There's a New Villain in Town || The Fog (PPG 2016 Review)
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2020
- Hey guys! Today's episode, The Fog, brings us a new villain in Townsville that has recruited several antagonists in the area to team up and work together to bring down the Powerpuff Girls. This may sound like the potential for a Meet the Beat-Alls sequel, but please do not get your hopes up because this episode is nowhere near as well thought out and planned the way that one was.
I'm currently doing my best to get farther ahead on reboot episode reviews right now. I've already finished up another one for next Friday and am about halfway done with the video after that. Ideally I'd like to get like 5 weeks ahead on reboot reviews during the month of October, so I'm definitely going to be setting aside a lot of my free time to jump ahead on these videos as much as possible. Stay tuned for a community post or announcement video regarding the bonus content people would like me to cover before wrapping up PPG 2016 for good; I'm going to be taking suggestions for various topics that people would want me to talk about so be on the lookout for that.
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Haha, it's almost like the reboot's version of the original's "Moral Decay" where Buttercup wanted to have money from the tooth fairy so she started to punch every villain's teeth out. But there, she actually got what she deserved at the end. :)
If this was the first time in the reboot, then it wouldn’t nearly been as repetitive and unsatisfactory. The reboot version is at least way more funny.
@@seenl6eight258 It’s not so much the fact that Buttercup got punished for her crimes painfully and violently by getting her teeth knocked out by every villain she knocked the teeth from out of for selfish profit as comeuppance in “Moral Decay” in and of itself on violent kids cartoon, but the fact that they made her sisters come across as very needlessly and uncharacteristically cruel by deviously setting her up in a trap for Mojo and every other villain to knock out her teeth for comeuppance, then had them get away with it, and made it seem like her dad hardly cared that one of his daughters had gotten seriously hurt as comeuppance for her crimes at the end.
It was aggravating that Buttercup was suddenly derailed into a greedy and sadistic little sociopath, but her punishments for her crimes at the end would have probably been forgivable to most fans, if the writers hadn’t had Blossom and Bubbles gleefully and sadistically sell her out to get her teeth knocked as comeuppance, and hadn’t made it feel like her sisters and dad didn’t care much about the fact that she had gotten hurt at the end. I get being disappointed in Buttercup in “Moral Decay,” and I get punishing her However, it was needlessly cruel and wildly ooc for Blossom and Bubbles to team up with Mojo to gleefully sell her out, to take pleasure in her suffering, and to make it seem like Professor Utonium bafflingly didn’t seem to care that one of his daughters got seriously hurt all that much. You could assume at best that he was never told by Blossom and Bubbles that they were involved in setting Buttercup up in the trap to get beat up before it happened when they told her where her stash was, but, at worst, we could assume he was in on it, and let them do it. Either way, his seeming lack of concern for Buttercup at the end implies that he is okay with one of his kids having been beat up because she was a greedy little monster, which is ENTIRELY OOC for the Professor Utonium from the classic cartoon, who was often portrayed as being so worried about his super-powered children getting hurt by villains that he built a giant robot for the girls to fight crime in, then forced them to use by threatening to ground them if they didn’t, and even in the previous episode before “Moral Decay” of “PowerProf,” was so worried about his kids getting hurt when he was fighting crime with the three of them that he forced them all to wear helmets, elbow-pads, and knee-pads to go battle against Mojo Jojo.
Not to mention the fact that it was also entirely out of character for Professor Utonium to not express even *partial guilt* for failing to notice and put a stop to Buttercup’s greed before she met her ultimate downfall in a timeline of what’s implied to be at least a week. He may not have been aware of what Buttercup was doing or actively encouraged her to commit crimes, but the fact that Buttercup’s shadiness in the narrative of “Moral Decay” was implied to have been going on for at least a week, suggests some neglect of her on his part.
If they had done the same ending in “Moral Decay” with Buttercup getting her comeuppance from the villains she knocked the teeth out of for profit without Blossom and Bubbles intervention, or even if they had had Blossom and Bubbles *reluctantly being forced* to beat up Buttercup as comeuppance after getting a call from the Mayor about him needing them to stop their sister from actively committing crimes of knocking out the teeth of innocents for profit, then it would have been a forgivably bad episode. If Professor Utonium was portrayed as still being understandably disappointed in Buttercup and punished her by making her pay her dental bills with her stash he found as punishment, but also expressed some concern for her well-being and felt sorry for what happened to her, especially since he failed to notice what she was up to sooner and put a stop to it by talking her out of it before it was too late and she got hurt, then it would have been a forgivably bad episode for most of us.
Instead, the writers of “Moral Decay” met Buttercup’s unnecessary cruelty in the episode with more unnecessary cruelty and/or a lack of sympathy for her suffering from her very own family, who normally loved her and cared about her otherwise. The girls even felt bad when they went too far by nearly beating up *Mojo Jojo* to death for stealing their candy to be a petty asshole by pissing them off through stealing what they loved just because in “Candy Is Dandy,” but Buttercup suddenly deliberately harms Bubbles and takes delight in it doing it out of nowhere for her own personal gain, and Blossom and Bubbles aren’t going to express any sympathy for their own sister being hurt and sadistically delight in her suffering?
