Top 10 WORST Powerpuff Girls Episodes
For a long time, I have been wanting to make a project resembling a countdown list, being inspired by the likes of @umbramagna777, @phantomstrider and even the Nostalgia Critic. After some considerate years, I have finally decided to make a list based on my all time favorite show The Powerpuff Girls.
Cartoon Network’s breakaway hit of the late 90s and early to mid 00s starring three adorable, precocious little kindergartners with superpowers was a cultural phenomenon. Spawning hundreds and thousands of merchandise, a theatrical film, several TV specials, an anime and a reboot, it’s unbelievable that a cartoon with an all female lead would become an icon in the cartoon industry.
Created by Craig McCracken fresh off two pilots in the “What A Cartoon” shorts and evolving from the earliest incarnation “Whoopass Stew”, The Powerpuff Girls became the highest rated cartoon debut at the time. Critics praised this show for being so unique, entertaining, epic, action packed and nothing like anything else at the time, but most of all, this show was very, very funny.
But that doesn’t mean this show gets all the glory and praise 100% per episode, like every television show, there will always be flaws and bad episodes and, the Powerpuff Girls is no exception when it comes to rotten entries in the line-up.
Whether you like these episodes or not, remember to respect each other’s opinions, including mine. If you like these episodes, that’s great, you’re more than welcome to have your say, but be nice.
I am only counting down episodes from the ORIGINAL series, this won’t include the movie, the anime, the Dance Pansted special, The tenth anniversary special, the christmas special or especially the reboot.
Mixing either of these up would be one big mess and would derail my points of view. With that being said, let’s begin.
NOTE: Spoiler alert ahead.
10. Keen on Keane
This episode was a new era for the original show, it had a new art style which was first introduced in the movie. So if you hadn’t seen it, you would have had to get use to this new art style before getting puzzled or confused.
Unfortunately, these episodes were somewhat mediocre and after 2002, show creator Craig McCracken left the show to Chris Savino, so he could work on Foster’s Home for Imaginery Friends. Usually when this happens, that’s a sign of a show losing it’s…err…Mojo. No pun intended. For a first of this newly animated version of the show, this episode is just …well…sappy.
So what’s the story: It’s Valentines Day…oh boy, what a way to start the new era of an already great show. I am NOT a fan of this holiday whether I’m taken or not. I prefer to keep romance and affection personal.
While receiving various little Valentines from her beloved students, Ms. Keane gets the one simple innocent question asked by the girls: “Where are you going out tonight?” and “Who’s your sweetheart?” (don’t you just love precocious little questions coming from kindergartners). Ms. Keane explains to the girls that she doesn’t have time for going out on dates and is too busy for that sort of thing, this leaves the girls slightly worried, knowing she may be lonely and in need of a significant other half.
Later that evening, the girls are all at dinner with the Professor whose attention prompts the innocent, curious little question from an inquisitive Blossom “Why aren’t you going out, tonight?”.
Personally, if he WAS going out, he may need to hire a babysitter for the girls and knowing the Professor, he may end up calling someone but being delayed or on hold due to everybody with their arms round each other, making googoo eyes and lip wrestling all evening as they bask into their romance.
Anyway, the Professor tells the girls that HE doesn’t have time for dates or going out, nor does he have a sweetheart…(hope he hasn’t forgotten the events a long time ago when meeting Ima Goodlady who turned out to be using him and was revealed to be Sedusa).
On hearing this, the girls trade rather sly and calculating looks to each other, a plan has hit them. If their father isn’t going out and doesn’t have a sweetheart and Ms Keane doesn’t have a sweetheart, why not get them together for date?
At Ms. Keane’s place, she is busy grading homework. On hearing the doorbell ring, she goes to answer the door only to recieve a love letter from a secret admirer and a rose. Oh bittersweet cliches…
Round the same time, the Professor too recieves an identical love letter from a secret admirer (by the way, I do love how he recieves a red rose and Ms Keane recieves a pink rose). The two admirers meet at “Petes-A Pizza”, an obvious parody to Chuck E Cheese, you can just feel how out of place these two are.
Not to hurt each others feelings, the two adults try to strike a conversation, but seem to show no interest in each other, all they can do is slap on a plastic smile each.
