I love the Powerpuff Girls. It was my
favorite show when I was a kid, and it's
still one of my favorite shows now. It
was entertaining, action-packed, funny, and
heartwarming at times. It had wonderful
characters and engaging (and sometimes
absurd) plotlines. However, no show is
without its flaws, and the Powerpuff
Girls is no exception.
No I am not talking about the 2016 reboot.
I am still talking about the original. At
its best, it could be one of the greatest
shows ever.
But its worst moments ranged from simply
annoying to downright unwatchable,
and while these moments are sort of few
and far between,
they do exist and ought to be examined.
So here I've compiled a list of the top
12 worst Powerpuff Girls episodes. Some
rules I've laid out for myself: I tried to
exclude as many episodes from seasons
five and six as possible because the
later episodes have been talked about so
much already, and I want to bring
something new to the table.
Therefore, I limited myself to three
episodes from the later seasons. And keep
in mind that these are all just my
opinions. If you agree with me,
great. If not, that's fine too. Just please
be nice.
So without further ado, here are the top
12 worst Powerpuff Girls episodes of
all-time. Number 12: "Schoolhouse Rocked."
In this episode, the members of the Gangrene Gang are forced to go to school because
they've never been to school.
They are made to go to Pokey Oaks Kindergarten.
this episode has a couple of problems
for starters why would you let gangsters
into a kindergarten
that's just like if you invited the sons
of anarchy to your elementary school by
the way sons of anarchy is one of my
favorite TV shows and miss cannes
blindness to reality here is baffling
I mean she sends the girls to timeout
for trying to defend the class something
that they normally do anyway I
understand that no fighting and class is
important but surely these are
extenuating circumstances
this episode's high on the list because
there are still a lot of funny moments
to redeem it and i love the dodgeball
scene at the end
number 11 fallen arches the girls
encounter an elderly group of villains
called the Ministry of pain but blossom
refuses to let the other girls fight
them simply because they're elderly she
says they have to respect their elders
seriously blossoms logic here is just
insane
they are villains the girls duty is to
protect the town no matter how old the
buildings are if the city is in danger
the villains must be either detained or
eliminated
regardless of their age I really don't
think the citizens of Townsville are
going to be thinking about respecting
their elders when they are being robbed
seriously blossom is unbearable in this
episode also there's some gross imagery
of old men putting on super suits
yay but this episode still got a few
laughs at me like when the elderly lefty
says captain righteous won't even say hi
to him in the medicine line number ten
three girls and a monster
this is just a stupid episode the riders
were trying way too hard to make bubbles
the hero
I mean asking the monster politely to
leave really also blossom and buttercups
arguing the whole time was extremely
unpleasant watch this episode still high
on the list because it's relatively
obscure and forgettable my opinion
number nine bubble vision
in this episode levels had some trouble
with her vision and is forced to wear
glasses blossom and Buttercup tease her
about it so she refuses to wear them as
a result she can't fight right but then
a monster captures Buttercup and blossom
and bubbles is forced to use her glasses
to defeat the monster this episode could
be really mean-spirited at times with
blossom and Buttercup teasing bubbles
about wearing glasses they were totally
out of character but the episode did
portray the concept of wearing glasses
fairly well and I like the ending or
buttercup fixed bubbles his eyes with
her laser vision
number eight girls gone mild yeah this
one's bad but Mr enter has already
reviewed this episode as an animated
atrocity so I'll keep this one short
girls are banned from fighting because a
couple is concerned about the effect
that violence is having on the children
of Townsville the girls are banned from
using their powers and have to leave it
up to the cops to handle all the crime
and in a TV show about superheroes we
all know how well that's going to turn
out eventually the couple come to their
senses and let the girls fight again
it's pretty frustrating and boring
watching the girls float around doing
nothing while Townsville is in danger
and that's it
I don't have much else to say about this
one number 7 sunscreen
it's disgusting moving on
number six nothing special
now we're getting to the really bad ones
the previous episodes either had a few
minor nitpicks or just annoying but this
one is insulting especially to Buttercup
fans Buttercup is sad because she
doesn't think she has unique superpower
blossom has ice breath and bubbles can
speak Spanish so what can buttercup do
after going through all their
