A Very Special Blossom (The Powerpuff Girls, 1998)

"A Very Special Blossom" is an episode of The Powerpuff Girls from season two.

Plot
After a big battle, Blossom discovers the perfect (and otherwise impossibly priced) Father’s Day gift for the Professor among the rubble, leading to feelings of guilt and suspicion of theft from Bubbles and Buttercup. When the Professor gets arrested, Blossom realizes she must confess after failing to convince them that Mojo did the stealing.

Why It's Not Special

 * 1) Instead of doing what's right, Blossom flat out steals golf clubs to give to her dad for Father’s Day. She even lied that she just found the clubs, making her sisters very concerned. This seems out of character for Blossom.
 * 2) Likewise, after Blossom presented the golf clubs to Professor Utonium, he didn’t even ask her how she got them. He was just too filled with happiness to care and didn’t even bother to eat the breakfast Bubbles and Buttercup made for him.
 * 3) Bubbles and Buttercup are no better, as they get angry at Blossom for stealing the clubs instead of just helping her with giving the clubs back to their rightful owner.
 * 4) Because of Blossom’s actions, the Professor gets arrested. After Blossom receives a call from him in jail, she tries to pin the blame onto Mojo, when he actually didn’t do it and was just celebrating Father’s Day like the girls, so the blame would be taken off of her.
 * 5) Blossom even tried to deny the truth in front of the others inside the jail, and that lead to her fighting with the girls for a brief moment.
 * 6) Bad ending: Blossom is found guilty under the law and is sentenced to 200 hours of community service. The Day is Saved gag has the Narrator say that only two of the girls saved the day, Bubbles and Buttercup fly away disappointed in Blossom, and the jail cage locks her away.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) This episode has a good start. The girls recap their earlier gifts to the Professor, to try to make their own golf clubs and come up with ways to raise money, stop Mojo’s rampage, and help clean up the town.
 * 2) There are a couple of funny moments in the episode, like The Mayor of Townsville freaking out over $2000, which led to him screaming that sounded inhuman.
 * 3) The episode does try to show that stealing is wrong, although it is not well executed. Additionally, after the girls pin her down, Blossom does confess to stealing the golf clubs, and the Professor understands and apologizes to her for putting pressure on her, which is heartwarming. Blossom also learns her lesson at the end.
 * 4) *Depending on your view, Blossom does get a fair punishment in the ending. While it would be too harsh for a normal kid, Blossom is a superhero kid, so it can be justified.

Trivia

 * Along with "Daylight Savings", this is the last episode of the series to air during the 1990s.