Which season 4 episode would you ax?

[RadiantBeam]

For just season 4, I have to go with the crowd and say Grande Size Me. I'm relieved I caught that episode on whim and never taped it.

[HAL-9000 the S.O.B.]

I voted Big Bother, I am not a big Hana fan

[CJS: The Last Fender Bender]

Aug 26, 2008 13:36:16 GMT -5 HAL-9000 the S.O.B. said:

I voted Big Bother, I am not a big Hana fan

And thus only three episodes on the list have yet to receive any votes.

As to Grande Size Me, I actually watched it for the first time in a while with RD and Redquill last week. I'm almost tempted to remove it from my ax list... almost.

It's the subtleties that really sell it. I didn't even realized Kim deboned the chicken before she threw it at Ron. ;D Kurt and Co. throwing in all those side gags and lines saves the episode for me.

[HAL-9000 the S.O.B.]

GSM could have been so much better, they could have roked with this if they gave it half a chance

[eoraptor]

GSM was indeed foul... but it redeemed itself with the PSA at the end and the obligatory Hulk and pants jokes.

Honestly, I'd kill Graduation... It just ended on a LOT of bad notes. We get token appearances like trotting out Felix and Zita simply to have them there after they were back-seated alternately by Monique and Kim as friends and/or lovers. And Honestly, why have Slim there without Joss? Likewise Sensei without Yori?

Worse still, of course, is Ron stealing the entire show as he did through a big chunk of season 4. I gots no problem with Ron panicking, manning up for the final episode... but Kim Possible is the show, not Ron Stoppable, so Kim is the one who is supposed to save the day, get the guy, the closing lines, and have it all in THE END. And of course, as a result, Disney gets to dance around the fact that a good guy killed someone. (and "they were aliens" is not a valid excuse)

All in All, the episode smacks of fan service and serving too many masters

BUT... since Graduation is not a choice, I'd have to axe Homecoming Upset... While Bonnie and Junior work together well in theory; the execution was almost entirely out of left field, and when the big deal should have been Ron and Kim at their big senior dance (which never happened as prom, homecoming, or anything else) it instead eliminates SSS as a great character, back seating him to Junior's contrived plot. And even though it's supposed to happen early in the season, it's never readdressed or expanded on in the show, except in a flippant remark at the end of Graduation.

:::edit:::

On further reflection, I might switch this around and make HU my second choice and put Cupid Effect in there at number one on the hit list. I mean... we basically have Wade making a date-rape ray, Ron going above and beyond the call of doofus (if you thought he acted like a moron in GSM, even more how could he possibly buy the lincoln look as good?) And Disney going the cliche route of putting together the show's only two african american characters despite a decent sized age difference. Beyond that, Suddenly Junior has lost interest in Bonnie, only to pick her up again in Graduation? there's a plot hole you could drive the Kepler through.