"Just Another Manic Mojo" is the 21st episode of Season 1.
It was produced in 1998 and first aired on Cartoon Network in the United States on February 3, 1999.
Synopsis[]
When the 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. 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 Girls once and for all: he will hide their ball, pretend to help the Girls look for it, then destroy them, and after that, he'll use the ball on one of his inventions to take over the world. While trying to aim the Giganto Destructo Powerpuffo Ray at the Girls, Mojo is forced to engage in a game of hide-and-seek. Looking for their ball, the Girls 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 favorite possession: the Ming Dynasty vase, stolen during the very first crime he ever committed. Of course, 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 and he screams in frustration and denial.
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Trivia[]
- Moral: The simplest of kind acts may not seem like much to you, but can mean the whole world to others.
- Running Gags: Mojo saying "Curses" and 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.
- This is the first time Mojo saves the day for doing something nice for the girls.
- Along with "Mime for a Change", this episode doesn't include the Professor and the girls' home.
- There is no crime-fighting in this episode.
- Mojo's furniture randomly changes place throughout the episode.
- This episode takes place one week after the events of the episode "Telephonies".
- This episode proves that the Powerpuff Girls love candy.
- For the duration of this episode, Bubbles wears a red baseball cap turned backwards with the letters "PP" on the front, coincidentally making her look similar to Brick though he does not appear till later.
- Bubbles is chewing bubble gum, like the gum-chewing baseball-obsessive girl Stephanie Morgan, during this episode. This alludes to her name, Bubbles.
- Bubbles has a lazy eye for a segment of the episode.
- The name of the episode is also a pun on the Bangles song "Just Another Manic Monday".
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]