How did Kim's parents get together?

["The Enduring Man-Child"]

Please forgive me for starting a thread on a question that's probably been asked a zillion times before.

I suppose we all assumed that Kim's Mom and Dad met at college (where else would a geek like him meet a girl like her???), but "Ill Suited" made it clear that they attended separate colleges--and since grad schools are even more specialized, you know they didn't attend the same one of those (Mr. Dr. P certainly didn't attend med school!), plus grad students don't have that much of a social life.

It really seems to me that the only place two such people could possibly hook up is college, but now that the series has nixed that idea, what are we to assume?

I'm drawing a blank here, folks.

[Whisper from the Shadows]

High school sweet hearts is my personal opinion. Farm boy hooks up with the pretty redhead down the road... cliche, but it works. We can guess that James grew up on the farm that his brother now owns (faily farms are quite common), and can anybody else imagine Mrs. Dr. Possible in tight "Daisy Duke" shorts *drools a little*.

[shameless self promotion]I wrote a story about them when they were younger called Skewed Memories.[/shameless self promotion]

[ninjanaco]

Not necessarily. They could have gone to grad school together, or maybe one of Anne's friends went to James' college, and visited the campus and met him and...

And the episode you're referring to, EMC, is "Clothes Minded," not "Ill-Suited." IS makes no mention of where James and Anne went to college.

["The Enduring Man-Child"]

ninjanaco said:

Not necessarily. They could have gone to grad school together, or maybe one of Anne's friends went to James' college, and visited the campus and met him and...

I don't think so. Rocket science and brain surgery are very specialized fields. I doubt they'd be taught at the same grad school, even if they were affiliated with the same university system.

I know . . . thinking too much!

And the episode you're referring to, EMC, is "Clothes Minded," not "Ill-Suited." IS makes no mention of where James and Anne went to college.

My bad. It's the one where Kim has to get a new mission outfit while simultaneously taking care of her college applications.

["The Enduring Man-Child"]

whisperfromtheshad said:

High school sweet hearts is my personal opinion. Farm boy hooks up with the pretty redhead down the road... cliche, but it works. We can guess that James grew up on the farm that his brother now owns (faily farms are quite common), and can anybody else imagine Mrs. Dr. Possible in tight "Daisy Duke" shorts *drools a little*.

[shameless self promotion]I wrote a story about them when they were younger called Skewed Memories.[/shameless self promotion]

I'll have to check your story out!

Of course there's the problem of Slim's accent being so different from James' and Nana's (and it's not even a Montana accent . . . sounds more like Texas). And certainly Anne doesn't sound like a country girl. But what would a country accent from Montana sound like anyway?

Anyway, I'm off to look at your fic!

[ninjanaco]

manchild said:

I don't think so. Rocket science and brain surgery are very specialized fields. I doubt they'd be taught at the same grad school, even if they were affiliated with the same university system.

Even if they didn't have the same grad school program, they could have been on the same campus or something...

[Twila Starla]

I'm under the impression that they met through their friends during college, one of Anne's buddies may have been dating one of James' friends (wouldn't it be funny if it was Drew?), so it's likely that they met each other at some point. That's how I've set it up my stories anyway.

[Whisper from the Shadows]

manchild said:

Of course there's the problem of Slim's accent being so different from James' and Nana's (and it's not even a Montana accent . . . sounds more like Texas). And certainly Anne doesn't sound like a country girl. But what would a country accent from Montana sound like anyway?

Anyway, I'm off to look at your fic!

Yeah, their accent is VERY non-Montana. I spent a few weeks up there this summer for work, and they do drawl a little bit. And actually, most people are starting to loose their accents (easier travel, global entertainment, etc...).

And hope you enjoy it.

["The Enduring Man-Child"]

whisperfromtheshad said:

manchild said:

Of course there's the problem of Slim's accent being so different from James' and Nana's (and it's not even a Montana accent . . . sounds more like Texas). And certainly Anne doesn't sound like a country girl. But what would a country accent from Montana sound like anyway?

