Original air date: 2/9/2001 (produced in 2000)
Production code: PPG-313
Moral Decay: When Bubbles receives a dollar from the Tooth Fairy after Buttercup accidentally knocked one of her teeth out, Buttercup proceeds to knock out the teeth of numerous villains, and starts hoarding the money she receives.
Meet the Beat-Alls: Mojo Jojo, Him, Princess Morbucks, and Fuzzy Lumpkins team up as the Beat-Alls in this homage to The Beatles, and proceed to defeat the Powerpuff Girls.
Moral Decay provides examples of:
- Apologizes a Lot: Buttercup is a victim of this after knocking out Bubbles' tooth.
- Betrayal by Inaction: Blossom and Bubbles in their betrayal of Buttercup refuse to help Buttercup when they lure her into a trap where she would be beaten up by all the villains.
- Childish Tooth Gap: Bubbles gets this after losing her tooth.
- Comic-Book Time: For once averted; this is one of the rare times that the show actually provides a clue about what time period it is set in, since the dollars the Professor gives to the girls have the year 2000 stamped on it and are clearly stated to be new.
- Compressed Vice: Buttercup's greed. It's never been a trait she has been known for before or after this episode.
- Contrived Clumsiness: At first, Buttercup tries to knock more of Bubbles’ teeth out, and keeps claiming each attempt was an accident.
- The Dentist Episode: For the villains after Buttercup knocks out their teeth, then Buttercup when the villains get revenge and knock her teeth out in return.
- Disappointed in You: At the end of the episode, The Professor tells Buttercup that he can't say he's proud of her for her actions.
- Do with Him as You Will / A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Buttercup beats up villains for their teeth, then the villains do so to her in retribution.
- Enemy Mine: Blossom and Bubbles actually help all the villains that lost their teeth to Buttercup get revenge on her, in order to teach her a lesson.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Buttercup, twice. First when she realizes she can use the Tooth Fairy to get rich by getting more teeth to trade, and later (after the professor forbids her from knocking out any of her sisters’ teeth) when she realizes she can knock out the teeth of the villains they fight.
- A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Buttercup makes quite a fortune with all the teeth she collected, but in the end loses it all again to the dental bills from having her own teeth fixed.
- Get-Rich-Quick Scheme / Greed: Buttercups’ main motivation for stealing villains’ teeth.
- Hypocrite: Blossom and Bubbles abhor Buttercup's behavior, yet they are the ones who arrange for her to suffer the same way.
- Jerkass Ball: The whole Utonium family, mostly the Powerpuff Girls
- Buttercup already was a jerk, but she acts even worse than normal here. She tries to steal villains' teeth to get money, but this comes back to bite her in the ass at the very end of the episode.
- Blossom could sometimes disagree with Buttercup, but unlike other episodes, she is perfectly OK with selling her sister out to get beat up by the 'worst people of society' to "teach her a lesson."
- Bubbles as well. While Bubbles is sympathetic earlier, considering Buttercup constantly attempted to knock her teeth out, she doesn't come off any better than Blossom for the aformentioned reasons above.
- While the Professor did not participate in either of his girls' despicable actions, he never stopped them either, and when he did find out about Buttercup's crimes, he is not even seen or heard asking how she feels after the trauma she experienced.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Initially, Buttercup only knocks criminals' teeth out when they're actually committing crimes. But eventually, she decides to beat up criminals even when they aren't doing anything wrong to continue making more money.
- Karma Houdini: Unlike the example below, Blossom and Bubbles get off scot-free for their actions.
- Mojo Jojo also gets away with holding the Mayor hostage to use his phone in the episode; and unlike the other incidents where he did this, Blossom and Bubbles treat the hostage situation like it is not a problem.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Pretty debatable in this episode.
- Buttercup spends the whole episode stealing teeth from villains, but at the end those same villains go to knock her own teeth as well.
- And if that weren't enough, the Professor intends to use all of the money she swindled for the teeth she stole to pay off her dental bills.
- Lured into a Trap: Upon learning of Buttercup’s wrongdoing, Blossom and Bubbles decide to secretly help the villains set up a trap for Buttercup where they trick her into going to a museum where she would be beaten up
- Lisp: Bubbles speaks with one of these after Buttercup knocks her tooth out.
- Mundane Utility: At the start of the episode, the girls use their powers to do chores around the house, like Blossom vacuum cleaning the ceiling.