*That’s* what really pissed most fans off about the episode. The sheer amount of wildly ooc dysfunction, hatred, and indifference between Buttercup and her whole family because, even if there had been low-key implications that Buttercup was the “black sheep” of the family on the show before, it had NEVER felt like her sisters hated her and delighted in her suffering, and it had NEVER before or after felt like the Professor hated her and didn’t care about her safety and well-being.
That being said, while I DESPISE “Moral Decay” because of the inexcusably atrocious moral decay of Buttercup and her entire family in that segment for shock value and forcing across a moral that greed is bad, which they had already done BETTER previously in the same season in “Candy is Dandy,” anyway, and tend to pretend it NEVER happened, much like the show pretty much did too, AT THE VERY LEAST, Buttercup DID get stopped and punished for being a greedy and sadistic little criminal in “Moral Decay” in a way that she couldn’t just worm her way out of.
I didn't think the reboot could make a worse version of an already shit episode
Honesty Im not surprised that Buttercup is new villain. Probably this is the Buttercup dumbest stunt ever.
Remember original PPG episode "Moral Decay" that Mojo Jojo discovers Buttercup collecting their teeth after the "fight". He and another villains plans their revenge. Buttercup didnt get help from Blossom and Bubbles because Buttercup need learn the lesson
"Eye for an eye" "Tooth for a Tooth"
and all the money Buttercup recollected was spend on dental bills.
Yeah "The Fog" worst PPG reboot ever and reboot Buttercup worst powerpuff ever
Great review Shadow
That thing about the family being poor...
I’m pretty sure the Professor WAS making money in the original series. It probably wasn’t established anywhere in the original series because it wasn’t important to any of the stories. I mean, he HAD to have been making money there and in the reboot considering all the fancy stuff he and the girls have.
I know right it makes no sense and adds nothing. The scientist who builds giant robots is poor. Huh?
*Moral:* Don't give characters worthless traits. Give characters traits with gags in mind.
I could see the Professor previously having a very high paying engineering job, good enough to fund his personal projects in his basement, have a few inventions on the market he was making decent money off of...but then enough suits from collateral damage his daughters cause (sometimes unnecessarily) or economic hard times (like that big 2008 recession) could mean big layoffs all around, and given his general competence decay it might be harder and harder for him to both get and keep a stable job.
Still, there's no way a single father with a spacious suburban house, a laboratory in the basement, raising three daughters on a single income in a first world country could be described as "poor" or "impoverished" unless he had _serious_ debt problems.
@@icecreamhero2375 or rather give a character traits that make sense for them and add to the story. giving them a trait just to fuel gags can lead to the same problem we're seeing here.
Agreed and they live in a very fancy neighborhood and they live in a two story house. If they were poor, and the professor constantly looking for a job, they should not be able to afford that house.
Buttercup states she doesn't have anythin to do.
No Buttercup you literally do everythin 99.9 percent of the time while your sisters do nothin.
Exactly
Right??
Hey, remember that episode where buttercup got obsessed with knocking people's teeth out?
Remember how she got what's coming to her for physically assaulting people? Yeah, I remember good writing...
Moral Decay is one of the greatest episodes of all time.
@@icecreamhero2375 people are mad at that episode because got punished
@@The_Fairy_Tales_Always_Lie I don't care what others think t makes me laugh like crazy. Its a hilarious premise. Also I think comeuppance is a sometimes thing. If characters get whats coming to them all the time its predictable, If they do get away with it at least show them to be clearly the bad guy.
@@icecreamhero2375 agreed
@@TixSloth It’s not so much the fact that Buttercup got punished for her crimes painfully and violently by getting her teeth knocked out by every villain she knocked the teeth from out of for selfish profit as comeuppance in “Moral Decay.” It was aggravating that Buttercup was suddenly derailed into a greedy and sadistic little sociopath, but her punishments for her crimes at the end would have probably been forgivable to most fans, if the writers hadn’t had Blossom and Bubbles gleefully and sadistically sell her out to get her teeth knocked as comeuppance, and hadn’t made it feel like her sisters and dad hated her/didn’t care about her at the end. I get being disappointed in her, and punishing her. However, it was unnecessary and wildly ooc for Blossom and Bubbles to team up with Mojo to gleefully sell her out, to take pleasure in her suffering, and to make it seem like Professor Utonium bafflingly didn’t seem to care that one of his daughters got seriously hurt at all. You could assume at best that he was never told by Blossom and Bubbles that they were involved in setting Buttercup up in the trap to get beat up before it happened when they told her where her stash was, but, at worst, we could assume he was in on it, and let them do it. Either way, his seeming lack of concern for Buttercup at the end implies that he is okay with one of his kids having been beat up because she was a greedy little monster, which is ENTIRELY OOC for the Professor Utonium from the classic cartoon, who was often portrayed as being so worried about his super-powered children getting hurt by villains that he built a giant robot for the girls to fight crime in, then forced them to use by threatening to ground them if they didn’t, and even in the previous episode before “Moral Decay” of “PowerProf.” was so worried about his kids getting hurt when he was fighting crime with the three of them that he forced them all to wear helmets, elbow-pads, and knee-pads to go battle against Mojo Jojo.
