Comments: "Dexter's Ego", PowerPuff Girls, New Board

[Brainatra]

First off, I'm still getting used to this new board...while it seems to load the list of all threads faster (not having to list every individual sub-thread posting), I still seem to be in a bit of adjustment period here...

Secondly, I've finally (about a week or so ago) gotten the chance to see the "Powerpuff Girls" for the first time, via a rented videotape ("Bubblevicious"). From what I saw, it seems to be a so-so cartoon: some bits were amusing, but most of it wasn't as amusing to me as "Dexter's Lab". Most amusing cartoon on the tape was "Mojo's Rising", particularly the bit at the end where the evil monkey Mojo keeps uttering stunned disbelief for a good minute or so over having helped cause the PPG's origins...

Also saw "Dexter's Lab: Ego Trip", the DL movie. Pretty funny, along with a completely gratuitous abuse of time travel (the plot consisting of Dexter visiting future versions of himself just to see "how cool he'll be" :-)

-B.

[Sharklady]

I've got the 'Bubblevicious' video too. Which I like a lot more than you apparently did- I think it's because I have prior familiarity with the PPGs, and am especially fond of Bubbles (I wasn't at all surprised when she won that recent CN Popularity Poll.)
Be glad that you're amused by Mojo Jojo's repeativeness, Brainatra- that's one of the series' running jokes.
Tho, IMO, the funniest ep of all was 'The Beat Alls.' I sure hope they're planning to put that one on video!

[The Mad Hatter]

I enjoy watching Mojo Jojo. Mojo Jojo is very entertaining to me, because Mojo Jojo is a very entertaining character. When Mojo Jojo appears on PPG, I think "ooh! Mojo Jojo is appearing on the PPG!" and I watch intently for the antics of that evil monkey. When some other villain appears instead, I think, "how much better this episode would be if it had Mojo Jojo in it, because none of them are quite as entertaining as Mojo Jojo!"

...and so on.

[DR. BELCH]

There was an all-new PPG's a couple of weeks ago which was muy heavy on meta-humor. A fancy Hollywood director comes to Townsville to film a movie starring the PPGs...but Professor Utonium eavesdrops on him and soon realizes the cut-rate Eisenstein is up to no good. I'm not sure what was funnier--the stilted, monotone way the girls delivered their lines or the way the prof tried to disrupt filming constantly.
I couldn't help but think the director sounded a lot like Phil Silvers (Sgt. Bilko, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World).
Scary sight--the prof in drag. Use a razor on those legs, fella!
Watch for the scene where the mayor (clueless as usual about the villian's scheme) does a fairly good Edward G. Robinson.

Last week was the oft-rerun "Candy is Dandy", in which the girls...well, I can't exactly say what it looked like they were doing when they first tasted candy in mixed company, but if that's all it takes, pardon me while I run out to the store and buy a sack of jawbreakers.

[don Jaime]

The "Bubblevicious" tape features all first season shows. The funnier ones tend to come from the second season on, though "Bubblevicious" itself is a scream!

Keep trying, Brainatra. It took me weeks of teases to sit down and enjoy "Animaniacs." "Powerpuff Girls" deserves another couple of viewings.

[The Dork Knight]

Ego Trip was pretty good. I can wait till we see the new episodes.Just to let everybody know, The "Justice Friend are not going to be in the new episodes.Too bad......

[Sharklady]

> Last week was the oft-rerun "Candy is Dandy", in which the girls...well, I can't exactly say
what it looked like they were doing when they first tasted candy in mixed company... <

Actually, that was an in-joke. One likely to be recognized only by long-time viewers of HB cartoons.

The old 'Quick Draw McGraw' series featured a semi-regular character named Snuffles; an inarticulate hound dog who would do anything in exchange for a dog biscuit. Whenever he swallowed a biscuit, he'd go thru the very same spasms of ecstasy that you saw the PPGs display.

[don Jaime]

Really? Really? Huh. We had a huge and very bitter debate about this episode when it came out. I'll pass that on if PPGWorld's boards ever resurrect.

[Nftnat]

My, oh my, so much to which to reply...

In general, recently on the UKE Awards thread (thanks again to toonzone for inspiring me to give them that idea), the PPGs & Mojo Jojo made an appearance. I took that opportunity to add Narraton, the Professor, Mayor, & Miss Bellum; along with all the Beatles refs I could think of that weren't in Meet the Beat-Alls. I guess this last bit is also in response to SL.

To Belchie: Maybe that director was voiced by hte same guy that voiced Chit Chatterson on H!

To don Jaime: Tell me about it! I completely (almost) missed their run on KWB; they were running on CN for almost a year before I deciided to give them a chance. Things have never been the same for me.

To Gotlucky: Justice Friends didn't last past the first, or @ the least second, season anyway, did they? Ditto for Monkey. I think.

Again to Sharklady: I not only remember Snuffles (mentioned quite a bit recently on Termite Terrace & / or the WB ng), but also Muttley, & maybe I should include Scooby & Shaggy having similar reactions to food.

And again for Belchie: You think jawbreakers might do that for the Eds? Maybe they were exposed to it before the series started; thus, their motivation. Scary.

[DR. BELCH]

"Maybe that director was voiced by the same guy that voiced Chit Chatterson on H!"
The actor's name is Billy West, who has also voiced Stimpy (and later Ren as well), Doug Funnie, Woody Woodpecker, the boss on "The Oblongs", and also once worked on the Howard Stern show. After Jackie "The Jokeman" Martling quit, Stern tried to get West back, but his wife told him flatly that Billy doesn't go backward in his career, only forward. I wonder if she ever mentioned Stern's offer to her husband, or if he had picked up the phone that day it would have been a different story altogether?
Come to think of it, the director also had a hint of Top Cat in his voice, which was also inspired by Silvers. Another Hanna-Barbera in-joke, maybe?
As for jawbreakers and their effect on those Ed boys...there are just some things better left unpondered.