PPG review: Season Two!
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The second part of this six-part review commences!

My impression of the Powerpuff Girls after the first season...
Dadadadaaa!!
Let's just get straight into the review!
Season Two of the Powerpuff Girls started with a bang, at least in my opinion. The episode Stuck Up, Up, and Away was one of the most badass moments for the girls in the entire series. I even uploaded a clip on Youtube that I think will be removed sooner or later because of the strict copyright rules (even so, a bunch of PPG episodes still exist there so if you want to see some of them go right ahead, mostly season one and the later season episodes though, not much of three or four. Getting the boxset would be 100x better but not everyone will think of investing $50 on a show they never watched yet P:) After only one episode for Blossom in the first season we still don't really know that much about her. So far it is Bubbles and Buttercup who have shown some really kickass action in the first season, but here everything blows away...and without further ado I begin this review with the awesomest fight scene in PPG. (Okay there were probably others, but you know)
The introduction of Princess Morbucks! Her characterization itself is quite simple. She's a stuck-up selfish brat to the extreme. Even so I must thank her because she does help provide some of the most actiony scenes in series (ironically it's the five-year-old girl who does this, huh) and this scene was inspired by DBZ, or at least spoofing DBZ, or at least parodying DBZ particularly when Blossom easily avoids the blast-of-doom by moving her head. The "girly"-show we all define as something "happy, cute, nice, compassionate, friendly" etc. is not here. This cartoon is not girly and that will be the last time I will say that because there's no point in emphasizing it anymore. It's obvious!
Oh yeah, Blossom is awesome.
Schoolhouse Rocked brings us another Gangreen Gang episode. My favourite part in this episode was actually the beginning, when the villains were in an arcade playing a PPG game. Bubbles sure did kick Fuzzy's ass. Anyway the actual episode starts with a truancy officer noticing that the gang aren't in school, so he throws them into kindergarten...the PPG's Pokey Oaks class. The gang proceed to torment and bully the students but Ms. Keane never catches this, and thus keeps disciplining the girls for overreacting, to the point that they were sentenced to TIME OUT, losing their recess. While this is going on some pretty severe beatings outside on the playground came from the Gangreen Gang in the form of dodgeball, and only does Ms. Keane notice this when the window is smashed to pieces. School though has some rule that forbids people from fighting within it, so in a stroke of genius the teacher tells the girls to just play dodgeball with the gang instead, and so the episode ends in its standard way--with violence! The truancy officer (super annoying guy, by the way) comes in and chastises them for "failing to take care of the gang" and take them away, so someone knocks him out with a dodgeball.

Pretty much.
What was the lesson today kids? "Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance?" Bubbles asks? No, Miss Keane says, "Never turn your back in a game of dodgeball!"
I love shows that mock the lesson of the day. I think South Park does that too. I didn't really like the episode that much honestly, not that it was bad, it was pretty good...I just don't like the Gangreen Gang. They're not that interesting to me. :X
Episode three of the series is Collect Her an episode I think that is supposed to parody people like me to the extreme! I mean sure I'm reviewing the series and I fangirl about it a lot, but the villain in this episode is incredibly dedicated to collecting ALL THINGS POWERPUFF. His bed? Powerpuff sheets. Powerpuff pillows, powerpuff lava lamps, powerpuff dolls, figures, etc. etc. ETC! His entire room is the PPG brand, not a single thing isn't...except his clothes oddly enough. I know my room has posters and pictures of stuff I like, but this is VERY EXTREME because the collecting "nerd" in this episode is shown to be fat, pig disgusting, and sloppy. Anyway he eventually realizes he has actually collected every PPG thing in existence, but because PPG collecting is his life, he still needs MORE. That doesn't sound like drugs at all.
So he goes and steals stuff from the PPG house...then when that isn't even enough...he steals the girls themselves. How did a diabolical mutated monkey, manifestion of hell itself, and the girl with all the money in the world not defeat the girls, but this random fat guy did? The horrors of over-obsessed fans? Anyway the professor realizes the girls have gone missing, tells the Mayor, who proceeds to have an assembly where ALL THE CITIZENS must attend, and the only person absent? The guy who stole the girls, they immediately riot into his house, and the children all rip open his powerpuff merchandise to torture the man into revealing where the girls are therefore nulling the value! Eventually he gives in, and the Professor rips open a three boxes, the girls free.
Well, that episode made no sense whatsoever! Oh well.
The series continues to produce one-shot villains such as the average Harold Smith, an average neighbour to the Powerpuff Girls (who are not so average). he has an average life, with an average job and an average family, so this episode must have an average title! Supper Villain! That doesn't really sound that average, until you see the plot! The girls are invited to dinner in the Smith household, and Harold's ambition is to become the greatest supervillain ever! So he takes this opportunity to put a sparkler on his head and wear a towel as a cape so he can commit some supervillainy on the Powerpuff Girls--namely "MELTING THE PROFESSOR'S HEAD CLEAR OFF HIS SHOULDERS!" (that was the actual quote, yes. Isn't the imagery in your head exciting!?) Of course the wife is rather obsessed with having a perfect dinner so the murder of the Professor is postponed until after dinner.
Obviously the dinner is awkward with a gun pointed at the Professor's head the entire time. Finally the Professor only has his pea left (which he takes his time chewing and swallowing--of course) BEFORE HAROLD COULD SHOOT HIM, dessert happens...and a pie-throwing game happens..and then the cops come in to save the day! Oh wow the cops saved the day, arresting Harold and the Professor is saved! The episode doesn't seem to be a one-shot after all because the wife is left with a vendetta on her hands..."Those Powerpuff Girls...ruined...MY DINNER!" And thus the episode ends.

"Eat your pea, Professor!"
That episode also was...kind of out of nowhere...huh. It was comedic though but still...huh.
It's the Powerpuff Girls' birthday! Birthday Bash shows that the girls also don't have average birthday parties, with a huge amount of guests and tons of presents, the writers make it no secret that the girls like presents. A lot. (They even blow the cake away (they were too strong to simply blow out the candles themselves) and didn't care at all that the cake was gone. I would care! A cake is a very big part of a birthday party.) The villains who are in jail at the time decide to send presents that will try to kill them instead so even on their birthdays, the girls do not have any time to relax. (Also the party is broadcasted live on television, lol) Of course because they only have 10 minutes to celebrate their birthday (that's how long an episode is :X) all the presents we see being opened just happen to be all the ones from the villains. Mojo Jojo tries to crush them with a Robo Jojo, the princess sents a bullseye where a missile will land, The Amoeba Boys fail by sending voodoo Powerpuff Dolls and keeping the pins...and Him sends a giant pinata of death. (Claiming that after it was defeated, the candy will give them all cavities!)
A pretty interesting episode, it's similar to Telephonies in the way that the villains interact with each other, and we also get lots of action with the girls defeating things. Nothing spectacular, an episode I'd deem an "everyday" Powerpuff Girl episode.
Too Pooped to Puff tells us once again, the citizens of Townsville are morons! Lazy morons for this episode at least. The city eventually starts to depend too much on the girls, where they end up doing mundane things rather than simply "Saving the day" so they go on strike (well that's what they pretty much did!) and just when they do a giant monster attacks Townsville! This is something they're supposed to do because normal ordinary citizens can't really fight off a monster, but the girls continue on their strike. IS TOWNSVILLE DOOMED?
More people dying nonchatantly! The monster eats a car with people in it. The girls actually watch this, with Bubbles asking very casually "Maybe we should do something?" but no, they don't. Yay! Anyway the monster is eventually destroyed...technically by the people of Townsville, but not without tons of help from the PPG (in trying to hint WHAT TO DO WITH A MONSTER IS STICK IN ELECTRICAL WIRES) so the people get all happy and arrogant that they did it themselves but in the end no one learns anything! Hurray! My favourite part was when Bubbles threw the remote on the floor, when the Professor asked them to give it to him because he couldn't reach. :D