Not to mention the fact that it was also entirely out of character for him to not express even partial guilt for failing to notice and put a stop to Buttercup’s greed before she met her ultimate downfall in a timeline of what’s implied to be at least a week. He may not have been aware of what Buttercup was doing or actively encouraged her to commit crimes, but the fact that Buttercup’s shadiness in the narrative of “Moral Decay” was implied to have been going on for at least a week, implies some neglect.
If they had done the same ending in “Moral Decay” with Buttercup getting her comeuppance from the villains she knocked the teeth out of for profit without Blossom and Bubbles intervention, or even if they had had Blossom and Bubbles reluctantly beating up Buttercup as comeuppance after getting a call from the Mayor about him needing them to stop their sister from actively committing crimes of knocking out the teeth of innocents for profit, then it would have been a forgivably bad episode.If Professor was portrayed as still being understandably disappointed in Buttercup and punished her by making her pay her dental bills with her stash he found as punishment, but also expressed some concern for her well-being and felt sorry for what happened to her, especially since he failed to notice what she was up to sooner and put a stop to it by talking her out of it before it was too late and she got hurt, then it would have been a forgivably bad episode for most of us.
It’s the fact that the writers of “Moral Decay” met Buttercup’s unnecessary cruelty and unsympathetic characterization throughout the episode with more unnecessary cruelty and/or a lack of sympathy for her suffering from her very own family, who normally loved her and cared about her otherwise. The girls even felt bad when they went too far by nearly beating up Mojo Jojo to death for stealing their candy to be a petty asshole by pissing them off through stealing what they loved just because in “Candy Is Dandy,” but Buttercup suddenly deliberately harms Bubbles and takes delight in it doing it out of nowhere for her own personal gain, and Blossom and Bubbles aren’t going to express any sympathy for their own sister being hurt and sadistically delight in her suffering?
*That’s* what really pissed most fans off about the episode. The sheer amount of wildly ooc dysfunction, hatred, and indifference between Buttercup and her whole family because, even if there had been low-key implications that Buttercup was the “black sheep” of the family on the show before, it had NEVER before or afterwards felt like she didn’t care about her sisters and delighted in attempting to seriously injure them for selfish, felt like her sisters hated her and delighted in her suffering, or felt like the Professor didn’t care about her.
"Inexplicable bias towards Buttercup"
I don't think it's all that inexplicable tbh. For all of PPG 2016's talk of "girl power", it doesn't depict femininity as anything more than a hindrance or villainous (fashionistas). Those episodes where the girls needed to be saved by every male character got flak for obvious and warranted reasons, so instead of fixing the problem, they simply made the "hero" the most masculine reoccurring girl, which is buttercup.
And that really is the long and short of it: Buttercup is the most like a boy, she's the "tough" one, so when one of the girls has to save the day, it's more often than not her.
it's quite ironic; the writers in their attempt not to use male characters end up making the more tomboyish and less feminine character in the center of attention and prominence.
*picks up a phone and rings someone up*
*HIM* : Heeeelloooo?
"They're having a villian meet up in this episode and didn't even invite you. Just letting you know."
*hangs up*
*HIM* : Exclude me will they?! Aku I'll have to call you back! I have buisness to take care of.
*HIM Flies away leaving Aku on the phone*
*Aku* : Hello? Hello?! Well at least the samurai is years into the future, we will meet again sometime, somewhere...
*Jack* : AKU!
*Aku* : What you're back already?!
*Phone gets cut off leaving a dial tone*
Not inviting HIM is biggest crime
wait....HIM was on the phone with two different people at once?
@@sarafontanini7051 Sadly no, just Aku. The silly guy forgot to hang up and... well... you know the rest.
Silent hill music in the backround, CLEVER.
I didn't even notice. Lol
Oh hey,now I noticed!
At least the Professor was somewhat of a decent father-figure here...at least relative to the rest of the reboot.
A new villain is introduced....
...in the show's very last season.
Three new villains!
all of whom are promplty never seen again because they were lame jokes anyway because fuck you
Except not really because it was Buttercup
Why is captain quilt a ball of yarn? And not a quilt? WHY!
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Maybe it’s a joke🤷♀️I don’t know
@@gracekim25 Knowing this show, I have no clue
its the reboot
did you expect the reboot to do that good
I feel like the ending is the way it is because the writers got themselves stuck. They wanted Buttercup to learn this lesson, but they can't just leave the villains out there causing mayhem. A bit of a disconnect between the lesson they were going for, and what makes practical sense given the situation. Thing is, I think it's a pretty easy fix. Have the Professor say something like, "Well, girls, better take care of them. Except for you, Buttercup, you're grounded!" And we end on Buttercup annoyed in her room as the other two have fun fighting. It could also make for a pretty funny moment to end the episode on, as well
Pretty late to have new villan when the reboot is about to end .