superpowers it's discovered that
Buttercup can curl her tongue on really
seriously could the writers really not
think of a superpower from buttercup the
narrator states that that's lame and
that anyone can do that well to quote
mr. enter running out the episodes
problems does not make them go away if
anything it only runs it in deeper that
Buttercup has no special super powers
they could have thought way harder about
her powers like telekinesis just off the
top of my head not the girls have
telekinetic powers as far as i know so
they could have gone with that and that
would be so cool and the bigger the
object the harder it would be for butter
come to moving it could really put her
strength and toughness to test but no
the writers decided to go with this
garbage
this is just insulting and yes Buttercup
is my favorite character by the way and
no this isn't the worst episode about
her
we'll get to some worse ones later on
this list number five
Twisted Sister
was anybody else traumatized by this is
a kid I mean what were the right is
thinking with this one
this episode was one of the darkest in
the entire series
basically the girls get tired of
fighting crime all the time so they
create their own powerpuff girl named
bunny they convinced about crime for
them but things don't go as expected and
after buddy finally does what she was
created to do the formula goes bust and
she dies i'm not kidding she actually
disintegrates on-screen the girls more
for her in a very sad ending scene and
it doesn't help matters the narrator is
crying in the outro seriously this mess
me up as a kid I cried for a good long
time after seeing this
this might have been a good plot in
adult show but for kids
I mean I'm all for a dark kids show but
come on number four level vicious when I
was a kid I liked this episode now
however I definitely see its flaws i
don't really hate the entire episode i
just hate one aspect of it really but
it's a really important aspect that
doesn't really get much attention
the episode starts with buttercup
fighting a monster i actually like this
scene but then again I like any see more
butter couple really gets into beating
the monsters up
she's just so fun to watch it turns out
that she's actually in finding similar
bubbles is enthusiastic about buttercups
excellent performance but now it's her
turn
professor since the training level 22
rather than the 90 set of 24 buttercup
bubbles tries to convince professor that
she can train on the same levels as
blossom and Buttercup but she's so
distracted that you get zapped by a tiny
robot so bubbles tries to be more
hardcore improve she should be treated
like a baby
the scene of her in the training
simulator is pretty cool as we get to
see your kick some serious butt against
the monsters but later on in the real
world she gets really violent and it
gets pretty hard to watch
she attacks blossom in the game of duck
duck goose and somehow invades the no
fighting in class
school and then she nearly kills the
talking dog
wait quite I thought bubbles loved
angles why on earth would she go this
far
blossom and Buttercup confront bubbles
about this problem
she says she's hardcore now and she can
handle Townsville herself then she
attacks the townspeople for doing things
like stepping on grass littering and
parking in a no-parking zone but that's
not the worst part the worst part is
that bubbles never suffers any
consequences for what she did to blossom
the dog and the townspeople no instead
she gets captured by mojo he fires a
laser at her only for her to break out
and beat our attic fan the girls find
her and tell her she's hardcore she
apologizes for all she's done but she
gets off scot-free
that's a major problem with the series
and blossom does something wrong she
gets punished when Buttercup is
something wrong she gets punished even
worse when bubbles does something wrong
she gets away with it because she's cute
sweet little bubbles that's really
frustrating
I get that a lot of people like bubbles
but that doesn't seem fair to me
number three a very special blossom
yeah you guys would have ripped me a new
one this one didn't appear on the list
but yeah it's bad and I can definitely
see why so many people hate this episode
so much it basically treats blossom like
a criminal but believe it or not that's
not my main problem with the episode so
what is my main problem with it
let's find out the episode starts with
the professor and the girls walking home
from getting groceries
they're excited because father's day is
coming up professor tells the girls he
doesn't need material gifts and that
they are enough to make him happy but
then he sees some very nice golf clubs
that he wants very very much but they
are expensive as in two thousand dollars
expensive upset that he can afford them
professor trenches sadly home
and the girls get an idea to try several
ways to raise money for the golf clubs
all the way up to asking the mayor to
pay for them for their services to
Townsville after defeating mojo but
after hearing the amount they want he