In the words of Nelson Muntz: "Haha!"
Moving on...I'm going to assume it's Halloween again because Dream Scheme comes to you with some pretty scary nightmares...from the girls. I also don't really agree with the ending to this episode, similar to Mime for a Change, but I'll get to that. The Sandman, NEVER getting sleep because of timezones has to travel the world to aid everyone into falling asleep with his sand, but he gets fed up and puts everyone to sleep forever so he can finally get a nap himself. He even gets the Powerpuff Girls, so they decide to defeat him by flooding his dreams with nightmares. Cue monstrously-large Powerpuff Girls, rooster girls, weird-inverted-colour hallways of strange-zebra-patterned DOOM and my favourite, Bubbles the shark. He wakes up, learns his lesson and wakes everyone else in the world up, promising to never slack off again.
I felt sorry for this "villain" actually because even though putting everyone to sleep forever is wrong...he JUST WANTED A NAP, GEEZ. "Finally, after NEVER I get to sleep! *PLAGUED BY EVIL HORRIBLE POWERPUFF NIGHTMARES EEEEE!!!*" so he was scared into doing his job, never to get a break ever due to the EVIL TIMEZONES! The timezones were the true villains of the episode, but the PPG didn't look very heroic themselves. Nonetheless it is quite refreshing to see the PPG use nonconventional ways of defeating the villain, even if it's creepy and not heroic-looking at all. Oh well :D
You Snooze, You Lose was a pretty funny episode except it just recycled the same plot whenever the Amoeba Boys ever take the spotlight. They fail at committing a crime, but in the end do something without realizing that could be the evilest thing ever done ever!! In this case accidentally build Mojo's BEST PLAN TO DESTROY THE POWERPUFF GIRLS EVER!! Because they--and the powerpuff girls thought the plans were some sort of scavenger hunt! Mojo himself fell asleep and the plans left his arms through the window due to mysterious wind, thus the name of the episode. Also the way the PPG defeat the machine that almost killed them was again--gross. CHEW PRE-CHEWED CHEWING GUM! It does subvert--yet again, that whole clean image a hero is supposed to have by doing things the less conventional and more...squicky way. P: Oh and Mojo demanded to be recognized for committing the crime, not the Amoeba Boys, so he gets beat up and thrown in jail...reminds me of Crime 101 yet agan!
The Halloween theme is still apparent because the most morally-forced episode ever comes in Beat Your Greens. Everyone knows kids hate vegetables, particularly broccoli. (I would know--I HATE broccoli) So to make eating broccoli cool and awesome, why not make an evil race of aliens made of broccoli!? The aliens attempt to take over the world by assuming everyone eats broccoli, so they plant some sort of hypnotization device in the crops. Of course the only people who DID eat the broccoli were the adults, so they fell under the spell, leaving all the kids unaffected. Assuming they have hypnotized all the humans the broccoli aliens invade! And the PPG plus the children realize eventually that the only way to defeat the broccoli aliens is to EAT THEM ALIVE!! So an army of hungry, ravage children storm the invading alien army, armed with utensils, teeth, and even goats! With their arsenals and hungry-hungry rabbits, they proceed to kill all the aliens by eating them.
The leader, still left alive asks for MERCY, HORRIFIED at what has happened to his kind, but the PPG give him none and eat him alive. Yay! I still, still, despite repeating this millions of times, can't understand how this ended up a children's cartoon. This episode looked more like it parodied children's cartoons by making a simple moral rather...savage. Oh well, it was entertaining and that's what made kids watch, like me!
Continuing with the green trend, we have another Buttercup episode--Down N' Dirty! Apparently we need to force more morals down our children's throats, so we use Buttercup as the prototype rebellious child who decides, like many children--not to take a bath. Of course the PPG once again takes everything to the extreme because hyperboles are funny and Buttercup does not take a bath despite being sneezed up by a giant monster (so tons of mucus, she even spits it out of her mouth and smiles...if The Rowdyruff Boys' creation didn't disgust you this would) smashing through a septic tank (comes out covered in brown...yuck) and various other incredibly gross encounters--to the point that she is kicked out of the house, and driven out of the city from a riot due to the smell. Despite this, Buttercup still refuses to because apparently being exiled is not psychologically damaging enough to make her take a bath, but when even monsters flee from her due to the smell, she gives in to the bath because she just wants to fight monsters again. Buttercup actually hasn't learned anything though. She just took the bath to fight more. Yep. I wonder how she ignored her own smell.

I like her hair down like this though. It looks cute...:D
In summary, this episode was gross--very. It wasn't a bad episode just very repulsive. *gag*
Slave the Day...the Gangreen Gang bore me but at least their episodes are sometimes entertaining, particularly if it also includes one of the girls in the spotlight...(Buttercrush) but this was...this episode is probably my least favourite so far. Big Billy is not interesting. The Gangreen Gang are also sociopaths because they didn't even care about Big Billy, assuming he was dead and continuing their lives. Yeah I'm not going to say much about this episode. I do like the Gangreen Gang more than the Amoeba Boys so far, that's for sure...
So now to use all the text I saved up from that very short episode review for Los Dos Mojos! This is probably one of-if not my most favourite PPG episode ever--personally that is. As much as I love Bubblevicious, this episode just made me laugh too hard to not have it at the very top, at the least top three. It's really more of a Mojo episode than a Bubbles episode, but eh. The performance of Tara Strong here was awesome, her voicing of Bubbles trying to sound all MOJO-JOJO LIKE including making fun of how he speaks. This episode was great, since the episode exceeded my expectations, thus I give it higher ratings. I liked it, so it got my approval because I was entertained, which is the purpose of this cartoon, and so because it satisfactorily did so, I found it good, and great--that is to say...
Well the plot is pretty simple, Bubbles gets hit in the head--the last thing she ever sees is Mojo taunting her, laughing that he has knocked out a Powerpuff. Then she wakes up--kicks Mojo out of his hideout, steals his clothes (he was taking a bath, so now he walks around in a towel. Shouldn't you have more than one pair of those clothes, Mojo?) and then tries to destroy everything with a Robo Jojo. Everyone is exaggeratingly-surprised, and Mojo comes out still wet-in a towel, exclaiming that HE is not in that Robo Jojo. Buttercup keeps jumping ahead and beating him up ANYWAY, but still. Bubbles or Mojo Bubbles as I like to call her comes out in his clothes, that somehow fit her much smaller body and kicks the CRAP out of Buttercup and Blossom, granted they didn't fight back "Because she's our sister!" (Yet in Tough Love they beat the sockings out of the citizens of Townsville, including their own father...maybe Him makes it so there's less choice?) But as she continues to ramble on similar to Mojo Jojo, Mojo himself ironically gets annoyed by her speech and smashes her in the head again, conveniently returning her memories and so Bubbles can now beat up Mojo Jojo, who had believed he had defeated them all!
I liked this episode so much I have it on my mp3 player. I liked this episode so much it was the very first episode I wanted to rewatch whenever I felt nostalgic for PPG again. THIS EPISODE RIGHT HERE FOLKS. Rewatching it now though I can hear the Timmy Turner in that evil Mojo Bubbles voice :P It also throws in a twist, having Buttercup be the reasonable one of her and Blossom, so at first we're like "Wait...what, that's not right" but then when she is irritated she immediately forgets her own words and tries to attack Bubbles. There's the Buttercup we know! And also the Blossom we know! I also remember my child-self laughing uncontrollably at this episode. Right here. I cannot describe this episode in mere words, it requires dialogue, it requires audio, it requires...Los Dos Mojos!

