"Les Diaboliques" (悪魔のような女たち, Akuma No Yō Na Onnatachi) is the eleventh episode of season 1 and the eleventh overall episode of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. It first aired on November 5, 2010.
Synopsis[]
Panty and Stocking arrive at Daten City High School to find that a strict academic regime has been established by the mayor's daughters, Scanty and Kneesocks.
Plot[]
The episode starts with a few exploding ghosts, who, upon being killed, leave no Heaven Coin behind. Panty and Stocking complain in the bathroom, but after finding a non-replica looking Ghost, they try killing it. The small ghost manages to escape, and flees through a toilet, splashing the angels with toilet water and saying that the ghost is a girl when Panty and Stocking thought that the ghost was a boy. Enraged, the Anarchy sisters attack the ghost once again, but the conflict lasted all night apparently, as it was morning when they decided to let it go and returned back to school. Shortly after, a student asks them why they weren’t wearing their uniforms. He then proceeds to explain that the new queens of Daten City High School established a few rules they needed to follow.
Scanty and Kneesocks after arriving at Daten City High.
Panty calls Brief, and asks him to explain what is going on. Brief tells them the new queens, who are actually demons and the mayor's daughters, bound the school with new rules and morals. The demon sisters arrive, and upon noticing Panty and Stocking, they comment on their stench. The Anarchy sisters tell them rules are boring and pointless, but Kneesocks goes off the handle and explains how rules are needed in order to solve the chaos of freedom.
While in the cafeteria, Panty and Stocking complain about the newly established healthy and tasteless menu. Scanty and Kneesocks sit beside the angels' table and proceed to criticize them and their way of handling ghosts. Now completely enraged, the angels challenge the demon sisters, in order to prove who is better, but the demon sisters win in every category. The angels are sent to the losers' class, where they find the little ghost from the night before. The ghost tells them he knows where the demon sisters' hideout is, and that in order to go, they need to get inside a toilet.
It turns out the demons' hideout is in fact a ghost factory, which is the one producing the heavens-worthless ghosts the Anarchy sisters had been encountering. Garterbelt tells them to destroy the place, for a Ghoststone in there had been absorbing human evil for thousands of years. Scanty and Kneesocks find the Anarchy sisters, and both parties transform their respective clothes into weapons. Upon finding out Scanty and Kneesocks are actually demons, the ghost decides to join them instead, but is sliced by Kneesocks' scythe, which turned her into a bigger ghost. However, the ghost is killed easily anyway. Both parties prepare to battle, but Brief tells them that if they really want to win, all they need to do is get the Ghoststone, which Chuck eats.
Fastener kicks Chuck repeatedly in order for him to spit the stone, which Brief proceeds to catch. Panty shoots the newly created ghosts and orders Brief to run, who decides to flee through a toilet. Scanty and Panty go off on a duel, just as Stocking and Kneesocks do the same. Kneesocks calls for Fastener, who appears driving G-String. Stocking does the same in order for it to be fair, and Chuck appears driving See Through. Scanty and Panty keep fighting, while Stocking and Kneesocks drive their respective cars, which at some point, collide from the front.
Panty and Stocking holding their weapons towards Scanty and Kneesocks on the school's roof.
Panty forces Scanty's face on a toilet, and upon freeing herself, Scanty does the same to Panty, but on an urinal. See Through manages to rip G-String in two, while Brief runs to the school rooftop. He is soon found by Kneesocks, but Stocking pushes him aside. Scanty points at Brief with her revolver and shoots at him, but Panty shoots at the same time, sending Scanty's bullet away. The demon sisters pin Brief down, and threaten to kill him, but the angels tell them they don't care for him, rendering the demons' threat useless. The Demon sisters themselves, however, are greatly shocked to hear this sort of thing from angels as they are supposed to be emissaries of God yet they care nothing for saving the life of an innocent human.
Panty tells them rules are meant to be broken, and both Scanty and Panty shoot each other. Panty's bullets seem to deflate Scanty's, and Stocking then proceeds to send the bullets the demons' way with her katana. Brief throws the stone at the angels, which Panty destroys, making both, the factory and the school burn to a crisp. The demons tell them they'll call it a draw and flee. Panty asks Brief if he wants to have sex with her, but Brief tells her he wants to take things slow. Panty then ditches him and she and Stocking leave. In the end, Scanty and Kneesocks report back to the mayor, who punishes them for their failure.
Characters[]
- Panty
- Stocking
- Garterbelt
- Chuck
- Brief
- Scanty (debut)
- Kneesocks (debut)
- Fastener (debut)
- Corset (debut)
- Loser Ghost (debut)
- No-Brain Ghost (debut)
Production images[]
Trivia[]
General trivia[]
- The fact that Panty was not afraid of Scanty and Kneesocks killing Brief might be because heavenly weapons seem to have no effect on humans (though whether demonic weapons share this feature is unknown).
- Similar to the single dot and dual dot selector switch on a Glock 18, Scanty's pistols have similar switchs, with the single Demon Wing on the selector representing Semi-auto, and the Dual Demon Wings representing fully automatic.
- This is the first half-hour-long episode of the series.