As they try to communicate and interact more and order, Ms. Keane suddenly forces a hearty little smile, stunning and questioning the Professor. As she tells him to look behind him, he sees that his own daughters are hiding in the large ball tank, this catches on as both Ms Keane and Professor Utonium have realized that they had been set up.
Unfortunately, the evening was unsuccessful and the Professor offers his date a ride home with three dejected little girls in the back. Their high hopes sunk to the bottom, gone down like a ship, but the Professor tells them if they did end up going out, then he wouldn’t have enough time to spend with his own daughters. As he walks her to her door, Ms. Keane trips on a crack, the Professor immediately dashes forward to catch her.
After bewilderment and indecision on what to do next, Ms Keane and the Professor’s hearts become intertwine. As they stand up straight, they both share a nervous laugh while blushing (by the way, I find this scene amazingly cute, I mean…the Professor here is just…OMG, how can you not just want to reach out and dive into his arms…ahem…). Finally, they hold hands and are somehow…in love. Also note this is the only time in the episode where they see each other face to face. Feeling accomplished, the girls smile knowing that their mission is complete
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The following morning, the girls notice that not everything is all hunky-dory! Now having a significant other half, the Professor neglects his family duties and lab work and Ms Keane neglecting her school duties and even forgetting to feed her cat. Why? Because the two most important role models in the girls’ lives are now sickeningly sweethearts talking to each other endlessly on the phone together, complete with EVERY single sentence ending with a mushy pet name. And you know what? It’s really degrading! Also that phonebill must be really expensive by now,
Because of the neglection, the girls don’t know what crimes are being caused….seriously, not even watching the news? Also, doesn’t Ms Bellum have a light for a signal? Why couldn’t she just set that up in the sky for them?
But no! Instead, Sara Bellum gets kidnapped while the conversation continues until the Mayor sneezes, causing the couple to realize that they were holding up phoneline and neglecting their duties, including feeding the cat. This upsets the Professor and complains about the past event where a cat made him jump off a building which somehow, Ms Keane doesn’t believe and causes them both to suddenly break up. Hmm…like every other couple today right? Okay that was bad.
Overall, this was a weak episode with no crime fighting at all and for a new start of upgraded animation, this was pretty bad. Especially being a Valentines themed episode.
9. City of Clipsville
I ought to let you know that seasons five and six sucked. Big time and this episode is no exception. I am not much of a fan of clip shows and this one was really weak, lame and the repetitive dialogue is as entertaining as a stale book made for toddlers. “Remember when Mojo Jojo turned us into dogs?”…umm…yeah? There’s like two episodes with pretty much the same chunks of animation of it and it doesn’t help that they referenced BOTH episodes! Also, did we really want to be reminded of some of the more mediocre episodes?
Mind you, most of these little trips down memory lane never happened. These include The Professor marrying Ms Bellum…for some reason, the girls losing their superpowers without realizing until they fall off a building…the Professor turning the girls AND all of Townsville’s citizens into helpless infants…(no, seriously…make way for cliche’d moments whenever a baby is in a cartoon, which I’ll get to later), complete with Blossom spitting up over the Professor’s shoulder.
BUT the most most shameful fan-service cringe-worthy moment would have to be a quote on quote flashback of when the girls sped up time and became teenagers. Oh my god! Just…yeah. Complete with their midriff showing, slender figures, skinny jeans and stereotypical valley girl accents and mannerisms such as blowing bubble gum talking on their cellphones and …discovering boys, teenage boys…in this case, the Rowdyruff Boys.
Yeah…remember when I said that the whole counterpart thing is a drag, well they do it here too. But this time, they are somewhat getting along, yet the girls are ditzier. I do love some of the hidden innuendos snuck in this scene visually and audibly.
Besides this episode being a weak one, I do admit that I like how the girls looked as teenagers, a bit two fan-service material-esque but still cute. I love how Bubbles still kept her pigtails in, but are a little longer, Blossom’s red hair still makes me jealous *seriously…) and Buttercup growing out that little bob, it suits her.
