The Powerpuff Girls "Lying Around the House"

Three Cartoon Network shows I've reviewed in a row. That's strange, but a good thing. Now, I'm reviewing my only favorite episode of The Powerpuff Girls, Season 5, "Lying Around the House." But first, I want to give a shout out to Shadow Streak who said that "The Secret Swapper of Doom" was a ripoff of this sort of thing, if you don't believe me, here's the link to his review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=091KbzLmr7Y

In this episode, Professor, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup completely tell lie after lie during their day off on Saturday. First there's one the Professor does where he says he has a lot of work to do, but the truth is he has an important game show to watch. And the Girls hate liver and onions, so they give it to the town's dogs. The following has Bubbles lying about drawing on the walls, Buttercup playing by herself with a dodge ball and lies about breaking the Professor's major brain award, or nerd award as Buttercup calls it, and Blossom lies about overflowing the laundry, this causes the little white lie to turn into a comical monster and wreak havoc on the house. What can they do? Watch and find the honest truth to this episode.

Before I knew about Lollygaggin;' existing before this, I thought this episode was the only instance of them spoofing Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space! It's obvious the people at Cartoon Network had a tape of the aforementioned tape. The major difference is that unlike the Fib who acts so evil is that the White Lie acts more comical and makes up lies by himself. I guess Chris Savino, the writer of this episode came up with that idea by himself. I also like how The Professor is watching a game show, what is he? Bob Pataki, because he likes Wheel of Fortune. Also, much like Lollygaggin', the Lie here is also voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson. Hmm, I'm going to go ahead and blame cartoon logic on this.

So bottom line, I don't think this is blatant copying compared to the Secret Swapper of Doom, both these shows have watched Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space! And whenever they do, they have to take notes to come up with another episode. I like the joke about the pants being on fire and hanging from a telephone wire, literal humor, folks. And also, I like the jokes on Buttercup and Professor accidentally leaving the toilet seat up, which usually causes the girls to go "What?"

Anyways, the moral is about trust.

Trust, trust, it's all about trust, break it and you'll spontaneously com bust!

Oh Zagnut, I referenced the reboot! Sorry about that!

Dexter's Laboratory - "911"

Huh, I really don't have much to say about this episode. Except, it's a pretty cute episode. All right, all right, I'll give you the basic premise, my opinions, and my final thoughts. afterwards, this will be my last review until this Thursday night. So,, let's uh, let's begin.

While watching an episode of Action Hank, Dexter gets interrupted by the Emergency Broadcast System. This results into Dexter solving emergency after emergency, but the signal doesn't stop going off. By the end of the episode, it was revealed that it was just a test, and if it was an ACTUAL emergency, the signal you would have heard would've been followed by information. The test took so long, it skipped over to the end of the Action Hank episode. Poor Dexter, okay, enough with that. Let's talk about my opinions.

What I do like about this episode is that it's cute, very cute. I especially like Dee-Dee's appearance here, She has quite an overactive imagination. For example, laughing for no reason at the TV as if it were a comedy, Dee-Dee becoming scared as if she was watching a horror movie, and even getting up to the point to where Dee-Dee is offended by someone named Jeffrey doing something to Marsha. Even Dexter thinks this is just crazy. Heck, she even thinks the ending of the test of the Emergency Broadcast System was a sad ending. She's not stupid, she's just energetic and quite ditsy, for Dexter's taste at least.

Okay, let's wrap things up with my final thoughts. Even though the beeping on the Emergency Broadcast System got annoying at times, I must say, it is pretty much a good episode. The comedy is cute, especially Dexter mistaking boy babies for girls, as well as Dee-Dee's overactive imagination. It's pretty much just a cute, cute episode.

Not much else to say except, join me Thursday night when I'll review the Johnny Bravo episode, "Cookie Crisis."

The Powerpuff Girls - "Uh Oh Dynamo"

Now, tonight, I'm going to review one of my other favorite episodes of The Powerpuff Girls, which coincidentally, is the last episode of the first season, "Uh Oh Dynamo," One day, when I was streaming with Shadow Streak, I asked him if he liked this episode and he said he did, it's one of his favorite season one episodes too. Go check out his reviews of the PPG reboot if you haven't already, if you like my stuff, you're gonna love his. Now, onto the review.

