Let me just say right of the bat that this is the creepiest episode I've ever covered on this blog. It's also one of the creepiest children's cartoon episodes I've seen. I think for the most part though children should still be able to handle it. Most of them anyway.
Also this isn't technically a Halloween episode but it's still creppy as crap.
But that's what I love about the Powerpuff Girls. They are able to make creepy episodes like this work.
One day we'd get a very light hearted fun episode, the next we get something like Speed Demon. Today's episode.
Also probably the creepiest episode of the show by far.
It starts with the girls at school. Buttercup is very impatient as the family is going on a trip to the Bahamas. Once school is out the girls race home which somehow opens a worm hole. Don't ask how, I'm not really sure either but that's not important. The hole leads them home but things seem diffrent. The girls don't take much notice to it at first though as they are busy arguing about the race. The girls call in the professor to settle the argument but he's not coming. The girls look around for him and find him in his lab. It looks like he's gone insane and is desperately trying to remember the formula that created the girls in the first place. This gets under your skin to say the least. It's just so creepy. And the raises the question about what actually happened. It also raises tension.
The girls leave terrified. They then begin to look around the city of Townsville (face it you read the city of Townsville in the narrator's voice.) But either way the city is destroyed.
The tension raises.
I also gotta admit the atmosphere is also amazing.
I love it when shows can pull off an atmosphere like this.
They then see their teacher Ms. Keane.
She's literally gone insane standing in the same place repeat in the same thing over and over. But she does reveal that the girls have been slung 50 years into the future. And throughout those 50 years they were just gone. Which is why the town has gone to crap. Things only get more terrifying from there
as Him appears. The devil himself. He tells the girls that he took over the city after they left. It was
easy since they were gone. He says this in his very creepy voice. It's the voice of nightmares I swear.
He begins to convince the girls it was all their fault that Townsville ended up like this, the girls are in obvious denial. It gets worse as the people they all cared for come and also begin to blame them.
That's what makes Him so scary. He doesn't use machines, it weapons, or physical fighting to try and beat the girls. He uses psychological warfare. Making him a scary villain as you never know what he'll do next. The fact that he rarely used physical violence is seen when the girls start pounding on Him and he doesn't even attack back.
Him keeps repeating that this was all the girls fault, they're still in denial but Him's words start taking a bigger effect on them. The girls freak out and open up another worm hole the same way they did before. This time though it sends them back to their time. The girls rush over to the professor and tells him that they can't leave Townsville............even though they left Townsville a few episodes later in Town and Out, but whatever. This episode......whew, it sure was something. But it was a good something.
The atmosphere in this episode is very tense and it works very well. Aside from that the characters are very relatable as well. You really feel for the girls in this episode. Imagine being thrown in a situation where it was your fault that everyone you love is hurt.
It was also very creepy. But I loved it, it was very well done.
Overall-9/10
This is why I love the Powerpuff Girls. I just realized this is the first time I'm talking about an episode that's not currently on TV. Though there is that reboot that's coming.
If you wanna know I don't think it'll be as good as the original, but I still have high hopes it'll be good. Who knows, it could surpass the original.
Either way 4 parts down.
I need to get some updates out of the way now so hold tight.
First about Toon-O-Ween. I was originally gonna do Tokyo Ghoul for the 5th part and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown as part 6. I'm cancelling the 6th part until probably next year as its already December and I still have to finish watching all the Tokyo Ghoul episodes. So Part 5 probably won't come out till late December and I don't wanna go into January with this. And I feel the review will work better around Halloween time anyway. So maybe next year. I also just really wanna review Tokyo Ghoul so that's another reason.
As for Christmas I was originally gonna do Invasion of the Secret Santas from Batman the Brave and the Bold, and the do It's a Cleveland Brown Christmas, but I think I'm just gonna stick with the Cleveland Show episode and do the Batman one later.
In fact the Cleveland Show episode will probably be the next post on this blog. After the Christmas episode I'll do the Tokyo Ghoul episode and the continue the Animated Critic with my review of The Finger from Harvey Beaks, I really need to do more Animated Critic episodes. Considering that is my main show. So yeah I'm gonna try and work harder on getting Animated Critic episodes out. Hope you understand they just take a lot more work than other things I do on this blog.
Either way I thank you for reading and I'll see you later.
Peace.
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