THE POWERPUFF GIRLS RULE!
Note: This episode is presented in letterbox format, instead of the full-frame aspect ratio used for all other episodes, and it uses the character designs from the first four seasons.
Act One[]
(Opening shot: the city skyline during the day. )
Narrator: The city of Townsville! (relaxed) Ahh, what a nice, calm, beautiful, and peaceful da- (A sudden tremor shakes the camera.) -aw, man!
(Quick pan to the source of the ruckus: a huge robotic copy of Mojo Jojo, complete with clothing. The blue tunic sports a white panel that tapers down into the triangular belt buckle. A few cars are swept aside, taking a good chunk of the street with them, and the camera quickly zooms in on the face, cuts to the control center inside, and zooms in to a close-up of the chair as it swivels to face the lens. Here is Mojo, whose tunic does not show the white panel; he gives us an intense, bug-eyed stare that echoes the "Dramatic Chipmunk" often watched on YouTube during 2007 and 2008.)
(After a few seconds of this, the camera backs up and he starts working the controls and
laughing madly.)
Narrator: Figures! It's Mojo Jojo, the big dumb ruiner of everything!
Mojo: (grabbing a wall handle) Go, Mobile Jojo! Go!
(On this last word, he rolls backward in his chair, pulling the handle with him on a long shaft. Outside, the Mobile Jojo robot leaps high and crushes a stretch of freeway, then knocks down some power lines and takes out Malph's Market with one blow. At the controls, the crazed primate whoops it up and does a victory dance or two; cut to a close-up of Mobile Jojo's face and pull back to frame a man in the foreground as it also dances.)
Man: BOOOOO!
(Cut to the girls in flight.)
Blossom: 'Kay, girls. Chimpy's out of his cage again. (to Bubbles) Giggles, flank right. (to Buttercup) Sourpuss, left. It's bedtime for Bonzo!
(They charge. Close-up of a monitor, which displays the message "ALERT" and a crude graphic of the approaching Bubbles, then pull back to frame a slightly perturbed Mojo. He works a couple of levers, causing Mobile Jojo to start firing beams from its eyes at a hapless building and start a fusillade into the sky.)
Bubbles: (dodging shots easily) Ahh, Mojo, Mojo, Mojo. What are you doing? (baby talk) Are oo twying to take over the world again? (She scores hits with her own eye beams.)
Mojo: (sarcastically, mimicking her) Yes, I'm twying to take over the world again. (own voice) And I'm gonna do it, too!
(A crash; red wirning lights begin to blink.)
Computer: Hull breach. Hull breach.
(Outside, the breach in question occurs when Buttercup bursts out of Mobile Jojo's chest and doubles back to start punching a few more holes.)
Buttercup: Sure you are, with your big dumb smelly robot!
Mojo: (jumping around angrily) It's not a big dumb smelly robot! It's a big awesome robot that does cool stuff! (Close-up of a button; he continues o.c.) Like this!
(He brings his fist down on the button; outside, a large missile emerges from the braincap's rim, right above the nose, but stops short once the tip of its warhead has just barely extended out of view. It strains to clear the launch tube but cannot, and a pan in that direction reveals why- Blossom is holding it in place with one hand.)
Blossom: Look, we go through this every day. You're all- (imitating him) -"I, Mojo Jojo, with my blah-blah-blah-blah-blah, shall-" (Long shot of Earth; echoing voice over.) "-rule the world!" (Back to her.) "I will be the one in control!" (Extreme close-up, panning slowly.) "Total global power shall be my responsibility!" (Pull back.) "I- "
Mojo: I do not repeat myself like that! I am clear, concise, and to the point! (Extreme close-up; slow pan.) Reiterating is not my thing! (Pull back.) I-
Blossom: And every time, Bubbles, Buttercup, and I stop you.
(Each of the other girls flies into view when her name is mentioned. Close-up of Blossom and Buttercup, panning on the next line to put the latter out of view and frame Bubbles on Blossom's other side; the blonde smiles and shakes her head.)
Blossom: When are you gonna learn that you're never, never, never gonna take over the world?
(Cut to Mojo; she is heard over a speaker.) Because no matter what you do, all your little plans- (The girls again.) -are gonna keep blowing up in your fa-
(The stopped missile detonates before she can finish the last word and throws the girls back a short distance. When the smoke clears, we see that most of Mobile Jojo's face has been obliterated by the explosion. The metal hulk falls over on its back, and the girls start snickering and giggling, then they burst out laughing loudly over the sight as police sirens approach and Mojo is swiftly taken into custody. Scuffed and bruised, he looks forlornly out through the barred rear window of the paddy wagon he has been deposited in and watches the girls take off over the city. The vehicle begins to roll as he begins to sing in his head-a quiet, wistful melody that recalls "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid.) (The song Rule All of the World has started.)
Mojo: I'm not a fool. I know I could rule this whole wide world (He drops his head; zoom in slowly.)
What I would do (His eyes and voice harden in anger.)
To control you forevermore.
(The exterior of the jail.)
Ruined, my plan! (The wagon rolls into the yard and he is escorted to the building.)
They don't understand,
Those stinkin' Powerpuff Girls!
(Mug shots and fingerprints are taken; his voice softens again as he is taken-now in a prison jumpsuit-down the cell block corridor.)
Bright young Chimpy (regaining his resolve)
Who's not a wimpy, ready to stand.
[Note: The three convicts who impersonated the girls in "Powerpuff Bluff" are among the onlookers here.]
Mojo: I wanna control all the people now
Give 'em my orders and get some action
(He enters an empty cell, whose door slides shut behind him.)
Be super-awesome and declare
That I-what's the word?
(After a moment's thought, he does a happy pirouette and jumps onto his cot.)
RULE! (Evil smile; zoom in slowly.)
I got a plan
An awesome plan
To control all of man!
(The smile and his fierce tone evaporate instantly; tilt up to the cell window, which shows the city skyline at night under a crescent moon.)
I'd be so cool
Wish I could rule
(Close-up; he sings this final line out loud.)
Mojo: All of the world.
(Right after he finishes the last note, a prisoner's hairy, beefy arm reaches into view behind him.)
Prisoner: (from o.c.) Beautiful.
(The arm wraps itself around his shoulders, to his very great surprise and dismay-he has attracted perhaps the wrong kind of attention.)
(Cut to the exterior of the girls' house. It is now the next day.)
Narrator: Ahh. Now, with Mojo behind bars, our little crime-fighters finally get to take a break, relax, and take her easy for a while.
("A while" lasts only until their three camera-shaking screams rip the air to shreds.)
Narrator: Gosh-darn it!
(Inside, the Professor is seated at the kitchen table and reading the newspaper; the girls, gripped by sheer panic, fly in a tight circle above their chairs.)
