"Not So Awesome Blossom" is the second episode of season 5 of The Powerpuff Girls and the 86th episode overall.
Being the second episode produced after The Powerpuff Girls Movie, and also of season 5, it features the character designs and visual aesthetics from the movie.
It was one of three episodes produced in 2002, separately from the rest of season 5 in 2003 (when production resumed in 2003, the show changed its art style yet again).
It premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on December 6, 2002 as part of the Premiere Premiere Show on Cartoon Cartoon Fridays.
Plot[]
Even superheroes have bad days. Blossom loses her confidence and intelligence and becomes a jinx. When Buttercup destroys Mojo Jojo’s robots, she takes Blossom's role as the leader. Meanwhile, Mojo, using Blossom's situation, kidnaps Bubbles, Buttercup, and Professor Utonium. But will Blossom regain her leadership?
Synopsis[]
Robot Henchmen of Mojo Jojo attack Townsville. The Powerpuff Girls hope Blossom will defeat them, but instead of attacking the robots, she blows a raspberry and avoids the shots, which destroy the shop, museum, and opera. A moment later, Buttercup helps Blossom win and defeat the robots. At home, the bad luck of Blossom has no end. After damaging the doll, overturning the castle of blocks, injuring Bubbles and Professor, an ashamed Blossom runs away from home to an unknown place. She left a note, which explains the reason why she left home. After she left, Mojo Jojo puts up a ransom note on the door (in the place of the note that Blossom left). Professor Utonium goes outside and reads Blossom's and Mojo Jojo's notes, but follows Mojo's note (which describes a fake fact that Blossom was kidnapped) and the Professor gets kidnapped himself. Bubbles and Buttercup (as the leader now) get in contact with the Professor and Mojo Jojo, then the girls try to go and find the Professor. Meanwhile, Blossom gets a job at a restaurant called Hot Dog On A Skewer, but even here the bad luck doesn't leave her, leaving customers to berate her for inadequate service. Mojo calls to Blossom, saying that he has her sisters and dad. Blossom flies to Mojo Jojo's Lair, but Mojo put Bubbles, Buttercup and the Professor at ransom. It seems that Mojo placed The Professor above the lava of the Volcano on a platform and that both Bubbles and Buttercup are also place onto similar platforms, where both girls need to stay on the platforms as it seems that if one of them move, the balance of the platform that hold The Professor will cause him to fall into the Lava. Blossom points out that she isn't on a platform and prepared to stop Mojo, who informs her that even if Bubbles and Buttercup are still on the platforms, he can press a button that will still cause The Professor to fall into the Lava. After a short conversation, Blossom thinks of a plan, how to help her sisters, Professor and how to beat Mojo. Fortunately, Blossom regains her confidence, saves her dad and sisters, while she takes Mojo Jojo to Jail. After the events, Professor, together with Buttercup and Bubbles enjoys the meal at Hot Dogs On A Skewer and congratulate Blossom. And then Blossom yells "Where's the ketchup?!" and the episode ends.
Characters[]
- The Powerpuff Girls
- Professor Utonium
- Mojo Jojo
- Citizens of Townsville
- Hot dog worker
- Little boy
- Mojo's robots
Trivia[]
- Moral: Confidence is a fragile emotion. Endurance and perseverance measures the true worth and character of not just a warrior or a protector of others, but of a person in general. Life is about winning some battles and losing some, but what matters is not letting the negativity of any given outcome destroy your confidence in what you love.
- This episode is the second extra from The Powerpuff Girls Movie when it has the Color and Animation movie version.
- Apparently, there is a cell-phone version of the hotline in this episode.
- Bubbles is obviously not happy that she and Buttercup have to go to Mojo's to rescue Utonium again since they already did that in "Mr. Mojo's Rising."
- In Brazilian Portuguese dub, the title called "Florzinha Ruinzinha", It is rhyming with hanging Blossom's PT-BR name and the word "Ruína" (means ruin).
- This episode is one of the occasions where Mojo shows his truly darker side, since The Powerpuff Girls Movie.
- The Narrator says "Hot dog!" just like Mickey Mouse.
- This episode was disliked by the majority because of how Blossom was treated in this episode.
Goofs[]
- At the end of the episode, in the exterior shot of Hot Dog on a Skewer, the Professor doesn't have white in his eyes and his nose is missing.
- When Blossom threatens to resign from her job she throws a bottle of mustard, only for it to land and squirt back on her, and she is covered in drips of mustard. In the next shot when she answers the phone (only to find out it's Mojo Jojo), she is clean.
Production Notes[]
- "Keen on Keane", this episode and "Power-Noia" are the only episodes to air in 2002 to also be produced that year.
- This episode was finished in August of 2002.[1]