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This ought to help- a partial transcript of the opening scene from 'Ploys Are Us', courtesy of the 'PPG Episode Reviews and Transcripts' website:
(The Girls close their eyes, but only for a moment. Suddenly they sit straight up in bed, their eyes looking as if they might pop out of the sockets at any moment. Pull back quickly to bring a large collection of toys into view and turn around to pan slowly across it. The first section of the pile runs heavy on games, puzzles, building toys, and educational items—just the sort of stuff that would be right up Blossom's alley. Extreme close-up of her face, panning slowly across, her eyes staring in disbelief and her jaw hanging slack. Next we see a wide range of action toys: monsters, model rockets, yo-yos, foam-dart launchers, sporting goods—this is Buttercup's territory, and the camera cuts to her, framing her face in the same manner as Blossom's. Finally, an array of stuffed animals of all makes and models is seen, everything from rabbits to oversized gorillas. A pogo stick and a huge box of crayons are included in this pile, which is ideal for Bubbles. She is framed as were her sisters and drools slightly out of the corner of her mouth.)
[Note: The following "blasts from the past" are visible among the toys: a doll in the likeness of the young woman who stopped by at the end of "Mommy Fearest"; one of the aliens that threatened Townsville at the start of "Daylight Savings"; a beast resembling the one that snorted up Buttercup at the end of "Down n' Dirty"; a MERF gun similar to that used by Blossom in "PPGBRDAE," but with a targeting scope added; the little robot that fried Bubbles during her training in "Bubblevicious"; and dolls of Puppet Pals Clem and Mitch, who appeared in "Mommy Fearest" and "Hot Air Buffoon."]
Bubbles: (hugging a stuffed pig) Piggy!
Buttercup: Cool! (putting on a catcher's mitt) A glove!
Blossom: (grabbing an electronic game) A Learn & Listen!
[Note: This is a take-off on the Speak & Spell toy that was manufactured in the early 1980s.]
Buttercup: (holding up hands, covered with green slime) Goopy Goop!
Bubbles: (holding up crayons) Crayons!
Blossom: (grabbing chemistry set) I love chemistry!
Bubbles: (holding up princess doll) A Princess Patty!
Blossom: (holding up doctor doll) A Dr. Dee Dee!
[Continuity error: This toy is marked as "Dr. Suzy" in the initial pan.]
(Now Buttercup holds up a doll of her own—a bulked-up, brush-cut woman in Army fatigues.)
Buttercup: A Beefy Betty!
Bubbles: (bouncing across the room) Pogo stiIIIIIICK!
Blossom: (jumping rope across the screen) Jump rope!
Buttercup: (working a Hula Hoop) Uncle Midriff!
(They go back and forth, trying out the named means of locomotion.)
Blossom: Tricycling!
Buttercup: Skateboarding!
Bubbles: RollerbladiIIING! (She crashes o.c.)
(Buttercup stands by a chair, which has a whoopee cushion on it. Bubbles is in front of the chair.)
Buttercup: Jokes! (Bubbles sits down; the cushion does its thing, and both look surprised.)
Blossom: (playing with jacks) Jacks!
Bubbles: (tossing a strange-looking doll over her shoulder) Junk!
(Buttercup now has on a black cape, with an upended top hat in front of her. She waves a magic wand at it and reaches inside.)
Buttercup: (pulling out a rabbit) Magic!
Blossom: (bouncing on trampoline) Jumping!
Bubbles: (popping out of stuffed-animal pile) Dolls!
Buttercup: (kicking a football) Ball!
[Note: Bubbles comes up with a Dexter doll on her line.]
(Buttercup's place kick is right on target, crashing through one of the bedroom windows. The accident jolts the girls out of their playing.)
Blossom: Whoa! Buttercup! Look what you did to the window.
Buttercup: Forget the window. What about my ball?
Bubbles: Don't worry. There's many more where that came from. (pointing o.c.) See? (Pan to a large pile of footballs)
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