has a nervous breakdown and miss bellum
ask the girls to go clean up the town by
the way I don't think $2,000 is very
much to ask the mayor considering he's a
government official and probably makes
good money and considering what they do
for the town every day you know putting
their lives at risk is it really too
much to ask
just saying while the girls clean up the
town blossom passes by the now broken
shop window with the pro excellence 2000
call clubs lying inside she thinks of
how happy professor would be to have
them and i actually found something here
very interesting before the professor
said my game would be perfect if I had a
pair of these in blossoms mind he says
my life would be perfect this cognitive
distortion is very interesting and very
real for a kid trying to impress your
parents and ultimately it convinces
blossom to go against your moral compass
and steal the club's next morning it's
Father's Day bubbles and buttercup have
made liver and onions
the professor's favorite for the
professor's breakfast however it doesn't
appear very appetizing to him and he
insists that they wait for blossom and
then blossom comes in and presents the
golf clubs
the professor is ecstatic and he thanks
blossom for the golf clubs
the other girls are suspicious
especially buttercup who asks blossom
where she got the clubs in a matter of
very out of character for him the
professor brushes off buttercups comment
and goes to try out the golf clubs i
find it very hard to believe he wouldn't
question where blossom Gotham I mean
he's a scientists scientists are taught
to question things right after he leaves
the girls asked for awesome where she
got the clubs
meanwhile the mayor and a police officer
are playing golf
they just happened to be talking about a
newspaper article saying that some pro
excellence 2000 call clubs for storing
after mojo attack town and when
Professor shows up with those very same
clubs
he's arrested he contacts blossom from
jail and she becomes scared she quickly
comes up with the idea to blame mojo for
stealing the club's this could be
believed
after all his destruction of the town
was the reason the store window is
broken the mayor believes her and is
about to convince the officer to let
professor out what buttercups not buying
it
the girls chase blossom around the
prison until she finally confesses to
stealing the golf clubs
she said she just wanted to make
professor happy the professor
immediately feels guilty for putting so
much value in a material item instead of
in the girls he tells the cops to go
easy on Blossom heads up you might want
to remember that for my next episode
choice blossom is sentenced to 200 hours
of community service and a lot of people
got really mad at the end screen for
this episode
yeah it's not the best but i find it bad
for a different reason for most people
most people seem to hate it because
blossom gets punished
they say she's out of character but i'm
not sure I agree with that
not completely anyway I mean stealing is
a bit extreme but I can totally see
blossom doing something like this with
professors happiness in mind also keep
in mind that she took all the credit for
the golf clubs
she wanted professors love and attention
for herself
I credit the episode for showing that
blossom isn't perfect but i do think
they went a bit extreme
maybe if she had stolen something less
expensive rationalizing that no one
would miss something so cheap it
wouldn't have been as bad then she
wouldn't have needed so bigger
punishment and the fans would have been
less mad but that's not what bothers me
about this episode
what bothers me is how out of character
the professor is he appears
self-centered amateur
realistic which is not his character at
all professor utonium is one of the best
fictional father's I've ever known
at least in most episodes he's kind
intelligent and compassionate you can be
strict and protective but he also knows
how to have fun with the girls this
episode does not do him any justice and
that's what really gets me
number two moral decay
I hate this episode this episode treats
all the characters especially buttercup
with so much contempt it's unbelievable
the episode starts with the girls
cleaning the house
Buttercup complains that it will just
get dirty again which is understandable
no kid likes doing chores at least not
any that i know the professor gives them
gold dollar coins reward for cleaning
the house and her excitement about the
money
Buttercup accidentally knocks out
bubbles too and she feels so bad that
she repeatedly apologizes and that's
just on the side
professor tells them the Tooth Fairy
will come and leave bubble some money on
her pillow and sure enough the next day
bubble swings a coin under her pillow
wrong like wow
from the way she says it almost sounds
like she's taking her lawn and Buttercup
gets an idea so whenever to make money
Buttercup starts knocking out those
teeth on purpose stuff just stop
there are so many problems with this a
minute ago buttercup was over