"...If you were to address me by the name Moooojo Jojo, that would be correct! For my name IS Moooojo Jojo! And I will only be addressed by that name, which is Moooojo Jojo ..."
Alas I can't stay on this awesome episode...so...Blossom episode: A Very Special Blossom.
It takes until the second season for Blossom to have her own "deviating from apparent personality" episode, as we saw in Buttercrush and Bubblevicious, A Very Special Blossom depicts Blossom not being moral! GASP! Well, have the Powerpuff Girls been very moral at all this entire time? Hmmm... Also did you notice these episodes have another pattern? They all have their names in them! Oooooh. So anyway it is Father's Day! Awww, and the Professor attempts to be very grateful for the presents he got from the girls last year (which, while the thought counts are quite crummy looking, but what do you expect from five-year-old children? Okay, they're superheroes too, but still.) and tells them he'll love whatever he gets this year. Then he suddenly sees some expensive golf-clubs, melting, fanboying the amazing quality of them, being very obvious that he dearly, clearly wants them...but cannot afford it.
So Blossom steals it!
Okay, it went a little more indepth than that. The girls first attempt to make the money through various means, but cannot ever get enough. They eventually request from the Mayor, since they save the day all the time to be paid for their services, who when hears of their price tag "$2000!" looks to have had a heart attack. So yeah...Mojo starts destroying Townsville, and once they defeat it, the store with the golf clubs has been damaged, and Blossom is standing near there, cleaning things up, seeing the golf clubs there through the broken window, just asking to be stolen...so Blossom steals it! Dun dun duuuun!
She gives it to the Professor, makes the other two jealous (who are all wondering how the hell she even got it Blossom claims she found them) and then the Professor, using the golf clubs is arrested for the theft, but when confronted about this (he calls Blossom asking what was going on, that it was a mistake) Blossom continues her misgivings and attempts to frame Mojo since he did destroy the golf store's window in his rampage--claiming he tricked her...but Buttercup who by the way seems to have lots of lines in Blossom episodes for some reason, remembers she told them she found them, so what is the truth!? She then attempts to FLEE and it isn't until the other two manage to pin her down after some difficulty does she finally tell the truth. Well that was a doozy, did anyone ever expect that at all? Well, the way she told that baby to shut up in those real early episodes doesn't surprise me nooow....
Nonetheless, there have always been an episode in some kid's show that touches upon something immoral to teach the kids of wrong, except this one again, went to the extreme by having Blossom not only steal, but lie, and kidnap...and frame, and flee...well now! Still it does show they can be human, as in they will not always be moral...erm, aware that they're not moral and so far this cartoon has not been sugarcoated whatsoever. O: How did she only get 200 hours of community service again? Oh right, superhero stuff.

Because she was so bad, her image was also tarnished...literally--"look at [that] bow!"
Daylight Savings was kind of...not good. I suppose you can blame Townsville citizen sheep-syndrome, but there must be better solutions than giving the girls a curfew--hell, in the end the problem wasn't even properly solved! They have to come back before 7:30 to be well-rested for school so all the evil decides to come out after 7:30pm, and despite the city going up in FLAMES the professor still refuses to let them go save the day. Then he realizes IT'S DAYLIGHT SAVINGS OMG so he throws the girls out the window to go save the day since it's only 6:30pm and he forgot to change the clocks!
That doesn't help the problem at all! It also never comes up again because they end up going out at night numerous times later to save the day anyway. The episode wasn't even funny, only funny part might've been when the girls are thrown out the window or "PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE!? NOOOOOOOOOO!" or the city going up in flames when the Professor isn't looking...okay it was kind of funny, but still. The episode was otherwise pointless. I guess the curfew idea was revoked...wonder what they did about the falling-asleep-in-class problem though...
After that we have Mo Job and is it me or was this episode kind of animated differently? Maybe a different animation company handled it? It felt a lot less smooth/cheaper or something somehow, and nothing really happened except the Princess trying to be a Powerpuff Girl again except with far less awesome action from her debut, oh she also teamed up with Mojo. Eh. Tons of SLOW-MO occurred in this episode too.
Pet Feud introduced not a one-shot villain nor is it an episode about one of the characters from the show, but Beebo, an animal you only feed once or IT WILL EAT EVERYTHING! Is this really something you should be giving to five-year-old children, Professor? So in a series of events the Beebo is "accidentally" fed a few more times than once. (I say it in quotes because how is giving a pet the entire fridge to eat an accident, Bubbles?) It then starts to eat EVERYTHING including buildings and people. Unfortunately for Townsville not only are the people eaten, but the girls as well! Bubbles is the only one remaining and attempts to stop Beebo with LOVE, something that always works in children's cartoons! If they understand your love, they will stop raging!

Or not.
I'm sorry that was hilarious. A simple subversion and I'm on the ground laughing my head off. Of course ending an episode with the Powerpuff Girls and all the people eaten and dead would not make sense, so Beebo having eaten too much explodes--it was something the Professor built into the perfect pet in case such an incident occurred. Of course instead of "ceasing to exist" (he didn't say die P:) Beebo lives on by exploding into millions of Beebos, so everyone can have a cannibalizing pet! Except the Mayor because he's retarded. Teehee. I still wonder about these people though, they just got eaten by a man-eating pet and once it explodes EVERYONE wants one! YAY! A pet that could potentially become deadly for me tooooo~!
Next we have Imaginary Fiend with a cameo from the imaginary friend in Dexter's Laboratory that Deedee made up...at least I think so. Apparently pigtailed blondes share imaginary friends because Bubbles thought him up. Mike Believe is the new kid in class and he's sad for some odd reason. I guess if you're going to a new school you'll be sad but Bubbles tried to befriend him and he just ignored her. Huh. Then he gets an evil imaginary friend who terrorizes the classroom and was only defeated by the PPG's imaginary friend. I think it was a good children-episode, since it takes place in a kindergarten class and describes the loneliness of being new...with the usual dose of violence of course! Such as a bookcase crushing Blossom or something. Also the episode as many people already know had a reference to South Park, when Blossom slams into the coat racket she gets up wearing Cartman's hat and coat. I just found that last part kind of odd. I mean it had everybody laughing at Buttercup but it wasn't that funny. As if they had fifteen seconds of episode-time left and stuck that in there to fill it up...or something. Does Buttercup usually have witty retorts at the end of episodes? I don't think so...? Oh well.
Cootie Gras...ARRRGGHHHHHHH COOTIES ARRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Well normally cooties aren't real and don't even look disgusting, but why is there a very disturbed boy trying to KISS ALL THE KIDS IN CLASS!? That's not cooties, that's bacteria! Germs! Viruses! Mononucleosis! And the dream the girls had! WHAT KIND OF NIGHTMARE WAS THAT. What kind of imagination do these girls have!? If they get cooties the person who spread them (this very disturbed boy who looks like a parody of pig pen from Peanuts!?) will pop up ALL OVER THEIR BODIES and they'll drown in a FLOOD of him!? Mojo Jojo uses this to his advantage, and with the power of COOTIES, leads the mafia and even speaks in an Italian accent!? THEN WHEN BLOSSOM FINALLY IS KISSED BY SAID BOY, nothing happens so they decide to peck their lips all over this dirty, dirty boy--EVEN BUTTERCUP!? Then when Mojo is thrown in prison PRISON RAPE IS IMPLIED!? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS EPISODE!?!?! How did it get through the censors, why is it so horrifyingly disgusting!? Argh! Argh! ARGH COOTIES!!!!

YOU CALL THIS A CHILDREN'S SHOW!?!? AAAAARRGHHHHH
Luckily the next episode is very cute and nothing like the previous one: The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever!
This episode is one of my favourites! Instead of watching our heroes defeat some sort of enemy, it's simply cute little pretendy-fun times at home! Since it's raining everyone is staying at home, no crime, no government, no crime-fighting or anything because it's raining and rain is bad. Or not! Since they are stuck at home the PPG decide to play the Powerpuff Girls right in their own room! First they build Townsville out of blocks, and Blossom is sending Joe to the grocery store to buy groceries, but Buttercup with a stuffed alligator draped over her storms Townsville trying to eat Joe because she is a monster! Blossom is annoyed because she was in the middle of playing with Joe, but Buttercup argues that she is a monster, she can come whenever she wants.
It continues like that, Bubbles dresses up as the Mayor and portrays him hilariously, Blossom stuffs stuffed animals down her shirt to indicate she is Miss Bellum (LOL)! They get an argument when Buttercup tries to pretend to be Blossom (she looks weird with that bow) but no one wants to be Bubbles even though Bubbles wanted to be Bubbles because it's pretend and you're not supposed to be yourself. The professor is convinced to dress up as Bubbles (ALSO LOL) and he destroys the monster, who is Blossom this time. They then continue to dress up as villains to see who sent this giant alligator to attack the town, eventually it goes to Blossom pretending to be Mojo, a very convincing Mojo (I dunno if I like Mojo Blossom or Mojo Bubbles better, hahaha!) and they play hide and seek, Blossom being Mojo trying to hide from the Powerpuff Girls so she isn't punished for unleashing the alligator monster. They gave up and played video games though, and an ingenious form of at-home villainy comes when Blossom rips the game out of the console that Buttercup was playing, causing them to launch themselves at her and finally the rain stops.
Aww, it's sunny. Now they can't play at home and have to defeat a real alligator monster unleashed by Mojo Jojo! There were plenty of other hilarious scenes too like the Mayor running through a window and into the mud! I'm always amazed how this is only a ten minute episode, I was always under the impression that it took up the full half-hour timeslot but they really did cram a lot of good stuff in just ten minutes! One of the best episodes by far and all it was was pretend. Clever, witty, and cute. Awwww.

