Sweet N' Sour (episode)

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**Sweet N' Sour** is the 13th episode and fifth season from The Powerpuff Girls.

## Sweet N' Sour

Episode name pun on: The animals acting "sweet" when they're really "sour".

## Cast

### Major Roles

* The Powerpuff Girls
	+ Blossom
	+ Bubbles
	+ Buttercup
* The Fluffy Bunch (first and only appearance)

### Minor Roles

* Mojo Jojo (cameo)
* Fuzzy Lumpkins (cameo)
* The Gangreen Gang (cameo)
* The Mayor of Townsville
* Professor Utonium (cameo)
* Students of Pokey Oaks Kindergarten
* Kids
* Curator
* Baby
* Mother

## About the episode

After attempting to deal with 3 deceptively cute animals committing crimes around Townsville, the girls are met with backlash from the citizens (since they think that the animals are cute), leading to them being viewed negatively for their actions. However, in the end, the cuteness of the animals ultimately leads to their demise.

## Episode's Story

The episode starts with the Powerpuff girls fighting some common villains in Townsville: Fuzzy, Mojo, the Gangreen Gang, and some robbers. They are satisfied with how much they do to protect the city. The next day, the girls get a phone call about a bank robbery and fly to the bank. However, there they meet 3 cute baby animals (with their big rainbow eye adorable) who are stealing bags of money (with the bank manager giving them as many as they want). Buttercup tries to get at them, but the animals get harmed and start crying. This causes the people at the bank to condemn Buttercup's action. The girls eventually let the animals go but Buttercup looks behind and figures that they are being deceptive. The next day, the girls get a phone call about the jewelry store being robbed. When the girls enter the store, they again see the 3 animals stealing jewelry. After receiving some criticism from the citizens, the girls take the animals to prison, but the police sets them free with a hug since they are so cute. The girls then take the pets to the mayor, but he turns against them as well, calling the girls "awful" for their actions to the pets. A week has gone by and the girls have lost fame and love amongst the citizens due to their actions; they read the news, listen to the radio (both talking about their cruelty to the animals), and see people protesting outside their house. Meanwhile, the Fluffy Bunch continue to rob Townsville "blind", as Blossom puts it.

After several days, while the girls are hopelessly waiting for a phone call, Bubbles complains and says everyone loves the Fluffy Bunch too much because they are cute. After hearing this, Blossom gets an idea and formulates a plan. While walking on the sidewalk talking about how they have fooled Townsville with their cuteness, the Fluffy Bunch get tired of being hugged, snuggled, and complemented on it, proceeding to leave the town. When they see a place looking like a bank, the bunch go inside to rob it. But they are shocked when they see the Pokey Oaks students, who started hugging, kissing them, and taking them outside to play with them. The Fluffy Bunch are end up trapped in the crowd of kids; meanwhile, the "bank" is actually revealed to be Pokey Oaks Kindergarten in disguise. The kids carrying the animals outside to play them in pain. The episode ends with Blossom saying "If you cant beat them, love them" implying that the girls placed the Fluffy Bunch at the Pokey Oaks Kindergarten as their punishment for their crimes. In the outro, the narrator laments the day being saved thanks to the Powerpuff Girls, ending the episode.

## Gallery

The plushies of a dog plush, a cat plush, and a bunny plush lying in floor.
## Trivia

* This is the second episode to have an animal that looks cute but is actually evil. The first was the White Kitty in "Cat Man Do."
* The Fluffy Bunch are looks similar to the Sanrio Company's Jewelpet because their body and their eyes are the same color in this episode. They can be based on Ruby (as Cuddly Bunny), Garnet (as Fluffy Kitty) and Sapphie (as Puppy Wuppy).
* Each member of the Fluffy Bunch is voiced by the girls' voice actresses. The voice of Cuddly Bunny's mimicing Bubbles's voice as Buttercup and Puppy Wuppy's mimicing Buttercup's voice as Bubbles.
* Before The Fluffy Bunch is first introduced, Bubbles is shown, playing with her stuffed animals. In the shot where Blossom gets a call about a bank robbery *(which later turns out to be caused by The Fluffy Bunch)* only three of Bubbles' toys are visible. These three toys resemble a dog, a cat, and a rabbit, all of which happened to be the three animal species, in The Fluffy Bunch.
	+ During the scene where the girls fly them to jail, each Fluffy Bunch member being carried by one of the girls correspond to their voice actor; Blossom with Fluffy Kitty, Bubbles with Cuddly Bunny, and Buttercup with Puppy Wuppy. Except Cuddly Bunny was played by Buttercup's voice actor and Puppy Wuppy was play by Bubbles' voice actor.
	+ This is the 3rd time the girls become pariahs, 1st being in *The Powerpuff Girls Movie* where they unintentionally wreck the town and the second being "Tough Love" where HIM hypnotizes the citizens. In this one, the citizens, affected by the Fluffy Bunch's cuteness, stop the girls from detaining the Fluffy Bunch. These behaviors apart from citizens are different than forgetting the PPGs, compared to "Major Competition".
	+ Cuddly Bunny was once referred to as a male though she's actually female, this happened after Buttercup grabbed her.
	+ It's another episode where the narrator only talked at the beginning and ending, at the ending he said "Too bad the day was saved by the Powerpuff girls because they were so cute, furry, snug-gable, and hug-able, hmm", implying that he was against the girls as well.
	+ This episode is disliked by the majority of viewers due to the behavior of the citizens of Townsville towards the girls (despite the latter trying to do the right action) and how everybody accept the PPG's lacked common sense.
* This is ranked as a worst episode.

* There is a similar episode from [adult swim's] Space Ghost to Coast called Baffler Meal where the Aqua Teens made their debut. Also, it was made their debut but in a prototype apperance to them. According to the different version of the Aqua Teens, they look like a debut of The Fluffy Bunch to them by Space Ghost.

## Episode Errors

* During the bank scene, Puppy Wuppy's ears are white, instead of black.
* At the end of the during of the scene, Fluffy Kitty's paw marks are missing, when she was get hug.
* During the where the girls fly them to jail, Cuddly Bunny's eyes are getting sad, when tells Bubbles to let the Fluffy Bunch down.

## Notes

* This episode and "Silent Treatment" are the first episodes produced in 2004. They are also the only episodes of the fifth season to be produced in 2004. Every other episode of the season was produced the previous year, in 2003.

## References

1. ↑ https://powerpuffgirls.fandom.com/wiki/Sweet\_%27N\_Sour#Synopsis
2. ↑ https://pi-la.tumblr.com/post/183918548214
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p05pKmpgxc
4. ↑ https://powerpuffgirls.fandom.com/wiki/Sweet\_%27N\_Sour#Plot
5. ↑ https://powerpuffgirls.fandom.com/wiki/Sweet\_%27N\_Sour#Trivia
6. ↑ https://terribletvshows.miraheze.org/wiki/Sweet\_%27N\_Sour\_(The\_Powerpuff\_Girls\_(Original)
7. ↑ https://powerpuffgirls.fandom.com/wiki/Sweet\_%27N\_Sour#Errors
8. ↑ https://powerpuffgirls.fandom.com/wiki/Sweet\_%27N\_Sour#Production\_Notes
9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJzUYlihSwA