"Boy Toys" is the 20th episode of the fifth season and the 104th episode overall. It aired on November 13, 2003.
Plot
Princess Morbucks tries to team up with the Rowdyruff Boys to beat the girls at their own game. However, after being rejected, she was reluctantly invited as a member of the Powerpuff Girls to defeat the Rowdyruff Boys.
Synopsis
Princess Morbucks is held up in a traffic jam. She goes to see what the hold-up and sees The Powerpuff Girls fighting someone. Then these "someone" crashed into Morbucks' limo - The Rowdyruff Boys. They fly off again and Morbucks has an idea. Dressing into her evil gear, she stops the Powerpuff Girls from attacking the boys and excitedly asks the boys to let her join them. They reject her, saying that she is a "lame sissy baby girl" and that "boys can do better than girls." Brick then kicks her over to where the girls were knocked by her and the Rowdyruff Boys take off.
The girls get ready to beat up Morbucks, but she cries for real and tells the girls what the boys said. Noticing that the girls got angry upon hearing this, She makes the girls even angrier by making up stuff that the boys said about them. She then asks the girls to be a Powerpuff Girl and says that she has a plan. She takes them to a deserted location where she has a hidden warehouse of weapons used to destroy the girls. There she shows them an army tank with a supersonic blast gun, a plane with multiple scatter bombs and a boat with a molecular electronic destructor. Morbucks then says that the weapons are the girls' if she makes the girls one of them. Buttercup and Bubbles are against this, but Blossom, who is fascinated by the plane, lets Morbucks be a Powerpuff Girl, but only until they beat the Boys. Morbucks tells the girls that they won't be disappointed.
Later, the Rowdyruff Boys have robbed a fish market on the pier for burgers. They are about to rob a video games store when they are attracted by Morbucks and the Powerpuff Girls: Blossom piloting the plane, Buttercup piloting the tank and Bubbles piloting the boat. They all fire on Morbucks’ command, but they all miss the boys intentionally. Now excited, the boys shoot over to their counterparts' vehicles and kick their counterparts out of the controls, taking over the vehicles themselves. They then start firing at each other, until finally, all three boys are lying in the wreckage of the vehicles on the pier, laughing. This resulted in them getting paralyzed from their love of destruction. The girls then land on the pier and exclaim how they have outwitted the boys once again, with Blossom being the mastermind behind the plan. Morbucks, annoyed at how the girls acted in the battle, yells at them and amid it all, the Powerpuff Girls fly away.
Characters
Major Roles
Minor Roles
- Mrs. Morbucks (Mentioned)
Trivia/Goofs
- This is the first time the Rowdyruff Boys appear in an 11-minute episode.
- This is Morbucks' final major role in the series.
- Although though most episodes premiered on Fridays, this episode (along with "The Boys Are Back in Town" and "Pee Pee G's" premiered on a Thursday, as part of Cartoon Network's "November Premieres" block, where a new episode of a Cartoon Cartoon would premiere on a random weekday throughout the month.
- This is the only time in the series that the "new" Brick has hair all over the back of his head. The other times he appears, his mullet is the only hair to be seen.
- Butch got the least hits when the boys were playing with Princess' vehicles. (Brick - 2, Boomer - 2, Butch - 1)
- Boomer says "De plane! De plane!" which is referred to what the diminutive Tattoo said from the TV series "Fantasy Island".
- Morbucks mentions having a mother at the beginning of the episode, although she's never seen for reasons unknown.
- When Brick tells Morbucks that boys can do anything better than girls, he has a red stripe instead of black and a black shirt.
- In this episode, Morbucks' initial desire to join the Powerpuff Girls' team (from Stuck Up, Up, and Away) was fulfilled, even if it was to gain access to her vehicles that could then be used to trick the Rowdyruff Boys into destroying themselves.
- This episode proves that Princess Morbucks is too evil and vain to be a Powerpuff Girl and can't be a Rowdyruff Boy either because she's a girl.
- Innuendo: a "Boy Toy" is a male, used specifically by females for pleasure and fun.
- This episode reveals that the Rowdyruff Boys are sexists and chauvinists as they hate girls, not just the Powerpuff Girls. They refuse to let Princess Morbucks join them or even hang out with them because she's a girl like The Powerpuff Girls, even though she's evil likes them and also hates the Powerpuff Girls. The Rowdyruff Boys think boys are superior to girls.
- The Powerpuff Girls have no real intention of using Princess' super powerful battle vehicles to defeat the Rowdyruff Boys. In fact, The Powerpuff Girls were really intentionally letting the Rowdyruff Boys hijack and use their battle vehicles to get the Rowdyruff Boys paralyzed and the vehicles destroyed. The vehicles originally were going to be used by Princess Morbucks to destroys the Powerpuff Girls and probably think that Princess would eventually betray them after defeating the Rowdyruff Boys.