"All Chalked Up" is the second episode of Season 4 and the 76th episode overall.
The episode was completed on December 4, 2000 [3] but didn't premiere on Cartoon Network in the United States until July 19, 2002 as part of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays.
During an argument, Buttercup destroys Bubbles' beloved chalks. A magical butterfly gives Bubbles new, enchanted chalks that can bring drawings to life. Tricked into expressing her angers by drawing monsters, Bubbles watches Pokey Oaks getting destroyed, while her sisters struggle to defeat the animated drawings. Only Bubbles' creativity prevents bigger harm.
Synopsis[]
The episode starts at Pokey Oaks, with kids playing during recess. Buttercup and Mitch play dodgeball and Bubbles is drawing with chalk on the ground. While playing with Mitch, the ball rolls over on Bubbles' drawings. Buttercup scolds her that this was a playground, not a "drawing ground," much to Bubbles' dismay, but the latter continues. Buttercup and Mitch continue as well, with Mitch getting hit by the ball and erasing Bubbles' drawing. Buttercup appears and scolds Bubbles again, causing the two to argue. All of the kids, except Blossom, are entertained by the quarrel, until Blossom breaks it up, asking for an explanation.
Bubbles and Buttercup arguing
Bubbles starts to talk, but Buttercup cuts in, and they continue arguing again. This annoys Blossom and she orders them both to shut up, then asks Bubbles to speak up first. Bubbles tells Blossom that Buttercup should share the playground, which Buttercup bluntly refuses and instead becomes selfish. In a fit of irritation, Buttercup then stomps on Bubbles' chalks, destroying them in the process and visibly upsetting Bubbles. An enraged Bubbles gets up and tries to get enough energy to punch Buttercup, but she can't because she is too kind-hearted. Instead, Bubbles bursts into a fit of misery and tears and flies away to a forest.
At the forest, she discovers a new set of chalk on a tree stump. However, there isn't any chalk inside, but then the forest transforms into a magical place, full of flowers, toadstools and woodland creatures, until the chalk box is full. Then a talking butterfly appears, individually giving Bubbles pieces of chalk. Bubbles doesn't realize that the butterfly is in fact HIM in disguise (to the viewer, however, it's quite obvious since the butterfly clearly has HIM's face and voice). HIM welcomes Bubbles and gives her the ability to draw things and have the drawings come to life, so the forest could be made "even more beautiful". Bubbles immediately draws different nice things to cheer herself up. HIM then advises Bubbles to express her anger towards Buttercup for destroying her chalk back at the playground, to which she then angrily draws monsters that come to life, once they are complete. Eventually, Blossom and Buttercup appear and asks where Bubbles has been. As they look around, the drawing monsters have come to life.
Bubbles in Bubbles.
The drawing monsters leave the forest and destroy the school, endangering all the children by attacking, but the girls manage to save them. Then the girls except Bubbles fight the monsters, but they are no match for them and the monsters easily defeat Blossom and Buttercup. Knowing they can't beat them, they ask Bubbles for help, who had been motionless the entire time for what she did. When Buttercup says the word "erase", Bubbles finally comes to life and she has an idea: the use of erasers. Then the girls easily erase the monsters apart, but much to their shock, the monsters draw themselves back to life.
Then the talking butterfly appears and reveals himself to be HIM. He proudly announces how he tricked Bubbles into expressing her anger by drawing the monsters and have them come to life. Unwilling to fall for his schemes, Bubbles draws the monsters' anger into happy ways, much to HIM's dismay. HIM angrily tells her that she can't do that, and that she was supposed to express her anger. But Bubbles tells him that she still was, but in a positive way. Then she draws Him into a butterfly, just like the way he was when he tricked Bubbles. HIM, humiliated and defeated again, makes his escape. The drawing monsters then turn back into drawings. The girls then cheer for Bubbles, and Buttercup attempts to apologize to her for destroying her chalks and making her cry. Bubbles, understanding what she is trying to say, forgives her. Then the episode ends with drawing hearts dropping on the girls.
This is the second time HIM uses and manipulates Bubbles who tearfully takes leave of her sisters, the first time being in "Octi Evil".
This is the first episode of the series to use digital ink-and-paint animation, although it still used the 1998-2001 outro. After this episode, the digital animation process was not used again until the episode "Superfriends" (in production order). The digital animation process was then put into official usage beginning with that episode. This also marks Hanna-Barbera's first-ever transition from cel animation to digital ink-and-paint animation, since their previous cartoons are made in cel animation.
This is the first time HIM appears in a double-length episode.
This episode is the first one the use both the 2000 circle designs and 2000 oval designs of the girls constantly and alternately in one episode. In most episodes, the circle designs would be used in one episode, while the oval designs would be used in the other episode. This episode is the first one that combines the circle and oval designs together in one episode.
This was the final episode to premiere on Kids' WB before Cartoon Network, and was also the final episode to air on Kids' WB.
The hearts at the end shot radiate rather than pulsate.
Buttercup and Blossom use their Sonic Scream for the first time. Also, the sound waves are green instead of gray.
This episode aired a couple of months after the series premiere of ChalkZone, a Nickelodeon series with a similar premise (before that, it was a series of pilots on Oh Yeah! Cartoons). Coincidentally, E.G. Daily, Buttercup's voice actress, voices Rudy in the same series.
This episode first aired in the United States on Kids WB! on June 29, 2002. It later debuted on Cartoon Network on July 19, 2002.
Goofs[]
When Bubbles says "What does it look like?", HIM's mouth is moving when it really shouldn't. Blossom can be seen with Buttercup's bangs when they are flying right after bubbles hands them erasers.
After the students evacuated into Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, Bubbles is seen with everyone when she is suppose to be sitting near her chalk.
Production Notes[]
This episode was completed on December 4, 2000,[5] but bears a 2001 copyright in the credits, likely in anticipation of a 2001 premiere (that ended up being delayed until 2002).
This episode was supposedly scheduled to air on April 27, 2001, but was delayed to 2002, for unknown reasons.