Of course, I can’t mention this scene without the fact that it was a reference to Craig McCracken’s fan mail he was receiving from fans about what would happen if the girls and boys were couples. He hated the idea so he decided to poke fun at this little trope.
Interestingly, there was going to be a scene that never made it, but there were storyboards lying around of the teenage girls becoming popstars…obviously a reference to the likes of Mandy Moore, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera and other teen idols, maybe even the lesser known band that have since broke up, No Secrets.
The episode gets more stupid as everyone somehow ends up in the house until the episode ends which turns out to be filmed in front of a “live audience”. Yeah, just…weak.
If you do like this episode, that’s great, it does have a few funny moments but I still feel like it’s just another cheap bland clip show.
8. Neighbor Hood
Good god was this episode lame? The moral was a good one I will admit, but first, the story…Bubbles rushes home from school in time to watch her favorite show: The Wondrous World of Whimsical Willy. Mr. Willy being the host of the show (and an obvious parody of Mr, Rogers) greets his audience warmly, at first, he seems like the typical friendly, harmless, yet unsettling kind of person on a kid’s show. He never snaps, he’s calm and mellow. But when Daydream Lane loses all of the happiness and joy, Mr Willy asks his audience to hand over all of their cash to him so they don’t lose hope.
Being naive and simple, not wanting the show to fall flat with misery, Bubbles somehow breaks into the town hall and takes off with the money in the Mayor’s vault and hands it over to Mr Willy and the rest of the crew on set. By the way, the Mayor also donated…yeah, he’s a man child. lol
Meanwhile, back at home, after getting a phone call from the Mayor, Buttercup and Blossom notice their sister live on TV with a huge bag of money, thanking Bubbles, Mr Willy and his gang celebrate until Bubbles’ sisters barge in telling Mr Willy to literally drop his act.
Sweaty and nervous, Mr Willy finally snaps and reveals his true plan to steal all of the money of Townsville, showing his true colors at last. Bubbles demands an explanation and tells her sisters that Mr. Willy isn’t a crook, he just needed the money to help save Daydream Lane. Blossom isn’t buying it and tells Bubbles that none of this is real and that the whole set is just canvas painted with scenery and backgrounds and the crew are all crooks in costume.
Now shocked and realizing she had been conned along with the rest of the those who donated, Bubbles loses faith in Mr Willy and the show and even refuses to save his fall. In case you might guess, Mr Willy is arrested and thrown in prison and Bubbles apologizes for her foolish act and also that she shouldn’t believe on what she sees on television. In a way, this is a great moral for kids, especially when the main cast are kindergartners, but come on, the girls are more precocious than this, they are better than this. This is basically a weaker version of Film Flam.
This episode is really unsettling for many reasons. Mr Willy asking for donations from little kids, isn’t that a little creepy and somewhat makes him a pedophile? But to go as far as flying all the way to the set on your own and revealing the stolen cash is even more risky and dangerous.
I have read something interesting here from the PPG wikia, this episode was based real-life events in a 1965 New Year incident where Soupy Sales, miffed at having to work on the holiday, ended his live broadcast by encouraging his young viewers to tiptoe into their still-sleeping parents’ bedrooms and remove those “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents" from their pants and pocketbooks. "Put them in an envelope and mail them to me,” Soupy instructed the children. “And I’ll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico!” He was then hit with a pie. He later admitted that he was joking and that the money would be donated to a charity, but Sales was negatively affected by the incident.
Also I learned that this episode was actually written back in 1999 as a season 2 episode, but was scrapped since the staff feared a lawsuit from PBS, so instead the story was given to DC Comics named Remote Controlled. The story was much better and less mediocre compared to this one. It’s such a downfall when a great cartoon runs it’s course and episodes that were originally written for the comics suddenly have elements thrown onto the screen and never live up to how they could have been.
There’s something else I would like to point out here. I saw this comment on the PPG wikia by a user named Crossoverfan4ever and he pointed out that Bubbles commited a crime and got away with it, and did she get punished? Of course not, because she’s, cute, innocent adorable, precious, sweet little Bubbles who can probably get away with murder if she tried.
