Bought and Scold is the seventh episode of the third season of The Powerpuff Girls. It aired on September 15, 2000.
Plot[]
King Morbucks buys Townsville from the Mayor for Princess Morbucks. with a room of sweets (Turkish delight to be exact), and her first act as the new Mayor is to legalize crime, putting the girls in an ethical and legal dilemma.
Synopsis[]
Townsville is home to many villains such as Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and HIM, but they have all been bested by The Powerpuff Girls repeatedly.
One day, the girls are at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten are in the middle of a math lesson when The Gangreen Gang burst in and start causing trouble. Soon, the girls get ready to attack them, but Ace presents to them a decree claiming that crime is now legal. Forced by this decree to let the Gangreens carry on, they fly to the Mayor's office to evaluate the situation, only to find that Princess Morbucks has taken over after bribing the Mayor with a room full of Turkish delight (he turned down offers as high as five trillion dollars). Princess remarks that after having been turned away as a prospective Powerpuff Girl and failing to exact her revenge in destroying them, she declares that she is in charge and crime is legal as per her decree. She also goes on to warn that if the girls try and stop anybody from causing crime, she will have the girls thrown in jail.
All over Townsville, people and businesses alike are being robbed and terrorized by its criminal element, which features newly-released inmates from prison, while police and corrections protection have been deactivated by Princess' executive action with corruption. The Powerpuff Girls' house is robbed of nearly everything by criminals just casually walking in and taking stuff per the new decree.
Later, in bed, the girls are crying about crime being legal, as their status in the city has also been deactivated to their dismay. When Bubbles makes a comment on the situation, Blossom realizes there's a huge loophole in Princess' decree and a plan is put into action in the darkness of night.
Meanwhile, when Princess goes to get a glass of water, she gets robbed of everything. As soon as she gets back to her bed, she realizes what happened and starts panicking and thinking about what her father will do when he finds out. She calls the girls to her office and begs them to bring back her belongings. However, the girls remind Princess that she made crime legal in such a way where even if they found out who stole her stuff, they could do nothing about it since the robbers aren't technically breaking any laws. Princess, dejected, signs a new emergency decree outlawing crime once again, allowing her to send the girls to look for her stuff.
Within a short time, all villains and criminals within city limits are quickly subjected to the emergency decree. As police authority is restored and crime is outlawed, they catch every villain in town and return to Princess', claiming that none of them stole her stuff. As Princess starts to panic, Bubbles giggles to where Princess realizes that it was the girls who robbed her. She says she will have them arrested, only for the girls to point out that crime was legal when they stole her stuff, and therefore all of her stuff is now their stuff, so there's nothing she can do to them (at least legally).
As Princess' father awakens to an empty home, the girls propose a trade: in exchange for Princess' stuff, she returns control of Townsville to the Mayor. The transaction is instantly closed as they give her the stuff back right when her daddy sees that the stuff is all gone. He sees Princess with the stuff outside and (perhaps) punishes Princess as she yells and cries at the girls, who have taken off. And more his crime against humanity are over.
Cast[]
- Cathy Cavadini as Blossom
- Tara Strong as Bubbles
- Elizabeth Daily as Buttercup
- Tom Kane as Professor Utonium and King Morbucks
- Tom Kenny as The Mayor of Townsville and the Narrator
- Jennifer Martin as Sara Bellum
- Jennifer Hale as Ms. Keane and Princess Morbucks
Minor roles[]
- The Gangreen Gang (non-speaking cameo)
- Mojo Jojo
- Fuzzy Lumpkins
- HIM
- The Amoeba Boys
- Monster from Bubblevicious
- Broccoloids
- Roach Coach
- The Kitty
- The Boogie Man
- Sedusa
- Quackor
- Abracadaver
- The Rowdyruff Boys
- Mitch Mitchelson
- Harry Pitt
- Mary
- Policeman
- Robbers
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Trivia[]
- In the episode's intro, the Narrator gives each villain a description:
- Mojo Jojo: accursed
- Fuzzy Lumpkins: ill-conditioned
- HIM: infernal
- The Gangreen Gang: unprincipled
- The Amoeba Boys: spineless
- Bubblevicious monster: monstrous
- Broccoloids: distasteful
- The Kitty: felonious
- Roach Coach: gross
- The Boogie Man: dark
- Sedusa: naughty
- Quackor: fowl
- Abracadaver: grave
- The Rowdyruff Boys: miscreated
- Princess Morbucks: spoiled
- In this episode's intro, the Narrator also gives descriptions to the Powerpuff girls as well:
- This is Princess' most villainous role due of buying Townsville and legalizing crime just to drive the girls out of business and probably also illegalizing crime busting as well that can get the girls arrested if they thinking of trying to stop or prevent someone from committing a crime.
- Princess' act of buying Townsville and legalizing crime is later referenced in 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas.
