Bought and Scold

## Plot

Daddy Morbucks buys Townsville from the Mayor for Princess Morbucks with a room of sweets (Turkish delight to be exact), and her first act as the new Mayor is to legalize crime, putting the girls in an ethical and legal dilemma.

## Synopsis

Townsville is home to many villains such as Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, HIM, The Gangreen Gang, The Rowdyruff Boys, and Princess, but they have all been bested by The Powerpuff Girls repeatedly.

One day, the girls are at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten are in the middle of a math lesson when The Gangreen Gang burst in and start causing trouble. Soon, the girls get ready to attack them, but Ace presents to them a decree claiming that crime is now legal. Forced by this decree to let the Gang carry on, they fly to the Mayor's office to evaluate the situation, only to find that Princess Morbucks has taken over after bribing the Mayor with a room full of Turkish delight (he turned down offers as high as five trillion dollars). Morbucks remarks that, after having been turned away as a prospective Powerpuff Girl and failing to exact her revenge in destroying them, she bought the right to be mayor and made crime legal in order to spite them, as any attempt the girls make to try and stop anybody from causing crime will have them thrown in jail, putting them in a bad dilemma.

All over Townsville, the riots are present: people and businesses alike are being robbed and terrorized by its criminal element, which features newly released inmates from prison, while police and corrections protection have been deactivated by Morbucks' executive action with corruption. The Powerpuff Girls' house is robbed of nearly everything by criminals casually walking in and taking stuff per the new decree. Despite reading the decree, the professor tried to prevent this from keeping the girls from doing right, but his efforts were as futile as his attempts to keep his furniture in the house.

Later, in bed, the girls felt depressed and angered about crime being legal, as their status in the city has also been deactivated, to their dismay. When Bubbles makes a comment on the situation (saying that *they'll* have to be bad in order to follow the law), Blossom realizes there's a huge loophole in Morbucks' decree and a plan is put into action in the darkness of night.

Meanwhile, when Morbucks goes to get a glass of water, she gets robbed of everything. As soon as she gets back to her bed, she realizes what happened and starts panicking and thinking about what her father will do when he finds out. She calls the girls to her office and begs them to bring back her belongings. However, the girls remind Morbucks that she made crime legal in such a way where even if they found out who stole her stuff, they could do *nothing* about it since the robbers aren't technically breaking any laws. Morbucks, dejected, signs a new emergency decree outlawing crime once again, allowing her to send the girls to look for her stuff.

Within a short time, all villains and criminals within city limits are quickly subjected to the emergency decree. As police authority is restored and crime is outlawed, they catch every villain in town and return to Morbucks', claiming that none of them stole her stuff. As Morbucks starts to panic, Bubbles giggles to the point where Morbucks realizes that it was the girls who robbed her. She says she will have them arrested, only for the girls to point out that crime was legal when they stole her stuff, and therefore all of her stuff is now theirs, so there's nothing she can do to them (at least legally).

As Daddy Morbucks awakens to an empty home, the girls propose a trade: in exchange for Morbucks' stuff, she returns control of Townsville to the Mayor. The transaction is instantly closed as they give her the stuff back right when her father sees that the stuff is all gone. He sees Morbucks with the stuff outside and (perhaps) punishes her as she yells and cries at the girls, who have taken off.

## Trivia

* In the episode's intro, the Narrator gives each villain a description:
	+ Mojo Jojo: Accursed
	+ Fuzzy Lumpkins: Iill-conditioned
	+ HIM: Infernal
	+ The Rowdyruff Boys: Bullies
	+ Gangreen Gang: Unprincipled
	+ The Amoeba Boys: Spineless
	+ Pink Tentacles Monster: Monstrous
	+ Broccoloids: Distasteful
	+ The Kitty: Felonious
	+ Roach Coach: Gross
	+ The Boogie Man: Dark
	+ Sedusa: Naughty
	+ Abracadaver: Grave
	+ Princess Morbucks: Spoiled