This is possibly one of the most confusing episodes of television I have ever seen. It's done entirely in song, all of them bleeding into each other yet at the same time seeming to come out of nowhere. The fact that there's no dialogue in between and the songs are rather shorts completely destroys any coherent sense of pacing or tension in the plot. This also leaves the message rather vague and muddled as to what exactly it's supposed to be.
It starts out as a song of all of the villains coming together to destroy the city in an shockingly awful song. A good portion of the songs in this special sound like discordant cats being dragged painfully down an alleyway. Freedom Beef and You Wanna Make Me Feel Good are the only two good songs and everything else is either hilariously forgettable elevator music or downright unlistenable.
Then the Powerpuff Girls come in and for some reason they decide to be insistent on giving Tara Strong ridiculously high notes so that even though she's Tara Strong, she can sing, it sounds as bad as everyone else. The girls cannot harmonize well, I think it was attempt by the actors to make them sound younger but there are songs from other episodes where their vocals don't sound as bad even in trying to achieve that affect.
And then out of nowhere after getting defeated they become all sad and dramatic and it's pretty goofy. Then their tears cause a gnome to come from the ground and trades them their powers for world peace. Then the townspeople start becoming a cult around the gnome for some reason? I'm pretty sure the gnome is the villain but other than taking the powers from the main characters I'm unsure as exactly how he's evil other than they say that. Then out of nowhere, with no buildup at all, with almost zero implications that this is in anyway a bad situation, the professor comes out talking about freedom beef or something. He says that the town has given up what they used to have for freedom, but this doesn't actually show other than the town visually looking like a cult. There's not even really any demonstration, despite it being a pretty cliche and easy to follow line of logic, that losing their powers has any affect on the main characters or the world.
The professor makes the girls go fight the gnome, and somehow taoism has come into this as a main part of the moral? And for some reason the gnome loses his powers and gets intimidated into falling off a vine and dies and then another bad song and then it's over. There's definitely a political message to it but I can't discern what it is because I do not know enough about politics.
It feels like everybody writing the episode needs to lay off the psychedelics and actually come together to figure out what exactly it is because it felt like a jumbled mess. I was constantly questioning if they had just cut something out of the episode because I was so confused. Bad episode, kind of a disaster.
It starts out as a song of all of the villains coming together to destroy the city in an shockingly awful song. A good portion of the songs in this special sound like discordant cats being dragged painfully down an alleyway. Freedom Beef and You Wanna Make Me Feel Good are the only two good songs and everything else is either hilariously forgettable elevator music or downright unlistenable.
Then the Powerpuff Girls come in and for some reason they decide to be insistent on giving Tara Strong ridiculously high notes so that even though she's Tara Strong, she can sing, it sounds as bad as everyone else. The girls cannot harmonize well, I think it was attempt by the actors to make them sound younger but there are songs from other episodes where their vocals don't sound as bad even in trying to achieve that affect.
And then out of nowhere after getting defeated they become all sad and dramatic and it's pretty goofy. Then their tears cause a gnome to come from the ground and trades them their powers for world peace. Then the townspeople start becoming a cult around the gnome for some reason? I'm pretty sure the gnome is the villain but other than taking the powers from the main characters I'm unsure as exactly how he's evil other than they say that. Then out of nowhere, with no buildup at all, with almost zero implications that this is in anyway a bad situation, the professor comes out talking about freedom beef or something. He says that the town has given up what they used to have for freedom, but this doesn't actually show other than the town visually looking like a cult. There's not even really any demonstration, despite it being a pretty cliche and easy to follow line of logic, that losing their powers has any affect on the main characters or the world.
The professor makes the girls go fight the gnome, and somehow taoism has come into this as a main part of the moral? And for some reason the gnome loses his powers and gets intimidated into falling off a vine and dies and then another bad song and then it's over. There's definitely a political message to it but I can't discern what it is because I do not know enough about politics.
It feels like everybody writing the episode needs to lay off the psychedelics and actually come together to figure out what exactly it is because it felt like a jumbled mess. I was constantly questioning if they had just cut something out of the episode because I was so confused. Bad episode, kind of a disaster.