Wedgie Woman

## Plot

The episode begins with the narrator once again introducing the viewers to the city of Townsville. At most schools, the teachers try to emphasize "the three Rs", Reading, 'Riting, and 'Ritmetic. However, the Girls' teacher, Ms. Keane, is more concerned with enforcing what she called "the three Ss", which were "Sit down", "Shut your pieholes", and "STOP DRIVING ME CRAZY!" While this is unfortunate for nearly all of her students, it was especially bad for the Girls since they had a very good imagination. Sadly for the Girls, imagination was discouraged and would only give them a one-way ticket to the principal, Mr. Krupp's office.

One fine day, Ms. Keane walks into the Girls' classroom and announces she is planning on retiring at the end of the school year. She forces everyone to make happy retirement cards for her. The Girls make a them versus **Wedgie Woman** comic book instead. In the comic book, the Girls are stopped by spray starch, which makes their underwear stiff and uncomfortable, and so they lose their powers until they get some fabric softener from some passing kids. When Ms. Keane finds the comic the Girls made, she becomes furious and sends them to the principal's office. Buttercup protests that all they did was use their imaginations, but Ms. Keane reminds them that using their imagination is no longer allowed in this school.

Once inside the office with all their things, Ms. Anthrope, the school secretary, tells them that Mr. Krupp is on the phone and orders them to copy the "Friday Memo" for her and makes the Girls run some errands by letting them pass out "Friday Memo" (a weekly newsletter that shows the events of the upcoming week) to the entire school while she goes out to lunch. Buttercup moans and Ms. Anthrope tells them to deal with it. Before that, they made their own Friday Memo by using Ms. Anthrope's computer (since it was still on) to change a few events. They begin handing out copies of this memo when Mr. Krupp sees them, but they are able to avoid any suspicions without saying that Ms. Anthrope told them to give out the memos. The Girls then trick Mr. Krupp into signing the card claiming they are going to give it to Ms. Keane. Mr. Krupp sees nothing wrong there and writes "Signed Mr. Krupp" on the inside of the card.

Later on, when Mr. Krupp learns about them changing the upcoming weekly events on the Friday Memo, changing the letters on the sign and their comic book that they made about Ms. Keane, he puts them in detention. They defiantly say they won't give Ms. Keane her card. Mr. Krupp steals the card and says he'll give it to her personally. The Girls secretly smile at how effective their use of reverse psychology was.

Meanwhile, Ms. Keane's retirement party gets off to a bad start and only gets worse. She makes the whole class sing a song about her and later eat chunky tofu ice cream (by which time it has melted as she was preoccupied screaming at the kids for singing out of tune). She then receives the cards that the children made for her and several are torn to pieces (Ms. Keane asked the students to draw a butterfly on their cards; some of the students accidentally drew polka dots on their butterflies and one boy drew a smiling sun on his card, resulting in him having to stand in the corner). Mr. Krupp gives Ms. Keane the card, which reads "Your one hot mama!" on the front and inside it reads "Will you marry me? Signed, Mr. Krupp." The other teachers assume that Ms. Keane agrees, and on Saturday, the wedding is to be held in the school auditorium. For the 5 days before the wedding, each day ends up with something weird going on on that day (On Monday, the students don't turn up because of a "lack of interest"; on Tuesday, they turn up in their pajamas while picking their noses; on Wednesday, the students wear expired egg sandwiches on their heads and mustaches drawn on their faces in permanent marker; on Thursday, the students engage in a food fight while the football team lay waste to the teacher's lounge; on Friday, the students turn up for their class photos dressed as bees). Mr. Krupp is too shocked by the whole wedding thing to admit the truth that he doesn't want to marry her. The Girls insist that the wedding should be in their math test schedule, which is on Monday.