Nathaniel Foga he, but you can add one new villain... The end 🙃
I think its because they kinda destroyed the only other two intersting villians, this would have worked so great for silco, but they took care of him so he's out
Or depending on how you see it
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...This villain has been in the show since episode 1.
The comment section knows how much I hate this series, but the fact they ALWAYS use Buttercup as the main focus, ignoring the other sisters, but NEVER BULID UPON BUTTERCUP is ridiculous. :/
(though I shouldn't expect this from this reboot by now.)
Man I gotta say this reboot does a really good job at making Buttercup one of the most un-likable and annoying character in the show considering how much the writer's love to have her win at the end of each of her own episodes. Every time the girls are in trouble someone randomly shows up to help them and if it that isn't the case it's more than likely that Buttercup will save them and this wouldn't be all that bad if it wasn't obvious that the writer's had an obvious favoritism towards her compared to the other sisters. I bring this up because very early on when they first advertised this reboot there was this huge "girl power" message that they kept trying to shoehorn in , but completely failed at because they got rid of one of the most important female leads of the show ( Mrs. Bellum ) , and by having the most tom-boyish and abrasive girl alway's being the one who get's the save the day in the end as oppossed to Blossom and Buttercup who's chances of sucess is far less likely. The only other two characters I can think of that could probably be considered worse than Buttercup is the Proffesor ( who already has his own numerous amount of problems ) and Jared Shapiro ( who barely has any traces of personality to begin with ).
If I was writing PPG I wouldn't even consider doing that. Because they are a team I would have them work together and try to be exactly like the original.
Idek if this is true but an adult man named Jared (he is a real person) made a cartoon version of _himself_ and made them as Blossom’s love interest. In my opinion, Brick (from the rowdyruff boys) would be a better boyfriend for Blossom, idk why lol
@@ivywt Jared is a real person, but his name isn't Jared ( it's Jake ) and he wasn't the one who put himself in the cartoon. It was more or less an inside joke done by the other writers because Jake had a crush on Blossom as a kid and the other writers thought it'd be funny if they'd put him in the show as a joke.
Having a sinister fog for a villain could've worked, like maybe if it were a monstrous force of nature that would cloud Townsville for whatever reason, or a collaborative scheme made by Mojo and some of the other villains. At least then it would create an ominous threat.
Also, most of the reboot's villain designs look so boring.
Honestly i think the fog was probably meant to be someone bigger or play a bigger role in the next season, everything about this villian screams "We have a plan for him"
Definitely got that vibe in facf alot of these later episodes have that feeling they probably had plans for these things but had to cram them in these episodes cause it was the last season.
It feels like somebody got a bunch of random word generators to make up the “new” villains.
I know I know, “random word generator” jokes are old and stale af.
If this episode and other Buttercup-centric episodes aren't proof enough that someone (or a couple of people) on the writing staff favor Buttercup over the rest of the main cast, I don't know what is. Reboot Buttercup is a prime example of a Creator's Pet on this show and I hate it!
Hilariously, one of the creators (who provided his name and voice to Jared) had severe Blossom favoritism but she's consistently treated with the _least_ respect by the staff as a whole.
Buttercup was my favorite character in the original, and I gotta say I hate seeing them keep getting her character wrong every time. She’s supposed to be irresponsible, not straight up malicious. And that’s perfectly normal for most kids. Even then she ends up actually learning something most of the time, even if the “punishment” is unfair. Meanwhile here literally nothing happens to change her, not even emotionally. Also she sounds like a wanna be edgelord than actually being witty, which is the worst part.
Not gonna lie, I really like Captain Quilts design. He looks more like a hero than a villain though
Yeah he was my favorite one off villain here.
Wish they used him more
Why did they have a bunch of made up villains instead of the villains we know and love?
Because they are lazy hacks
The idea of Professor Utonium piloting a dinosaur mech and teaching his daughters a lesson is thrilling. This episode got close. It got SO CLOSE. But then it stumbled by the very end, leaving me disappointed.
And that final shot of the family charging at the villains should have been more satisfying.
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To compare again to the episode Moral Decay, Buttercup was acting like a greedy Mr Krabs by taking the teeth for money and when she beat the living shit out of the villains, They all get their own back at her, And I know Blossom & Bubbles were out of character on not helping Buttercup stop the villain, But if I to defend it a little bit she was in the wrong on the villain's side and her lesson was learned the hard way, You people can dislike Moral Decay for all I care but I'll still watch this over The Fog, At least I made my point why I prefer that episode's lesson over the lesson 'The Fog' tried and failed to do.
DAM Right Brother
Agreed
Buttercup is WORST Powerpuff Girl Ever in the ReBoot!
They try to make the character the funny type, but she really isn't. She's just a disrespectful brute who gets her way every time.
