The Blossom Files is the 39th episode (and the seventy-eighth episode overall) of Season 2 of the 2016 Powerpuff Girls series. It aired on Cartoon Network on May 13, 2018.
Synopsis
Bubbles and Buttercup get into trying to contact aliens and build a gate with the help of one of their classmates, Barry. Blossom dismisses that aliens aren't real and the gate doesn't seem to work. However that night, an alien named Chiru does indeed come and she befriends it. However, it suddenly disappears the following day and Blossom must convince her sisters that Chiru is real.
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Trivia
- To be fair, Blossom doesn't believe in aliens, but in this episode, she claims there was an alien. The reason might've been because she met Chiru in this episode.
- It's strange that Blossom doesn't believe in aliens as she and the girls have fought aliens many times before. This episode might takes place before the first alien character appeared on the 2016 reboot and before they might their lost long older sister, Bliss who eventually becomes a special intergalactic agent, since she was hunting for Sporde in Never Been Blissed.
- This is the first time when the reboot premieres three episodes back-to-back.
- This episode aired on the same day as "Not So Secret Service" & "Aliver".
- Running gag: Buttercup telling Blossom she's a nutbar.
- The title of this episode is a reference to the popular, long-running science fiction TV series on Fox called, The X-Files.
- Blossom is very fond of strawberry milk in this episode. Blossom was in a "Got Milk?" commercial for strawberry milk in the early 2000's during the original 1998 series' run when she fought and defeated Fuzzy Lumpkins who was stealing every school children's strawberry milks in the school bus.
- The alien disguise Blossom used to fooled Bubbles, Buttercup and Barry resembles The Flatwoods Monster, an actual cryptid in the real world sighted in the forests of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia. The Flatwoods Monster was believed to be an UFO.