Recap / The Powerpuff Girls (S2E7): "A Very Special Blossom"/"Daylight Savings"

Original air date: 11/26/1999

Production code: PPG-207

A Very Special Blossom: After a big battle, Blossom discovers the perfect (and otherwise impossibly priced) Father's Day gift for the Professor among the rubble, and decides to steal them.

Daylight Savings: When the Girls start falling asleep in school because of their all-night crimefighting, Ms. Keane convinces the Professor that they need a 7:30 nightly curfew.

A Very Special Blossom provides examples of:

• An Aesop:
  • Stealing is wrong.
  • Lying is also wrong. Tell the truth.
  • Crime does not pay.
  • Breaking a law is vastly different from breaking a rule. Even first offenders have to be penalized.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: The Professor and the Mayor are touched by Blossom's confession. The police chief gets a bit misty-eyed, only to shout, "THE LAW IS THE LAW!"
• Bound and Gagged: Blossom does this to Mojo Jojo when she takes him to jail, trying to frame him for the theft of the golf clubs.
• Broken Pedestal: Blossom suffers this in the eyes of the professor, her sisters, and the mayor when she confesses what she did.
• Brick Joke: When Blossom asks the professor what he’s making this year, the professor answers "My favorite, liver and onions." On Father's Day, it turns out Buttercup and Bubbles made him this as breakfast. Made funnier by the professor's reaction, which makes it pretty clear he was joking when he called this 'his favorite'.
• Crime After Crime: Stealing a set of golf clubs leads to Blossom digging herself deeper by abducting and framing Mojo Jojo to cover her tracks.
• Didn't Think This Through: Blossom thought it would be a good idea to just steal the golf clubs, the expensive clubs that were displayed on the store's window. It's obvious that she didn't think that anyone (Bubbles, Buttercup, or the Professor) would ask how she was able to afford the expensive clubs when they are ridiculously high priced nor did she think that the owners of the store were going to find out that the clubs were stolen. This was what led to the Professor getting wrongfully jailed and Blossom having to do community service hours for punishment.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Mojo Jojo burns down a complete city block because the hobby store didn’t have what he wanted: parts to complete his ship-in-a-bottle. He was so brutally honest about his reason to go on a rampage he doesn't get believed by anyone.
• Downer Ending: The episode ends with Blossom having to make up for her crimes with community service.
• Dramatic Drop: The professor drops his groceries when he sees the set of golf clubs in a window display.
• Dirty Coward: Blossom was so desperate not to get in trouble for what she did that she was willing to even try blame Mojo Jojo for it.
• Easily Forgiven: After Blossom makes her full confession, the Professor understands and begs the police to give her the lightest sentence permissible. She does get off easy with only community service.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: When Blossom assaults him in his lair, Mojo is just constructing a ship in a bottle in honor of his deceased father.
• Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: After saving the day again from Mojo, The Girls ask The Mayor to pay them $2,000 to buy the special golf clubs that the Professor wanted for Father's Day. Unfortunately, The Mayor doesn't have that much money so instead they have to clean up the mess that Mojo made.
• Hypocrite:
  • Professor pulls this twice, and for that he pays the price with interest by suffering one really bad Father's Day.
    • Professor claims he doesn't expect much for Father's Day and starts chewing out materialism, but then gets very hyped up over seeing the pro Golf Club series telling the Girls how much he'd love to have them as his gift for Father's Day.
    • Professor also claimed his favorite food is liver and onions - but when Buttercup and Bubbles make it for him he utterly despises and refuses to eat it as it turns out he was lying about it being his favorite.
• Idiot Ball: Professor immediately believes that Blossom bought the Pro Excellence 2000 golf clubs without even asking how Blossom, a juvenile with no income, managed to generate the $2000 needed to "buy" them. He brushes off Buttercup's warning he should be suspicious and bluntly states, "Money is no object!"
  • To a lesser extent, The Professor tells his daughters that his favorite meal is liver and onions. When The Professor said that liver and onions are his favorite meal, it looked like he was completely serious. But when Buttercup and Bubbles make a father's day breakfast, The Professor assumes it is brownies, only to be told that it is liver and onions, to his disgust, despite the girls pointing out that this is his favorite meal. Why he said to his daughter's liver and onions were his favorite meal and not brownies is unknown.
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: The Professor in his golfing outfit, complete with an absurdly oversized hat.
• Insane Troll Logic: The police officer dismisses Mojo stole the golf clubs because "little monkeys are too stupid to play golf" despite the fact Mojo is not just a mere monkey but rather a super intelligent monkey that absorbed genetically-engineered chemicals allowing him to command robots, death rays and even drive flying ships throughout the series.
• It's All My Fault: The Professor blames himself for Blossom's theft, all because he put his value into a material object instead of his responsibilities as a parent, to the point where, unlike Bubbles and Buttercup, he didn't even question how Blossom came to obtain them and how Blossom admitted that that's what drove her to commit a crime.
• Kleptomaniac Hero: Blossom actually steals a very expensive set of golf clubs for the Professor.
• Literalist Snarking: A talking bird at the end of the episode responds, "Crime doesn't pay" to Blossom's quip of "You can say that again" to the narrator saying the former quote.
• Moment of Weakness: The Professor unintentionally puts pressure on his daughters to get him the set of limited-edition Pro Excellence 2000 series golf clubs on Father's Day. While cleaning up the aftermath of a battle with Mojo Jojo, Blossom sees the clubs through a broken window in a store, Blossom actually resorts to stealing so that she could make the Professor happy. She pays the consequences of her actions when the Professor is arrested for having a stolen item, and when she tries to frame Mojo for stealing them before she is forced to confess. She has to pay for her crime by doing community service.
• Never My Fault: It's hinted Blossom might have felt this way when she stole the clubs, as shown when she says "That's what drove me to crime!" after the Professor feels that his wanting of the clubs was what got her to steal.
• No Hero Discount: The girls try to pursue the Mayor into helping them buy the golf clubs for the professor, but he refuses once he hears they cost $2,000.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Bubbles and Buttercup deal one of these to Blossom when she tries to escape the police, and the three girls duke it out until she is overpowered and forced to confess her crime.
• Noodle Incident: While recovering from the girls asking for $2,000, the Mayor says he is not a sugar daddy.
  The Mayor: Those days are over.
• Oh, Crap!: Blossom after getting found out as the one who stole the clubs.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • The entire episode is pretty much built around this, as Blossom in a moment of weakness actually resorts to stealing so that she could make the Professor happy. Noble as her intentions might have been, it's easily the most criminal thing she's ever done, and everyone is in considerable shock at her actions.
  • Even the Narrator cannot hide his disappointment in Blossom once she flies away. He sounds absolutely disheartened as he's forced to present the seemingly impossible.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Played with, as the girls actually go through the trouble of making liver and onions, which the Professor called his "favorite" in an apparent joking manner.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Buttercup point out the holes in Blossom's Mojo story, Blossom panics and tries to fly away. The other girls have to restrain her.
• Shout-Out: The episode's name is a reference to the sitcom Blossom, which frequently used Very Special Episodes.
• Spotting the Thread: An already suspicious Buttercup realises the inconsistency when Blossom tries to claim Mojo stole the golf clubs, since Blossom earlier claimed that she'd found them.
• Suddenly Shouting: The girls ask for $2,000 for their services. The Mayor seems all right with it, but upon realizing what they just asked, he loudly screams the amount. He needs his heart medication afterwards.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Also when Blossom is finally forced to confess. The chief still forces her to face the consequences of her actions as not even the Powerpuff Girls are above the law, despite the Professor's pleas that they go easy on her.
• Temporarily a Villain: Blossom becomes this by stealing expensive golf clubs knowing that it was against the law.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Fresh off seeing the stolen clubs are a front page story, Blossom has this reaction when answering the ringing hotline. It gets worse when she learns it's the Professor calling from jail.
• Ungrateful Bastard:
  • Maybe the mayor couldn't just hand over $2,000, but one would think the city could find some way to reward the girls. Townsville is overrun by super villains, aliens, mad scientists and monsters that the girls fight off purely as volunteers. Even the ordinary crimes they stop would otherwise cost citizens thousands of dollars per week. It shouldn't be all that hard to raise a measly $2,000, although admittedly it might have helped if the girls had explained why they wanted the money.
  • Despite refusing to pay the girls anything but cookies or pocket change, the mayor still expected them to clean up Jojo's mess.
• Villains Out Shopping: Mojo was in his lair working on a model ship-in-a-bottle for Father's Day before being kidnapped by Blossom.
• Wham Episode: First off, Blossom actually commits a crime, it lands the Professor in jail, she attempts to frame Mojo and it gets her butt kicked by her angry sisters and in the end. She also gets shunned by her sisters and has to pay for her crime of contributing to society with community service.....yeah, it was one of those episodes.
• Wham Shot: Blossom stealing the clubs before flying off is definitely this.
  Narrator: Well, ladies and gentlemen, I guess there's a first time for everything.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Bubbles and Buttercup chew Blossom out for her lies and trying to frame Mojo, and everybody afterwards reminds her that crime does not pay.
• What You Are in the Dark: Blossom when she is tempted to steal the golf clubs from the burned down sport store. She imagines the professor encouraging her, prompting her to do it.

