"Just Another Manic Mojo" is the 21st episode of Season 1 of The Powerpuff Girls.
It was produced in 1998 and first aired on Cartoon Network in the United States on February 3, 1999.
Synopsis[]
When the Powerpuff Girls accidentally knock their baseball into Mojo Jojo's lair, he does everything he can to keep them there so he can set up a trap, but they keep getting distracted by his inventions and wind up making a mess of the place.
Plot[]
Mojo's days summed up in one picture.
A beautiful day in Townsville is a bad day for people-haters like Mojo. After he wakes up to have breakfast, he realizes he does not have enough eggs and must go to the supermarket to buy more. Mojo's trip is bleak from start to finish. Quickly after he steps out his lair, he realizes he has forgotten his wallet. After getting it, he notices kids playing in his moat and shouts for them to stop, to no avail. He grows impatient when he needs to wait for the traffic light to change as there is noise around him and allow him to walk across the road. At the supermarket, Mojo Jojo asks a nearby employee where the eggs are. The employee tells him they are at aisle three, which happens to be exactly where Mojo is, much to Mojo's embarrassment. Once Mojo has finally cooked his breakfast, he has calmed down. While eating, he reads the newspaper, which prominently displays an article about the Powerpuff Girls' latest heroic deed. This angers Mojo once again, reminding him that he must soon come up with a plan to destroy them, although he concedes that he must wash his dishes first.
But things start to look up when the Powerpuff Girls accidentally send their baseball through Mojo's window. Inspired by this, Mojo comes up with a brand new evil scheme to destroy the Powerpuff Girls once and for all: he will hide their ball, stall the Powerpuff Girls by pretending to help them look for the ball, then destroy them, and after that, he will use the ball for one of his inventions to take over the world. The Powerpuff Girls fly over to Mojo’s lair, hoping he will give them their ball back. Mojo welcomes them into his lair, sealing the first step of his plan. However, the Girls are messing with all of his possessions, including his Ming Dynasty vase, which he stole during the very first crime he ever committed. While trying to aim the Giganto Destructo Powerpuffo Ray at the Girls, Mojo is forced to engage in a game of hide-and-seek. After finding them, Mojo offers the Girls some candy to keep them distracted while he prepares his ray.
The Powerpuff Girls decide to help Mojo look for their ball. In the process, they destroy Mojo's lab, except for the all-important ray. Mojo aims and locks the ray, only to discover that Bubbles is about to touch his Ming Dynasty vase once again. Mojo ends up in the line of fire as he tells them off, destroying the vase and making him finally give up. Fed up with the Girls and frustrated that his plan failed, he simply gives them their ball back and throws them out, only to find out the next day that he "saved the day" by giving the Girls their ball back. He screams in frustration and denial.
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- Moral: The simplest of kind acts may not seem like much to you, but can mean the whole world to others.
- Running Gags:
- Mojo pretending to look for the ball (which is a distraction so he could distract the girls so they could get killed).
- Mojo saying "Curses".
- Bubbles touching the Ming vase.
- This episode mainly focuses on Mojo, with the Powerpuff Girls as supporting characters. The Day is Saved gag even makes him the episode's hero, with the narrator saying "So once again, the day is saved. Thanks to Mojo Jojo!" instead of "...the Powerpuff Girls!".
- Along with "Mime for a Change", this episode does not include the Utonium Residence.
- There is no crime-fighting in this episode.
- This episode takes place one week after the events of the episode "Telephonies".
- This episode proves that the Powerpuff Girls love candy, which is further supported by the episode “The Stayover”.
- For the duration of this episode, Bubbles wears a red baseball cap turned backwards with the letters "PP" on the front and chews bubble gum, coincidentally making her look similar to Brick, who does not appear until a later episode.
- Bubbles is chewing bubble gum, like the gum-chewing baseball-obsessive girl Stephanie Morgan, during this episode. This alludes to her name, Bubbles.
- The name of the episode is also a pun on the Bangles song "Manic Monday".
Errors[]
- Mojo's furniture randomly changes place throughout the episode.
- Bubbles has a lazy eye for a segment of the episode.
Production Notes[]
- Although this episode premiered in the United States on February 3, 1999, it was actually produced in 1998 according to the credits.
- This episode was finished in November of 1998.[1]