Monkey Fist Strikes
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| “Monkey Fist Strikes” | |
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| Kim Possible episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 13 |
| Written by | Gary Sperling |
| Production no. | 103 |
| Original airdate | September 13, 2002 |
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Monkey Fist Strikes is the 13th episode (3rd produced) of the TV series Kim Possible. It marks the first appearance of the Lord Montgomery Fiske, better known as the villain Monkey Fist and the first reference to mystical monkey powers. It is also the episode in which recurring family member cousin Larry, and his non-recurring mother aunt June, are introduced.
[edit] Plot Sypnosis
The episode starts out with Kim half way up a mountain, saving a baby eagle in a national park. Things get a little hairy when one of her pitons gives out, but she is more than ready to chalk a little free fall up to experience when she realizes that her climbing adventure means that she gets to avoid "family game night" with her cousin Larry; a nerdy roleplay geek whom she has been forced to play with since the age of three.
Unfortunately, while Kim escapes family game night with Larry, Ron doesn't escape getting to hear about it. Fortunately for him, Kim is (eventually) forced to cut short her telling of why she doesn't like her cousin by Wade, who interrupts with a mission. Apparently, the famous archaeologist Monkey Fist has located a rare and precious artifact in the depths of Cambodia, and he needs her help to retrieve it.
The pair arrive in Cambodia via parachute, and Ron quickly take a dislike to both the mission and the client. The mission because it involves an ancient temple covered in carvings of monkeys (of which Ron is phobic), and the client, because he has an apparent affinity for anything that can pick up things with its feet.
Brushing Ron's concerns about Fiske to one side, Kim sets about retrieving the artifact; a jade monkey statue which Lord Fiske tells her will, according to legend, generate Mystical Monkey Powers when properly aligned with its three sister statues.
After negotiating the temple's traps, Kim retrieved the statue and sets up camp for the night. Only to have her rest disturbed by a masked ninja whom, after a brief bout of Kung Fu, makes off with the statue. Worse still, when Kim arrives home she finds out that she didn't escape cousin Larry after all. She's been invited for dinner at her aunts house at the weekend. An engagement which she just can't break.
Meanwhile, back in Lord Fiske's manner house, the truth is revealed. The ninja who stole the statue was none-other than Fiske himself, whom had arranged for Kim to recover, and lose, the statue in order to throw suspicion off of himself. More than this, Fiske reveals that has spent much of his family's fortune on a radical program of genetic splicing that turned into a monkey-man creature that, in his own words, violates both nature and science.
Unaware of the above, Kim decides to bail on her dinner with cousin Larry, and to send one of Wade's new hologram projections in her place, so that she can seek further advice from Lord Fiske about the stolen statue.
Thinking that Kim has come because she's discovered his deception, Lord Fiske reveals his Monkey mutation to her, and activates the statues right in front of her. Becoming the magically empowered villain Monkey Fist. However, it turns out that Fiske isn't the only one with a secret. Apparently, Kim didn't bale on her dinner with Larry after all. Kim isn't Kim at all. Desiring to field trial his hologram technology, Wade has sent Ron off on a mission with a holographic Kim. One who can't defend Ron against the marauding mystic monkey ninja.
Facing certain doom at the hands of Monkey Fist, Ron acts on a piece of rather cryptic "geek" advice, given to him by Larry over the Kimunicator, and dives between the monkey statues. Gaining Mystic Monkey powers, and an instinctive knowledge of Monkey Kung Fu of his own.
Now possessing powers of his own, Ron is able to stand up against Monkey Fist, repeatedly dodging his blows, unsuccessfully trying to get in a few, and managing to delivery a tickling to his foe. However, Monkey Fist remains the more experienced fighter and it was only a matter of time before Monkey Fist bested him, but all is not lost. Rufus is still free, and he goes after the Monkey statues. Knocking each of the Jade Monkeys from their plinth, Rufus forces Monkey Fist to catch them, leaving him unable to defend himself from a Monkey Powered mid air spinning kick from Ron which both knocks the villain out of the fight and destroys the statues.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode was originally intended to be the episode in which Ron's fear on monkeys was introduced. However, due to differences between production order and airtime, his fear was first screened in the episode Sink or Swim.
- Ron's mystical monkey powers resurface in the Season 2 episode Exchange. [1]
- Running gag - Ron loses his pants while scaling a cliff face.
- Running gag - Ron's fear of Monkeys
- Ride - Unnamed Marine Colonel offering help in return for a tipoff about an assault.
- Jade is an exceptionally tough substance. It would have been impossible for the jade monkey statues to be destroyed the way that they were in this episode.
[edit] References
| Kim Possible | |
| Team Possible: | Kim Possible | Ron Stoppable | Rufus | Wade | Monique |
| Villains: | Dr. Drakken | Shego | Monkey Fist | Duff Killigan | The Seniors | Dementor | DNAmy | Bebes | Gill | Motor Ed | Camille Leon | Adrena Lynn | Warmonga | Zorpox | Other minor villains |
| Family: | Mr. Dr. P. | Mrs. Dr. P. | Jim and Tim | Mr. and Mrs. Stoppable | Joss Possible | Slim Possible | Other family members |
| Supporting: | Bonnie Rockwaller | Steve Barkin | Bobo | Other minor allies | Other supporting characters |
| Locations: | Middleton | Bueno Nacho | Club Banana | Smarty Mart | Camp Wannaweep |
| Other: | Cuddle Buddies |
| Episodes & films: | List of episodes | A Sitch In Time | So The Drama |
| Other Media | |
| Soundtrack | Kim Possible soundtrack |
| Video games: | Revenge of Monkey Fist | Drakken's Demise | Team Possible | Kimmunicator | What's The Switch | Global Gemini |
