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"The New Ron"
Kim Possible episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 3
Written by	Mark Palmer
Production code	105
Original air date	June 7 2002
Guest appearances
Ricardo Montalban, Nestor Carbonell,

The New Ron is the 3rd episode (5th produced) of the TV series Kim Possible. It is notable for introducing the recurring villains Señor Senior Senior and Señor Senior Junior, as well as the stylist François.

Plot synopsis

The episode opens with Ron reluctantly receiving a haircut from famed French stylist François. At first, Ron isn't too happy, feeling that his new look disrupts his essential "Ronness". Though he soon changes his tune when his haircut attracts the attention of popular senior Amelia.

Ron's elation at being noticed is short lived. Without warning, hair develops certain cowlick-ish tendencies. In need of emergency hair care, Ron cons Kim into calling in a favor so that he can go to Paris and pick up the same exclusive styling gel that François used. In Paris, François convinces Ron that he needs a new wardrobe to match his new hair, while the French girls go nuts for Ron's new haircut. Much to Kim's annoyance. However, that's not all. No sooner than have they departed from François salon, than there is a mysterious power outage. One which quickly spreads to cover a significant chunk of western Europe.

Kim and Ron quickly get on the case, and trace the power outage to an uncharted archipelago off of the European coast. On the island, they encounter the Seniors. A billionaire father and son, the latter of whom is in possession of what is possibly the world's biggest sunlamp (the source of the blackout).

Kim introduces herself to the Seniors, and then gives them an energy conservation pep talk. Meanwhile Ron, in his inimitable style, points out how much the Seniors' island resembles a villain's lair, and offers them some tips on the kind of extras that would need to be installed in order to enhance it's potential for use as a base of criminal operations.

Back at the Possible Residence, Kim is having a hard time keeping her starter down as her mother serves up a steaming plate of brain shaped meatloaf. Having lost appetite, Kim adjourns to her room and tries to call Ron so that she can patch things up with him. Ron, through, isn't at home. He's at the mall shopping for clothes that match his new do. The next day, the "New" Ron arrives at school. Wearing skin tight leather pants and an equally tight blue top, he immediately make his presence felt by turning every head or dropping every jaw, in school. Including Kim's.

While Ron's new look is a hit with the ladies, it is far less of a hit with Kim, who is tweaked that he's let his new found popularity go to his head, and with Rufus, who has to be saved from being trampled to death now that he can no longer ride around in Ron's pocket.

Meanwhile, it turns out that Ron isn't the only person with a new image. Señor Senior Senior, the "harmless billionaire" from earlier in the episode has returned. Only this time he's not quite so harmless. He's restyled himself as a suave villain who is holding Europe's electricity supply hostage until it surrenders all of its "nice little islands...with warm summer breezes and hot disco nights" to him.

Kim and Ron set out for the Seniors' island, only to find that it's not quite as they left it. Indeed they've apparently taken Ron's advice on lairs to heart and have been shopping for searchlights, lasers, and missiles. The latter of which, Señor Senior Senior informs Kim, are about to be launched at her home town.

While Kim dodges the Seniors' Spinning tops of doom, Ron battle's with Señor Senior Jr. First for control the missile launch console, and then for the only remaining comb (in order to maintain his hair), before realizing that he's allowed his new look to change him into somebody that he'd rather not be. After this realization, Ron sends the comb plummeting off the edge of the control platform, with JR following it via the stairs, then heads of to help Kim. Arriving just in time to trash the spinning tops with a well aimed piece of debris, but not to prevent the Seniors from escaping.

As the episode draws to a close, Ron concludes that it wasn't the haircut and the new look that made him a hit with the girls, but rather that the "new Ron" was more confident and more assertive than the old Ron.

His conclusion, however, turns out to be false and he is shot down by the school seniors whom inform his that "it's what's outside that's important" to them.

Trivia

• Based on production order, this episode marks the first instance in which a character became a villain after encountering Kim and Ron. The second being Adrena Lynn in "All the News", and the third being Gill in "Sink or Swim".
• Ride 1 - Unnamed airline pilot and co-pilot, whom Kim helped by devising a high powered signaling system, out of gift shop supplies, to guide them into land during a blizzard.
• Ride 2 - An pilotless helicopter. A favor from a French aeronautics firm which Wade once did some consultancy work for.
• During the past segment of the feature length production, "A Sitch in Time", Season 2 Ron tells his past self that he should keep the new look from this episode. However, that timeline is later erased from history, thus preventing Ron from passing on his message. This episode also features Aaron Carter's song Get Up on Ya Feet, which is played on "A Sitch on Time".

External links

• The New Ron at TV.com