- Oh, Crap!: Buttercup thrice; first when she unintentionally knocks one of Bubbles' teeth out, then when the villains she stole teeth from go to beat the shit out of her, and finally at the very end of the episode when The Professor reveals to her that he got possession of her bag of money which he intends to use to pay off her dental bills.
- Paying in Coins: At the end of this episode, the Professor uses Buttercup's bag of Sacagawea dollars to pay off her dental bills.
- Plot Hole: Professor Utonium, the one who has been leaving money under Buttercup’s pillow for all the teeth, never questions where the teeth came from even though Buttercup leaves more teeth under her pillow than the average human being has and also left a giant fang from a kaiju under the pillow.
- Post-Treatment Lollipop: After Buttercup beats him up unwarranted for his teeth, Mojo Jojo gets one following his dental treatment, at which point he convenes with the other villains in a plot to teach her a lesson.
- The Scream: This happens to Bubbles when she loses a tooth thanks to Buttercup accidentally punching her.Buttercup: Maybe I'll be able to to save up and get that punching bag I've been eyeing. And then I can punch, bam pow! [smacks Bubbles in the face, a tooth falls out] Oops...[instant cut to the outside of the house as we hear Bubbles shrieking]
- Slasher Smile: Buttercup during her "Eureka!" Moment.
- Sanity Slippage: Buttercup has a pretty big one while trying to steal teeth from villains for profit.
- Temporarily a Villain: Buttercup with her get-rich-quick scheme.
- The Tooth Hurts: Starts with Buttercup accidentally knocking one of Bubbles’ teeth out, and evolves to her doing this to every criminal she encounters. Later, to Buttercup herself after Blossom, Bubbles and the villains work together to teach her a lesson. Even the narrator has this moment at the end of the episode.
- The Unintelligible: Mojo Jojo after having his teeth knocked out, followed by a visit to the dentist. However, it's comprehensible.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Averted. When Blossom and Bubbles learn that Buttercup had been beating people up and stealing their teeth for money, they never confront her and call her out for her actions. Instead, Blossom and Bubbles decide to betray Buttercup by luring her into a museum, having her beaten up to a pulp by the villains, refusing to help, and ratting out Buttercup’s money stash to the Professor so he would use it for Buttercup’s dental bills.
Meet the Beat-Alls provides examples of
- Abbey Road Crossing: The Beat-Alls do this early on as they walk to the National Trust.
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The Beat-Alls first meet when they attack the Powerpuff Girls at their own home, in the middle of the night.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Delivered by Bubbles to the 4 arguing villains just outside their house.
- Bloodless Carnage: The girls suffer no fatal injuries when hit by Fuzzy's rock.
- Boring, but Practical: While Mojo and Princess have access to advanced laser-technology and HIM is basically Satan, Fuzzy's contribution is just throwing a big rock at the girls. That said, it still does its job when the former three paralyze the girls, leaving the rock to finish them off.
- Borrowing the Beatles: Townsville's top four super villains — Mojo Jojo, HIM, Princess Morbucks and Fuzzy Lumpkins — all meet at the Powerpuff Girl's house by coincidence, each of them sick of losing to the girls and wanting to fight them. When they all manage to win when they work together, they team up and call themselves The Beat-Alls. Their subsequent crime spree contains several references to the Beatles' career.
- Boulder Bludgeon: While the other villains bring high-tech weapons (and in the case of HIM, magic) to fight the Girls, Fuzzy Lumpkins only has a boulder. However, he's the one who delivers the final decisive blow against the Girls by dropping it on them while they're immobilized by the other villains' attacks.
- Crazy-Prepared: With the villains teamed up, they know exactly when the girls will arrive, so whenever the girls appear to stop them, they pull a Curb-Stomp Battle and the girls are immediately outmatched. Once Mojo leaves the group however, it doesn't last long.
- Contrived Coincidence: The formation of the Beat-Alls wasn’t planned; all four villains independently from each other decided to attack the Powerpuff Girls at their house, and through sheer coincidence they all picked the same night to do so.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The girls constantly suffer this against the Beat-Alls in every encounter, so much that they stop showing up after awhile because they know they'll just lose again. Once the Beat-Alls lose Mojo though, the tide quickly turns.
- Documentary: A part of the episode is narrated as one.
- Expy: The news anchor is based on Eric Idle's narrator character from another famous Beatles homage, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash.
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: In the intro, when the four villains plan to make their move, their monologues perfectly flow into each other.
