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Powerpuff Girls 2016 - “Hustlecup” (with Captain B.Z.!)

Written by: Jake Goldman

Written & Storyboarded by: Kyle Neswald, Jaydeep Hasrajani

Directed by: Nick Jennings, Bob Boyle

Hate & basketball.

Before we begin this review, for the first time ever, I have a special guest! Yes, Fly Pow Bye has mostly been about my opinions and mine alone. Please welcome, Captain B.Z.!

Captain B.Z.: Hello, I’m Captain B. Z.! A few of you might know me as the person who archives old Cartoon Network VHS recordings and ads to YouTube but I’m always willing to give shows new and old a chance.

While I initially wasn’t a fan of PPG 2016, I grew to find it an average show around the second season and have found things to like about it, including the Bliss arc and the attempts by the writers to slowly incorporate more action. However, PPG 2016 still isn’t without its problems, as evidenced by today’s episode.

We definitely have a very similar viewpoint; I do admit that the show has gotten better over since those early episodes. This episode, however, might not be the best indicator of that. Let's see if this episode is on fire, or if it should be lit on fire.

The episode starts with electricity flowing through a bunch of tubes...which powers a lightbulb which illuminates the room the Powerpuff Girls and the Professor are in.

Captain B.Z.: Now, I’ll admit that I really like the shot at the start where it shows what’s powering up the mysterious invention - a green light. It’s completely unnecessary and doesn’t apply to anything, but it’s a nice way to start off the episode that doesn’t rely on a Family Guy TV show cutaway gag.

That opened my eyes a little. This mysterious invention is so mysterious, that each Powerpuff Girl repeating that it's so secret. What could it possibly be? How it passes through those circular tubes, and, as mentioned, how it is a green light, could be a hint at what it will be.

Captain B.Z.: Foreshadowing! It’s not just blatantly obvious anymore!

It turns out to be a new hat with a traffic light on it, called the traffic hat. The Powerpuff Girls are disappointed at first, as emphasized by a sad trumpet. Seems to be the running theme with the Professor's inventions. The Professor is ecstatic about it, saying it will be the #1 at the Science-Palooza. Blossom is confused how this hat could possibly win anything, but the Professor tells Blossom that it's not just any hat.

He tells Bubbles to throw this plate of spaghetti at Buttercup. Bubbles immediately does it before the Professor can say "when I say go", which ends up with Buttercup getting a plate full of spaghetti. I'll admit, I actually chuckled at this gag; it's all in the timing.

Captain B.Z.: Plus the fact that it’s freaking "scientific-grade" pasta. The Professor cares more about which type of pasta he gets than his own children.

How fitting. The Professor then pulls out another plate of scientific-grade pasta, and Buttercup tries to get her revenge. The Professor then yells "yellow light", and the pasta starts moving in slow motion, and then a "red light", stopping it in mid-air. Buttercup moves right in front of the pasta to look at this closely, and one can guess what happens next.

Granted, it's not that Buttercup wouldn't deserve what came to her. Despite being a victim of two different spaghetti related incidents thanks to this hat, Buttercup is very excited to use his hat for nefarious purposes. Specifically, she wants to freeze Jennifre's face when she sneezes so she'll look ridiculous. She demonstrates by making this face. Not among of the worst face gags this show has to offer, but it could have been made a little bit better.

That would be a good start.

Captain B.Z.: The face gags have their place and time, in my opinion. Plenty of shows have done really good jokes involving facial expressions, including fellow Cartoon Network series OK KO.

However, in order to make a face gag work, you have to time it just right and not have it be on screen for too long at the risk of being annoying. This is an example of a face gag I didn’t particularly find funny, but I can appreciate that it gets a callback later.

Buttercup has to promise the Professor not to take the hat to school, which she does oblige by...

...but he never said anything about taking it to the park to cause that sweet, sweet mischief! It starts with a little scene with Barry.

Captain B.Z.: Barry’s scene was one of the few redeeming factors of this episode. Partly because it was legitimately funny, and partly because we get to see Barry get injured. Shame it couldn’t have been the Professor in this situation, but we’ll get to that later.

She eventually does what she promised to do to Jennifre by red lighting her as soon as she sneezes. Jennifre was making fun of her hat, so Buttercup's actions are justified. As mentioned before, this does give more of a point to that Buttercup face from before. The other kids start to chant her name for causing all of this torment on people that aren't them, and she catches the attention of one guy who appears to be far older.

It turns out, the Gangreen Gang were hanging out at a nearby basketball court watching all of these time-stopping shenanigans unfold. Sorry to say, all of your headcanons on how Ace left this reboot to hang out with the Gorillaz are now wrong. It was my headcanon, too. They see Buttercup singing the theme song, except she says "I got the power". As much as it's supposed to exemplify Buttercup's selfishness, that's not too inaccurate.

Ace decides to challenge Buttercup to a game of Horse. If one doesn't know how the game works, Ace explains it via a scene that looks like a cross between a diagram and one of those Tiger LCD games from the 90s.

Ace: If I make a shot, you gotta copy it. If you miss the shot, you get a letter. First to spell "horse" is the loser.

Notice how he doesn't explain what happens if Buttercup actually makes the shot. It could be that he's pretty confident, but it's a big hint on how good these "horse" scenes are going to be. They decide to make a wager, if Ace wins, he gets the "doo-hickey" on her head. If Buttercup wins, she gets...

...Ace's prized scooter! What would a 6 year old girl do with a scooter? I don't even think her hands would be able to reach the handlebars! Besides, she saw Ace miss one shot, which either means he's terrible at it, or he's just acting like he's bad at basketball to lure in the mark. Buttercup assumes it's the former.

Captain B.Z.: I’d complain about how Ace has a scooter in this episode and this episode only, but there are far more concerning matters that apply to this episode’s character development, so I won’t.

...damn it, I just did it, didn’t I?

The game begins, and right from Buttercup nervousness from Ace's first shot, one can guess this is not going to end well for her. It should be noted that the very first short this reboot ever had focused on Buttercup not being able to make a "downtown" shot into a wastebasket, so it's interesting to see three seasons later that her skill hasn't changed.

Captain B.Z.: I’m debating whether or not the writers even remembered that short while writing this episode, though. If it was an intentional nod, good for them, although I’m surprised it came this late in the series’ run, when many people had began to ignore the series.

Yes, it's probably a coincidence, but a nice one nonetheless. There's no funny business, Ace manages to perfectly shoot 5 hoops in different ways, some ways so different that they didn't even bother to animate them, and Buttercup's vain attempts to copy them only adding more letters to the LCD game-esque scoreboard. In the end, Ace doesn't get a single letter, and Buttercup gets h...

Mr. Ed impression: You got hooooorse!

GYAH! What is that thing?!

Captain B.Z.: Isn’t it obvious? It’s another uphill roller coaster! It doesn’t lead anywhere and is just there to remind you that this show is a comedy. Even though there’s no punchline to this joke whatsoever.

Wait, this show is a comedy? That horse made me think this was a horror show.

After that...thing, the Gangreen Gang take their scooter home, Ace taking the "doo-hickey" with him. Back at the Powerpuff home, Blossom tells Buttercup that losing the hat was the most irresponsible thing she has ever done!

Well, except for that one time where she joined the Prune-A-Cycling Club. Get it, because pruning would be so hard if you were on a unicycle! Really, this feels like another uphill roller coaster gag, though it is one that only shows up twice. If only other gags got that honor. Also, Blossom and Bubbles joined it too, so it's not like it's just Buttercup's fault.

The Professor barges into the room, so excited about the upcoming Science-Palooza. He can't decide which shade of white lab coat he wants to bring! It's an okay gag based on how his outfit is usually the same, though that might be by comparison. He decides not to question where the hat is, and assumes Buttercup is taking good care of it.

None of the Powerpuff Girls had the heart to tell him the truth, so they decide to confront the Gangreen Gang as a group. They got to "mop up Buttercup's mess", in Blossom's words, said in a way that makes me think even Blossom is getting tired of these kinds of plots.

After a surprising cameo appearance by the pizza guy from the Small World special, the Gangreen Gang gets confronted by the girls. Bubbles said she thought she smelled a rat, because they had a joke about Grubber using a rat as deodorant, and they didn't want to just leave it in the pile.

Like a true hero, Blossom outright threatens him to give back the hat, or he will get hurt. Ace did say he won it fair and square, and those couple of misses to lure Buttercup into a false sense of security were just "a couple of misses". He decides, as the "gentleman" he is, he does another wager on a game of horse. If Blossom wins, she gets the hat. If she loses, Ace gets Blossom's favorite protractor and one of Bubbles' pigtails. The latter was specially requested by Ace, by the way. We will see how, we won't see why. Maybe that's a blessing.

So get this, Blossom is going to use her knowledge of math to enhance her game. Yeah, because Blossom is smart, she has to be, say, the mathlete of the group. It seems to make so much sense, I mean, it’s not like we’re supposed to believe that Buttercup is the mathlete! Yeah, that's what I'll go with, because anything else would be silly. This would have worked, too, but the Gangreen Gang decide do something even worse than pretending to be bad at basketball.

They decides to outright cheat by moving the basket and blocking the perfectly made shots. At least this time, we actually see five different ways they do that. One oddity is that none of these ways involve the time-stopping hat; in fact, Ace never actually uses it in any of the games. He's far from playing with honor at this point, he might as well use it.

Since there's nothing in the Gangreen Gang's rulebook that states they can't have the other members block the shots, though I highly doubt they even had one in the first place, Blossom is the next one to get...

Mr. Ed impression: Hoooorse!

GYAH! Yeah, repetition is not doing this gag any favors. In fact, I'd argue it's not doing anyone any favors.

