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November 18, 1998
- Network executives gave McCracken the greenlight for a full series, which debuted as a Cartoon Cartoon on November 18, 1998. The Powerpuff Girls aired on Cartoon Network for six seasons, three specials, and a feature film, with the final episode airing on March 25, 2005.
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Network executives gave McCracken the greenlight for a full series, which debuted as a Cartoon Cartoon on November 18, 1998. The Powerpuff Girls aired on Cartoon Network for six seasons, three specials, and a feature film, with the final episode airing on March 25, 2005.
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is an American animated television created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. It originally aired on Cartoon Network as a pair of pilot shorts on the series What a Cartoon!, with the first premiering on February 20, 1995. With the success of these pilots, The Powerpuff Girls was picked up by Cartoon Network as a full series, which aired from November 18, 1998 to March 25, 2005, running for six seasons and 78 episodes. Reruns of the series continued to air on the network until February 8, 2014. In December 2021, one time return this show, because Christmas specials.
A reboot of the series officially premiered on April 4, 2016 and ended on June 16, 2019.
The plot of the series follows three super powered little girls, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, who were accidentally created by Professor Utonium during a science experiment to create the perfect little girls. The girls are often summoned by the Mayor of Townsville to stop any threats the town faces.
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.
Main article: The Powerpuff Girls/Characters
As depicted in the opening sequence of each episode, the Powerpuff Girls were created by Professor Utonium in an attempt "to create the perfect little girls" using a mixture of "sugar, spice, and everything nice". However, he accidentally spilled a mysterious substance called "Chemical X" into the mixture, creating, instead of the "perfect little girl", 3 girls (each possessing one of the above elements dominating her personality), and granting all three superpowers including flight, super strength, super speed, near invulnerability, x-ray vision, super senses, heat vision, energy projection, invisibility, and control over lightning.
•Blossom (voiced by Cathy Cavadini) is the tactician and self-proclaimed leader of the Powerpuff Girls. Her personality ingredient is "everything nice", her signature color is pink, and she has long red hair with a red bow and a heart-shaped hairclip that can be seen from behind. She was named for having spoken freely and honestly to the Professor shortly after her creation as shown in the Powerpuff Girls Movie. She is often seen as the most level-headed, and composed member of the group and also strong and determined. Her unique power is freezing objects with her breath as seen in the episode "Ice Sore".
•Bubbles (voiced by Tara Strong in the series and by Kath Soucie in the What a Cartoon! episodes) is the cute and sensitive one. Her personality ingredient is sugar, her signature color is blue, and she has blonde hair in two pigtails. Bubbles is seen as kind and very sweet but she is also capable of extreme rage and can fight monsters just as well as her sisters can. Her best friend is a stuffed octopus doll she calls "Octi", and she also loves animals. She exhibits the ability to both understand multiple languages and communicate with various animals (squirrels, cats, monsters), and her unique power is emitting supersonic waves with her voice.
Cameos and references in other Cartoon Network shows
Mojo Jojo has made a cameo in the Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends three part TV movie, House of Bloo's. A poster of The Powerpuff Girls appeared in the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode, The Ride of the Valkyrise. The billboard with the Talking Dog appeared in the second episode of Samurai Jack. The three girls made a cameo appearance in the Evil Con Carne episode, Ultimate Evil. Professor Utonium appeared in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode, My Fair Mandy when the characters ends in the world of The Powerpuff Girls. The three girls made a brief cameo in the Codename: Kids Next Door and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy crossover special, The Grim Adventures of the KND where the three of them were popping out of the Delightful Reaper. Miss Bellum appeared in the Chowder episode, The Hot Date. Bubbles' head appeared in the episode, The Heist. Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup's names were listed on a list in the Steven Universe and Uncle Grandpa crossover episode, Say Uncle. Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup also appeared in the Uncle Grandpa episode "Pizza Eve" in the Grampies and their 2016 designs. Buttercup and the Talking Dog appeared in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus. Buttercup appeared as one of Ben Tennyson's transformations into different Cartoon Network characters while the Talking Dog appeared as one of the Cartoon Network heroes that were summoned and defeated by Strike. The series was acknowledged in the Cartoon Network 30th Anniversary video in October 2022.
VHS volumes:
•Bubblevicious (May 30, 2000)
•Monkey See, Doggie Go (May 30, 2000)
•Birthday Bash (November 7, 2000)
•Dream Scheme (November 7, 2000)
•Twisted Sister (April 3, 2001)
•This is the first series Craig McCracken created. The creator of this show would later create another series for Cartoon Network, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, whose characters make cameo appearances in •The Powerpuff Girls was the last animated series to be produced at Hanna-Barbera Productions, 3 years before it's closure in 2001.
•The episode, "Feel Me, See Me, Gnome Me", was omitted from US broadcasting due to a sequence containing flickering strobe effects shown in a background, as Cartoon Network feared this would induce epileptic seizures in some audiences. However, it did manage on the Complete Series DVD in 2009.
•However, the season one episode "Mime for a Change", prior to "Feel Me, See Me, Gnome Me", had a similar effect briefly showing different colors flashing on Blossom during the sequence "Love Makes the World Go Round". Decades later, the image is edited by slowing down the speed to avoid these issues.
•This was the first Cartoon Network series to premiere during the Powerhouse era.
The 22-minute special, titled "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!", aired on the Pan-Euro Cartoon Network on November 29, 2008, on the Powerpuff Girls Birthday Marathon, and in the United States on January 19, 2009, as part of its 10th-anniversary marathon. [33]
The Powerpuff Girls: Created by Craig McCracken. With Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong, Tom Kenny, Elizabeth Daily. Three super-powered little girls constantly save the world (or at least the city of Townsville) from monsters, would-be conquerers and a few other gross things.
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In October 2000, Cartoon Network credited The Powerpuff Girls for its Friday night prime time ratings win among cable networks. By 2001, merchandising based on The Powerpuff Girls encompassed everything from T-shirts, toys and video games to lunchboxes and dishware
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Apr 6, 2021 · From 1998-2005, that mixture got you Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, the three super-powered little girls that starred in the Cartoon Network monster hit The Powerpuff Girls.
Cartoon Network has produced spin-offs and follow-ups of some of its original shows, but The Powerpuff Girls was the first to have adaptations beyond its capabilities. There was an anime adaptation of the series called Powerpuff Girls Z or Demashita!