At the wedding, while the orchestra is playing music, the rabbi of the wedding approaches the trio and states he already heard about them and warns that he doesn't want them doing any pranks at the wedding. The Girls have made it official to him they have no tricks planned (for once). On the altar, just before they get married, Ms. Keane breaks up with Mr. Krupp, saying that despite liking all of his cruelty she couldn't marry him because he has a funny-looking nose. Mr. Krupp is angry and says he never wanted to marry her anyway; it was just a trick of the Girls'. Due to that, Ms. Keane totally goes berserk and ruins the wedding. Keane tries to attack the Girls, but they luckily escape when the cake splats on Ms. Keane.

When school restarts, Ms. Keane privately tells them that she has dropped their B's and C's to F's and G's (grade lower than an F; in Blossom's opinion, there is no such thing as a G in the grading system; see below), so they will flunk the kindergarten now. Buttercup states that's not fair, but Ms. Keane claims to get used to it as life isn't fair.

Later that afternoon, Blossom says Ms. Keane can't get away with what she did. She says they need to tell someone about this to justify this wrongdoing. Bubbles says nobody will believe them. Blossom says there is something they can do as she starts looking through the drawers and finds the 3-D Hypno-Ring. A shocked Bubbles claims she thought they threw that away, but Blossom says they only threw the instruction manual away, but she remembers how it works. They decide to use their 3-D Hypno-Ring to hypnotize Ms. Keane into changing their grades back to normal. Bubbles reminds Blossom and Buttercup they fooled around with it last time, but Blossom notes this time they'll be serious about it this time.

The next day, the Girls wait until the other kids have left for home at the end of the day The trio try to be safe about this when they hypnotize her, giving her instructions not to do anything weird like turn into Wedgie Woman and try to take over the world. Unfortunately, it turns out that the 3-D Hypno-Ring, when used on a woman, accidentally causes her to do the opposite of what she is hypnotized to do (as noted in a news message that interrupts the episode for a brief moment).

Ms. Keane declares herself to be Wedgie Woman and attacks the Girls in their house. Their container of super-power juice (from episode 3) accidentally lands on her head, so she now has super-powered intelligence and hair. Her hair forms into several tiny hands, which can extend great distances, which is ideal for giving someone a wedgie and holding them hostage in midair.

Wedgie Woman kidnaps the girls and uses her super-powered intelligence to build robot copies of the three Girls, The Robopuff Girls. Blossom thinks the Extra Strength Super Power Juice must have soaked into her brain. The robots are equipped with Spray Starch to take away the girls' powers. They are then sent to Jerome Horwitz Elementary School.

The robots pose as the Girls, except the three of them behave perfectly much to Mr. Krupp's dismay because he assumed the Girls were faking good behavior as a prank on the teachers. During soccer practice, Bubbles 2000 kicks the ball through the window and gets in trouble by Mr. Krupp. He is then defeated by the three robots and their spray starch. He falls from the sky before the robots hang him by the underwear onto a wooden pole. Meanwhile, the Girls were watching the action on Wedgie Woman's TV (built with a fish tank and an electric toothbrush), and manage to escape from Wedgie Woman's deathtrap.

The Wedgie Woman then gives wedgies to all the police officers in town and hangs them from traffic signs, aided by her two robots, which have expanded to gigantic size. The Chief calls for reinforcements, but Wedgie Woman's robots take care of them. The Girls are convinced the spray starch took away their powers (it actually didn't) thanks to the placebo effect (mistakenly called the placenta effect by the girls) and needs fabric softener to get their powers back. Blossom hears of a store nearby that just recently opened, but it turns out they sell anything *but* fabric softener, so the Girls must come up with a new plan.

The Girls make a comic book about how they are impervious to spray starch if they say, "We summon the power of Powerpuffworld!”. They then defeat the three robots.

At the showdown between the Girls and Wedgie Woman, Bubbles returns with the 3-D Hypno Ring. Buttercup returns with a large box. Bubbles asks what is she going to do that. Buttercup shouts to Bubbles and Blossom that she's going to get rid of this box of extra-strength spray starch. Hearing this, Wedgie Woman steals all the bottles in the box and sprays them everywhere.

