"The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever" is the 19th episode of Season 2, 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.
Plot[]
It's a rainy day in Townsville, so there's no crime fighting for the girls. Instead, they make up their own adventure where the girls fight a giant alligator unleashed by Mojo Jojo. Ironically, when the sun comes out, it actually happens, so once again the girls have to save the day, for real, because playtime is over.
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 can’t go out and decide to play some games inside. That said, there's a different climax, in which the Girls encounter the lab, and threw Blossom 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 can’t 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".
- The narrator uses a dull tone for the entire episode due to the nature of this episode.
- 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're 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.
- Goof: 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.
- The Powerpuff Girls do not play as the Gangreen Gang in this episode, but they did get mentioned.
- The Powerpuff Girls don't also play as the Amoeba Boys, Sedusa, Princess Morbucks, and the Rowdyruff Boys.
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]