Girls Gone Mild (The Powerpuff Girls, 1998)

"Girls Gone Mild" is the twentieth episode of the fifth season of The Powerpuff Girls, which aired on January 16, 2004.

Plot
After being banned from using their powers, the girls must stop fighting crime. Day by day, the crime rates in Townsville become more immense.

Why It's Too Mild

 * 1) Stanley and Sandra Practice are cruel and idiotic, as they ban the girls from using their powers and threatened to sue Professor Utonium as they thought it might be impressionable to younger children.
 * 2) *In other words, that makes it a torture episode for the girls and The Professor respectively since the girls got banned from using their superpowers and the Practices threatened to sue the Professor.
 * 3) *The aspect of kids impersonating the girls is told to the audience instead of shown with reasonable examples.
 * 4) Many scenes in the episode are dragged for way too long, like the hijacking scene and the scene that in volves The Dooks of Dooms destroying the neighborhood
 * 5) The Dooks of Doom look like rejected Jack and the Scotsman villains as TheMysteriousMrEnter put it and serve as filler.
 * 6) Like with "Town and Out" from the third season, this episode is also very cruel towards the girls and informs the wrong message.
 * 7) Plot holes:
 * 8) *How did the villains not destroy Townsville after the girls were banned from using their powers?
 * 9) *Why would the parents of Townsville sign a petition to ban the Powerpuff Girls even though they saved their lives millions of times throughout the show?
 * 10) *Why doesn't the Powerpuff Girls outright call the cops or the Mayor that the Practices not only ban them from using their powers, but is also threatening them that they will sue Professor Utonium?
 * 11) The ending is rushed, as the Practices get away with their unforgivable actions as the Powerpuff Girls beat the Dooks of Doom.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) When Stanley and Sandra were sucked by one of the monsters, they realized the importance of superheroes, so they tore up the contract and let the girls use their superpowers at the end.
 * 2) Although Stanley and Sandra weren't valid to stop the girls from using their powers, at least they to do an important moral that you shouldn't impersonate or rather, copy everything you see (even if the moral was lazily thrown in there).
 * 3) The purpose of the episode is to mock moral guardians for their stupidity despite its poor execution.

Reception
The episode was almost unanimously panned by critics and fans who declared it as one of the worst episodes of the show. As Mr. and Mrs. Practice were declared the true villains of the episode and two of the worst characters of the show. Some fans stopped watching the show because of this episode.

Trivia

 * The episode was inspired by letters that Craig McCracken received from parents who felt that the show was teaching children that violence is appropriate as a defense.

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