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"Cat Man Do" is the 19th episode of Season 1.

It was produced in 1998 and aired in the United States on January 27, 1999.

Synopsis[]

After arresting a man about to use a jewel to power a ray (and saving the jewel), Bubbles takes his cat away from the crumbling building, ultimately deciding to take it home with the Powerpuff Girls. Blossom and Bubbles like the cat, but Buttercup doesn't. Yet after taking her yo-yo away and playing with it like it's a rubber mouse, the girls fuss over it. With a consent for the cat to spend the night with the girls, Professor Utonium goes to his lab and leaves the sleeping girls. However, the cat finds its way into the Professor's lab and playfully swipes at the air.

Next morning, the girls make breakfast for the Professor on terms that the bribe will convince him to keep the cat. But to their surprise (and initially anger, unexpecting the answer), they are allowed to keep him- but they are shocked when the Professor doesn't allow Bubbles to hold the cat and runs into his lab. With him making some kind of invention under the cat's watch, the girls sadly watch and are gets out from the laboratory.

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That night, the Professor and 'White Kitty' steal exactly the same jewel as in the previous charade, called the 'Cat's Eye' jewel. When the Powerpuff Girls get news of this, they are upset.

Buttercup states 'they took care of the guy', but Bubbles thinks that the cat hypnotizes people; the man wasn't the real criminal, but the cat was (which means the cat has hypnotized the Professor). However, Buttercup shoots down the theory. At the exact moment, the evil genius cat reveals his plan: to make the household feline the ruler of the houses in a 15-mile radius. With the beam working perfectly, Townsville cats are soon dining on turkey, sleeping on beds, and allowed to scratch furniture (and even having the Mayor lick his own cat).

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The girls find the beam, to Bubbles delight, as her theory was right and she brags to her shocked sisters on this. With the Professor acting like a very angry cat, the girls are sad to know that their father is trying to scratch them until they're all roughed up (albeit under hypnosis). The Professor accidentally knocks over his 'master' and jumps off a high building roof to retrieve it, to the girls' horror. They catch him, and the Professor watches his cat disappear. Blossom punches him, which snaps him out of his trance. He thinks the whole episode was a dream, and the girls take him home, while the evil genius cat cries out from a tree, which he is stuck in.

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Trivia[]

  • The title of this episode is a pun of Kathmandu, which is the capital city of Nepal.
  • It is unknown what happened to the man who got arrested at the beginning, but it's quite possible that he got released from jail.
  • Bubbles can come up with seemingly impossible ideas that are true.
  • When the Professor builds the laser, in the shadow, you can see the jewel is already there, yet they haven't stolen it yet.
  • For most of the episode, the cat's whiskers are not seen. When Bubbles holds him, however, its whiskers turn black. Also, when we zoom in on the cat, his whiskers are black.
  • There's a door to the lab in the kitchen.
  • How can the laser directly hit the heavy lady when she's in the house?
  • The PPG's bring Professor to the sidewalk... Why are they suddenly in the middle of the road?
  • After the events of this episode, the Professor develops a deep dislike for cats. This would be mentioned in "Keen on Keane", where he tells Keane about having bad experience with one, which made him "jump off a building".
  • Bubbles mentions the cat to Robin later on in "Superfriends".
  • Although this episode was produced during 1998, the 1998-2001 animated episode outro is redrawn in which the pulsating hearts background is recreated and each part of the outro (the streaks, the exploding stars, the girls, the falling stars, and the "THE END" sign) is traced over individual cells, thus introducing the January 1999 variant of the 1998-2001 animated episode outro. This will remain until "Get Back Jojo".
  • This episode is also the first one to use both the January 1999 variant of the 1998-2001 3D Star Explosion and the January 1999 variant of the 1998-2001 Golden Star Shower.
  • This episode reunites Tara Charendoff and Mark Hamill since their work on "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island".

Production Notes[]

  • Although this episode premiered in the United States on January 27, 1999, it was actually produced in 1998 according to the credits.
    • This episode was finished in November of 1998.[1]

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