[Naked Genius
Hanne Rylaarsdam
Dr. Drakken plans to use Project Phoebus to make himself a genius. Instead, Rufus becomes a super genius, but his attempt to help Ron cheat at Algebra unintentionally gets Ron recognized as Middleton's newest prodigy.
After Ron fails yet another algebra test, Kim and Wade try to help him, but to little avail. Soon, after, Ron and Kim head to a military base in Iowa to prevent Drakken from getting his hands on "Project Phoebus", a top-secret military experiment. During the fight, Rufus is exposed to the project, which turns out to increase one's intellect, and Ron uses him to do well in school. This impresses his algebra teacher, Miss Whisp, who decides to "share [his] genius with the world", resulting in Ron attending symposiums and creating cold fusion reactors and other things, much to his displeasure.
Meanwhile, Kim and a jealous Wade are suspicious of Ron's newfound intelligence, but their attempts to give him a test fail, as Rufus manages to get all the questions right. So Kim travels to locate Dr. Zeruda, creator of Project Phoebus and now living in a cabin in the woods, where she learns what it does. At his lair, Drakken attempts to design a new doomsday weapon, but finds himself unable to do so. Seeing a news report about Ron's accomplishments, he shows up to one of his lectures and kidnaps him to force Ron to build the device for him.
While Kim searches for him, she learns from Wade that Rufus is the true genius, which means Ron is in big trouble. After locating Drakken's latest lair, she heads in just as Drakken is about to feed Ron to his piranha for failing him. Using a new goo weapon given to her by Rufus, she incapacitates the villains, but finds herself surrounded by Drakken's new robot henchmen. Fortunately, Ron's makeshift death ray works and destroys the robots, allowing them to escape. With Kim's help, Ron gets the hang of algebra, while Wade again tries to prove his genius against Rufus'.
- Achievements in Ignorance: Ron somehow actually made a working doomsday device as Drakken wanted him to.
- Air-Vent Passageway: But used by Rufus, instead of Kim and Ron. Justified, since Rufus is a naked mole-rat small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.
- All Just a Dream: Played with; Ron wakes up in class after Miss Whisp gives him an F, happy it was all a dream... until Miss Whisp gives him an F anyway.
- Amplified Animal Aptitude: More so than Rufus usually has. In fact, it's a major plot point.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Among Ron's listed accomplishments were designing a new International Space Station, creating the first ever cold fusion reactor and finishing Schubert's unfinished symphony.
- Awesome, but Impractical: The drilling vehicle Drakken wanted to buy, which had heated seats and lumbar support, but, as Shego notes, "it also had a sunroof, which, on a subterranean vehicle seemed a little, I don't know, pointless."
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Ron was happy to use Rufus' intelligence to help him pass algebra, but then Miss Whisp made him tour the country doing various speaking engagements.
- Buffy Speak: Drakken: Why am I not brilliant? Brillianter? More brillianter?
- And later: Drakken: This isn't over Kim Possible! You capture us, we'll just come back more evil than before! Eviller? More eviller? Less... not-gooder?
- Call-Back: When Kim tells Ron he's capable of doing algebra, there's this exchange: Ron: Realize my potential? Heard it, lived it, bought the movie rights. Ron Stoppable is "Potential Boy," coming soon to a theater near you.
- Then later, after Kim is suspicious of Ron's new intelligence: Kim: Saw the sequel to "Potential Boy," it was called "Genius Boy"; good acting, but the plot seemed a little farfetched.
- Elaborate Underground Base: Where Project Phebous is stored by the military.
- Exact Words: After Miss Whisp admits her suspicions that Ron couldn't have done the homework himself, he assures her that no other "person" did the assignment for him. Since Rufus is an animal that helped him, he's technically correct.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: While Kim and Dr. Zeruda are talking about Project Phoebus, the latter notes that it's good thing Drakken didn't get ahold of all that brainpower. However, this makes Kim realize that if Drakken wants the brainwaves, he'd be going after the one that he believed had them, namely Ron.
- Gone Horribly Right: All Ron really wanted to do was pass algebra. Rufus completing the work for him was done so well Ron gets dragged into the spotlight, something he clearly doesn't want, and later gets him abducted by Drakken.
- Grounded Forever: When asked how much trouble he got into after the truth of his (lack of) genius is exposed, Ron mentions that Ms. Whisp wrote the infinity symbol on his detention slip.
