...is oddly enough, one of the few "The One" titles that was never ever used on Friends! Knock it Off was one of the most serious episodes yet for The Powerpuff Girls. It started off like another typical episode, but it slowly got darker as time went on. The Powerpuff Girls meet Dick Hardly, the college roommate of Professor Utonium. Dick is a dick who only wanted to sleep with bikini babes and never get any homework done without cheating off of Utonium. He takes a liking to the Powerpuffs, and thinks there should be more of them to stop crime in the rest of the world. So they give him some Chemical X, because having more of them can only be a good thing. They are glad to help him contribute their powers to the rest of the world when he creates new Powerpuff Girls for New York, India, Japan, Australia, and many other countries and cities, but it becomes a big conflict of interest when Professor Utonium sees them on the news and he asks them when they were in New York. The first knock-offs in New York can only say one phrase each: Bubbles says "Let's be friends!" Blossom says "Prepare to be stopped!" and Buttercup says "Girl power!" Another pair of knock-offs in India also has their own phrases: Bubbles says "Hello, it's Bubbles here to save you again." Blossom says "We've got to save the world before bedtime." and Buttercup says "I think he's asking for a heinie-whooping."
The conflict of lying to the Professor for the greater good gets even worse when Dick mass-produces knockoff Powerpuffs, and some of them are so inefficient that their limbs fall off. He doesn't care about saving the world. He just cares about money! The Powerpuffs fly to Dick's secret lab to take back his Chemical X, but he traps them and murders them for their Chemical X. In just 8 minutes, the plot escalated quickly from the girls telling Utonium a little white lie to cover for Dick's knockoffs, to dark jokes with the knock-off Powerpuff Girls falling apart, to the original Powerpuff Girls being killed by Dick Hardly in cold blood. Dick Hardly was so complete of a monster, even Him and Princess Morbucks would be terrified of him. Professor Utonium finds the Powerpuffs in Dick's lab, and he is terrified by all of the freaky knock-offs of them. He demands for Dick to let the girls go so he can make Chemical X for Dick instead, but Dick Hardly says "You fools! Why should I let them go when I can have you both?" Professor Utonium cries "Girls! I...I love you." The horrific knockoff girls help Utonium save the original girls and turn against Dick Hardly. "You never gave us love. Where was our love?" They sacrifice themselves to kill Dick Hardly and blow up his evil lab. Professor Utonium cries and his love restores the Powerpuffs' color. He says "Well, old Dick may have gotten the formula right, but the one ingredient he forgot was love."
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