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Powerpuff Girls 2016 - “Save the Date”

Written by: Haley Mancini

Written & Storyboarded by: Leticia Abreu Silva, John Martinez

Directed by: Nick Jennings, Bob Boyle

Can it save the reboot?

I'm sorry, I have to bring this up. Season 2 was a minor improvement over Season 1, and I was wondering if Season 3 was going to continue with fixing minor problems. Already, they managed to address two particular aspects that some people felt was a horrible, horrible problem with this reboot. Looks like the crew have listened to their pleas...

...finally, they decided to give Ms. Keane her chest back. What a huge problem that was, am I right? Well, I was a little curious to why they decided to omit her breasts in the last two seasons. I was almost thinking that this was a subtle hint at a very special episode that this show would definitely not do appropriately. But no, they were just hiding under that jacket the whole time. Yeah, that's it. Now that I got that settled, let's begin the actual review.

The episode starts off with Ms. Keane being awkward while she's teaching class about Shakespeare. As soon as she starts saying the word love, she starts to stutter. She even writes it out, which is a slightly clever joke.

The Powerpuff Girls ask her what's wrong. Buttercup assumes that she has a malfunctioning robot brain, which is a typical random joke from our rascally little green princess. But no, it's because she has to get ready for a first date. Yes, in that wording; that elephant in the room is certainly growing at an alarming rate!

The Reboot Puffs offer to give her some makeup tips. They did do a good job with the Professor when they prepared for his date with Ima Goodlady, so it's not completely out there for the Powerpuff Girls to prepare someone for a date. Any potential jokes were thrown out pretty much immediately by Ms. Keane refusing their offer, which is probably to this episode’s benefit.

There’s two different running jokes with this outfit: Ms. Keane's difficulty with high heels, a relatable joke for anyone who had to wear them, and Ms. Keane apparently has a bad pimple that everyone in the show can see, but is thankfully never drawn for us. It's for this episode's benefit.

Her "first date" with this random 38-year-old named Todd at the Snooty Rose. It's cool to see a reference to a previous episode, right down to having the same waiter show up.

Speaking of references to previous episodes, now I shall point out the elephant in the room: yes, Ms. Keane did go on a date with the Professor in the original, and this episode outright denies it ever happened by calling this the first date. People might be mad that this rando that never appeared before replaced an official pairing in the original. I'm not one of them. Sure, a professor and a teacher would make a great couple...

...but even with her inexperience, Ms. Keane is way too good to be the Marge Simpson to this show's Sitcom Dad. Thankfully, this scene in Super Sweet 6 was the closest we got to referencing that pairing. Besides, he already has a love interest with Sapna Nehru, and I would prefer he get eaten alive by a giant spider monster.

Before Ms. Keane can get to that date, Discount Jojo shows up driving a truck loaded with a bunch of barrels full of radioactive goo. He's angry that he has to drive all of these to a special location to dispose of it. Sure, he may be an evil monkey, but he has to abide by those environmental laws!

Another crime he doesn't want to commit is vehicular manslaughter, as he notices Ms. Keane walking across the crosswalk, trying not to fall on her face. He swerves out of the way, causing one of the barrels to fall over and spill radioactive goo all over her. Discount Jojo tries to save face.

Discount Jojo: Uh, don't worry! It's defective!

Ms. Keane: How is it defective?

Discount Jojo: (slowly drives away)

Admittedly, that did get a minor laugh out of me. But hey, maybe her date won't notice the radioactive slime that's all over her! Suddenly, she starts glowing, and we get a GIF that was probably made already, but I decided to make it myself anyway. That's the Fly Pow Bye way!

This episode involves Ms. Keane growing to skyscraper size, ripping her clothes, and her accidently causing a ruckus around Townsville. Yeah, I knew this reboot was essentially official fanfiction, but I didn't think it was going to be that kind of fanfiction! Granted, I should have expected this considering we had that muscle episode a season ago.

This episode is just like that episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where Irma grew into a giant, that episode of DuckTales 87 where Webby grew into a giant, or that episode of Jackie Chan Adventures where Jade grew into a giant. Wow, that plot is really common! I guess one big difference is that it doesn't advertise itself as a "turn into a giant" episode. It's like, surprise, it's one of these!

Even some helicopters come in to complete the Godzilla reference. Give them credit, they manage to get both of the running jokes about Ms. Keane's appearance in one line. They start shooting her, with some surprisingly realistic machine gun sound effects out of them. I guess if they're completely useless against the giant teacher, it's okay.

Ms. Keane ends up being chased off to Monster Island, which is a setting I feel has a lot of potential for plots. There's only two episodes that had a major focus on this island: Escape From Monster Island and Aliver. I wouldn't say this episode is the best appearance of that island, but I can't say this is bad, either.

The Powerpuff Girls show up just as soon as Ms. Keane goes away, and the Mayor tells them that a giant pretty monster lady just attacked Townsville. Somehow, they managed to look at Monster Island and find out that it's Ms. Keane. It's here that I realize that it's pretty rare to see the Powerpuff Girls use any superpower that isn't strength, flight, eye-lasers, or those new-fangled aura powers, so I didn't even think about them having telescoping vision!