Reboot Bubbles is still worse IMO
Candy [the SugarPuff Girl] just look at Salamander
Reboot Blossom is the worst in my opinion. She was supposed to be smart, mature and independent, not some freak who’s obsessed with everything being organised 😐
Reboot wants to make them poor? I’ll give them that cause throughout the entire series they’ve brought down the Professor’s brains a lot. “Sorry girls, I guess I’m not good with computers!” Yes the scientist, who used one to create D.Y.N.A.M.O. Really isn’t a genius. Also, the lingo they gave Buttercup to talk, with ‘dude.’ Just doesn’t cut it for her. Thanks for the review 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼⭐️❤️
Honestly buttercup has always been like that in this reboot especially in the way she talks plus one thing you may have not noticed is that the little bit where she noticed that her sisters got hit by anvils when her voice actress tried to sound sad/ distressed she completely broke character and wound up slipping into a smooth instead of raspy voice which easily could’ve had a retake but I guess not
Yeah, Buttercup's voice sounded jarringly off in that moment. That was so immersion breaking, I'm not sure how they were comfortable not doing a retake.
From the fogs voice alone I knew it was Buttercup from its debut
I appreciate trying to show characters that are kinda struggling a bit, but I can’t really see the Utonium family being poor or even close to it. Like, I don’t think of them as being like the Wayne’s or anything, but like upper middle class or so. Because, I mean, all that science and shit! Gotta have SOME money for the stuff the Professor does and works on!
No he's not its a stupid twist. He is wrecking buildings and destroying stuff on purpose at least with DYNMO it was an accident.
Hell, he must be making shittons of money with patents alone!
I feel a comparison should've been made between this and a better episode from the original show, 'Moral Decay'. Where Buttercup learned about the Tooth Fairy and how she brings you money when you leave a tooth under your pillow, then she goes around Townsville, knocking bad guys teeth out and gains money by using their teeth. At the end, the villains (with help from Blossom and Bubbles too) gang up on Buttercup, knocking her teeth out. Also, the Professor uses the money Buttercup gained to pay off her dental work.
'Moral Decay' does a better job at teaching Buttercup a harsh lesson and have consequences to her actions than 'The Fog'. Another good episode from the original show that has consequences to a character's actions is 'A Very Special Blossom'.
I know I'm not the only one that feels this way, but the original show is far better. I would recommend to anyone to just ignore the reboot and go watch the original Powerpuff. The original show has more character development, consistencies, good story telling, moral lessons, etc.
Tbh, “The Fog” sounds like it could be a really interesting thing.
I have been disappointed
Ignoring Buttercup existing at all, I actually really liked this episode, it was pretty funny watching the villains get beat up while barely putting up a fight.
Remember when Buttercup was stealing other peoples tooth and at the end of the episode the bad guys and her sisters beated the shit out of her?... yeah that was when parents were allowed to teach morals with a belt, now this is what you get, you gotta support those kiddos with their whims... or go to jail i guess
This is basically a discount version of Meet the Beat Alls and Moral Decay.
What caused buttercup to suddenly cower before the dino? It's far from the first time the other two were taken out, leaving buttercup to fight on her own.
Batman The Animated Series did the Whole Villain Team Up better then The Powerpuff Girls ReBoot
I haven't watched Batman: The Animated Series but I concur with you. That show did everything right unlike the PPG reboot.
Wow this episode tries to claim that Buttercup did all of this since she never has anything to do. Yet 90% of the time she is the one doing everything while her sisters are incapacitated somehow. I am sorry where was the logic going into this episode?
.......What kind of father trashes a city street and fires lasers and tosses cars at his own children to teach one of them a lesson!? What the hell, Utonium!?
I do like the idea of ALL the villains teaming up to launch one big attack on the town or the whole world. It could put the girls’ strengths to the test and maybe force them to split up and fight solo. That’s a GREAT idea and wish it was used more. Also dang this reboot sucks at writing villains. Although I would like to see the Gnat kick the girls to the next galaxy 🤣. As for Bubbles being offended by the fur coats I would say it’s not a problem because fur naturally grows too long just like hair and needs to be cut off eventually but conditions in the shops are probably not the best. Oh this is the episode I think it is and Buttercup did be inpatient with the lack of action in Aspirations from the original but she didn’t go this far as putting the town in danger because she does care about them. At least the original version 😑 this ending kinda reminds me of Moral Decay’s ending and it’s done kinda better. I don’t really have a problem with the girls being defeated so Buttercup saving the day because they did something new with it. But anyway stay safe out there everyone and onto the next week!! 💙💖
I agree with the fur coat thing you said
You do know fur coats are actually made by skinning animals right?
Sara3346 oh they are?? I thought they just shaved their fur not their skin. In that case I’m with Bubbles.