Professor: Girls, what is it? (looking at the plates of scrambled eggs(with hot sauce he made) Too much salsa on the eggs? (rolling up paper, beating himself with it) Bad dad! Bad dad! Bad dad!
Blossom: (taking paper away) No, Professor. (His perspective of her.) It's not that, it's this!
(Unrolling it, she gives us a good look at the front-page headline as the camera zooms in. The motion cuts out the accompanying picture: a large, ornate key with an image of the globe worked into its head.)
Professor: (reading) "Key to the World Arrives in Townsville Today!" (Cut to him and Blossom.) Oh, how nice.
Bubbles: It's not nice! It's terrible! (shoving paper into his face) Keep reading!
Professor: (reading) "Keys. They open our cars, our homes, our hearts. But one k-"
(Now Buttercup flies over, with a disgusted sigh, and takes the paper from him to skim ahead.)
Buttercup: No, no, no, read… (shoving it back to him) …this!
(Only the first five words of the next line are delivered by the Professor on camera; beyond that point, it becomes a voice over as the view changes.)
Professor: (reading) The Key to the World travels the globe, spending one day in each city. It may seem just like an empty symbol of goodwill and brotherhood, but in actuality, the law clearly states that whoever possesses the Key to the World…" (surprised) "…actually does rule the world"?!?
(Accompanying images to the voice-over portion: The Key-now seen to be made of gold-zooms over the ocean, then bounces from place to place rapidly over a map of the world. A close-up of a white hand shaking a black one as a legal document scrolls by in the background, then pull back. The hands belong to two men whose bodies are done entirely in their hands' colors, and Black is passing the Key to White. Zoom in on it, the background flaring blue once it is in White's hand, then pull back as the color goes red. White is now a hulking brute, tinted an awful shade of scarlet by the new light; he grasps the Key in one hand, the world in the other, and directs an avaricious grin full of pointed teeth at the latter.)
(Back to the Professor, seen in close-up.)
Professor: Well, that's just dumb. (Pull back; the girls pace in midair.)
Blossom: (flustered) I know! We always knew about the Key, but we never thought anyone would be dumb enough to send it here! I mean, Townsville is practically Villain City, USA!
Professor: Girls, girls, girls, don't worry. I'm sure the Mayor's taken the proper measures to make sure the Key is safe. (They stop pacing and settle into their chairs.)
Blossom: Ah, you're right, Professor.
Buttercup: It's all cool.
Bubbles: (laughing a bit) We were all- (crossing eyes, faking a freak-out) "Aah! The Key! The Key!" (back to normal) So dumb.
(Close-up of the hotline as it begins to buzz; Blossom answers it.)
Blossom: Yes, Mayor?
(The next words come with enough force to blow her ponytail and hair bow back and make her hold the receiver at arm's length.)
Mayor: (over hotline) I lost it! I lost the Key!
(He screams, she hangs up, and the Professor screams and points frantically out toward the city proper. Cut to the girls in flight, also screaming, then to a piece of the skyline and tilt down quickly to ground level as the Narrator also yells. Unsavory characters are wreaking havoc everywhere: the Gangrene Gang, Fuzzy Lumkins, "Him," Sedusa, the Amoeba Boys, Roach Coach in human form, the Sandman, Femme Fatale, the Boogie Man and his friends, Princess Morebucks in her ersatz Powerpuff outfit, the Fish Balloon from "Uh Oh Dynamo," the multieyed floating sphere from "The Mane Event," the Broccoloid attack saucer from "Beat Your Greens," and a few other monsters the girls have fought over the course of the series. They charge back and forth across the screen on the next line.)
Narrator: All of the villains and all of the bratty ones and all the fuzzy ones and all the icky ones and all the sticky ones and all the scary ones and all the villains are-
(Now the screen is completely empty.)
Mojo: (from o.c.) One of us is not here!
(Quick pan to the jail, tilting up into the sky as something bursts out through the roof. It proves to be Mojo, now tricked out in a white armored suit with thrusters built into the back; its helmet is styled similarly to his braincap.)
Mojo: Go, monkey, go! (Zoom in on his face.) Mojo Jojo!
[Note: This line is borrowed from "Go Monkey Go," recorded by Devo for the Powerpuff Girls compilation Heroes & Villains.]
(He barrels along but is immediately hit head-on by the girls, leaving his suit half torn off and the rest of him a smoking shambles. Suspended briefly in midair, he holds up a sign that displays the word "CURSES," then turns it around. On the other side, in much smaller print, it reads: "Curses I say! I express my frustration with a word that I feel sums up the overwhelming feeling of anger I experience when I find myself in such unfortunate situations such as this!" After hanging here for long enough to let the viewer read all this mumbo-jumbo, sign and holder both drop like a rock. From here, cut to the girls as they swoop down toward the city.)
Narrator: Go, girls! Go!
(Ground level; Fuzzy fires his old shotgun into the ground, singing badly.)
Fuzzy: Fuzzy went a-shootin' to find the Key,
- Gonna make the world his proper- (Buttercup flies in.) -ty?
- Gonna make the world his proper- (Buttercup flies in.) -ty?
(She puts an end to both the fusillade and the serenade with one left hook; the shotgun falls neatly into the hands of Bubbles, standing in front of a key shop. Bubbles trains her eye beams on it to melt it down. Now a crane rolls down the street, wrecking ball at the ready. On the next line, cut to a close-up of the driver, who cowers as Princess, perched on the top of his seat's headrest, yells at him.)
Princess: I want that Key and I want it now! So do what my daddy pays you to do and tear it all down!
(She kicks him in the back on this last word, knocking him into the controls and causing the ball to swing out-straight toward Bubbles' back. Blossom gasps in fright, and the view changes to show one vertical panel freeze-frame at the right edge of the screen: Bubbles, melting down Fuzzy's weapon as the ball approaches. The panel jumps left by one width, now showing a closer view of the blond heroine, after which the image expands to fill the full screen width again and displays an extreme close-up of the ball about to ring Bubbles' bell. Fade to white, with a few wisps of bluish vapor floating across the screen.)
(Fade in to a close-up of Bubbles and the gun, now frozen into a block of ice, and pull back. Blossom, floating nearby, has used her ice breath to freeze both her sister and the ball, averting a very nasty bit of blunt force trauma. In close-up, the redhead lets go with one last bit of frost and a smile, but a shattering of ice causes her to gasp. Pull back; Mojo-now properly cleaned up and outfitted-has arrived and dug his fingers in to get the shotgun.)
Mojo: (pulling it out, firing) Mojo went shooting- (Fuzzy knocks him away and grabs it.)
Fuzzy: (firing) -to find the Key!
