Original air date: 8/6/1999
Production code: PPG-202
Collect Her: A comic book geek named Lenny Baxter goes too far to complete his Powerpuff Girls collection—he decides to add the girls themselves to his collection!
Supper Villain: The Powerpuff Girls' new next-door neighbors, The Smiths, seem very nice and average—until the father, Harold Smith, reveals his ill-fated aspiration of becoming a supervillain.
Collect Her provides examples of:
- ...And 99¢: Lenny pays $ 17.99 for one of the items he bought for his collection.
- Badass Bystander: The Mayor calls up the entirety of Townsville to determine who could've kidnapped the girls, and after figuring out it was Lenny, they get rallied into storming Lenny's apartment to free the girls.
- Blame Game: When Lenny begins to steal their stuff for his collection, the girls first blame each other for all the missing items.
- Can Only Move the Eyes: When the girls are trapped by Lenny in oversized packages, they can still make facial expressions and blink.
- Collector of the Strange: Lenny Baxter. He collects so much Powerpuff Girls merchandise that it comes off as creepy. But when his collection is completed, his obsession drives him to steal the girls' possessions and eventually the girls themselves.
- Comically Missing the Point: Also dramatically given the nature of the situation. While Blossom and Buttercup are instantly freaked out by the massive Powerpuff memorabilia collection, Bubbles finds it impressive... until her sisters call her out.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?:
- When the Professor and the children start opening his collected packages (upsetting their collector's value), Lenny reacts in the same way most villains do when they are being beaten by the Girls.
- If you look at it in a particular way, a creepy, obese man kidnapped a man's daughters for his own sick desires.
- False Innocence Trick: Lenny pretends to be in trouble to lure the girls to his home.
- Geek Physiques: Lenny Baxter is the obese variant.
- Hidden Depths: The Mayor is shown to know everyone in Townsville by name. He flushes out Lenny as the Girls' kidnapper by ordering everyone in Townsville to assemble and looking for whoever didn't show up.
- Hypocritical Humor: Blossom calls out her sisters for always blaming each other for their stuff getting lost, right before saying to them "Now which one of you took my hairclip?!"
- Interrogation by Vandalism: The Professor and a group of kids force Lenny to tell what he did to the girls by destroying all of his Powerpuff collectibles.
- Loony Fan: Lenny Baxter again, so loony he goes as far as to kidnapping and trapping the real girls in Power Packages.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Lenny's obsession to collect more Powerpuff Girls "merchandise" drives him to steal their personal belongings by moving faster than they can see and then trap the girls themselves. By all appearances, he's non-powered, but his collection is his one perceived purpose in life and having any item opened causes him physical pain and nausea. This combined with his glowing red eyes upon greeting the girls before capturing them could mean his collection empowers him by fueling his obsession.
- Misplaced Retribution: Adding on to Hypocritical Humor, the girls blame each other for their missing belongings, when it was actually Lenny who stole them.
- Now What?: Lenny asks himself this question when he learns that he has acquired every kind of Powerpuff merchandise there is, so there is nothing left for him to pursue. His answer is finding other things related to the Powerpuff Girls to collect, like their personal belongings and eventually the girls themselves.Narrator: Sheesh, buddy! Get a life!
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Lenny is just a regular, obese, non-superpowered geek, so it’s nothing short of amazing that he was somehow able to capture the Powerpuff Girls and trap them in three Power Packages.
- Offscreen Reality Warp: Through one method or another, Lenny is able to move fast enough to steal Bubbles' drawing (and later crayons), Buttercup's meat she was using as a punching bag, and Blossom's hair clip. Each of these is done when they only look away for a few seconds—Bubbles picking up a crayon, Buttercup facing Bubbles with her meat offscreen, and Blossom looking over her shoulder.
- Papa Wolf: When hearing his daughters scream, the Professor wastes no time taking action.
- Product Placement: Deliberately averted. The creators were very conscious to make the in-universe merch as absurd as possible and not to depict any of the real-life PPG merchandise being released at the time so it wouldn't come across as this. Ironically, some products, such as the waffle iron, ended up getting defictionalized.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The Professor delivers one to Lenny about how a true fan would never keep the girls for himself.Professor Utonium: Let me tell you something, Lenny. You may have all of the toys, all of the merchandise, all of the so-called "collector's value." But one thing you don't have, Lenny, is true fandom. For a true fan wouldn't want to selfishly keep the girls to himself. A true fan would want them to be free. Free to do the things they do best. To do the things we love most about them. Now why don't you be a fan…and tell me where they are?
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Lenny's eyes turn red just before he captures the girls.
- Silence Is Golden: After the girls are captured by Lenny, they don't have any dialogue for the rest of the episode, with most of it coming from the Professor and Mayor.
- Shout-Out: The girls are trapped in the Power Packages like Han Solo. Unlike Han Solo, however, they can still move their eyes and make facial expressions.
- This Cannot Be!: Lenny, upon discovering that his collection is complete.
- Torches and Pitchforks: When Lenny looks out the window and sees an angry mob outside, he says, "Well, paint me green and call me Frankenstein."
- Victory Is Boring: Lenny had dedicated his life to collecting PPG merch. While some collectors would find a sense of pride in successfully collecting everything they set out to collect (a very impressive feat to be sure), all this does is drive Lenny off the deep end.
Supper Villain provides examples of:
- Boredom Montage: The average workday for Harold.
- Food Fight: During dessert, the situation between the girls and Harold finally escalates, resulting in multiple pies in the face.
- Harmless Villain: Harold Smith. His costume is badly made and his only "threat" was holding Professor Utonium at gunpoint with a hairdryer he claimed was a raygun.
- Henpecked Husband: The moment as Harold seems to be about something that might upset her plans, Marianne immediately threatens her husband and urgers him to do as she says.
- Human Shield: Harold uses the professor as one against a pie thrown at him by his wife.
- Hostage Situation: The girls have to resolve one where Mojo Jojo breaks into the townhall and takes the Mayor hostage. It lasts for 3 days in total. Seeing this on TV is what inspires Harold to become a super villain. When he finally reveals his true colors, he takes the professor hostage.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Harold Smith's main motivation for becoming a supervillain was that he was bored of his mundane, routine, everyday life.
- Inherently Funny Words:Mary Anne: You'll never guess what's for breakfast... pancakes!
- It Runs in the Family: By the narrator when Marianne is livid when the girls ruined her dinner in the end.Narrator: Uh-oh, looks like evil runs in the family!
- Never My Fault: Marianne puts all the blame on the girls for ruining her dinner with their pie fight, despite the fact she took part in it herself, was clearly shown having fun during it, and did nothing to try and stop it. Blossom even tried to get her and everyone else to stop, only for Marianne and the others to throw pies at her.
- Nothing Can Save Us Now: The police chief has this attitude about the hostage situation at Townhall.
- No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Or rather, my wife expects us all to dine together.
- Only Sane Man: Blossom tries to get everyone to stop the pie throwing fight, only to get hit with pies herself.
- Overly Long Gag: Professor slowly chewing his pea for at least twenty seconds, complete with audible munches.
- Ridiculously Average Guy: Harold Smith, and he hates it.
- Skewed Priorities: Mrs. Smith cares more about everyone eating her dinner than the fact that her husband has snapped and is holding one of their guests hostage. At the end of the episode, she cares more about the fact that the girls ruined her dinner with their pie fight than the fact Harold is going to prison.
