Fridays Talkback: "The Powerpuff Girls" (7/30)

[CookieS]

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7:30 PM & 11:00 PM (et/pt)



Tonight we see "West in Pieces"

[wrenchien]

so this is townsville of the ages ago, huh?

ohh my, the mayor's granddad is nutty. so's the great-greatr granddad of mojo jojo, too.

where have i seen that bald dude before?

short bad guy entrance, huh!?! LOL at the 1st bank EVER. yeh.

lines for the robbers, huh!!? heh heh.

burrito is funny. why haven't i had much of them for a long time?

no guns on tv!?? i wonder when that happened.

and the ppg are created , again? via some primitive means.

steamypuff girls!?!? coal powered steam engine mechas, NIICE. wild design, too.. i guess that kinda does fit the times they're suddenly alive in.

wow.. those green peeps look familiar. i wonder if they will have kids someday?
naked mayor's dad, whoa.. like granddad , like son?

a nice, dramatic setup, like every western should have. very much so... slow moving, but remember we're not talking like 130 years later with monsters and stuff.. and things did move much slower. like the telegraph chat rooms who kept typing reams of ugly pictures where indians who hacked the lines, sent printed posts in 1's and 0's criticized the cowboys and used printed numbers instead of letters to post their threats of scalpings and mass bans, like '3l33t' and '0wn3d'.. and how the cowboys retaliated by sending messages with repeated mentions of the word 'plague' and 'buy mah mule' and 'see mah gal in the saloon' over and over in return.. but i digress. heh, i kill me sometimes.

wow, ancient steam mechas don't really fare well against bananas. lucky for the power of duct tape! just invented, too. was this before super powers were invented? or lasers? least they're keeping up with the times.

nicest comeback ever. ooh, i think nudist runs in mayor's family.

gang verde!?! eheeh. steamy puff gals.

sampo, i hope you got screenshots, we'll be needing some in our present day.

and the day.. of like thousands yet to come.. is saved.

such a nice episode. too bad it didn't have the modern powerpuff girls in it or the modern mojo jojo or even a giant monster or a volcano in it, but still.. i'm sure they would have seemed out of place in this rather unique episode which i doubt will be forgotten. ever. i hope you taped this one. and see it often whenever it reairs.. this might have been just one of the best of them...

way, way 'past' perfect,

wrenchien

[Bubblegum Girl]

I really like the desgins of Mojo the Kid and the Steampuff Girls.

[CookieS]

First thing I noticed......OLD INTRODUCTION. This episode is "new" yet it has the same visuals as the old seasons (smaller PPG eyes, tradition non-digital animation). What's up with that? Is this some sort of unfinished left over that didn't make the show?

As least we know the PPG's will NOT work in the Samurai Jack format. Suspenseful draw-out battles are boring, and this just topped it as far as the worst episode to date in my mind. Even the season 6 sitcom-ish plots at least had a little laughs. This was just plain drudge!

I like comedic retellings, but at all points, this episode did a poor job of spoofing itself in another era. The "steam power girls" or something like that was about the only humorous one-liner in there. Mojo wasn't funny, neither way the Major/dentish/carpenter. Just please, if you ever have the urge to have a "lost episode", try to lose this one because that's what it deserves.

[Mandarker]

The episode was quite better than last week, but not one of their best. An average of C+ for me.
What REALLY got me is that they got away with the saying "What in the Sam Hell..." without an enraged soccer mom poised to lawsuit them.

Could this mean a break out of the censorship shell of fear for our cartoons?
I wish. :)

[Anthonynotes]

The episode was quite better than last week, but not one of their best. An average of C+ for me.
What REALLY got me is that they got away with the saying "What in the Sam Hell..." without an enraged soccer mom poised to lawsuit them.

Could this mean a break out of the censorship shell of fear for our cartoons?
I wish. :)

The saying's "Sam Hill", not "Hell".

Thus, the TV-Y7-level of dialogue is saved... :-)

-B.

[N310DA]

Here's a prime example of a good idea that was poorly executed. I personally think that a western episode would've been a good idea, but this episode was poorly written IMO. The girls were barely in it at all (they didn't show up until 10 minutes into the show!), it wasn't that funny, and to top it all off, it was a half-hour episode!

CN really needs to put Craig McCraken back in charge of the show.

[rmarti3926]

I noticed the "no guns on T.V." line.

Riiight, then how come CN got shows like Justice League, Looney Tunes, Gundam SEED and Cowboy Bebop?

(Meant it as lighthearted sarcasm)

On the side note, the early seasons of PPG got police officers with their guns drawn. This makes PPG the only cartoon in the Fridays block that they are allowed to have guns. The "No guns on T.V." line is somehow IMHO makes this a PPG double standard.

[Mandarker]

The saying's "Sam Hill", not "Hell".


Whoops, my bad. Funny thing is that when I watched it with Closed Captioning on, it was spelled out 'Hell'.

Looks like someone at the company is trying to rebel. ;)