(Bits of rubble smash through the ice covering the wrecking ball, which takes out the front window of the key shop. She is also free and badly disoriented, so she cannot immediately react when Mojo pops up from inside with dozens of keys in his hands.)
Mojo: Look at all these keys!
(Princess flies over, disappears into the shop, and bashes him to the sidewalk.)
Princess: (from inside, throwing out keys)
No…no…no…no…no…no…no…no!
(During this line, the camera pans away to the sidewalk, where Blossom and an irritated
Bubbles are facing each other. The discarded keys all bounce off Bubbles' head.)
Blossom: (shrugging) Whoops, sorry.
(A laptop computer falls neatly into one hand, its owner into the other, and a terrible reptilian screech fills the air as she looks bemusedly upward. Quick tilt up to the Fish Balloon (FB), which has torn the top few stores off a building and is shaking them in search of the Key-dislodging everyone and everything inside in the process. Now Buttercup goes to work gathering up all the people; she lets off a frustrated scream as she works.)
Buttercup: A little help, please?
(Her sisters lift off to provide it, neatly plucking every person from the air, as Mojo floats into view. He is using the one-man helicopter capsule he showed off in "Daylight Savings," with his arms and legs protruding, and he frantically waves a butterfly net around in the shower of falling items.)
Mojo: Key, Key, Key…is that the Key?...is that the Key? (zipping past Bubbles, Blossom, Buttercup in turn) Excuse me…pardon me…coming through!
(Long shot of Bubbles, zooming in as he keeps darting back and forth to her growing vexation.)
Mojo: Any…of you…seen…a…Key?
(When her face fills the screen, her last good nerve gives way and she unloads a high-frequency scream; pull back as the sound waves cause Mojo to lose all control. He gets stuck in the side of something large and red-orange, which begins to jiggle like a bowl of Jell-O due to the spinning propeller. Tilt up to reveal the rest of this something as the FB, whose screwed-up eyes and facial expression indicate that it is extremely ticklish. Finally it uncorks a great bellow of laughter and drops the building fragment it has been searching; this plunges past Blossom, Bubbles, and the loads of people they are still holding in midair. Now it is Blossom's turn to throw Bubbles a dirty look.)
Bubbles: (gesturing angrily) What?!? (Her group drops, screaming.) Oopsie.
Group 1: WHATEVER!
Buttercup: (zipping in) I'm on it!
(She cranks up the RPM's and generates the same sort of tornado she used at the start of "Down 'n' Dirty," sucking the falling people back up into the air.)
Group 1: OH, GREAT! (dropping into the funnel cloud) NICE!
Blossom: Awesome!
(Rising to its top, she tosses in her armload of hapless passengers.)
Group 2: (sarcastically) REAL NICE!
(She and Bubbles race the dropped building section to the ground and win, stopping it at roof level. Pull back to frame Buttercup in the street.)
Buttercup: Everyone okay?
(A cut to the building dwellers leaves the answer to that one somewhat fuzzy. No one is injured, but extreme vertigo has left the entire group unable to do much more than groan and wobble/fall over where they stand. Tilt up to Buttercup, now floating a few floors up.)
Buttercup: Great! See, girls? At least someone isn't messing up around here!
(Several thuds from below snap her out of her self-congratulatory mood; she looks that way as the camera tilts down quickly to the survivors. Now all sprawled out, they point angrily off to the left; pan quickly to frame the Gang fleeing with loads of keys. Big Billy only carries one; Grubber has stuffed his pants full.)
Ace: Key to the World, Ma! Key to the World!
(They stop short upon finding Buttercup in their way; Grubber loses some of his keys, an instant before she unloads a punch that sends them flying. The keys fall as one giant, disorganized spread in the middle of an intersection, drawing the attention of the following in quick succession: Fuzzy; Princess; the FB; Sedusa, with the Mayor and Ms. Bellum suspended upside down in her hair; Roach Coach; the Amoebas; Lenny Baxter, the fat Powerpuff fan from "Collect Her"; Kitty, the cat from "Cat Man Do"; the Boogie Man and two of his buddies, emerging from a manhole; the Gang in a knocked-out heap; and Mojo, who digs himself out from underneath the Gang and throws himself toward the intersection.)
(The view changes to show the mad monkey leaping ecstatically in slow motion across the screen as hearts float past, his eyes replaced by copies of the Key. The entire image is rendered in shades of pink, except for the two gold Keys. Normal coloration resumes as he reaches the villain free-for-all that has instantly formed at the key pile. He tries to wedge himself into the knot of social deviants but cannot find a purchase, and Buttercup watches in sheer disbelief, one eye twitching a bit. The heads of her smiling sisters rise into view behind her.)
Blossom: Uh-
Buttercup: Yeah, yeah!
(She rockets away with almost enough speed to blow their hair off and zeroes in on a huge water tower that stands nearby. As she begins to trace around its equator with her eye beams, the rogues' gallery continues its collective pillaging of the key pile. Mojo, perched on top of the FB and unable to reach into the stash, is the only one who takes notice of a sudden rain and a growing shadow that fall on the crowd together. The source of both is the top half of the water tower, freshly severed and dropped-water and all-to cage up the group.)
(Blossom and Bubbles look on with admiration as Buttercup rises between them and smugly sticks her tongue' out at her sisters'. However, celebration quickly turns to terror as the light briefly goes red and the sound of heavy lifting comes from o.c.; cut to the source-"Him," who materializes behind the tower half and quickly grows to dwarf it. With a few waves of his pincers, he levitates both the metal dome and the mass of keys, then flips the former over to serve as a bowl for the latter.)
"Him": (effeminate voice) Ooh, it pays to have a magnetic personality.
(Now he sticks out his tongue, crossing his eyes for good measure. Close-up of Mojo in a dead run, then pull back to reveal that he is using a pair of telescoping stilts attached to his boot soles. These give him enough height to snatch the makeshift bowl away from "Him"; another close-up.)
Mojo: Yes, yes, yes! Finally the Key to the World is mi-
(He cuts himself off sharply and begins to topple over; at ground level, the girls have each put out one foot to trip him. Down he goes like a ton of bricks, spilling the keys all over the street again. We now see all the other villains, including "Him," float slowly toward the pile just as Mojo did earlier: tinted pink, eyes replaced by copies of the Key, every face beaming in anticipation. Normal imagery resumes as they converge and start a full-scale battle royal; quick pan to the girls, who stare speechless with keys flying overhead and bouncing off all three skulls.)
[Animation goof: Billy is shown with two Keys in his eyes, even though he revealed himself as a Cyclops in "Schoolhouse Rocked."]
Mayor: (from o.c., whispering) Girls!
(He pokes his head into frame.)