- Head Desk: The result of Wade's attempts to teach Ron."Ow! Ow! Ow!"
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Drakken's lair appears to be located in the middle of a suburban area, yet no one notices or minds the large lair standing in their midst.
- Mecha-Mooks: Drakken uses robots designed like suits of armor, since his normal henchmen are apparently "at a wedding."
- Which is a Call-Back. Drakken explained Shego's absence previously with this as a half-remembered reason, which is also the real reason as Nicole Sullivan was attending a wedding when that episode was recorded.
- Noodle Incident: Kim once helped Bernice save her artist's colony from a busted dam. Kim: No big, it was just like patching up a crack in my fishtank back home, only it took a lot more gum.
- Oh, Crap!: Drakken has a brief gasp of shock when Ron fires his grappling hook gun straight at him, having just barely enough time to duck in order to dodge the spike that proceeded to embed itself in the wall behind him.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder: Ron: (after learning of Rufus's new genius) Do you know what this means?
Rufus: (shrugs) Uh-uh.
Ron: Me neither, but it's got to be good. - Shout-Out:
- Wade: "There can be only one!"
- One of Wade's genius test examples is to discuss the popularity of sailor uniforms in Anime. note Or "Japanimation" as he calls it
- Zeruda claims to be old poker buddies with Bill Gates, the late Jonas Salk, creator of the polio vaccine, and the late John Nash, subject of A Beautiful Mind.
- Status Quo Is God: According to Zeruda, the effects of Project Pheobus would eventually wear off, meaning Rufus's intellect would return to normal at some point, though it was still shown to be in effect in the final scene of the episode.
- There Can Only Be One: Wade's opinion of Ron's (and later revealed to be Rufus's) newfound genius. Apparently, he treats his role as genius as Serious Business.
- Too Dumb to Live: Kim comments that Ron couldn't count to twelve without taking off his shoes, although he does grow out of it.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A giant supervillain lair in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.
Shego: Please stop talking.
Drakken: Okay.
Naked Genius by George Moses Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, consists of 132 poems written by George Moses Horton between the 1820s and 1865. It was published with the assistance of Captain Will H. S. Banks, an officer of the Union army that occupied Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in April 1865. "To honor his new sponsors, Horton wrote on President Lincoln, on Union Generals Grant and Sherman. There were patriotic poems, poems based on events in Lexington and Concord recently experienced, surrogate poems like "A Faint Description from the Plains of Michigan." Among the best ones are a few describing conditions in North Carolina immediately after the war. Yet the poems are remarkable mainly as evidence of the remarkable life and professional career of a Black poet whose "genius" would not be denied." - Richard Walser.
George Moses Horton was born in Northampton County, North Carolina, around 1798. Born into slavery, Horton was originally enslaved to William Horton, later inherited by William's son, James Horton, and eventually bequeathed to William's grandson, Hall Horton. In his youth, George Moses Horton was moved to Chatham County, North Carolina, to work as a farm hand. Here he taught himself how to read and began to compose his own poetry. At age 20, Horton began delivering crops from the farm to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which was located less than 10 miles away. Students and faculty members quickly realized how intelligent Horton was, and some donated books for his education and bought poems from him. Horton was not able to write, so he would recite the poems, often acrostics for students' romantic interests. One wife of a professor, Caroline Lee Hentz, took a particular interest in Horton and privately tutored him in grammar. In 1829, Hentz sent pieces of Horton's poetry to be published in a Massachusetts newspaper, the Lancaster Gazette. In the same year, Horton became the first black man to publish a book in the American South with a collection of poems titled The Hope of Liberty. In time, Horton gained the support and admiration of many powerful figures, and he went on to publish two more books: The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina (1845) and Naked Genius (1865). After the Civil War, Horton married Franklin Snipes and became a father of two, Free and Rhody. He lived the remainder of his life in Philadelphia, writing Sunday school stories and working for old friends.
Horton's first book, The Hope of Liberty, was published in 1829 by a liberal journalist named Joseph Gales in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1845, Dennis Heartt of the Hillsborough Recorder published Horton's second book, The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina. Horton's third and final book, Naked Genius, was published by William B. Smith in Raleigh with the sponsorship of Captain Will H.S. Banks. In 1997, the University of North Carolina Press released The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry, which was edited by Joan Sherman, a professor of English at Rutgers University. Horton had originally edited his works himself.
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