NARRATOR: Ahh, summertime! The county fair will soon open on the fairgrounds
of Townsville. Professor Utonium is busy setting up the Biogenetics Dome
Display. The girls are home, enjoying the pleasant morning.
(scene descriptions follow, not out-loud narrations)
BLOSSOM (it’s her turn to be domestic) is cooking in the kitchen, mixing
something up in a large bowl. She cracks and separates eggs, and sprinkles
pinches of spices into the bowl, all without the use of fingers, of course.
Loud TV noise and music can be heard.
BLOSSOM: (shouts out the doorway)Can you girls hold it down? I’m just
about to put the soufflé in the oven and the noise could make it
fall.
(Cut to the living room. BUBBLES is coloring on a lot of papers spread
out on the floor, while BUTTERCUP watches something loud and violent on
TV [WWF Wrestling?]. The radio is also playing nursery school music, like
a miscegenation of Barney and Sesame Street.)
BUTTERCUP: Get 'im! Get 'im! YES!!
BUBBLES: La la la! (singing along to her radio).
BUTTERCUP: (to Blossom)Yeah, yeah. (She is too absorbed in the action on TV to
pay attention.)
BLOSSOM: (flies out to the living room entrance, bowl in hand.)Girls.
(no response.) Girls? (no response.) GIRLS!!! SHADDAP!!(BUTTERCUP and BUBBLES
look up, startled.) Um, hold it down, please, for the next hour! I’m about
to put the soufflé in and even a loud noise could make it
fall! Maybe you could play outside for a while?
BUTTERCUP: (*sighs* heavily, switches off TV) Sure, no problem.
BUBBLES:(turns off radio and gathers up papers in a brief burst of blue) OK!
BLOSSOM: Thanks, guys. (She flies back to the kitchen.) Now where was I. Ok, whipped egg whites folded in, yep, and just a sprinkling of cheese on top - (as she is doing this, BUBBLES zips in behind her and, looking around, quietly takes a box of pepper from a cupboard and zips out.) Perfect!
(She puts soufflé in the oven. It rises with a slow vooop! sound
effect. She imagines the PROFESSOR’S delight when he is served with the
dish. Her thought balloon goes *Poof!* when her superhearing catches a
low *thumping* noise. The thumps are separated by a few seconds. She gasps and checks the oven. From the oven’s eye view, we see the soufflé
and behind it, BLOSSOM’S anxious face. The big soufflé shudders
with the next *thump*, and at then subsides into a little puddle in the
pan with a NEEeeerrrthppphh! sfx.
BLOSSOM does an intake scream, hands pressed to her mouth. She
flies around the house in a pink blur, looking for the source of the noise.
She flies outside and finds her sisters around the corner. They are hovering
some feet away from the house wall.
BUTTERCUP: (Holding the box of pepper, she raises a bit to her face
and inhales.) AH- AH- ACHOOO!!!(The force of her sneeze sends her flying
backwards into the wall. *Thump!!* She giggles and tosses the box to BUBBLES.)
BUBBLES: (Repeats BUTTERCUP’S actions.) Ah - ACHOO! (*Thump!*)
BLOSSOM watches them for a few seconds, changing from aghast to furious.
BLOSSOM: ARRRRGGGHHH! (Her sisters are again startled.) You ruined
my soufflé! It’s a complete mess! I’m sick of this!
BUTTERCUP: But we were just -
BLOSSOM (rants on) I should have been an only child! YOU! (pointing
to BUTTERCUP.) I’m sick of all the Bruce Lee posters up, especially in
the bathroom! YOU! (pointing to BUBBLES.) I’m sick of the crayon shavings
ground into the carpet! That wax never comes out! (BUBBLES is staring;
BUTTERCUP has her arms folded and is glaring.) I CAN’T STAND IT ANYMORE!!!!
AAAA!! (She flies off at high speed.)
BUBBLES: Was that really Blossom?
BUTTERCUP: What the heck brought THAT on?
BUBBLES: I‘m not sure, but I guess she gave herself a time-out. (They
shrug, exchanging puzzled glances, and fly to put the pepper back inside.
The Powerpuff Hotline rings while they’re in the house. BUTTERCUP picks
it up.