So…in A Very Special Blossom, Blossom steals a rather valuable set of golf clubs and gets punished for it with 200 hours of community service, yet the Professor asks the cops to go easy on her and she’s also sorry (seriously, you can feel her sorrow in her voice and that face just says it all).
In the fan-loathing controversial episode Moral Decay, Buttercup commits a crime by breaking into the local villains homes and steals their teeth for money from the “tooth fairy” after already beating up crooks for committing crimes. Her punishment: Ambushed by her worst enemies as her sisters sadistically watch her get beat up (note that Buttercup is a little girl, so can you imagine the pain inflicted on her?).
Going back to Neighbor Hood, yeah, it’s bad. One of season five’s worst.
Season six was definitely the weakest link in the original show’s run, so in a way, it’s a breath of fresh air when McCracken and Savino declined a season seven from Cartoon Network (much to the disappointment to the fans).
CMUP just made way for some really weak points in writing and character development and derailment. Whichever one, even my feelings for this are mixed up…or mesed up. Whatever!
In this episode, Mojo Jojo is watching old clips of the past fights and battles he has had with the girls and soon stops for an ice cream break. Unforunately, a little girl is in front of him and he deters her. As Mojo orders his three scoops (which happen to resemble the signature colors of the Powerpuff Girls), the little girl throws her ball at him, causing him to drop the ice cream onto the floor. As it does, Mojo gets an idea.
Mojo then goes home to his lair and creates a dummy of a girl calling for help, attracting attention from the Powerpuff Girls, they fly over to save her and are immediately caught in his trap.
The machine swirls the girls together, fusing them all into one and because of this, the girls find it hard to fly, spin and even keep their own balance, not to mention worsening their arguments every single time. It’s really unpleasant to watch.
From here, the girls now have to rely on each other with trust and work as a team to stop Mojo. After finally making their way to Mojo, they defeat him, destroying the fuse machine with a huge blast, but are still stuck together as one.
As they make their way back to the Mayor’s office, they get Professor Utonium to try and seperate them. Feeling hopeless, the Professor breaks down into tears knowing that his daughters will never be the same, but they tell him that they don’t mind being this close and reassure him that everything is going to be okay. The Mayor finds a thread from their fused dresses and pulls it which somehow…separates the girls restoring them to their glory. I do love when the Professor tells the girls that he loves them all, it’s moments like this that always make the show great, it’s too bad this episode suffered from mediocicy, unpleasant arguments and…this (Really? After all you’ve been through, you decide to add this in here?) NOTE: Never let Paul Stec or someone else write a Powerpuff Girls episode storyline which may result into tasteless immature fart jokes…speaking of which…
6. Reeking Havoc
Season six…why? Why did you have to go with this crap? An entire episode about flatulence? Really? Okay, well silently but still visually. I for one don’t care for this kind of humor, it’s immature, lame, not funny, pointless and…just go watch South Park if you’re into that stuff (by the way, I’m a huge fan of South Park, freakin’ ironic I know! lol).
The Girls have just returned home from enjoying a beautiful sunny day in spring, admiring the fresh air until their noses are suddenly inflicted with the smell of something …not so fresh, in this case, chili. Yep! Because how else are the writers going to come up with an episode which is ten minutes of fart jokes. Real mature. Not.
It turns out that the girls father Professor Utonium is cooking this…chili for the “2nd Annual Chili Cook-Off” in Townsville. The girls reluctantly try a sample, as expected by them and those watching, it doesn’t go down well (we even see a shot of Buttercup losing it in the waste-bin). Worried that he may lose again, Blossom decides that they should tell the Professor, but her sisters object due to the year before, in which the Professor lost and broke down.
Later that night, the Professor still thinks his chili needs something extra…or should that be “x-tra”…with that, he adds a drop of Chemical X into the concoction. Sure, because somehow that works right? Also, maybe adding COFFEE into the chili is the reason it doesn’t taste so good. Later on that night, the girls (one by one) also happen to put a drop of Chemical X in the chili.
The following morning during the annual chili contest, the judges (which happen to be Ms Keane, the Mayor and Sara Bellum) are trying out all the dishes that have been made for the event when soon, they try the Professor’s chilli causing reactions that they never experienced before. With that, the Professor is declared the winner of the contest and is awarded the trophy and with that, the Mayor hands out free samples of the prize winning chilli.