Ace grabs the ponytail, twisting it off like a loose nail. They also take Angel-gelica. Yes, the protractor has a name, because Blossom is the nerd character that loves math. This doesn't nearly impact Blossom's looks, but is treated as just as important to her. They could have taken her bow, her hairclip, or even her ponytail. It seems to fit Ace's odd obsession with stealing other people's hair in this episode.

The Powerpuff Girls now decide that violence is the answer, threatening to crush their bones with half of a basketball court. Kind of an overreaction, I'd say, but one thing I can appreciate is that this is the only time they get to use any kind of superpower besides flight in this episode. It is sad that we need these reminders.

Ace decides then and here that the hat would come in handy, and says "red light". This makes the Powerpuff Girls and the basketball court float perfectly still in mid-air. They probably didn't even need the hat, that seems to be their usual strategy anyway.

This leads to a psychedelic slideshow beatdown, with the red-lighted Puffs getting licked both figuratively and literally. It's here that we learn what exactly what the hat brings to the plot: the ability to make a scene where superpowered girls getting beaten up by regular thugs more believable. Well, that, and a way for Buttercup to do something wrong, get in trouble, and learn a lesson that she would probably forget by the next episode anyway

Once Ace says "green light" on the court, Buttercup suffers something worse than losing at a basketball game...

...getting scolded by her father figure for the second most irresponsible thing she has ever done. A good hint on how good that pruning gag is: they don't even give it a proper background for the second time.

He decides to help the girls out, and go to the "basketball fields". Oh, silly Professor, that's not what basketball courts are called! Man, this guy must not know sports at all! However, he's sure that he can just talk to the Gangreen Gang like civilized adults, and they'll happily just hand over the hair, the protractor, and maybe even that time-stopping hat!

At the basketball court, somehow completely undamaged from the Powerpuff Girls' post-loss and somewhat-justified temper tantrum, we see that, needless to say, that civilized adults strategy did not work. As the gang is laughing at this dork, Ace offers another game of horse. Ace really needs another pigtail. Again, we see how, won't see why, maybe it's a blessing.

The Professor doesn't take it at first, because, in his words:

Professor: I'm not about to bet on a game I've never played before!

Lil' Arturo calls him a chicken like a 90's bully, and that's enough for him to change his mind. How hard could it be, you just put the ball in the hoop thingy, and he makes a practice shot by just launching the ball straight into the air. I am summarizing this because I want to point out that he is really trying to show off that he is just not good at sports. However, he's going to do it anyway.

The conclusion was so obvious, the episode just presses the fast forward button. We instantly see the Professor getting each letter. We don't even know if the Gangreen Gang decided to cheat here, it's just H, O, R, S, E, with the Professor's face zooming in with each one. In just a few seconds, the Professor gets...

Mr. Ed impression: Hoooorse!

Yeah, yeah, we get it, you stock image abomination. By the third time, I'm just rolling my eyes in disgust.

Bubbles loses her last pigtail, and all hope seems to be lost. Left with nothing else to wager, the Professor challenges him again, this time putting their residence on the line for everything Ace has taken, plus his scooter. The Powerpuff Girls object, but the Professor is so assuring by saying they always wanted to travel. I mean, what's the worst that can happen if the Powerpuff Girls leave Townsville?

Dispaired Citizens: Why'd you leave us, Powerpuff Girls?

Oh yeah, that. Okay, that was the original, but I'd imagine something very similar would happen here, too. But Townsville can go to heck for all he cares, he wants that hat back, no matter what the risk is!

The Professor looks at the basket, sweating profusely. How are they possibly going to beat Ace at his own game? He makes a desperate attempt to copy Ace's shot...

...and he makes the shot perfectly. He then tears off his shirt, revealing his hairy, hairy abs, and says that he's still got it. Wait, what? This comes completely out of nowhere; one minute, he's incompetent at sports, and then, snap, he's good at basketball now. But hey...he has a pi symbol on his shirt! That's nerdy!

"When did the Professor suddenly get good?" isn't even the only question I have about this scene. If the Professor was really trying to "hustle" these green gangsters by pretending he was bad at sports, why did he let them win the first time? Also, no matter suddenly how skilled the Professor is now, wouldn't the Gangreen Gang just cheat some more?

They at least explained that last one. The Powerpuff Girls decided not to just sit back and let the other members cheat, and tied them up with ordinary rope while Ace was too busy focusing on the Professor's sick moves. They could have did this when Blossom was getting horsed, but then the episode would have ended too early.

With the other members tied up, the Professor's unexplained sudden skill increase, and Ace never realizing he could just use his hat, Ace finally gets...

...

...gets...

...

...so now the reboot decides not to do the "horse" joke? Honestly, this ending is bad enough already, you might as well go for the Full Monty and give us that forsaken furlong-runner! Maybe that horse got disqualified.

Blossom gets her beloved ruler back, Bubbles gets her pigtails back, Buttercup gets grounded again, and the Professor now has a sweet scooter for him to take to the Science-Palooza. We never quite find out if his invention is a winner as the episode suddenly ends here...but this ending sure isn't one.

Captain B.Z.: So let’s talk about why this ending doesn’t work.

The Professor has had literally no experience at playing basketball in his life, neither in the original or this series. His initial plan is to talk to the Gangreen Gang sensibly but he does even worse than the girls. Then, he becomes ridiculously good out of freaking nowhere, throwing in another muscle “joke” for extra measure.

There is no buildup to this ending whatsoever due to the Professor being such a forgettable character in this episode. It's to the point where if the girls hadn’t told him that his hat was stolen, he wouldn’t have even cared.

Does the title fit?

It wasn't Buttercup doing the hustling. I honestly argue hustling was kind of forgotten halfway through!

How does it stack up?

It's such a shame that a major appearance from the Gangreen Gang that doesn't involve them just dressing in drag for a talent show is in such a lousy episode.

Captain B.Z.: Hustlecup is an episode that suffers in many different ways, from a story that isn’t well-defined to plenty of out-of-character moments - more than average for the reboot. While I don’t mind these errors if they’re just a small part of the episode, here, they get in the way of any merit the episode might have had and make it a truly frustrating watch.

Indeed. There are other variations of H-O-R-S-E with less letters, but even if this episode was playing Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, it would still lose.

Captain B.Z.: As I mentioned earlier in the review, this episode did provide some interesting concepts. The idea of a traffic light hat that actually slows down time is pretty neat but the writers did nothing with it. I’m surprised we didn’t get another episode like “Lights Out!” where we get to see Bubbles figure out how the hat works when the Gangreen Gang steals it and messes with Townsville traffic. Sadly though, the Professor being an asshole and Mr. Ed jokes had higher priority to the writers, making this episode fall apart instantly.

Next, another episode focusing on everyone's favorite Sitcom Dad, if we discount all the other Sitcom Dads. Special thanks to Captain B.Z. for joining me with this one.

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Soccer Ball Sizes: The Official & Standard Size for Men and .. | soccer ball sizes for age groups Heading of a soccer brawl has been banned in the United States at the under-10 level, and branch convenance is bound to aloof 30 account per anniversary in the under-11 and under-12 age groups. Barry Austin/Getty Nicole Setterlund was 12 aback she suffered her aboriginal concussion.She was so off balance, so loopy, in her aboriginal bold aback on the soccer angle that the simple act of demography a footfall backwards led to a formed abate and burst leg.After her fourth concussion, she spent the night airsickness and miserable, the aboriginal of a weeks-long bulk activity “out of sorts.” Despite that, she was aback on the acreage two canicule afterwards her injury, arena “the affliction bold of her life,” breadth her limbs, her touch, her academician all acquainted out of sync, like a baby accomplishing a jig.The blow calculation was up to four, and she hadn’t alike accelerating aerial school.While arena for the Washington State Cougars, a affray of active agape her cold, the massive bond that bloomed from her temple aloof the aboriginal of abounding affection to follow.It was her eighth concussion, and was the afterlife of her soccer dreams.“The affliction I had was my last,” says the now 26-year-old. “After that one, I couldn’t be in light, I couldn’t attending at a computer. At one point, I collection to campus … and concluded up walking home from chic because I forgot I drove. And the abutting brace days, I couldn’t acquisition my car in the parking lot.“I was actual absent and spacey. Absolutely anxious, and afterwards the aftermost one I went through some acute depression. It was apparently a aggregate of actuality told I wasn’t accustomed to comedy soccer — and not accustomed to go able — and activity afraid all the time, and aloof absolutely low.” Nicole Setterlund, now an abettor drillmaster with UBC’s women’s soccer team, was affected to retire from arena the bold competitively afterwards adversity eight concussions. NICK PROCAYLO / PNG Setterlund was an all-star with the Div. 1 Cougars, played three seasons with the W-League Whitecaps and was allotment of both the Under-20 and Under-17 civic teams — captaining the closing to the CONCACAF Women’s Championship appellation in 2010. The centre back/midfielder was additionally B.C. Soccer’s Adolescence Amateur of the Year in 2010, and featured in the 2011 Province Arch of the Chic in her chief year at Semiahmoo secondary.Her arena approaching was taken away, but the abroad approaching is what weighs alike added heavily on her. A access of contempo studies accept fatigued links amid adept soccer players and assorted acoustic disorders. The latest is the 22-month abstraction by the Glasgow Academician Abrasion Analysis Group advertence above pros were 3.5 times added adequate to die with dementia or added acoustic diseases.The aforementioned study, appear aftermost month, adumbrated a five-time access in the accident of Alzheimer’s occurring, a four-fold access of in accident of ALS and a two-fold jump in the accident of developing Parkinson’s.

