Original air date: 4/28/2000 (produced in 1999)
Production code: PPG-210
The Powerpuff Girls Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever: On a rainy day, there's no crime to be found in the city, so the Girls make their own crime-fighting adventure using the power of their imagination.
Just Desserts: In this sequel to "Supper Villain", the Smiths plan their revenge on the Powerpuff Girls for ruining their dinner after Harold Smith returns from prison.
The Powerpuff Girls Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever provides examples of
- Bad "Bad Acting": The Professor’s portrayal of Bubbles is.... less than enthusiastic.Professor: Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, pow, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
- Bittersweet Ending: Played for Laughs. The rain stops right when the girls are having fun indoors. Now they have to save the day for real, and by the looks of their expressions at the end of the episode, the girls are not looking forward to what they have to do now. Even the narrator is annoyed to hear this.
- Book Ends: The episode starts and ends with a gloomy voiceover by the narrator.
- Brick Joke: The girls get into a fight about who was going to play Bubbles, with the latter being saddened that no one wants to play her. At the end of the episode, the Narrator is still gloomy...because he wanted to be Bubbles.
- Bottle Episode: Aside from the opening, the majority of the episode is set inside the Powerpuff Girls’ house.
- Crying Wolf: An accidental example, but when Bubbles, playing the Mayor, uses the hotline to "call the Powerpuff Girls", she ends up calling the real Mayor in his office (who then proceeds to take her warning about a giant monster attacking seriously and jumps out the window).Mayor: [to Ms. Bellum, who happens to be outside] I fell in the mud.
- Defictionalization: An in-universe example; when the rain finally stops, the girls are immediately called to deal with an emergency identical to the scenario they just played.
- Dragged into Drag: The professor when the girls make him part of their game, forcing him to play the role of Bubbles.
- Fake Boobs: When she has to play the role of Mrs. Bellum, Blossom puts two stuffed toys in her dress to mimic Ms. Bellum's breasts.
- Gale-Force Sound: When Blossom (as Mojo Jojo) gets knocked through a wall by Bubbles, she yells at her sister to "Pretend!". The force of that yell causes Bubbles to fly through the air and land head-first.
- Girls with Moustaches: Bubbles ties her hair into a fake moustache in order to play the Mayor.
- Gray Rain of Depression: The episode starts with showing this happening all over Townsville.
- Here We Go Again!: In the end, the girls now have to save the day for real.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Buttercup (and later Blossom) dresses up as a giant alligator terrorizing a pretend Townsville. At the end of the episode, an actual giant alligator gets released by Mojo Jojo onto the real Townsville.
- Ocular Gushers: Bubbles twice; first when Buttercup pretends to hit her, and when her sisters are arguing over who should play Bubbles in the game they were playing.
- Pac Man Fever: Bubbles and Buttercup give up on their hide-and-seek with Blossom to play video games instead. The game console resembles a Nintendo 64, but the game they're playing looks more like Pitfall! than anything.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Not even Mojo Jojo or any of the villains would conduct an evil scheme during a rainy day.
- Rent-a-Zilla: The giant alligator that ends up destroying Townsville, just like the girls play pretended.
Just Desserts provides examples of:
- An Aesop: Two wrongs do not make a right. None of the Smiths' petty grudges against the Girls (Marianne's ruined dinner, Bud's nihilism and Julie's lost jacks) justify all the damage they caused to their home, much less trying to kill them.
- Badass Family: The Smiths become an evil version of this trope as of this episode.
- Bait-and-Switch: The narrator asks a civilian what it is that keeps Townsville safe. Everything indicates he’s talking about the Powerpuff Girls, who are playing in the background, but it turns out he’s actually talking about the prison, which was just off-screen. Later in the episode Harold after being told today’s the day by the prison guard is seen walking towards a metal door with the implication Harold is on the brink of being executed. Turns out Harold was pardoned and is free to go home (presumably for good behavior).
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Harold is the one who brought evil into the family and Marianne becomes Harold's henchwoman as she and her husband work together in their plan to destroy the Powerpuff Girls.
- Boredom Montage: Again, echoing the one in "Supper Villain", and this time, in prison.
- Bullying a Dragon: Souped-up minivan aside, the Smiths are just ordinary people deliberately antagonizing the Powerpuff Girls. When the Smiths attack the girls' house, the girls easily destroy their van once they catch up to them and subject the Smith family to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown before throwing them in jail.
- Car Meets House: The Smiths do this intentionally when chasing the girls and the professor.
- Cheap Costume: While his wife and kids have cool supervillain costumes, Harold is stuck with the poorly designed red costume he made in "Supper Villain". When asked about this, his wife points out that they had more time to prepare.
- Cool Car: as part of the whole family turning to evil, the Smiths also had their car redesigned into a supervillain mobile, complete with laser gun, flaming paint job and spikes.
- Create Your Own Villain: The Girls did this to the entire family.
- Disproportionate Retribution: In the eyes of Mrs. Smith, ruining her dinner is enough motivation for you and your family to become super villains and take revenge on whoever was responsible. The girls are quick to point out how pathetic an excuse this is, much to her surprise.
- Even the children have idiotic reasons for hating the Powerpuffs: Julie hates them for losing her jacks by accident and Bud... Well, he just hates everything.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Harold walking down a corridor with a prison guard and priest towards a metal door is very like the long walk towards the execution chamber.
- Dope Slap: Mrs. Smith punches her husband in the nose when his response to the family's Cool Car is "PICKING UP THE KIDS FROM SCHOOL WILL BE A BLAST!!!!"
- Heroic BSoD: Downplayed. While the Powerpuff Girls and the Professor are saddened by the destruction of their home, they still look on the bright side that nobody in their family was hurt, and they are grateful for that.
- Never My Fault: Mrs. Smith is somehow convinced that the girls are responsible for her dinner being ruined even though her goofy husband is the one who started it all. And that's not considering the fact that she took part in that pie fight herself instead of trying to stop it.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Unwittingly—when the Utoniums say that just because their home is destroyed doesn't mean they're hurt, they give a livid Marianne the realization that the only way to truly destroy the Powerpuff Girls' family is to somehow destroy them.
- Pedestrian Crushes Car: How the girls eventually stop the Smiths and their car.
- Previously on…: The episode starts with a recap of the events from Supper Villain.
- Put Their Heads Together: Bubbles does this to the Smith kids.
- Revenge: The Smiths’ main motivation for attacking the girls.
- Skewed Priorities: Marrianne makes it clear she is more upset about the girls ruining her dinner than the fact her husband got arrested, leaving the girls unimpressed and deflating her bluster when they point out how petty her excuse is.
- Scooby-Dooby Doors: Happens briefly while the Utonium family are chased by the Smiths in their car.
- Sequel Episode: To "Supper Villain".
- Tears of Remorse: Harold when upon returning home from prison tries to apologize to his wife for what he did in "Supper Villain"... until his wife reveals that she and the kids also turned to evil.
- The Family That Slays Together: The Smiths.
- Transformation Sequence: The Smiths when they suit up.
