Silent Treatment/Transcript
- Narrator: The city of Townsville has a mega-multiplex theater, (scene switches to a movie theater sign saying "Men 23"; camera zooms out, and the theater is crowded with many folks) where everyone goes on a Saturday afternoon to see the very latest in state-of-the-art, widescreen motion picture entertainment (camera switches to a nearby silent theater with four people) That is, everyone except (camera zooms in on Professor Utonium and the Powerpuff Girls. Professor is looking at a sign, the ticket-seller is seen through the window as though he's sleeping, and the girls are less than pleased at coming to the silent theater) the Powerpuff Girls.
- Buttercup: Aw, have a heart, Professor. Every kid in town is over at the multiplex and you decide to take us to a silent movie theater.
- Blossom: Yeah, nobody cool ever comes here.
- Bubbles: And the popcorn is as stale as their dumb old movies.
- Professor Utonium: Silent films are where all movies come from.
- Buttercup: But, Professor, we like our movies with color and sound.
- Blossom: Yeah, and car crashes.
- Bubbles: And explosions.
- Girls: And in a really cool theater!
- Professor Utonium: That's all well and good, girls, but you can go to the multiplex any day of the week. Today is the day you learn all about the history of motion pictures.
- Girls: Oh, all right.
- Professor Utonium: Oh, boy. It's a full house. Oh, this is gonna be so great. I'm totally excited. Aren't you? Oh, here's a good place to sit. Not too close and not too far. Now you just make yourselves comfortable and I'll get some popcorn. Don't go away now. And remember - these grand old films are where all movies came from.
- (Once Professor is gone, old-time piano music can be heard, and the movie starts. The girls roll their eyes. The camera switches to the movie screen with a title card saying "Joseph M. Skunk presents Max Von Nitrate in For Once, He Is Speechless; Directed by Cecil B. Centipede")
- Buttercup: (sarcastically) "Remember, girls, it's where all movies came from."
- Blossom: (jokingly) No, they didn't. They came from cans!
- [The girls laugh]
- Blossom: What's this?
- Buttercup: Looks like Mitch Mitchellson's house.
- Bubbles: Only cleaner.
- (A black shoe kicks the door open)
- Blossom: Uh-oh.
- Buttercup: Somebody forgot to knock. (A man with a curly mustache comes in, carrying a woman he's tied up) Whoa, who's that?
- Blossom: The bad guy.
- Bubbles: How can you tell?
- Blossom: He's the one with the flycatcher for a moustache.
- (The girls laugh again)
- Blossom: And the girl is a damsel in distress.
- Bubbles: Shh, he's speaking.
- Buttercup: (reading title card) "At last, I have you in my power?" Oh, man, what a cornball.
- Blossom: This is too much.
- Buttercup: Yeah, look at him. Where does he get his moustache wax from, his ears?
- (The girls laugh again)
- Buttercup: Oh, no, now he's gonna go into a big spiel. (reading title card) "You can not escape my clutches! I am Max Von N...Von I..." (the title card cuts back to the film) Hey, wait a minute! I'm not done reading yet!
- (Max slaps his forehead in exasperation and pulls back the title card) "...Nitrate! I see all and control all!" Okay, I'm done.
- Bubbles: Now, what's he gonna do?
- Blossom: Maybe he's leaving.
- Buttercup: No such luck.
- Blossom: Uh-oh.
- Buttercup: He's locking the door! Oh my gosh!
- Bubbles: Yikes!
- Blossom: I don't believe it!
- Buttercup: He's swallowing the key whole.
- Bubbles: "Key, whole." Get it. (giggles)
- Max: Burp!
- Buttercup: Gross! Hey, now he's being creepy.
- Blossom: A snake in the grass. (sarcastically) Oh, look, she gets the artie shot.
- Bubbles: I know I don't like this movie!
- Buttercup: Yeah, this picture stinks.
- Blossom: I agree.
- (The girls blow raspberries and laugh their hardest)
- Buttercup: Take that, furry lip!
- Blossom: Ha ha!
- Bubbles: Yeah!
- Max: (through title cards) You kids are starting to get on my nerves! Let's see if you find this funny!!
- (Max removes the hair from the woman, revealing that it's a wig, and the character looks familiar)
- Blossom: (reading title card) "Girls! Save me!!"
- (The shot switches back to the victim, and the girls realize who it is)
- Girls: (jumping out of their seats) It's the Professor!
- Blossom: What do you want with the Professor anyway, Mr. Moustache?
- Max: I want his VOICE!
- Girls: His voice?!
- Max: A simple operation really...I put his voice into my throat!
- Girls: Operation?!
- Buttercup: This guy's totally nuts. What do we do?
- Bubbles: We have to get in there and stop him.
- Girls: He's in there!
- Buttercup: (now speaking through title cards) Give us back the Professor!
- Blossom: (through title cards) We're in the silent movie now...we can only talk in titles!
- Max: (through title cards) See ya, Powerless Girls!
- Blossom: (through title cards) He's gonna steal the Professor's voice!
- Buttercup & Bubbles: (through title cards) We gotta stop him!
- Blossom: (through title cards) He's stolen our powers too!
- Buttercup: (through title cards) Then, we'll just have to save the Professor without them!