Soccer ball sizes | Official football size chart .. | soccer ball sizes for age groups “I try to break abroad from (the studies), because it makes me absolutely sad,” said Setterlund. “A lot of bodies accomplish jokes that I accede in poor taste. They’ll say article about dementia and afresh say, ‘Oh, that’s activity to be you aback you’re older.’ And I’m like, ‘Honestly, it adeptness be, so … that’s affectionate of rude.’“So, yeah, it is a absolute fear, abnormally because (some of) the abiding furnishings accept been all-overs and depression. It’s article I anticipate about, it’s article my ancestors thinks about and consistently tries to manage; to accept that this is article you’re activity to accept to alive with, probably.”Boston University began a abstraction aftermost ages absorption on above changeable able players — including U.S. stars Michelle Akers and Brandi Chastain — who are about 33 per cent added adequate to be concussed than men.Of her eight concussions, Setterlund said three of them were the aftereffect of headers and one was from accidentally blocking a attempt with her face. Two were from elbows to the arch and two from clashing heads.Heading the brawl has been banned absolutely in the U.S. at the under-10 level, and branch convenance bound to aloof 30 account per anniversary in the under-11 and under-12 age groups.Quebec mulled introducing a bigoted ban in 2018 and Scotland and England are now accomplishing the aforementioned afterwards the Glasgow study, which was appear in the accurate New England Journal of Medicine.Dr. Bennet Omalu, the doctor at the centre of the CTE accusation that has rocked the NFL, has said that no amateur beneath the age of 18 should arch the ball.“Begin with the children,” Omalu told The Daily Telegraph. “There should not be any branch of the brawl beneath the age of 18. Why 18? Because that is aback the animal academician becomes absolutely developed. It is usually the age of developed consent. It is not able for a animal actuality to use his arch to stop or avert a brawl travelling at a aerial velocity. As a association we should evolve.”In B.C., both the University of British Columbia and UBC-Okanagan accept delved into the subject. The Thunderbirds women’s aggregation has been accomplishing a balloon application mouthguards that admeasurement arch impacts, while Paul van Donkelaar, a UBC-O neuroscientist, authored a abstraction aftermost year barometer claret biomarkers that announce arch trauma.Their assignment begin that repetitive impacts from a brawl on a player’s arch could account cellular accident in the afraid system, but the bound ambit of the studies’ admeasurement meant no absolute cessation could be made. Paul van Donkelaar, UBC Okanagan neuroscientist, authored a abstraction that looked at the affiliation amid branch in soccer and academician trauma. University of B.C. — Okanagan / PNG “In a lot of acquaintance sports, there are a lot of impacts that don’t aftereffect in a actuality actuality diagnosed with a concussion, but may accept some aftereffect on academician function, that, if you accumulate it over the years, can be absolutely detrimental,” said van Donkelaar, who has 20 years of acquaintance in sports blow research.“Better compassionate how soccer branch affects academician action both in a accustomed bold ambience as able-bodied as a lab ambience … is an important bit of adeptness to have, in adjustment the acknowledgment the question: ‘How safe is it?’

What size football do I need? - soccer ball sizes for age groups | soccer ball sizes for age groups “… No abstraction has been done over the best term. The (Glasgow Academician Abrasion study) was done afterwards the fact, afterwards in life. It was a medical annal review, breadth they looked at who had died, and what they’d died from, and compared soccer players to contrarily advantageous controls who didn’t. That’s a final aftereffect measure, right? What did you die from? And added soccer players were begin to accept died from neurodegenerative disorders. And that suggests that there’s article about soccer, which includes branch a ball, that adeptness be one of the things that contributes developing those disorders.”The U.S. Soccer Federation’s accommodation to change its action on headers in the adolescence age groups came in 2015 as allotment of a adjustment in absolute a class-action lawsuit.The Canadian Soccer Association hasn’t followed clothing — yet — due to the abridgement of accurate analytic analysis assuming a absolute articulation amid branch and academician trauma. The CSA provided the afterward account aback contacted for comment, as their administrator in the area, Dr. Kevin Gordon, wasn’t anon available.“Canada Soccer’s Action Anesthetic Committee has been apprehension the absolution of the abstraction appear by the University of Glasgow’s Academician Abrasion Group. As a affiliate of Canada’s Blow Harmonization Project and a pediatric neurologist, the committee’s Dr. Kevin Gordon will analysis the allegation and present on its impacts and furnishings on Canada Soccer’s accepted behavior at the abutting affair of the Action Anesthetic Committee currently appointed for December.”B.C. Soccer follows the CSA action on bloom and amateur safety, which recommends no players beneath six arch the ball, and up to an under-10 akin alone with a bendable or bank brawl tossed from the hands. At that point, training with a hand-tossed, failing brawl is accounted acceptable.Many B.C. communities comedy smaller-sided games, which artlessly abatement the bulk of heading. Added factors, like the actualization of pass-heavy control access and advances in brawl technology — no added heavy, abstemious covering assurance that blood-soaked up baptize like a sponge, nor artificial assurance that angry to rocks in algid acclimate — accept the BCSA adequate with their accepted standards.“I’ve apprehend all kinds of studies on heading, and the aftereffect of branch in the bold — and abnormally on kids — but I anticipate the concussions that appear out of the bold of soccer are a little confusing, because the majority is not from branch the ball, it’s from the added traumas that exist,” said B.C. Soccer admiral Kjeld Brodsgaard. “I’m not too abiding about the branch allotment of the game; it seems to be accepting abhorrent for a lot of it, breadth I anticipate it has a abate … role than we anticipate it does.“At this point, we’re not planning on accomplishing anything. We’re absolutely befitting on eye on the analysis and what it shows, but it’s a little conflicting. We feel that we’ve minimized the opportunities for concussions actuality acquired by branch at those lower age groups.”But the recommendations alpha and stop with those who are best responsible: the coaches. There are good, bad, the old-school and the new coaches. Their alone standards and practices can alter widely.Dom Butcher, who won a civic appellation as a goalkeeper with the University of Victoria in 1996, has been apprenticeship adolescence for the accomplished 27 years. A Civic B akin certified drillmaster who’s now the abstruse administrator with the Juan De Fuca Soccer Association, Butcher wrote a cardboard advantaged “To Arch or Not to Head” for his master’s amount in apprenticeship studies.He advocates akin headers at assertive adolescence levels, as he does with his daughter’s under-12 team, alike if it isn’t action yet.“Obviously, the CSA’s actual attitude has been affirmation based and the bright affirmation has not been there; there is an alien blah area,” said the Liverpool-born Butcher.“That said, from the contempo analysis I’ve looked at, there are absolutely accident factors with heading. Alike at the pre-concussion level, accepted headers can account brief changes in academician function. What abiding aftereffect do these accept on the academician and its function? We don’t absolutely apperceive but it can’t be good. Knowing this, and accustomed that the Civic Apprenticeship Certifications Program’s (NCCP) Aureate Aphorism is ‘do no harm,’ a basic access to branch should be applied. As coaches, we accept a albatross to actualize the NCCP’s aureate rule. Can we bluntness alive by that if we are accomplishing headers with our players?”

Soccer Ball Size Breakdown: Soccer Ball Sizes 9, 9, 9, And 9 .. | soccer ball sizes for age groups Brain bloom has exploded assimilate the alertness of the sports apple as able afterwards able has succumbed to CTE or added acoustic disorders already their arena careers accept ended, but there are still holdouts. Nicole Setterlund, left, goes arch to arch with a affiliate of the Canadian Olympic women’s aggregation during a 2012 bold at South Surrey Athletic Park. Les Bazso / PNG A absolute example: the austere affairs about Setterlund’s fourth concussion, an absolutely accidental injury.“One of my coaches was aggravating to prove a point … and he had me arch anesthetic assurance over and over again,” she said of training in her youth.“He was appealing belittling, and would scream a lot. And I assumption we weren’t allowance the brawl appropriately (and he) accused us all of actuality afraid to arch the ball, which wasn’t the case; we were aloof s**t that day. He had anybody arch one anesthetic ball, and afresh me … over and over again.”That adventure was one acumen she has backward complex with the game, accurately on the apprenticeship side. She’s an abettor drillmaster with the UBC Thunderbirds women’s team, alive with Jessie Symons — accordingly her drillmaster aback she was arena for the Under-12 bigoted team.“The mentality of coaches with accouchement is so important. There’s a big aberration auspicious a adolescent to go into a adamantine tackle, and it’s addition to arch bead kicks,” she said. “A big tackle, what’s activity to happen? They adeptness get a bang on their knee, maybe they’re activity to cycle their ankle. That’s aloof auspicious them to be brave. Auspicious big headers in areas it’s not necessary, it’s not good.“(Soccer) is my blessed place. I absolutely adulation it … but I additionally feel a bit of an obligation. I feel like there are a lot of a**holes who are a allotment the action that accept the adeptness to ruin it for players. Whatever akin you’re at, I adulation to be that actuality who … absolutely supports the girls. I anticipate that’s what action is declared to be.“My acumen for actuality actuality goes above my arch injuries. It goes added appear I appetite bodies to be accomplished by supportive, awesome, absolute people, instead of a**holes.”[email protected]/TheRealJJAdamsCLICK HERE to address a typo. Is there added to this story? We’d like to apprehend from you about this or any added belief you anticipate we should apperceive about. Email [email protected].

