Cop Out (The Powerpuff Girls episode)

This article is about the Powerpuff Girls episode. For the song, see Cop Out (song).

## Episode Guide

### Next episode

Three Girls and a Monster

**Cop Out** is the 9th episode of the 6th season of The Powerpuff Girls, and the 59th episode overall.

## Plot

Lazy and incompent Townsville police officer Mike Brikowski gets fired by the police chief for slacking off on the job to eat donuts all the time, while the Powerpuff Girls handle everything and Brikowski vows revenge on the girls for his dismissal.

## Synopsis

The City of Townsville, like many cities big and small, loves its hard-working police department. However, Officer Mike Brikowski is by far the worst cop in the department—he makes no effort to stop crime or help Townsville’s citizens. Instead, he lets his fellow officers do all the work, while he sleeps and eats doughnuts, preferring the perks of his job over his sworn duty to the people of Townsville and the police motto, "To Protect And Serve".

One day, there's a bank robbery, and his partner, Perez, calls for back-up while he's asleep. The rest of the cops arrive to handle the situation. The police chief notices Brikowski sleeping and yells at him to wake up, but to no avail. Soon, the Powerpuff Girls show up and stop the robbery, then Brikowski and his partner drive away.

Brikowski wakes up to hear his partner tell him how the girls saved the day, but Brikowski says that the girls are taking all the credit from the police and also tells him to stop for his first doughnut of the day. Also, he tells his partner that he is up for a promotion any day (even though he has never done any police work), even as the girls—as he claims—steal his spotlight as he seems to be delusional enough to think that eating doughnuts are all a police officer is supposed to do.

Later at the police station, the chief calls Brikowski to his office; Brikowski walks over thinking that he is getting his promotion as his fellow cops angrily glare at him for sleeping during the robbery. Inside the chief's office, Brikowski receives a rude awakening when the grim truth hits him as the chief fires him and demands that he must leave immediately. Brikowski dismisses this as a joke, but the infuriated chief says he’s dead serious and goes on to tell Brikowski that he is the worst, most incompetent officer he has ever known. Brikowski is ordered to hand over his badge, sunglasses and doughnut, but he is allowed to keep his gun as a souvenir. Brikowski, in his delusion, believes that the chief laid him off because he has to make cutbacks thanks to the Powerpuff Girls doing so much more work, and refuses to believe that he was fired for being lazy. He destroys a picture of the girls with the chief before leaving, much to the chief's shock.

That night, he watches TV in his apartment when he sees the girls on the news and him being lazy. He snaps, goes into a rage, and throws the TV out the window, planning on getting rid of the girls once and for all.

The next day, Brikowski puts his plan into action, starting with telling the Mayor that crooks are planning on taking confiscated weapons from the police warehouse and asking what to do. The Mayor suggests calling the Powerpuff Girls, to which Brikowski agrees. The girls arrive and he tells them where the crooks are. They go in as he warns them to be careful. But his former partner, Perez, follows him and calls the chief to say that Brikowski is up to no good.

While the girls are inside, supposedly on a patrol of the police department's confiscated arms, Mike releases gas to put them to sleep. They wake up to find themselves chained to a large metal block over a tub of acid; the chains themselves were apparently from Mojo Jojo. They ask why he is doing this and the stubborn and now completely deluded Mike says that the girls and their deeds are discrediting the police. The girls say that's not true, they need the police and that they're important to Townsville. Mike ignores their reasoning, silencing them when they try to convince him to stop, and lowers them into the acid. The other cops, including the Chief and Perez, arrive to rescue the girls and arrest Brikowski for his crimes. Perez tries to stop the crane but is too late. He raises it to find out if the girls are okay; for the first time, Blossom discovers that she and her sisters are immune (for the most part) to corrosive acid, leaving little bruises and their clothes tattered a little bit, but otherwise unharmed and healthy.

While Brikowski is being taken to jail, he utters about how it's the old tale of a good cop gone bad. Blossom responds by telling him that he's not a good cop who has gone bad, but a bad cop who has gone worse, much to the narrator's amusement. The narrator then tells Brikowski that he won't have any doughnuts in jail before using the end tag, thanking the girls and also the fine upstanding men and women of the Townsville Police Department.

## Characters

### Major Roles

* The Powerpuff Girls
	+ Blossom
	+ Bubbles
	+ Buttercup
* Mike Brikowski
* Officer Perez
* Chief of Police
* Narrator

### Minor Roles

* The Mayor of Townsville
* Kevin
* Maggie
* Mojo Jojo (Mentioned)

## Trivia

* **Morals:**
	+ When you have a job, you have a responsibility.
	+ Don't blame someone for your own failures.
* Although the recurring donut store, Donut Thing doesn't make an appearance in this episode, a similarly titled, Hooters-Esque parody, called *Donut King* *does* make an appearance.
* Mike Brikowski, Officer Perez, and the Chief of Police are all voiced by the same person.
* There is a female pick-up clerk that resembled an unmasked version of Femme Fatale in this episode.
* It's revealed that the Powerpuff Girls are mostly acid-proof, though the acid does leave them with a few little bruises.
* The Chief taking away Mike's donut but allowing him to keep his gun is played for cartoonish humor; in real life, a discharged police officer would have to surrender the gun not only because it is police property, but also because it is actually illegal to possess a firearm without a legitimate license, as there is the potential to use the weapon in an unethical way.
* Brikowski's belief that superheroes take away work from law enforcement officers is addressed several years later in the show *Supergirl*, where a cop was successful in catching a robber only for said superhero to just crash through the building and subdue the target.

### Continuity

* Blossom recognizes the robot as Mojo Jojo's gift in "Birthday Bash".
* Bubbles reminisces about their rock concert in "Mime for a Change", and briefly sings some of "Love Makes The World Go Round".

### Cultural References

* Maggie sounds like Ann Gora from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Swat Kats.
* Everyone on the police force is a parody of a celebrity or historical figure, at least in voice. Mike Brikowski is a parody of both Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito, Officer Perez is a parody of Cheech Marin, and The Chief of Police is a parody of Roger Murtaugh from the Lethal Weapon movies.
* Several of the many doughnut stores, featured in this episode, are parodies of real-life restaurants.
	+ Windy's is a parody of *Wendy's*.
	+ Donut King is a parody of *Burger King.* The staff uniform there also references *Hooters.*