The plot of this 22 minute episode is that after an encounter with a fish balloon, desperate to protect the girls, Professor Utonium creates the Dynamic Nano-Techronic Monobot, or DYNAMO for short. While the girls are unsure on whether or not they want to use it, one Saturday in Bonsai Garden's Park, during an evening paper boat race, the Fish Balloon comes back, but only with a much bigger companion who's too big to even beat up. How will the girls stop him? Well, I'm not telling! You just have to watch and see for yourself. Because I'm going to say what I like about this episode now.

The episode as a lot of cool action scenes, especially with the big battle with that seven-eyed fish balloon. Of course, this show had a lot of violence and comedy, as the Powerpuff Girls usually do.. This kind of reminds me of that Pokemon episode, "Tentacool and Tentacruel," and yes, I will review that one at some point, also, it reminds me of the Dexter's Laboratory episode, "Last But Not Beast," where Dexter and his family use a giant battle robot to stop Badaxtra, the evil giant monster from Japan, but the major difference here is that in "Last But Not Beast," there was no cheering crowd when the monster was defeated, but here, there was. So, if I had to choose between those two episodes, I'd probably pick this one. The irony is that both Craig McCracken and Genndy Tartakovsky who worked on "Last But Not Beast," directed this episode, like all of the other episodes that Don Shank storyboarded.

The final verdict, it's an awesome episode, and it really helped put the first season to the end and gear everyone up for the second season that would air a month later in 1999. It's exciting, full of action and danger, it's funny, has great visuals, and has fun with a monster battle! If you haven't seen or heard of this, please, at least check this one episode out, it really is worth your time. But, I'll bet you to watch Dog the Mighty first before this one.

The Powerpuff Girls - "Boogie Frights"

If you've just watched Shadow Streak's recent reviews of the reboot's episodes "Professor Proofed" and "Somewhere Over the Swingset," it's a sure sign that the original series is SO much better, and you should stay away from the reboot and wait until it's canceled. Today, I'm reviewing the 5th episode of the series, "Boogie Frights." In this episode, The Boogie Man, a disco dancing monster, plans to block out the sun so that he and his monster colleagues can dance and party all night long! So, it's up to the girls to stop him and destroy the giant disco ball in space.

Even though Bubbles is the main focus of the episode, the star of the episode is none other than Buttercup! She got a lot of spotlight in the episode, explaining about loving the nightlife, and even teasing her sisters about the Boogie Man thus scaring Bubbles. The episode also has a great moral, face your fears head-on. The title of the episode is based off of Boogie Nights which is not for kids. But as you know, they sometimes make jokes that aren't for kids. As for Buttercup's character, E.G. Daily sounded like she was just having so much fun! She's adorable, how could you not be scared by it. This made me realize the original series was a much better comedy. And I give Tara Strong some credit for making Bubbles sound so scared she couldn't even fall asleep until the Professor helps the girls with their problems.

This episode is a heck of a lot of fun, check it out for yourself if you haven't seen it. You can even enjoy it...............AFTER DARK!

Did I scare you?

Oh Yeah! Cartoons - Lollygaggin'

This is my personal favorite cartoon short from the Nickelodeon anthology series, "Oh Yeah! Cartoons," where they would show three cartoons, some of which later went on the be actually shows for the network itself. In this short, Lollygaggin' says one too many lies that she becomes confronted by a drooling fib creature who is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

Lollygaggin' (voiced by Nicole Saletta) is a really relate-able character. Sometimes, in her life, she was kind of a depressed seven year old who sometimes lies even when depressed. But then, karma comes to her one night. What I can say is that this cartoon kind of reminds me of "Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space!" because, it has some similarities. Examples include some sound effects, and the fact that whenever Lollygaggin lies, the monster grows into a much bigger lie, or as TV tropes likes to call it "Make my monster grow." Obviously, Guy Vasilovich watched the video himself back in 1997 and did homework on it, had kids, and said to himself, "Hmm, maybe I can do a cartoon that's kind of related to this story, except much shorter. I'll pitch it to Fred Seibert. He'll be so happy." And that's what he did. I will say, Lollygaggin as a character is cute, but not all that cute. But it is cute when she cries. Just look at this screencap right here.

If you wanna see the cartoon for yourself, here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7nO_s3Y5z4