Cover Up (The Powerpuff Girls, 1998)

"Cover Up" is the second half of the 11th episode in the second season of The Powerpuff Girls (1998).

Summary
Buttercup becomes attached to a green blanket that makes her a good fighter, which she says to herself when she's alone, and Blossom and Bubbles tease her for it.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Blossom and Bubbles are mean-spirited and selfish in this episode and towards Buttercup as they tease her for keeping a blanket to keep her fighting instead of appreciating her for it.
 * 2) Blossom and Bubbles don't help Buttercup when she's being beaten up by a monster. They're her sisters and they're supposed to defend and aid her.
 * 3) Blossom goes back to the Utonium household and gets a fake green blanket to help her win the fight against the monster, showing she deceived Buttercup into thinking it's the real blanket.
 * 4) Professor Utonium is also somewhat unlikable in the episode as he causes the events of the episode by taking Buttercup’s blanket to be washed and not telling her that he was going to do that.  He is even rewarded for this by keeping the very blanket he took from Buttercup.
 * 5) Bad ending: When Buttercup sees her blanket in the basket where the Professor did the girls' laundry and rushes over to retrieve it, Blossom and Bubbles give glares at Buttercup and force her to give up her blanket to the Professor which is just a punch in the gut.
 * 6) * This also counts as hypocrisy as Bubbles has Octi as an emotional crutch of her own and she's allowed to keep it while Buttercup can't keep her blanket.
 * 7) And speaking of hypocrisy, Octi is never mentioned or seen in this episode as Buttercup never brings up the point that Bubbles uses Octi as an emotional crutch when Blossom and Bubbles tease Buttercup over the blanket.  She also fails to mention Octi when Blossom admits that she gave Buttercup a fake blanket and also fails to mention Octi when Buttercup reuinites with the blanket and gets glared at by Bubbles and Blossom.
 * 8) Blossom and Bubbles show absolutely no remorse for their mistreatment of Buttercup and get off scot-free.
 * 9) The episode teaches a bad moral to children:  having a precious item to cherish because it helps you emotionally is wrong as seen with Buttercup owning a blanket she loves while using it for emotional support and being deemed the one in the wrong for it.
 * 10) Plot Holes:  Several in this episode.
 * 11) *Blossom said near the end of the episode that the green blanket she gave buttercup was a fake yet it looks exactly like the real thing. Blossom never elaborated on how that blanket was fake as she only said that she found it but how and where did she find that blanket?
 * 12) * While it was revealed that Buttercup’s blanket was missing because the professor was busy washing it, Buttercup was seen during her first blanket panic looking through the dirty laundry in the laundry room but the blanket was not there. She also apparently forgot to check the washer and the dryer to see if the blanket was there and it was not explained why she failed to check the washer and dryer. It is also not explained why Buttercup did not ask the professor where her blanket was during her panic.
 * 13) Hypocrisy: Bubbles and Blossom berate buttercup for owning a blanket because they believe she it too old to have one as an emotional crutch but there are a couple of problems with this
 * 14) * Given that Buttercup attends kindergarten, she is seen by other people as around 5 to 6 years old including by Bubbles and Blossom, however Buttercup is actually younger than this since she is not a normal human being because she was created in a lab and was born in the form of a young girl.
 * 15) * while buttercup is being teased because she is deemed too old to use the blanket, Blossom and Bubbles force Buttercup to give the blanket up to the Professor, who is way older than her. The Professor treats the blanket in a similar way to how buttercup treats it yet Blossom and a bubbles treat that like it’s no big deal.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Buttercup is still a great character in this episode, as it's okay for someone to have an emotional crutch and feel great about it. But it’s demolished once you remember BQ#4.
 * 2) The scenes with Buttercup and her blanket are cute, charming, and heartwarming since they show that Buttercup has a soft side.

Trivia

 * Buttercup's "No!" became a famous meme.