BUTTERCUP: Powerpuff hotline, whatcha want? (listens to squawks) We’re on our way!
BUBBLES and BUTTERCUP zip off in blue and green blurs. The camera angle is still on the Hotline phone. BUTTERCUP zips back in, scrawls a note at
super-speed and flies away. The note says, in wobbly capitals, “BLOSSOM
WE ARE OUT FIGHTING CRIME. MEET US ON THE FAIRGROUNDS. B.”
Cut to BLOSSOM. As she flies with her pink trail streaming out behind,
the suburban landscape beneath her changes to fields and farms, then to
wilderness. She flies to a craggy old mountain - an inactive volcano. She
flies into a cave, thinking out loud all the while.
BLOSSOM: Why couldn’t the Professor have sent them off to camp this summer? (She flies through a labyrinth of caves, smashing through an infrequent
wall or two. A stalactite drops and the camera pans down to follow its
drop through a crack in the floor. It lands *boink!* on the snout of snoozing
FRED, the monster from “Major Competition”. FRED wakes up, lifts his head,
blinks big glowing lamp-like eyes in comic puzzlement. BLOSSOM flies on,
unaware.
BLOSSOM: (calming down) I guess they didn’t mean any harm. If only they
would THINK sometimes! (She has reached a place where she goes to relax,
a secret hideaway. Deep in the bowels of the mountain is a big cavern
with lava pools and boiling water springs. Little flamelike creatures jump
from lava pool to lava pool, sometimes in patterns. BLOSSOM hovers over
a steamy spring, getting a sauna, and emerges with a sigh. Her bow is droopy,
her hair is dripping wet. She perches on a stalagmite and watches the lava
creatures, drips from her hair making little *hissing* sounds as they evaporate
on the hot rock below.
BLOSSOM: (the scenes appearing in thought balloons over her head as
she imagines them) I could never take Buttercup here. She’d want to play
hackey sack, with these things as the sack. Bubbles might like this, but
she’d want to draw them and her crayons would melt. Well, maybe when they’re
older. (She watches a few seconds longer.) I should be getting back.
BLOSSOM flies, more slowly than she came, out of the cavern. As she
retraces her flight path, she notices a large circular hole in one wall.
BLOSSOM: Hmm. That wasn’t there before.(She flies into it to investigate.
We see her go in but don’t follow, and we hear her startled *GASP!*
Cut to BUTTERCUP and BUBBLES. On the horizon, we can see the Ferris
wheel, roller coaster, and other county fair paraphernalia.
BUBBLES: So what did the Mayor say?
BUTTERCUP: (making Mayorial face) “Girls! Come quickly to the fairgrounds!
Awk!” and then he hung up.
BUBBLES: He said “‘Awk?’” Do you think something horrible got him?
BUTTERCUP: Either that, or (disapprovingly) Miss Bellum was bending over again.
BUBBLES: Maybe he wants us to judge stuff again. Maybe we’ll get to judge sheep!
(With a thought balloon, she imagines herself frolicking with a lot of cute fluffy lambs.) I like sheep! (happily)
BUTTERCUP: (gasps) LOOK!
BUBBLES: (broken out of her reverie) What? Wow!
The scene spread out around them (they are flying low amid the fair
setup) looks like Candyland come to life. Tent poles are big striped peppermint
sticks, tents look like big frosted cupcakes, there are smiling marzipan
and chocolate people propped up in stiff positions. BUTTERCUP and BUBBLES
are appropriately stunned.
BUTTERCUP: Whoa...what a sugar-rama. Blossom’ll be sorry she missed this!
BUBBLES: Don’t worry, Buttercup! She never stays in her special “sulk place” for long.(Covers her mouth with her hands as BUTTERCUP rounds on
her suspiciously.)
BUTTERCUP: What are you talking about?
BUBBLES: (frightened) Nothing! Nothing! Let’s find the Mayor and Miss Bellum!
BUTTERCUP: All right, but we’ll talk about this later. Don’t think I’ll forget.
(They pass licorice-bar cages, that hold giraffes with lollipop manes,
candy-striped tigers, etc. BUBBLES yanks out a bar as they pass and nibbles.