apologizing for hurting bubbles this
sudden change in character from overly
apologetic to needlessly aggressive is
extremely jarring if the riders were
going to have buttercup be the villain
why did they have her apologized over
and over in such an endearing way and
yes I said endearing because it shows
the Buttercup cares and is worried about
her sister in fact that's probably the
only thing I actually liked about this
episode also keep in mind that she keeps
apologizing but after what happened to
Elmer and paste makes waste
it's not very surprising that she would
rush to apologize to someone cheats
broth even if it was an accident markup
is completely out of character here when
over the course of the entire series has
she been shown to care that much about
money
she's been shown to like toys but not
necessarily money
what's more butter cup would never want
to hurt her sisters just watch
buttercrunch to see how protective she
is of them
she's a superhero whose job is to save
people not to hurt them and she's a
little girl who loves her sisters and
she herself once said and yes I know
that she messes with them every once in
awhile particularly bubbles but she
would never never seriously injure her
sister like this i'm pretty sure no
sisters would hurt each other like this
the only kind of person who could do
this is either evil or insane is that
what the writers of this episode wanted
i hope not
so professor notices buttercups
aggression and sculpture for it and just
love the little smirk that blossom gets
buttercup here it's as if she liked
seeing buttercup get in trouble so
buttercup decides to go hurting the
townspeople instead stop Buttercup is a
superhero doesn't hurt the townspeople
defeat her original purpose
I'd swear that the writers are turning
her into a villain for this episode they
made a superhero into a villain what the
frak anyway then she beats up some of
the local villains and gets a lot of
money for their teeth develops have a
meeting at the dentist's office to do
something about buttercups problem
the next day the girls get a call from
the mayor
telling them that price items are going
to be stolen from the museum buttercup
hears the word priceless and flies off
at once unaware that the call was not
actually from the merit all but for mojo
who is holding the mayor's mouth closed
so either the girls had the villains
break into the mayor's office and cover
his mouth shut
which is deplorable and pile illegal or
they got the marriott it to which later
makes this plot all the more infuriating
but we'll get to that in a moment
Buttercup gets the museum only to find
yourself surrounded by buildings she
asks her sisters for help but not so
hold on
awesome who constantly schools buttercup
for doing things the violent way and
refuses to beat up elderly Dylan's
emphasis on the word villains is
actually okay with watching her sister
get beaten up even after
that's extremely hypocritical that is
perhaps the most distorted sense of
justice that I have ever seen
also keep in mind that Buttercup is five
years old or six that she has a weight
birthday so getting beaten up by a bunch
of fully-grown villains with her a ton
more for her than it would for an adult
even if she does have super powers that
make her stronger the only good thing if
you can call it good is that it doesn't
actually show buttercup getting beaten
up so the girls have basically colluded
with all the major villains to gang up
on buttercup and beat her up mercilessly
sisters of the year everyone i need
seriously that's about the darkest most
messed up thing I've ever heard
I get that butter cups actions in this
episode were reprehensible and yes she
should have paid for them but this
punishment is just too much especially
coming from someone who doesn't normally
condone needless violence then the girls
go to the dentist
the camera pans on the ridiculously smug
faces of blossom bubbles looking at
Buttercup and i have to say they look
oddly happy considering they just watch
their sister get pummeled for do they
care more about their own
self-righteousness than about their
sisters safety then we see buttercup
looks oddly okay for someone who's been
beaten up
I mean hurt pairs a little messy but
that's it seriously how did she not a
black guy or a bruise or something I
guess is to build up to the next moment
when professor looks at her and she
smiles nervously and lo and behold we
see that her teeth have been knocked
cation car
how about show some concern that your
daughter was beaten up
he makes buttercup use the money she
saved to pay her dental go then as
buttercup gets up to have her teeth pics
bubbles does that tongue thing at
buttercup
when I was a kid I actually screamed at
the television at this part and then the
episode ends on one of most infuriating
and screens ever now I want you to take
a very good look at this
Buttercup obviously regrets what she has
done holding her mouth and pain
bubbles is sticking her tongue out of
her again a little out of character for
