The Buttercup Job is the thirty-second episode (and the seventy-first episode overall) of Season 2 of the 2016 Powerpuff Girls series. It aired on Cartoon Network on April 15, 2018.
Synopsis[]
Jemmica returns, asking for help to retrieve an artifact known as the Cube of Doom. Blossom and Bubbles, remembering their last encounter with her, refuse. But Buttercup bored due to the downtime from any crime fighting, offers to help despite Blossom's objections.
Characters[]
- Blossom
- Bubbles
- Buttercup
- Professor Utonium (non-speaking cameo)
- Jemmica
- Poseidon
Trivia[]
- This episode, along with "Sugar, Spice and Super Lice", aired in Australia, New Zealand & the Phillippines simultaneously before airing in the US.
- This marks Jemmica's second appearance after "Frenemy".
- This marks the second time that the girls wear their winter outfits from "Snow Month".
- Jemmica's line "I love it when a plan comes together" is the signature catchphrase of character John "Hannibal" Smith from The A-Team. Dwight Schultz, who played Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock on said show, and would later voice Lester Van Luster.
- The Doom Cube was actually a doomsday device.
- Blossom mentioned to Jemmica about the stellar jet explosion after the events of "Frenemy".
- The "10 Angry Butlers" Poseidon takes part of Townsville's Community Theatre is a parody of a 1957 drama film 12 Angry Men.
- "Jerry's Bait Shop" is a reference to "Weird Al" Yankovic's song Albuquerque, as a store with that same name is mentioned.
- This is the fifth time to have Buttercup's name on the title.
- Irony: When Buttercup and Jemmica travel Atlantis, they're supposedly wearing their diving suit.
- Running gag: Jemmica using the smoke bomb.
- This is the first time Jemmica has yellow-colored subtitles.
- In the title, it says Jake Goldman instead.
- This is the second and final episode of a 2 episode streak that stars Buttercup.