Paste Makes Waste is interestingly not one of the most hated episodes of The Powerpuff Girls, but it kinda should've been. Sure, what Elmer Skloo does is pretty disgusting and Ms Keane does make a fair point regarding how it is impressionable, but Buttercup is pretty unlikable in the episode, as when Mitch Mitchellson starts teasing Elmer for eating paste, Buttercup joins in on the teasing and throws a large chunk of paste at Elmer, which reduces him to tears, and for most of the episode, Buttercup is so much of a jerk, that she isn't willing to even say sorry for what she did until the end of the episode, when Elmer becomes a giant paste monster, and to be honest, Elmer did kinda have every right to fight back against Mitch Mitchellson during this time. Even though my mum did point out that Buttercup and the other two Powerpuff Girls are children, they most certainly don't have the intelligence of one, especially Blossom, so I don't know if that justification works. If Buttercup had either A, apologised to Elmer for teasing him earlier than when he did become a giant monster. Yes, Shadow Streak pointed out that the 2016 reboot version of Buttercup is a big jerk, but this episode makes me question why so many people love her the most out of the three Powerpuff Girls, since Paste Makes Waste is an example of her just being downright cruel for no reason, as she also loves to be mean to Bubbles, like in Boogie Frights, when she teases Bubbles's fear of The Boogey Man and scary stories in general, even though she was cowering over a zombie movie she watched with Blossom and Bubbles in Abracadaver.
As for Ice Sore, Bubbles and Buttercup shift a little out of character in the middle of the episode, as they have fun inside the house when they discover Blossom has ice breath and uses it to stop the heat wave in Townsville, but when they go to school, they start to grow jealous of Blossom and uncharacteristically pick on her simply because she had learned she has a new superpower, and they attempt to stop her from using unless it's in "an important situation", despite the fact the citizens were having to suffer in the heat of the sun. Even if they do apologise to her in the end, that doesn't at all justify their actions. If I had to make a list of the worst episodes of the original The Powerpuff Girls, both Paste Makes Waste and Ice Sore are good contenders.
As for Ice Sore, Bubbles and Buttercup shift a little out of character in the middle of the episode, as they have fun inside the house when they discover Blossom has ice breath and uses it to stop the heat wave in Townsville, but when they go to school, they start to grow jealous of Blossom and uncharacteristically pick on her simply because she had learned she has a new superpower, and they attempt to stop her from using unless it's in "an important situation", despite the fact the citizens were having to suffer in the heat of the sun. Even if they do apologise to her in the end, that doesn't at all justify their actions. If I had to make a list of the worst episodes of the original The Powerpuff Girls, both Paste Makes Waste and Ice Sore are good contenders.
