left to fight.

And so a long fight goes on. Just as the good guys appear to be losing, Drakken and Shego return. They had gone back to Drakken's lair, where they grabbed the rest of Drakken's plant goo. Using the goo, Drakken commands his plants to destroy all the alien tripods and capture Warmonga and Warhok. While the plants do destroy the tripods, they are not strong enough to hold the aliens and Warhok captures Kim. Just then, Sensei appears to Ron, Sensei tells Ron that he is a mystical monkey master, and that he should use his powers to save Kim because is his destiny and he's ready. Ron does just that, glowing blue and fighting off both aliens, flinging Warmonga and Warhok into the sky, where they collide with their spaceship as it explodes. Drakken arrives after this, wondering what happened, a stunned Shego tells him "You had to be here" rather than explaining. Everyone is left safe.

Graduation finally commences. Kim gladly accepts her diploma from Mr. Barkin and hugs him as thanks. Mr. Barkin hands in the diploma and states to Kim things are going to be boring without her now. Kim admits he still has Jim and Tim, but this doesn't help since the two of them vaporize Barkin's car. As Bonnie goes to get her diploma, Barkin reveals that she skipped all her classes on the last week of school, but Bonnie states that is because nothing important happens in the last week. However, Barkin states the only exception to that was his pop quiz which Bonnie missed; thus Bonnie didn't pass, and that makes her one credit short. This means she does not graduate and is forced to go to summer school. She believes this is so unfair, but luckily, her boyfriend Señor Senior, Junior is there to help her and tells her that his heart will be with her in the stuffy classroom. Ron then gets his diploma from Barkin, but he comes in his space suit instead of his traditional robes for the graduation which Barkin is not happy about though he states to Barkin he has to stick to his essential Ron-ness.

The following things all happen in an ending montage:

After graduation, Drakken gets rewarded with a medal for saving the world and turns to good and is seen speaking in front of an audience, telling them his ideas.
- After the speech with everyone, including Frugal Lucre, except for the other villains in the crowd, cheering, his plant tendrils reach out intertwine him with Shego, wrapping them up together, with both sharing an awkward smile to each other.
Kim and Ron go to a beach party.
- Everyone is having fun, except for Bonnie, who is studying for summer school.
- Kim, Ron and their friends play volleyball
  - Kim hits the ball hard that she accidentally hits Bonnie in the head, then Junior picks her up and kisses her head and Bonnie hugs him.
- Then Kim and Ron jump in Kim's car while everyone waved goodbye. Kim and Ron wave back and Kim tells Ron "Told you that graduation wasn't the end of the world". Ron cups her face, kisses her, and they fly off into the moon-set.

End Credits

Drakken and Professor Dementor are conversing about the recent events that have happened. Dementor notes the irony in it all as Drakken was terrible at being a mad scientist and doing evil plots, but is great at doing things that are good. Drakken doesn't want to talk about any of this and asks for a new topic. Dementor gives in soon and asks Drakken why does he have blue skin, Drakken is glad that he asked that. Drakken then explains it was a funny story (not funny ha ha according to Drakken) that started on Tuesday, but the credits then end before the rest of the story is explained.

Quotes

Transcript

Main article: Graduation, Part 2/Transcript

Memorable Quotes

The Tweebs: Hickabickaboo.

Drakken: Well, pardon me. Not all of us have the power of flight.

Ron: Oh, complain complain. You know, when life gives you lemons...

Dr.Drakken: I COMPLAIN ABOUT THE LEMONS!

Warhok: (Holding an unconscious Kim by the leg) Come, Warmonga, we will take this one as a trophy, she will look handsome mounted beside your Thorgogle spine.

Sensei: You are the monkey master.

Ron: I am?

Sensei: (Nods his head) This is your destiny, you are ready.

Ron: I AM. (Ron calls out to Warhok) Hey! Warhok.

Sensei: His monkey power is strong. Boo-yah.

Drakken: Wait, what happened? What did I miss?

Shego: I don't know, but I think the sidekick just stepped up, monkey-style.

Drakken: (Confused) Monkey-style? Hmm, what's that?

Shego: You had to be here.

Señor Senior, Jr.: Be strong, my love! I will be at your side through this thing, this..."summer school".

Bonnie: Really?

Señor Senior, Jr.: No, my actual person will be lounging by the pool, but my heart...my heart will be with you in that stuffy classroom.

Bonnie: You are the sweetest.