An average day of crime-fighting for the Powerpuff Girls
The next episode is a sequel episode! Gasp! Just Desserts concludes what Supper Villain started, with Harold Smith having an eerily similar life in prison as he was in the outside, instead of mustard jars--license plates! He soon gets released...I don't know what kind of penal system Townsville has but for someone who committed attempted murder he sure got released real fast. He goes home, the Professor (who was working on his garden) edges away uneasily back into the house, and Harold feels very ashamed, apologizing and crying to his wife...who is still VERY ANGRY...but not at Harold. FOR THOSE POWERPUFF GIRLS RUINED HER DINNER! Rage! The rest of the family has new kickass supervillain costumes, much more professional-looking that Harold's sparkler-head towel-cape thing...erm, anyway the reason the kids want to kill them is because they lost the daughter's jacks, and their son is a teenager so he hates everything. (Lol) They get into their not-very-average minivan, destroy the PPG's house, then when they come home try to destroy the PPG (because they weren't suffering as the Smiths had hoped) and well, the PPG stop them after a Scooby Doo-like chase scene! Hooray! I have no idea what was the point of these two episodes except to be funny. An average supervillain family indeed...
Twisted Sister is without a doubt heartbreaking. I thought such depressing things like these never went near children's cartoons, but here it is, right here! This episode DEFINES downer ending...but what is this episode, you ask? The girls feeling overworked decide that they needed help. Where would they get help? Well they figure a fourth Powerpuff Girl would do just fine! At this point I think fans are probably thinking themselves as a fourth Powerpuff Girl, or creating one in their little fantasies! It would seem this episode is referencing them, right? The scene where they create the fourth Powerpuff is very cute and the way they drop the Chemical X brings me great amusement, but when Bunny is created, she is not what she seems.
The PPG apparently couldn't find the exact ingredients to make a new Powerpuff, so instead of sugar they used artificial sweetener, instead of spice they threw in twigs and sticks, and as for everything nice everyone just put stuff they liked like flowers and dollies and science textbooks and footballs and knuckle sandwiches...so the Powerpuff born is a bit...disabled for a lack of a better word. She towers over the other girls and can't make out proper words, just making sounds (I think eventually she does, though.) Anyway she is told to fight crime, but Bunny misunderstands who the bad guys are when she sees cops pointing their guns at robbers. So she ends up beating up the police force and freeing the inmates at Townsville Jail. The girls find out and chastise her, so she runs (well, flies) away crying, but this gives the escaped prisoners an opening to beat the snot out of the girls. Bunny comes flying in to save the day, restoring peace, putting bad guys back behind bars and freeing the cops! ...THEN SHE DIES.
Well, the ingredients in her were quite unstable so she exploded, only a piece of her dress remained, floating down to the Powerpuff Girls who realized it was they who have erred...the episode ends, narrator in tears...

Rest in peace, Bunny ;o;
The episode that hopefully cheers us up next is Cover Up, a Buttercup episode! Yay! Another episode to show us that Buttercup is not as tough as she seems to be! It also tries to denounce that you don't need lucky charms or silly things like that to do your best, as the lesson of the day! Anyway Buttercup owns a blanket. I know how she feels, I also once had a blanket...that I lost...a long time ago. Okay nevermind maybe I'm closer to Bubbles and her Octi, nonetheless Buttercup is doing amazing during the crime-fighting, so much so that the other two don't even bother to help, they just sit back and relax...but once Buttercup loses her blanket she freaks out and cannot fight properly. One would wonder why the other two just didn't help her fight rather than search for that blanket? Luckily Blossom finds it anyway, and if the blanket in place Buttercup obliterates the monster! Of course back home Blossom tells her that it was a fake blanket, so Buttercup freaks out again, then the Prof. shows up with the laundry. So what we have learned is that Buttercup can be that badass without a silly blanket, but it would've been nice to see her keep it anyway, similar to Bubbles and Octi. Ah well. I really did love this episode though, probably my favourite Buttercup episode. :D It shows that Buttercup can be insecure too! Actually she probably is the most, just hides behind a tough exterior. So yeah.
This season continues to surprise me in various ways with Speed Demon being the next one to do so. If the cootie episode or the sandman episode didn't scare you, this will. It's basically a bad future episode. If the Powerpuff Girls disappeared, Townsville will be in ruins, all the people who survived will be wrecks and really...as a Him episode it was appropriately creepy. Oddly this is the only Him episode of the season, but it's enough to give you chills. All the monotone survivors pointing fingers at the girls, blaming them for what has happened to them. The dark, dystopia (kind of) ruled by Satan and completely, utterly destroyed. The Mayor is dead. Since we have the good ol' status quo to go back to though, the girls (who reached the future in the first place with an extremely quick race) raced backwards and somehow went back in time. I could go into paraodoxes and other odd nonsensical thing that happens in this episode but that would end up with tons of text. Damn though, these creepy horror-filled episodes just seem really nightmare-inducing stuff. SCARE THE CHILDREN!

"Your fault...your fault...your fault..."
Well...moving from that rather dark episode, we have Mojo Jonesin' an episode that was probably created because people noticed that last episode didn't have very much of a moral if at all. (Okay, maybe the DON'T EVER GO ON VACATION OR EVERYTHING WILL BECOME HELL!!! moral..as in don't leave helpess dependent people alone, or they will implode!!) so instead of scaring children let's teach children great, amazing things like NOT DOING DRUGS! There is another episode with that same concept later on, but I found this episode the stupidest episode ever. Without even reviewing the rest of the series I will already say this is the worst episode of the entire series. Mojo, the drug dealer gives a bunch of random kids CHEMICAL X, said drug, and if they take it they become super-powerful...but in return they must destroy the Powerpuff Girls! Yeah I'm not even going to bother to say much of anymore, it was bad. Is it just me though or are LOTS of episodes of cartoons that focus on trying to teach kids to say no to drugs really bad episodes in general?
Something's a Ms. is the return of Sedusa! After showing up for one episode in the first season she shows up yet again, but as I said she really doesn't appear as much as she could've. This episode though brings me the question, the very important relevant question: The censors, were they asleep? Not that letting slip some things were bad, but there was pretty much a catfight, Miss Bellum in tights, the Mayor wanting more of that loving Sedusa-dressed-up-as-Miss Bellum did, and 69 Yodelina Valley Ave.! Oh well. I'm not actually that fond of Miss Bellum so I wasn't that excited for an episode about her, same with Sedusa but hey it was a good episode nonetheless...just very...well I don't know what to say. I think the beginning had a lot of recycled animation, having "Miss Bellum" go to the bank everytime just repeated animation, eventually the montage of asking for the afternoon off and calling the girls to investigate a robbery got its own original animation but still. Ah well.
And finally for the end of season two...Slumbering With the Enemy! The girls have a slumber party and pretty much invite EVERY FEMALE IN TOWN pretty much. They all say yes because the Powerpuff Girls are clearly the coolest kids in town, what with saving the world with superpowers and such. Mojo gets an idea and crossdresses as one of the kids to go to the party so he can destroy the girls as "Mojesha!" What a name. The PPG can see that he is definitely Mojo but the other girls do not nor does the Professor and Mojo can act like a girl surprisingly well...so well that the girls even start to think maybe he isn't here to do bad. Unfortunately for them as they sleep he grabs some Antidote X and attacks, leaving the PPG helpless. The other girls amusingly are shocked, asking "Why Mojesha, why!?" until he breaks out of his disguise and shows his true self! Then the other little girls BEAT HIM UP! Awww. So once again the day is saved thanks to the normal girls! I especially liked the dressup part. Teehee.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING BUBBLES!?
Well that's all for season two. My thoughts on the season as a whole? It had A LOT more ups and downs than the first season. I personally didn't think any of the episodes of season one was bad, but this season had a few pretty bad episodes...fortunately it also has some of the best episodes! Still, the Powerpuff spirit is still strong in this one as the last, and the show must still go on because Spotto wants more! Until next time...season three! I also plan to review the movie during the season four review, the special christmas episode during season five, and "Powerpuff Girls Rule!" during season six, so three will be the last of the pure-season reviews! How does Spotto type up this much!? From her sheer love for this cartoon! That is all.