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5 Productivity Hacks to Bring Content Creation From Failing to Flying High

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/_-M0ewKtg8Q/ <img width=”600″ height=”360″ src=”http://ift.tt/2EHBeBb; class=”attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image” alt=”Hot Air Balloons” srcset=”http://ift.tt/2GfDhJP 600w, http://ift.tt/2o7ODbp 300w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” /> <img class=”aligncenter wp-image-23815 size-full” src=”http://ift.tt/2EHBeBb; alt=”Hot Air Balloons” width=”600″ height=”360″ /> Let’s just get this out of the way: I don’t know anything about hacking. I’ve never hacked anything in my life, unless you’re describing my golf swing, or you count using a <a href=”http://ift.tt/2o2msv9; target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Game Genie</a> to cheat at Sega Genesis back in the early ‘90s. In general, I find terms like “life hacks” and “growth hacking” to be… well, hackneyed. But you know what? 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Powerpuff Girls 2016 - “Oh! Daisy!”

Written by: Haley Mancini

Written & Storyboarded by: Leticia Abreu Silva, John Martinez

Directed by: Nick Jennings, Bob Boyle

Shallow HAL.

This episode will continue Bubbles’ trait of computer programming. I'm honestly surprised they even kept this going for so long, since usually they depict Bubbles as this silly blonde that can't spell. So far, Bubbles has programmed:

A game that was super popular, at least among the students of Townsville Elementary. Also, she made some sort of machine that can send people to the internet with only tinfoil. Apparently, that's coding?

A robotic, 3D printed clone of herself that is perfect in every way except for security, and yet not important for her to even shed a tear when it got destroyed.

The third one that is going to be in this episode may not be as impressive as #2, but it's up there.

The episode starts out with Bubbles hanging out with the other participants of the school's coding club, including Barry. Maybe they were convinced he was this breakout character, considering how many times he appears in this reboot. He probably could be if he had a personality beyond "he wears an Illuminati shirt and yet never seems to talk about it". At least he has a name; I don't think the other two even have that.

Generic Girl: How many programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Bubbles: What?

Generic Girl: None, it's a hardware issue.

Barry laughs so hard that milk comes out of his nose, and they consider that just as funny as that joke. Suddenly, Buttercup barges into the door, and thinks this is some sort of fun times when she was supposed to be doing homework. It turns out, she was doing homework, and she gets to show off something she made to show off her true coding prowess.

...a robot assistant named Daisy. See, this flower's name a subtle reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey, something this reboot will not try to take advantage of in every minute of this character's existence.

Buttercup continues to accuse Bubbles of wrongdoing, possibly as a attempt to finally get Bubbles in trouble! Silly Buttercup, Bubbles can cause an entire zoo to cause mayhem around Townsville, and she'll still get off scot-free. She then tells Bubbles that she's going to be in trouble for putting this assistant all around the house. It's not like they're going to absolutely adore this thing.

They absolutely adore this thing! Blossom loves it because it reprograms other devices, as Blossom praises the device for reprogramming the Broomba to clean more efficiently. No, it didn't also give her a haircut, as much as Edna Mode would have appreciated it, that's just another case of the disappearing ponytail trick.

As for Sitcom Dad's reasoning. It scheduled the DVR to record all of the Sitcom Dad's favorite shows, like Sciencefeld! They managed to come up with a title for their Seinfeld parody, but do they do anything with it? Well, one thing: they reference the bass line used in its theme song.

That's really it.

Bubbles: Yeah, he's a scheduling wizard!

Oh, no, please don't say that word! It might attract...

Ah, too late. Schedulebot shows up to express his discontent with being replaced, and the Professor decides to completely ignore him by saying that this is the best robot ever. In one episode, he seemed to care more about Schedulebot's well being than the Powerpuff Girls, but now that this flower exists, he may as well not even exist to good ol' Sitcom Dad! This starts a subplot that nobody will care about, because it's a Schedulebot plot.

Of course, Buttercup can't be happy that her sister managed to make several robots that can make turkey dinner. The closest we get to an actual good reason is that he can't stop combing her hair, and the robot pronounces her name as "Bootercup", which the other think is just as much of a laugh riot as hardware issues and milk squirting out of people's noses.

A few minutes after midnight, Buttercup wakes up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. As she walks out, Daisy tells her not to forget to wash her hands. Then, not to forget to use soap. Then, not to use the guest towels. The absolute worst of them all, it dares to comb Buttercup's hair again! That seems to be a coding error; wouldn't Buttercup. Whatever the case, it does its job: annoying Buttercup.

Buttercup: (messes up own hair) Why don't I mess with your hair?!

Daisy: If you go to the main control room in the lab, you'll see that I have no hair, Bootercup.

Daisy also manages to get Buttercup to the lab to continue the plot, as there was no reason for him to even talk about the main control room.

It's a constant mention from me whenever this coding aspect of her character comes up: being a coding wizard would be extremely difficult if you cannot spell. Turns out, Bubbles' programming language of choice is something more akin to Scratch, a building block language that even the Reboot Puffs got involved in at one point. I guess that kind of explains that.

Buttercup decides to go through this code to change a few things, like turning off the alarm, lowering his moral percentage to -40%, and turning off his conscience. Buttercup does say she thought this word was "con science", but she already turned down the morals, and she clearly knew what she was doing then!

8.25 hours later, the girls wake up, and the windows suddenly shut with huge metal doors. Bubbles tries to fix everything by telling Daisy to open the windows. Everyone stand up and recite the line you're probably thinking he's going to say to that.

Daisy: I'm afraid I can't do that for you, Bubbles.

Okay, it's slightly different than the line from the movie, but anyone can get it. I would not be surprised if they took more inspiration from the Futurama episode that parodied it. At least they're not ripping off the original Powerpuff Girls this time; closest episode I can think of is Coupe D'etat.

Bubbles tries to go into the living room, only to be attacked by the Broomba. The Powerpuff Girls are truly unstoppable, unless there's glitter, markers, Roombas, ordinary rope, a dinosaur shouting at them, or rat tails. Who can possibly stop this robotic vacuum cleaner? Clearly it has to be the rascally...

...pink princess with an eye laser? Blossom then takes off her ribbon, ties it around her head, and tells her sisters to go into the hallway so she can finish the job. It's actually a genius plan from Blossom, as this gives a reason for her to be off-screen while she beats up the Broomba. As we all know, the Reboot Puffs can't fight anything on screen and win.

Throughout this episode, Blossom is the one that is resorting to violence and acting like an 80's action hero. This just seems way out of character for her, but I'm glad to have an episode that has a Reboot Puff other than Buttercup save her sisters.

They do have to explain what the Professor is doing during all of this, because there's no way he should be so oblivious to all of this. Turns out, he's stuck in the shower.

Daisy: Now lather.

Professor: Okay!

Daisy: Now rinse.

Professor: Okay!

Huh, a robot trapping a human in an infinite loop. One would think he would eventually use his brain to find out what's going on, but that brain would be very inconvenient to the plot, so this lather/rinse loop takes him out of the vast majority of the episode.

It turns out, Daisy is able to reprogram all of the devices in the Powerpuff household to rampage against them, including machines that simply shouldn’t be able to fight them, like the L-Cube! They decide to sneak around the house to avoid getting caught. Unfortunately, Bubbles just could not help it.

Bubbles: (farts in Buttercup’s face)

That all important character trait of having a flatulence problem shows up again, because why not? It seems like the only consistent character trait Bubbles has; whether she’s a maroon or a coding genius, farting is a free action for her. At least there’s somewhat of a point to this, as this allows Buttercup to walk backwards into the aforementioned L-Cube to get captured.

Blossom ends up saving her by using her eye lasers again. Buttercup’s not too happy, because the L-Cube was destroyed.

Blossom: Do you think this is a game?

Buttercup: Uh, yeah, that’s exactly what it was.

…ha.

Suddenly, Schedulebot manages to open the door, coming in with full Rambo gear. Guess he was busy getting all of that while he was locked out of the house. How did he get in the house, anyway? It would have made a lot more sense if he used that chainsaw to do it, as he doesn't seem to use it at all.

Granted, that's not the only weapon he brought: he also brought some grenades. Maybe he'll use them to sacrifice himself to save our girls from all of those evil house appliances, shouting to the girls to remember him...

...and that what actually happens! Finally, Schedulebot is destroyed! Though, so are a lot of household appliances that might not be cheap to replace, but they are never paid any mind. Speaking of never paying anything any mind, Blossom, in a rare bit of her not acting as a macho hero in this episode, she says that Schedulebot probably be fine. Yeah, I'm sure he will. They never explained how he got into the door, why not not explain how he survived this?

When they go into the lab, Daisy tells the girls that he has evolved. And...that's it. Not, "I evolved, and I'm going to take over the world", or "I evolved, and I'm going to make all gum taste like black licorice", or anything else. Sure, there's some vines growing out of what seems like a hole in the ground, but they just kind of stop any potential for a god-like computer here.

Blossom tells the girls that they must go "into the breach", as they slowly fly towards the computer monitor, and they instantly teleport into the computer world. Even Bubbles seems to be confused by this. No special equipment made out of tin toil or anything, Blossom just says "once again into the breach", flies up to the computer monster, and...

...boom, they're in a place that proves that the Virtual Boy would be just as eye searing if they went with green instead of red. It's possible that Daisy did this with his "evolved powers", but there's not much that indicates that this is against the Reboot Puff's will, and that's the only way this would have happened.

Another more likely guess is that it may have wanted to do this because he wanted to kill the Powerpuff Girls in the digital world. Daisy does find out that they sneaked in here, and hears all about Bubbles' plan to repair the code. He even says the most unexpected line, I completely lie.

Daisy: I can't let you do that, Bubbles.

Also technically not the line from the movie, even if it's how a lot of people remembered it. After saying this, the cutesy flower turns into a googly-eyed plant monster. This gives us a real on-screen monster fight that doesn't end with just a random zap of Blossom's eyes.