Mayor: (whispering) Girls! Girls! (He tiptoes over and leans in close to Bubbles.) I found it!
(Big smiles from them as he nods smugly, so he pulls it out and shows them…)
Mayor: (normal volume) My precious porcelain poodle!
(It is a dead-on copy of the one the girls accidentally broke in "Powerpuff Bluff"; seeing it, rather than the Key, in his hands sends their minds reeling.)
Mayor: (stroking it) I thought I lost this puppy.
(Clamping it in his teeth, he drops to all fours and scampers off past our heroines, every one of whom now has an uncontrollably twitching eye.)
Ms. Bellum: (from o.c.) Don't ask.
(They look in her direction; pull back to frame her standing where he had been, with a stack of assorted items from the office-including a jar of pickles-in her arms. She points after him.)
Ms. Bellum: Oh, he's picked up another scent!
(And he is eagerly sniffing at the base of a tree, which he abandons after a moment only to leap back here and dig a hole. This display of canine idiocy leaves the girls at even more of a loss for words, but it pays off when the Mayor bounds back to them with some papers in his mouth.)
Ms. Bellum: Good boy! But…Key. (Close-up of him; she takes the papers and continues o.c.) Find the Key, not…
(Her perspective of him and the soil-specked items: a stack of checks. The top one is made out to her for $250,000 and drawn on the city's account. It bears the Mayor's printed "signature," as well as the note "Fer Gud Werk" on the memo line.)
Ms. Bellum: (exasperated) …my bonus checks. Key.
[Note: The check is dated November 18, 1998, the day of the series premiere, and "thousand" is misspelled.]
(He cocks his head, puzzled. Pull back to frame everyone; he runs off.)
Ms. Bellum: (walking o.c. after him) Okay, wait for me…no, no, do not pee on that!
(After a beat and a half, the camera zooms in on the girls as Bubbles and Buttercup scream in frustration. Close-up of Blossom.)
Blossom: Okay…okay, okay. I can figure this out. I'm smart. (concentrating) Come on, think! Think! (Brainstorm.) Girls! Girls, what do we know? (Pan to Buttercup.)
Buttercup: This stinks! (To Blossom.)
Blossom: Right. What else? (To Bubbles.)
Bubbles: (distraught) We stink! (To Blossom.)
Blossom: Exactly! This situation is hopeless, and we totally can't handle it. So if we can't beat 'em, then we gotta…join 'em!
(It makes perfect sense to her, but her sisters have a much harder time bending their minds around it, if the sight of their jaws hanging full open is any indication. After giving them a few encouraging looks and getting no response, she pulls them in close.)
Blossom: We gotta find that Key.
(Now they get it; Bubbles and Buttercup trade a knowing smile and take off, Blossom following them a moment later. After all three have gone, Mojo eases his head into frame to peek after them, then stands up to wrap his cape around himself and exits dramatically. Snap to black.)
Act Two[]
(Opening shot: a pan across a map of Townsville, following the girls’ light trails as they cover block after block.)
Narrator: And so, in a fast time-saving action sequence, the girls use their super speed to scour every nook and cranny of Townsville, trying to find that Key. But, once they reach the outskirts of Townsville Forest, all hope seems lost, as well as the Key.
(On the end of this line, they cross from city proper to woods and fly straight o.s. Cut to them, flat on their backs among the trees and completely out of breath. It is now close to sunset. Close-up of Buttercup.)
Buttercup: We…looked…everywhere! (Pan to Blossom.)
Blossom: Every…last…logical place… (To Bubbles; she continues o.s.) …it would make…sense… (Bubbles gets an idea.) …to lose a key!
(Cut to the other two, who vent their frustration at top volume.)
Bubbles: (smacking them upside the head, zipping about excitedly) Girls! Sense? Sense? Sense?
Why are we talking about sense?
(The view now alternates between the Mayor and the girls before each of the following lines, with Bubbles delivering hers as a voice over. First up: the little man waves to the camera.)
Bubbles: This is the Mayor we’re talking about!
Blossom, Buttercup: (confused) Uh-huh. (He pulls out a jar of pickles.)
Bubbles: He doesn’t make any sense!
Blossom, Buttercup: Uh-huh. (He gets ready to reach in.)
Bubbles: He’s a dope!
Blossom, Buttercup: Uh-huh. (He tries to pull out a pickle; it is stuck sideways.)
Bubbles: He’s the dopiest person we know! (Stay on him.)
Blossom, Buttercup: (voice over) Uh-huh. (Back to Bubbles.)
Bubbles: What’s the dopiest place the big dope would lose the dopey Key?
(Pull back to frame all three; now, and only now, do the others take her meaning. They look toward the city proper, the camera panning quickly to follow their gaze until it skids to a stop on a long shot of Townsville Hall. Zoom in just as quickly and cut to inside, where the camera zips along a corridor until it skids out at the open door of the Mayor’s office. Another zoom brings us to the desk, after which the camera tracks around it to the drawers and the top center one pops open to expose the Key.)
Blossom: (clapping hand to face) Right in his desk drawer!
Buttercup: (ditto) Right under his nose!
Blossom, Buttercup: THAT MAKES NO SENSE!!
Mojo: (from o.s.) Makes sense to me.
(Pan to frame him at the controls of a blue/purple tank, well armed, with steel “hedge chopper” teeth mounted on the front fender between the treads and green/black bat wings projecting from the rear, the main gun turret, and the transparent cockpit canopy on top.)
Mojo: Now if you’ll excuse me… (Close-up.) …I have a world to take over!
(He peels out in a belch of smoke and fire and laughter, heading straight for Townsville and leaving the girls to stare stupidly after him for a long moment.)
Buttercup: How did we not notice a tank following us?!?
Blossom: Who cares? We can stop him! (They take off.) Come on, girl—
(The sound of another engine revving freezes them in their tracks, only a few feet off the ground, and their eyes shift uneasily back in its direction. Cut to part of the source: Fuzzy, at the wheel of a vehicle built from an old barrel and a discarded boiler. As the camera pulls back and pans across the clearing, many other racers are seen lined up next to him. All five members of the Gang have stuffed themselves into one souped-up jalopy; Princess has an open-topped, over-the-top stretch limo of a roadster, complete with chauffeur; the FB is balanced on a ridiculously small bicycle; the Amoebas are in the back seat of a taxi whose driver looks bored out of his mind; and “Him” is riding low on a red/orange chopper with spikes on the wheels, a set of pincers on its rear antenna, and pink tulle frills around the headlight and front fender.)
Bubbles: (shouting to make herself heard) How did we not—
(She gets no farther, as the whole unsavory bunch peels out past the girls in a cloud of exhaust and burned-rubber fumes. They are left spinning and coughing, their hair blown badly out of place, but quickly put themselves right.)
