The Bare Facts is the second half of the 9th episode of Season 1, which aired on January 20, 1999. In this episode, the girls tell the Mayor how they saved him from Mojo Jojo.
Mojo Jojo takes the Mayor of Townsville hostage, but ThePowerpuffGirls manage to track him down and defeat him. The Mayor asks what happened, since he was blindfolded the whole time, and could only hear them fighting. The Mayor looks into the pink eyes of Blossom laughing and wanted to know what was so funny. The girls tell their own stories about what happened, arguing along the way. In the beginning, Blossom was studying conversational Chinese, when she and her sisters get a call from Ms. Bellum that the Mayor had been kidnapped. Bubbles and Buttercup drift off misusing the term, then the annoyed Blossom orders them to shush, and tells the Mayor that he left a note for Ms. Bellum that he was writing an election speech. The Mayor starts to agree, but Blossom corrects him that he didn't write it. Bubbles adds that it was Mojo who did all the writing. The Mayor first thinks Mojo only wrote the speech, but the frustrated Buttercup shouts it was the note Mojo wrote. At the end, the Mayor says he just wanted to know why the girls were giggling at him, but the girls take off without leaving him answers. At the end of the episode the camera pulls away and reveals that Mojo has definitely "stripped more than his power" as the Mayor has been stripped nude, save for his hat and monocle, asking the Powerpuff Girls to tell him what was so funny.
This episode is mostly viewed on the camera's eye which plays the role of the Mayor's vision. Bubbles mentions everything in a crayon drawing scene, Buttercup mentions everything in a black, shadowy olive-green scene, and Blossom mentions everything in a light red tinted scene.
It could also be a reference to the episode Operation: R.E.P.O.R.T. from Codename: Kids Next Door, when each character has different art styles to describe their ways of doing their mission.
This is one of the few occasions that the episode's title is actually mentioned.
All of this episode, except for the 1998-2001 animated episode outro, shows everything being seen from the Mayor's point of view, like if it was a documentary.
This is the first time the Mayor have been naked (or at least been seen wearing nothing but his hat) onscreen, the second being in "Custody Battle".
In Japanese TV Tokyo and remastered Cartoon Network airings, the scenes where the screen is black have added subtitles to the lines of the characters.
Season 1:Monkey See, Doggie Do • Mommy Fearest • Insect Inside • Powerpuff Bluff • Octi Evil • Geshundfight • Buttercrush • Fuzzy Logic • Boogie Frights • Abracadaver • Telephonies • Tough Love • Major Competition • Mr. Mojo's Rising • Paste Makes Waste • Ice Sore • Bubblevicious • The Bare Facts • Cat Man Do • Impeach Fuzz • Just Another Manic Mojo • Mime for a Change • The Rowdyruff Boys • Uh Oh Dynamo Season 2:Stuck Up, Up and Away • Schoolhouse Rocked • Collect Her • Supper Villain • Birthday Bash • Too Pooped to Puff • Beat Your Greens • Down n' Dirty • Dream Scheme • You Snooze You Lose • Slave the Day • Los Dos Mojos • A Very Special Blossom • Daylight Savings • Mo Job • Pet Feud • Imaginary Fiend • Cootie Gras • The Powerpuff Girls Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever • Just Desserts • Twisted Sister • Cover Up • Speed Demon • Mojo Jonesin • Something's a Ms. • Slumbering with the Enemy Season 3:Fallen Arches • The Mane Event • Town and Out • Child Fearing • Criss Cross Crisis • Bubblevision • Bought and Scold • Gettin' Twiggy With It • Cop Out • Three Girls and a Monster • Monkey See, Doggy Two • Jewel of the Aisle • Super Zeroes • Candy Is Dandy • Catastrophe • Hot Air Buffoon • Ploys R' Us • The Headsucker's Moxy • Equal Fights • Powerprof. • Moral Decay • Meet the Beat Alls • Helter Shelter • Power Lunch Season 4:Film Flam • All Chalked Up • Get Back Jojo • Him Diddle Riddle • Super Friends • Members Only • Nano of the North • Stray Bullet • Forced Kin • Knock It Off Season 5:Keen on Keane • Not So Awesome Blossom • Power-Noia • Monstra-City • Shut the Pup Up • Toast of the Town • Divide and Conquer • Burglar Alarmed • Shotgun Wedding • Save Mojo • Substitute Creature • The Boys Are Back in Town • See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey • Pee Pee G's • Boy Toys • Seed No Evil • The City of Clipsville • Lying Around the House • Bubble Boy • A Documentary • Girls Gone Mild • Curses • Bang for Your Buck • Silent Treatment • Sweet 'n' Sour Season 6:Prime Mates • Coupe D'Etat • Makes Zen to Me • Say Uncle • Reeking Havoc • Live & Let Dynamo • Mo' Linguish • Oops, I Did It Again • A Made Up Story • Little Miss Interprets • Night Mayor • Custody Battle • The City of Nutsville • Aspirations • That's Not My Baby • Simian Says • Sun Scream • The City of Frownsville • West in Pieces • Crazy Mixed Up Puffs • Mizzen in Action • Roughing It Up • What's the Big Idea? • Nuthin' Special • Neighbor Hood • I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future • Octi-Gone Reboot: