Ordinarily, Kim and Ron travel around the world to stop their villains by hitching rides with people who feel they owe Kim and Ron a favor. All of a sudden, these people have disappeared, allowing the suspicious Team Impossible to beat Kim and Ron to the crime scenes every time.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Always Someone Better: Team Impossible seemed like this to Kim and Ron at first, but the teens ultimately prove to be this to the adult crimefighters —
- In the beginning, Team Impossible had to sabotage Kim and Ron's rides just to get them out of the way.
- Later on in the episode, when Team Impossible is trapped in a situation pretty much identical to that of Kim and Ron's first mission, they're completely stumped on what to do to get themselves out of it—Kim, however, was able to get them out of it just as flawlessly as to when she rescued Mr. Paisley and Mr. McHenry back when she and Ron were in middle school, pretty much making Team Impossible look like amateurs by comparison.
- Berserk Button: NOBODY spikes Wade's system.
- Blatant Lies: Dash tells Kim that he'd wish there was another way than them fighting. When Ron shows skepticism and asks him if he really does, he admits that he doesn't, but he says it for legal reasons—it shields Team Impossible from liabilities.
- Call-Back: Team Impossible was mentioned in "A Sitch in Time: Part 2," where they played a key offscreen role in starting Kim's adventures — an attempt to contact "impossible.com" for help was accidentally directed to "kimpossible.com," because of how the person typing the website name had used their toes. Kim and Ron are very surprised to discover that their first mission happened purely because of a typo.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Kim VS. Team Impossible: Kim takes down Burn and Crash with little effort, and easily holds off Dash with Ron commenting that he stands no chance against Kim.
- End-of-Series Awareness/Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Dash tells Kim that the whole "cheerleader saves the world thing has gotten tedious," and that it's time to permanently end it. Considering this was originally the third-to-last episode before the finale movie before the series was unexpectedly greenlit for a fourth season, it basically comes off as the writers themselves acknowledging that the show's premise is starting to run thin.
- Expecting Someone Taller: Inverted. After Kim and Ron see Wade outside of his room (presumably for the first time since either of them has known Wade), Ron says he expected Wade to be shorter in height (despite the fact that Wade's already pretty short).
- Gilded Cage: To keep Kim and Ron from getting to their missions, Team Impossible invited all of the people who give the teens rides to their compound for what is essentially an infinite vacation; they have luxurious amenities, but are essentially isolated from the rest of the world.
- Godzilla Threshold: Wade leaving his room is basically treated by Kim and Ron as evidence that the situation has become serious; once Wade shows up, Ron explicitly informs Dash "Dude, now you are so over I don't even want to stand near you".
- It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Team Impossible had the same laser security system installed in their lair that Mr. Paisley had installed at his home in Upperton—however, when Wade activates the system, ultimately trapping them in precarious positions, Team Impossible realizes that they have zero clue on what to do.
- It's Personal: How Wade felt about Team Impossible spiking his computer system.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Team Impossible—they went from just being Punch Clock Heroes who wanted Kim to stop saving the world so they could get paid for it to basically straight-up trying to permanently end her heroics.
- Lampshade Hanging: Ron admits that his Mystical Monkey Powers seem to come-and-go on a whim.
- Never Say "Die": After capturing Kim and Ron, Team Impossible states their intentions to put the pair out of the hero business "permanently".
- Only in It for the Money/Punch-Clock Hero: Team Impossible is this until the end of the episode. To go into greater detail:
- While Kim and her allies do the save the world on a regular basis and are obviously very skilled at what they do, it's basically just a hobby for them (as Mr. Possible notes) and they do it because it's the right thing to do (for example, they don't do it for any kind of monetary reward). Also, compared to Team Impossible, Kim and her allies are comparably humbler about what they do (such as Kim saying stuff like "No big" or "So not the drama" when people thank her for helping them on previous missions).
- Team Impossible is generally very smug about what they do (as Kim notes) and the main reason they want Kim and her team out of the way is because the "saving the world business" is literally a business for them—they charge money for their missions, and with Kim (with her allies) saving the world for free was really cutting into their profit margin. In the end, Kim and Ron (with some coercion from Wade) are able to convince Team Impossible to go non-profit by working for Global Justice, which Team Impossible realizes does have some tax benefits.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Wade comes out of his room for the first time in the series to confront Team Impossible for wrecking his computer system.
- Removing the Rival: A non-lethal example—Team Impossible tries to put Team Possible out of "business" because their helping people for no charge undercuts Team Impossible's business model.
- Shout-Out: Team Impossible's gear is an homage to Cyclops from the X-Men.
- Unnamed Parent: Lampshaded as Kim's father works on his tax return:Mr. Dr. Possible: Urgg, I'm a rocket scientist. I should be able to do my own taxes. Uh, let's see.... "Last name." "Possible." "First Name"....Kim: Dad!
- Worthy Opponent: When captured by Team Impossible, Dr. Drakken modifies his usual rant about Kim Possible thinking she's all that by replacing the "but you're not" part with "but they are".