BUTTERCUP punches a tent pole and knocks a chunk of peppermint candy loose.)
BUBBLES & BUTTERCUP: (as they eat) Mmmm!
BUTTERCUP: Where are all the people? On lunch break?
They spot the enormous shadow of MOJO JOJO against a tent wall. MOJO
appears to be bending over a tripod-supported gun.
BUTTERCUP: Not so fast, Mojo Jojo!
BUBBLES tears a big hole in the tent, pulling the fabric upwards as
she flies. BUTTERCUP winds up and fires the chunk of peppermint straight
at MOJO. MOJO topples over and his turban falls off. The remainder of the
tent sinks to the ground.
BUBBLES: (returning) Didja get him? Ewwww! (She is looking at MOJO
JOJO’S exposed oversized brain.)
BUTTERCUP: His brain is made of chewed bubblegum!
BUBBLES: Gross! No wonder he talks the way he does!
BUTTERCUP: No, I mean he’s candy! Even this gun is candy!
BUBBLES: (impressed) Let’s give this display a blue ribbon. It all
looks so real! (She tries to fit MOJO’S turban back on his head. BUTTERCUP
lifts the fallen tent fabric, and sees the candified forms of SARA BELLUM,
the MAYOR, and the PROFESSOR. BUTTERCUP’S face freezes into horror for
a second, then she looks at BUBBLES who is busy trying to stand MOJO up.)
BUBBLES: (propping MOJO against his gun) There! Now you’re all better.
BUTTERCUP: (flies around to the front of BUBBLES) Bubbles, we need
Blossom. Do you know where she is?
BUBBLES: Huh? Nope! Nope nope nope!
BUTTERCUP: Listen, I don’t care if she has a secret treehouse or whatever.
But I think Mojo turned everything here into candy, with that gun, and
then turned it on himself. And we are going to have to find some sort of
anti-ray to turn everybody back before!
BUBBLES: (not understanding) Before?
BUTTERCUP: Before a rainstorm comes and they ALL MELT! (BUBBLES looks
fearfully up at the sky) Before a horde of ants come and they’re ALL EATEN!
(BUBBLES quickly scans the ground and begins to open her mouth for a big
cry) We don’t have time to wail about it! C’mon! Oh, forget it - split
up and search for clues! (They tear off in opposite directions.)
BUTTERCUP flies into the Fun House, looking carefully to the left and
right. The first mirror she encounters distorts her reflection into a long,
stretchy, wavy image. The next one stretches her diagonally, lower left
to upper right. The next mirror does the opposite. The fourth shows her
super-fat. She *giggles*, then gets back on task. The fifth mirror shows
her reflection as a normal little girl – normally proportioned head, eyes,
etc., and she has fingers. She stops, disgusted.
BUTTERCUP: Eeeyuch! That is the most grotesque thing I ever saw in
my LIFE!
A *crunch* makes her turn around. Another clown is approaching her
down the hall of mirrors. The camera doesn’t focus on the mirrors, but
his shape is distorting just as BUTTERCUP’S image was distorted – wavy
tall and thin, diagonally, fat, as he advances toward her. As his
shapes cycle towards “real”, they stop. He is solidified into a big (well,
bigger than Rainbow) clown with a big shabby coat.
CLOWN: Helloooo, little girl. Looking for something? (He has an light
oily voice. We almost recognize it. BUTTERCUP does too, and draws back
to attack position.)
BUTTERCUP: Whaddya want, clown?
CLOWN: Oh, I just wanted to give you a little present. We love the
Powerpuff Girls! (He almost sneers the last sentence. BUTTERCUP flies at
him to punch him, but is brought up short when he whips open his coat to
show what he’s hiding. [No, not that!] He has a big smiling gingerbread
cookie of -)
BUTTERCUP: (screams) BUBBLES! (The ‘Puff cutout cookie is tan, life-sized
and has all BUBBLES’ features marked out in frosting. Blue dress, etc.)
You’re gonna pay for this, you ugly creep!
CLOWN: Why, what’s the matter, don’t you like gingerbread?
BUTTERCUP: You give me her right now or I’m gonna bust your head open!