Blossom: Come on, gir—
(They are halted by another noise, the clearing of the Professor’s throat from o.s. Cut to him, standing by a clump of bushes and waving.)
Blossom: (from o.s.) How did we—
Professor: Call it father’s intuition, but the important thing right now is that you beat those villains from getting to the Key first.
(He grabs the bushes and yanks them aside to reveal a dune buggy painted pink and red; the hood sports a large red heart, the rear fender three small yellow stars in the same shade as the seats, and the roll bar is shaped like a heart.)
Professor: I made it!
Bubbles: Wow, Professor, that’s a really pretty dune buggy.
Blossom: But if it’s all the same to you…
Buttercup: …we’re just gonna, you know, like, fly.
(The next shot more fully shows the antenna in back, which flies a black PPG pennant.)
Professor: (crushed, kicking a pebble) Oh, okay, I guess. It’s just that I made it special for you and all, but if you want to fly, that’s fine.
(The girls trade a remorseful look, realizing just how badly they have hurt his feelings. Clsoe-up of the budding mechanic, now about to wet his pants from sheer excitement.)
Professor: WHOO-HOO!!
(As he yells, pull back to show him and Buttercup the back seat of the buggy, Blossom at the wheel, and Bubbles riding shotgun. The antenna is now seen to be capped with a small red heart. Meanwhile, Mojo barrels ahead as flames pour from the exhaust nozzles on his tank; his eyes dart from side to side, them backwards, and the camera shifts to view the other villains closing in fast.)
Mojo: (from o.s.) What the—
(Back to him; they all pass him easily, even the FB on its bike, and he is left spinning uselessly in place. When he stops, he finds himself facing the wrong way.)
Mojo: Cur—
(Team Utonium’s passing spins him again.)
Mojo: (garbled by motion of spin) —ses! (They start to pass everyone else.)
Professor: (standing up, taunting them) Yee-ha! Whoo-hoo-hoo! Neener-neener-neener!
(He sounds off with a raspberry, a goofy face, and a laugh and whoop before the buggy pulls even with “Him.”)
Professor: (puckering up, batting eyelashes) Yoo-hoo!
Blossom: (exasperated) If you don’t behave, I’m gonna turn this car around!
(After a few more puckers, he sullenly sits back down and folds his arms. However, a screech of tires shakes him out of the funk; he looks back and is met with the sight of Mojo’s tank barreling through the pack.)
Professor: (standing up, pointing at the wheel) Ooh, ooh! Push that button, push that button!
Blossom: What? Why? (Mojo passes them, laughing and throwing exhaust to make the girls cough.)
Professor: ’Cause it’s awesome!
(Close-up of the wheel, which shows a cluster of seven buttons on its hub—A through F around the outside, G at the center, exactly like the configuration of the Mach 5 race car on Speed Racer. The Professor’s finger comes down on G, and the camera tilts up to frame the road ahead as a turtle shell is ejected from the buggy’s front end. This skids all over the place before clunking squarely into the tank’s rear end to throw it up and backwards over the other enemies.)
Mojo: (extreme slow motion) CUUUUUUUUURRRRRRSSESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
(Normal speed resumes as the behemoth crashes to the forest floor and takes a few bad bounces; the Professor blows a hearty raspberry, and the treads finally stop turning. Mojo is still in the cockpit of the smoking wreck, but the canopy has been smashed away and one tread has been forced upward to balance precariously near him. He gives it a nervous glance, which is enough to make it topple over on his head, but manages to lever it partway up after a second.)
Mojo: (pounding fists on tank) Curses, curses, curses, curses, curses!!!! (Beeping starts.)
Computer: Thank you for activating the self-destruct system. Total annihilation in ten…nine…eight…
Mojo: (resignedly, slumping over cannon) Great. Just gr—
Computer: (under previous line) …seven…six…five…four…three…two…one…
(At “five,” he cuts himself off and glances at the cannon with some interest; on “one,” he grinningly stuffs himself into its muzzle; after “one,” the whole mass of metal disappears in an explosion and he is propelled toward Townsville, soaring cleanly over everyone’s heads.)
Professor: (still standing in seat) Whoo-hoo! Go, girls, go! We’re in the lead! We’re gonna wi—
(Mojo sails past, blowing a raspberry and prompting three pairs of big sad soulful eyes to turn toward the overly enthusiastic patriarch.)
Professor: (grudgingly) Oh, all ri—
(They are out of their seats even before he can finish the word, and in no time flat they have left him to grab the wheel and caught up to the incredulous monkey. All four stay neck and neck as they pass a block of buildings, the museum, Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, and Mojo’s observatory and plow squarely into the dome of Townsville Hall. Cut to inside the Mayor’s office; Mojo is first to crash through the window and roll across the floor. Once he regains his feet and his
equilibrium, he dashes eagerly to the desk; close-up of one drawer as he opens it to reveal, not the Key, but a rather anemic-looking pickle. Pull back to show that he has gone for the top right drawer. The sound of Blossom clearing her throat from o.s. draws his dejected gaze, and the camera pans to the other end, where the girls are gathered. Blossom, sitting near the top center drawer, slides it open and pulls out the Key; pan back to Mojo, his disbelieving eyes bloodshot and bulging from their sockets as she waves it before him. He looks more ready to blow his top than at any point during this series, and after a couple of seconds that feel like years, he finally goes off.)
Mojo: CUR—
(And then, just as quickly as the fit came, it breaks and he fully regains his composure.)
Mojo: No. You know what? That’s it. I’m done.
(He backs away from the desk, wiping his hands together to emphasize the point.)
Mojo: I quit. (His perspective of the dumbfounded girls as he retreats.) I give up. I tried, I really tried. (Back to him.) For years and years I’ve been trying to take over the world— (He stops.) — but I guess the universe doesn’t want me to have it. (backing toward door) So I’m out. I’m gone. Forget it. The only sad thing is, the world would have ruled if I was in charge. But now—
(He trips over the steps in front of the door and ends up on his back.)
Buttercup: (as her sisters laugh) Hah! (He stands up.)
Mojo: —but do you know what? You’ll never know. (dramatically; zoom in) You’ll never know. (now outside door) And so, my sweets, I, Jojo, am Mojo no mo’. (He turns his back on them, sweeping his cape in front.) And so, I go-go.
(He departs with all the dignity he can muster; as soon as he has passed o.s., though, the girls let off a three-part whoop of sheer triumph. Back to the desk area, where each girl floats across the screen on her line, Blossom carrying the Key.)
Blossom: Key to the World, Key to the World!
Buttercup: We got it, we got it!
Bubbles: (“swimming” across) Whoop-whoop!
Girls: YEAH!! (Blossom floats down to the desk on her back.)
Blossom: Phew. What a crazy day. (tossing Key up) Well, at least the Key is safe in our hands. (Bubbles streaks across and picks it off.)
Bubbles: Yeah. If any of our villains got ahold of this, they would be in charge. (Buttercup snags it next.)
Buttercup: Yeah, like this! “I, Buttercup, rule the world! Everyone has to do what I say! Now drop and give me twenty!”
Bubbles: (saluting) Sir, yes, sir!
(She goes to the floor and starts doing one-handed push-ups, counting them off as the camera tilts up from her to frame the others.)
Blossom: Wait a minute. (She takes the Key.) Bubbles, stop.
Bubbles: (standing, saluting) Sir, yes, sir! (to Buttercup, who shakes her head disgustedly) What? She’s in charge now.
Blossom: Exactly. Girls, listen. We spend all our time fighting to make the world a better place. But with this Key— (holding it up; its reflected light washes over her) —we don’t need to fight anymore. (Her perspective; the others have caught on.) ’Cause with it, we actually do rule the world.
Bubbles, Buttercup: Whoa… (Back to Blossom.)
Blossom: (authoritatively) My first order of business will be to…
(A flash, and the background behind her has changed to a pink sky with a few scraps of cloud. Her voice reverberates in the air as the camera pulls back on the next line; she is standing atop a large elephant, with a number of determined-looking women gathered in front of her.)
Blossom: …fashion the perfect society, based on the social structure of the mighty African elephant, where the wisest and most experienced female leads an impartial and fair democracy of her fellow sisters!
(The women sound off with a very Xena-ilke war cry, accompanied by the elephant’s trumpeting. Quick pan to a second elephant, whose cap marks it as a male; it and several downtrodden men are tending to assorted housework.)
Blossom: (from o.s.) And all those dumb smelly boys have to do all the cooking and cleaning!
[Note: Frankie Foster, from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, is among the women, and caricatures of Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust appear in their respective groups.]
Buttercup: (voice over, frustrated) Nooo…
(Flash to the office; she grabs the Key.)
Buttercup: It’s much easier than that! (Zoom in on her.) There’s only one way to rule the world!
(Flash; now we see a row of huge monitors, each of which shows the fierce little brunette, an open eye, a bar-graph readout, and the message “BIG BUTTER IS WATCHING YOU.”(A clear reference to Big Brother in 1984). She addresses a line of faceless citizens trudging past the monitors. The entire scene is tinted green.)
Buttercup: (greatly amplified) Just tell everybody exactly what to do and when to do it! And if any of ’em got a problem with it, they can take it up with Punchy McGee and Fisty O’Flanagan!
(She introduces “Punchy” and “Fisty” as her left and right fists, respectively, and the citizens cower before them. The sound of a blown raspberry comes just before the view flashes back to the office; now Bubbles, who sounded off, takes the Key for herself.)
Bubbles: You guys are so totally dumb. That’s not how you get world peace. You know how you get world peace?
(Flash to a colored-pencil drawing of herself on a blank sheet of paper.)
Bubbles: (voice over) FREE PUPPIES FOR EVERYONE!!
(During this line, far too many of them wink into view around her and the view changes to a similarly drawn view of Earth, seen from outer space, as puppies spread over land and sea alike.)
Blossom, Buttercup: (voice over) No! (Flash to the office; Blossom takes the Key.)
Blossom: Just let me handle it. I mean, I already am the leader. (Buttercup grabs it with a groan.)
Buttercup: You talk too much! It’s time for action! (Bubbles, now on Buttercup’s other side, grabs it.)
Bubbles: Hel-lo? Happiness is a warm puppy!
(She sticks her tongue out at two very resentful sisters, who stare her down for a long, silent moment before jumping her. A three-way tug-of-war ensues, with plenty of shouting from all parties; this is interrupted by the sound of the office door bursting open and a quick pan to it. Princess, Fuzzy, “Him,” the Amoebas, and the FB have arrived; zoom in on the center portion of the unwholesome bunch.)
Villains: I’ll take the Key to the World! (Pan back to the girls, all holding it.)
Girls: No, it’s mine!
(Yelling, the two sides hurl themselves at each other, and the Key flies upward as the battle royal begins. The girls trade blows with one villain after another, while the Key keeps bouncing up and down over everyone’s heads.)
(Cut to the exterior of Townsville Hall, seen from a distance. It is now evening. The camera zooms in, past the dome and the buildings behind it, and homes in on the observatory as a song begins: “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears. Inside, Jojo resignedly removes his braincap and throws his gloves, his belt, and a banana down onto a control panel.)
Jojo: (voiceover, singing) Welcome to your life
(Cape drops to floor; he stands in his underwear. Brawl over Key spills out of Townsville Hall.)
There’s no turning back
(Extreme close-up, panning across his downcast face; a tear in one eye.)
Even while we sleep
(Document in his hands: “Mojo Jojo’s Best World Domination Plan Ever!!” Zoom in on last word as teardrop splashes onto it; the paper is balled up and thrown to bounce off a trash can’s rim.)
We will find you
Acting on your best behavior
(Jojo is irked at the miss; in the city, the Key bounces from hand to hand.)
Turn your back on Mother Nature
(He packs his suitcase and picks up a one-way bus ticket out of Townsville from the nightstand.)
Everybody wants to rule the world.
(Slow pan across an assortment of devices he has used over the years to wipe out the girls and take over the city; some are in better shape than others. The camera stops at the open front door, where Jojo stands looking in at the collection. He is now dressed in an ordinary shirt and shorts, with a baseball cap perched on top of his overgrown gray matter, and the lights go out.)
(The free-for-all between the girls and villains continues as he exits the lair and shuts the front door, paying no heed when a badly injured Bossman splats into the wall right next to him and slides down o.s.)
Jojo: It’s my own design
(He descends the stairs to street level, revealing a “Gone Fishin’” sign on the door. Silhouette:
he walks down, suitcase in hand, as “POW!”, “BAM!”, “THWOCK!” appear around him.)
It’s my own remorse
(Step over Grubber as he fetches up against the stairs, then plod along as girls and villains beat each other back and forth in slow motion.)
Help me to decide
Help me make the
Most of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
(Normal speed: they grab for the Key and he shakes his head sadly.)
Everybody wants to rule the world.
(The music winds down when he reaches a bus stop and stands glumly in a pool of light cast by a nearby lamppost.)
