Original air date: 4/7/1999 (produced in 1998)
Production code: PPG-112
After having been beaten by the Powerpuff Girls one time too many, Mojo decides to create his own superpowered children to combat them: The Rowdyruff Boys.
The Rowdyruff Boys contains examples of:
- Break the Haughty: When the Powerpuff Girls brag about defeating Mojo Jojo, they start to get boastful about their skills. Later in the second half of the episode, they lose to the stronger, more aggressive, less hesitant Rowdyruff Boys.
- Calling Your Attacks: "Ballistic Barrage" for the boys, "Acrobattack" for the girls.
- Combat Pragmatist: The big problem the girls have against the boys is the boys are much, much, much more willing to fight dirty than the girls are, having no problem with putting others in harms way to get the girls in a situation where they can easily hit them and the like.
- Dead Hat Shot: When the boys explode from the girls' kissing, all that remains of them are the components from when Mojo made them.
- Disney Death: When it seems the girls are defeated by the boys at the end of their first fight. However, the tears from the citizens of Townsville bring them back.
- Expressive Accessory: When Mojo orders the escargot to create the boys, the snails are smiling; when he is holding them they are frowning. Then when Mojo flushes the Chemical X-infused toilet, the snails look shocked. After the boys are destroyed and their components fall, the snails are smiling again.
- Eye Scream: Bubbles defeats a monster by flying straight through its eye.
- Fanservice Extra: At one point during the big fight between the PPG and the RRB, a woman's skirt is blown up and enough of her leg is exposed to reveal that she's wearing stocking suspenders.
- Fartillery: The Rowdyruff Boys use their farts to catch up with the girls, as well as create a smoke screen to disorientate them.
- Girls Have Cooties: How the boys are ultimately defeated.
- Internal Deconstruction: Prior to this episode, the girls have always been vastly more powerful than their opponents, and usually were only put on the ropes due to their opponents thinking outside the box. This episode asks the question 'what if they had to fight someone on their exact level?' And the result is not pretty, as the girls get absolutely trounced due to having no clue how to handle someone on their exact level.
- It's for a Book: Mojo pretends he is someone from Townsville Community College, doing a report on the Powerpuff Girls, in order to trick the Professor into telling him how he made the girls.
- Major Injury Underreaction: The Talking Dog responds to his tail being ripped off with a flat "Ouch."
- Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: Mojo is perfectly capable of gathering the ingredients and create the Rowdyruff Boys in prison.
- Pre-Explosion Glow: When the boys are about to explode from the girls' kissing, they turn to their theme colors and glow while releasing white light.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Ms. Bellum to the girls, who reveals the boys' weakness and restores the girls' confidence, giving them the idea to be nice and kiss them to defeat them.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Mojo’s eyes turn red just before his Villainous Breakdown.
- Sheathe Your Sword: After the girls are resurrected, Ms. Bellum tells them to stop fighting the boys and to just be nice. Realizing what she told them, the girls just kiss the boys, disgusting them so much that it destroys them.
- Shout-Out: At one point, Bubbles smashes through a grocery store window. The elderly clerk asks her if she's all right. She replies, "Yeah, I'm all right. Sorry about your window, Mr. Looper," and the clerk shouts, "It's Cooper! Cooper!".
- Small Name, Big Ego: Briefly, the Powerpuff Girls display this when confronting Mojo Jojo, bragging that he'll never beat them. Later in the episode, they not only lose, but nearly die. When they lose this once, they are willing to leave Townsville out of feeling inadequate, and the humiliation of losing.
- Stealth Pun: Mojo's Villainous Breakdown shows him reverting to a primal state and acting like a real monkey. He's "gone apeshit."
- Testosterone Poisoning: The Rowdyruff Boys embody every toxic masculine trait of preadolescent boys. They're significantly more violent than the girls and repeatedly call them "sissies." Inversely, their hatred of all things feminine turns out to be so great that the simple act of the girls being nice (in this case, an affectionate kiss on the cheek) does them in.
- Toilet Humor: The extremely dirty toilet in his cell serves as Mojo's source for Chemical X.
- Villainous Breakdown: After one too many embarrassing defeats at the hands of the Girls, Mojo begins thrashing about in his cell, screeching like an actual monkey.
- Villainous BSoD: Once he's calmed down, Mojo sits solemnly in his cell, moping his inability to destroy the girls. His spirit is lifted when the idea to create his own superpowered kids strikes him.
- Villainous Friendship: After beating the girls, Mojo and the boys party together.
