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EvaUnit01 Fandom Heretic Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#126: Aug 12th 2014 at 5:32:39 PM

apparently being rejected by a dance group is what caused Professor to get into science, NOT a volcano incident that the show established back in Season 4
A volcano incident that was incited by a time-traveling Mojo and then stopped by a time-traveling PPG, no less.

Take that, combined with spilling the Chemical X into the mixture near the start of The Movie. Not only did Mojo Jojo create his own worst enemies, he double created his own worst enemies, both by directly causing the Freak Lab Accident they were born from, and by giving Professor Utonium the inspiration to clean up his act and become a scientist in the first place.

An episode, fanfic, or whatever about Mojo actually realizing this would be just about the greatest thing ever, just for his reaction to it.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#127: Aug 12th 2014 at 6:13:55 PM

To be honest, reviving the PPG doesn't sound that difficult. Make it a sequel series where they are teenagers (or at least middle school aged) and dealing with teenage issues like how in the original series they were dealing with children's issues.

Didn't they already do that?

Yes, I know Z isn't actually a sequel series, but Rule of Funny.

powerpuffbats The crabby fussbudget Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#128: Aug 12th 2014 at 7:28:29 PM

[up][up][up] NO! get that awful memory of the teenagers scene from the clip show episode out of my head!

AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!
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THE DISGRACE STILL LINGERS UPON ME
#129: Aug 12th 2014 at 9:08:07 PM

[up] This. Oh God, THIS.

Even if I had different face, I AM STILL DISGRACED.
Odd1 Still just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Still just awesome like that
#130: Aug 12th 2014 at 9:39:30 PM

An episode, fanfic, or whatever about Mojo actually realizing this would be just about the greatest thing ever, just for his reaction to it.
But he realizes this in the episode in which that backstory is introduced.

Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
EvaUnit01 Fandom Heretic Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#131: Aug 13th 2014 at 7:37:00 PM

It's been forever since I saw that episode, so... <shrug>

KingKix Typing the internet since '90 from Dante City Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#132: Aug 13th 2014 at 7:41:51 PM

NO! get that awful memory of the teenagers scene from the clip show episode out of my head!

Oh come now. If this kind of storyline worked on Totally Spies, it would have worked here.

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EvaUnit01 Fandom Heretic Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#133: Aug 13th 2014 at 8:21:26 PM

And now I have this mental image of a PPG sequel along the lines of "Totally Spies meets Dragon Ball Z".

.... which I would probably watch for a good while, actually.

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#134: Aug 13th 2014 at 8:34:36 PM

[up] Agreed - provided the writing is better than both those fucking examples in general!!

Even if I had different face, I AM STILL DISGRACED.
EvaUnit01 Fandom Heretic Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#135: Aug 13th 2014 at 8:38:03 PM

<tilts head, shrugs>

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#136: Aug 13th 2014 at 8:40:25 PM

[up][up][up] They could call it... Powerpuff Girls Z! Right? Ri- <is shot>

edited 13th Aug '14 8:40:44 PM by KnownUnknown

TheShopSoldier THE DISGRACE STILL LINGERS UPON ME from Messin' with Neo Arcadia... Just Because Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
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#137: Aug 13th 2014 at 8:45:08 PM

Known Unknown!

REVENGE!! REVENGE!!!

Even if I had different face, I AM STILL DISGRACED.
TheShopSoldier THE DISGRACE STILL LINGERS UPON ME from Messin' with Neo Arcadia... Just Because Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
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#139: Aug 13th 2014 at 8:49:44 PM

Yeah... I'm outta here before I die, too.

Even if I had different face, I AM STILL DISGRACED.
KingKix Typing the internet since '90 from Dante City Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Typing the internet since '90
#140: Aug 13th 2014 at 10:01:40 PM

[up][up]One word: Ken Utonium

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AfroWarrior27 Since: Apr, 2013
#141: Aug 14th 2014 at 6:51:36 AM

...

That escalated quickly...

Odd1 Still just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
Still just awesome like that
#142: Aug 14th 2014 at 9:08:53 AM

. If this kind of storyline worked on Totally Spies!,
It didn't.

Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
KingKix Typing the internet since '90 from Dante City Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#143: Aug 14th 2014 at 9:16:10 AM

And it lasted 6 seasons HOW?

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maxwellelvis Mad Scientist Wannabe from undisclosed location Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: In my bunk
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#144: Aug 14th 2014 at 9:38:08 AM

[up]Fetishes.

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
AfroWarrior27 Since: Apr, 2013
#145: Aug 14th 2014 at 9:39:24 AM

[up][up][up] Heh, says you. The series had a theatrical film with a box office of $1,186,742.

edited 14th Aug '14 9:41:45 AM by AfroWarrior27

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#146: Aug 14th 2014 at 9:45:11 AM

Yeah, Totally Spies wasn't exactly the most well written show on the block, flat characters, textbook/underdeveloped plots, etc. I suspect it was comparatively cheap to make - both it and Martin Mystery (which was better written, but still had its issues) showed noticeable animation shortcuts from time to time.

It was also the most Fetish Fuel-y show I've ever seen comes from someplace that's not Japan, so I guess that contributed to its periphery demographic.

edited 14th Aug '14 9:50:54 AM by KnownUnknown

AfroWarrior27 Since: Apr, 2013
#147: Aug 14th 2014 at 9:51:16 AM

The film grossed $571,695 on the first weekend, ranked at number #9 at the French box office with the average of $2102 per theater.

Doesn't seem something so cheap could get that type of attention.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#148: Aug 14th 2014 at 9:52:07 AM

I've never seen the film, but I'd assume that - like most theatrical releases - it required better animation than the series proper. I'd also assume that the series was better hyped in France than it was in America (the film never released over here).

Cheap shows get attention all the time. Read: Johnny Test and lots of anime. Or Disney's Robin Hood. Or Star Wars. Etc.

It also wouldn't be the first time a cheap and/or not-well written but incredibly toyetic show had lots of longetivity and made mountains of cash.

edited 14th Aug '14 10:06:31 AM by KnownUnknown

AfroWarrior27 Since: Apr, 2013
#149: Aug 14th 2014 at 10:10:31 AM

And how many cheap and toyetic shows do you know receive an animated film that did rather well?

You're making some rather bold statement. The only thing I have to agree from your statement is Johnny Test.

edited 14th Aug '14 10:13:03 AM by AfroWarrior27

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#150: Aug 14th 2014 at 10:41:02 AM

Spongebob Squarepants, for one - at least on the "poorly written and toyetic" sense. The Smurfs. The multitude of Yogi Bear movies, but particularly "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear." In fact, most Hanna Barbera shows that had movies developed before the big adaptation rush nowadays.

Also, anime again - especially older anime, where a lot of the animation techniques were designed for the sake of saving money.

Though this makes me want to know more about France's animation industry - I don't know how France treats longrunners, for instance. (for one, I don't know if their industry "enforces" the hard 65 episode rule, and thus don't know whether Spies' long run is as uniquely remarkable as it would be in the US - to bring up anime again, even less successful anime can run for a time that it breaktaking by American standards, because our industry doesn't encourage long runners in the same way).

edited 14th Aug '14 10:53:24 AM by KnownUnknown


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