someone as sweet as bubbles right but
the one thing that really bothers me is
blossom look at her face and that's not
even the aggravating smart from before
this is much much scarier
she looks like she's ready to torture
some animals or something
not only do i find that absolutely scary
I also find it to be extremely
aggravating she actually manages to look
not just mean but legitimately evil she
looked so happy that her sister was
beaten up and her teeth knocked out why
is she so happy about that
who could possibly be so happy to see
anyone let alone their own sister be so
brutally beaten up this episode
infuriates me on a visceral level it
made me angry as a kid to see my
favorite character get beaten up and
treated so harshly and it makes me even
more angry as an adult to see a
character used as a punching bag to get
across a lesson that didn't need to be
told not by this show anyway you could
compare this episode to a very special
blossom but at least you could argue
that Boston was punished in a way that
coincided with the law
she got 200 hours of community service
and professor was still gentle toward
her in the end you could argue that
blossom was out of character there as
well but at least it made some sense
she did it to make her father happy and
her reasoning was somewhat label it's a
little skewed buttercups actions on the
other hand came completely out of the
blue her sudden love of money was
jarring and uncomfortable to watch and
her actions were completely out of line
with her character and remember when
professor asked the copy go easy on
blossom in the previous episode we don't
get that here in fact professor seems to
condone the villains beating up his own
daughter to teach her a lesson
everyone seemed to be against her in
this episode and that was by no means
Pleasant watch for those of you who like
this episode let me ask you this
it's little bubbles and not buttercup
who are punching out people's teeth for
money would you like this episode nearly
as much know what about blossom no see
this is what bothers me about buttercup
centered episodes they almost always
have her doing something wrong girls
having your software needlessly it's
almost as if the writers hated the
character and wanted to see her suffer
though why would it would hate one of
their main characters is beyond me
this episode did not mean to exist it is
to mean spirited and just plain
vindictive for a children's show
everyone was completely out of character
and all for the sake of teaching a
lesson that the show didn't need to
teach sure I agree the darker elements
and plot should be included occasionally
but not like this
this is just too much there's too much
animosity among all the characters and
especially among the sisters for me to
feel anything but sick to my stomach
number one
when I first started this list I thought
moral decay is going to be number one
but after some careful thinking I found
one that was even worse
this episode is hypocritical beyond all
belief and it has the most unwarranted
meet ending that i have ever seen here
it is cover up now you're probably
thinking that this episode is bad but
not as bad as some of the previous
episodes on this list but while the
previous few episodes made me angry
this one makes me both angry and sad
Buttercup was completely out of
character and moral decay but at least
you could say that her actions were
reprehensible even though they should
not have happened because they are out
of her character in cover-up water cup
does nothing wrong and suffers
needlessly anyway why
let's find out the episode starts with
the girls fighting crime as usual and I
actually really like this beginning
scene or buttercup beats up monsters
while the other groups
as the days go by however they find the
Buttercup keeps showing up late to save
Townsville eventually Buttercup is so
late that blossom bubbles have to search
for they discovered buttercup hiding in
the closet
muttering some affirmations to yourself
and for some reason they find this weird
they find that she's holding something
behind her back and chase through the
house blossom takes thing out of her
hands and sees that it's buttercups
blanket it gives me a steak to be a
correct the girls laugh at her in a very
cool way thinking Buttercup is
ridiculous for feeling this way
Buttercup goes off with the blanket to
fight the monster and wins next day
buttercup can't find her blanket she
starts searching frantically for it and
eventually breaks down in tears I
actually feel really sorry for buttercup
here also just as a side note i find
buttercups voice to be the cutest so her
crying like this makes me feel even more
sorry for her and according to the
weekly this is the first time in the
series where we see buttercup cry
this is very interesting she's the tough
one so she normally wouldn't cry
this would have been a great opportunity
to explore buttercups more vulnerable
side that would have been a very
interesting premise for an episode
no instead the other girls pole
