"Powerpuff Bluff" is the fourth episode of Season 1 of The Powerpuff Girls. It first aired on Cartoon Network in the United States on November 25, 1998.
Plot[]
When three criminals disguise themselves as the Powerpuff Girls and commit crimes in their name, the real Powerpuff Girls must try and stop them before they meet their wits' end.
Synopsis[]
On a fine day in Townsville, the bank is being robbed by three criminals (named Trevor, John, and Bobby) who the Powerpuff Girls easily defeat. The robbers then target the jewelry store, but the girls strike back (even while they were trapped inside bags). The crooks abduct the Mayor and Ms. Bellum; one of them holds a porcelain poodle, and the girls strike back and everything is back to normal.
Realizing that they cannot take it anymore, the gang decides to get revenge. The violent crooks use every resource in the Townsville Jail - including grown-up-sized Powerpuff Girl costumes - to walk right out of captivity and into the local bank, using their Powerpuff privileges to clean out the vault, rip off the jewelry store, and trash the Mayor and his mansion.
When Ms. Bellum's suspicion is raised, she tells the Mayor, who misunderstands her and has the real Powerpuff Girls arrested. Ms. Bellum clues the Girls about the impostors and she tells them that the Mayor made a big mistake. The superheroes bust out of jail to attack the bad guys.
In the end, the criminals are caught at once, and everything is back to normal, but the Mayor declares the girls must go back to jail because they busted out earlier.
Trivia[]
- This is the first time in the series that the Powerpuff Girls are arrested. If considering the entire franchise, the first instance of this was in "Crime 101".
- On a sad but true note, the Girls go back to jail after they've been declared innocent, for breaking out earlier. It is a criminal offense to break out from jail, even if one is proven innocent of a crime. This is only temporary, as they return to their normal heroic selves in the next episode, implying the Girls were bailed out jail.
- Additionally, Blossom received community service at the end of the episode "A Very Special Blossom". That outcome was also temporary, as she returns to her heroic self after this episode as well.
- Moral: If you disguise yourself as someone, sooner or later your true identity will be discovered.
- This is the first episode where Professor Utonium is absent.
A Dexter-like boy from Dexter's Lab is one of the kids sleeping on the right.
- In the scene at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, a boy who resembles Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory makes a brief cameo appearance. This also occurs in the episodes "Uh Oh Dynamo", "Criss Cross Crisis", "Ploys R' Us", "Him Diddle Riddle" and "Forced Kin".
Goofs[]
- The costumes are shown to blink at some points.
- When Trevor, the boss of the criminal gang, holds up the porcelain poodle, his goatee is a lot smaller than when he and his friends are sitting in a jail cell later.
- Cindy Morrow is credited as Cindy Banks in this episode.
- In the ending of the episode, Ms. Bellum's long neck was extended way past the highest point of her hair.
- The head of the girl in the thought bubble of John resembles Bubbles with the blonde hair and blue eyes, except that the girl in his thoughts had a single large ponytail instead of the pair of short pigtails that Bubbles has. John disguises himself as Bubbles later in the episode.
Production Notes[]
- Although "Insect Inside" and this episode were the first episodes produced, they were not the first episodes to air. Those would be "Monkey See, Doggie Do" and "Mommy Fearest", which aired a week prior.
- This episode was finished in July of 1998.[1]