Original air date: 2/13/2000 (produced in 1999)
Production code: PPG-208
Mo Job: Townsville's two most egotisical villains, Mojo Jojo and Princess Morbucks, try and work together on a plan to strip the Powerpuff Girls of their powers.
Pet Feud: After the Professor genetically engineers a new pet—the fluffy and cuddly Beebo—he instructs the Girls feed their new pet only once. When the girls accidently break this rule, Beebo mutates into a glutenous monster.
Mo Job provides examples of:
- Cardboard Prison: Prisons in Townsville are always shown to be bad, given they can never hold any of the recurring villains, but this episode is especially egregious as Mojo breaks out right after he was arrested.
- Coincidental Broadcast: Princess angrily throwing away the paper containing her bad plans turns on the tv, which just then is showing a news flash about Mojo Jojo being arrested. This gives Princess the idea to hire him.
- Complexity Addiction: Mojo develops a laser that can either give a target the combined powers of the Powerpuff Girls or remove said powers. His plan is to give Princess superpowers and then depower the Powerpuff Girls. Only the first half of the plan was necessary, as the empowered Princess proves more than capable of defeating the Powerpuff Girls on her own. Naturally, this plan backfires, as trying to fire the laser to depower the girls causes it to get redirected at Princess.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Mojo makes Princess as strong as all three Powerpuff Girls combined, allowing her to defeat them with no difficulty.
- Dumbass Has a Point: While Mojo is the one who comes up with the plan, Princess notices that his laser bounces off reflective surfaces, realizes the Powerpuff Girls are going to reflect it and warns him not to fire. She loses points since she only flies in a straight line to dodge it.
- Every Man Has His Price: At first, Mojo has no interest in helping Princess despite their common hatred for the Powerpuff Girls, because he doesn’t consider himself to be some “gun for hire”. He agrees however when Princess shows him just how much she is willing to pay.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Blossom observes that Princess already suffered a severe punishment by only briefly getting to know what it was like to be a Powerpuff Girl. Buttercup then quips that Princess is still going to jail, prompting the other girls and the Professor to openly laugh.
- Evil Plan: the episode opens with Princess desperately trying to come up with one of these, but failing.
- Fiction 500: Princess' father pays Mojo by offering a literal ton of money, and this is implied to be a drop in the bucket for him.
- Great Escape: Evidence shown on screen proves Mojo escaped from jail using the classic File and Tunneling methods.
- Heroic RRoD: A newscast shows the girls in the hospital, all three badly injured, after yet another fight with Mojo Jojo.
- Hollywood Healing: In the beginning of the the episode the girls were in the hospital after their latest fight with Mojo Jojo. When next see them in the episode the girls seem to have recovered rather quickly.
- Hypocrite: Mojo initially refuses to create a plan to destroy the Powerpuff Girls for Princess on the grounds that he wasn't a gun for hire. Once he see's just how much money Princess is willing to pay him however, his attitude quickly does a 180.
- The Juggernaut: Gaining superpowers makes Princess invincible. The only reason she loses is because the laser that removes powers is redirected at her.
- Mirrors Reflect Everything: The girls use the reflective tiles on the walls of Mojo’s lair to defend themselves against his De-power Ray, and even send the ray towards Princess.
- Modesty Towel: Mojo wears one when he has to leave the bath tub to answer the door.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
- Mojo inscribed the purpose of his Depower Ray on the raygun itself. Blossom sees it and prevents Bubbles and Buttercup from being hit by it.
- Mojo's plan to give Princess superpowers makes her too strong for the Powerpuff Girls. The villains only lose because Mojo attempts to remove the powers of the Powerpuff Girls, and the superpower removing laser he was firing gets redirected at Princess.
- No Indoor Voice: Mojo and Princess during their first meeting, since Mojo is inside his volcano top observatory and Princess is standing at the foot of the volcano, so they have to shout in order to hear each other. Naturally, everyone in the park can (and does) follow the conversation.
- Noodle Incident: The Evil Plan that left the Powerpuff Girls laid up in the hospital.
- No-Sell: Right after Princess reveals she lured the girls into a trap and has powers, the Powerpuff Girls all pummel her. Their blows have no effect.
- Oh, Crap!: The girls, when they realize Princess is not only working with Mojo, but has superpowers now.
- 1-Dimensional Thinking: When the De-power Ray is reflected right at her, Princess tries to outfly it rather than quickly move up, down or to the side to dodge it. Thus, it hits her.
- Overcrank: The entire scene where the girls dodge the power nullifier.
- Powers as Programs: Mojo invents a weapon that can give everyone Powerpuff powers, or take them away again.
- Power Nullifier: Mojo's weapon fires Antidote X laced electron beams that takes away the abilities of anyone who's power comes from Chemical X. Although he is not successful in removing the Powerpuff's power, he does end up accidentally de-powering Princess at the end of the episode and destroying his weapon in the process.
