Line #9 Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS5EP13SilentTreatmentSweetNSour


1	'''Original air date:''' 4/9/2004
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3	'''Production code:''' PPG-517
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5	'''Silent Treatment''': At the silent movie theater the girls reluctantly attend, a silent film star captures the Professor.
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7	'''Sweet 'n' Sour''': Townsville is being robbed by a group of cute little animals, whose innocent looks lets them get away with everything.
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9	!!Silent Treatment provides examples of:
10	* BreakingTheFourthWall: In-Universe example. Max von Nitrate talks (through text cards of course) directly to the girls from within his movie. And can hear the girls when they talk back to him.
11	* BornInTheTheatre: When they are falling from the plane, Bubbles grabs the edge of the film and tears it apart, sending the girls, the police officers and Max back into the real world.
12	* BroughtDownToBadass: The Girls don’t have their powers within the silent movie. It doesn’t keep them from going after Max Von Nitrate though.
13	* CarChase: Between Max Von Nitrate and the Professor in one car, and the girls + a group of police officers in another car.
14	* ChainOfPeople: When Max Von Nitrate tries to escape in an airplane, Buttercup is able to grab the wheels just in time, and her sisters and the police officers all hang onto her (except for one fat cop who doesn’t make it).
15	* DastardlyWhiplash: Max Von Nitrate, the villain of this episode. Justified, since he is from the era of silent movies after all.
16	* DontExplainTheJoke: After witnessing Nitrate SwallowTheKey.
17	-->'''Buttercup:''' He's swallowing the key whole!\
18	'''Bubbles:''' Key''hole''. Get it? ''[giggles]''
19	* {{Expy}}: An Expy of Creator/CharlieChaplin (in his trademark bowler hat and cane) gets knocked over by Max von Nitrate’s car, and the police car.
20	** Later, a man who looks an awful lot like Creator/HaroldLloyd is seen dangling from a [[Film/SafetyLast clock tower]].
21	* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The villain and supposed damsel reacting to the girls' commentary indicate this is more than an average movie.
22	* FoodFight: The silent movie features a scene with people [[PieInTheFace throwing pies at each other]], for some reason. They only briefly stop to let the police car pass.
23	* ManiacMonkeys: when Max von Nitrate’s plan reaches Africa, with the girls and the police officers still dangling from the wheels, they [[ItMakesSenseInContext accidentally snatch up a piano playing monkey]], who quickly climbs all the way up the chain and drops the girls and officers from the plane. He then proceeds to drop Max from the plane as well and hijacks the plane, with the Professor still inside.
24	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If the Professor had taken the Girls to the megaplex instead of the Silent Theater, like they wanted in the first place, he never would've gotten kidnapped by the silent movie villain.
25	* OlderIsBetter: The Professor is far more fond of old fashioned silent films than modern day ones. The girls don’t agree.
26	* OhCrap: The Girls' reaction when they realize that the woman held hostage by Max von Nitrate is actually the Professor with a wig.
27	* ShoutOut: In a reference to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', the girls make assorted comments about the movie while their silhouettes are shown in the bottom right corner.
28	* SilentMovie: The Girls and the Professor end up in one.
29	* SwallowTheKey: Max Von Nitrate does this after locking a door. Later, when the girls make their way into the movie, he pulls the key out of his mouth again to unlock the door.
30	* TragicVillain: Max is eventually revealed to be the old man running the silent movie theater, who admits to being a former great actor who lost his job when talkies replaced the silent movies due to his bad voice. He hoped to change his luck by acquiring the professor's voice.
31	* TrappedInTVLand: Max Von Nitrate pulls the professor into the movie, forcing the girls to follow.
32	* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Max Von Nitrate, a.k.a. the owner of the silent movie theater.
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34	!!Sweet ‘n’ Sour provides examples of:
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38	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The girls get [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass made out to be jerks]] by the citizens of Townsville for trying to stop the baby animals.
39	* AllThereInTheScript: The critters are named in the credits as Fluffy Kitty, Cuddly Bunny, and Puppy Wuppy.
40	* CuteIsEvil: A very cute pink rabbit, dog and cat. And they happily commit crimes.
41	* DisproportionateRetribution: Uh, Townsville? Should you be solving the girl's so-called "animal cruelty" by treating the former with what is essentially bullying and ''child'' cruelty?
42	* HeroWithBadPublicity: The girls get this treatment from Townsville after they try to confront the Fluffy Bunch.
43	* {{Hypocrite}}: The townspeople accuse the girls of "bullying" the critters, yet they themselves are perfectly willing to [[WouldHurtAChild bully the girls]] just for trying to stand up to the critters.
44	** On top of that, they allow the Fluffy Bunch to get away with all crimes, yet in episodes like Powerpuff Bluff and A Very Special Blossom, the girls were sent to jail for crimes they had committed. (Only Blossom's case for the latter; and in the former, the girls were framed. And even after clearing their names, they had to go back to jail for breaking out in the first place.)
45	* {{Jerkass}}: The citizens of Townsville side with the Fluffy Bunch and constantly treat the girls like crap.
46	* KarmaHoudini: While the Fluffy Bunch get punished for their crimes, The City of Townsville on the other hand never gets punished for their mistreatment of the Powerpuff Girls, nor do they realize that they were being used by the Fluffy Bunch, nor do they apologize to the girls, and yet [[SnapBack they're on good terms with the girls by the next episode as if nothing ever happened]].
47	* KickTheDog: Nearly ''everyone'' in Townsville behaves this way towards the girls in favor of the Fluffy Bunch.
48	* LaserGuidedKarma: The critters get [[AndCallHimGeorge harassed by a bunch school children]] at the end due to their cuteness.
49	* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: The girls try to stop the critters from committing crimes over Townsville, yet the townspeople accuse them of harassing them and [[HeroWithBadPublicity ostracize them for it]].
50	* ProducePelting: The citizens throw an egg at ''Bubbles'' of all people.
51	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The villains of this episode are a bunch of these, and they milk their cuteness for all it’s worth in order to rob people or convince the girls to give them one more chance. The Girls eventually turn it against them by luring them to room full of young children, who happily cuddle the critters into submission.
52	* SuckinessIsPainful: Fuzzy’s bad banjo playing has this effect on people.
53	* TalkingAnimal: All three critters can talk.
54	* UngratefulTownsfolk: The girls try to stop the Fluffy Bunch, only to get reprimanded for it.
55	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Fluffy Bunch are admired by the townsfolk and the girls get vilified for trying to confront them. When the girls actually do successfully take them to jail the second time they encounter them, they're released early for being so adorable. Even the prisoners they temporarily shared a jail cell with loved them.
56	* WavingSignsAround: A group of citizens shows up at the Utonium house to protest against the girls trying to stop the criminal critters.
57	* WouldHurtAChild: The townspeople have no qualms against mistreating a bunch of 5-year-old girls.
58	* WoundedGazelleGambit: The critters pull these off a couple of times to make the girls look bad.

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