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Recap / The Powerpuff Girls 2016 S 03 E 23 Lights Out

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It's Towns Topia day in Townsvilles and Bliss has taken time off from her space duties to come join the festivities and show off her device that she calls Butley, which can make anything a person asks for. However they soon turn out to be for nefarious purposes.


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  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Once Silico reveals he made the Butleys, he uses them to take control of the citizens of Townsville to attack the girls.
  • Daydream Surprise: In the climax the girl manage to put a rigged Butley on Silico's head to bring him under their control. But he No Sells it and traps the girls under a bomb which explodes and seemingly kills them. He starts to celebrate... and then we see Silico in cell in a straitjacket rambling and find out the girls plan worked. Everything past the point where Bubbles sticks the Butley on him up to the reveal in his cell was just in his head.
  • Evil Laugh: "Bliss" does one when the Butleys all stop working. But it's soon revealed to be Silico in her form.
  • Late to the Party: Bliss doesn't arrive till well after Silico started brainwashing the citizens.
  • Lotus-Eater Machine: The girls manage to trap Silico in one by turning his Butley on him and trapping him in a dream where he destroys the girls.
  • Running Gag:
    • The professor in a roller coaster that only goes up. By episode's end he's still on it, in space and frozen as a result.
    • Buttercup's insistence on being called "Wheelz" for the episode for "international appeal" during the festival.
  • Something Only They Would Say: When the real Bliss shows up, the girls think it's Silico still in her guise. After Bliss stops them from attacking her, they demand she prove she's real. She states she holding them in place with her powers which is something Silico can't replicate which is enough to convince them.

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