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'Kim' goes 4th to save world
Ashley Tisdale joins Kim (l.).
KIM POSSIBLE. Tonight at 8, Disney Channel.
Making up for lost time, the Disney Channel's "Kim Possible," which has been in reruns for more than a year, returns for a fourth season tonight at 8.
As Kim herself, the intrepid high-schooler and spy, might ask, "So what's the sitch?"
The sitch - situation, for us older viewers - is that "Kim Possible," unlike many animated series, acknowledges the passage of time. Therefore, Kim (voice provided by Christy Carlson Romano), who multitasks between being a cheerleader and saving the world (take that, "Heroes"), is now a senior.
And since we last saw her, Kim and her longtime sidekick, Ron Stoppable (Will Friedle), have advanced their relationship. They're boyfriend and girlfriend now. The other major change in Kim's life is that her bright brothers have skipped enough grades to be reassigned as freshmen at her school.
Disney sent out two of tonight's four episodes for preview - the opener (at 8), built around the new relationship between Kim and Ron, and the episode to be shown at 9, which features Ashley Tisdale, one of the stars of Disney's "High School Musical."
That episode takes aim at several targets: awards-show gift bags, plastic surgery and sexy young singers and celebrities, from a blond pop tart named Britina to a blonder Paris Hilton type, "the most shallow person on Earth," called Camille Leone. (As in "Chameleon.")
As for the first episode, it has Ron confusing reality with dreams and wondering, when he wakes up in the middle of the night, what's really happened. Did he and Kim kiss? Yes, she tells him.
"How about you water-skiing over a shark?" he asks.
That's an in-joke aimed at the Fonzie-skis-over-the-shark episode of "Happy Days," which inspired the "jump the shark" phrase describing when a show has gone too far.
"Kim Possible" isn't even close to jumping the shark. And it's one of those rare children's shows that's fun for adults to watch as well. And with such an empowering central female role, it's a series that's one of the Disney Channel's more effortlessly likable franchises.
Originally published on February 9, 2007
'Kim' goes 4th to save world
Ashley Tisdale joins Kim (l.).
KIM POSSIBLE. Tonight at 8, Disney Channel.
Making up for lost time, the Disney Channel's "Kim Possible," which has been in reruns for more than a year, returns for a fourth season tonight at 8.
As Kim herself, the intrepid high-schooler and spy, might ask, "So what's the sitch?"
The sitch - situation, for us older viewers - is that "Kim Possible," unlike many animated series, acknowledges the passage of time. Therefore, Kim (voice provided by Christy Carlson Romano), who multitasks between being a cheerleader and saving the world (take that, "Heroes"), is now a senior.
And since we last saw her, Kim and her longtime sidekick, Ron Stoppable (Will Friedle), have advanced their relationship. They're boyfriend and girlfriend now. The other major change in Kim's life is that her bright brothers have skipped enough grades to be reassigned as freshmen at her school.
Disney sent out two of tonight's four episodes for preview - the opener (at 8), built around the new relationship between Kim and Ron, and the episode to be shown at 9, which features Ashley Tisdale, one of the stars of Disney's "High School Musical."
That episode takes aim at several targets: awards-show gift bags, plastic surgery and sexy young singers and celebrities, from a blond pop tart named Britina to a blonder Paris Hilton type, "the most shallow person on Earth," called Camille Leone. (As in "Chameleon.")
As for the first episode, it has Ron confusing reality with dreams and wondering, when he wakes up in the middle of the night, what's really happened. Did he and Kim kiss? Yes, she tells him.
"How about you water-skiing over a shark?" he asks.
That's an in-joke aimed at the Fonzie-skis-over-the-shark episode of "Happy Days," which inspired the "jump the shark" phrase describing when a show has gone too far.
"Kim Possible" isn't even close to jumping the shark. And it's one of those rare children's shows that's fun for adults to watch as well. And with such an empowering central female role, it's a series that's one of the Disney Channel's more effortlessly likable franchises.
Originally published on February 9, 2007
