The Powerpuff Girls

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The Powerpuff Girls
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The Powerpuff Girls with Professor Utonium
Format Cartoon
Run time 30 Minutes
Creator Craig McCracken
Starring Catherine Cavadini
Elizabeth Daily
Tara Strong
Tom Kane
Tom Kenny
Roger L. Jackson
Jennifer Hale
Jennifer Martin
Jim Cummings
Jeff Bennett
Kath Soucie
Country USA
Network Cartoon Network
Original run November 18, 1998 – 2004
No. of episodes 78

The Powerpuff Girls is an animated series starring three little girls with superpowers who have dedicated their lives to fighting crime and the forces of evil. The series was created by animator Craig McCracken, and first produced by Hanna-Barbera for Cartoon Network.

The show began as a project for Craig McCracken's college class at California Institute of the Arts in 1992, titled The Whoop-Ass Girls. Spike and Mike premiered the short at their Festival of Animation. They then funded a fully drawn color short, "A Sticky Situation," that also featured the Amoeba Boys. In 1995, they were renamed to the more TV friendly Powerpuff Girls as a few more episodes and new antagonists, "Meet Fuzzy Lumpkins" and "Crime 101," appeared on the What-A-Cartoon! show. A full TV series was aired in 1998. The Powerpuff Girls Movie was released in 2002.

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Characters

The Powerpuff Girls

  • Blossom: Red-haired, pink-eyed, and dressed in pink. She is "the commander and the leader" (aka the bookish, drill instructor-ish one). (Voiced by Catherine Cavadini)
  • Bubbles: Blond-haired, blue-eyed, and dressed in blue. She is "the joy and the laughter" (aka the spacey one). (Voiced by Kath Soucie in the What-A-Cartoon! episodes, and Tara Strong in the series)
  • Buttercup: Black-haired, green-eyed, and dressed in green. She is "the toughest fighter" (aka the violent one). (Voiced by Elizabeth Daily)

There was a fourth Powerpuff Girl: Bunny, who was brown-haired, purple-eyed, and dressed in purple. When, the three original girls couldn't handle all their crime-fighting activities any more, they decided to create a new Powerpuff Girl themselves, but she didn't turn out exactly as planned. Bunny appears to be mentally challenged. (Voiced by Christine Cavanaugh)

Townsville Citizens

They live in the fictional city of Townsville, USA (not to be confused with Townsville, Australia). They were created by Professor Utonium, who was attempting to make the perfect little girl by combining sugar, spice, and everything nice, when (courtesy of his assistant, Mojo Jojo) he accidentally knocked a glass of "Chemical X" into the mixture. The girls are super-cute and super-powerful. They have abnormally large eyes and no fingers or toes. They also have many super-powers similar to those possessed by Superman, including super-strength, the ability to fly, super-speed, and the ability to project a variety of energy blasts. In some cases, they utilize special team maneuvers to take down their foes, such as Ferocious Fiery Feline (the girls combine to create a cat of pure fire). Others include a triple attack from side to side and front, spinning around fast enough to create after-image doubles, turning into a ball to save people or strike 'em out, and a twister with devastating aftereffects.

Friends and allies of the Girls include the Pokey Oaks Kindergarten teacher Miss Keane (voiced by Jennifer Hale), the empty-headed Mayor of Townsville (who is referred throughout only as "Mayor": in one episode where he was forced to run for re-election as Mayor, he ran with the campaign slogan "Vote Mayor for mayor!" and his voice belongs to Tom Kenny, who also serves as the show's narrator) and his very competent assistant, the statuesque redheaded Ms. Sara Bellum (named after the cerebellum), whose face is always just out of shot (most likely a reference to the initial appearance of redhead Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man).

Enemies include the mad scientist monkey Mojo Jojo (voiced by Roger L Jackson), Fuzzy Lumpkins (voiced by Jim Cummings), The Gangreen Gang, the spoiled little rich girl Princess Morbucks (the name is a play on Daddy Warbucks from Annie and voiced by Jennifer Hale), The Rowdyruff Boys (male versions of the Powerpuff girls made by Mojo Jojo), Sedusa, and the mysterious, superpowerful, red-skinned, and effeminate devil referred to only as Him. The girls also frequently combat a wide assortment of giant monsters, all of which seem to visit Earth solely for the purpose of demolishing Townsville. One-time villain appearances include Femme Fatale, Abracadaver, Roach Coach, The Smiths (their next door neighbors), and The Dooks of Doom; furthermore, a group of unsuccessful bank robbers is often seen suffering the consequences of their deeds. Major Man came to Townsville trying to take the girls' place but it was discovered he was nothing but a big fraud and the girls made him leave Townsville.

The Amoeba Boys, the harmless pack of amoebas who first appeared in the "World Premiere Toon" "Crime 101," are somewhere in between enemies and friends. That is, their crimes are as primitive as their species (they considered stealing a discarded orange to be their greatest crime ever), and they have some ties with the Powerpuff Girls.

Episodes

Six seasons (78 episodes) and one self-titled movie called The Powerpuff Girls Movie, have been made. In The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Jody Irwin, one of June's best female friends (BFF) claims there are over three hundred episodes. However, no more episodes have been planned. However, an anime version of this series, Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z is being planned.

External links

The Powerpuff Girls in other languages

  • Finnish: Tehotytöt
  • Portuguese:
    • As Meninas Super-Poderosas (in Brazil)
    • As Powerpuff Girls (in Portugal)
  • Spanish:
    • Las Chicas Superpoderosas (in Latin America)
      • NOTE: Originally (in the "World Premiere Toon" times), they were called "Las Chicas Coquetas" which roughly translates to "The Fashionable Girls" or "The Flirty Girls." This was changed before the series started(the first season originaly aired as "Chicas Coquetas", reruns were re dubbed) .
    • Las Super Nenas (in Spain)
  • French: Les Super Nanas
  • Italian: Le Superchicche
  • Chinese: Literally: "Little Flying Cop Girls"
  • Japanese: パワーパフガールズ(Pawa- pafu ga-ruzu(Powerpuff Girls))
  • Hungarian: Pindúr Pandúrok (Literally "Tiny cops")
  • Hebrew: בנות הפאוורפאף (B'not Ha-Powerpuff - "The Girls of Powerpuff")
  • Polish: Atomówki (Literally "Little atomic girls")
  • Swedish: Powerpuffpinglorna
  • Icelandic: Stuðboltastelpurnar ("the energetic girls", literally "the energy-ball girls")
  • Russian: Крутые девчонки (Krutie Devchonki, literally "Kick-ass Girls")
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