(By this point, the girls have definitively gained the upper hand against their aggressors. The pounding culminates in a close-up of all three, badly scuffed up with torn clothes and missing teeth; pull back to frame all the villains laid out cold in the park near the observatory. The Key drops into view among the inert forms, and a close-up and slow pan across the girls shows that all three are still determined to possess it. Blossom’s wary eyes flick from side to side as she lets off a low, animal growl, after which they dive toward it with a yell and the extreme sibling rivalry starts all over again. Their tussle, with the Key at its center, bounces from ground to air and back again like a pinball on an amphetamine binge. Jojo stands quietly as a bus rolls up to his stop, and the girls’ fight rolls across the grass until it reaches the feet of the Professor. Now they stop and come apart, each holding the Key and with hair and clothes back in order.)
Girls: Professor, tell them I should rule the world! (Close-up of his bewildered face; they argue from o.s., then back to them.)
Blossom: Professor, tell them to give it! I’m the leader, I’m the only one qualified to rule the world!
Buttercup: Who’s the strongest? Who’s the toughest? Who’s the coolest? Who should rule? ME! ME! ME!
Bubbles: PUPPIES PUPPIES PUPPIES PUPPIES!! All I gotta say is, PUPPIES!!!
(The Professor’s confusion gives way to disappointment and he hangs his head; instantly the girls take his meaning.)
Girls: (ashamed) Oh.
(Close-up of the Mayor, now also in the park; Ms. Bellum’s legs are visible next to him. He too is not very proud of the girls, whose sadness and volume both grow steadily over the following lines. Every face they see shows this same expression unless noted.)
Girls: (from o.s.) Ohh. (Pan/tilt to her; she turns her face away.) Ohh.
(As she turns, the left side of her face can be seen clearly for a fraction of a second, showing a closed eye and a set of full lips. The right side is still obscured by hair. Now the camera pans quickly to Ms. Keane.)
Girls: (from o.s.) Ohh. (Pan to her students standing nearby.) Ohh.
(Among the kids is Mitch Mitchellson, who grins nastily and points to his “MITCH ROCKS” shirt.)
[Note: Mac and Bloo, from Foster’s, are in this group and looking very happy.]
(Quick pan to two very unhappy policemen.)
Girls: (from o.s.) Ohh. (To the people Buttercup saved in Act One.) Ohh.
(To a large letter O, with stick arms and legs, two angry eyes, and a little hat perched on top.)
Girls: (from o.s.) Ohh! (Back to them.) Ohh! (The Talking Dog walks past.)
Talking Dog: I have nothing to say. (Cut to him, being petted by the Mayor.)
Girls: (from o.s.) Mayor?
(Cut to Jojo, boarding his bus.)
Blossom: (voice over) What…what can we say?
Buttercup: (voice over) We have no idea what got into us.
Bubbles: (voice over) Free puppies is not the answer.
Blossom: (voice over) There’s only one thing that can right this wrong.
(Having gone down the bus aisle, Jojo backs up to the door and looks quizzically out toward the street. Cut to the girls, on their knees and looking very contrite.)
Girls: We are so sorry. (Blossom holds up the Key.)
Mayor: Oh, girls, that’s okay. (He takes it.) The important thing is that today you learned a very
valuable lesson. (holding it up; lightning flashes around him) WITH GREAT POWER… (calmly;
lightning stops) …comes great responsibility.
Jojo: (from o.s.) Can I see that?
Mayor: (passing it backward) Oh, yeah, sure.
(Pan to follow the Key as it lands squarely in the hand of Jojo, who stands behind the little man. He has changed back into his supervillain outfit, becoming Mojo again, and he shows every one of his teeth in a diabolical grin. The girls squeal and grab for each other in fear.)
Mojo: Yes! Yes, yes, yes, YES!! (He leaps giddily skyward; voice over.) Finally, I, Mojo Jojo, RULE THE WORLD!! (Zoom in on the observatory.) For years I have dreamed of changing things to the way I want them to be!
(On the end of this, snap to black, against which his silhouette suddenly appears in a rectangle of night sky. A steel door goes flying off its hinges, indicating that he has returned to his deactivated lair and kicked the door in. From here, cut to a close-up of his trash can in the now-illuminated room; he picks up the crumpled plan he threw at it earlier and flattens it back out.)
Mojo: (voice over) My ideas for right and wrong shall be law! I will make the decisions! I will control! I will dictate! I am the decider!
(Near the end of the first sentence, the view shifts as follows. A wrench end being lowered; Mojo using it to tighten a bolt; a swinging mallet; Mojo hammering on some equipment; welding; using a power drill; operating a computer; painting; stitching up a purple blanket while seated in a rocking chair.)
(Extreme close-up of his plans, held in his hands and seen from behind; he lowers them to reveal a positively beatific expression.)
Mojo: (voice over) After today… (Long shot behind him; the blanket covers some gargantuan object.) …the world will never be the same again!
(He grabs a handful of cloth on the end of this line and yanks, exposing an apparatus that looks like a cross between Frankenstein’s laboratory and a jungle gym.)
Mojo: (voice over) And now… (He fondles the Key.) …with the Key in my hand… (He inserts it into the machine’s keyhole.) …no one can stop me!
(Laughter as the crazed simian turns the Key and lets his tongue loll out of his mouth, flashing bullhorns with his free hand, then does a victory dance. Close-up of his giddy face, with darting eyes and fingertips tapping against each other.)
Mojo: (voice over) I’ve dreamed of this moment. I’ve sung about this moment!
(On one screen, \a bar-graph display labeled “% Complete” begins to fill up.)
Mojo: (voice over) And now it’s here! (Pull back to frame him, sticking his tongue out.) It’s really…
(The display beeps as the text changes to “Please Wait” and the filled portion of the bar shows yellow and black hazard stripes. Mojo is suitably irked by the delay, which lasts a few seconds before the graph resumes its previous appearance and begins to fill again.)
Mojo: (voice over) Okay! Now it’s here!
(The graph disappears and the screen shows “System Active—Good to Go-Go.” His eyes instantly become bloodshot pinpoints as he bares all his teeth.)
Mojo: (voice over) We’re good to go! (Cut to a button; he leaps in and stabs at it.) And with one push of a button…
(The rig kicks into gear, the camera tilting up from base to the topmost dome and antenna, which begin to crackle with energy.)
Mojo: (voice over) …I, Mojo Jojo, with the aid of my Global Jojo machine…
(The exterior of the observatory; the telescope, now pointing straight up, fires a beam into space that quickly envelops all of Earth.)
Mojo: (voice over) …will unleash a power that will change the world forever! First I will…
(Cut to a withered stalk of wheat on a parched, wind-blown plain.)
Mojo: (voice over) …end world hunger.
(A flash, and we see a lush meadow filled with hamburger bushes, hot-dog reeds, pizza sunflowers, chicken-leg trees, a fried-egg sun, and mashed-potato clouds dripping with butter. A grape-soda river runs through it. Next: a polar bear and Eskimo floating uneasily on separate icebergs in the ocean under a broiling sun.)