My impression of the Powerpuff Girls after the first season...
Dadadadaaa!!
Let's just get straight into the review!
Season Two of the Powerpuff Girls started with a bang, at least in my opinion. The episode Stuck Up, Up, and Away was one of the most badass moments for the girls in the entire series. I even uploaded a clip on Youtube that I think will be removed sooner or later because of the strict copyright rules (even so, a bunch of PPG episodes still exist there so if you want to see some of them go right ahead, mostly season one and the later season episodes though, not much of three or four. Getting the boxset would be 100x better but not everyone will think of investing $50 on a show they never watched yet P:) After only one episode for Blossom in the first season we still don't really know that much about her. So far it is Bubbles and Buttercup who have shown some really kickass action in the first season, but here everything blows away...and without further ado I begin this review with the awesomest fight scene in PPG. (Okay there were probably others, but you know)
Oh yeah, Blossom is awesome.
Schoolhouse Rocked brings us another Gangreen Gang episode. My favourite part in this episode was actually the beginning, when the villains were in an arcade playing a PPG game. Bubbles sure did kick Fuzzy's ass. Anyway the actual episode starts with a truancy officer noticing that the gang aren't in school, so he throws them into kindergarten...the PPG's Pokey Oaks class. The gang proceed to torment and bully the students but Ms. Keane never catches this, and thus keeps disciplining the girls for overreacting, to the point that they were sentenced to TIME OUT, losing their recess. While this is going on some pretty severe beatings outside on the playground came from the Gangreen Gang in the form of dodgeball, and only does Ms. Keane notice this when the window is smashed to pieces. School though has some rule that forbids people from fighting within it, so in a stroke of genius the teacher tells the girls to just play dodgeball with the gang instead, and so the episode ends in its standard way--with violence! The truancy officer (super annoying guy, by the way) comes in and chastises them for "failing to take care of the gang" and take them away, so someone knocks him out with a dodgeball.

Pretty much.
What was the lesson today kids? "Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance?" Bubbles asks? No, Miss Keane says, "Never turn your back in a game of dodgeball!"
I love shows that mock the lesson of the day. I think South Park does that too. I didn't really like the episode that much honestly, not that it was bad, it was pretty good...I just don't like the Gangreen Gang. They're not that interesting to me. :X
Episode three of the series is Collect Her an episode I think that is supposed to parody people like me to the extreme! I mean sure I'm reviewing the series and I fangirl about it a lot, but the villain in this episode is incredibly dedicated to collecting ALL THINGS POWERPUFF. His bed? Powerpuff sheets. Powerpuff pillows, powerpuff lava lamps, powerpuff dolls, figures, etc. etc. ETC! His entire room is the PPG brand, not a single thing isn't...except his clothes oddly enough. I know my room has posters and pictures of stuff I like, but this is VERY EXTREME because the collecting "nerd" in this episode is shown to be fat, pig disgusting, and sloppy. Anyway he eventually realizes he has actually collected every PPG thing in existence, but because PPG collecting is his life, he still needs MORE. That doesn't sound like drugs at all.
So he goes and steals stuff from the PPG house...then when that isn't even enough...he steals the girls themselves. How did a diabolical mutated monkey, manifestion of hell itself, and the girl with all the money in the world not defeat the girls, but this random fat guy did? The horrors of over-obsessed fans? Anyway the professor realizes the girls have gone missing, tells the Mayor, who proceeds to have an assembly where ALL THE CITIZENS must attend, and the only person absent? The guy who stole the girls, they immediately riot into his house, and the children all rip open his powerpuff merchandise to torture the man into revealing where the girls are therefore nulling the value! Eventually he gives in, and the Professor rips open a three boxes, the girls free.
Well, that episode made no sense whatsoever! Oh well.
The series continues to produce one-shot villains such as the average Harold Smith, an average neighbour to the Powerpuff Girls (who are not so average). he has an average life, with an average job and an average family, so this episode must have an average title! Supper Villain! That doesn't really sound that average, until you see the plot! The girls are invited to dinner in the Smith household, and Harold's ambition is to become the greatest supervillain ever! So he takes this opportunity to put a sparkler on his head and wear a towel as a cape so he can commit some supervillainy on the Powerpuff Girls--namely "MELTING THE PROFESSOR'S HEAD CLEAR OFF HIS SHOULDERS!" (that was the actual quote, yes. Isn't the imagery in your head exciting!?) Of course the wife is rather obsessed with having a perfect dinner so the murder of the Professor is postponed until after dinner.
Obviously the dinner is awkward with a gun pointed at the Professor's head the entire time. Finally the Professor only has his pea left (which he takes his time chewing and swallowing--of course) BEFORE HAROLD COULD SHOOT HIM, dessert happens...and a pie-throwing game happens..and then the cops come in to save the day! Oh wow the cops saved the day, arresting Harold and the Professor is saved! The episode doesn't seem to be a one-shot after all because the wife is left with a vendetta on her hands..."Those Powerpuff Girls...ruined...MY DINNER!" And thus the episode ends.

"Eat your pea, Professor!"
That episode also was...kind of out of nowhere...huh. It was comedic though but still...huh.
It's the Powerpuff Girls' birthday! Birthday Bash shows that the girls also don't have average birthday parties, with a huge amount of guests and tons of presents, the writers make it no secret that the girls like presents. A lot. (They even blow the cake away (they were too strong to simply blow out the candles themselves) and didn't care at all that the cake was gone. I would care! A cake is a very big part of a birthday party.) The villains who are in jail at the time decide to send presents that will try to kill them instead so even on their birthdays, the girls do not have any time to relax. (Also the party is broadcasted live on television, lol) Of course because they only have 10 minutes to celebrate their birthday (that's how long an episode is :X) all the presents we see being opened just happen to be all the ones from the villains. Mojo Jojo tries to crush them with a Robo Jojo, the princess sents a bullseye where a missile will land, The Amoeba Boys fail by sending voodoo Powerpuff Dolls and keeping the pins...and Him sends a giant pinata of death. (Claiming that after it was defeated, the candy will give them all cavities!)
A pretty interesting episode, it's similar to Telephonies in the way that the villains interact with each other, and we also get lots of action with the girls defeating things. Nothing spectacular, an episode I'd deem an "everyday" Powerpuff Girl episode.
Too Pooped to Puff tells us once again, the citizens of Townsville are morons! Lazy morons for this episode at least. The city eventually starts to depend too much on the girls, where they end up doing mundane things rather than simply "Saving the day" so they go on strike (well that's what they pretty much did!) and just when they do a giant monster attacks Townsville! This is something they're supposed to do because normal ordinary citizens can't really fight off a monster, but the girls continue on their strike. IS TOWNSVILLE DOOMED?
More people dying nonchatantly! The monster eats a car with people in it. The girls actually watch this, with Bubbles asking very casually "Maybe we should do something?" but no, they don't. Yay! Anyway the monster is eventually destroyed...technically by the people of Townsville, but not without tons of help from the PPG (in trying to hint WHAT TO DO WITH A MONSTER IS STICK IN ELECTRICAL WIRES) so the people get all happy and arrogant that they did it themselves but in the end no one learns anything! Hurray! My favourite part was when Bubbles threw the remote on the floor, when the Professor asked them to give it to him because he couldn't reach. :D