- Heroic BSoD: The girls eventually stop showing up to save the day because they know they will just lose to the Beat-Alls again. The Professor is able to lift their spirits though and they think of a plan to break up the Beat-Alls.
- Homage: To the Beatles.
- Humongous Mecha: Mojo shows up at the girls’ house in one.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
- The Professor tries to explain to the girls that the Beat-Alls are just "a rock band". Because Fuzzy attacks them with a rock.
- While carrying Mojo off to jail, Blossom tries to quote "The End", but can't remember the whole quote and just shrugs it off by saying "It's by some dumb old band."
- The Mole: Moko Jono is eventually revealed to be just a regular monkey named Michelle, who agreed to help the Powerpuff Girls break up the Beat-Alls by starting a relationship with Mojo (whom she hates since he gives monkeys a bad name).
- Musical Episode: While the whole episode isn't a musical, it does has an overdose of Beatles references.
- No-Sell: When the Beat-Alls tried to attack the girls after Mojo left, they come out completely undamaged and fine within a few seconds to show that their plan failed.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: At first, each villain was upset at the others' presence.
- The Power of Love: The girls use this against the Beat-Alls by introducing Mojo Jojo to Moko Jono. Soon, he is so smitten by her that he forgets the Beat-Alls and even leaves the group.
- Profound by Pop Song: The episode plays with this, with quotes from, of all things, songs from The Beatles throughout the episode. At the end, Blossom tries to summarize the lesson by saying:Blossom: Well, it's like the song says; The love you take is equal to... equal to... pff. Oh, who cares? It was by some dumb old band, anyway!
- Reference Overdosed: The entire episode is seven straight minutes of groan-worthy Beatles puns.
- Rousing Speech: The Professor gives the girls one after they sink into a Heroic BSoD due to constantly losing to the Beat-Alls.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: This is Mojo's reaction when he sees "Moko" is actually a regular monkey named Michelle.
- Shout-Out: A whole episode's worth of it to the Beatles. Several Beatles songs (such as "With a Little Help from My Friends" and "Eight Days a Week") and events (such as the rooftop concert) are mentioned and/or heard throughout this episode. The references include...
- HIM originally proposes the group be named the Silver Beat-Alls, alluding to what the band was called before it was simplified.
- Early on they rob a bank called the National Trust, taken from the British parks and estate management charity mentioned in the song "Happiness is a Warm Gun" off The White Album.
- The Beatles designs seen in the 1965 cartoon are beaten-up by the Beat-Alls, while their Yellow Submarine designs are seen in a quick montage as Mojo and Moko are screaming.
- Mojo in a theatre demanding that the people in the cheap seats leave, and the rest should hand over their jewelry is a parody of John Lennon telling the audience at the Royal Command Performance that "the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands, and the rest of you if you just rattle your jewelry."
- The design of "Sgt. Pepper" is based on Fred from Yellow Submarine.
- The design of the news reporter is based on Eric Idle's reporter from the Mockumentary The Rutles: All You Need is Cash, while his name ("Stuart Best") is a mix of the two most famous ex-Beatles members, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best.
- The design of the stick-up where Mojo meets Moko is based on the 1966 Yoko Ono exhibit where John first met her, ladder and all.
- Mojo and Moko staying in bed is based on a real protest John and Yoko did against the Vietnam War.
- Moko's true form, Michelle (pronounced as "mee-shell"), is named after the song of the same name; Judy also references a lyric in French that can sometimes be misheard:Judy: Someday, monkey won't play piano song. Play piano song.
- Stunned Silence: Once the Beat-Alls defeat the Powerpuff Girls for the first time they all just stare at the rock Fuzzy threw on them in silence for awhile, shocked that they actually won so easily.
- Token Human: Princess is the only human member of the Beat-Alls.
- Two Scenes, One Dialogue:Mojo: It's...
Him: ...the...
Princess: ...girls!
Fuzzy: GET' EM! - Villains Out Shopping: We actually get to see the Beat-Alls go shopping.
- Villain Team-Up: Between Mojo Jojo, Him, Princess Morbucks, and Fuzzy Lumpkins.
- Waxing Lyrical: Frequently, and all to Beatles songs.
- Widely-Spaced Jail Bars: When HIM, Princess, and Fuzzy Lumpkins are locked up, the jail bars are designed in a way that would realistically allow Princess and HIM to crawl out. Only Fuzzy, the largest, wouldn't be able to escape.
- Yoko Oh No: The Beat-Alls fall apart when Mojo starts spending time with Moko Jono, a "performance criminal."
