"The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever" is the 19th episode of Season 2 of The Powerpuff Girls, and the 43rd episode overall.
It was produced in 1999 but premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on April 28, 2000 as part of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays.
Summary[]
It is raining in Townsville, so there is no crime fighting for the Powerpuff Girls. Instead, the Girls make up their own adventure where they fight a giant alligator monster invading the city. The roleplay becomes chaotic when the Girls struggle to decide who will play what role.
Plot[]
The episode begins amidst a rain storm in Townsville, which the Narrator laments about. Everyone is indoors, with various outdoor activities being called off due to the weather. This includes the Powerpuff Girls, who cannot fight crime because no villains are committing any crimes in the rain. Buttercup vents her frustration at this. When Bubbles suggests to her sisters that they play a pretend game in which they play as themselves fighting monsters, they gladly agree to do so.
Blossom builds a city out of blocks representing Townsville, and has a car figure named Joe. Buttercup enters the city to attack it and "eat" Joe, as she is pretending to be a giant alligator. Blossom says she is running Townsville and tells Buttercup to wait. Bubbles chimes in saying she is the one running Townsville, as she takes Octi's top hat and ties her pigtails in front of her face to resemble the Mayor.
Content with this addition, the girls set up equipment for "the Mayor". Bubbles, as the Mayor, calls for "Ms. Bellum", and Blossom prepares for this role by wearing high heels and stuffing plush animals in her shirt. As Ms. Bellum, Blossom suggests Bubbles "call the Powerpuff Girls" about the "monster" attacking "Townsville". Bubbles reaches the Powerpuff Hotline and calls the actual Mayor of Townsville, informing him about the pretend monster. The Mayor, believing himself to be the Powerpuff Girls, tries to fly out the window of his office and falls into mud.
When the Mayor proves unable to be in the pretend adventure, Buttercup removes her alligator costume and puts on a red hair bow, now playing the role of Blossom. The actual Blossom, in turn, removes her "Ms. Bellum" role items and disputes Buttercup's role switch, claiming Buttercup cannot play that role because the actual Blossom - herself - is present. Buttercup notes that the game is pretend, and suggests that Blossom play the role of Bubbles. The two argue, telling each other to play Bubbles; the actual Bubbles says she will play the role of Bubbles, but is quickly shut out by her sisters.
Hearing the disagreement, the Professor checks in on the Girls. Bubbles explains the dispute surrounding the roleplay. The Girls' solution, then, is having the Professor play the role of Bubbles, complete with his hair tied into pigtails, much to his discontentment. Now, Blossom is playing as the monster, and Bubbles is playing as Buttercup. Buttercup, who is still playing as Blossom, informs the others about "the Mayor's" call about the monster.
Bubbles (as Buttercup) and Buttercup (as Blossom) pretend to take strikes at the "monster" in slow motion, who defeats them. The two defeated Powerpuff Girls roll on the floor toward the Professor, who expresses his need to return to work. The girls compel him to finish the act by doing so as quickly as possible. The Professor (as Bubbles) does this by walking over to the "monster" and unconvincingly pretends to shoot a laser at it. Blossom (as the monster) lies on the ground defeated as the Professor leaves.
While Bubbles and Buttercup declare the "day" to be "saved", Blossom insists that the mystery remains which villain was "responsible" for summoning the monster. Bubbles proposes it was Fuzzy Lumpkins whilst making an impression of his accent, and Buttercup proposes it was HIM while wearing mascara and black lipstick in his likeness. Blossom places a bucket on her head and wears a purple towel as a cape, now pretending to be Mojo Jojo and claiming responsibility for the monster.
Bubbles attacks Blossom, who is exasperated; Bubbles says the impression was "just so convincing". Blossom (as Mojo Jojo again) tells the other Girls to count to sixty while she hides in a "secret hideout" spot. When she hides, however, she finds it is taking too long and comes out, only to find Bubbles and Buttercup are now playing a video game on the TV. Blossom, continuing to play as Mojo, declares her most diabolical plan: removing the game cartridge from the console.
After this is done, Bubbles and Buttercup decide the fight is on. They chase "Mojo Jojo" around the house. Just as they almost catch "Mojo", however, the sun comes up and Townsville quickly resumes its normal activities. In a surprising turn of events, this includes an attack by a monster which happens to be a giant alligator - just like the Girls' pretend game. The Girls, tired from playing, reluctantly leave to fight the monster. The Narrator now laments that the sunny weather means playtime is over, and ends the episode.
Characters[]
- The Powerpuff Girls (Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup)
- The Gangreen Gang (mentioned)
- Mojo Jojo (non speaking cameo)
- Fuzzy Lumpkins (Mentioned; Dressed Up As)
- Him (Mentioned; Dressed Up As)
- The Mayor of Townsville
- Sara Bellum
- Professor Utonium
- Giant Alligator
- Narrator
Trivia[]
- The episode has the longest title in the series, with 50 characters (44 characters if the spaces are excluded).
- The 2016 episode Rainy Day has a similar exposition to this episode, in which The Girls cannot go out and decide to play some games inside. However, its focal point differs in that the Girls encounter the lab, and Blossom is thrown in the Time Dasher, where she becomes a different figure through time after being transformed in the machine.
- The Pee-wee's Playhouse episode also called "Rainy Day" also has a similar exposition to this episode, in which Herman and the Playhouse denizens cannot go out and decide to play some games inside. In that episode, however, he does prank calls (at Randy's insistence) similar to the Gangreen Gang in "Telephonies".
- This episode premiered in some countries before the United States.[1]
- This episode premiered in Australia on December 3, 1999.
- This episode premiered in Canada on December 18, 1999.
- This episode premiered in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2000.
- When Bubbles and Buttercup are in the living room playing video games, they are using what appears to be a Nintendo 64, but the video game they were playing appears to be the Atari 2600 game Pitfall!.
- In this episode, Bubbles, Buttercup, and Blossom play as Fuzzy Lumpkins, HIM, and Mojo Jojo respectively, which are the villains they are seen fighting solo in the intro.
- This is one of Craig McCracken's ten favorite episodes.
- At the end of this episode, the Narrator says that he wanted to play Bubbles. Near the end of "Criss Cross Crisis," Bubbles switches voices with the Narrator, which is a reference to the Narrator's complaint in this episode. Also during this episode, Blossom and Bubbles play as Ms. Bellum and the Mayor respectively, and during the start of "Criss Cross Crisis," Blossom switched bodies with Ms. Bellum and Bubbles with the Mayor.
- In the scene in which Blossom picks up a toy gun, it is made by the company "Merf", an obvious parody of the Nerf brand of foam toys.
- When Blossom says that the mastermind behind the beast is yet to be found, Buttercup's bow vanishes, although it can be assumed that she stopped playing Blossom by this point and took off the bow off-screen.
- Blossom says "Do we have to? Okay.", a voice line taken from the episode "Insect Inside".
Production Notes[]
- Although this episode premiered in the United States on April 28, 2000, it was actually produced in 1999 according to the credits.
- This episode was finished in June of 1999.[2]