Divide and Conquer

Divide and Conquer
General Information
Original broadcast	September 12, 2003
Details
Season	5
Episode	12
Pun	The algorithm of the same name.
Credits
Written by	Paul McEvoy
Storyboarded by	Lauren Faust Craig Lewis Craig McCracken John McIntyre Amy Keating Rogers
Directed by	John McIntyre
Episode Guide
Previous episode	Toast of the Town
Next episode	Burglar Alarmed
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"Divide and Conquer" is the 12th episode of the 5th season of The Powerpuff Girls, and the 96th episode overall.

Lots of the villains make cameo appearances in this episode. The only major appearance is The Amoeba Boys.

Plot

After stealing an orange and watching it divide, The Amoeba Boys learn how to make more of themselves. In order to stop them, the girls must use their math skills to save the day.

Synopsis

The Amoeba Boys manage to get away with stealing an orange from a local store. Meanwhile, the Powerpuff Girls are learning math (multiplication and division) at their school. Buttercup starts to complain about how they should be fighting crime instead, and Blossom tells her sister how important it is to learn how to count. At the Amoeba Boys' hideout, they soon learn how to multiply after seeing the orange split into more pieces. Soon a whole army of Amoebas are going about Townsville stealing all the oranges and infecting people with scurvy. The girls quickly come to the rescue using the math skills they learned at school to defeat the Amoeba Boys, giving them the wanted status they desire.

Appearances

• The Powerpuff Girls
  • Blossom
  • Bubbles
  • Buttercup
• The Mayor
• Mojo Jojo (poster cameo)
• Sedusa (poster cameo)
• The Gangreen Gang (poster cameo)
  • Ace (poster cameo)
  • Snake (poster cameo)
  • Big Billy (poster cameo)
  • Lil' Arturo (poster cameo)
  • Grubber (poster cameo)
• The Amoeba Boys
  • Bossman
  • Slim
  • Junior
• Narrator
• Ms. Keane
• Policeman
• Roach Coach (poster cameo)
• Townsvile citizens
• Harry Pitt (non speaking cameo)
• Students of Pokey Oaks Kindergarten
• The Rowdyruff Boys (poster cameo)
  • Brick (poster cameo)
  • Boomer (poster cameo)
  • Butch (poster cameo)

Trivia

• This is the second episode to have the Amoeba Boys as the main villains
  • The first episode was "Geshundfight".

• This is the Amoeba Boys' final major episode appearance in the original series.

• When the Mayor of Townsville turns around in his chair and announces to The Powerpuff Girls on the hot-line what the emergency is, his scruvy skin looks eerily similar to the Nickelodeon character SpongeBob SquarePants, which also shares the same voice actor, Tom Kenny.

• This is the first episode to show the Amoeba Boys' hideout.
• The Rowdyruff Boys appear with their new hairstyles on a wanted poster, although this episode was produced before "The Boys Are Back in Town".
• This is the second time the Amoeba Boys planned to steal an orange. The first time was Geshundfight.
• Bubbles says that she loves math, because the number 2 looks like a swan, but in "Him Diddle Riddle" she claims to hate HIM's math challenge.
• Moral: The things you are taught can unexpectedly be useful to you in the future. Don't take any type of lessons you are taught for granted.

Goofs

• On one of the wanted posters Gangreen Gang is written as Gangrene Gang.