The Powerpuff Girls go to Monster Island to find Ms. Keane sobbing about her new appearance and height. They offer to take her to the Professor. Judging by his track record, he'd probably accidently turn her into an even more hideous monster with two pimples, so she refuses. Well, that is not the actual reason.

She decided that, since she's a monster now, Monster Island is her new home. The Powerpuff Girls try to convince her that she's acting...something, but Blossom gets a text message from the Mayor that Townsville is under attack by a giant monster before she can complete that sentence.

Bubbles: But Ms. Keane's already here!

...burn? By the way, there's another running gag about the Mayor needing Ms. Keane to teach him how to spell. Good to know that didn't hinder his ability to send a text message! I would say Ms. Bellum sent the text, but sadly, while that all-important boob "problem" was fixed, they didn't fix that problem.

An ant came into contact with the goo, causing it to grow into this monster. The helicopters come in, but immediately leave because there's no pimple to focus on. The real flying heroes show up, and they actually do very well! Won't this just turn into a Monster Punch Girls Down in the end like every other scene like this? Does Buttercup make a lazy pun that had to be telegraphed to the audience?

Buttercup: ANT (five seconds later) that's the end of that!

Before Buttercup can make an aura scarf and say the word "chapter" to complete a Simpsons reference, we relearn that it just wouldn't be good for the plot if the Powerpuff Girls could easily take care of this monster.

Ant Stomp, Girls Down, womp womp. One minute, they’re superpowerful and no monster can beat them, the next minute, they are getting curbstomped by an ant. Admittedly, having trouble with a giant ant monster for plot convenience isn’t unique to the reboot; the exact same thing happened in Bubblevision. However, just because the original did it doesn't make it okay.

While that carnage is going on, Ms. Keane is trying to teach a bunch of giant monsters about the story of Romeo and Juliet. It goes about as well as one might expect: one of the tiny monsters eats one of the bigger monsters in one gulp. Okay, maybe one didn't expect that. Romeo and Juliet did have death, but that might not be the reference they're going for.

Eventually, she sees the Powerpuff Girls flying all around the ant monster. Once again, being off-camera seems to be the Reboot Puff's equivalent to Popeye's spinach cans. As she leaves, that tiny monster spits out the bigger monster's bloodless skull. I am both bewildered and amused by that random joke, mostly becase I was surprised they could even show bones.

The Powerpuff Girls, once again at the mercy of the ant's giant foot, is saved by Ms. Keane's flying kick! Not that this is entirely another "our powerful heroines have to be saved by a strong person" plot, the Powerpuff Girls do manage to help her out, too. As she gets knocked out by the ant monster, the Powerpuff Girls wake up to do a strategy.

It's a strategy they repeat from a previous episode, surprisingly enough. I will now call it the Tazmanian Devil strategy because it uses the same sound effect in this episode. They flying all around the monster, causing him to get dizzy. Blossom motions to Ms. Keane to finish the job.

Blossom: Ms. Keane, he's dizzy! Give him the busy!

Ugh, Blossom, while it may be that kind of fanfiction, it's not that kind of fanfiction. Thankfully.

She runs flawlessly with her heels, giving a payoff to the heels gag, and punches him right back into Monster Island. Yeah, someone who had no implied fighting skills whatsoever managed to upstage the Powerpuff Girls in defeating a giant monster all because she’s super big. One would think this show about three tiny six-year-old superheroes would teach kids that size isn’t everything, but here’s an episode kicks that right in the face. With heels!

Sadly for Ms. Keane's fighting career, the goo starts to wear off. How convienent! Discount Jojo drives back and says that's the reason why it was defective. Glad to see that joke wasn't kept hanging without a real punchline, even if this barely counts as one. I don't really get it.

Most importantly, she manages to make it to her date, who was talking to his mother the whole time about how not all women are monsters. I don't know why, either. Even though her dress is ruined, and most of the resturaunt is in shambles due to the giant ant monster, he's okay with it. What a nice guy. I'm sure Todd will eventually appear again. Maybe. Sort of. Not really.

Does the title fit?

Two different meanings to the title: Ms. Keane had to save the day and also had to save her "date".

How does it stack up?

This episode is actually pretty good by reboot standards. There's some decent jokes here and there, and the fight scenes are above average. Even when Ms. Keane joins the picture, it's not completely one-sided like most battles in this series.

The Powerpuff Girls are mostly useless in this episode. The best they can do is make an ant dizzy so that Ms. Keane can defeat the monster. The date character isn't too interesting, either, he doesn't add any real tension to the plot. They tried, but it didn't work for me.

Despite that, even if a giant Ms. Keane isn't your fantasy story, this is one of the better episodes. It's definitely a superheroine story, even if it wasn't the superheroines you expected.

Next, we find out if this reboot deserves a Beatles reference, a Meet The Beat-Alls reference, or even a reference to that Bee Gees movie.

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