In the words of Nelson Muntz: "Haha!"
Moving on...I'm going to assume it's Halloween again because Dream Scheme comes to you with some pretty scary nightmares...from the girls. I also don't really agree with the ending to this episode, similar to Mime for a Change, but I'll get to that. The Sandman, NEVER getting sleep because of timezones has to travel the world to aid everyone into falling asleep with his sand, but he gets fed up and puts everyone to sleep forever so he can finally get a nap himself. He even gets the Powerpuff Girls, so they decide to defeat him by flooding his dreams with nightmares. Cue monstrously-large Powerpuff Girls, rooster girls, weird-inverted-colour hallways of strange-zebra-patterned DOOM and my favourite, Bubbles the shark. He wakes up, learns his lesson and wakes everyone else in the world up, promising to never slack off again.
I felt sorry for this "villain" actually because even though putting everyone to sleep forever is wrong...he JUST WANTED A NAP, GEEZ. "Finally, after NEVER I get to sleep! *PLAGUED BY EVIL HORRIBLE POWERPUFF NIGHTMARES EEEEE!!!*" so he was scared into doing his job, never to get a break ever due to the EVIL TIMEZONES! The timezones were the true villains of the episode, but the PPG didn't look very heroic themselves. Nonetheless it is quite refreshing to see the PPG use nonconventional ways of defeating the villain, even if it's creepy and not heroic-looking at all. Oh well :D
You Snooze, You Lose was a pretty funny episode except it just recycled the same plot whenever the Amoeba Boys ever take the spotlight. They fail at committing a crime, but in the end do something without realizing that could be the evilest thing ever done ever!! In this case accidentally build Mojo's BEST PLAN TO DESTROY THE POWERPUFF GIRLS EVER!! Because they--and the powerpuff girls thought the plans were some sort of scavenger hunt! Mojo himself fell asleep and the plans left his arms through the window due to mysterious wind, thus the name of the episode. Also the way the PPG defeat the machine that almost killed them was again--gross. CHEW PRE-CHEWED CHEWING GUM! It does subvert--yet again, that whole clean image a hero is supposed to have by doing things the less conventional and more...squicky way. P: Oh and Mojo demanded to be recognized for committing the crime, not the Amoeba Boys, so he gets beat up and thrown in jail...reminds me of Crime 101 yet agan!
The Halloween theme is still apparent because the most morally-forced episode ever comes in Beat Your Greens. Everyone knows kids hate vegetables, particularly broccoli. (I would know--I HATE broccoli) So to make eating broccoli cool and awesome, why not make an evil race of aliens made of broccoli!? The aliens attempt to take over the world by assuming everyone eats broccoli, so they plant some sort of hypnotization device in the crops. Of course the only people who DID eat the broccoli were the adults, so they fell under the spell, leaving all the kids unaffected. Assuming they have hypnotized all the humans the broccoli aliens invade! And the PPG plus the children realize eventually that the only way to defeat the broccoli aliens is to EAT THEM ALIVE!! So an army of hungry, ravage children storm the invading alien army, armed with utensils, teeth, and even goats! With their arsenals and hungry-hungry rabbits, they proceed to kill all the aliens by eating them.
The leader, still left alive asks for MERCY, HORRIFIED at what has happened to his kind, but the PPG give him none and eat him alive. Yay! I still, still, despite repeating this millions of times, can't understand how this ended up a children's cartoon. This episode looked more like it parodied children's cartoons by making a simple moral rather...savage. Oh well, it was entertaining and that's what made kids watch, like me!
Continuing with the green trend, we have another Buttercup episode--Down N' Dirty! Apparently we need to force more morals down our children's throats, so we use Buttercup as the prototype rebellious child who decides, like many children--not to take a bath. Of course the PPG once again takes everything to the extreme because hyperboles are funny and Buttercup does not take a bath despite being sneezed up by a giant monster (so tons of mucus, she even spits it out of her mouth and smiles...if The Rowdyruff Boys' creation didn't disgust you this would) smashing through a septic tank (comes out covered in brown...yuck) and various other incredibly gross encounters--to the point that she is kicked out of the house, and driven out of the city from a riot due to the smell. Despite this, Buttercup still refuses to because apparently being exiled is not psychologically damaging enough to make her take a bath, but when even monsters flee from her due to the smell, she gives in to the bath because she just wants to fight monsters again. Buttercup actually hasn't learned anything though. She just took the bath to fight more. Yep. I wonder how she ignored her own smell.

I like her hair down like this though. It looks cute...:D
In summary, this episode was gross--very. It wasn't a bad episode just very repulsive. *gag*
Slave the Day...the Gangreen Gang bore me but at least their episodes are sometimes entertaining, particularly if it also includes one of the girls in the spotlight...(Buttercrush) but this was...this episode is probably my least favourite so far. Big Billy is not interesting. The Gangreen Gang are also sociopaths because they didn't even care about Big Billy, assuming he was dead and continuing their lives. Yeah I'm not going to say much about this episode. I do like the Gangreen Gang more than the Amoeba Boys so far, that's for sure...
So now to use all the text I saved up from that very short episode review for Los Dos Mojos! This is probably one of-if not my most favourite PPG episode ever--personally that is. As much as I love Bubblevicious, this episode just made me laugh too hard to not have it at the very top, at the least top three. It's really more of a Mojo episode than a Bubbles episode, but eh. The performance of Tara Strong here was awesome, her voicing of Bubbles trying to sound all MOJO-JOJO LIKE including making fun of how he speaks. This episode was great, since the episode exceeded my expectations, thus I give it higher ratings. I liked it, so it got my approval because I was entertained, which is the purpose of this cartoon, and so because it satisfactorily did so, I found it good, and great--that is to say...
Well the plot is pretty simple, Bubbles gets hit in the head--the last thing she ever sees is Mojo taunting her, laughing that he has knocked out a Powerpuff. Then she wakes up--kicks Mojo out of his hideout, steals his clothes (he was taking a bath, so now he walks around in a towel. Shouldn't you have more than one pair of those clothes, Mojo?) and then tries to destroy everything with a Robo Jojo. Everyone is exaggeratingly-surprised, and Mojo comes out still wet-in a towel, exclaiming that HE is not in that Robo Jojo. Buttercup keeps jumping ahead and beating him up ANYWAY, but still. Bubbles or Mojo Bubbles as I like to call her comes out in his clothes, that somehow fit her much smaller body and kicks the CRAP out of Buttercup and Blossom, granted they didn't fight back "Because she's our sister!" (Yet in Tough Love they beat the sockings out of the citizens of Townsville, including their own father...maybe Him makes it so there's less choice?) But as she continues to ramble on similar to Mojo Jojo, Mojo himself ironically gets annoyed by her speech and smashes her in the head again, conveniently returning her memories and so Bubbles can now beat up Mojo Jojo, who had believed he had defeated them all!
I liked this episode so much I have it on my mp3 player. I liked this episode so much it was the very first episode I wanted to rewatch whenever I felt nostalgic for PPG again. THIS EPISODE RIGHT HERE FOLKS. Rewatching it now though I can hear the Timmy Turner in that evil Mojo Bubbles voice :P It also throws in a twist, having Buttercup be the reasonable one of her and Blossom, so at first we're like "Wait...what, that's not right" but then when she is irritated she immediately forgets her own words and tries to attack Bubbles. There's the Buttercup we know! And also the Blossom we know! I also remember my child-self laughing uncontrollably at this episode. Right here. I cannot describe this episode in mere words, it requires dialogue, it requires audio, it requires...Los Dos Mojos!

"...If you were to address me by the name Moooojo Jojo, that would be correct! For my name IS Moooojo Jojo! And I will only be addressed by that name, which is Moooojo Jojo ..."
Alas I can't stay on this awesome episode...so...Blossom episode: A Very Special Blossom.
It takes until the second season for Blossom to have her own "deviating from apparent personality" episode, as we saw in Buttercrush and Bubblevicious, A Very Special Blossom depicts Blossom not being moral! GASP! Well, have the Powerpuff Girls been very moral at all this entire time? Hmmm... Also did you notice these episodes have another pattern? They all have their names in them! Oooooh. So anyway it is Father's Day! Awww, and the Professor attempts to be very grateful for the presents he got from the girls last year (which, while the thought counts are quite crummy looking, but what do you expect from five-year-old children? Okay, they're superheroes too, but still.) and tells them he'll love whatever he gets this year. Then he suddenly sees some expensive golf-clubs, melting, fanboying the amazing quality of them, being very obvious that he dearly, clearly wants them...but cannot afford it.
So Blossom steals it!
Okay, it went a little more indepth than that. The girls first attempt to make the money through various means, but cannot ever get enough. They eventually request from the Mayor, since they save the day all the time to be paid for their services, who when hears of their price tag "$2000!" looks to have had a heart attack. So yeah...Mojo starts destroying Townsville, and once they defeat it, the store with the golf clubs has been damaged, and Blossom is standing near there, cleaning things up, seeing the golf clubs there through the broken window, just asking to be stolen...so Blossom steals it! Dun dun duuuun!
She gives it to the Professor, makes the other two jealous (who are all wondering how the hell she even got it Blossom claims she found them) and then the Professor, using the golf clubs is arrested for the theft, but when confronted about this (he calls Blossom asking what was going on, that it was a mistake) Blossom continues her misgivings and attempts to frame Mojo since he did destroy the golf store's window in his rampage--claiming he tricked her...but Buttercup who by the way seems to have lots of lines in Blossom episodes for some reason, remembers she told them she found them, so what is the truth!? She then attempts to FLEE and it isn't until the other two manage to pin her down after some difficulty does she finally tell the truth. Well that was a doozy, did anyone ever expect that at all? Well, the way she told that baby to shut up in those real early episodes doesn't surprise me nooow....
Nonetheless, there have always been an episode in some kid's show that touches upon something immoral to teach the kids of wrong, except this one again, went to the extreme by having Blossom not only steal, but lie, and kidnap...and frame, and flee...well now! Still it does show they can be human, as in they will not always be moral...erm, aware that they're not moral and so far this cartoon has not been sugarcoated whatsoever. O: How did she only get 200 hours of community service again? Oh right, superhero stuff.

