Original air date: 2/3/1999 (produced in 1998)
Production code: PPG-111
Just Another Manic Mojo: After the Powerpuff Girls lose their baseball in Mojo Jojo's window it seems to offer the evil villain the perfect opportunity to destroy the pesky superheroes, but they keep getting distracted by his inventions and wind up causing a big mess.
Mime for a Change: An accidental bleach spill turns Rainbow the Clown into the malevolent Mr. Mime, and he proceeds to eliminate Townsville of its color, sound and movement.
Just Another Manic Mojo provides examples of:
- 1-Dimensional Thinking: After sending Bubbles back to the couch when the laser is about to fire, Mojo doesn't bother to run out of the laser's path and instead chews her out for leaving her post again. Thus, Mojo gets hit by the laser instead.
- Big "NO!": Mojo screams this when he runs after Bubbles about to touch the Ming Dynasty vase when the laser is ready to fire.
- Broken Glass Penalty: The girls accidently break one of Mojo’s windows with their baseball.
- Bubblegum Popping: Bubbles is chewing bubble gum throughout the whole episode, and often blows a bubble which pops all over her mouth when distracted or stunned.
- Captain Oblivious: The Townsville people don't see Mojo Jojo among them while waiting for the Walk signal.
- Cranky Neighbor: Mojo Jojo acts like the stereotypical cranky neighbor to some kids playing in the park next to his volcanotop observatory, demanding they get out of his pond.
- Death Glare: Mojo gives one to Bubbles for attempting to touch the Ming Dynasty vase yet again, prompting her to zip right back to the couch.
- Death Ray: The Giganto-Destructo-Powerpuffo Ray, which Mojo was planning to use on the girls. When he gets hit with it however, he remains in one piece, albeit badly scorched.
- Desperate Object Catch: Mojo saving his precious vase from shattering on the floor.
- Distant Reaction Shot: Upon Mojo seeing the newspaper dubbed him a hero for returning the girls their ball, he promptly screams "CURSES!!!" in utmost fury; during this, the camera zooms out to the exterior of the observatory as he is heard from within.
- Dress-O-Matic: Mojo Jojo is shown to have a machine that dresses him in his normal attire as part of his morning routine.
- Embarrassing Old Photo: While in Mojo’s lair, the girls discover his photo album with inside a series of photographs of Mojo as a baby. All three are quite amused to see this.
- Food as Bribe: When the girls are playing hide-and-seek in his lair, Mojo lures them out of hiding by offering them candy. It works too well, as the girls tackle him all at once.
- Friendly Enemy: The girls are quite jovial towards Mojo in this episode. Justified, as he hasn't done anything wrong (at least, as far as they know).
- Get Out!: After the girls rip apart Mojo's lair (not out of spite cause he's evil, it's because they lost their baseball in there), and after Mojo gets hit with his own laser meant for them, Mojo has had enough of the girls tearing down his home, gives them the ball and repeats this line 3 times to them.Mojo Jojo: (shows ball to Bubbles) HERE! HERE! HERE! GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT! (the girls leave happy, thanking him)
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Mojo ends up getting hit by the very laser he was planning to use on the girls.
- Lemony Narrator: The narrator makes no bones about his dislike of Mojo Jojo.Narrator: But one place in Townsville is not filled with fun activity... Townsville Volcano Mountain. For on top of this mountain lies the lair of the revengeful, resentful, spiteful, lawbreaking, mad, swindling, thieving, malicious, exhorting, assaulting, crooked, torturous, dishonest, complaining, wicked, indecent, menacing, touchy, swarthy, shadowy, villainous villain of all time... and he calls himself... MOJO JOJO! Oh, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!
- Little "No": By Mojo when he about to be hit by his own laser.
- MacGuffin: The girls' baseball. Mojo uses it to the girls' advantage to trick them into getting destroyed.
- Morning Routine: Mojo has constructed himself a machine to help him get out of his pajamas, shower, brush his teeth and get dressed.
- Never Say "Die": Mojo mentions throughout he wants to "destroy" the girls.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Currently provides the page image.
- Not a Morning Person: Mojo apparently. He only got up to have eggs for breakfast.
- #1 Dime: The Ming vase is the first thing Mojo ever stole.
- Priceless Ming Vase: Mojo has one in his lair. A Running Gag is that he repeatedly has to keep Bubbles from touching it, which she eventually does, forcing Mojo to catch it before it hits the floor. He succeeds…but then the vase gets destroyed anyway by Mojo’s own laser.