- This is the second episode where a villain becomes mayor of Townsville. The first was Fuzzy Lumpkins in "Impeach Fuzz".
- Despite The Rowdyruff Boys being destroyed in "The Rowdyruff Boys", they make a flashback cameo in this episode.
- The Rowdyruff Boys' poses bear a striking resemblance to the Girls' poses in the college short Whoopass Stew.
- Two men can be seen beating up a guy, they are dressed like Popeye and Bluto.
- There are references to The Big Lebowski when the girls go home. The Professor says, "Hey, this is a private residence, man!" You see the three nihilists enter the house. One of them grabs the rug and The Professor says, "Hey that rug really tied the room together!"
- This episode and "Bubblevision" are the first episodes to have the 2000 oval designs of the Powerpuff Girls for two episodes and not having the 2000 circle designs at all for a whole episode because the circle designs were used at all times instead of the oval designs in "Criss Cross Crisis". After "Criss Cross Crisis", the oval designs (which first appeared in "Just Desserts") were then used instead of the circle designs for the next two ("Bubblevision" and this episode).
- In this episode, the girls are seen first in sequence one-by-one in three still pictures, and they feature the girls doing several poses. These pictures show Bubbles doing a pose used by Speedee, which is the former mascot used by McDonald's (with four differences, the sign reading "I'm Speedee!" is removed, her right hand is placed behind her skirt, her left foot is seen in the front and her right foot is seen in the back) against a fuchsia background with yellow, blue and white flowers. Buttercup is doing the Green Giant's famous pose against a cobalt blue background with light blue stars. Blossom is doing the Captain Morgan mascot's famous pose (with two differences, the barrel is removed and her left hand is raised high) against a yellow, light yellow, and brown sunburst background with white sparkles. This shows that McDonald's Corporation, Green Giant, and Captain Morgan are referenced by the girls' poses in this episode. This sequence was later referenced and reused (with three pictures instead of showing Liberty Belle, Harmony Bunny, and Spore in sequence) in the episode "Super Zeroes".
- When Buttercup picks up Big Billy, a glimpse of his eye is shown.
- The three thieves who ransack the Utonium household are caricatures of artists Andy Bialk, Clay Morrow, and Paul Rudish.
- This episode reveals that the Mayor also has a huge love of Turkish delights as much as pickles.
- Blossom realized a loophole to Princess Morbucks' decree of legalized crimes after Bubbles saying "We have to be bad to be good", which gave Blossom an idea of how makes things back to normal and get Princess out of power. Basically, the girls robbed the entire Morbucks household to get crime illegalized again and holding Princess and her father's stuff for ransom to get the real Mayor back in control of Townsville. Blossom realized the decree didn't said "expect doing it towards to the mayor (Princess Morbucks) and her father".
- In real life, a city can't be bought; the mayor of the city isn't allowed to sell the city.
- This is the second time the Gangreen Gang came to Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, but as trespassers trashing the entire classroom and torturing Ms. Keane and the students when committing crimes were legal by Princess Morbucks who was temporarily the Mayor of Townsville for only one day. The first time The Gangreen Gang went to Pokey Oaks Kindergarten was in Schoolhouse Rocked when forced by the truant officer Mr. Jack Wednesday, but were expelled on their first (and also last) day after beating up the kids by playing dodgeball in recess. They also return to Pokey Oaks Kindergarten as trespassers in a "Got Milk" advertisement, when they're taking all of the chocolate milk from the students, but were stopped and defeated by Buttercup.
- At the end, The Narrator announced that he will never have any kids of his own because of Princess Morbucks and the event of the entire episode.
- So far, nobody (expect for The Powerpuff Girls, The Mayor, Ms. Bellum and Daddy Morbucks) knows that Princess Morbucks took over Townsville. They thought the real Mayor temporary legalized crime, which it would be good for the villains, criminals and thugs in Townsville, but bad for the police and also the more honest and decent civilians who have no intention to be part of all of this whatsoever.
- Technically, the real Mayor is still officially in charge of Townsville after he "sold" the city for a room full of Turkish Delights and before Princess Morbucks was forced to give up her "mayoral" position in order to get her and her father's stuff that were stolen from The Powerpuff Girls when crime was still temporary "legal" before her father wakes up. Besides that a city can't be legally bought and a mayor isn't allowed to, also because Princess Morbucks is officially too young to be in political positions to begin with. It would makes her decree on legalized crime null and void anyway.
Errors[]
- When the Gangreen Gang run into Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, Grubber's ears are gone.
- When the Gangreen Gang is shown sleeping at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, Big Billy had three top teeth instead of his usual one tooth.
- When the Rowdyruff Boys appear, Butch's arms are bare and Brick has visible hair.
- When Buttercup looks at Princess Morbucks' bored angry face, her eyelids are the color of her skin.
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