Fallen Arches (The Powerpuff Girls, 1998)

"Fallen Arches" is the first episode of The Powerpuff Girls from season three.

Plot
A trio of old villains return, and the girls intend to fight them, but Blossom claims that fighting their elders is the wrong way to approach the situation. She finds a possible situation: recruit the former heroes who fought against the trio. Unfortunately, the former heroes cannot agree with each other. And Blossom's solution has her sisters really disappointed.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Blossom wants to respect the elderly, so she can’t fight the bad guys that are very old, and her plan of getting the super hero elderly to fight the evil elderly ended horribly.
 * 2) The evil elderly are called the "Ministry of Pain", and having elderly people return to evil can never end well.
 * 3) The girls could have done the easiest thing to take care of the evil elderly, just arrest them and send them to jail gently since they obviously can’t fight them due to their advanced age.
 * 4) The heroic elderly returning to heroism can never end well either, especially if can’t get along with your old heroic buddy.
 * 5) Blossom’s plan, as said above, ended horribly with all of the elderly getting injured and are all sent to the hospital.
 * 6) There are some gross scenes in the episode, mainly with the elderly.
 * 7) The Narrator is absent in this episode, which sucks, because at least the Narrator brings some charm to any episode.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Blossom did have a good point to not fight the elderly, but the way she thinks to take care of them is what drags this episode down, despite her also feeling bad for what she did.
 * 2) There are a few funny moments in the episode, like with the Mayor’s overreaction and the pun "why didn't the chickenpuffs cross the rogues?", being a pun name for the well-known joke "why did the chicken cross the road?".
 * 3) Captain Righteous and Lefty did make up and become friends again.
 * 4) The old video clip showing the elderly in their younger days was pretty good, as they all looked very great, being good superheroes and villains back before the girls were born and before the other Townsville villains came along.
 * 5) Lefty! Noooooooooooooo!

Reception
This episode received generally mixed to negative reviews, with most of the critics speaking out against Blossom's characterization and decisions throughout the episode.

Trivia

 * This is one of the only two episodes where Blossom's actions are portrayed as negative, with the other being "A Very Special Blossom"; both episodes close out with Blossom being singled out for her blunder.