Graduation (Kim Possible)

"Graduation (Kim Possible)"

Graduation is the two-part series finale of the TV series Kim Possible .

Plot

Part 1

The episode starts off with Kim and Ron on their way to spoil another one of Drakken's plots. This time, Drakken is located somewhere in some snowy mountains. Ron is excited for graduation- mainly, because there's no way that he can lose his pants while wearing a gown. Meanwhile, Drakken is busy preparing his latest world domination plot: killer plants. Apparently, he will be able to control the world by commanding an army of mutant plants. He has a backpack thing full of green goo which he can use to shoot out mutant plants. Just then, Kim and Ron arrive. Drakken tests out his new device, shooting out a bunch of green goo... which blossoms into a pretty tree full of flowers. Nothing evil about it. Frustrated, Drakken commands Shego to "do what you do!" as he reconfigures his backpack. Shego and Kim procede to fight. Drakken finally fixes his backpack- only to find that Rufus has tied the hose part of the backpack up, rendering it useless. Shego then crashes into Drakken, sending him into one of the huge towers of green goo behind him. It all spills out, leaving Drakken's lair bursting with flowers. The goo also mutates Drakken... growing pretty, large petals out of his neck. Not that frightening. Kim and Ron escape amidst all of the confusion and head back to Middleton.

Later, Ron is working at Smarty Mart. Seeing Barkin, he starts bragging about how perfect his life currently is. He's the star of the football team, he's dating the most popular girl in school, and he's about to graduate. Barkin then remarks that as a senior, he used to be just like Ron- but after graduation, his life went downhill. He warns Ron that nothing can last forever, and that after graduation Ron's life will also head to downhill. Sightly upset, Ron then heads over to Kim's house. There, he finds her sifting through a mountain of college acceptance letters. While Kim has been getting them for weeks, Ron hasn't even gotten one letter yet. This, combined with what Barkin said earlier, freaks Ron out and he leaves.

Dr. Possible (Kim's dad) is golfing with his friends and brother at the Middleton Country Club. While there, he sees what he assumes to be vandalism on one part of the lawn. The camera then zooms out, and it is revealed that a large, mysterious insignia has been burned into the turf.

When Dr. Possible heads home, he and Kim discover (via the news) that the strange insignia has been burned into golf courses worldwide. Concluding that golf courses must equal Duff Killigan, Kim grabs Ron and heads out to Killigan's lair (Pun: Killigan's Island). There, they discover that Duff is not the one behind the symbols- in fact, one has been burned into Duff's very own lawn. Strangely, Wade can't seem to get a good signal to talk to Kim. Since he can't arrange a ride, he sends Kim and Ron back to Middleton via plane. At the airport, Kim notices that her graduation has made the cover of a magazine. Ron's face is halfway in the picture on the magazine- causing him to remark that he's already being pushed out of the picture. Ron also witnesses a couple sadly parting as one leaves on a trip, complete with a slow-mo focus on their hands as they detach.

Back at school, Kim and Ron talk with Monique about their excitement for graduation. Or at least, Kim talks- Ron is quiet. It's almost the end of the day, and Barkin has been called in to supervise the seniors' last hour of high school. Felix, who is the valedictorian, asks Kim to say a few words at graduation. She agrees. During the period, the lights start to flicker. However, Barkin dismisses it as a lame attempt at a senior prank by Ron. The last few seconds of school begin to count down... but just as the clock reaches the 12, the power goes out! Barkin then gives his own rendition of a school bell, and the students rush out, finally free from high school.

After school, Kim and Ron head to Bueno Nacho for some food. There, Ron finally loses it and confides his fears to Kim. She reassures him that graduation is not "the end of the world," but Ron isn't completely convinced. Kim then heads home, and she confides to her mother that she too is scared about graduation. Her mom in turn reassures her. Outside, Jim and Tim successfully launch a rocket satellite they have built. They plan to use it to spy on Kim during her dates.

It turns out that Kim's Nana had flown in for the occasion. Kim's whole family is there to see her out of high school. She goes upstairs to change into her graduation robe. Through a cute montage, we also see Ron getting ready for graduation. After Kim is fully dressed- with her hair looking amazing, by the way- she and her family head off to graduation. A few seconds after their car pulls out... an alien space ship crashes down onto their house, destroying it!

Ron is fighting his jitters in the bathroom at school right before graduation. Sensei appears to him, telling him that his greatest challenge will soon come and that his powers will blossom in adversaty (Ron misunderstands this as a warning about Drakken's flower plot). Unfortunately, Ron doesn't understand the warning and heads off to join Kim for graduation.

Kim and Ron meet up. Kim tells Ron that she has a confession to make. But before she can, she and Ron are separated as the seniors sit in alphabetical order.

Back in Drakken's lair, Drakken is trying furiously to rid himself of his mutant petals. Every time he pulls one out, though, they pop back up. Suddenly, an alien space ship crashes down into the lair. A beam of light shoots out, and Drakken is lifted up, up, up...

At graduation, Kim is trying to tell Ron something, but he can't hear her. She is then called up by Felix to speak at the podium. But just as she begins, a ray of light shoots down from the sky at her. Just like Drakken, she is lifted up. Ron reaches up to try and grab onto her, and he does- but he slips and tumbles to the ground as Kim gets pulled into a giant alien spaceship floating in the sky.

Kim finds herself inside of an alien spaceship, held captive with Drakken. It turns out Warmonga and her friend, Warhok, have kidnapped them. She kidnapped Drakken for deceiving her, and Kim for defeating her. She and Warhok plan to get revenge by taking control of Earth, Kim and Drakken's home planet.