10:34 Depict the Powerpuff Girls as poor? WHY? What's the point in the original they seemed to be middle class. This is Powerpuff Girls, not Bob's Burgers. It doesn't add anything and only limits the plots. In something like Bob's Burgers, it makes sense. It creates conflict because they own a restaurant. Characters being poor can only be relevant if you play it up for gags like they do on the Simpsons. For example, this is one of my favorite jokes in the show. Homer and Marge talking in bed. *Homer:* What you can hear us *Lisa:* We can hear everything the walls a thin. Bart: We live in a crap shack *Homer:* Why you little. *Homer bursts a hole in the wall and strangles Bart.* In this show you can't go that far with the poor jokes because it would be jaring because the PPG were never poor. If you want poor characters make a new cartoon instead of arbitrarily changing an old one.
icecream hero yup
Lol
Not gonna lie--- Marsha is pretty attractive.
Yup
Well this is weird....
@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 Don't judge my taste for large glasses, and thiccness.
@@Supermariorpg6 I’m more judging the weird way you said that.
@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 =w= You do recognized that my reply was a joke right? I knew you weren't.
9:30-9:56 this running gag is really reminding of the Ginger Kids episode from South Park.
It’s such a funny dichotomy that this show likes Buttercup the most but consistently portrays her as the worst character
So, basically moral decay, and it's just as bad as that episode. Beautiful. Freaking beautiful.
Boy, this is an episode that had an actually pretty good initial premise that it proceed to take down the worst possible route. Like if they took the BTAS episode "Almost Got 'im" and made it as bad as humanly possible. Heck, that episode even revealed that Batman was disguised as one of the villains.
Even if they didn't want to include new villians I would of at least made a nod to other series if it was a one off.
Who here would love to see the Red Guy from "cow and chicken" make a brief cameo before rolling out the door? Anyone? Anyone at all?!
or hell have one off villains from the original series like Boogie Man, Roach Coach and the like
@@sarafontanini7051 Or if we're doing "pathetic villians" why not the ameoba boys?
Their literally character is to be failure villians.
12:23 I glad shadow didn't include this lady's final scene where is Buttercup on her knees asking for her help only to find out she's on her lunch break. Which would be kind of weak and prophetic for a superhero to need help from a normal bystander ?
a better ending could've been Buttercup trying to tell the villains she tricked them and they weren't getting any money and the girls trying to get a peaceful compromise, only for the villains to get pissed off and decide to fight them all anyway out of rage. Yes, this wouldn't address the CORE problem, but if you really need an everybody fights ending, this would at least be a better lead in.
I want the old villains back
13:03 That voice crack though.
Yeah that gigant anvil on the table would
be hilarious!
Lol
The Professor is in no way shape or form "poor". How on earth does he still have all his laboratory equipment if he is "poor"?
18:45 what’s funny is that I literally just finished rewatching reeking havoc cuz I forgot what it was all about
11:17 If Buttercup wanted to keep it a secret, then why the hell she couldn't just use her cellphone number ?
3:49 this reaction from the gnat was my reaction to the entire monkey love thing
Btw, there’s a PowerPuff Girls anime.
Oh no
He is well aware of that. He may talk about it in the mere future. Maybe.
I am familiar with it
@@vestonbruno2795 he has gone insane maybe...we should give him a 19 year break
I don’t like the anime
Even as someone who likes the idea of coats made from animal skin, most animals are farmed and harvested inhumanely for both food and clothing and these things need serious reform.
13:53 Nice to see that the truck's plate has the day this episode was aired (I think) instead of some staff self-insert :)
Buttercup is the main star?
WHAT A TWIST
seriously The Fog? sounds like a Lame Villain Name
turns out it's not even really a villain, and we know that Buttercup is just awful at naming things in this series.
I wish I had something to eat especially you add but everyone's already mentioned how the fog would have been a great idea if it wasn't buttercup, and Shadow took a great deal of time explaining how they ending kind of undermines the entire episode so..... I just want to say that you did a good job!
4:33: Or maybe just go with the villains that are actually at play (those being Mojo, The Gnat, and the Fashionistas)... Oh, and hey Shadow, may I have your input on whether it's actually worth creating a petition to stop the live-action PPG show from coming to fruition, please?
I ain't shadow, but I can definitely tell you that a petition isn't gonna do a thing. Odds are the contract has already been signed, and multiple parties would have to agree unanimously to stop production, and all petitions really do is give you a number that vaguely represents how many people want something, which means nothing to these companies. You could get a signature from everyone in the country and even then the only thing stopping them would be common sense.
@@329link Yeah, I've retreated from the idea of creating a petition to stop the PPG live-action show from coming to fruition. Now, if it does become a thing, I would love to see it get cancelled after only the first season or maybe even after only the first episode.
@@seankim8908 it's certainly bound to flop. Let's just hope they realize it's dead on arrival ASAP.
Good job getting this video up despite the strange copywright claim!
They could've crushed them with a anvil.
4:04 wow these new villains makes some of the D list super villains in comics books more intimidating like condiment King, Kite man, and marvels Grizzly.
Even they made Kite Man awesome villain
The giant boot scene was like the giant shoe in the Mario 3 cartoon
10:34 The scientist who builds giant robots is poor? This stupid reboot doesn't make any sense.