- The fourth wall was broken four times:
- In the English dub, Panty mispronounces "Les" as "Lay". Stocking corrects her, and Panty then says it the right way.
- In the English sub, Stocking says she gave up fat "episodes ago".
- Right before Panty and Stocking compare their popularity with Scanty and Kneesocks, a "V.S" sign appears onscreen. Kneesocks then smacks it away.
- After Stocking deflected Scanty's bullets, one of the bullets bounced off of the top of the screen.
- For a brief second when Panty gives Scanty a swirly and she screams in disgust, you could see a tiny Scanty in her mouth when she screams.
- At an event held by the Gainax staff on December 28, 2010, this episode was voted as the best episode of the series.[1]
- This is the last episode of the first season that features Daten City High School.
- It was later seen in "D.C. Confidential", albeit only in clips of past episodes.
- This is the highest-rated episode of the series on IMDb.[2]
- At the end of the title card, Chuck sheds a tear.
Cultural references[]
- The episode's title is a reference to the 1955 French suspense film, Les Diaboliques.
- The title card is a reference to a promotional poster for the 1996 thriller film, Diabolique, which is a remake of Les Diaboliques.
- When Scanty gets the photos of Panty and Stocking falling down the trapdoor, she receives them from the mouth of a marble bust. This is a reference to the 1979 film Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, which has a similar set up.
- After being sent to the loser's class, there was a poster with Panty's photo and a headline saying "Good Save the Queen", which is a reference to the Sex Pistols' single, "God Save the Queen".
- Another headline read "The Punk and the Godfather", which is a reference to The Who's 1973 song of the same name.
- There are several action figures referencing American comics, such as Hulk and Batman, on one of the desks in the loser's class.
- One of the people in the loser's class references the Star Wars franchise by wearing a Darth Vader helmet, with cape, and wielding a lightsaber.
- Boota, a character from Gurren Lagann, can be seen in a small handful of frames when the characters go underground through a toilet.
- It is possible that this episode is a subtle reference to the season 1 episode of The Powerpuff Girls, titled "The Rowdyruff Boys", in which the Powerpuff Girls meet their evil counterparts, the Rowdyruff Boys. Both episodes were the first double-length episodes for their respective series.
- The Ghosts made in the factory have a shield with the Batman symbol. Furthermore, in the English dub, they are referred to as Dark Knight Ghosts, a reference to Batman's nickname.
- In the English dub, while running with the Ghoststone, Brief asks himself "What would Indiana Jones do?", a possible reference to the 1981 movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- While arguing with the Daemon sisters outside the school, Panty says "We have the right to party!", referencing the Beastie Boys' 1986 song, "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)".
- In the English dub, after arriving beneath the school, Stocking says "Curiouser and curiouser...", a reference to the 1951 film, Alice in Wonderland, which, in turn, is adapted from the 1865 novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- In the English dub, after Loser Ghost transforms into a bigger Ghost, Brief namedrops Helena Bonham Carter.
- As Scanty and Kneesocks berate Panty and Stocking with their smart language and popularity, Panty and Stocking briefly appear to look like Muppets.
Errors[]
- When Scanty shot a barrage of bullets at the angels, Stocking countered it with her katanas, slicing some of Panty's hair in the process. Later in the episode, however, Panty's hair is no longer cut.
- The number of bullets fired in Scanty's last attack fluctuates between shots. Initially, four bullets survive the contact with Panty's shots, but around ten bullets are seen zeroing in on the Anarchy sisters before Stocking deflects them. In the subsequent shot of the bullets ricocheting toward the demon sisters, there's only four once again.
Episode references[]
- In the Japanese dub, after Loser Ghost jumps into the toilet, Panty says: "That's one place we don't wanna go." Stocking replies: "Speaking from experience, are you?", referencing when Panty got sucked into a toilet in "Excretion Without Honor and Humanity".
- After Kneesocks made fun of Stocking for her weight, she snapped back by saying "I gave up fat like ten Ghosts ago!", referring to "The Diet Syndrome". As she says this, several clips of said episode are briefly seen.
Music[]
- "Sub Title" - Episode sub title
- "Burrrrrp" - Ghosts destroyed
- "Theme for Scanty & Kneesocks" - Demon sisters arrive
- "Ghost Town" - Demon sisters at the lunch tables
- "Zombie" - Stocking snaps
- "S-Trip" - Scanty and Kneesocks list their challenges
- "Beverly Hill Cock Part 2" - Ghost Factory
- "Ghost Town" - The demon sisters enter the factory
- "Fly Away" - Angel transformation
- "Theme for Scanty & Kneesocks" - Reprised as the demon sisters transform
- "Dancefloor Orgy" - Ghost transforms and angels attack
- "See-Through" - The angels dual wield
- "Fighting" - Chuck eats the stone
- "Beverly Hills Cock" - The chase begins
- "Corset Theme" - The fight escalates
- "Pantscada" - and escalates
- "Schranz Chase" - and escalates
- "Cherryboy Riot Part 2" - and reaches the roof
- "See-Through" - reprised as the bullets ricochet
- "Theme for Scanty & Kneesocks" - Reprised again as the demon sisters escape
- "Cry" - the school in ruins
References[]
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