Gallery

Team Possible's Clothes

Kim

Ron

Misc Images From Episode

Gallery

Supplementary Information

Middleton High School Reader Board

“

Graduation Tonight

”

The reader board is damaged at the beginning of the adventure, with letters missing, but is fixed by the end.

Team Possible's Transportation

Kim was abducted aboard the Lorwardian Spaceship in Part 1.
Ron used his scooter to take himself and Dr. James Timothy Possible to the Space Center, where Shego rescues them from alien technology.
Shego, Ron, and Rufus travel into space to Warhok and Warmonga's spaceship via a rocket from the space center, with Shego piloting it for them.
Ron and Shego are equipped with, and make use of, jet-packs from the space center.
Once back on Earth Drakken makes use of his hovercraft.
Kim manages to take a vehicle from the spaceship which she flies on until it is destroyed.

Allusions

The alien invasion machines that destroyed the majority of Middleton look similar to those in the recent film adaptation of War of the Worlds. The only difference is that the ones in that movie only have three legs, while the ones here have four legs.
At the end of the adventure, when Kim and Ron leave the beach by flying into the sky with Kim's car is a direct reference to the ending of the movie Grease^[1], where the two main characters do the same thing only there is no logical explanation or reason for the car taking flight in that movie.

Trivia

Technically, Kim did not save the world this time. Drakken came up with the plan to defeat the aliens, which really just destroyed many of their machines of destruction, while Ron used his Mystical Monkey Powers to defeat Warhok and Warmonga.
This is the only time one of Dr. Drakken's plans succeeded. Ironically, however, he ended up saving the world rather than taking it over.
The primary villains, Warmonga and Warhok are presumably killed, although their fate is never fully disclosed. Monkey Fist, although technically no longer conscious, is not dead, but actually became the Yono or is just permanently petrified by the Yono, since the "Path of the Yono" was never explained.
Since Kim has a gold scarf on for her graduation, this signals that she is one of the few kids in her class with the highest overall grades. Only two people get this type of honor: the Valedictorian and the Salutatorian. Which implies that Kim is Salutatorian.
When Ron is in full control of the mystical monkey powers, he is shown to be stronger than both Kim and Shego. This is evident as when Warmonga first came to Earth, Kim and Shego both had trouble defeating Warmonga^[2].
When Bonnie goes to get her diploma, she shoves Ronald Rieger away before he can get his diploma. This would mean she would have taken Ronald's diploma before Barkin told her she had to go to summer school for missing his pop quiz.
Shego and Drakken becoming more than just business partners is alluded when Drakken's flower wraps them together in the end. Their very awkward reunion aboard Warhok's ship also hints at potential proof of a personal relationship, but both are questionable at best.
The four main buildings featured throughout the series in Middleton – The Possible's house, Middleton High, The Space Center, and Bueno Nacho – are all destroyed by the invasion.
- Ron's scooter is also destroyed. It crashed into one of the machines of destruction, and was destroyed. For most of their high-school years, it was the primary and only vehicle, which was owned by a Team Possible Member until Kim got the Sloth. Ron had it since the first chronological episode^[3] and back when him and Kim first met Dr. Drakken and Shego.
The coffee shop where all the villains are talking in the closing tag is the same shop where Kim, Ron, and a temporarily good Shego shared drinks, during the events involving Electronique's search for vengeance against Team Go ^[4].
DNAmy's adoring look at Monkey Fist's petrified body is a reference to her infatuation with him in Partners and Gorilla Fist.
Bonnie getting hit in the face with a volleyball by Kim could be seen as payback for the events of Homecoming Upset, where Bonnie rigged the votes so she would be Homecoming Queen instead of Kim and tried to steal Ron from Kim, even if it was done by accident.
- Additionally, Bonnie getting to spend summer school serves as karma for her rudeness throughout the entire series.

Notes

This episode, the series finale, aired exactly five years and three months after the series premiere on June 7, 2002.
If Kim was a Sophomore in 2002, the year the show debuted, then she and her class graduating as Seniors would be three years later making them the Class of 2005. Not, as some think, 2007 the year the show ended. Coincidentally, the TV movie, So the Drama, the show's intended finale, aired in 2005.