While Blossom is dealing with the giant plant, Buttercup, under the guidance of the coding wizard, has to reverse the mistakes she made the last night. This actually affects the fight scene, as this code wrangling continuously makes the monster weaker and stronger as Blossom tries to fight it. For example, she accidentally gives it missiles, which ends up firing at Blossom...to no effect? If only I could say the reboot was getting tired of the Monster Punch, Girls Down scenes.

Eventually, they find this star piece, which looked like any other piece until Buttercup picked it up. The same thing happens with the missile piece, actually. I have a feeling they intended to have all of these pieces have different images on them, but they forgot to actually draw them. Once she gets it onto the top, we see a huge flash of light.

Suddenly, pancakes. Yeah, everything just reverted back to normal, with Daisy making delicious flapjacks. Even better for Buttercup, Daisy even messes up Buttercup's hair without care and learned to pronounce her name correctly! Buttercup gets everything she wanted, and that means everything is alright.

Everything is peaceful, the Professor got the best shower of his life, and we have a robot buddy that is so useful, it would be just too incredible to see in future episodes. What can possibly bring this plot back to the status quo? Someone using a line I didn't expect to hear in a TV-Y7-FV show.

Schedulebot: Ha, 🚚🚚 you! (repeatedly bashes Daisy with a baseball bat)

According to the closed captions, he's saying "got you", but that was not what I heard. And I thought "damn it, Utonium" was good! Aside from that, I do question the perspective of this shot, which makes him look absolutely gigantic. Maybe he has the ability to absorb grenade explosions, see, no explanation for how he survived the grenade, or maybe it's just bad animation. Surely, it can not be the latter!

After Daisy gets its head batted in, we hear a funky bass line as the episode immediately cuts to black. I guess they realized that Sciencefeld joke never really had any kind of conclusion or point! I guess since Seinfeld was a show about nothing, Sciencefeld ups the ante by being literally nothing! How fitting.

Does the title fit?

The only thing the title reminds me of is Super Mario Land. But yes, it's a robot named Daisy, and it does things that could make one go "oh." It's just barely above the "name of the character" titles.

How does it stack up?

I get how the idea for this episode could lead to something interesting, but it never quite goes anywhere good. There are some okay ideas, especially at the end, but this is one of the "meh" episodes for me. Oh, well.

Next, the Powerpuff Girls eat ice cream. No, it’s not one of my gags, they really eat ice cream.

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No Podium de hoje começaremos um Top 3 onde vamos relembrar os 3 melhores jogos de velho oeste de todos os tempos, começando com Gun Smoke, um clássico da Capcom lançado originalmente para os fliperamas nos anos 80.

Gun Smoke

Gun Smoke é um jogo de velho oeste da Capcom lançado oficialmente para os fliperamas em 1985, o jogo era um scrolling shooter, aqueles jogos de tiro em que apertamos um mesmo botão repetidamente para ir atirando enquanto a tela vai subindo e cada vez mais inimigos vão descendo, estilo muito conhecido por seus jogos de avião ou nave como o saudoso River Raid do mais saudoso ainda Atari.

Jogabilidade

Como todo jogo do estilo scrolling shooter, Gun Smoke era bem difícil e mesmo assim não deixava de ter uma jogabilidade extremamente simples e divertida, os inimigos apareciam e você tinha que atirar neles enquanto desviava dos tiros que eles disparavam, no meio do caminho tinham alguns barris, ao atirar neles você encontrava algumas coisas legais, como itens de cura, armas novas e até mesmo um cavalo.

Nas maquinas de fliperama o jogo tinha uma alavanca e três botões, a alavanca servia para mover o personagem, enquanto os botões serviam para atirar pra frente, o da esquerda atirava para a diagonal esquerda, o da direita atirava para a diagonal direita e o do meio atirava reto.

Enredo mais manjado que cantada de pedreiro

O enredo de Gun Smoke segue a já manjada fórmula usada pela maioria dos filmes de bang bang, um grupo famoso de bandidos matam o Sheriff, tomam a cidade, e começam a tocar o terror nos moradores até que um belo dia surgi um forasteiro que acaba com os bandidos salvando a cidade e ficando com a recompensa no processo.

A primeira fase de Gun Smoke

Veredicto

Gun Smoke era divertido, simples e difícil. foi um sucesso, chegou a ser lançado para o NES (Nintendinho) e depois relançado para diversos consoles nas diversas coletâneas de jogos de fliperamas lançadas ao longo dos anos pela Capcom.

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Gun Smoke é um jogo da Capcom lançado para os fliperamas em 1985, era bem difícil e tinha uma jogabilidade extremamente simples e divertida, o enredo segue a manjada fórmula usada nos filmes de bang bang, bandidos tomam a cidade, um forasteiro acaba com eles e fica com a recompensa, o jogo foi um sucesso, chegou a ser lançado para o NES (Nintendinho) e depois relançado para diversos consoles.

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Flooding at noon, Wednesday December 30th at WWT Soccer Park. 42+ feet, expected to reach 44 ft.

Via the National Weather Service, at 24 feet the Anheuser-Busch Soccer Park flood will begin. That level is expected to be reached later tonight (Sunday) and as the list below notes, Highway 141 at I-44 follows. That is expected to happen Monday, with moderate flooding already observed just East. With an expected crest between 38-40 feet, water would reach halfway up the bleachers at Soccer Park (fully covered in the photo above).

Flood Forecast for Valley Park on April 30, 2017

Watching the Meramec River Basin, the river has reached near record levels in Rolla and Steelville and as they say, ‘it rolls downhill’. In the meantime, the STLFC and SLSG Staff were hard at work preparing the facility for the coming flood.

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STLFC GM Jeremy Alumbaugh (leaning) and Pres. Pat Barry during Flood preparations

Equipment moved to higher ground

Meramec River at I-44

Moving Containers

At 27.5 feet, the northbound lanes of Highway 141 at I-44 will be closed near this height. At 28.7 feet, the southbound lanes of Highway 141 at I-44 will be closed near this height. At 37.8 feet, MODOT must take preventative action to keep I-44 lanes open west of Highway 141. At 38.8 feet, Interstate 44 is closed.

During the December 2015 flood, I-44 highway was closed from Bowles Avenue in Valley Park west to Missouri Route 109 exit in Eureka.

Below, the Flood levels 16 months ago when scenes like the one at the top of this post were seen – actual and forecast two days prior that did not foresee the record levels reached.

December 30, 2015 flood level

December 28, 2015 flood levels & forecast

No statement has been released by Saint Louis FC regarding the likely impact on their Home Game scheduled for next Saturday, May 6 against the Rochester Rhinos (and Tomas Gomez from Webster Groves and AJ Cochran’s SLSG Academy teammate). I can share that parents I talked to Saturday at the Soccer Park shared that they were told this weekend’s Academy games were likely the last home games of the season. There were to be home games May 13-14 and May 26. What happens for these games as well as the Club’s full calendar that includes SLYSA games remains to be seen.

St. Louis Soccer Park Flood Scenario’s Via the National Weather Service, at 24 feet the Anheuser-Busch Soccer Park flood will begin. That level is expected to be reached later tonight (Sunday) and as the list below notes, Highway 141 at I-44 follows.

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Powerpuff Girls 2016 - “Bucketboy!”

Written by: Haley Mancini

Written & Storyboarded by: Benjamin P. Carow, Caitlin Vanarsdale

Directed by: Nick Jennings, Bob Boyle

Oh, bucket.

The episode begins with Barry serving up some bakery items from his own recipes, one of the traits he managed to keep between Can't Buy Love and this episode. Unfortunately, that appeared to be his only trait!

Mayor: I'm a-twitter for these fritters!

Barry: Thanks, whoever you are!

This is as close as we get to Barry's potential "beware the Illuminati" character, as he would be the person most likely to see the Mayor as a body double. More likely than not, and judging by how this character acts in the rest of the episode, this is just a "Barry is silly" joke.

Suddenly, a monster named Gothra shows up to grab that silly boy. The Powerpuff Girls just as suddenly show up to tell him to stop bugging their friend. Before he could even tell his side of the story, unless he's one of those mythical non-talking animals, these bug-eyed freaks rush in to swat this bug-eyed giant bug out of the sky. I wince for the inevitable scene that seems to follow such scenes...

But, in a surprise twist, we actually do get a psychedelic slideshow beatdown! A punch in the face, a kick in the eye, and then a rotating image of Gothra zooming across a shot of Townsville. They must have been playing some more of those overly violent robot fighting games; it's far from their usual "stay in one place and/or assume he's a good monster" strategy. This fight must turn out to be a bad thing.

Well, kind of. Not that grateful about being saved, Barry sadly states that he wants to be a hero just like the Powerpuff Girls, and not just the useless Barry that can't even protect his gingerbread cookies. They give him a similar speech to the one they gave Bubbles in Memory Lane of Pain, except this is a lot more deserved, as Barry is just an ordinary boy. An ordinary boy with a Korean ninja mom, but they do not really talk about that anymore.

They let Barry go, thinking that their message about how he could be a "Super Barry" will not go misinterpreted. The next day at the cafeteria, Barry barges through the doors with a new identity, something he desperately needed.

Indeed, he took the identity of Quailman from Doug, complete with him wearing his underwear over his one-piece suit, and a towel for a cape! No, it's just SuperBarry. It's a wonder why he decided to wear a mask if he's just going to use his real name anyway. As he makes a feeble attempt to cartwheel across the room only to fall flat on his face, the Puffs realize calling him Super Barry was not a good idea.

Blossom tries immediately to talk some sense into him, but there's already danger a foot. Yeah, that's not as catchy as "there's evil a-foot".