Anyway, I'm off to look at your fic!

Yeah, their accent is VERY non-Montana. I spent a few weeks up there this summer for work, and they do drawl a little bit. And actually, most people are starting to loose their accents (easier travel, global entertainment, etc...).

And hope you enjoy it.

Turns out I'd read once before.

But that didn't stop me from reading it again!!!

[ninjanaco]

Also, there's a problem with the whole "HS sweethearts" theory - "Attack of the Killer Bebes." In it, James clearly states that he "wasn't exactly a ladies' man" in college; moreover, had James been HS sweethearts with Anne, then why couldn't he take her to the dance, thus eliminating (at least one) the reason for Drew to create his Bebes? (Of course, James and Anne could have broken up and later gotten back together, but still...)

The revelation from "Clothes Minded" that the two went to seperate undergrad colleges doesn't exclude the possibility of them meeting and getting together in college - given that they attended college in the same metropolitan area (the Tri-City area), it's not excessively unlikely that they could have crossed paths somehow during that time (random meeting at a bar, meeting old HS/undergrad friends and the other's campus, etc.)

My favorite theory is that James met Anne at the very dance for which Drew made the first Bebes (sort of an irony thing.) While CM makes that somewhat unlikely, it still could have happened - as mentioned/implied before, Anne could have been visiting old friends at that college.

Thinking about this topic, I came up with a crossover theory: James, disappointed that his then-girlfriend, a certain Samantha Carter, ran off to the Air Force, walks into a bar where sitting next to him is a particular redhead, and...

(OK, so that might contradict Stargate canon - or not - but still...)

["The Enduring Man-Child"]

Your theory of James meeting Anne at the very dance Drew made the Beebees for sounds plausible.

I was thinking that the "Clothes Minded" sitch basically punches a hole in stories like those of Bubbahotek, who has them meeting while attending the same college (I believe). But into whose fic continuities did season four not throw a monkey wrench?

[Firelady Nemo]

i thought it would be after colllege, like when they started their jobs...

["The Enduring Man-Child"]

nemo said:

i thought it would be after colllege, like when they started their jobs...

Doubtful. He works at the space center, she works at the hospital. Unless she operated on him or something (say . . . !) then the most likely place for them to have met was college, and now the writers have thrown a big fat monkey wrench into that scenario.

[eclogite]

manchild said:

Your theory of James meeting Anne at the very dance Drew made the Beebees for sounds plausible.

I was thinking that the "Clothes Minded" sitch basically punches a hole in stories like those of Bubbahotek, who has them meeting while attending the same college (I believe). But into whose fic continuities did season four not throw a monkey wrench?

At one time it was not uncommon for colleges that were near one another to throw mixers so that people from the schools could meet one another. Since both were graduate students it is feasible that they also went to professional meetings and met at one of those (The professional societies I belong to all have parties and other social events during their meetings, many, like GSA have people from a wide variety of disciplines in attendence).

[tucsoncoyote]

eclogite said:

At one time it was not uncommon for colleges that were near one another to throw mixers so that people from the schools could meet one another. Since both were graduate students it is feasible that they also went to professional meetings and met at one of those (The professional societies I belong to all have parties and other social events during their meetings, many, like GSA have people from a wide variety of disciplines in attendence).

Well if i could interject hereeclogite, I think that maybe what may have happened is this and this is just a theory.

What if the future Mrs. Anne Possible, and some 'other' M.I.S.T (Middleton Institute of Science and Tech) undergrad (Someone other than James Possible and his group) in a different science section, had met at one of these 'mixers' and initially the future Mrs. Possible was interested in this first guy. But then the guy messes up big time and gets expelled from M.I.S.T. for some reason, (Perhaps destorying most of the campus in the process by accident).

Let's then say because of this the future Mrs. Possible and this guy break up and she ends up in Mr. Possible's arms..

