The Powerpuff Girls

**The Powerpuff Girls** is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network.

The entire series was avaliable at launch along with it's reboot

## Premise

The show revolves around the adventures of three kindergarten aged girls with an array of various superpowers: Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup.

## Characters

### Main

* Blossom (Cathy Cavadini)
* Bubbles (Tara Strong)
* Buttercup (E. G. Daily)

### Recurring

* Professor Utonium (Tom Kane)
* The Mayor of Townsville (Tom Kenny (series) Jim Cummings (What a Cartoon!))
* Miss Sara Bellum (Jennifer Martin)
* Ms. Keane (Jennifer Hale (series) Kath Soucie  (What a Cartoon!))
* Narrator (Tom Kenny (series) Craig McCracken (What a Cartoon!))
* Talking Dog (Tom Kane (series) Paul Mercier (What a Cartoon!))
* Mitch Mitchelson (Tom Kenny)

### Villains

* Mojo Jojo (Roger L. Jackson)
* Him (Tom Kane)
* Fuzzy Lumpkins (Jim Cummings)
* Princess Morbucks (Jennifer Hale)
* The Ganggreen Gang
	+ Ace (Jeff Bennett))
	+ Snake (Tom Kenny)
	+ Lil' Arturo (Tom Kenny (series) Carlos Alazraqui (first appearance))
	+ Grubber (Jeff Bennett)
	+ Big Billy (Jeff Bennett)
* The Amoeba Boys
	+ Bossman (Chuck McCann)
	+ Junior (Chuck McCann)
	+ Slim (Chuck McCann)
* Sedusa (Jennifer Hale)
* The Rowdyruff Boys
	+ Brick (Rob Paulsen)
	+ Boomer (Rob Paulsen)
	+ Butch (Roger L. Jackson)

## Home media

All 6 seasons are available on iTunes.

DVD releases:

* Powerpuff Bluff (November 7th, 2000)
* Down 'n' Dirty (November 7th, 2000)
* The Mane Event (April 3rd, 2001)
* Complete Season 1 (US) (June 19th, 2007)
* The Complete Series- 10th anniversary collection (January 20th, 2009)

## Video Games

* Bad Mojo Jojo (2000) (GameBoy Color)
* Paint the Townsville Green (2000) (GameBoy Color)
* Battle HIM (2001) (GameBoy Color)

## Appearances in other media

### **In other works**

A Powerpuff Girls poster was featured in the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode, The Ride of the Valkyrise.

The billboard with the Talking Dog was featured in the second episode, Samurai Jack.

Professor Utonium appeared in the The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode, My Fair Mandy.

The three girls appeared on a movie screen in the Evil Con Carne episode, Ultimate Evil.

Mojo Jojo appeared in the three part Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends special, House of Bloo's.

Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup made brief cameos in the Codename: Kids Next Door crossover special, The Grim Adventures of the KND.

Miss Bellum appeared in the Chowder episode, The Hot Date. Bubbles' head appeared in the episode, The Heist.

Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup's names appeared in the Steven Universe crossover episode, Say Uncle.

The three girls appeared in a segment of the Uncle Grandpa episode, Pizza Eve.

Buttercup and Talking Dog both appeared in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus. Buttercup appeared as one of Ben 10's transformations while Talking Dog appeared as one of the Cartoon Network heroes that were summoned and defeated by Strike.

## Production

During Craig McCracken's first year in the character animation program of CalArts, he created a series of short cartoons based on a character called "No Neck Joe". In June 1991, he created a drawing of three girls on a small sheet of orange construction paper as a birthday card design for his brother.

The following year he included the three girls as the main characters of his short film Whoopass Stew! The Whoopass Girls in: A Sticky Situation. Initially, McCracken wanted to animate four Whoopass Girls shorts, but only one came to be. McCracken's shorts were selected to be shown at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation in 1994.

While working on 2 Stupid Dogs in 1993, McCracken's Whoopass Girls short was picked up for a series by Cartoon Network. However, the name Whoopass had to be dropped for the channel to include it as part of its new What a Cartoon! animated shorts showcase mostly because the name Whoopass sounded inappropriate because it was pronounced whoop ass. The Whoopass Girls then became The Powerpuff Girls, and the "can of whoop ass" was renamed "Chemical X". McCracken's new short, entitled

"The Powerpuff Girls in: Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins", aired as part the network's World Premiere Toon-In on February 20, 1995.

## Navigation

- Films: Ben 10: Race Against Time | Foster's Movie: Destination Imagination | Regular Show: The Movie | Steven Universe: The Movie