The window does break, and he has to make the call. This leads to a sort of subplot where Miss Bellum gets mad at him that only leads to one good joke and wasted time, something this special desperately needed. It feels out of character, and I know I should not be worrying about this in a reboot special, but when we compare this to the original, it is a downgrade. See, isn’t the Mayor so charming? I get that the Mayor is supposed to be not too bright, but seeing this falling out is not funny. The Mayor: The only giant robotic terror here…is you! Now, stop teasing me and let me eat my pickles!
The Mayor decides to tell Miss Bellum that she must be out of her mind in a very not-out-of-line way. Miss Bellum tries to point it out, but it’s always off screen in that classic gag. …or he just wants to have his pickles in peace, unaware of the monster as it rampages behind him. Thankfully, the Mayor is certainly on the case! They all get captured by a giant robotic terror. If “Ringo Starr, an opera singer, and a badger…” sounds like the opening of a bad joke…well, I can’t say that’s wrong. Why do I get the feeling he was expensive? I’ll give you a hint: the other two special people that fill just as much of a role as Ringo’s does are an opera singer named Wendy Bags, and the Calcutta Stinkbadger. It’s cool that a show that had an episode dedicated to Beatles references now has a special with a Beatle in it! He even sang a new song for the special, which only appeared in promos and has nothing to do with this special at all. We see “Townsville’s most flamboyant mathematician”, Fibonacci Sequins, voiced by none other than Ringo Starr. After assuring a hot dog vendor that he’s not one of them, another tone-setter in hindsight, I think I’m pretty safe in saying that we’re starting with the most expensive Powerpuff Girls character in history. It’s the exact opposite problem as Twas the Fight’s, come to think of it!Īfter that redundant friendship talk, the Narrator talks about how there’s special people all around Townsville. I have a feeling this special was meant to be longer than the half-hour they were given and/or could afford, so some scenes seem to go in hyper-speed. What also sets the tone is the rather quick pace of this scene and many others. We already start off with a cutaway gag, setting the tone for this special. Narrator: The City of Townsville, a hustling, bustling whirlwind of comradery, friendliness, and friendship!
Here’s a point against that: this episode actually starts with a “The City of Townsville”. There is a possibility that this could be considered a pilot for the reboot. Sure, this is extremely minor, but it’s a bad sign nonetheless. This sound is heard all throughout this special, and it feels out of place. There’s already a hint on how low we’ll have to set our expectations: when the Powerpuff Girls are flying, they use a really generic sounding deep laser gun sound effect that doesn’t sound anything like the original’s. Maybe it’s because it doesn’t look anything like the thick-lined generic style every western cartoon uses now. While I was put off by this when this first came out, nowadays I can see the quality in it, especially in the backgrounds. Speaking of style, this special is done in a new CGI art style that reminds me of Foster’s with more bloom than a late 2000s HD remaster. Oh, and what any of the other villains would look in this style, but that’s my skewed priorities. We will never know if this special would have kept the blood coming out of Him’s face. We start this special with a recreation of the original show’s opening…or at least half of it as it just suddenly cuts to the title after the Powerpuff Girls start flying. He even composed “Love Makes The World Go Round”.
To his credit, he wrote and storyboarded a few episodes of the original, including the rock opera “lost episode” See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey.
BLOSSOM BUBBLES AND BUTTERCUP DANCING SERIES
That’s something I have to save for much, much later.ĭespite the “Created By” in the title sequence, this special does not involve series creator Craig McCracken, who left Cartoon Network around the time of the CN Real debacle and is, to this day, under contract by Disney. If you haven’t read the title, this isn’t “The Powerpuff Girls Rule!”. The first was “The Powerpuff Girls Rule!”, a special that served as a grand finale for the show, made by its very creator. Because of Cartoon Network’s unwillingness to let such a successful show for them go, there were two specials. In fact, it was the writers that kept the original from having a Season 7, as shown in the documentary. After the end of the original Powerpuff Girls, it was clear Cartoon Network was not willing to let it go.
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