Original air date: 5/26/2000 (produced in 1999)
Production code: PPG-211
Twisted Sister: When the girls find themselves overworked as superheroes, they decide to create another Powerpuff Girl to help them out. Unfortunately, she doesn’t turn out the way they intended.
Cover Up: Buttercup believes her blanket gives her the strength to be a good fighter, but her sisters quickly get on her case.
Twisted Sister provides examples of:
- Bad "Bad Acting": Part of the process of creating Powerpuff Girls involves accidentally adding Chemical X to the mixture, so the girls do their best to fake it.
- Big Little Sister: Bunny is younger than the other girls, but is taller and much bulkier than them.
- Bittersweet Ending: Bordering on an outright Downer Ending. Yes, Bunny saves her sisters, defeats the criminals that were attacking them, and thus both redeems herself and proves herself a Powerpuff Girl. But then she explodes due to being unstable, and the girls can only mourn her death. Even the narrator is so emotional at this during the end shot, complete with the music becoming mournful as well.
- Closest Thing We Got: When creating Bunny, the girls can't find sugar, spice, and everything nice, so they use artificial sweetener, dirt and twigs, and take turns adding things they each believe to be nice to the concoction.
- Dark Reprise: A rather depressing version of the ending theme is heard during the end shot as the narrator is bawling over Bunny’s death.
- Dead Hat Shot: After Bunny explodes, there is No Body Left Behind. Then some of the fabric from Bunny's dress lands in front of the remaining Powerpuff Girls, much to their shock.
- Death Means Humanity: Downplayed not with the main trio, but with the narrator and the death of Bunny, the Gonk Powerpuff Girl created by Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup to lessen their workload. While the girls are a bit apprehensive of her, they call Bunny a sister from the get-go. However, the narrator treats her as little more than a monster, literally calling her one when Bunny's overly simplistic rationalizations has her setting free criminals and bad guys. Bunny's explosion after saving the girls however causes the Narrator to end the episode in tears re-recognizing her as "Powerpuff Bunny."
- Debating Names: After the Girls create Bunny, they wonder what to name her. Bunny just blabbers nonsense and Buttercup suggests calling her Braces because of her messy teeth (much to Blossom's annoyance). Bubbles suggests the name Bunny, and they all happily bounce around chanting "Bunny!".
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: When Bunny flies off to do the girls' crime-fighting duties, she sings an offbeat, off-key version of the theme song.
- Dumb Muscle: Bunny is much larger than the other girls, but very much mentally challenged.
- Family Theme Naming: Like her sisters, Bunny's name starts with a "b" and has a double consonant.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Bunny's body wobbles and holes open up around her, producing shafts of light, and she explodes.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: When Bunny is first created, we get close ups of her eyeballs, crooked rotten teeth, toe sticking out of her shoe, and hairy armpits.
- The Grotesque: Bunny again, due to the girls taking quite some liberties with the recipe.
- Heroic Fatigue: The girls are suffering from this in this episode, and it’s the reason they decide to make Bunny.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Bunny's effort to save her sisters sadly proves fatal for her as she was simply too unstable and ends up exploding moments after defeating the criminals.
- Hulk Speak: Bunny can't quite use proper syntax.
- Killed Off for Real: At the end of the episode, Bunny ends up exploding from instability, and the girls mourn her death and lament their mistreatment of her.
- Kindhearted Simpleton: Bunny mistakes police officers for villains, but she loves the other Powerpuff Girls and wants to do the right thing.
- Long List: Professor Utonium reminds the girls of all the household chores they have to do in addition to their crimefighting.
- Manly Tears: The narrator is simply inconsolable as he’s forced to sign off the episode on such a sad note.
- Motor Mouth: After the girls get home from a long day of fighting crime, Professor Utonium rattles off a list of the household chores they still have to do, repeating himself a few times in the process.
- My God, What Have I Done?: The girls are horrified to realize that Bunny exploded after saving them, realizing it was their fault that she was unstable and that they had shunned her the last time they saw her.
- Opening Shout-Out: The process of creating Bunny is basically a re-creation of the opening sequence.
- Parting-Words Regret: When the girls come to and see what's left of Bunny after she explodes, they're totally devastated because the last thing they said to her was "Bunny do bad!" for her prior incompetence.Bubbles: She was good all along. We were the ones who were bad...
- Pre-Explosion Glow: Before Bunny explodes, shafts of light shine out of her body, and said light grows to the size of the city before the view fades to white.
- Put Their Heads Together: The villains that Bunny freed do this to Bubbles and Buttercup while beating the girls up.
- Sixth Ranger: What the girls intended for Bunny to be, and what she finally becomes... just before dying.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The people on the beach don’t even look at the giant monster attacking and the girls fighting it, let alone run away from it. Guess they are pretty used to these kind of situations by now.
- Was Too Hard on Her: The girls feel bad for scolding Bunny.Blossom: Aww, do you think we were too hard on her?
(the girls are surrounded by the criminals Bunny freed)
Criminals: Not as hard as we're gonna be on you! (cue No-Holds-Barred Beatdown)
Cover Up provides examples of:
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: The three robbers that Buttercup beats up and literally throws in prison fit this tropes.
- Bowdlerisation: On CITV in the UK, the flashes that occur when Buttercup is attacked by the monster are slowed down so as to not cause seizures among epileptic viewers.
- Breather Episode: The tearjerker of previous segment is followed by this one, a lighthearted (and most hated) episode about Buttercup trying to overcome the reliance of a Security Blanket.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: Buttercup, the toughest of the girls, has a security blanket like all the other girls. But without it, she becomes an emotional wreck.Buttercup: [sobbing hysterically] WHERE'S MY BLANKET???!!!
- Call-Back: Buttercup's security blanket makes a reappearance.
- Double Standard: Buttercup is a five-year-old, meaning it's normal for someone at her age to use an item for security. At the end of the episode, Buttercup finds her blanket in the Professor's laundry basket and is ecstatic to see it, but decides to give it to the Professor after a nasty Death Glare from the other two girls. The Professor begins doing the same thing Buttercup did when she had the blanket, muttering "I am a good scientist". Blossom and Bubbles don't seem to mind when a grown man uses the blanket in this manner, but get greatly annoyed when a five year old girl has a security blanket.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Buttercup dismembers a monster with its own severed but still snapping claw.
- Hypocrite: Bubbles and Blossom make fun of Buttercup and treat her like garbage for having a security blanket, completely forgetting Bubbles has Octi, who is essentially a security object to her.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Buttercup when her blanket is missing
, courtesy of Elizabeth Daily. - Jerkass Ball: Blossom and especially Bubbles, since she has Octi, but gets on Buttercup's case for having her security blanket.
- Karma Houdini: Blossom and Bubbles get no punishment for making Buttercup give up her blanket.
- Little "No": Buttercup gives a memetic one when being attacked by the monster.
- Mechanical Monster: The girls fight one of these in this episode.
- Ocular Gushers: Buttercup cries these until a puddle is formed when her blanket gets lost.
- Placebo Effect: Blossom exploits this to give Buttercup her fighting spirit back, by handing her a blanket that looks just like her missing security blanket but is actually a fake. It works.
- Pint Sized Power House: The final monster in this episode is barely taller than the girls themselves, but still able to give them some serious trouble.
- Security Blanket: Buttercup, like all the other girls, has one. But in this episode, it is revealed that without it, she loses all her courage to fight monsters.
- Shock and Awe: Buttercup defeats a monster through electrocution.