What then follows is nothing but flatulent puns, visual and audible, one after the other while everyone’s guts start growling and all that gas happens to escape and creates…a giant methane monster. No, seriously! A giant cloud made out of everyone’s gas! What were the writers thinking, seriously? It’s like they have watched Ren and Stimpy and got some ideas off there, no?
The following day, the methane monster soon causes chaos all over Townsville and his stench is so unbearable that it causes everyone to feel nauseous and complain. This then causes the Mayor to call the girls and…*sighs*…watching them trying to fight off a huge flatulent monster is just…well…yeah. Lame.
As if stinking up the city has already been done in season 2’s Down and Dirty, but that as caused by Buttercup refusing to bathe, but nope, we get a full on episode with gastronomical proportions and bad jokes!
From here, we get some rather ridiculously stomach churning moments including the girls actually trying to suck the monster up…err…gross? So…after the mention of a “match”, Blossom gets an idea and takes off and returns again in seconds with…a giant match…no seriously AND to make this episode even more cringy, she mentions that she got it from the same place where she got the giant jar in “episode two season one”. Was that really necessary?
I don’t wanna go on since its pretty cliche’d with the fact that entering a chili cook-off with an ingredient that happens to be linked to chaos, it’s obvious what that equals.
This was a bad episode and I mean really really bad. GOLDEN RULE: Keep fart jokes off this show! Oh wait…the reboot pushed that further! *sighs*
5. Gettin’ Twiggy With It
Consider this the Pet Sitter Pat episode of The Powerpuff Girls. Nearly every character in this show is likable, funny, great, relatable and somehwhat a decent role model. All but one…that being a less major character: the girls class mate Mitch Mitchellson. A sadistic, nasty, evil, selfish, greedy, manipulative child who takes pleasure in bullying his fellow…ahem…classmates. Think of him as the Nelson Muntz of Townsville. Think of him as Ren Hoek off Ren Seeks Help in Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon, or maybe even Stewie Griffin.
In this episode, it’s Friday and that means one of the kids has the responsibility of taking the class hamster Twiggy home. The girls volunteer, but somehow Ms. Keane chooses Mitch to look after her.
This episode is legimately painful to watch in my opinion. As an animal lover (especially hamsters) who hates animal cruelty to a degree couldn’t even watch this. It isn’t funny, isn’t a pleasure to watch, it’s just sick, twisted and evil, I’m glad though that the episode itslef wasn’t treated as comedic, that would make me up this episode straight to number one in my opinion. Mitch apparently says he never owned a pet before, yet you can clearly see that he has a snake in the background, what the hell?
I like how when Twiggy becomes a vicious monster, the girls do their part to save him, but still teach him a lesson in harming little Twiggy. It’s rare for an episode to be played out seriously for the most part, yet this is just so difficult to watch. Especially all the ways Mitch tortures the hamster.
Gettin’ Twiggy With It is just nasty and an unwatchable episode. It’s unpleasant, demented and just uncomfortable to watch. For a better review on this episode, I suggest reading this: https://www.deviantart.com/regulas314/art/1001-Animations-Gettin-Twiggy-With-It-517452789. He does great reviews and provides decent detail.
Overall, Mitch Mitchellson is hands down my most despised character in The Powerpuff Girls, maybe even worse than Princess Morbucks. And that’s saying a lot.
4. Girls Gone Mild
I don’t think there’s one countdown of top ten worst PPG without this episode at least appearing on there. It’s bad, the story, the premise, the fact that this episode was inspired by letters Craig McCracken received from parents thinking the violence was appropriate as a defence, pretty much the Three Girls and A Monster of the Chris Savino era. This episode is basically like a reminder that parents and legal guardians are the ones who should ultimately take responsibility for their children’s actions instead of just blaming other people for it. But for what it is, it’s not funny or entertaining and definitely one worth skipping. Need I point out that the two people of “P.A.P.P” (People Against Powerpuff Girls) were played by the same people behind the voices of Cosmo and Wanda from The Fairly Odd Parents?
