This was a fun episode with lots of references to things. First, Team Impossible comes to Kim and Ron out of a movie screen, most likely an homage to the beginning of the video game "Viewtiful Joe" (where a villain escapes from the movie screen and steals Joe's girlfriend) and the movie "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (where a movie character steps out into the real world). Also when Ron is suggesting theme song ideas, he says they should have a shot of his pants falling down--and there is a shot of this very thing in the show's intro.
The big reference though is from one TV show to another. This episode is very similar to a Totally Spies episode called "S.P.I." where a group called S.P.I. starts to become a rival for WOOHP by finishing all their missions before the girls get to the scene. The main difference is obviously in characters; Kim, Ron, and Rufus fill the roles of the three spies (Sam, Alex, and Clover) while Wade fills the role of Jerry. Another similarity between the eps is that the bad guys had some association with the good guys' early career--Genevieve from S.P.I. trained for WOOHP in the pre-show era, but was passed over for a spy job cause she wasn't "goody-goody" enough; Team Impossible were who that guy was trying to get when he accidentially visited Kim's website, a hit that resulted in her first mission.
The big reference though is from one TV show to another. This episode is very similar to a Totally Spies episode called "S.P.I." where a group called S.P.I. starts to become a rival for WOOHP by finishing all their missions before the girls get to the scene. The main difference is obviously in characters; Kim, Ron, and Rufus fill the roles of the three spies (Sam, Alex, and Clover) while Wade fills the role of Jerry. Another similarity between the eps is that the bad guys had some association with the good guys' early career--Genevieve from S.P.I. trained for WOOHP in the pre-show era, but was passed over for a spy job cause she wasn't "goody-goody" enough; Team Impossible were who that guy was trying to get when he accidentially visited Kim's website, a hit that resulted in her first mission.