At least in "candy is dandy" the girls realized they went too far and confessed what they did
They should've done a better job masking buttercups voice more as the fog because it was reaallyy obvious
The Fog is either HIM or Buttercup
Edit: it was Buttercup I don't even know why I had even the slightest hope it was HIM,this reboot has forgotten about him too long
Man, this episode upsets me because the Professor piloting the dinosaur is actually a super neat idea. If this was the ACTUAL Utonium and not this imposter, I'd be all for him in a giant mech dino, that would have been so cool.
There’s a Cartnoon-Network collaboration with Netflix called “Twelve Forever” that I would love to see you review. It is a great dissection of childhood and growing up, plus the main villain si very similar to HIM.
There was this episode called Moral Decay (which is pretty much what this episode is ripping off of), where Buttercup basically beats up villains for her selfish desires of earning lots of money. The villains didn't even do anything to warrant this and pretty much get tormented for no reason. Blossom, Bubbles and the Professor didn't know what she was doing, so she could've easily gotten away with it. But at the end, she suffers consequences when the villains beat the crap out of her and all of her money getting used to fix her teeth.
Yeah, I don't really like this episode much, but it's miles better than this waste of an episode.
Overall Rating: 4/10
It’s not so much the fact that Buttercup got punished for her crimes painfully and violently by getting her teeth knocked out by every villain she knocked the teeth from out of for selfish profit as comeuppance in “Moral Decay.” It was aggravating that Buttercup was suddenly derailed into a greedy and sadistic little sociopath, but her punishments for her crimes at the end would have probably been forgivable to most fans, if the writers hadn’t had Blossom and Bubbles gleefully and sadistically sell her out to get her teeth knocked as comeuppance, and hadn’t made it feel like her sisters and dad hated her/didn’t care about her at the end.
I get being disappointed in her, and punishing her, but it was unnecessary and wildly ooc for Blossom and Bubbles to team up with Mojo to gleefully sell her out, to take pleasure in her suffering, and to make it seem like Professor Utonium bafflingly didn’t seem to care that much about the fact that of his daughters got seriously hurt, which is just the complete opposite of who is character was in the classic cartoon. You could assume at best that he was never told by Blossom and Bubbles that they were involved in setting Buttercup up in the trap to get beat up before it happened when they told her where her stash was. At worst, we could assume he was in on it, and let them do it. Either way, his seeming lack of concern for Buttercup at the end implies that he is okay with one of his kids having been beat up because she was a greedy little monster, which is ENTIRELY OOC for the Professor Utonium from the classic cartoon, who was often portrayed as being so worried about his super-powered children getting hurt by villains that he built a giant robot for the girls to fight crime in, then forced them to use by threatening to ground them if they didn’t, and even in the previous episode before “Moral Decay” of “PowerProf.” was so worried about his kids getting hurt when he was fighting crime with the three of them that he forced them all to wear helmets, elbow-pads, and knee-pads to go battle against Mojo Jojo.
Not to mention the fact that it was also entirely out of character for him to not express even partial guilt for failing to notice and put a stop to Buttercup’s greed before she met her ultimate downfall in a timeline of what’s implied to be at least a week. He may not have been aware of what Buttercup was doing or actively encouraged her to commit crimes, but the fact that Buttercup’s shadiness in the narrative of “Moral Decay” was implied to have been going on for at least a week, implies some neglect.
If they had done the same ending in “Moral Decay” with Buttercup getting her comeuppance from the villains she knocked the teeth out of for profit without Blossom and Bubbles intervention, or even if they had had Blossom and Bubbles reluctantly beating up Buttercup as comeuppance after getting a call from the Mayor about him needing them to stop their sister from actively committing crimes of knocking out the teeth of innocents for profit, then it would have been a forgivably bad episode.If Professor was portrayed as still being understandably disappointed in Buttercup and punished her by making her pay her dental bills with her stash he found as punishment, but also expressed some concern for her well-being and felt sorry for what happened to her, especially since he failed to notice what she was up to sooner and put a stop to it by talking her out of it before it was too late and she got hurt, then it would have been a forgivably bad episode for most of us.
It’s the fact that the writers of “Moral Decay” met Buttercup’s unnecessary cruelty and unsympathetic characterization throughout the episode with more unnecessary cruelty and/or a lack of sympathy for her suffering from her very own family, who normally loved her and cared about her otherwise. The girls even felt bad when they went too far by nearly beating up Mojo Jojo to death for stealing their candy to be a petty asshole by pissing them off through stealing what they loved just because in “Candy Is Dandy,” but Buttercup suddenly deliberately harms Bubbles and takes delight in it doing it out of nowhere for her own personal gain, and Blossom and Bubbles aren’t going to express any sympathy for their own sister being hurt and sadistically delight in her suffering?
*That’s* what really pissed most fans off about the episode. The sheer amount of wildly ooc dysfunction, hatred, and indifference between Buttercup and her whole family because, even if there had been low-key implications that Buttercup was the “black sheep” of the family on the show before, it had NEVER before or afterwards felt like she didn’t care about her sisters and delighted in attempting to seriously injure them for selfish gain, felt like her sisters hated her and delighted in her suffering, or felt like the Professor didn’t care about her.