Mojo: (voice over) Stop global warming.
(Flash: the ocean has frozen over and the temperature has cooled. Man smiles at beast, which promptly breaks the mood by leaping towards man with a roar. Next: a family of very scared whales in an alley, handing over money to the fishermen who have them at harpoon-point.)
Mojo: (voice over) Save the whales.
(Flash: the whales rejoice while the fishermen lie knocked out. Next: a hospital under a sickly pink sky; people are heard coughing and moaning within.)
Mojo: (voice over) Cure all disease.
(Flash: the sky becomes blue and cheerful and relieved sighs are heard. Next: missiles fly back and forth, exploding under a lurid red sky.)
Mojo: (voice over) End all war.
(Flash: this sky also goes blue, and the projectiles become candy canes and flowers. Next: the Earth, seen from outer space as when Mojo’s beam covered it at the start of this sequence.)
Mojo: (voice over) And finally…
(Flash: every square inch is now covered with happy colored-pencil puppies.)
Mojo: (voice over) …FREE PUPPIES FOR EVERYONE!!
(The last word echoes as the view fades to white and then in to a smiling sun in a golden sky. Tilt down to frame the observatory, now painted white, as a crowd’s cheering and applause drift up from below. Dissolve to a closer shot, zooming in, then cut to a close-up of the door. It opens from inside and Mojo steps out, now outfitted in the all-white getup he used in “Meet the Beat Alls” and with the Key hanging on a chain around his neck. He acknowledges the masses’ plaudits and is then greeted by a dove carrying an olive branch; it perches on his finger to give a thumbs-up, which he returns.)
(Quick pan to the girls, hanging in midair and looking on with the slackest jaws and most bugged-out eyes they have ever displayed. This whole show of humanitarian spirit has sent their brains skidding into the Grand Canyon. Bubbles is so floored that she faints, dropping o.s.)
(The background for the end shot comes up.)
Narrator: Um…wow! Just…wow! What can I say other than…So for the first and, I guess, ultimate time, the day—heck, all the days—are saved—thanks to…
(Mojo appears, pumping his fists in victory.)
Narrator: …Mojo Jojo! Man, who’d-a guessed it? Mojo, a good guy after all. (A little rump shaking.) Had me fooled, but bravo, Mr. Jojo, bravo! (Dancing.) I really love my puppy, seriously. Thank you.
(Though this sort of shot has marked the end of every single story preceding it, this time it does not. Cut to the city skyline under a broad rainbow, with the happy sun hanging in a bright blue sky.)
Narrator: The city of Townsville! (relaxed) Ahh, what a nice, calm, beautiful, and peaceful day—for reals this time!
(Pull back to frame this as the view from the Mayor’s office. Mojo sits with his feet propped up on the desk and is on the phone.)
Mojo: Oh, no, the pleasure is all mine. (The girls fly up to the window.) It’s the least I could do, Mr. President. (waving them in) Okay, well, thank you. (as they fly off) Tell the people to enjoy the free electricity for life…Okay, bye-bye.
(He hangs up and addresses himself toward the o.s. door.)
Mojo: Girls, girls, it’s great to see you!
(Head-on view of the door; they are flying in. Ms. Bellum is passing in the hallway, her face hidden behind Blossom’s body.)
Mojo: (from o.s.) How you been? Hope those talking unicorns I made for you aren’t giving you any trouble. (Back to the four on the end of this; he chuckles and twirls the Key. The girls are rather listless.)
Blossom: No, they’re fine…heck, everything’s fine.
Buttercup: All the time.
Bubbles: That’s why we wanted to talk to you.
Girls: We’re really sorry. We didn’t know we…
Blossom: All that stuff you used to do…
Bubbles: …it all seemed so…so…
Buttercup: …bad.
Mojo: Yes, yes, yes.
(Close-up of them. As he continues, he crosses the room near them and the sun moves to follow him, nodding in agreement as the girls brighten up. He is no longer twirling the Key.)
Mojo: Some of my methods might have seemed unorthodox, crazy even, but my heart was in the right place. (Cut to the girls; zoom in slowly as he continues o.s.) I had a dream, a passion to make the world a better place. I just needed an opportunity to do it. (cut to him; playfully chiding tone) And I would’ve done it sooner if you little scamps didn’t always stop me. (starting to lose his cool) Why I oughta… (regaining it) I kid, I kid.
(Now he opens the window a little wider.)
Mojo: You just misunderstood. It’s fine. All water under the bridge. (They fly to him in turn.)
Blossom: Thank you, Mojo.
Buttercup: Seriously.
Bubbles: Thank you.
Mojo: (tickling all three; they giggle) No, thank you!
Girls: (flying out window and o.s.) Peace out, Mojo!
(He flashes them a peace sign as they exit, then breathes in a few bushels of the tranquil air.)
Mojo: (thinking) Ah, yes. Peace. Wonderful peace. (Closer shot.) Incredible peace. (Closer.) Nice peace. (Closer.) Quiet peace.
(Closer still; now he grimaces.)
Mojo: (thinking) Boring peace.
(Here comes the dove that greeted him earlier.)
Mojo: It’s driving me CRAZY!
(The bird is scared off by his outburst. Cut to the girls in flight. A sudden crash from o.s. stops them in their tracks; pan quickly back to Mojo, now wearing his usual colors and cackling insanely as he fires a pair of blasters in all directions. One man is about to bite into a chicken-leg tree, but a shot vaporizes all the meat.)
Mojo: (from o.s.) Take that!
(After he shoots another tree, the whale family he helped is seen fleeing and screaming as more blasts lance into the sidewalk.)
Mojo: (from o.s.) And that!
Next we see a group of disheartened people—and their free pencil-drawing puppies—huddling beneath a wrecked skyline and a blood-red sky filled with explosions. McCracken and Faust are at the front of this group; zoom in on their puppy, which lets one tear fall as Mojo’s demented laughter rips through the air.)
(Back to the girls, who once again stare openmouthed as screams and gunshots drift up. This time, they are joined by the dove, whose angry words quickly bring them back to reality.)
Dove: What are you waitin’ for? Get him! Pulverize him! Knock his block off! Give him what for! Make him answer to Punchy McGee and Fisty O’Flanagan!
(This gets them going; they charge and start laying into Mojo in turn.)
Blossom: Not—
Buttercup: —so—
Bubbles: —fast—
Girls: —Mojo Jojo! (They carry him off to the sound of cheering.)
Narrator: The city of Townsville, on a crazy, tense, and dangerous day!
(The standard end shot comes up.)
Narrator: But a day that will be saved—thanks to the Powerpuff Girls! Whoo-hoo! Go, girls! Go!