CLOWN: (wagging finger at BUTTERCUP)Ahn ahn ahn! Cookies crumble, you
know (holds BUBBLES up by her pigtails to block BUTTERCUP). You were right
about the hungry horde, my dear. Only it wasn’t ANTS. Tomorrow, when the
fair opens, who will rush in to the World of Sweetness? Who will
have all the sugar they can get their mouths on – for free?
BUTTERCUP runs at him, smashing mirrors in a zigzag fashion as he ducks
and weaves.
CLOWN: And the sweetest part is, the Powerpuff Girls will be devoured!
You’ll be out of my beard forever! Thanks to the wonderful citizens of
Townsville and all around the county!
BUTTERCUP: You ARE the vilest of vile! (CLOWN bursts out of his shabby
coat, turning into the sphagetti-limbed HIM. HE lobs a little grenade at
her, she dodges but it explodes, letting a fall of white specks (powdered
sugar?) that fall slowly. BUTTERCUP is touched by some and butter brickle
rapidly forms over her arm, spreading over her body.
BUTTERCUP: Blossom’ll get you! (The butter brickle closes over her
mouth. )
HIM: Yessss. (deep harsh voice) Now where is she. (HE drops BUBBLES
by BUTTERCUP. Camera shows the cookie falling in slo-mo on its back.)
Cut to BLOSSOM. BLOSSOM has flown up a long wide tube that leads to
–
BLOSSOM: The observatory! Mojo Jojo’s lair! (whips out a tiny tape
recorder from an invisible dress pocket and clicks record button) Blossom’s
Log: Twelve twenty-eight, Saturday. I am in Mojo Jojo’s laboratory. Followed
a pipe from – uh, never mind! Anyway, same old stuff here – wait, (she
is sorting through the papers, gadgets and other junk on MOJO’S table,
collecting some gadgets in her other arm) here’s some familiar-looking
blueprints. It’s Fuzzy Lumpkins’ Meat Gun! (flies to another table, reads
at superspeed through notebooks in horror) And here’s the modifications
Mojo made to it so it lobs mutagenic candy grenades! He calls it the “Sugar
Shooter!” He’s going to test it on the circus animals at the fair? Today?
(wonderingly)I didn’t know a circus was coming too. Huh. (Puts away tape
recorder, zips over to telephone, calls home) No answer!! I’ll just have
to go myself!
Cut to BLOSSOM at the fair.
BLOSSOM: SPLIT UP AND LOOK – oh, right. (Whips out tape recorder.)
Blossom’s Log: Twelve thirty-two. Everything very quiet. Too quiet!
HIM: (rears up behind BLOSSOM.) Peekaboo.
BLOSSOM: (whirls) YOU! (Her hand blurs to her pocket and back, but
she is still holding the tape recorder. This occurs in the blink of the
viewer’s eye.) You’re at the bottom of this!
HIM: Oh yes. I am the infernal inspiration which moves many a villian
to brilliance. But I just couldn’t help myself – I had to lend a hand today!
BLOSSOM: (Her face is “c:<” read the face the other way, mouth on
the left ) You know, sir, I’d love to fight, but I just realized
I also left a chicken defrosting in the sink, and I’d better be getting
back.
BLOSSOM presses a button on the tape recorder. It is, however, MOJO
JOJO’S anti-Sugar Shooter device, and the grenade in HIS claw explodes,
turning him into a shower of Necco wafers.
HIM: (voice only, faintly and fading) I’lll…bee…baaack
On the ground, BUBBLES unflattens and rehumanizes, and BUTTERCUP bursts
out of her candy shell, sending shrapnel everywhere. They fly up to join
BLOSSOM.
BUTTERCUP: Blossom!
BUBBLES: Blossom!
They all babble together.
BUTTERCUP: So where were you?
BLOSSOM: Ummm – just out for a stroll!
BUTTERCUP: Mm-hmm.
BLOSSOM: (hastily) We have to pick up dessert on the way home. What
should we get?
BUBBLES: Ice cream and cookies!
BUTTERCUP: Any candy, as long as it’s not THESE things. (She sticks
out her tongue and we see a Necco wafer on the end of it.) Bleah. (They
all laugh.)
NARRATOR: And once again, the day is saved thanks to the POWERPUFF GIRLS!