But seriously, where do these two come from? Clearly not from Townsville otherwise they’d be more than happy to ask for the girls help, but no, instead they eat everything up with complaints and threaten to sue the Professor if the girls start using their superpowers again. I hate tropes like this, especially when we all know in the end, they go back to normal and do what they do best. Now if only they were kicking Stanley and Sandra Practice’s butts instead.
3. Moral Decay
*sighs* some of you have definitely seen this one coming but you can see why. It’s one of the most unpleasant, mean spirited and degrading episodes of the Craig McCracken era. What were the writers actually thinking?
Buttercup’s nothing but a straight up sadist in this episode, the moment those mouth muscles form a malicious slasher smirk, she has straight up changed in personality throughout the episode. After accidentally knocking one of Bubbles’ teeth out, she learns of the “tooth fairy” bringing money in exchange for teeth under kid’s pillows and what does she do? She constantly abuses Bubbles just to try and knock out her teeth.
First off, Buttercup may be tough, but she loves her sisters dearly and wouldn’t think of abusing her own sisters for kicks. Sure she gets into scrapes now and then, argues and teases them, but she would never want to hurt them to this extent!
UmbraMagna’s stated this before on YouTube but have they go something against Buttercup, did they hate her character? Why did she always get the rough stuff in punishment and treatment? Think about it? In Down and Dirty, she refuses to bathe and even gets kicked out the house until she gives in and is forcefully given a full scrub by her own sisters. In Cover Up, a whole opportunity is wasted on a story that could have had a heartwarming peptalk scene between Buttercup and the Professor, there, Buttercup feels vulnerable without her security blanket. You gotta remember that she is a little girl, it’s normal for someone her age to have a baby blanket.
Going back to Moral Decay, it’s a terrible episode that’s just painful to watch and do NOT get me started on the ending. The Professor at his most non-caring right here, not to mention that close out ending scene. As punishment, the Professor pays covers Buttercup’s dental bills with the money she “saved”. By the way, I suggest you check out @UmbraMagna’s extended review on this episode. Since mostly I’d be shadowing and echoing what she has said, along with A Very Special Blossom in her top 10 worst PPG eps countdown.
2. Sun Scream/The City Of Frownsville
I put these two together because…well, they both aired together, simple as, bit cheap and not so well explained or thought but what else. These two episodes are just torture! Despite being on different topics.
First off, Sun Scream. This episode is just a chore to get though. The girls all catch the sun after refusing to put sunscreen lotion on while trying to stop a solar flare from plummeting to the earth. What do their fans and the rest of the citizens do? They laugh at them, instead of showing concern for three kids who have badly been sunburned. Just…what has happened to Townsville?
The rest of the episode is nothing but the girls struggling to get up out of bed and trying to answer the hotline, getting dressed to even struggling to attack some con artists. I won’t spoil this episode but if you have made it through till the end then good luck, this one’s just painful to watch.
Then we have The City of Frownsville. Although being dedicated to those who lost their lives during 9-11 (with all my respect, I pray now even). Despite this, this episode is nothing but everyone sobbing their eyes out for ten minutes. If you can’t stand nails scratching on a chalkboard, then you will definitely not be able to make it through this episode.
All of Townsville’s put under a spell by “Lou Gubrious” and his machine that causes everyone to cry uncontrollably, this then reverses his mood giving him the new name “Hal Larious” (please, seriously?), the rest…ugh.
Skip this one while you can guys.
Before I get to number one, I’d like to give out a few dishonorable mentions.
Cover Up - For shaming Buttercup being a softy. Also her sisters cruelly laughing at her.
Twisted Sister - First off, I don’t hate this episode as a whole, I don’t like what they did with the new sister Bunny. She’s unstable, but her slurred speech and lack of English, as well as dying in so called comedic fashion’s a bit too much.
Fallen Arches - Blossom’s unbearable in this episode. Sure, we should respect the elderly but refusing to fight these crooks and throw'em in jail. Just…no.
Sweet and Sour - Ugh, cutesey animals getting away with crime and the citizens are just as clueless because they are “TOO CUTE!”. Come on!
Pee Pee Gs - Unsettling and nothing but pee jokes. Umm…no, unfunny and a cringefest.
