After talking to Bliss, who's still out in space, Buttercup claims she could likewise go into space to help fight aliens. Blossom claims otherwise and the two get into a bet on if Buttercup can do so. However Buttercup's departure comes at a bad time when Pug Faced Pauly decided to use the Utonium household to lay low from the cops.
Tropes:
- Butt-Monkey: Schedule Bot consistently keeps suffering misfortune in the episode.
- Chekhov's Gun: The exploding postcards Mojo sends to the girls while out on vacation. Buttercup uses them against three of Pauly's goons.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: The Professor has been experimenting with food soda. Buttercup likes the spaghetti and meatballs ones.
- Cuteness Proximity: Bubbles gives in to everything Pug Faced Pauly says because of how cute he looks in his little hat.
- The Bet: Basis of the episode in which Blossom bets Buttercup she'll never last a few minutes out in space. Indeed Buttercup chickens out and hides out in the Utonium garage while faking messages to her sisters. Ultimately losing when she has to save her family from Pauly and his gang, exposing herself in the process.
- The Cameo: Bliss shows up at the start, still fighting threats out in space.
- Eleventy Zillion: Buttercup and Blossom's bet is for a bajillion dollars, which Blossom points out is not a real number.
- Mook Horror Show: Buttercup takes out Pauly's gang one by one while under a disguise.
- This Page Will Self-Destruct: Mojo's vacation postcards self destruct, which Buttercup takes advantage of later.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Pauly, a highly intelligent criminal whose metal dentures make him unstoppable, is defeated when he gets scared by a vacuum cleaner (as dogs are wont to do) and knocks himself out by running into a closed door.