- Recruiting the Criminal: Princess hires Mojo Jojo to help her with her scheme against the Powerpuff Girls.
- Shout-Out: Princess baits the girls by being tied up and shouting “Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody. Help!”
- Slow "NO!": Blossom gets one as Buttercup's about to be hit with a ray. Princess herself also screams one when she is about to be hit herself.
- Spin Attack: Princess uses one to deflect Blossoms’ lightning.
- Villain Team-Up: Between Mojo Jojo and Princess Morbucks .
Pet Feud provides examples of:
- The Ageless: Beebo is this according to the professor.
- Cephalothorax: Beebo is tiny little fuzzball that hops around on two feet. After growing he also grows hands but never really develops limbs or a neck distinguished from his body.
- Comically Missing the Point: In the end, the Professor stresses the all-important rule of feeding Beebo only once. The Mayor interprets this as "once a day" and then "once in a while" (at which point his Beebo is taken away).
- Death by Gluttony: When Beebo eats too much, he eventually explodes. Downplayed in that, due to a failsafe the Professor build in, he does not die, but rather splits up in hundreds of smaller Beebo identical to the original before his mutation.
- Disney Death: Beebo explodes after eating so much, releasing everyone and everything he ate in return. However, due to a failsafe the Professor built into him, he doesn't die permanently, but instead splits into multiple Beebos.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: When it's clear that the Mayor doesn't grasp the rule about feeding Beebo only once, the Professor takes it away and everyone but the Mayor starts laughing. The Narrator only stops when he realizes he didn't get a Beebo in the first place.
- Extreme Omnivore: What Beebo becomes once he mutates.
- Fun with Acronyms: The Biogenetically Engineered Experimental Bipedal Organism..."Beebo" for short.
- Growling Gut: Beebo suffers this just before he explodes.
- Here We Go Again!: In the end, it looks like this will happen when the mayor fails to realize he is supposed to feed his Beebo only once, EVER. Averted because the professor realizes this is coming and takes the Beebo away from the Mayor.
- Hope Spot: Beebo has Bubbles cornered up against a building. She tries to stop him because she loves him. There’s a pause and both smile happily...then he eats her.
- Impact Silhouette: Beebo leaves several of these in the walls of the Utonium house when he gets outside to eat more.
- Inevitably Broken Rule: According to the Professor, the most important rule when taking care of Beebo is he can only be fed once in his entire lifetime, because eating more than once will trick his brain into thinking he needs to eat nonstop. This rule was accidentally broken, because while the girls were playing with Beebo, they were unaware the others have already fed him, thus each girl feeds Beebo once.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Bubbles tries this against the now monstrous Beebo. It doesn’t work.
- Miracle-Gro Monster: Beebo grows whenever he eats. When his gluttony is awakened by being fed more than once, he quickly grows to the size of a Kaiju.
- The Needless: Well, ALMOST needless. Beebo does need to eat, but only once in his entire life. Feeding him more than once will trick his brain into thinking he needs to eat constantly.
- Oh, Crap!: The professor’s reaction to learning the girls fed Beebo more than once.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Ms. Bellum is normally very patient with the Mayor, and her expressions of annoyance at his stupidity and incompetence rarely go beyond a typical snarky remark. In this episode, however, she gets outright angry with him for forgetting why he called the girls in the first place and ignoring the desperate situation Townsville is in.Sara Bellum: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, JUST GREAT?! WHAT ABOUT THAT GIANT FURBAG THAT’S EATING THE TOWN? WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?! WHY DO YOU THINK YOU CALLED THE GIRLS IN THE FIRST PLACE? THE TOWN IS IN DANGER. WE NEED THEIR HELP!Blossom: Is everything ok in there?Sara Bellum (over the hotline): Sometimes I wonder how you ever got elected and why I need to keep covering for you!
- Poor Communication Kills: The girls fail to inform each other that they have already fed Beebo, and thus each girl feeds him “once”.Professor Utonium: Did you remember to feed Beebo only once?
Powerpuff Girls: (cheerfully) Yes!
Buttercup: I did!
Blossom: I did!
Bubbles: (confused) I did?
Powerpuff Girls: Whoops.
Professor: Whoops is right! - Security Blankets: The girls are revealed to have these, which they sleep under while waiting for the Professor to be finished with whatever he's doing in the lab.
- Swallowed Whole: Beebo eats a train, citizens of Townsville, and even the girls, in one bite.
- Squee: The girls’ reaction to seeing Beebo for the first time. Beebo happily squees along with them.
- What the Hell, Hero?: After Beebo escapes but before the girls learn he's rampaging through Townsville, they get a call from the Mayor. He completely forgot why he called the girls in the first place, telling them things are great which earns him a scolding from Ms. Bellum on the other end for forgetting something so presently urgent.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite all citizens of Townsville getting their own Beebo at the end of the episode, they are never seen or mentioned again afterwards.