It's a generic bully wanting to get his generic lunch money from a generic wimpy kid who may or may not have a generic diary. This bully kind of looks like a Ren & Stimpy character, and it's a missed opportunity that he doesn't get any exaggerated reaction shots. Left with no choice, he decides to use his superpower: his fists of fury! Clearly, with the help of his Korean ninja mom, this has to be some impressive Taekwondo!

Yeah, more like Taekwandon't. As Barry aimlessly wanders around the cafeteria circling his arms, the Powerpuff Girls show up and stare at the bully angrily, their pupils filled with fire, and that alone causes the bully to run away crying. I wouldn't blame him; he couldn't have possibly known to throw crayons at them.

The kid getting bullied opens his eyes and sees Barry in his superhero costume, and assumes he was the one who "scared him away". Everyone then joins in with his cheering. Buttercup isn’t too pleased, though she does awkwardly say that even her heart melted a little when she saw that he was happy "and crud".

However, Blossom assures her that no harm could possibly be done if Barry thinks he’s a superhero. Sure, he might think he could fly, but that never seems to cross her mind. After all, sometimes humans just fly in this universe, just ask Princess. They get a call from the Mayor that a monster is attacking the city, and not just any monster.

Once again, we see the creative genius of the monster designs. After we saw a goth Mothra, we get a giant sentient garbage can that does the Can Can. Well, I can't say this garbage can is not in an appropriate show. Honestly, monsters like these make me wonder about their origin stories. Maybe Barry threw some uranium into a trash can. Wouldn't be the first time that ended up making a monster.

Before Buttercup can dent this vile beast, they hear a familiar call from the brand new superhero they accidentally made. SuperBarry tries to use his trademark Fists of Fury again, but the Can Can Man kicks his building before he could even attempt to do any contact.

Barry isn't too happy that crime fighting was so much easier with the bully than with a giant monster. Bubbles tries to calm him down by saying that he still makes great pies. Oh yeah, there's a running "joke" where Bubbles is eating pies that have been dropped on the ground from the first scene. The joke is that Bubbles is so silly, eating those rotten pies.

Blossom also tries to comfort Barry by saying what they really meant. They really didn't mean that he could be a superhero like they are. However, that hurts his feelings, which tugs at one of the Powerpuff Girls' hearts too much. Specifically...

...Buttercup's? So now Blossom’s the one that doesn’t want him to be a superhero, and Buttercup's the one that wants him to be one? This total change of character comes out of nowhere, especially since Buttercup's usually the one to put people down. Well, I guess there's one reason, and I'll get to that later.

While the Powerpuff Girls can't exactly transfer their powers by letting him eat a strand of their hair, hey, you can't prove that can't happen, Buttercup has one idea.

She puts a bucket on his head, covering his eyes. She then puts him right in front of a garbage can. See, there’s a reason why this villain had to be a garbage can: so Barry can punch a regular-sized non-dancing garbage can and believe he’s actually punching the giant one. How convenient! They then go and defeat the monster off-screen. I would assume this giant garbage can was too powerful for them to not use the "off-camera power boost".

The monster defeated, SuperBarry raises his hands in victory. I guess nobody in Townsville was watching anything but the aftermath, as they all believe this guy who was punching this garbage can defeated the terrible Can Can Man. He’s renamed Bucketboy by the citizens of Townsville, and he just rolls with it. It's heavily implied he can't get that bucket off with his fists of fury, but that doesn't stop him from continuing his pretend crimefighting.

We then see various scenes featuring our new favorite superhero fighting crime with his Bart Simpson-inspired fighting style, while the Powerpuff Girls help him out every way they can. It comes with a song that pretty much spells out the inner psyche we see later, about how he fights crime by himself. Sure, anyone could possibly see that the Powerpuff Girls are doing all the work, but as later episodes would prove, and even original episodes have proven, the people of Townsville are not too bright.

As an aside, is there even any reason why Barry has to be the superhero? They never really tie in the conspiracy theory or the baker aspect of his character to this hero, so this kid could have been any of the muggles. It could have been Jennifray, or Maylyn, or Jared Sh...okay, Barry was the perfect choice.

Speaking of perfect choice, Barry is busy signing autographs. I will admit, there is a joke that's actually funny here. A small one, but one that made me chuckle nonetheless. Not making anyone chuckle is seeing the Powerpuff Girls tired from all of that helping. One of them seems to have a slightly different outlook on this.

Yeah, I think they're trying to make ButterBarry a thing. Yes, because they had so much chemistry before! I guess they just decided that since they happened to share the same voice actress, they might as well make them love each other for this one time and, as far as I can tell, only time.

At least this subplot never becomes "Blossom sure loves that Jared" blatant or creepy, and that shouldn't even be an accomplishment. I mean, it's pretty much just because Barry never does anything on the level of "trying to kiss Bubbles on the lips as a final joke". Yes, that happened.

Speaking of Bubbles, while she's also too tired, she has another reason to spill the beans to Barry: he hasn't been making those pies, and she's still eating that one pie from weeks ago. Despite making her want to vomit, she still says it's good. Oh, that Bubbles! But wait, if those pies were so good, how come she ate it so slowly? I can't believe there's a flaw in that running joke!

They go up and confront Bucketboy, and tell them the truth. While it looks like he's just about to realize the error of his ways, they decide to completely meet our expectations, because he's now the jerk of the episode. He just thinks they're jealous of how high and mighty he is. To prove his super-heroism, he's going to do the one thing the Powerpuff Girls could never do!

We jump to Discount Jojo's lair, as he built this "build-your-own-robot" that can destroy Townsville. All he needs is a disposable brain. Okay, Discount Jojo, give in yours. You’re the one who needed that cork fork. Thankfully for him, an equally disposable brain shows up at Jojo's doorstep, as Bucketboy decided the one thing the Powerpuff Girls never did was send Discount Jojo to his doom. I'm guessing it's the most TV-Y7 way of saying he's going to kill him.

Thankfully, he never really goes anywhere with that plan, and Jojo decides this brain will do! Wait, is he going to actually cut his head open? Wow, that's actually kind of dark! Sure, Barry did have a lot of potential, but it's clear that they weren't going to do anything with it.

Nah, he’s just going to stick that body into the head part of the robot. Thankfully, it happens to be a bot that can use Bucketboy's unique fighting style. Wow, what a coincidence! I think what they tried to go with was that Barry was full of rage because his friends didn't believe he could be a superhero, but that never really comes through. For all we know, he's just brainwashed in there.

Why would Jojo even need that disposable brain aside from plot convenience? Funnily enough, there's an answer to that! As this bot is controlled by another person's brain, he can now spend his free time doing what he loves best: online shopping! We never quite figure out what he's shopping for, but the way he says "online shopping" suggests something feminine.

Speaking of feminine, the Powerpuff Girls show up to stop this menace, only to see that Barry is inside the robot! At least there's more of a point to the Monster Punch, Girls Down, as they don't want to fight this robot.The big hang-up is that Buttercup really doesn't want to hurt Barry, and neither do the other two! I mean, Barry is their friend, supposedly! It seems that the only solution is to convince Barry to not destroy the city and realize what he's really good at, possibly with an emotional plea.

Or, they can just tear off both of the robot's arms, and just grab Barry out of there. Potential difficulty averted! Of course, Buttercup is teary eyed after saving that hunk of a man.

Buttercup: Keep it together, Buttercup!

Oh, we get it already! The robot lands on Discount Jojo, but don't worry, Jojo says "I'm okay". The robot then explodes. I guess there's some comedic timing there.

Back at the Powerpuff Girls' home, Barry reveals that this whole ordeal made him realize that he could be a superhero just by baking pies. Everything turned out okay. Even Bubbles gets her happy ending by getting that fresh pie she desperately wanted. However, she felt that something was missing.

It needed some dirt. Well, at least the Bubbles rotten pie gag has a payoff. I'm sure everyone is pleased to hear that.

Does the title fit?

It's another “name of the character” episode title, though that additional exclamation point helps a little.

How does it stack up?

This episode could have went in directions that would have made it really annoying, or we could have had a good Don Quixote type of story with a fleshed out character to love and/or hate. They decided to do neither option and played it extremely safe. This is sort of a problem in itself, because this episode ended up being boring.

This episode has a similar problem to Brain Freeze, in that it is mainly one joke over and over again, and it's not funny. It's a little better, but not better enough to avoid the same rating.

Next, a brand new villain!

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Powerpuff Girls 2016 - “Buttercup Vs. Math”

Written by: Haley Mancini

Written & Storyboarded by: Jaydeep Hasrajani, Leticia Abreu Silva

Directed by: Nick Jennings, Bob Boyle

Yeah, that's the fight we all wanted to see.

The episode starts with the rascally little green princess skating across the school, racing against her best friend, Maylyn! If you don’t remember, she’s the leader of the Derbytantes, the somewhat-villains-turned-friends-of-Buttercup from Princess Buttercup. While the toyline treats them as villains to throw burgers at, in the show, they’re more of a bad influence than anything else.

Maylyn: Whoever gets to (mocking tone) math class first gets to be the baddest girl in school!

Buttercup: And the first to call Blossom a nerd?

Oh, that loving sister she is! They play up on how Maylyn and Buttercup are totally bad people who don’t care about math, and pick on other people who do. They skate across their bodies, and Buttercup even tears Barry's head off!

A paper mache Barry made for show-and-tell, that is. With this and the mermaid bit in Summer Bummer, they're really upping the fake-out civilian death scenes. After that bit of roller derby, Ms. Keane shows up to tell Buttercup that she can never step foot in her class again. After getting praise for her apparent explusion from Maylyn, Ms. Keane gives Buttercup the real reason: she tested into honors math!

