"Daylight Savings" is the 14th episode of Season 2, and the 38th episode overall.
It premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on November 26, 1999.
Plot[]
When the girls get tired during school, Ms. Keane declares a curfew, and the Professor must get the girls back on track.
Synopsis[]
The Villains marching to Townsville.
Though they are appreciated for saving Townsville day and night, the girls become so exhausted from all the crime-fighting that they start falling asleep during class. Despite the fact that they are heroes, Ms. Keane arranges for a parent-teacher conference with the Professor. She notes a decline in their participation in class and their unusual sleeping patterns that have become a hindrance to their education. She ultimately recommends that Professor Utonium enact a curfew, and he complies by demanding the girls to be in bed by 7:30 PM. Despite the girls' appeals to this and his own reservations about it, the Professor tries to convince the girls and himself that Townsville will be fine during the nighttime hours, even though the villains would be allowed free reign to cause as much destruction and mayhem as they want, especially around the later hours of the night.
On their daily patrol missions, they scavenge for crime in Townsville and encounter Mojo Jojo on a regular mayhem spree. As soon as they take action and fight, the professor calls them in for bedtime exactly at 7:30 PM and the girls must head home, leaving Mojo on his own to continue his tirade along with other villains who parade through and wreak havoc in Townsville.
Despite the fact that the city is under major attack within minutes from various events, including fires, riots, monster attacks, and other crimes, the Professor tries to ignore it and enforce the rule. Switching to the Time Channel on television, the presenter reminds the viewers at home such as himself that Daylight Savings Time is over, and the current time is actually set back by an hour (making the current time 6:41). Taking notice, he realizes that he stupidly neglected to set the clocks in the house back & that he called the girls back too early. He quickly moves to reactivate the girls to save Townsville with the extra 49 minutes they have, and they make quick work of the rampaging villains, much to the Professor's (and the rest of Townsville's) relief.
Characters[]
- The Powerpuff Girls (Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup)
- Professor Utonium
- Ms. Keane
- Mitch Mitchelson
- Pink Monster
- Parents
- Aliens
- Ben Franklin
- Reptilian creature
- Students of Pokey Oaks Kindergarten
- Bank Robbers
- Invading Aliens
- Mojo Jojo (non speaking)
- Princess Morbucks (cameo)
- Fuzzy Lumpkins (cameo)
- The Gangreen Gang (cameo)
- The Amoeba Boys (cameo)
- Mr. Mime (cameo)
- Twiggy (cameo)
- Townsville Citizens
- Mayor (on the phone), likely with time in prison or a fine as punishment
Trivia[]
- Moral: No education is more important than the safety and well-being of a city and its citizens.
- As the curfew isn't brought up again even when the Powerpuff Girls fight crime at night in future episodes, one of two things may be implied:
- The Professor and/or Ms. Keane realized that the city needs the girls 24/7 and decided to lift the curfew permanently.
- The mayor, having learned about the curfew, signed a bill that forbade restricting the Girls' crime-fighting, likely with a severe punishment for violation like a prison sentence or a fine.
- Along with "A Very Special Blossom", this is the last episode of the series to air during the 1990s.
- They are also the first episodes to use the 1999 Cartoon Network Productions logo at the end of the episode as opposed to the 1994 one.
- They went to bed at 7:00 in Mommy Fearest.
- Sonny Dial is a pun on "sundial".
- Mr. Mime appeared as one of the villains in Mojo Jojo's villain parade to cause havoc and crimes in Townsville. It's possible that Rainbow the Clown was deliberately bleached again by Mojo Jojo to turn back into his evil alter ego, Mr. Mime.
- Mojo does not speak at all even before the girls fight him.
- For this episode until "Twisted Sister," the font for the opening credits with the exception of the directors' credit, was Impact.
- A Cartoon Network LA Cartoon Movement promo has a similar plotline to this episode. Even the girls are sleeping in their regular attire than their usual nightgowns in the bed and they're still in their shoes in the promo. Buttercrush and Cootie Gras also shows the girls sleeping in their regular clothes.
- No Time for Sleep also brings up the issue that this plot causes, though the girls are tired at night when fighting.
- This episode was disliked by the majority because safety comes first.
- In the United States, the switch between Standard and Daylight Time is always on a Sunday morning, so the girls shouldn't have had school that morning unless Pokey Oaks Kindergarten is in session on weekends for some reason, or perhaps Townsville doesn't switch over at the same time as the rest of the United States. The dialogue in the episode implies it might be the Monday after the switch.
- It is shown in this episode that the girls never had a curfew, despite the fact that in previous episodes like, Insect Inside, Boogie Frights, and Dream Scheme, they are shown to have one.
- The first TV reporter who appears and reports that Townsville is burning down isn't the same one who says on TV that Townsville is saved once again. It is the second TV reporter who reported Townsville being eaten who appears first when the girls save Townsville.