Curses

Curses
General Information
Original broadcast	April 2, 2004
Details
Season	5
Episode	27
Pun	The Girls using profanity, also known as "cursing", and Mojo Jojo's (and any other non-PPG villain) constantly repeated catchphrase which he usually says when he is defeated.
Credits
Written by	Tim Parsons
Storyboarded by	Lauren Faust Craig Lewis Craig McCracken Amy Keating Rogers
Directed by	Randy Myers
Episode Guide
Previous episode	Girls Gone Mild
Next episode	Bang For Your Buck
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"Curses" is the 27th episode in the fifth season of The Powerpuff Girls and the 111th episode overall.

Plot

After Bubbles overhears a word from the Professor, she and her sisters begin to use that word, thinking that it’s good. When a giant toilet monster arrives using the same vocabulary as the Girls, they have to show the monster who’s boss.

Synopsis

After losing a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors (as always), Bubbles goes downstairs to the kitchen to see if dinner is ready, and overhears the Professor, who is watching a confusing cooking show, say a foul word in frustration. She pays no attention to Blossom or Buttercup asking her what's for dinner however and goes back to coloring. After purposely snapping a blue crayon in half, which was her favorite color, Bubbles says the word as Buttercup's block tower collapses, and then chooses the color pink for her unicorn. When asked about the word by her sisters, Bubbles thinks its a petty word. The girls enjoy the word and try it out.

The next day at school, the girls receive their quizzes and, to their surprise, the girls shout the word as the recess bell rings. Ms. Keane, shocked, puts the girls in time out during recess, until the Hotline phone rings. The girls sneak out from Pokey Oaks Kindergarten without Ms. Keane noticing and zip to the Mayor's office and ask him what the crisis is. He tells them that he can't open his pickle jar for his PB&J sandwich. The girls, angry with him, exclaim at him using the word. The Mayor, shocked, asks Ms. Bellum to come into his office to wipe the girls' mouths with soap.

Disgusted over the taste, the girls head on out of the office back to school until they hear the bank being robbed. They give the robbers what for while using the word (which even the robbers were shocked by) and bring them into the police. After school, they help out an old lady cross the street and give advice while saying the word. The old lady, shocked, slaps one of the girls for saying it. Bubbles later helps out another girl by getting her cat out of a tree. She, too, gives advice to the girl while saying the word. The girl, shocked, begins to weep. The girls think that everyone is acting weird afterward.

Just then, they hear someone using their new word. The girls discover it to be a toilet-mouthed monster, whose cursing sounds very much like Yosemite Sam’s. The girls ask it where it learned all other profanities, and it explains to them. The townspeople are shocked and cover their ears. Eventually, the girls and the monster want to fight each other because of the latter being rude.

The Professor, who is late for his manicure, overhears the girls say the word while punching the monster. Shocked and angry, he demands that the girls come down. The family goes into an explanation until Bubbles points out that she learned the word from him. Now with his anger replaced with embarrassment, the Professor informs the girls that the word is a very bad word, and apologizes to them for saying it. He whispers in their ears about what it means. The girls, shocked and embarrassed, show remorse about what they have done the entire day, then remember the monster. As a way to teach it a lesson, they grab a truckload of soap and shove it into the monster's mouth. The girls inform it that "certain words are inappropriate," especially for them, as Bubbles pointed out, and put the monster in time out. As the monster is grumbling over it, Buttercup uses the word as she tells the monster to do less talking and more thinking.

And the day is saved, though Buttercup gets her mouth washed out with soap.

Characters

• The Powerpuff Girls
  • Blossom
  • Bubbles
  • Buttercup
• Professor Utonium
• Mayor
• Ms. Keane
• Toliet-Mouthed Monster (single appearance)
• Mitch Mitchelson (final speaking appearance)
• Citizens of Townsville
• Mojo Jojo (mentioned)
• Fuzzy Lumpkins (mentioned)
• Ms. Bellum (mentioned)

Trivia/Goofs

• Moral: Be careful with what words you say around people (especially young children) present.
• When Bubbles says she is going to color her unicorn pink after purposely breaking her blue crayon, it is a picture of a leprechaun instead.
• When Ms. Keane sends the girls to the corner while releasing the other students for recess, she isn't wearing her brown pants.
• When Blossom says "Hey, Bubbles," when Bubbles first flew in their room, her shoes and stockings are gone.
• The episode's moral heavily focuses on the fact that cursing is bad, but also that use of the wrong word that happens too much can cause horrible repercussions.
• When the girls turn to the wall, the pupil of Buttercup's right eye disappears.
• Ms. Bellum, Mojo Jojo and Fuzzy Lumpkins are mentioned, but they’re not physically seen in this episode.
• The girls use a bad word in this episode and don't know what it means. In "The Powerpuff Girls Movie", the girls (Buttercup and Blossom) use the words at each other in the correct way, showing they already knew the word. (Since "The Powerpuff Girls Movie" happened first, as the first event the girls encountered.)

Production Notes

• Although this episode premiered in the United States on April 2, 2004, it was actually produced in 2003 according to the credits.
  • This episode was finished in December of 2003.