Yes, the rascally little green princess that was always shown to be a problem child is an honors student in math! Blossom takes her hand, knowing fully well that, as the nerd of the Puffs, she too will join Buttercup in her honor to be among the smartest mathematicians in the school. Ms. Keane makes a small correction, subverting their and our expectations.

Ms. Keane: Sorry, Blossom, you tested into regular math. For everyone else!

Bubbles: Hey, I’m everyone else!

(small fart sound)

As far as I can tell, that wasn't another Bubbles fart gag. Maybe it represents the brainfart this twist was.

This does makes me think back to Viral Spiral, which has a similar theme with a girl getting into a STEM field one would think Blossom would be into. Quite a few people were taken aback by Bubbles being the programming genius. I assumed that they gave Bubbles the ability to program to make programming seem less like something only nerds like Blossom take a part in. Math does not get the same treatment in this episode.

Another big difference is that Buttercup isn't too happy about her newfound genius. Why should she hate being better than Blossom at something most people would think she wouldn't be? Her being seperated from her sisters? No, it's because she's worried that her roller derby friends will see her as a nerd! She reassures Maylyn that it's just a class and that she'll still be the baddest girl in school, but she doesn't buy it.

Not helping matters is that her class is filled with stereotypical nerds who chant that Buttercup is a "math queen". Not only is Buttercup being cheered on by nerds, she's being called something one regal step away from "princess". One of them does this whole bit where he calls his chewed up pencil a "mathemagical wand", which causes Buttercup to tell him to "just not". Yeah, take that, you math-loving nerds. Also, please get into math!

Originally, I thought that this episode was going to be a ripoff of Bart the Genius, and that Buttercup actually cheated her way into this class. The teacher puts up a complicated geometry problem.

Buttercup initially refuses, trying to keep her status as a bad girl, causing the rest of the students to start randomly shouting out numbers like this is a game of Numberwang. After everyone else gets into a frenzy, Buttercup off-modelly screams out the correct answer: 5. Not a lucky guess, either; she did it all in her head. Not an answer that would work in a real world that expects shown work, but they still do the "math queen" chant anyway.

So no, not Bart the Genius. It's Buttercup the Suddenly-Out-Of-Character Actual Genius. Even in the show, Buttercup is disgusted by that, though for different reasons.

At the dinner table, Bubbles and Professor keep the chant going, to the annoyance of Buttercup. To my surprise, Buttercup brings up Bubbles being a "computer geek". Bubbles takes out her notes and attempts to explain how computer geeks and mathmaticians are different, until Buttercup eye lasers them in what seems like a rare occurence of her using a power they once said was exclusive to her. Maybe they couldn't find a way past the fact that most Computer Science degrees require higher math as well.

Meanwhile, Blossom desperately studies to try to gain back her title as the Puff's "math queen". Of course, in a way that makes Blossom look level-headed in this situation.

Blossom: There must have been a mistake! Ask me anything! ANYTHING!

Bubbles: What’s 2 + 2?

Mutant Hair Beast Blossom: FOUR, THE ANSWER IS FOUR!

Blossom is made out to be a pinhead because she's studying. I mean, Blossom could have done the right thing and just suddenly know everything like Buttercup! This starts a subplot, as she spends the rest of the episode reading math books.

While the Professor is driving the Puffs to school, Buttercup tries her best excuses to get out of this math class. She complains that her hair is too messy, and she can't see the whiteboard! The Professor gets an idea, much to Buttercup's chagrin.

It doesn’t work out, as the Professor helps her eyesight with glasses, and combs back her hair, turning her into another accessory for potential dress-up dolls.

Not helping matters is when four of the Derbytantes show up to see Buttercup’s new image. Buttercup wants to be accepted by these bad influences, but the bad influences don’t want to be friends with a nerd. At this point, they made their decision.

Maylyn: Whoever gets to lunch first gets to be the baddest girl in school! ...and call Buttercup a nerd!

Buttercup gets trashed by people she considered friends, and she still considers them friends. Buttercup angrily throws her math book in the garbage, vowing to never do well at math again. Barry then shows up to throw his uranium he brought to school in the garbage, the mixture turning the entire school into graph paper. The closest this episode gets to making sense!

It also spawns an evil Isoceles triangle named Isosceles! He wants to bring order to the universe by turning everyone, from The Mayor, to puppies, to even Bubbles into numbers for his massive equation! Blossom decides to put her studying to the test and takes a look at Isosceles' huge math problem. She looks at all the variables, uses all of her smarts, and...

...she gets the wrong answer. The monster even turns her into a 0, as if this is some sort of karmic revenge for her heinous crime of studying. That’s pretty much the end of the Blossom subplot; Blossom studies so hard and yet she's a zero in the end. It's sad to see my favorite by default get the shaft, but maybe not too sad. She was kind of a jerk.

After that, this episode becomes yet another tally to the board of “times Buttercup had to save her damsel-in-distress sisters”. It’s fine for the lesson learner to have to save the day by herself, and Buttercup being the rascally little green princess, she tends to be one even with lessons she’s already learned, like "don't succumb to peer pressure".

It takes take her a little while to figure out how to deal with this situation. Her first plan is to crack this equation with her fists! Silly Buttercup, that trick never works! At this point, the Puffs should just stop attempting to end fights prematurely, because everyone knows what's going to happen next. The question isn't even about if Buttercup is able to succeed, but how badly she will fail.

In this case, very badly. It’s not only a Monster Punch, Girls Down, but a Monster Punch, Girl Bruised, too! I wanted to see more people getting bruised in this action-comedy show that's a reboot to an action-comedy show that had villains getting bruised seemingly once an episode, but I don't think this is what I thought.

As violence wasn’t the answer, Buttercup has no choice but to show off her math skills. Buttercup puts on her math crown, and prepares to...

...“nurd 0ut”! I was going to point out that they mispelled nerd, but nurd is an actual alternate spelling. Why they spelt out with a 0? Maybe they just thought they had to throw a number in there because math. For Buttercup, Isosceles shoots his arms out with various math problems for Buttercup to solve. Gotta say, Isosceles is giving Buttercup an easier time than Blossom, who had this rediculously large equation to solve.

Buttercup: Time to solve for x!

I may not be a math king, or even a math jester, but you can't! There's no equals sign! x could be any number, and the fraction would still be valid! This was probably supposed be some sort of quip before an action scene, but considering this problem and the answer they give for it, the quip should have been:

Buttercup: Prepare to be simplified!

It's just as cheesy, but I think that's what they were going for.

With each math problem, she draws up the answer with her “mathemagical wand”. She doesn't call it that, as she does have her limits. This seems to be their attempt to make math more fitting for Buttercup's character, as she swings her pencil to throw the numbers as projectiles.

This battle of math is finished off with a pi grenade, the school goes back to normal, and the untransformed students start raining from the roof. After saving the day, everyone cheers Buttercup. Even Blossom got over her jealousy, accepting her fate as the non-"math queen".

Buttercup: I guess I’m good at math and punching!

Yeah, how did punching go again?

Oh yeah, like that.

Despite this, Buttercup gets a new nickname: "Mathlete". Buttercup doesn't seem to hate it as much, probably because there's nothing regal and/or feminine about it. Ultimately, Buttercup learns it’s okay to be good at math, even if she wants to be a bad girl. Speaking of which...

The Derbytantes show up, not to end Buttercup's friendship that they don't deserve, but reveal that they were only bullying math nerds because they’re not good at math. They instantly become good again so that Buttercup can be their tutor. See, that bully was bullying you for having glasses because they want glasses. I don't buy it.

The episode ends with Buttercup still in that honors math class, seperated from her sisters. Who wants to bet they'll forget about that? I'd imagine it'd be a pretty safe one.

Does the title fit?

Buttercup does, indeed, fight a giant mathematical monster. It also has a slight double meaning with Buttercup’s resistance to her status as the “math queen”. It also accurately shows that only Buttercup gets to fight anything in this episode and in most of the show.

She never really does punch numbers like the title card seems to suggest, though.

How does it stack up?

As suggested before, this episode reminded me of Viral Spiral. It shows a Powerpuff Girl getting into a STEM field, this time focusing on the M rather than the T or E. It's a little harder to make doing math look like a superheroic act than programming in fish guns, but they way they did it here is good enough. The idea was done better in Divide and Conquer, but that's not a surprise.

This episode feels far more forced than Viral Spiral. I guess they couldn't give Bubbles two STEM fields to be an expert in, and it would be too predictable for Blossom to be the math wizard, but the episode doesn't do a good job convincing me that Buttercup could be a great mathematician. To me, her battle with math looks more like Buttercup trying to reject this new character trait the writers are forcing onto her.

Your mileage may vary, but to me, this episode can go to 7734.

Next week, Blossom goes to camp! Will she get scared stupid? Find out next week!

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Powerpuff Girls 2016 - “Super Sweet 6“

Written by: Haley Mancini, Jake Goldman

Written & Storyboarded by: Julia Vickerman, Cheyenne Curtis

Directed by: Nick Jennings, Bob Boyle

Not so super.

When I first heard this episode’s title, I was thinking this was going to be the Powerpuff Girls’ Super Sweet 6. I was also dreading to see certain “best friends” that would have been on the guest list. Thankfully, that won't be the case.

The episode starts with Townsville getting invaded by UFOs in the shape of Princess's head. One of them busts through The Mayor's window, and it reveals itself to be a holographic invitation to Princess's Super Sweet 6th Birthday Party. Hmmm, a spoiled rich girl having an extragavagant birthday party. It's just like that infuriating MTV show that was cancelled almost a decade ago. How topical!

