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* UngratefulBitch: After Miss Keane recovers from her FaintInShock, the girls ask their teacher if she's okay. She responds by yelling at them and giving them a TimeOut.

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* UngratefulBitch: After Miss Keane recovers from her FaintInShock, the girls concernedly ask their teacher if she's okay. She responds by yelling at them and giving them a TimeOut.
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* UngratefulBitch: After Miss Keane recovers from her FaintInShock, the girls ask their teacher if she's okay. She responds by yelling at them and giving them a TimeOut.
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* InnocentSwearing: The girls after overhearing the professor using a swear word.

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* InnocentSwearing: The girls after overhearing the professor using a swear word.word and start saying it whenever they can. Whenever one of the adults punishes them for doing this, the girls ask them what they did, only to get the same response; "You know very well what you did." This is despite the fact that the girls genuinely had no idea of what they did wrong.


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* ThePermanentRecord: Discussed; when the girls are sent to the time-out corner for swearing, Blossom worries that it'll go on her permanent record.


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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: While the girls have to do a time-out, the hotline rings. Bubbles reminds Blossom and Buttercup that they're in time-out and Ms. Keane says that they have to stay and think about what they've done, but Buttercup wastes no time in answering the hotline.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: At the end of the episode, the Mayor buys the destructo ray, having mistaken it for a snow cone machine. When he tests it out, it turns out that it really was a snow cone machine.



* DoorToDoorEpisode: The girls sell cookies from door to door

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* DoorToDoorEpisode: The At one point, the girls sell cookies from door to doordoor to raise money for the destructo ray. Meanwhile, the Gangreen Gang comes across another set of girl scouts and shakes them down for both their money and their cookies.
* GamblingRuinsLives: To raise the money for the destructo ray, Bubbles enters her pet rabbit in a pet race, which has a $50.00. entrance fee. When the rabbit loses, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Blossom and Buttercup berate Bubbles for this]], saying now they're back to square one.



* HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet: The girls’ first act when trying to raise money.

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* HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet: The girls’ girls' first act when trying to raise money is by flying an old lady over traffic until they reach the other side. After the old lady pays them a quarter for their deed, the Gangreen Gang shake her down for the rest of her money.
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* ShaggyDogStory: It turns out that it never mattered whether the Powerpuffs or the Gangreen Gang bought the laser ray, since it was just a snow cone machine.
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* TheUnintelligible: the monster talks like this, though it’s strongly implied that he is actually a SirSwearsALot.

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* TheUnintelligible: the monster talks like this, though it’s strongly implied that he is actually a SirSwearsALot. (Most of what he says sounds like "-ing" words. For instance, if you listen closely to the monster's words just before the Professor scolds the girls, it sounds an awful lot like he's saying "ripping, ropping [sic], smashing, snoozing".)
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'''Production code:''' PPG-513

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'''Production code:''' PPG-513
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* BigNo: The girls, upon being told by the Professor what that word actually means.



* EyeTwitch: Ms. Keane does this when the girls swear in class.



* InnocentSwearing: The girls after overhearing the professor using a swear word.

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* InnocentSwearing: The EyeTwitch: Ms. Keane does this when the girls after overhearing the professor using a swear word. in class.


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* IgnoredAesop: The girls learn they should never say that word again, only for Buttercup to absentmindedly shout it at the monster at the last moment. The close out shows her suffering the SoapPunishment again.
* InnocentSwearing: The girls after overhearing the professor using a swear word.


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After being told what the word means, the girls are regretful and embarrassed that they kept saying it all day.


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* RealMenWearPink: The Professor was stuck in traffic because he was on his way to a manicure appointment.


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* TemptingFate: Stuck in traffic, the Professor sees the girls in action and muses that they're always so well-behaved and model citizens. Then he hears what word they've been using lately.


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* WhatTheHellHero: The Professor scolds the girls for using that bad word. Of course, being told they learned it from him makes him more sheepish about it.