At the very least, Buttercup DOES get genuinely punished and stopped in “Moral Decay.” Even though that’s one of my most despised episodes from the classic cartoon that I pretend never happened, which is thankfully what the series pretty much did too, at the very least, Buttercup didn’t get to get away with being an asshole in that episode.
Pfft. I wasn't a fan of this episode. The execution is dull and subpar, the plot is confusing and the writing is lackluster. If I want to watch an episode that is good with a perfect plot, that would be #AllAboutZee from DC Super Hero Girls (2019) because that episode worked so well and plus, DC Super Hero Girls (2019) is a way better show and far more entertaining than the PPG reboot. Also good review by the way.
This episode is really puzzling. Like I get buttercup being bored but I really don’t get her need to make things this complicated to potentially make a invincible group of villains and the professor literally caused thousands of dollars in property damage
You know, I actually like the design of the Captian Quilt. It's pretty cute. However, the fact that he's a ball of yarn is stupid, not only does it not make any sense with his name since he's' not a quilt, but it's just a dumb idea in general. How I would fix him would first give him a better name, secondly make him an octopus since it fit with his wiggly arms aesthetic and would be less stupid than actual yarn, and lastly, have him be a silent villain. It would be unique to the reboot, I wouldn't want to ruin his design with a mouth, and it would be one less character who be yapping it up in the episode. I would have him use sign langue or writing to convey his evil plans.
I would like to think 'Marsha' is 'Him' delightfully playing along with 'Bubbles' plot and intentionally pulling the strings of operation. Indirectly calling bubbles out on their plan just to sit back and enjoy the clash later.
Though that would be level of writing that I am not sure reboot would actually thought of for this gag. It just feels like 'him' move and perhaps could even lean into how bubbles afforded this, him had lowered price so humorously low to play to bubbles ego.
This headcanon just lends to 'Him' trying influence Bubbles into being more 'bad' with subtle skill and that sound far better than the episode.
That day after you posted this, it was really foggy where I live
They should have used Princess Morbucks, Fuzzy Lumpkins, Man Boy, and HIM. Instead of those stupid one time villains in this episode.
South Park did it with the interrupting hotel attendant.
destroying character to favor a character. This show knows no lows
The professor did say she was grounding Buttercup, right? So, isn't that a punishment for her actions?
You know Shadow, the more I see stuff of the reboot the more I think back to how the original series kind of predicted this in that one episode that featured knock off Powerpuff Girls made by the Professor's old co-worker.
and like those knock offs, this series had 90% of the chemical X taken out of it leaving nothing behind by a shell that barely resembles the originals and I hate that this happened because it didn't, the reboot didn't have to be this watered down
10:19 Buttercup may be in trouble for renting out the hotel..
12:13-12:58 But the professor is making it worst by destroying the hotel and the city just to teach her a lesson.
Right?
That twist was surprising
Buttercup, I implore you. Stick to Mange..!
12:16 to 12:22 I got that reference. Especially since you have been playing it lately on First time Playthroughs
Oh- the ppg community is still alive- I see
New villain alert!
The silent hill backround music was a nice touch
Whats with all the mlp similarities this season? This was a plotline in the final season. An ally disguised themselves as a powerful villain to provoke other villains fight the main characters. There's probably no way that it was on purpose but its a weird coincidence
What episode?
@@Violetgachayt in season 9, there's like 4 episodes with Grogar trying to get the villains to work together as a team but it turns out,
(SPOILER) it was Discord in disguise
I can't remember the last time I've seen a show this biased towards its characters.
7:22 Am I the only one who found this scene funny? They just stand there and do nothing while Bubbles about to send them miles away and cause explosion which probably should kill them. I know reboot do that a lot. But it's still funny. Maybe it's because how they stand. The pose they stand.
Honestly I love how shadow has more respect for the gnat than this reboots mojo jojo
I can't decide who's more of a horrible character in this reboot the professor or buttercup?
Buttercup, at least the professor is MERELY stupid (which makes no sense but still) and not actively malicious. Buttercup is just selfish, violent and ouright MEAN sometimes.
@@lovely_bribri yes, this is true, my point is that her stupidity isn't the main reason she's awful and thus is why she's worse
12:18 GREAT POKEMON REFRENCE MY MAN
Villain team up episodes are a lot of fun when they happen naturally. From the beginning I'm reminded a lot of Small World. Like ugh we've just had Mojo team up with someone who's meant to be far more dangerous than anyone the PPGs have faced before. Are we really doing this again? I'm midway through the review and it doesn't seem like it's going in that direction but you can't tell me you didn't think the story was going to take that direction again and just had Buttercup's VA play the fog thinking nobody would notice.
5:02 actual giant freakin anvil heh good one
Not gonna lie, though... That Robo-dinosaur the Professor pilots is pretty dope.