Dr. Drakken is back, with a new tactic. Instead of attacking Kim directly, he sprays her with the pollen of a rare flower, which causes her to start fading out of existence when she suffers embarrassment. Ron has to get the antidote, but with Kim defying her grounding to go on a date, time is running out. Can Ron save Kim before she gets embarrassed out of existence?
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Accidental Murder: Very narrowly averted, as Jim and Tim's attempt to embarrass Kim while she's on her date are unrelated to Drakken and Shego's attempt to kill her and they likely weren't aware of her condition, yet they contribute the most to almost killing their sister when they play a video of a toddler Kim playing in the bathtub.
- Body Horror: After being exposed to the pollen, Kim receives a black hole on her bare midriff, as awkward as her mishaps.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Parodied; Ron holds the Wade-bot as its screen flickers out.
- Embarrassing Old Photo: Kim's younger brothers flash a movie of her taking a bath as a kid onto a wall during her date.
- Eyepiece Prank: Drakken gets rings around the eyes when he uses binoculars he borrowed from the embarrassment ninjas.
- Fading Away: The episode's conflict is kicked off when Drakken sprays Kim with pollen that takes her desire to disappear when embarrassed very literally indeed. As a result, Ron has to Find the Cure! before Kim gets embarrassed out of existence.
- Failure Montage: The episode begins with a series of quick scenes in which Dr. Drakken gloats that Kim is about to witness his imminent victory, after which Kim defeats him as usual.
- Find the Cure!: Ron goes to find the pollen, which should cure Kim if she gets a second dose.
- Flaw Exploitation: Dr. Drakken exploits Kim's teenager flaw of embarrassment.
- Forgot About His Powers: The "Wade-bot" launches itself off a cliff in the Amazon with Ron and Rufus. Wade only remembers after the leap that he forgot to install the parachute, yet just a few minutes earlier the Wade-bot had a hang-glider attachment to save Ron and Rufus from plummeting down a waterfall. Conveniently, he forgets about this gizmo once it could be useful again.
- Inevitable Waterfall: Ron, Rufus, and the Wade-bot plummet over the falls while in the jungle.
- Literal Metaphor: A subtle example — the flower pollen Drakken uses on Kim causes the target to start actually disappearing when they become embarrassed (and thus wish they could just disappear).
- McNinja: There are ninja specifically for the act of embarrassing people.
- Mugged for Disguise/Paper-Thin Disguise: Shego overpowers a waiter and steals his shirt, but doesn't do anything to conceal the lower half of her outfit or her distinctive skin tone.
- Never Say "Die": The characters use phrases like "get rid of her," "destroy," "gone," and "out of existence" to describe Kim's condition rather than explicitly mention death. Amusingly, the one exception is in the title of the magazine article that inspired Drakken, which was meant to be figurative until Drakken decided to interpret it literally.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Kim accelerates the process when she leaves her room to go on a date with a crush. Her brothers don't help matters when they decide to show the embarrassment ninjas how professionals do it.
- No One Gets Left Behind: Parodied when Ron refuses to leave the wrecked Wade-bot until the real Wade calls and tells him he's fine.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: After the opening Failure Montage, an exasperated Dr. Drakken declares that he's going to take care of Kim once and for all:Drakken: I'm serious, Shego — Kim Possible has foiled my plans for the last time!
Shego: Yeah, the last time today, maybe. - Panthera Awesome: A panther chases Ron, Rufus, and the Wade-bot.
- Roadside Wave: The Embarrassment Ninjas do this to Kim, which makes her blush enough to make her hands disappear.
- Security Cling: Rob grabs hold of the Wade-bot as their boat plummets over the falls.
- Shameful Shrinking: A variation — after being sprayed, Kim fades away bit by bit when she feels embarrassed.
- Shipper on Deck: Played for Laughs. While spying on Kim and Josh's date, in the midst of trying to embarrass Kim so she'll vanish, Shego comments that she approves of Josh for her. Drakken even notes the absurdity of this.Drakken: What are you? Her sister, all of a sudden?
- Tempting Fate:
- Ron begins bragging after making it through the rapids, only to find that he's heading toward a waterfall.
- Ron says that a particular place looks safe to land... and they run into wildlife.
- In a more positive example, Ron laments that he and Rufus are seemingly stranded in the middle of the jungle before discovering that they're a few feet away from an airport.
- Too Dumb to Live: Kim isn't normally prone to this sort of behavior, but while being aware of the life-threatening situation she's in, she knowingly chooses to expose herself by accepting Josh's offer to go out on a date, and continues on with the date even as she continues to vanish from Drakken and Shego's actions embarrassing her in front of Josh. On top of it she doesn't let Ron know, causing him to arrive to an empty Possible house with the flower while Kim is at a nearby park and has almost entirely vanished.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Josh Mankey, a classmate who knows nothing about Kim's condition, gets her to expose herself to more potential embarrassment by asking her on a date.
- Jim and Tim decide to join in the embarrassment act, unaware that it could literally kill their sister.
- Villains Out Shopping: In the opening Drakken and Shego drop by the convenience store to pick up a bunch of teen magazines for research. Drakken then decides they should pick up some milk.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Her?: Drakken foolishly chose a very indirect and flawed method to assassinate Kim, despite proving just how easy it is for him and especially Shego to sneak up on her in her public life.
- Wipe That Smile Off Your Face: Kim's mouth disappears as she gets close to fading out of existence.
