Daylight Savings (The Powerpuff Girls, 1998)

 "Daylight Savings" is an episode of The Powerpuff Girls from season two.

Plot
When the Girls' school work suffers from their late-night crime-fighting, Ms. Keane convinces the Professor that they need a 7:30 nightly curfew, which is good news for the villains of Townsville until the Professor watches the Clock channel, where he realizes that the first night of the curfew is in Daylight Saving Time.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The Powerpuff Girls have not been getting enough sleep because of their late-night crime-fighting, so Ms. Keane suggests a curfew for them to Professor Utonium, and that leads to the Professor making sure the girls stay asleep.
 * 2) * Miss Keane also doesn’t seem to understand that while school is still a big responsibility, saving cities from dangerous criminals is an even bigger responsibility. Shouldn’t she have just given them their schoolwork to do at home?
 * 3) * Professor Utonium does everything he could to make sure the girls stay in bed, even if it means that the city is still in danger. Even worse, he tried to get the city in danger out of his head, and then he realized that one of the channels was saying it was Daylight Saving Time, and he forgot to set the clocks backward. Really, Professor?
 * 4) The Girls falling asleep in class is not a good sign, especially since you can’t ever fall asleep in class.
 * 5) The parent-teacher conference is mostly boring, especially during the silence.
 * 6) Speaking of which, the city being in danger is horrible to see, as the villains roam free and cause mayhem and destruction.
 * 7) The episode treats the crime-fighting the Powerpuff Girls do like a fun nighttime hobby when in fact it is a serious obligation. Because of this, Professor Utonium and Miss Keane make it seem that schoolwork is more important than the safety and well-being of Townsville, which is very out of character for both of them.
 * 8) The plot of this episode could have been avoided had Professor Utonium established a routine chart that could help the Girls manage their schoolwork and crime-fighting obligations easily so they could know when to study and sleep instead of having a mandatory curfew suddenly slapped on them.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The episode started off good, with the girls fighting crime as always until we got to the school part where the girls fall asleep.
 * 2) Miss Keane at least was trying to get the girls to have better sleep, so we can understand why she would want the girls to have a curfew.
 * 3) There are some funny moments in the episode, such as the Professor’s overreaction to and during the parent-teacher conference, as well as when he told the girls it wasn’t a curfew yet and they could still fight crime.
 * 4) At least the episode had a good ending, with the Professor letting the girls fight crime again, and Townsville is saved once again.
 * 5) The Professor's line: "Parent-teacher conference"?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Trivia

 * Along with "A Very Special Blossom", this is the last episode of the series to air during the 1990s.