"Nuthin' Special" is the fifth episode of season 5 of The Powerpuff Girls, and the 89th episode overall.
Although produced for the fifth season and airing overseas in 2003, it never aired in the United States until March 25, 2005, well after production of the original series had ended.
It made its international premiere in Australia on October 3, 2003.
Plot[]
Buttercup feels like she's nothing special when she realizes she's the only Powerpuff Girl lacking a unique ability.
Synopsis[]
Buttercup tries to find her own unique and special ability after Blossom and Bubbles saved a giant Spanish speaking squirrel on fire with Bubbles' multilingualism and Blossom's ice breath abilities. The girls try to help Buttercup find her special ability, but they are seen with the very same super-abilities like tornadoes, supersonic screams, teleporting, and inferno shields, no matter how hard Buttercup tries. Eventually, Buttercup realizes that her so-called "special ability" is that she can curl her tongue.
Characters[]
Major Roles[]
Minor Roles[]
- The Mayor of Townsville
- Miss Bellum
- Gene Simmons
- Giant Flaming Squirrel
Trivia[]
- This episode aired in some countries before the United States.[1]
- This episode premiered in Australia on October 3, 2003.
- This episode premiered in the United Kingdom on November 2, 2003.
- This episode premiered in Canada on January 23, 2004.
- This episode premiered in México on June 14, 2004.
- This episode premiered in Brasil on January 1, 2005.
- Moral: Everyone has their own unique ability.
- This is the second episode in which the girls change their size, the first one being "Nano of the North."
- The girls have the ability to shrink in this episode, however, in "Nano of the North", they didn't and were shrunk down by the Professor's Micro-Stabilizer. It's possible that they managed to learn this afterwards.
- In the episode's Spanish dub, the flaming squirrel speaks English, and Bubbles translates it into Spanish.
- The Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese title is "Nada Especial", which literally translates to "Nothing special".
- Most of the skills like transparency, spitting, the Matrix action, etc. have not been used in other episodes.
- Some of the skills shown have been used in previous episodes:
- Buttercup uses her twister skill most often, notably in episodes like Down 'n' Dirty.
- The sonic scream attack was used by Blossom and Buttercup in All Chalked Up, but this is a skill that Bubbles uses often like in Stuck Up, Up, and Away.
- Buttercup used "Inferno" in Super Zeroes.
- The "Copycat" technique is similar to the one used in Forced Kin.
- Buttercup used "Call of the Wild" in Twisted Sister.
- One of the girls' powers is called "Electric Boogaloo Forcefield", and it involves them breakdancing and creating a forcefield of electricity. This is a reference to the infamously panned "so-bad-it's-good" sequel movie, "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo", in which the main plot centers around breakdancing.
- When The Citizens of Townsville struggle to curl their tongues, Gene Simmons from the band, KISS makes an appearance. Gene Simmons is known for having an extremely long tongue, which he stuck out and wiggled during performances.
- In the dubbing for Latin America, Bubbles says that the Professor will prepare them hamburgers, while in the original version she says that he will make them tacos, this is possibly because the squirrel speaking Spanish is a reference to Mexico in which this language is spoken and the Tacos are one of the main foods of that country, to which in the Spanish version the change is made since the squirrel speaks English and hamburgers are a very common food in the United States.
Goofs[]
Bubbles' dress is pink instead of blue.
- Buttercup's outfit is light blue when the Powerpuff Girls first appear instead of lime green, like her usual. Bubbles' dress is also pink during this part.
- When Bubbles says, "What do we do?" her mouth doesn't move.
- One of the citizens cheering for Blossom and Bubbles once the giant squirrel departs has five fingers (the number of fingers we have in real life) instead of four.
- The giant squirrel yells, "Sacame, soy por el fuego!" when the correct phrase for "Put me out, I'm on fire" in Spanish is "Apáguenme, estoy en llamas".
- After Blossom extinguishes the huge squirrel's fire, he says, "Soy salvado" when the correct phrase for "I'm saved" in Spanish is actually "Estoy salvado".
Production Notes[]
- Although this episode premiered in the United States on March 25, 2005, it was actually produced for the fifth season in 2003.
- This episode was finished in June of 2003.[2]