The Wrinklegruff Gals is the twelfth episode of the 2016 Powerpuff Girls series. It was made available on Cartoon Network's official website on April 14, 2016, and it aired on Cartoon Network on April 21, 2016.
Synopsis[]
The girls are enrolled in an elementary school after Pokey Oaks Kindergarten was destroyed during a radioactive show and tell. But after a rough first day due to the cruelty of the older students, the girls have the Professor make them a potion to make them older, only for them to take too much and turn into senior citizens, suprisingly making the older students to respect them. But when Mojo Jojo come to cause doom and destruction, will the Professor brew an antidote and change them back to normal before it's too late?
Plot[]
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Characters[]
Major Characters[]
Minor Characters[]
- Professor Utonium
- Pee Wee
- Bubbles' original self (flashback)
- Students of Midway Elementary School
- Big Joey
- Fuzzy Lumpkins (mentioned)
- The Mayor of Townsville (mentioned)
- Princess Morbucks (mentioned)
- Students of Pokey Oaks Kindergarten
- Mitch Mitchelson (flashback; cameo)
- Elmer Skloo (flashback; cameo)
- Harry Pitt (flashback; cameo)
- Robin Snyder (flashback; cameo)
Trivia[]
The girls under their dire spell, disguised as senior citizens.
- This episode shows the Powerpuff Girls' first day at Midway Elementary School, even though they were shown already attending the school in "Princess Buttercup", as well as "Power-Up Puff".
- This episode might possibly be delayed mistakenly with its airdate, or the episodes might just serve as a flashback.
- The reason for the girls changing schools is also revealed: Pokey Oaks Kindergarten was destroyed when Bubbles accidentally mutated Pee Wee/Twiggy, the class hamster.
- This episode features a parody of the original series' opening narration: "Fiber, prunes, and everything mild -- these were the ingredients chosen to make the perfect little girls slightly older.I But Professor Utonium did everything correctly, and there were no accidents. The whole thing went smoothly. Pretty anticlimactic, if you ask me".
The original Bubbles as she appears in the episode.
- Bubbles is seen in her original 1998 design in the flashback of what happened to Pokey Oaks Kindergarten. Kristen Li (the voice of Bubbles in the 2016 series) voices the original Bubbles, rather than Tara Strong reprising her original self.
- In the flashback, the music resembles the drum beat heard occasionally in the original show.
- The pink background, which when the episode is focused on Blossom, in the title card is shown. This is the third time along with "Bye Bye Bellum" and "Power-Up Puff".
- Coincidentally, this episode aired on the birthday of Cathy Cavadini (the original 1998 Blossom's original voice actress), which is April 21st.
- Although this episode has the Narrator in it, this episode, like the other episodes in this series, except "Strong-Armed", does not begin with the usual "City of Townsville" speech and the City of Townsville's skyline at all.
- Although the familiar episode outro screen is not seen at all in this episode, a parody of it appears when the students chant "Baby" three times.
- This episode is very similar to the 1988 Tom Hanks film, Big where the Girls drinking the potion to become old people is a reference to Josh Baskin wishing to become big as he is turned into an adult. They also use the same spells to change back to normal (PPG: potions, Big: Zoltar machine)
- The plot is a bit similar to certain episodes of other animated series from recent years:
- This episode is similar to the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Old Man Dexter", where the girls becoming old people after they entered elementary school, is very similar to Dexter becoming an old person in order to stay up late and watching TV along his parents and Dee Dee.
- This episode is also similar to the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Don't Be A Baby" where the girls becoming old people after they entered elementary school is very similar to Dexter who tries to make himself and Dee Dee older in order to see an R-rated movie, but due to an accidental mishap by Dee Dee, he makes everybody else (except him and Dee Dee) babies instead.
- The episode is also similar to The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius' episode "Grumpy Young Men" where the girls becoming old people after they entered elementary school is very similar to Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen becoming old people in order to buy a violent video game.
- The plot is similar to the Teen Titans Go! episode "Salty Codgers" where the Titans (except Raven) became old.
- The theme is similar to the Ed, Edd n' Eddy episode "Take This Ed and Shove It" where all the characters in the Cul de Sac are shown as elders.
- This episode is similar to the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Old Man Dexter", where the girls becoming old people after they entered elementary school, is very similar to Dexter becoming an old person in order to stay up late and watching TV along his parents and Dee Dee.
- This is the first time the Girls appeared as senior citizens, but this is only temporary.
- The Powerpuff Girls' elderly designs consist of them being fatter and wrinkly, their hair being all curly and grey, wearing blouses, and speaking in aged voices.
- The girls' aged voices are provided by Amanda Leighton, Natalie Palamides, and Kristen Li, who changed their voices due to helium during recording.
- When the Girls entered the hallway, the song "I Wanna Listen to your Problems Girl" by the Sensitive Thugz can be heard in the background.
- The title card of this episode is made in the style of the new Powerpuff Girls logo.
- There's a chalkboard that has written on it: "Detention - Nick, Bob" who, of course, are the series producers Nick Jennings and Bob Boyle.
- This is the 1st episode where Buttercup burps.
- Innuendo: Blossom giving their classmates some "hard candy".
- It is unknown how Mojo Jojo has a mother. He doesn't have one in The Powerpuff Girls Movie, though he may have either created his own mother, a mother like Mojo adopted him, or she might be a stray chimpanzee in the jungle before the Professor kept Mojo.
- This episode reveals that once Fuzzy Lumpkins kidnapped The Mayor and turned him into cheese, probably as a similar way that in the "What a Cartoon" episode "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins" he used a shotgun to turn things into meat. Also is revealed that Princess Morbucks used once a robot-goat army to attack The Powerpuff Girls.
- This episode is included on The Powerpuff Girls: The Last Donnycorn (V2) DVD.
Running Gags[]
- The Girls getting trampled by the big kids.
- The students calling the Girls "babies".
- Buttercup (being the jock she is) drinking the aging or de-aging formula instead of listening to Bubbles talking.
Goofs[]
- When Mojo Jojo says “evil laugh” the dog’s leash disappears for the rest of the scene.
- As the dog spits out the bone, it comes out from beside the cheek bend on the right, then when the dog starts to move the bone is still there, cut off, with the cheek bend line.
- Buttercup's line was "Now that was I called a good old fashion whoopin" belonged to Blossom.
- The dog's black color on his left ear switches to the right one in one scene.