Because she was so bad, her image was also tarnished...literally--"look at [that] bow!"
Daylight Savings was kind of...not good. I suppose you can blame Townsville citizen sheep-syndrome, but there must be better solutions than giving the girls a curfew--hell, in the end the problem wasn't even properly solved! They have to come back before 7:30 to be well-rested for school so all the evil decides to come out after 7:30pm, and despite the city going up in FLAMES the professor still refuses to let them go save the day. Then he realizes IT'S DAYLIGHT SAVINGS OMG so he throws the girls out the window to go save the day since it's only 6:30pm and he forgot to change the clocks!
That doesn't help the problem at all! It also never comes up again because they end up going out at night numerous times later to save the day anyway. The episode wasn't even funny, only funny part might've been when the girls are thrown out the window or "PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE!? NOOOOOOOOOO!" or the city going up in flames when the Professor isn't looking...okay it was kind of funny, but still. The episode was otherwise pointless. I guess the curfew idea was revoked...wonder what they did about the falling-asleep-in-class problem though...
After that we have Mo Job and is it me or was this episode kind of animated differently? Maybe a different animation company handled it? It felt a lot less smooth/cheaper or something somehow, and nothing really happened except the Princess trying to be a Powerpuff Girl again except with far less awesome action from her debut, oh she also teamed up with Mojo. Eh. Tons of SLOW-MO occurred in this episode too.
Pet Feud introduced not a one-shot villain nor is it an episode about one of the characters from the show, but Beebo, an animal you only feed once or IT WILL EAT EVERYTHING! Is this really something you should be giving to five-year-old children, Professor? So in a series of events the Beebo is "accidentally" fed a few more times than once. (I say it in quotes because how is giving a pet the entire fridge to eat an accident, Bubbles?) It then starts to eat EVERYTHING including buildings and people. Unfortunately for Townsville not only are the people eaten, but the girls as well! Bubbles is the only one remaining and attempts to stop Beebo with LOVE, something that always works in children's cartoons! If they understand your love, they will stop raging!

Or not.
I'm sorry that was hilarious. A simple subversion and I'm on the ground laughing my head off. Of course ending an episode with the Powerpuff Girls and all the people eaten and dead would not make sense, so Beebo having eaten too much explodes--it was something the Professor built into the perfect pet in case such an incident occurred. Of course instead of "ceasing to exist" (he didn't say die P:) Beebo lives on by exploding into millions of Beebos, so everyone can have a cannibalizing pet! Except the Mayor because he's retarded. Teehee. I still wonder about these people though, they just got eaten by a man-eating pet and once it explodes EVERYONE wants one! YAY! A pet that could potentially become deadly for me tooooo~!
Next we have Imaginary Fiend with a cameo from the imaginary friend in Dexter's Laboratory that Deedee made up...at least I think so. Apparently pigtailed blondes share imaginary friends because Bubbles thought him up. Mike Believe is the new kid in class and he's sad for some odd reason. I guess if you're going to a new school you'll be sad but Bubbles tried to befriend him and he just ignored her. Huh. Then he gets an evil imaginary friend who terrorizes the classroom and was only defeated by the PPG's imaginary friend. I think it was a good children-episode, since it takes place in a kindergarten class and describes the loneliness of being new...with the usual dose of violence of course! Such as a bookcase crushing Blossom or something. Also the episode as many people already know had a reference to South Park, when Blossom slams into the coat racket she gets up wearing Cartman's hat and coat. I just found that last part kind of odd. I mean it had everybody laughing at Buttercup but it wasn't that funny. As if they had fifteen seconds of episode-time left and stuck that in there to fill it up...or something. Does Buttercup usually have witty retorts at the end of episodes? I don't think so...? Oh well.
Cootie Gras...ARRRGGHHHHHHH COOTIES ARRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Well normally cooties aren't real and don't even look disgusting, but why is there a very disturbed boy trying to KISS ALL THE KIDS IN CLASS!? That's not cooties, that's bacteria! Germs! Viruses! Mononucleosis! And the dream the girls had! WHAT KIND OF NIGHTMARE WAS THAT. What kind of imagination do these girls have!? If they get cooties the person who spread them (this very disturbed boy who looks like a parody of pig pen from Peanuts!?) will pop up ALL OVER THEIR BODIES and they'll drown in a FLOOD of him!? Mojo Jojo uses this to his advantage, and with the power of COOTIES, leads the mafia and even speaks in an Italian accent!? THEN WHEN BLOSSOM FINALLY IS KISSED BY SAID BOY, nothing happens so they decide to peck their lips all over this dirty, dirty boy--EVEN BUTTERCUP!? Then when Mojo is thrown in prison PRISON RAPE IS IMPLIED!? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS EPISODE!?!?! How did it get through the censors, why is it so horrifyingly disgusting!? Argh! Argh! ARGH COOTIES!!!!

YOU CALL THIS A CHILDREN'S SHOW!?!? AAAAARRGHHHHH
Luckily the next episode is very cute and nothing like the previous one: The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever!
This episode is one of my favourites! Instead of watching our heroes defeat some sort of enemy, it's simply cute little pretendy-fun times at home! Since it's raining everyone is staying at home, no crime, no government, no crime-fighting or anything because it's raining and rain is bad. Or not! Since they are stuck at home the PPG decide to play the Powerpuff Girls right in their own room! First they build Townsville out of blocks, and Blossom is sending Joe to the grocery store to buy groceries, but Buttercup with a stuffed alligator draped over her storms Townsville trying to eat Joe because she is a monster! Blossom is annoyed because she was in the middle of playing with Joe, but Buttercup argues that she is a monster, she can come whenever she wants.
It continues like that, Bubbles dresses up as the Mayor and portrays him hilariously, Blossom stuffs stuffed animals down her shirt to indicate she is Miss Bellum (LOL)! They get an argument when Buttercup tries to pretend to be Blossom (she looks weird with that bow) but no one wants to be Bubbles even though Bubbles wanted to be Bubbles because it's pretend and you're not supposed to be yourself. The professor is convinced to dress up as Bubbles (ALSO LOL) and he destroys the monster, who is Blossom this time. They then continue to dress up as villains to see who sent this giant alligator to attack the town, eventually it goes to Blossom pretending to be Mojo, a very convincing Mojo (I dunno if I like Mojo Blossom or Mojo Bubbles better, hahaha!) and they play hide and seek, Blossom being Mojo trying to hide from the Powerpuff Girls so she isn't punished for unleashing the alligator monster. They gave up and played video games though, and an ingenious form of at-home villainy comes when Blossom rips the game out of the console that Buttercup was playing, causing them to launch themselves at her and finally the rain stops.
Aww, it's sunny. Now they can't play at home and have to defeat a real alligator monster unleashed by Mojo Jojo! There were plenty of other hilarious scenes too like the Mayor running through a window and into the mud! I'm always amazed how this is only a ten minute episode, I was always under the impression that it took up the full half-hour timeslot but they really did cram a lot of good stuff in just ten minutes! One of the best episodes by far and all it was was pretend. Clever, witty, and cute. Awwww.

