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[King Moonraiser]

The RRBs are back yet again this season for some more hijinks! This time, Boomer is sent on lone a mission to steal some candy for his brothers. The PPGs take advantage of the situation and capture him. Bubbles goes undercover dressed as Boomer to ease the boys' suspicions while the girls come up with a plan.

This was one of the funnier episodes this season. There were so many great lines and totally gross situations. Here are a bunch of them:
Blossom: Gee Professor, you sure outdid yourself this time with that containment ray. Professor: I'll say! Once again, I have no idea what I did!
Boomer (referring to Bubbles dressed exactly like him): Boy, do you look dumb!
The Professor gives Bubbles a communication device that fits in her ear. Ordinarily, it would have made sense to use a different kind of communication device since she doesn't have any ears. However, the communication device does work as a plot device in this situation since the communication device was tucked under her hair, thus hiding the communication device. The communication device is an important plot point, because the communication device is how the rest of the team can keep in contact with her by using a big microphone in the Professor's lab. This was an audio-only communication device with no visual displays since it just involved an earpiece on the communication device.
Brick: Hey, I got it! Let's play "Punch each other in the face until someone says, 'stop punching me in the face.'" You first, Boomer! (Brick punches Bubbles in the eye. Bubbles struggles not to cry.) Bubbles: Heh, heh. Funny. Okay, now it's my turn. Brick: Nah, I'm sick of that game.
The boys go to paint graffiti. Brick writes "BRICK WUZ HER" in big red letters. The reason he writes HER in big red letters is because he was interrupted when he noticed what Bubbles was writing. He doesn't continue adding the "e" so the last word that was written on the wall is HER in big red letters. We continue to see the word HER written in big red letters in these scenes since Brick never finishes. Even as Brick and Butch leave the scene, all we ever see above Brick's head is HER written in big red letters.
The loogie scenes have to be one of the grossest experiences I've ever had to endure. Especially Buttercup's detailed instructions on how to "hock up." I swear, I was dry heaving! Good job, writers!
Brick and Butch's loogies hit part of a damaged satellite in outer space. The damaged satellite in outer space was being repaired. However, the RRBs attempt to hit a plane, but missing and instead hitting the damaged satellite in outer space, caused the damaged satellite in outer space to stop being repaired. The damaged satellite in outer space did not begin to fall to Earth when struck. However, the damaged satellite in outer space remained in space, damaged.
Bubbles' loogie bouncing all over Townsville.
Bubbles' pupils constricting when Brick tells her to eat the cockroach.
Brick: This is no time to be foolin' around! Butch: Yeah, and why did ya take all your clothes off? Boomer: Huh? Whaddya mean? Brick: Whaddya mean, "whaddya mean?" We're not here to have a party! We're here to capture the girls! Put your clothes back on!
A giant laser in the lab fires a high intensity beam of light that hits the RRBs. When the high intensity beam of light from the giant laser in the lab hits the RRBs, they cannot break free from its grasp. The high intensity beam of light shot from the giant laser in the lab traps the boys in one spot until the high intensity beam of light from the giant laser in the lab is disrupted. The high intensity beam of light from the giant laser in the lab doesn't seem to cause any harm to them, though. The RRBs just can't move away from the high intensity beam of light from the giant laser in the lab when it's being fired intentionally at them.
Bubbles: (Referring to the cockroach she ate.) That's okay; it tasted like chicken!There were some extremely large plot holes, too:
How the heck did Bubbles know Brick and Butch would be at Fuzzy's house?!
Why didn't Brick and Butch notice "Boomer's" eye color (and eyelid color) was the same as Bubbles? (Eh, on second thought, men never remember the color of a woman's eyes.)
The Professor, Blossom, and Buttercup look at the security monitor, see the RRBs walking up to their front door, and immediately assume Boomer escaped. WTF?! How about doing the one thing that human nature and common sense dictate and turn your head to check?The RRBs' personalities were expanded upon, especially Brick and Boomer. We get to see Brick in the role of the gang's leader once again. Boomer is not only the dumbest, but is usually the one at the receiving end of any pranks or jokes made by his brothers. We find in this episode that the RRBs as a group are portrayed, in general, as dumb. I suppose that I can't fault the writers for doing this since the PPGs are going to need some kind of an edge over the RRBs. Otherwise, the entire premise that the PPGs and RRBs can coexistence as heroes and villains will become untenable. That's a shame, because one of the more exciting parts of this episode is when the viewer begins to believe that Brick has had strong suspicions all along that it wasn't Boomer. All of the "tortures" inflicted on Bubbles would have been intentional. Brick challenging Bubbles with the cockroach would simply be the coup de grâce to all but guarantee the imposter would reveal him/herself. Nope. Didn't happen. The other thing we see is a reaffirmation that the RRBs do not "play nicely" with the other villains of Townsville. We saw in "Boy Toys," the RRBs reject the help of Princess. In this episode, we find them terrorizing Fuzzy in his home.

It's true that I don't agree 100% with the direction the writers have taken the RRBs since their return (so far), but I must confess that they are still enjoyable characters that have enhanced the show tremendously. Every time they made a significant appearance this season, the episode was a hit. Let's hope this trend continues next season.

Three and a half stars

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[CupidKirby]

You know,'Bubble Boy' is my favorite episode in my opinion...it showed us(a.k.a. the viewers) how the RRBs are like in their point of view and might of answered a lot of questions that the viewers had about the RRBs

[CupidKirby]

There were also more funny quotes in it...

Boomer: I don't care what they say,I'm not as dumb as I look!
(Later)
Boomer(Refurring to Bubbles looking exactly like him): Boy,do you look dumb!

[Mayonaka Hana]

CupidKirby wrote: There were also more funny quotes in it...

Boomer: I don't care what they say,I'm not as dumb as I look!
(Later)
Boomer(Refurring to Bubbles looking exactly like him): Boy,do you look dumb!

I'm not a moderator or anything, but I do know that you can't revive old threads that are a more than a month old. They will ban you if you don't obey these rules.

[King Moonraiser]

You can revive any thread you like except threads in the fan art section.

What you are doing is armchair modding, which is against the rules.

[CupidKirby]

:cry: Sorry :cry:

[King Powerpuff]

This story was somewhat fun. It had all the elemets of your run-of-the-mill boy: bugs disgust girls, lauch mucus with your mouth, spraypaint on walls as you feel and call it art, and you get the point. What's fun is that Bubbles has to undergo such rituals despite for being udderly "soft." What was really fun to see, or hear, was that she actually ate a cockroach. Congratulations, Bubbles, you've just taken your first steps into a larger world, a world of survival. It's fun to see how the earpiece was hidden to avert the need of drawing ears because "powerpuffs in actuality have ears, but the characters are just not drawn with them." What's cool is that powerpuffs/rowdyruffs have enough strength to use their mouths to hurl mucus out of Earth's gravitational pull. To wrap this up, the storyline worked out all right with a few transitional gaps called "plot holes," but at least here, I think the popularity of the Rowdyruff Boys would be overrated.

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