I like to call this sort of "I had a boyfriend and he turned out to be a REAL JERK!" scenario.. Does it sound Familiar? It should.. Refer to So the Drama.

In the So the Drama scenario: Kim and Ron are good friends, Kim wants a guy she can date, and is forced to make a decision due to peer pressure. Then Erik drops in out of the blue and impresses her with his charm and wit.. Kim is interested in Erik, and even though she's friends with Ron, She's more interested in Erik. Ron of course upsets the cart and tells kim about this evil characters (Drakken)'s action. Kim believes him and follows him rather then Erik. Erik is upset as Kim leaves with Ron. Ron and Kim stop evil, but in the process Kim finds out that Erik is a jerk and an evil one at that. Ron admits his feelings to Kim, and we all know the rest.


In fact I've been writing a fan fiction that suggests that happening. Basically it's typical scenario that runs like this:

1. Boy Meets Girl at Mixer and likes him, and thus starts to date him.

2. Girl is impressed by boy's intelligence, but the boy is a bit cocky, so the girl tells boy to be careful about what he is doing in his field, and the Boy dismisses it, which in turn,

3. Causes the Boy to make a major mess of things by accident, causing some sort of major disaster to happen within the school (and the surrounding neighborhoods), and thus boy gets expelled from college (unlike Lipsky who dropped out), and thus,

4. Girl doesn't like what happened because Boy did it (Even though it was an accident), and Boy and Girl have an arguement. Girl dumps guy or gets dumped by him because of said argument And by getting dumped by boy because of said incident, girl ends up crying and running into the arms of another man calms her down and in fact changes her feelings from the old boyfriend to the New one whom she is impressed with and falls in love with to get married and have kids.

After all Think of it as the counter to the Tag Line, "So NOT the Drama." For this case it might have been the drama that set things in motion that caused Kim's birth (Think of it sort of the Batman/Joker Syndrome, Evil Character causes problem for Good Character, then Good Character causes evil character to become even more evil.

So that's what I am thinking.. Anne Possible meets some guy at a science mixer and likes him. She corresponds to him, and even starts dating him for a while say a year or so, but after a while she sees some cockiness and possibly arrogance in the man, and warns him not to do something stupid (In my example, doing an experiment which could be considered dangerous and unethical). The Man dismisses it, and in doing so causes some sort of major disaster to happen on the campus (or the surrounding neighborhoods or both), which is more damaging than even JT Possible could conceive (Like Pinky Joe (The New Ron), or blowing up his first Lab (Again refer to Clothes Minded).

In doing so, Man gets expelled from College for his dangerous and unethical experiments and ways, Anne Possible is upset/angry at guy and during an heated argument between her and him, she dumps him or he dumps her, causing Anne to get upset and cry, and as she starts to leave the campus practically in tears, Anne runs into Mr. P, who calms her down, impresses her with his knowledge and 'badda-boom-badda-bing!'....

At least that's my theory on this.

Tucsoncoyote

["The Enduring Man-Child"]

All very interesting, Coyote. I was going to say that Mr. Dr. P's "evil double" was Dr. D. and that the only catastrophe I could recall at their campus was caused by Mr. Dr. P (the aforementioned Pinky Joe), but you defused those arguments. Besides, why shouldn't fan fic authors introduce even more evil "anti-Possibles" than Drakken? After all, we don't have the show any more! (Rats!)

Thank you for your input. You've certainly put a great deal of thought into this and I look forward to reading your fic when you get it posted (or now, if it's already posted!).

[Whisper from the Shadows]

Only problem I see with that scenario... Mr. Dr. P DID blow up half the science department. I can't remember the episode, but he said something about a power suit with functional blaster guns for the psychology lab rat...

Anywho, other than that little tidbit, I like your thoughts.

[Loser7]

I always envisioned one to be an activist and the other to initially have pursued a law degree and been all corperate.

I like opposites attract even though it doesn't work in real life :D

[Scoutcraft Piratess]

Blind date.

[Ot@ru]

Their parents introduce them...