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Jellystone S 3 E 20 Crisis On Infinite Mirths
(aka: Jellystone S 3 E 16 Crisis On Infinite Mirths)

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Jellystone S 3 E 20 Crisis On Infinite Mirths Recap

Max Release Date: 3/6/25

Couch Gag: Space Ghost.


Provides examples of:

  • A House Divided: During the climatic brawl, several Cartoon Network characters (having come in from different portals) attack each other:
    Johnny Bravo (while fighting off Fred Fredburger and Cheese): Hey, I think we're supposed to be on the same side.
  • Ax-Crazy: Literally in this case, as Rodney from Squirrel Boy pops out of a wormhole holding an axe and screaming the following:
    Rodney: I'M GONNA POUND YOUR BODY INTO GOOP AND USE IT TO BUTTER MY BREAD! (runs off laughing maniacally while swinging his axe)
  • Bait-and-Switch Compassion: After Grim opens an interdimensional portal and tosses Billy through it, Mandy says "Grim! How could you?" It turns out she’s only upset because Billy had the TV remote, and now the remote is gone with Billy.
  • Big Damn Kiss: Mojo Jojo and Cindy kiss towards the end of the episode.
  • Blatant Lies: After Dee Dee breaks a robot arm in Dexter’s lab and says "Whoopsie! I did it again!", Dexter pushes a button to zap Dee Dee into another universe, flatly saying "Oh, no. It seems I have also done…a whoopsie."
  • Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them:
  • Crossover Couple: Mojo Jojo and Cindy fall in love with each other.
  • Crystal-Ball Scheduling: The episode of the Justice Friends anime that Billy tunes into (and that Grim and Mandy are forced to watch) involves the multiverse.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Grim and Dexter banish Billy and Dee Dee from their respective universes just for annoying them. Cindy points out that it was really mean of them (though she also says she can see why Grim and Dexter were sick of the two dumb kids).
  • Draco in Leather Pants: In-universe, this is how Cindy views Mojo Jojo. Especially since she doesn’t know he's a villain.
  • Edible Ammunition: Sector V's 2x4 technology includes their signature condiment shooting weapons. Yogi easily eats them during the fight.
  • Enemy Mine: A lot of characters from the Cartoon Network universes are surprisingly cooperative with each other when fighting the Hanna-Barbera universe (and Mojo) - despite the fact that a lot of them wouldn't get along in normal circumstances. This includes the Sector V of Kids Next Door, who are generally very hostile towards most teenagers and adults and would generally not want anything to do with them (although they've cooperated with some in the past, including their own arch nemesis Father a few times) and HIM, a recurring major villain for the Powerpuff Girls.
  • Flashback Effects: Lampshaded. Dee Dee tries to do a flashback, but Cindy interrupts it and tells her not to do one with ripples.
  • Gratuitous Japanese: "Step on me, senpai!"
  • Hero-Worshipper: As the Big Bad of his world, Mojo is apparently seen as an inspiration by all the other villains in Townsville. After he’s banished from their universe, they all stop terrorizing Townsville. Ace says that with Mojo gone, the other villains have lost their inspiration.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: Cindy thinks the Powerpuff Girls are evil because they beat up Mojo (ignoring the fact that Mojo is Obviously Evil and Cindy saw him go on a destructive rampage in Townsville and Jellystone, clearly being biased in Mojo’s favor since she has a crush on him).
  • I "Uh" You, Too: When Cindy compliments Mojo's brilliant mind, Mojo can't bring himself to say the same back, which really upsets Cindy. It's only after Mojo witnesses Cindy beating up the Powerpuff Girls in her own giant mech that he's able to return the compliment.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Cindy, while having an obviously unfair bias against the Powerpuff Girls due to her infatuation with Mojo, isn't wrong to also point out that it was pretty mean of Dexter and Grim to banish Dee Dee and Billy from their home universes just so they wouldn’t have to put up with their idiotic antics. She also admits that while Grim and Dexter went too far, she can see why they banished them, since Billy and Dee Dee are both pretty annoying.
  • Large Ham: Richard Steven Horvitz hams it up like there's no tomorrow as Billy, his dad (as Mogar) and Rodney.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
  • Luminescent Blush: Mojo blushes when Cindy says he has a brilliant mind.
  • Massive Multiplayer Crossover: This is a special episode that features multiple Cartoon Network characters entering the Jellystone universe. The Powerpuff Girls (1998), Dexter's Laboratory, and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy are the most prominent ones in this special, but there are also cameos from 2 Stupid Dogsnote , Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, Chowdernote , Regular Show, Adventure Time, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Johnny Bravo, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Time Squad, Camp Lazlo, Samurai Jack, Codename: Kids Next Door, Squirrel Boy, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Courage the Cowardly Dog, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, Ben 10, The Powerpuff Girls (2016), and Evil Con Carne.
  • Mental Picture Projector: Cindy hooks up Dee Dee, Billy, and Mojo Jojo to one of these.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • Dee Dee does the dance she learned from watching Groove Train.
    • Hoss Delgado is wearing his Underfist uniform.
    • Space Ghost switches sides partway through the battle, referencing how he started out as a Hanna-Barbera character and later got shows on Cartoon Network.
    • In contrast with how the Powerpuff Girls are said to be made of sugar, spice, and everything nice, Cindy says they're made of venom, hate, and everything not so great.
    • While trying to fill the void left behind by Dee Dee, Dexter mentions the risk of his laboratory being "blown to smitherens". That comes from his cartoon's ending song.
  • Nap-Inducing Speak: Wally falls asleep while Cindy tells him that he has less than six minutes left to live.