Errors

Drakken's flower petals repeatedly vanish between, and then re-sprout in, scenes throughout the episode. In the very first instance, however, he is imprisoned aboard Warhok's ship the entire time, and it is very unlikely the Lorwardians would have pulled them off for him.
At the end of the episode, when Kim and Ron finally graduate, Kim goes to hug her parents for a second time. Before the scene, she is in her very beat up graduation uniform. During and after it, she is in a brand new uniform.
In the episode, Gorilla Fist, DNAmy had not only performed genetic mutation on Monty giving him Monkey hands and feet, but also had already given herself gorilla hands and feet, but DNAmy is shown with normal human hands and feet instead of gorilla hands and feet in the two scenes below:
- When Dr. Drakken is receiving a medal for his part in saving the Earth
- In the Coffee shop
  - May not necessarily be an error. Since Monkey Fist could no longer run away from or reject her, her original reasoning for the gorilla limbs would be rendered mostly moot. Also, the process by which DNAmy gave herself the limbs was never detailed, so it might have been easily reversible, as her naked mole-man was in Downhill.
When Bonnie was about to get her diploma she was wearing the golden robes that only Valedictorians and Salutatorians wear. Meanwhile she was not seen as a speaker.
- Possibly a reference to the cords that all summa cum laude wear at some college graduations.
- Although not seen, Bonnie might have been scheduled to give a speech had the invasion not interrupted

Behind the Scenes

Cast & Crew

Executive Producers
- Mark McCorkle
- Bob Schooley
Story Editor
- Tom Hart
- Brian Swenlin
Writers
- Tom Hart
- Brian Swenlin
Art Director
- Alan Bodner
Line Producer
- Clay Renfroe
Voice Talent
- See Character List Above
Dialogue Director
- Lisa Schaffer
Voice Casting
- Lisa Schaffer
Storyboard
- Tom Bernardo
- Louie del Carmen
- Dave Knott
- Kyle Menke
- Adam van Wyk
- Dough Murphy
- Nick Fillipi
Timing Directors
- Jungja Kim-Wolf
- Soonjin Mooney
- Robert Treat
- Michael Lyman
Lead Character Design
- Stephen Silver
Character Design
- Celeste Moreno
Location Design
- Andy Ice
Prop Design
- Shayne Poindexter
- Ginny Hawes
Background Paint
- Nadia Vurbenova-Mouri
- Esther Kim
Color Stylists
- Allyn Conley
- Carol Beaker
Production Manager
- Steve Loter
Supervising Technical Director
- Alex Teslik III
Technical Directors
- Beat King
- Brian Cole
- Pamela May Palma
- Denise Wogatzke
- Jezreel Mann Carlos II
- Michael Tyau
- Bryan Deemer
- Dean Stanley
- Joseph Cop
Storyboard Revisions
- Frank Fu Min Jen
Continuity Coordinators
- Jim Finch
- Kitty Schoentag
Animation Production by
- Rough Draft Korea Co. Ltd.
- Starburst Animation Co. Ltd.
Film Editor
- Joseph Molinari
Assistant Film Editor
- Christine Haslett
Pre-Production Dialogue Editor
- Jim Garifi
Animatic Editor
- Pieter Kaufman
Scanners
- Shannon Fallis-Kane
- Sergio Armendariz
Track Reading
- Jim Garifi
Sound Designer
- Paca Thomas
Dialogue Editor
- Robbi Smith
Foley Mixers
- Mary Erstad
- Roy Braverman
Foley Artist
- Craig Ng
Sound Effects Editor
- Tim Gilmer
Digital Audio Transfer
- J. Lampinen
On-line Editor
- Keith Cook
Re-Recording Mixers
- Melissa Ellis
- Fil Brown
Post Production Supervisor
- Geri Bryan
Digital Coordinator
- Karen Wong
Post Production Coordinators
- Treasure Rawson
- Mark Bollinger
Record Machine Operator
- Michael Sokey
Production Coordinators
- Shawn Eddie
- Stacey Zimmerman
Production Associate
- Willie Sims
Production Secretary
- Linda Delizza-Kweens
Production Control
- Anna Boyadjian-Sigal
Talent Manager
- Aaron Drown
Script Coordinator
- Leona Beckert
Produced by
- Walt Disney Television Animation

Music

Score by
- Adam Berry
"Call Me, Beep Me! The Kim Possible Song"
- Written and Produced by
  - Cory Lerios
  - George Gabriel
- Performed by
  - Christina Milian
"This Is Our Year"
- Written and Produced by
  - Cory Lerious
  - George Gabriel
- Performed by
  - Drew Seeley
  - Kari Kimmel