The Mayor is invited, Barry the Illuminati Kid is invited, and even the Derbytantes are invited, in their first visual appearance since Princess Buttercup. They don't have any major role in this episode; it's just to show that Princess invited everyone. She did make one tiny exception.

Princess: (yelling in a megaphone outside of the Powerpuff home's window) I've handed out all of the invitations, so if you weren't invited...BLOSSOM...then tough luck! BLOSSOM!

Princess really hates Blossom in this episode. Some have interpreted this as Princess hiding her feelings about their friendship in Poorbucks. It's later implied that Blossom is the only one that bothers her to see the light, even if she knows it's futile. I personally don't see any real connection. She still invites the other two Powerpuff Girls and their father figure, and they take it quite well.

Bubbles and Buttercup are super excited about the party, even after hearing that their sister wasn't invited! Buttercup even tells Blossom that she must have done something to deserve it, blaming the victim. Bubbles and Buttercup don't seem to mind that this party is being held by someone who has tried to kill them at various points of their lives, but that's par for the course for reboot Princess episodes.

The Professor, the loving father figure who is usually the one spouting the moral of the episode, is also super excited to go to the party, even without one of his "daughters". He eventually agrees that it would be wrong to leave one member of the family home, much to the annoyance of Bubbles and Buttercup. However, he has to hold back his tears as if he's forcing himself to do the right thing. This is far from his usual character, and it only gets worse from here.

Because she wasn't invited and the Professor isn't allowing Bubbles and Buttercup to go to Princess's, Blossom throws her own party to cheer them up in a B plot. It's a foregone conclusion that it's not as good as Princess's party, but the episode really exaggerates this to the point of unbelievability. She forces the others to play a tax board game. Because Blossom is a boring nerd that likes things that no other 6 year old, 16 year old, or even 26 year old does. How relatable!

Needless to say, this doesn't please the other three, especially with the promise of tanks, cotton candy, and coffee at Princess's party. Blossom tries to sweeten the deal with lukewarm water and unsalted crackers. There's no reason for this, other than to hammer it in that Blossom is a terrible person to hang out with. I get that she could be considered the least interesting of the three, as she's not as rascally or as childish as her sisters, but she shouldn't be this boring.

Blossom tries to entertain them with some television, but the first channel turns out to be a breaking news segment about the best party ever that Blossom isn't invited to! She changes the channel to a very boring educational special about slugs. The narrator of the special, who isn't the missing narrator of this show, even outright says it's boring. Blossom seems to like it, because, as mentioned before, she's a boring nerd that people are supposed to relate to.

Unfortunately for Blossom and only Blossom, the camera zooms out to reveal that this slug is at the best party ever that Blossom isn't invited to! They could have made some good jokes about random shows turning into advertisements for the party, but they give up on the running gag pretty much immediately. Blossom turns the TV off, and does a different plan.

Blossom: No more TV. We’re just going to sit here and stare at each other...

Blossom: ...LIKE A FAMILY.

What is Buttercup and Bubbles supposed to do? If they go to the party without Blossom, they'll make Blossom feel bad. If they stay with Blossom, she'll bore them to death with her now exaggerated nerd personality! It's such a dilemma when Blossom doesn't act like her usual self!

Tired of all of this, the Professor tells Blossom that he needs to get more lukewarm water, leaves, and we hear his car going full speed ahead to the party. Just a reminder that this loving father left three 6 year old girls home alone to go to another kid's party. The TV apparently turns itself on, because the viewers surely wouldn't notice a continuity error, to show the Professor drinking this super coffee at the party.

Apparently enraged by this, Buttercup goes to the party to give Professor a piece of her mind, or at least that's what she tells Blossom. Buttercup ends up joining the party too. Blossom desperately clings to Bubbles, but her being boring really got to her, so she just walks away slowly. This joke would would be slightly smirk-worthy if the Powerpuff Girls didn't walk so often in this reboot.

Blossom decides to crash the party by waiting in the gift line. I guess we were supposed to find that funny because Princess points that out. All of her pieces in place, Princess finally reveals her evil plan: to lure the Powerpuff Girls into a trap to get rid of them forever. Gee, this villain was actually a villain this whole time?! She would do this by tying them up on the giant six candle on her giant cake, which is actually a rocket that will fly them into the sun.

There's one tiny problem with this plan that isn't addressed: why did she decide to not invite one of the three superheroes she was trying to get rid of? She does say that she intentionally didn't invite Blossom because she knew she would crash the party, but what if she didn't crash the party? What if Blossom wasn't boring and Bubbles and Buttercup didn't show up either? Really, all this "plan" did is force the B plot and the supposed moral of the episode.

Blossom tries to stop this madness, but Princess uses a giant cake icer to cover her in superhero-trapping "indestructable icing"! It's nice to have them actually explain why buildings-full-of-people strength can't get out of something even with just one word, something they won't do later on. Blossom tells Princess that the Professor’s there, and he’ll save them! Because that ordinary man should save these helpless little superheroines in this feminist show, am I right? Unfortunately, the Professor is too busy burning his esophagus by pouring freshly made coffee into it.

Yeah, I think that coffee has an extra ingredient to the concoction. He even scares off Ms. Keane at one point to get more of it. It might be a nod to that one time they dated in the original, but I’d go with coincidence. By the way, take a took at the once loving father figure completely ignoring his children being in danger, something past episodes have shown that he'll put above all else.

After that scene, Blossom is now suddenly tied up to the giant 6 candle along with her sisters, because the viewers surely wouldn't notice a continuity error. Princess lights up the rocket in the tallest structure in the room, surrounded by everyone in the party. Either nobody seems to notice this attempted murder, or nobody seems to care.

What makes this even worse is that Princess didn't even do much to them. No unbreakable diamonds, no Antidote X, not even any fancy icing, just some rope. These superheroes, who have once beaten up giant monsters, was able to survive taking a dip in a volcano, and had the strength to lift entire mountain ranges, are now trapped in the same way Bluto traps Olive Oyl.

As they get launched into space, Princess announces to all the party-goers that since the Powerpuff Girls have left Earth, she’s now the strongest superhero in Townsville. She even reveals a costume similar to the Powerpuff Girls', except with sleeves for some reason. Once again, the partygoers don't care that the reasons why their town isn't a smoldering crater are gone, and they all start cheering despite not seeing Princess do anything! Eh?

We're only at the 7 minute mark, and it's unlikely that the episode will spend 4 minutes on how the Powerpuff Girls escape from this death trap. The writers find a way to extend the episode a bit, and it's not a necessarily bad way. The cake suddenly starts shaking, and robot arms and legs pop out, and a certain monkey shows up.

We got Reboot Jojo in one of his better appearances in this reboot, which really only means that he refers to himself in the third person a few times. Also, no needless drag jokes! Reboot Jojo was invited to this party, and he wants to return the favor by ruining it. Because he's a silly evil monkey with a silly hat. I say "better" relatively here, in fact, just assume that every time I say the word "better" in these reviews.

There is a very, very tiny point to Reboot Jojo’s appearance outside of filling the episode's length. One of the once cheering fans tell Princess to save them, as they apparently believed that she is a superhero because she said so. She doesn't do anything, in fact, she cares about as much about her party being ruined as the partygoers care about Princess's apparent murder. Other than that, it's just to fill time.

Meanwhile, in space, we get the seemingly once-an-episode "I'm sorry I was such a jerk" scene. Bubbles and Buttercup apologizes, which I get, and Blossom apologizes for being so jealous, which I kind of get. They play sad violin music over this, because we're supposed to be sad.

The rocket flies toward the sun, the Powerpuff Girls seemingly not able to free themselves from the rope. They don't even attempt to do anything. They could eye laser the rope, they could use their aura powers, they could probably just squeeze out of it, but no, these ultra-super-powerful are apparently helpless...or are they? Back on Earth, Reboot Jojo continues to gloat about how he ruined the party, but just before he can say his name again...

We get a surprise Reboot Jojo beatdown from the girls! Unfortunately, it’s just these still images zoomed around with a little animation on the broken glass, and they couldn't even draw the Powerpuff Girls on-model. I guess they used the money they could have used on this on that amazing coffee scene with Professor "I don't care about my children" Utonium. I'll give them this: there's no Nike swooshes this time.

Princess is not amused, and asks how they got out of the trap. I won't spoil it, but I can see the logic in the explanation. She starts shooting at the Powerpuff Girls with her giant cake icer. Blossom uses her ice breath on the nozzle, causing the icer to overinflate and explode, because pineapples, and leave Princess crying about how this is the worst birthday ever while being stuck on a wall. This is the only scene that reminds me of My Super Sweet 16, which is a good thing.

Back at home, they find fun in playing board games with Blossom again, even though they’re playing that same tax game they were criticizing a few minutes ago. I guess Bubbles and Buttercup learned that if something is unfun, just pretend you like it and everything will be all good. I try to learn that lesson every time I watch this show. Doesn't seem to stick.

...and where is Princess’ dad, anyway?

Does the title fit?

A girl does have a 6th birthday party in this episode, and she is a spoiled brat, so definitely.

How does it stack up?

The Reboot Jojo scene is alright; I like how it ends with the beatdown that should be usual and better animated. The way they say they got out of the trap isn't too bad either. That's all the postive things I can say. Bad characterization, a forced moral, and I am getting sick and tired of damsel-in-distress plots in a show that's supposed to empower mothers and daughters.

It may not be the worst party this cartoon has ever thrown, but it barely makes the bottom three. The fact that it could be chalked up to the lack of magical twerking pandas isn't helping.

Next, Blossom gets jealous! Again! This seems to be a theme of PPG 2016 episodes, usually on the bad end of the scale. Oh, I can wait.

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