When the smoke clears, everyone is bald. It turns out the box didn't contain extra-strength spray starch and that the box was actually full of hair remover. Buttercup reveals that she had used reverse psychology to get Wedgie Woman to use it. With her hair gone, Wedgie Woman can no longer harm anyone. Bubbles cries on her bald head, but Blossom tells her to relax as their hair will grow back.

The Girls then hypnotize Ms. Keane, and by using reverse *reverse* psychology (they tell her to do the opposite of everything they want her to do, like a double negative), they get her to lose her superpowers, forget everything that happened in the last few weeks, become the nicest teacher in the history of the school and bake fresh cookies for the class every day (If you look closely you can see that Ms. Keane has a wig and that the girls are wearing backward baseball caps).

The next day, Ms. Keane enters the classroom looking quite friendlier than usual. She tells the class that she has good news for them and the class cheers. However, when she tells them it's time for then has the Girls teach the kids how to make their own comic books while she passes out cookies to the class. The Girls note that since she is happier now, she will probably live longer. They also note how hypnosis is fun and helpful sometimes, but then again as we all know sometimes it isn't. In speech, a girl asks Ms. Keane if the cookies were hard to make, and Ms. Keane says they were a snap and snaps her fingers to demonstrate while Mr. Krupp is walking down the hallway.

## Trivia

* In some college grading systems, there really is a "G" grade, equivalent to -1 in the GPA calculations. In general, this is only given for extremely poor performance in class, or for academic dishonesty.
* On the back page, there is an apology targeted at whoever was forced to give themselves eleven spankings and a timeout for not following the Flip-O-Rama instructions.
* The number of Wedgie Woman's hair arms changes throughout the episode.
* Wedgie Woman's hair is similar to that of Sedusa.
* The Japanese monster movie shown on the television in the treehouse is a reference to the Gamera movies.
* There were 3 rules in the book: There was a parody of "The 3 R's" (known as The Three S's). That was Sit Down, Shut your pieholes, and STOP DRIVING ME CRAZY!.
	+ There were two rules mentioned in the Big Book O' Rules book that Mr. Krupp had. They were rule 411: Don't kick school property into space, and rule 7,734: Don't transform into big, flying Robots during afternoon recess.
* Bubbles says, "Silly Rabbi, tricks are for kids!" This is a reference to the catchphrase of the Trix TV advertisements.
* The song that Ms. Keane makes the class sing for her retirement party parodies the song "We Love You Conrad" from the musical "Bye Bye Birdie".
* Wedgie Woman's hair spells out "Wedgie Power" in sign language.
* Wedgie Woman is a parody of Wonder Woman, but she acts more like Superwoman (an evil alternate universe counterpart to Wonder Woman).
* While Wedgie Woman is building the Robopuff Girls, one of her hair arms draws a sketch of the fully-clothed Robopuff Girls that is doing the same poses as Leonardo da Vinci's drawing, Vitruvian Man.
* This episode is mentioned in an episode of .
* At the wedding, the Girls ask themselves why couldn't the wedding be during Monday's math test, despite there being no school on Monday. However, it could be possible the same test that was supposed to be done on Monday was done on one of the other four days.
* In the first comic, when the doctors rebuilt Ms. Keane, it is a spoof of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.
* Mr. Krupp is apparently Jewish, as he wears a Yarmulke during his wedding with Ms. Keane. The wedding also involves a rabbi.
* This is the first time someone else besides the Girls appears in the introduction to Flip-O-Rama chapter. This wouldn't happen again until Turbo Toilet 2000.
* Even though the Girls have been pulling pranks, causing trouble, and being disruptive in class so much, we learn that Mr. Krupp couldn't even trust them if they were to do the opposite by doing good behavior. In this case, Mr. Krupp and the staff would assume that the Girls would be faking good behavior for some kind of unknown prank. However, Mr. Krupp doesn't realize that the Girls he thought were them were actually robots