buttercup into battle where she feels
anxious and unable to find she fights
very poorly against the monster and
seems to doubt yourself without the
blanket
awesome gives her what looks like her
blanket and she's able to fight again
and we get a very cute scene of
buttercup cuddling the blanket
however it's revealed that blossom
tricked buttercup
by giving her a fake blanket buttercup
gets angry at lawson receiving her and
starts looking for her blanket unable to
find it she starts crying again and
don't you just love the blank stares at
Blossom Bubbles give her as they watch
their sister in misery
I mean they don't even look sorry for
her at all they're just staring at her
like she's crazy
it's almost as if the writers want me to
believe that Buttercup is creamy which I
don't by the way then the professor
comes in with the laundry and lo and
behold buttercups blankets in the
laundry basket and then we get this
scene
what right do they have to be angry with
her all she wanted was her blanket so
it's ok for bubbles to have hockey and
carry him into battle buttercup can have
a blanket so buttercups gives up her
blanket to the professor who does the
exact same thing buttercup was doing
before with the affirmations and this
time the girls find funny
instead of weird like they did with
buttercup then the narrator does the
same thing in the outro this episode is
terrible
it makes buttercup out to be some crazy
psycho with a strange attachment or
blanket when in reality she just needed
something to help her feel more
confident i hate that she was forced to
give up something that made her feel
both stronger and more confident and I
hate the cheese treated with a different
standard from the other girls with
blossom it's a little different because
she's a little more mature and doesn't
really sleep with stuffed animals but
bubbles has been shown to sleep with aki
and other animals all the time
are you telling me that it's okay for
bubbles but not for buttercup
what makes me mad is that this episode
wants me to believe that Buttercup and
by extension anyone else in her position
is crazy or delusional she is not she
said was scared and self-doubting
without a blanket and speaking as
someone who has dealt with various types
of performance anxiety and stage fright
I can relate to that on a personal level
its ability to you and makes you think
negatively especially about yourself
certainly helps to have a supportive
family but unfortunately buttercup does
not have a supportive family not in this
episode at least her family thinks that
Buttercup is crazy for being attached to
a blanket and murdering affirmations to
herself in secret affirmations are one
of the things psychologist recommended a
branch of psychology known as cognitive
behavioral therapy they have been shown
to work in making people more confident
more mindful or whatever they needed if
markup is using affirmations to make her
a more competent fighter
this should be encouraged not made to
look crazy as for the blanket it's
completely natural that a little girl
would be attached to a baby blanket
it's warm and cuddly and makes you feel
safe when you're scared when you're
doubting yourself
if it makes bark up feel better who
cares and yes i know some people have
argued that she has formed an unhealthy
attachment to it but i don't agree
remember that Buttercup is five or six
years old and H words perfectly
understandable for her to want to keep a
blanket and the fact that Professor just
took it from her is battling you think
he'd understand her a lot better
considering he's her parent and what on
earth are Blossom Bubbles mad at her for
why do they care if she has a blanket
why can't they just let her have it and
be happy and the fact that the other
girls laughed at her before only makes
it worse because it shows the episode
expects me to laugh with them instead of
feeling sorry for buttercup
also you know those gentle heartwarming
moments that professor has bubbles and
boogie frights and with blossom in the
main event we don't get anything like
that water cup in any episode and that's
really sad i get that Buttercup is
supposed to be the top one but even
tough girls cry sometimes and it would
have been nice to see a moment with the
professor comforting Buttercup and
telling her it was alright she was
strong inside even without her blanket
and when she was finally reunited with
her blanket professor could have gently
reminded her that her strength comes
from within so that she could still have
the blanket to make her feel better when
she needed it it would have been a much
better episode that way and they have
been one of the best episodes that way
but this cruel treatment of butter cup
in this episode makes it the worst
episode of all time
on a more positive note i did find a
very well-written fan fiction or
buttercup gets her blanket back its by
someone named s gamer et tu and only get
low the description in case you're
curious but the fact this episode needed
fanfiction to redeem the plot just shows
how horrible it is