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* BigWhat: The girls and Gangreen Gang when Mojo says he just sold the giant laser.
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'''Original air date:''' 4/2/2004 ''(produced in 2003)''

'''Production code:''' PPG-513
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* {{Fainting}}: Ms. Keane faints in shock when hearing the girls swear.

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* {{Fainting}}: FaintInShock: Ms. Keane faints in shock when hearing she hears the girls swear. swear.
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* DarkhorseVictory: Nether the Girls nor the Gangreen Gang get to buy the device. The Mayor gets it instead.
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'''Bang for Your Buck''': The girls and the Ganggreen Gang (who want more recognition) compete to raise enough money to buy a giant laser from Mojo Jojo.

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'''Bang for Your Buck''': The girls and the Ganggreen Gangreen Gang (who want more recognition) compete to raise enough money to buy a giant laser from Mojo Jojo.



* SoapPunishment: Mrs. Bellum does this to the girls off screen after they swear in front of the Mayor (who had them come over to his office to open his pickle jar, again). Later, the girls themselves do this to the Potty Mouth monster.
* SoundEffectBleep: Many, for everytime the girls use the bad word.

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* SoapPunishment: Mrs.Ms. Bellum does this to the girls off screen after they swear in front of the Mayor (who had them come over to his office to open his pickle jar, again). Later, the girls themselves do this to the Potty Mouth monster.
* SoundEffectBleep: Many, for everytime every time the girls use the bad word.



* BigBallOfViolence: the girls enter a rabbit in a race for pets, but all the pets (save a goldfish) just end up fighting.

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* BigBallOfViolence: the The girls enter a rabbit in a race for pets, but all the pets (save a goldfish) just end up fighting.



* {{MacGuffin}}: Mojo’s giant destructo ray cannon, which the girls and the Gangregen Gang end up competing over.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: the Gangrene Gange actually beats the girls to Mojo with the money to buy the destructo ray, but Big Billy ruins it for them at the last moment by wasting 5 dollars on a teddy bear.

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* {{MacGuffin}}: Mojo’s giant destructo ray cannon, which the girls and the Gangregen Gangreen Gang end up competing over.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: the Gangrene Gange The Gangreen Gang actually beats the girls to Mojo with the money to buy the destructo ray, destructo-ray, but Big Billy ruins it for them at the last moment by wasting 5 dollars on a teddy bear.



* WhamShot: Two near the end of the episode. First, the Mayor buys the gun that the Gangrene Gang and Girls have been fighting over. And second, it turns out that the cannon isn’t some doomsday device after all but just a harmless snow cone machine.

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* WhamShot: Two near the end of the episode. First, the Mayor buys the gun that the Gangrene Gangreen Gang and Girls have been fighting over. And second, it turns out that the cannon isn’t some doomsday device after all but just a harmless snow cone machine.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Professor Utonium finally sets the record straight and explains to the girls what the swear means. They are reasonably shocked about it.
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* SwearWordPlot: The whole plot of the episode centers around the girls overhearing the professor using a swear word, and then start using it themselves since they don't know it's a bad word.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Two banks robbers, two thugs, two bikers, and a prison inmate with "delicate ears" REALLY DO NOT like the Girls swearing.


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* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: The recurring old woman returns. She gets rescued by Buttercup but then hits her with her purse and chases after her after Buttercup curses to her.
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* MonsterOfTheAesop: The episode is about cursing, with a monster that is literally a potty mouth.

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* EyeTwitch: Ms. Keane does this when the girls swear in class.



* {{Fainting}}: Mrs. Keane faints in shock when hearing the girls swear.

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* {{Fainting}}: Mrs.Ms. Keane faints in shock when hearing the girls swear.

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* WhamShot: [[spoiler: two near the end of the episode. First, the Mayor buys the gun that the Gangrene Gang and Girls have been fighting over. And second, it turns out that the cannon isn’t some doomsday device after all but just a harmless snow cone machine.]]

