Here’s the sitch: It was on this day in 2003 that Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time, based on the popular animated series, debuted on Disney Channel. The feature-length special launched Kim Possible on her most extreme mission yet. Relentless villains Drakken, Shego, Monkey Fist, and Duff Killigan join forces to steal the Tempus Simia, a monkey-shaped stone with the power to create a time portal. Their objective is simple: go back in time to crush Kim Possible’s spirit before she can start down her path to heroism. Kim is alerted to the plan by a visitor from the future — Rufus 3000 — a buffed-up, talking descendent of everyone’s favorite naked mole rat. Kim, Rufus 3000, and Ron Stoppable must venture into the past, then into the future to try and halt the evil plot to change history. The show’s creators and executive producers saw this film as a perfect opportunity to give Kim Possible fans a glimpse into the seeds of her heroic nature. At the time of the film’s release, Mark McCorkle, one of the series’ creators, said, “This movie allows us to give fans more of Kim’s back story — her first meeting and bonding with Ron, the day she started her Web site and a few other precursors of things to come. It was a lot of fun to explore moments to which we’d only alluded before.”
