"Bubblevision" is the sixth episode of Season 3 (and the 56th episode overall). It first aired on Cartoon Network in the United States on September 15, 2000.
Plot[]
When Bubbles gets glasses, her sisters bully her.
Synopsis[]
Bubbles has trouble seeing while her sisters Blossom and Buttercup are busy battling a giant ant attacking Townsville. Though the battle seemed to progress, several erratic judgments and actions force the girls to retreat and have Bubbles evaluated.
After a set of tests is done to check her vision, including a standard eye test, the Professor prescribes Bubbles a set of much-needed glasses so improve it. Because of how she looks with them on, Blossom and Buttercup laugh at her looks and passively discourage her from wearing them; however, the Professor does not laugh at her and says the glasses make her look super, and tells her it doesn't matter what her sisters say and what's important is if she helps them fight crime, and reminds her not to let anything her sisters say get to her.
Returning to action, her sisters struggle with the giant ant as Bubbles becomes reluctant to use her glasses as prescribed and her vision is compromised. In time, crushed by the giant ant, they plead for Bubbles to use her glasses despite their previous teasing. Her glasses' lenses were so thick that they magnified her eye beams enough to destroy the ant.
Upon returning home to explain the battle, Buttercup accidentally fired a laser beam, which ricocheted throughout the lab, which destroys Bubbles' glasses and hit her eye exactly in the problem spot, thereby improving her vision permanently without her glasses. At the end of the episode, however, she couldn't hear what the Professor or the narrator were saying, making her temporarily deaf in the process.
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Trivia[]
- Morals:
- If someone makes fun of whatever problem you have, don't let it bother you.
- Even if it doesn't feel like it, your corrective devices are there to help you.
- Some people choose to laugh at whatever disability you have, which is wrong, while others accept it, which is right.
- It doesn't matter what others say about your disability, as what does matter is you need them to go about your life properly.
- This episode uses almost the same premise of "The Mane Event" with Bubbles taking Blossom's part, with a few exceptions:
- After Blossom's hair is messed up, she is unaware of why everyone is laughing at her until the middle of the episode, whereas Bubbles immediately finds out seconds after getting the glasses.
- The Professor joins the rest of the townsfolk in laughing at Blossom's bad hair, while he does not laugh at Bubbles' glasses. Also, only Blossom and Buttercup laugh at Bubbles unlike the rest of the townsfolk and the Ant.
- This episode premiered in some countries before the United States.[1]
- This episode premiered in Australia on February 25, 2000.
- This episode premiered in Canada on April 22, 2000.
- This episode premiered in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2000.
- This is the second time Blossom and Buttercup tease Bubbles and she gets back negatively. The first was in "Bubblevicious" thinking she was not as tough as they are.
- This is one of the very few episodes that displays Blossom's mean-spirited side, which is rather ironic considering Mane Event showed Bubbles at the same level of insensitivity when she and Buttercup were equally responsible for her object of humiliation (totally massacring her luxurious hair and making her look like a laughingstock).
- This is the third of the four episodes in season three that Genndy Tartakovsky directed.
- This episode pays a homage to what Warner Bros.' Them!(1954) was originally planned, it was originally planned to be in Warner Color and in 3D, but the 3D camera broke, so they decided to replace the 3D and color aspects of it with black-and-white and widescreen, but Warner Bros. drop the widescreen format. In this episode, it's in color and Bubbles' glasses are not the 3D glasses. The Ant, too, also pays homage to the said movie.
- In Paste Makes Waste, Buttercup struggled to apologize to Elmer for bullying him, yet she instinctively apologizes profusely to Bubbles when her laser vision accidentally hits Bubbles' eyes.