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* WhamShot: [[spoiler: two Two near the end of the episode. First, the Mayor buys the gun that the Gangrene Gang and Girls have been fighting over. And second, it turns out that the cannon isn’t some doomsday device after all but just a harmless snow cone machine.]]machine.
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* YouKnowWhatYouDid: Ms. Keane says this word for word when the girls ask what they're being punished for.

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* YouKnowWhatYouDid: Ms. Keane says this word for word when Keane's response to the girls ask what asking why they're being punished for.punished.
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* YouKnowWhatYouDid: Ms. Keane says this word forword when the girls ask what they're being punished for.

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* YouKnowWhatYouDid: Ms. Keane says this word forword for word when the girls ask what they're being punished for.
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* YouKnowWhatYouDid: Ms. Keane says this word forword when the girls ask what they're being punished for.
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'''Curses''': Bubbles overhears a bad word from the Professor. Then her sisters start to use it, too, and cause a shocking reaction around Townsville.

'''Bang for Your Buck''': The girls and the Ganggreen Gang (who want more recognition) compete to raise enough money to buy a giant laser from Mojo Jojo.

!!Curses provides examples of:
*CookingShow: At the start of the episode, the Professor is watching one and trying to prepare the turkey dish featured in the show at the same time.
*InnocentSwearing: The girls after overhearing the professor using a swear word.
*{{Fainting}}: Mrs. Keane faints in shock when hearing the girls swear.
*OhCrap: The Professor when he hears the girls swear and realizes they got it from him.
*OneIPreparedEarlier: Professor Utonium is caught off guard by the host of the cooking show having prepared several parts of the dish in advance, since he tried to keep up with him while cooking the same dish.
*RockPaperScissors: The girls play this game to determine who has to go down to the kitchen and see if dinner is ready. Bubbles loses.
*SoapPunishment: Mrs. Bellum does this to the girls off screen after they swear in front of the Mayor (who had them come over to his office to open his pickle jar, again). Later, the girls themselves do this to the Potty Mouth monster.
*SoundEffectBleep: Many, for everytime the girls use the bad word.
*StunnedSilence: Bubbles after hearing the Professor swear.
*TimeOut: Mrs. Keane gives the girls one for swearing.
*TheUnintelligible: the monster talks like this, though it’s strongly implied that he is actually a SirSwearsALot.

!!Bang for your Buck provides examples of:
*BigBallOfViolence: the girls enter a rabbit in a race for pets, but all the pets (save a goldfish) just end up fighting.
*DisintegratorRay: An old lady buys a proton disintegrator capable of crumbling mountains from Mojo, thinking it’s a hair dryer. She proceeds to use it on herself off screen.
*DoorToDoorEpisode: The girls sell cookies from door to door
*GarageSale: Mojo Jojo holds one, which kicks off the plot.
*HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet: The girls’ first act when trying to raise money.
*IdeaBulb: Bubbles gets one when the girls try to think of a way to raise more money, but Blossom shoots down her idea before Bubbles can even tell it, causing the bulb to disappear again.
*LuminescentBlush: Mojo’s entire face turns red when a boy at his yard sale finds a rather embarrassing looking string between the stuff and asks if that too is for sale. Mojo quickly snatches it away from him.
*{{MacGuffin}}: Mojo’s giant destructo ray cannon, which the girls and the Gangregen Gang end up competing over.
*NiceJobFixingItVillain: the Gangrene Gange actually beats the girls to Mojo with the money to buy the destructo ray, but Big Billy ruins it for them at the last moment by wasting 5 dollars on a teddy bear.
*UnderdogsNeverLose: during the pet race, one of the contestants is a fish in bowl. Naturally, the fish wins.
*WhamShot: [[spoiler: two near the end of the episode. First, the Mayor buys the gun that the Gangrene Gang and Girls have been fighting over. And second, it turns out that the cannon isn’t some doomsday device after all but just a harmless snow cone machine.]]

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