Part 2

Everyone (sans Kim, of course) has gathered in the 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 took out the world's electricity, and then proceeded to attack with tripod-like robots that are indestructible. Ron and Dr. Possible rush off to find a rocket to rescue Kim with.

When Ron and Dr. P reach the Middleton Space Center, they are confronted by Shego who saves them from a tripod. Shego joins the two as they race inside, using a generator to power the place. When Dr. P informs Shego that he 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.

As Shego and Ron approach Warmonga's ship in space, they don't know how to get inside. Luckily, Ron figures out how they can enter through the garbage chute. Inside the ship, Kim and Drakken are left alone and imprisoned. Drakken discovers that his mutation can sprout tendrils which obey his commands. Drakken then uses the tendrils to help him and Kim escape. 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 turns the switch off, and the ship begins to plummet. Realizing what has happened, Warmonga and Warhok run over to the four and procede to fight them. During the fight, Warmonga makes the mistake that Shego and Drakken are a couple - a claim which Shego furiously disputes. A little too furiously. Warmonga then wonders why Shego felt so threatened by Warmonga the first time the alien appeared, and why she jetted into space this time to save him. Before Shego can object again, Ron uses his space suit to blast off and flies off, carrying Drakken. Shego does the same with Kim. Warmonga and Warhok follow on their own gliders. Everyone escapes the ship just as it enters 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 Mystical Monkey Powers to save Kim. Ron uses his powers to their full potential for the first time, flinging Warmonga and Warhok into space, where they collide into their spaceship and explode in an incredible display of power. Everyone is left safe.

Graduation finally commences. As Bonnie goes to get her diploma, Barkin reveals that since she skipped the last week of classes, she failed a pop quiz and was short one credit. She can't graduate and is forced to go to summer school! Luckily, her boyfriend Junior is there to help her. Ron and Kim both graduate smoothly- except for Ron ditching the traditional robes and instead wearing his space suit. Barkin displays regret that Kim is going...until she comments that atleast he still has the tweebs (who are savaging the wreckage of the crashed ship...and during the process, end up destroying Barkin's car). Kim tells Ron that the confession she had been talking about earlier was that she, too, was scared for the future. Ron finally comes to accept that he and Kim will face the future together.

The following things all happen in an ending montage: After graduation, Kim and Ron head off to a beach party. Everyone is having fun - except Bonnie, who is studying for summer school. The beach party is briefly interrupted by an enraged Barkin chasing Jim and Tim Possible (one of their newly built inventions backfired and blew up his brand new spare car). At the UN, Drakken is honored for saving the world, and he seems to like being a hero for once. Shego is with him, and his plant tendrils reach out and hug her romantically. While Kim and Ron were in the car driving in the sky Kim "I told you graduation wasn't the end of the world", and they kiss deeply, as they go to the moon. And... roll credits.

During the credits, we see a cafe where all of Kim Possible's former foes are sitting. Drakken is talking to Professor Dementor, who comments how ironic it is that Drakken was horrible at being evil, but great at being good (The first time Drakken comes up with a successful plan, it's for the good of the world.). Dementor then asks about why Drakken is blue. We hear Drakken say how "it was a Tuesday" before he is cut off by the show ending. Because of this being the show's finale, we'll never know that how Drakken's skin color change to blue.

Character Returns (Other than Regulars)

Family

• Nana Possible
• Slim Possible
• Mr. and Mrs. Stoppable
• Hana Stoppable

Friends

• Felix Renton
• Zita Flores (non-speaking) as Felix's girlfriend
• Tara the Cheerleader (non-speaking)
• Ron Rieger
• Arty Smarty
• Britina
• Sensei

Adversaries (Other than the Main Ones)

• Señor Senior Senior
• Señor Senior Junior
• Duff Killigan
• DNAmy
• Monkey Fist (still in his stone state)
• Adrena Lynn
• Camille Leon and her cat Debutante
• Professor Dementor
• Hank Perkins

Trivia

• The first and only time Drakken comes up with a successful plan. It makes him a hero and not a villain and showered with world acclaim. So in a sense he does conquer the world.
• Ron uses his full Mystical Monkey Powers for the first time ever.
• The second time villains are "killed off". (Monkey Fist was turned into stone.)
• Neither Yori, Josh Mankey, the Temp, Larry, nor Joss Possible appear in this episode.

Character revelations

• It is revealed that Kim's Mother's name is Anne, which is also Kim's Middle name.

Goofs

• After Drakken crashes into the tubes holding tons of his mutant plant formula, we see a large amount of it spill out onto him and stain his gloves and outfit. The camera zooms in on his face as he rants, but when it zooms out again, he doesn't have even half the amount as before.

• After Ron receives his diploma and hugs his parents, the shot zooms out and shows Kim hugging her parents, her hair messy, robes torn, sash tied around her waist, and without a mortarboard. However, when the shot switches to Kim and Monique hugging in celebration, Kim's hair is neatly fixed, her robes are back to their original state, her sash is around her shoulders, and she is wearing her mortarboard .

• Towards the end of the episode, we see Ron Rieger in his normal attire (a green jacket, green pants, purple shirt, and green hat) helping Jim and Tim with their latest experiment (the experiment that blew up Barkin's car). During the shot where he first helps them and blows up Barkin's second car, Rieger is in his normal attire, but when the shot switches to him, Jim, and Tim running from Barkin, Rieger's clothes have changed to light shades of blue and gray.