An average day of crime-fighting for the Powerpuff Girls
The next episode is a sequel episode! Gasp! Just Desserts concludes what Supper Villain started, with Harold Smith having an eerily similar life in prison as he was in the outside, instead of mustard jars--license plates! He soon gets released...I don't know what kind of penal system Townsville has but for someone who committed attempted murder he sure got released real fast. He goes home, the Professor (who was working on his garden) edges away uneasily back into the house, and Harold feels very ashamed, apologizing and crying to his wife...who is still VERY ANGRY...but not at Harold. FOR THOSE POWERPUFF GIRLS RUINED HER DINNER! Rage! The rest of the family has new kickass supervillain costumes, much more professional-looking that Harold's sparkler-head towel-cape thing...erm, anyway the reason the kids want to kill them is because they lost the daughter's jacks, and their son is a teenager so he hates everything. (Lol) They get into their not-very-average minivan, destroy the PPG's house, then when they come home try to destroy the PPG (because they weren't suffering as the Smiths had hoped) and well, the PPG stop them after a Scooby Doo-like chase scene! Hooray! I have no idea what was the point of these two episodes except to be funny. An average supervillain family indeed...
Twisted Sister is without a doubt heartbreaking. I thought such depressing things like these never went near children's cartoons, but here it is, right here! This episode DEFINES downer ending...but what is this episode, you ask? The girls feeling overworked decide that they needed help. Where would they get help? Well they figure a fourth Powerpuff Girl would do just fine! At this point I think fans are probably thinking themselves as a fourth Powerpuff Girl, or creating one in their little fantasies! It would seem this episode is referencing them, right? The scene where they create the fourth Powerpuff is very cute and the way they drop the Chemical X brings me great amusement, but when Bunny is created, she is not what she seems.
The PPG apparently couldn't find the exact ingredients to make a new Powerpuff, so instead of sugar they used artificial sweetener, instead of spice they threw in twigs and sticks, and as for everything nice everyone just put stuff they liked like flowers and dollies and science textbooks and footballs and knuckle sandwiches...so the Powerpuff born is a bit...disabled for a lack of a better word. She towers over the other girls and can't make out proper words, just making sounds (I think eventually she does, though.) Anyway she is told to fight crime, but Bunny misunderstands who the bad guys are when she sees cops pointing their guns at robbers. So she ends up beating up the police force and freeing the inmates at Townsville Jail. The girls find out and chastise her, so she runs (well, flies) away crying, but this gives the escaped prisoners an opening to beat the snot out of the girls. Bunny comes flying in to save the day, restoring peace, putting bad guys back behind bars and freeing the cops! ...THEN SHE DIES.
Well, the ingredients in her were quite unstable so she exploded, only a piece of her dress remained, floating down to the Powerpuff Girls who realized it was they who have erred...the episode ends, narrator in tears...

Rest in peace, Bunny ;o;
The episode that hopefully cheers us up next is Cover Up, a Buttercup episode! Yay! Another episode to show us that Buttercup is not as tough as she seems to be! It also tries to denounce that you don't need lucky charms or silly things like that to do your best, as the lesson of the day! Anyway Buttercup owns a blanket. I know how she feels, I also once had a blanket...that I lost...a long time ago. Okay nevermind maybe I'm closer to Bubbles and her Octi, nonetheless Buttercup is doing amazing during the crime-fighting, so much so that the other two don't even bother to help, they just sit back and relax...but once Buttercup loses her blanket she freaks out and cannot fight properly. One would wonder why the other two just didn't help her fight rather than search for that blanket? Luckily Blossom finds it anyway, and if the blanket in place Buttercup obliterates the monster! Of course back home Blossom tells her that it was a fake blanket, so Buttercup freaks out again, then the Prof. shows up with the laundry. So what we have learned is that Buttercup can be that badass without a silly blanket, but it would've been nice to see her keep it anyway, similar to Bubbles and Octi. Ah well. I really did love this episode though, probably my favourite Buttercup episode. :D It shows that Buttercup can be insecure too! Actually she probably is the most, just hides behind a tough exterior. So yeah.
This season continues to surprise me in various ways with Speed Demon being the next one to do so. If the cootie episode or the sandman episode didn't scare you, this will. It's basically a bad future episode. If the Powerpuff Girls disappeared, Townsville will be in ruins, all the people who survived will be wrecks and really...as a Him episode it was appropriately creepy. Oddly this is the only Him episode of the season, but it's enough to give you chills. All the monotone survivors pointing fingers at the girls, blaming them for what has happened to them. The dark, dystopia (kind of) ruled by Satan and completely, utterly destroyed. The Mayor is dead. Since we have the good ol' status quo to go back to though, the girls (who reached the future in the first place with an extremely quick race) raced backwards and somehow went back in time. I could go into paraodoxes and other odd nonsensical thing that happens in this episode but that would end up with tons of text. Damn though, these creepy horror-filled episodes just seem really nightmare-inducing stuff. SCARE THE CHILDREN!

"Your fault...your fault...your fault..."
Well...moving from that rather dark episode, we have Mojo Jonesin' an episode that was probably created because people noticed that last episode didn't have very much of a moral if at all. (Okay, maybe the DON'T EVER GO ON VACATION OR EVERYTHING WILL BECOME HELL!!! moral..as in don't leave helpess dependent people alone, or they will implode!!) so instead of scaring children let's teach children great, amazing things like NOT DOING DRUGS! There is another episode with that same concept later on, but I found this episode the stupidest episode ever. Without even reviewing the rest of the series I will already say this is the worst episode of the entire series. Mojo, the drug dealer gives a bunch of random kids CHEMICAL X, said drug, and if they take it they become super-powerful...but in return they must destroy the Powerpuff Girls! Yeah I'm not even going to bother to say much of anymore, it was bad. Is it just me though or are LOTS of episodes of cartoons that focus on trying to teach kids to say no to drugs really bad episodes in general?
Something's a Ms. is the return of Sedusa! After showing up for one episode in the first season she shows up yet again, but as I said she really doesn't appear as much as she could've. This episode though brings me the question, the very important relevant question: The censors, were they asleep? Not that letting slip some things were bad, but there was pretty much a catfight, Miss Bellum in tights, the Mayor wanting more of that loving Sedusa-dressed-up-as-Miss Bellum did, and 69 Yodelina Valley Ave.! Oh well. I'm not actually that fond of Miss Bellum so I wasn't that excited for an episode about her, same with Sedusa but hey it was a good episode nonetheless...just very...well I don't know what to say. I think the beginning had a lot of recycled animation, having "Miss Bellum" go to the bank everytime just repeated animation, eventually the montage of asking for the afternoon off and calling the girls to investigate a robbery got its own original animation but still. Ah well.
And finally for the end of season two...Slumbering With the Enemy! The girls have a slumber party and pretty much invite EVERY FEMALE IN TOWN pretty much. They all say yes because the Powerpuff Girls are clearly the coolest kids in town, what with saving the world with superpowers and such. Mojo gets an idea and crossdresses as one of the kids to go to the party so he can destroy the girls as "Mojesha!" What a name. The PPG can see that he is definitely Mojo but the other girls do not nor does the Professor and Mojo can act like a girl surprisingly well...so well that the girls even start to think maybe he isn't here to do bad. Unfortunately for them as they sleep he grabs some Antidote X and attacks, leaving the PPG helpless. The other girls amusingly are shocked, asking "Why Mojesha, why!?" until he breaks out of his disguise and shows his true self! Then the other little girls BEAT HIM UP! Awww. So once again the day is saved thanks to the normal girls! I especially liked the dressup part. Teehee.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING BUBBLES!?
Well that's all for season two. My thoughts on the season as a whole? It had A LOT more ups and downs than the first season. I personally didn't think any of the episodes of season one was bad, but this season had a few pretty bad episodes...fortunately it also has some of the best episodes! Still, the Powerpuff spirit is still strong in this one as the last, and the show must still go on because Spotto wants more! Until next time...season three! I also plan to review the movie during the season four review, the special christmas episode during season five, and "Powerpuff Girls Rule!" during season six, so three will be the last of the pure-season reviews! How does Spotto type up this much!? From her sheer love for this cartoon! That is all.