Post by Molloy on Mar 17, 2005 14:27:51 GMT -5
This is my first post, and I am so glad to see that there are so many KP fans out there!
Let me tell you a little about myself. I'm in my thirties, married with two small girls and I do not have television. That is to say, I have a television set, but I do not get cable, satellite or even antenna. It's not that I tihnk tv is evil, I just feel better not having it around. We do own a dvd player and VHS, so my family does watch movies (I am a bit of a movie buff -- movies by David Lynch and Werner Herzog are among my favorites). It's really the commercials I have a problem with. In any case, I am not bringing this up to convert anyone to give up television. Instead, I want to illustrate how much I like the KP by being still being a fan without having direct access to the show.
I own the KP DVD's and a friend at work tapes episodes nightly on the Disney channel.
My wife thinks I'm fairly obsessed with the show and, to be honest, she is not too far off the mark. Right now, my entertainment trinity consists of the novels of James joyce, the music of Willie Nelson, and Kim Possible.
Needless to say, being a thirty-something into a kid's cartoon show does not make me the coolest guy at work. People who thought I was eccentric before now have proof that I am stone cold crazy.
But hey, what's the point of living if you can't be the fool in other people's anecdotes?
To briefly explain why I like the show so much, it is because it is an antidote for all the incredibly lame saturday morning cartoons of my youth. I wish they had had cartoons this good back then.
I have always agreed with Matt Groening when he said in one of his "Life in Hell" books that Saturday Morning Cartoons were proof that adults hated children. Cartoons on Saturday morning during the early eighties were witless, melodramatic, unfunny--merely awful. I wish KP had been around when I was suffering through tripe like Pac-Man, Teen Wolf, and those wretched Smurfs. Why did garbage like Scooby-Doo have to stoop to using a laugh-track to convince kids that it was in any way amusing.
Needless to say, I think KP is funny. Not only that, but its characters are aware of the strangeness of their situations. The self-reflexive humor is there but not to the extent that it spoils the story. The show also wisely sidesteps melodrama or stereotypes as substitutes for imagination.
Of course, the best part of the show is Kim herself. A girl who can defeat the maniacal and well-funded bad guys just on her own ingenuity and mild athletic prowess--no superpowers needed.
The first episode I saw was "Attack of the Killer Bebes." And I must say the fact that her archenemy was a college friend of her dad's and didn't know they were related really won me over.
However, I did became a stone cold fanatic until I purchased (sight unseen) Sitch in Time. Great "touchstones" (not exactly plot highpoints, but highlights that demonstrate the foundation of whimsy and delight at the shows center) are Rufus 3000 offering Kim a cookie ("It's peanut butter.") following her battle with Shego, toddler Ron's confession that he has a female invisible friend named Rufus, Kim's dad being thankful that although she has been lost in the timestream for years she is at least not out on a date with "some boy," and the fact that toddler Kim is scared of the villians and doesn't have the courage to fight back until they start picking on someone else.
Really great, charming stuff. I just hope they release all the episodes in series length sets soon.
Res ipsa loquitor
Let me tell you a little about myself. I'm in my thirties, married with two small girls and I do not have television. That is to say, I have a television set, but I do not get cable, satellite or even antenna. It's not that I tihnk tv is evil, I just feel better not having it around. We do own a dvd player and VHS, so my family does watch movies (I am a bit of a movie buff -- movies by David Lynch and Werner Herzog are among my favorites). It's really the commercials I have a problem with. In any case, I am not bringing this up to convert anyone to give up television. Instead, I want to illustrate how much I like the KP by being still being a fan without having direct access to the show.
I own the KP DVD's and a friend at work tapes episodes nightly on the Disney channel.
My wife thinks I'm fairly obsessed with the show and, to be honest, she is not too far off the mark. Right now, my entertainment trinity consists of the novels of James joyce, the music of Willie Nelson, and Kim Possible.
Needless to say, being a thirty-something into a kid's cartoon show does not make me the coolest guy at work. People who thought I was eccentric before now have proof that I am stone cold crazy.
But hey, what's the point of living if you can't be the fool in other people's anecdotes?
To briefly explain why I like the show so much, it is because it is an antidote for all the incredibly lame saturday morning cartoons of my youth. I wish they had had cartoons this good back then.
I have always agreed with Matt Groening when he said in one of his "Life in Hell" books that Saturday Morning Cartoons were proof that adults hated children. Cartoons on Saturday morning during the early eighties were witless, melodramatic, unfunny--merely awful. I wish KP had been around when I was suffering through tripe like Pac-Man, Teen Wolf, and those wretched Smurfs. Why did garbage like Scooby-Doo have to stoop to using a laugh-track to convince kids that it was in any way amusing.
Needless to say, I think KP is funny. Not only that, but its characters are aware of the strangeness of their situations. The self-reflexive humor is there but not to the extent that it spoils the story. The show also wisely sidesteps melodrama or stereotypes as substitutes for imagination.
Of course, the best part of the show is Kim herself. A girl who can defeat the maniacal and well-funded bad guys just on her own ingenuity and mild athletic prowess--no superpowers needed.
The first episode I saw was "Attack of the Killer Bebes." And I must say the fact that her archenemy was a college friend of her dad's and didn't know they were related really won me over.
However, I did became a stone cold fanatic until I purchased (sight unseen) Sitch in Time. Great "touchstones" (not exactly plot highpoints, but highlights that demonstrate the foundation of whimsy and delight at the shows center) are Rufus 3000 offering Kim a cookie ("It's peanut butter.") following her battle with Shego, toddler Ron's confession that he has a female invisible friend named Rufus, Kim's dad being thankful that although she has been lost in the timestream for years she is at least not out on a date with "some boy," and the fact that toddler Kim is scared of the villians and doesn't have the courage to fight back until they start picking on someone else.
Really great, charming stuff. I just hope they release all the episodes in series length sets soon.
Res ipsa loquitor