- Rule of Three: Happens in the dialogue when Mojo has had enough of the girls' antics that he is forced to give them their ball back and send them off.Mojo: HERE, HERE, HERE! GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!
Bubbles: Thank you!
Buttercup: Thank you!
Blossom: Thank you!
Mojo: Curses, curses, curses.
Narrator: Next day, next day, next day... - Running Gag: Mojo reacting to each little annoyance with a drawn out "Cuuurses!" Also, see Priceless Ming Vase above.
- Shout-Out: The episode's title is a play on the song "Manic Monday" by The Bangles.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Mojo allows the girls into his lair to retrieve their ball in hopes of destroying them, but they turn out to be such an annoyance that eventually he stops trying, just gives them back their ball, and kicks them out.
- Villain Episode: the episode is mainly about Mojo Jojo, with the girls in a supporting role.
- Villains Out Shopping: Mojo can be seen doing mundane routines like getting dressed for the day, going to Townsville market to get his breakfast, and then eat it back at home.
Mime for a Change provides examples of:
- Alternate Personality Punishment: After changing Mr. Mime back into Rainbow the Clown, the Powerpuffs beat up Rainbow and send him to jail even though he was Not Himself.
- Animated Music Video: On CITV in the UK, the song "Love Makes The World Go Round" is sometimes shown as one of these in-between programmes.
- Big "NO!": Bubbles unleashes one, coupled with Skyward Scream, when she finds her sisters turned monochrome by Mr. Mime, and her crayons prove unable to restore them.
- Bowdlerisation: On CITV in the UK, the psychedelic flashing lights that occur when Blossom performs her Jimi Hendrix-esque guitar solo in the song "Love Makes The World Go Round" are slowed down so as to not cause seizures in epileptic viewers.
- Body Wipe: Happens while Mr. Mime is running from Blossom and Buttercup.
- Clownification: Puts a spin on this: When he's soaked by a bleach truck, Rainbow the Clown is turned into an Enemy Mime who turns Townsville into a soundless, Deliberately Monochrome wasteland.
- Coloring in the World: Inverted by Mr. Mime. The friendly Rainbow the Clown inadvertently turned evil due to an accident with bleach turned him into the black-and-white Mr. Mime, who attempts to drain the color around him to make it as colorless as he is, but Bubbles via a song restores her friends, the city, and even Mr. Mime himself back into a colorful state, playing the trope straight.
- Creator Cameo: The birthday boy Rainbow is performing for at the beginning of the episode is modeled after background designer Jim Worthy
. - Deus ex Machina: Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup are inexplicably able to restore everyone back to their colorful selves with the song "Love Makes The World Go 'Round".
- Deliberately Monochrome: Rainbow after he becomes Mr. Mime. And he proceeds to do this to everyone and everything around him.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The girls beat the pulp out of Rainbow the Clown and send him to prison for monochoming Townsville, ignoring the fact that he was Not Himself.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Mr. Mime gets the drop on Blossom and Buttercup, it looks similar to a scenario involving a child predator.
- Enemy Mime: What the bleach accident turns Rainbow into, down to his name being changed to Mr. Mime. Fortunately, the girls are able to restore him back to normal.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Bubbles immediately gets this following the narrator asking what she will do after her crayons failed to save her sisters, prompting her to unleash The Power of Rock to save them for real and restore all the colors.
- "Get Out of Jail Free" Card: Averted. Rainbow is arrested despite not being himself, and the episode ends with him in jail.
- Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Bubbles tries to revive her sisters by coloring on them. However, this doesn't work.
- Lead Drummer: During "Love Makes the World Go 'Round", Bubbles is both the drummer and main vocalist among the girls.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The police officers that confront Mr. Mime demands he puts his hands on the ground. Unfortunately, this is just what Mr. Mime wants since it allows him to use his powers on the police.
- Non-Ironic Clown: Rainbow before the accident, and after the girls restore him to his good self.
- Not Himself: Rainbow as he was being controlled by the bleach for most of the episode.
- Overcrank: Bubbles dropping her crayons to the ground, some which break in half.
- The Power of Rock: How the girls (Bubbles initially, but Blossom and Buttercup come to life with this trope) restore color to Townsville, and even undo what happened to Rainbow.
- Silent Antagonist: This is what Rainbow becomes after turning into Mr. Mime.