Daylight Savings provides examples of:

• Aliens Steal Cattle: Bubbles stops an alien from abducting a cow.
• An Aesop: Don't stay up too late.
  • In the villains’ and monsters’ case, know when to call it a night.
• Asleep in Class: The girls start doing this, prompting Mrs. Keane to have a word with the Professor.
• Big "NO!": The Professor unleashes one, combined with a Skyward Scream, Distant Reaction Shot and Overly Long Scream, when he reads Mrs. Keane's note inviting him to a parent-teacher conference. While that, A Horse neighs and revving up, a wave splashing on a deck, a thunderstorm, a man opening a can of soda, and a golf ball passing a hole.
• Hurricane of Puns: The Narrator makes some time-related puns in the opening scene of the episode, while later making a slew of cheesy puns as Mojo Jojo turns buildings and people into swiss cheese.
• Irony: Just as the Professor discovers that the girls have an hour to save Townsville, due to Daylight Savings Time, the girls have already fallen asleep until the Professor wakes them up.
• Loophole Abuse: The girls have to be home by 07:30 as part of their new curfew. After finally getting them to sleep and ignore the rise in crime in Townsville, Utonium sees an announcement on TV indicating a change in time. Since daylight savings was last night, all clocks have been set back an hour. Realizing he forgot to do the same, he rushes to wake the girls so they have 1 hour more to save Townsville.
• Skewed Priorities: Ironically, both the Professor and Ms. Keane are convinced that the girls going to bed on time to focus in class is more important than saving the day. Sure, they are still children, and they still need their education and sleep, but they are pretty much the only ones who can stop Mojo Jojo and other villains (who are the real problem, as they have no reason to call it a night). Both adults ignore the fact that Townsville would be left in danger if the girls aren't allowed to fight crime over the night.
• Tempting Fate: The moment the professor tries to ensure the girls that Townsville is fine, the city bursts into flames.
• Your Television Hates You: And so do the newspaper and radio. No matter how much the Professor tries to convince himself that Townsville is fine without the girls, every newspaper article he reads (along with the radio broadcast he listens to, and TV channel that he watches) shows how the city is crumbling into chaos.

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