Prime Mates - Mopey Popo’s constant complaining and rambling in his Droopy-esque voice and the girls not having enough screen time make this a true downer.
A Very Special Blossom - Ugh, one of the first of episodes where one of the girls does wrong and gets punished for it. In this case, Blossom’s dark side shows when she steals a valuable set of golf clubs just to please the Professor for Father’s Day.
That’s Not My Baby - Ah the baby cliche! Whether it’s abandoned or just being looked after the whole package is there. The baby never stops crying, and when it eats, it’s diaper needs to be changed yada yada yada, I’m sick of this cliche and this episode’s no better. HOW did they not even notify the Professor even? I left it out of here because the ending was actually clever.
Cop Out - Forgettable, bland and yeah. Unfunny, also that cop. Ugh.
Custody Battle - Just doesn’t feel like a PPG episode, but a Rowdyruff Boys spinoff. Also the whole two daddies thing…nah.
Divide and Conquer - I know education and learning’s important but an entire maths episode…nope.
Save Mojo - I’m a bit of an animal activist, no lies but…a cartoon chimpanzee with constant diabolical plans to destroy the Powerpuff Girls and take over the world, that’s different (plus a cartoon), and…yeah. Basically Girls Gone Mild with animal activists and protesters.
Say Uncle - Absolutely forgettable and lame.
Mizzen In Action - I love the Crack McCraigen pun name but over all, this swash buckling episode’s one of the show’s most forgettable episodes.
Seed No Evil - Bland and boring and…seriously, what’s this all about seeds in olden times?
The City of Nutsville - Bubbles gets stung in the throat by a bee/wasp and her sisters actually laugh at her…messed up. Also, squirrel apocalypse. Insane.
West in Pieces - Ugh…ancestors of the Powerpuff Girls? really? As if Seed No Evil was no better.
And the number one worst Powerpuff Girls episode is…
1. Toast Of The Town
I HATE this episode! Talk about character derailment, especially when you’re in the middle of season five. If you can get through this episode listening to the Mayor speak in the third person, good for you, because there’s a lot of it and it’s enough to make your eardrums split.
The Mayor has a huge craving for toast (say, at least SOMEONE now has a toaster unlike everybody in Too Pooped To Puff few seasons back) but his toaster is out of range, so he goes to the Professor to have it fixed. And with that, we get some of the most cringe inducing audio, lack lustered story writing and some of the most ANNOYING dialogue in any episode!
The Mayor is basically nothing but…a child in a man’s body here. The Professor won’t fix his toaster because he’s busy, but after more complaining from the Mayor, he gets on with the job and the Mayor is so impatient he asks in seconds if it’s done yet…really?
The Mayor is an idiot, that’s for sure, but at least he means well and loves his city and job and looks out for the girls. BUT his stupidity here is both questionable, childish and dumbed down to a tee!
The Professor makes the Mayor wait somewhere in the lab which he does despite still dejected and impatient. What follows is…the Mayor curiously pressing buttons like a child and setting off an alarm and causing a huge explosion in the lab…err…is this Dexter’s Lab or The Powerpuff Girls? Some weird pattern here! Anyway, the Professor then proceeds to let the Mayor stay put by putting him in a high chair…for…some reason…
Later on, the Mayor discovers a can of Chemical X and rubs some of it on his head thinking it’s hair growth formula and…his entire body is now the size of King Kong, complete with a shameless parody to boot. I don’t need to explain anymore of this.
Seriously? The Mayor’s third person speech and childish behaviour here is some of the worst character derailment I’ve ever seen. As I said with Gettin’ Twiggy With It, there’s a more detailed review here by Regulas314: https://www.deviantart.com/regulas314/art/Animated-Atrocities-Toast-of-the-Town-475588395
There’s no other way I can mention this episode without any…ahem spoilers, but I suggest avoiding it while you can. SERIOUSLY! This episode’s unbearable!
Compare the Mayor in episodes like Uh Oh Dynamo, where he was against the girls having the city destroyed (even though it was the Professor making the girls use the Dynamo). Then compare him here…it’s just painful.
And with that, let me know what you think which episodes do you think are th eabsolute worst?