  • No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Dexter banishes Dee Dee from their universe so she’ll stop breaking his inventions and lab equipment. However, he soon grows bored without Dee Dee getting in his way, because now it’s too easy for him to do his work. Dexter says that Dee Dee was his Mt. Everest.
  • Not Hyperbole: Mandy says that, if she has to watch five more seconds of Justice Friends, she'll rearrange Grim's face. Grim only has the time to remind her that Billy has the remote before Mandy literally fulfills her threat.
  • Not Where They Thought: Mojo Jojo thought he was in Townsville and is set on destroying it, but he was actually in Jellystone.
  • Off with His Head!: Loopy rips off Robot Jones’ head during the climactic battle.
  • Other Me Annoys Me: During the climatic battle, 1998 Bubbles beats up 2016 Bubbles. (By that point, allegiances had broken down within the Cartoon Network camp, so it's possible that the Bubbleses would been more cooperative under less heated circumstances.)
  • Pet the Dog: When Dexter gets the idea to banish Dee Dee from their universe, he considers it, but decides that he shouldn’t banish Dee Dee. However, then Dee Dee breaks a robot arm in his lab, so he changes his mind.
  • Primal Chest-Pound: Magilla Gorilla pounds on his chest as he leads the other Jellystone primates to fight the monkeys from other dimensions.
  • Reformed Criminal: After Mojo Jojo was kicked out of Townsville, no one wants to do crime anymore, and all of the criminals have gone straight. Doesn't stop the Powerpuff Girls from punching Ace, though.
  • Revisiting the Roots: The main versions of The Powerpuff Girls and Ben 10 that appear in this episode are based on their 1998 and 2005 counterparts respectively instead of their 2016 reboot counterparts, though there is a Funny Background Event of 1998 Bubbles beating up her 2016 reboot counterpart as a Take That!.
  • Ship Tease: Billy hints that there's a universe where he and Mandy are married.
  • Shipper on Deck: Dexter states that he was totally shipping Mojo and Cindy.
  • Show Within a Show: Billy wants to watch the new Justice Friends anime, much to Grim and Mandy's chagrin. When Billy is sent to Jellystone, he takes the remote with him, meaning that Grim and Mandy are stuck watching the anime.
  • Take That!: In a Funny Background Event during the fight between the Jellystone and Cartoon Network casts, the version of Bubbles from the controversial The Powerpuff Girls (2016) appears from nowhere… and is quickly beaten up by the 1998 Bubbles. In fact, this moment was requested by Craig McCracken, the creator of The Powerpuff Girls (1998), himself.
  • Toilet Humor: What ends up saving reality from being destroyed is Fred Fredburger needing to use the bathroom and clogging up the time hole.
  • Trapped in Another World: Dee Dee, Billy, and Mojo Jojo were all banished from their home universes for being annoying, and they all ended up in Jellystone.
  • The Voiceless: Obviously, getting the original actors for every character would've been a hassle, so several of them don't have any lines. In particular: Sector V, Mordecai and Rigby, the Adventure Time characters, Cow and Chicken, I.R. Baboon, Lazlo (even though he is shown mouthing words), Hoss Delgado, HIM and the Time Squad don't speak. In the case of HIM, it’s additionally justified as his actor Tom Kane retired from acting in 2021 after a debilitating stroke. In the case of Muriel Bagge, it's also justified because her voice actor Thea White died in 2021 from liver cancer. Curiously, despite Tara Strong reprising Bubbles and Truffles, Ben Tennyson, depicted here as he was in the original series, but has no lines. The same case can apply to Tom Kenny with the Ice King and Jake Spidermonkey, both silent despite Kenny reprising the Mayor, the Narrator, and Eduardo from two of Craig Mcracken’s shows. Likewise with Rob Paulsen, who reprises Major Glory but not Tuddrussel and Phil LaMarr, who voices Samurai Jack and Hector Con Carne but not Wilt (Despite his name being seen in the voice credits). In the case of the Eds, giving them lines is complicated by the fact their voice actors are based in Vancouver, and Tony Sampson (Eddy's VA) retired from voice acting in 2009 anyway. In the case of Chowder, it’s likely because his voice actor, Nicky Jones, is now older after the last time he voiced him. And in the case of K’nuckles, It likely because his voice actor, Brian Doyle-Murray, was busy voicing another pirate character, who unlike K’nuckles, is green and is a go- HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!
  • Three Laws-Compliant: Robot Dee Dee brings up the First Law of Robotics as the reason she's not destructive like the real Dee Dee.
  • Wham Shot: As soon as Mojo and Cindy leave the Time Hole alone, a monstrous, green hand reaches out... and out of the hole comes Fred Fredburger, signaling that the situation is about to get worse. Soon afterwards, in order to show that even more dimensions than the ones already shown are about to get involved, Mordecai and Rigby appear to jack Cindy's car outside her house.
  • Wall of Text: The last screen of the credits features individual copyright/trademark statements for every Cartoon Network franchise whose characters appear in the episode in tiny text (2 Stupid Dogs is officially a Hanna-Barbera show and is covered under the umbrella H-B copyright/trademark statement that appears in every episode).
  • Wild Card: Space Ghost is on Jellystone's side at the start of the battle, but can later be seen fighting Shazzan, reflecting his history as a Hanna-Barbera character revitalized by Cartoon Network.
  • Wimp Fight: Huckleberry Hound and the Mayor of Townsville swat each other when the latter is sent to Jellystone.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Cindy doesn't hesitate to beat up the Powerpuff Girls when they threaten Mojo.

 
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Billy & Mandy in Jellystone!

Billy wants to watch an episode of Justice Friends where Major Glory wants to explore the multiverse, while Mandy criticizes not only the concept of the Multiverse, but the topic of the episode itself.

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