Largo is the ninth episode (and the eighty-eighth episode overall) of Season 3 of the 2016 Powerpuff Girls series. It aired on Cartoon Network on June 9, 2018.
Synopsis[]
A mysterious rain cloud causes everyone in Townsville to be depressed. While the girls are immune to the effects, Blossom and Buttercup are arguing with each other, forcing Bubbles to trace the sadness to a lugubrious bear named Largo, who is the opposite counterpart of Allegro.
Characters[]
- Blossom
- Bubbles
- Buttercup
- Professor Utonium
- Barry
- Mayor of Townsville
- Citizens of Townsville
- Tempo (first appearance)
Trivia[]
- Tempo's name is only used in the voice credits.
- This episode marks Allegro's final appearance in the reboot.
- Both this episode and "Painbow" shared a similar premise:
- In this episode, the people of Townsville got affected by a rain cloud by feeling unhappy.
- In "Painbow", a mysterious rainbow to make the Townsville citizens unusually happy.
- The Girls once again were unaffected by this mysterious rain, the same thing happened with the mysterious rainbow in this aforementioned episode.
- This episode reveals that both Allegro and Largo are two different entities of Tempo.
- This explains why Tempo got hit by lightning causing him to split into two different counterparts.
- Allegro twerks twice in this episode, making it the last two times he did it before merging with Largo to reform into Tempo.
- This marks the final time Blossom and Buttercup are physically fighting in the series, and the first time in the reboot where they fight, other times being in Octi Evil, Powerpuff Bluff, and The Powerpuff Girls Movie".
References[]
- Largo - This episode title (along with Largo's name) is a parody of FX's black comedy–crime drama anthology show Fargo.
- Toy Story 3 - Tempo's appearance vaguely resembles Lots-O-Huggin' Bear, himself being a parody of a Care Bear. However, Tempo is much more of a true Care Bear than Lotso ever was at heart.
- Lego Movie (and Uni-Kitty spin-off) - Upon splitting from his half-Largo, Allegro happens to share some similarities as Uni-Kitty, such as their angry forms.
- Dragon Ball - Upon revealing the fact that Allegro and Largo were once one being and reunited once more, both halves happen to share similarities to which Piccolo and Kami were once one being up until the Androids Saga of Dragon Ball Z, where Piccolo and Kami fuse again.
- The Madagascar franchise - Bubbles says "crackalackin'", which is Marty the zebra's catchphrase.