Original air date: 8/27/2004
Production code: PPG-613
Roughing It Up: The Professor takes the girls on a camping trip to teach them to relax, but they are interrupted by Fuzzy Lumpkins and his three nephews (who're named Wuzzy, Cuzzy and Scuzzy) and not even he can keep peace.
What's the Big Idea?: Mojo makes the girls giants so that they cannot stop his crimes without causing massive collateral damage, and it is up to the Professor to save the day.
Roughing It Up provides examples of:
- Buddy Snaps First: Professor does everything he can to keep the girls from getting violent with Fuzzy and his nephews. Once Fuzzy cuts down a tree the Professor had precious memories about, he goes ballistic on Fuzzy while the girls happily play with Fuzzy's nephews.
- Camping Episode: The episode revolves around a family camping trip for both the Utoniums and the Lumpkins.
- Covered in Mud: The girls end up covered in mud thanks to Fuzzy and his nephews.
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Professor Utonium covers the girls' eyes in response to the toilet humor scene.
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Wuzzy, Cuzzy and Scuzzy tend to finish each other's sentences.
- Irony: The whole episode, the girls want to kick Fuzzy and his nephews out of the forest, but the Professor keeps stopping them. By the end of the episode, just as the Professor also gets tired of Fuzzy and allows the girls to fight, the girls become friends with Fuzzy's nephews.
- Loud of War: The Lumpkinses keep the girls up all night, both intentionally (by throwing rocks at their caravan) and unintentionally (with their banjo music).
- Make Them Rot: When Fuzzy and his nephews dive into a lake, the flowers on the shore promptly witter and die, and several dead fish float to the surface.
- Nephewism: Fuzzy is revealed to have three nephews, which were never seen before this episode.
- Rage Breaking Point: Throughout the episode, the Professor tries to remain calm and orders the girls to do the same despite all the antics of Fuzzy and his nephews. But when Fuzzy cuts down a tree that the Professor planted as a kid, he finally snaps and angrily attacks Fuzzy.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Wuzzy is capable of making outhouse toilets explode with his...um...natural gas. Later, the Lumpkinses detonate some dynamite just for fun.
- Tempting Fate: Professor Utonium describes the woods as the perfect place to relax, away from daily crime and not a care in the world, and most of all; no Bad Guys. Cue to Fuzzy and his nephews showing up at the same camping site.
- Theme Naming: Fuzzy’s nephews are named Wuzzy, Cuzzy and Scuzzy.
- Toilet Humor: When following a trail of what they believe to be a bear, the girls and the professor and up at an outhouse toilet being used by Wuzzy (it was his footprints they followed). The building then explodes due to the smell Wuzzy produces.
What's the Big Idea provides examples of:
- Destructive Saviour: The girls usually already tend to be this, but getting turned into giants turns it up to eleven, with pretty much everything the girls do resulting in massive damage to Townsville. Just like Mojo planned.
- Foreshadowing: The damage Mojo accidently does to his scale model of Townsville accurately matches the damage the giant Girls later do to the real Townsville, like getting wrapped up in power lines and accidently deflating a zeppelin.
- Make My Monster Grow: Inspired by accidentally wrecking his own model City of Townsville, Mojo decides to make the girls grow huge so that they can accidentally wreck the real City of Townsville. In the end it is seemingly reversed, only to reveal that this trope has been applied to ALL of Townsville instead.
- Ocular Gushers: Bubbles weeps massive gobs of tears after getting yelled at by Townsville citizens, which nearly drowns the townspeople.
- Scale Model Destruction: Mojo accidently destroys his own scale model of Townsville, which he was using to plan his next move. However, this gives him the idea to make the girls giant so they can no longer help anyone without endangering the city.
- Title Drop: The title of the episode is said by the girls towards Mojo, just before he makes them giant.
- What the Hell, Hero?: The giant girls get this reaction a lot from citizens due to the damage they cause.
