"Live & Let Dynamo" is the sixth episode of the sixth season of The Powerpuff Girls and the 120th episode overall.
Plot[]
The Powerpuff Dynamo is on the loose in Townsville and The Powerpuff Girls have to stop it, as well as find out who is controlling it.
Synopsis[]
The Powerpuff Dynamo is on the rampage in the city, destroying everything. The Powerpuff Girls fly to the rescue to stop it, wondering who could be controlling it, but Dynamo counters the girls with a barrage of missiles while the girls barely escape. Blossom says that whoever is controlling Dynamo sure knows how to operate it. Buttercup suspects that The Rowdyruff Boys are behind it but remembering their craziness when they destroy Morbucks' machines, she thinks otherwise. The girls continue their battle against the relentless war machine by shooting their laser attacks. When it appears that the Dynamo is weakened, Dynamo counters by swiping at the girls, knocking them far back.
Bubbles suspect Mojo Jojo, but after careful consideration, unanimously disagree because Mojo would most likely just drop the whole thing and arrogantly walk away after complaining about the layout of the control room. Thinking of a plan to stop Dynamo, Buttercup evacuates the citizens (although it takes 3 times for them to understand her with all her unintelligible yelling). Meanwhile, Bubbles fires the Sonic Scream attack which fails to do any damage. Blossom then suspects the Gangreen Gang but due to their inability to control a machine, they disagree. Dynamo then sends a rain of bee-like bombs that land all over town. Buttercup arrives at the fight, but the bombs nuke the town. The Powerpuff Girls once again try to engage combat but only ends being zapped by Dynamo's heat vision and being crushed to the ground. Dynamo crushes the town by doing a cannonball and the girls run to Dynamo again, firing lasers on Dynamo's body.
While in heavy combat they think of more suspects only to reach one dead end after another. When they suggest the Amoeba Boys, that suspicious is shot down quickly because they are not at all good criminals, much less have what it takes to pilot a machine of this magnitude. Fuzzy Lumpkins is next, but he would normally attack by himself and would use the Dynamo to play the banjo. HIM seems like their prominent suspect, but he's too flamboyant not to repaint the Dynamo in his image, so he can't be the one. Dynamo then curls to her defensive ball form and spins over the town knocking many buildings down. With their efforts to identify their mysterious villain in the driver's seat of the Dynamo proving totally hopeless, Blossom simply lays down the basis that it has to be the skilled and ruthless villain they've ever fought. On that note, Bubbles then idiotically accuses Buttercup, who's clearly floating right next to her and has been fighting the metal behemoth alongside her and Blossom the entire time. Blossom then agrees to stop wasting time and just stop the robot if they want to catch the culprit. The girls then fire the powerful "Powerpuff Megablast."
Hilariously, they miss, and Dynamo then replies with an enormous beam that cuts through the town. When the situation was bleak Blossom says that their practiced move "Razzle Dazzle" is their trump card. Using "Razzle Dazzle" the girls finally knock Dynamo over and the culprit is revealed to be... The Mayor of Townsville. Mayor said that he only pressed one single red button, and he presses it again, causing Dynamo to set off destroying Townsville again, revealing that the Dynamo simply has auto-drive system that goes berserk when unsupervised by competent pilots and the Mayor has now just idiotically reactivated it by pushing the red button, sending the girls completely back to Square 1 with them trying to vanquish the robot before it destroys the city.
The Narrator ends the episode by saying that a hero's work is never done.
Characters[]
Major Characters[]
Minor Characters[]
- The Mayor of Townsville
- The Rowdyruff Boys
- Mojo Jojo
- The Gangreen Gang
- Amobea boys
- Fuzzy Lumpins
- Him
- Professer Utonium (mentioned)
Trivia[]
- It's ironic, as well as hypocritical, that the Mayor told the girls to never use the Dynamo again yet he ends up using it himself making him a hypocrite.
- The episode never explained what the Mayor was doing in the Dynamo in the first place and how did he even get in there. Though that considering the immature antics of The Mayor in Toast of the Town, it is possible that early to the episode, The Mayor visited Professor Utonium in his laboratory, and by his curiosity with the machines and inventions. The Mayor sees the Dynamo, enters into it, and see the buttons, he pressed the same red button that he pressed at the end of the episode, activating the Dynamo and setting the events of this episode.
- And the possible explanation about why the Powerpuff girls don't know beforehand that the Mayor was inside the Dynamo, could be that maybe the girls weren't in the house, but were in the school, patrolling the city or even fighting against other villains during the time in that the Mayor visited the professor in his lab and accidentally activated the Dynamo, making that the girls couldn't see who activated it or that the professor tell this to them before the battle. It is also possible that while the mayor was inside the dynamo during the event, he was trying to find some way to deactivate it.
- This is the second appearance of Dynamo after Uh-Oh, Dynamo.
- Stock artwork of the girls were used for the scene of Dynamo being hit by the Powerpuff Megablast.
- Also, during the 2002 episode outro, the Narrator doesn't even say his usual episode outro catchphrase at all for this episode. Instead, during the 2002 episode outro for this episode, the Narrator says "Oh well, girls! Looks like a superhero's job is never done! Hey, robot! Better watch out! The Powerpuff Girls are comin' for ya! Sassafraz!".
- The only major villains that weren't suspects were Princess Morbucks and Sedusa.
- Princess is also the only Beat-All to not appear in this episode.