50 Fun Facts About Powerpuff Girls

Which sister do the girls create themselves in the episode 'Twisted Sister'?

Bunny is the misshapen sister the girls make from the usual recipe plus random junk in 'Twisted Sister'; she becomes unstable and sacrifices herself at the end.

What was the name of McCracken's CalArts student film that first featured the three girls?

Whoopass Stew! was the 1992 CalArts short; the network would not air a show with 'ass' in the title, so a friend's suggestion, Powerpuff, replaced it.

Which Rowdyruff Boy is the counterpart of Blossom?

Brick is the red-capped Rowdyruff counterpart to Blossom; his brothers Boomer and Butch mirror Bubbles and Buttercup.

Professor Utonium made the girls from sugar, spice, everything nice and an accidental splash of what?

Chemical X spilled into the mix by accident; the same blast also mutated the Professor's lab assistant, Jojo, into the super-intelligent Mojo Jojo.

In which fictional city do the Powerpuff Girls live?

Townsville is the girls' home city, whose bumbling Mayor calls them on the hotline whenever there is trouble.

What is Bubbles' signature colour?

Blue is Bubbles' colour, matching the ribbons on her pigtails and her light-blue dress; Blossom wears pink and Buttercup green.

Which ingredient is Buttercup's 'personality ingredient'?

Spice is Buttercup's ingredient, fitting the tough, hot-tempered fighter of the trio; Bubbles is sugar and Blossom is everything nice.

What is Buttercup's one unique power in the original series?

Curling her tongue is the only ability Buttercup alone has, as she discovers in 'Nuthin' Special' after envying her sisters' special powers.

Bubbles can understand various languages, including the language of what?

Animals are among those Bubbles can talk to; she chats with squirrels and other creatures, and she is the sweet, tearful one who can hold her own in a fight.

How old are the girls?

Five is the girls' age: they are kindergarteners who squeeze crime-fighting around nap time and finger painting.

What is the name of the kindergarten the girls attend?

Pokey Oaks Kindergarten is where the girls spend their school days under the gentle Ms. Keane, when the hotline is not ringing.

Which character's face is never shown on screen?

Sara Bellum, the Mayor's towering red-haired assistant, is always framed from the neck down, her face hidden behind her hair or kept out of shot.

Mojo Jojo is what kind of animal?

A chimpanzee, Mojo Jojo was once the Professor's lab monkey; he now plots from an observatory atop a dormant volcano in the city park.

Which comic-book reference inspired Mojo Jojo's repetitive, redundant way of speaking?

The DC Superdictionary, a children's dictionary whose entries spelled everything out in plodding full sentences, inspired Mojo Jojo's redundant way of talking.

The demonic villain Him was designed as a homage to which character from Yellow Submarine?

The Chief Blue Meanie from the Beatles' 1968 film Yellow Submarine was the design starting point for Him, the lobster-clawed, falsetto-voiced demon.

Fuzzy Lumpkins is described as what kind of monster?

A pink furry hillbilly with a banjo and a shotgun, Fuzzy Lumpkins guards his property jealously; he starred in the very first short, 'Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins', in 1995.

The Rowdyruff Boys were made by Mojo Jojo from snips, snails, a puppy dog tail and what?

They are Brick, Boomer and Butch, and were first destroyed when the girls kissed them.

How did the girls originally defeat the Rowdyruff Boys?

'By kissing them': the boys explode when the girls kiss them, since the cootie-fearing trio cannot handle affection.

The Amoeba Boys are a trio of single-celled gangsters with accents from where?

They are called Bossman, Junior and Slim, and are too incompetent to be taken seriously.

Which member of the Gangreen Gang joined Gorillaz as their bassist in 2018?

Ace, the Gangreen Gang's leader, stood in for Murdoc Niccals as Gorillaz's bassist for the 2018 album The Now Now.

Which villain was left out of the 2016 reboot because of concerns over her sexualised design?

She is a Gorgon-like seductress with prehensile hair, voiced by Jennifer Hale.

Who voiced both the Mayor and the Narrator in the original series?

Tom Kenny voiced both the Mayor and the Narrator, while also starting his run as SpongeBob SquarePants in 1999.

Which actor voiced both Professor Utonium and Him?

Tom Kane voiced both Professor Utonium and Him, and also the Talking Dog, whose pain is a running gag no one ever notices.

Who voiced Mojo Jojo?

Roger L. Jackson voiced Mojo Jojo, and is also the voice of Ghostface in the Scream films.

Tara Strong, the voice of Bubbles, was born in which city?

Toronto-born Tara Strong also voices Twilight Sparkle, Timmy Turner and Ben Tennyson.

E. G. Daily, the voice of Buttercup, also voices which Rugrats baby?

Tommy Pickles is E. G. Daily's other famous role; on screen she played Dottie in Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

Which actress voiced the red-haired leader of the trio in the original series?

Cathy Cavadini voiced Blossom, the bossy red-haired leader, for the whole original run.

On what date did The Powerpuff Girls premiere on Cartoon Network?

November 18, 1998 was the premiere date of the full series on Cartoon Network, three years after the first short aired.

How many seasons did the original series run?

Six seasons were made between 1998 and 2005; the show's creator stepped back after the fourth to develop Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

The first Powerpuff Girls short premiered in 1995 during an episode of which show?

It was part of the What a Cartoon! / World Premiere Toons programme.

On which show did McCracken work as art director while re-pitching The Powerpuff Girls?

Dexter's Laboratory, Genndy Tartakovsky's show, had McCracken as art director; much of its crew moved over when The Powerpuff Girls was greenlit.

The girls' 'big, sad eyes' design was humorously based on the paintings of which artist?

Margaret Keane's kitsch paintings of waifs with enormous eyes were the tongue-in-cheek model for the girls' oversized, sad-eyed look.

The show's opening theme sped up a drum break sampled from which James Brown recording?

The end theme was performed by the Scottish band Bis.

Which Scottish band performed the show's closing theme?

Bis, the Glasgow indie trio, performed the closing theme; they also appeared on the 2000 tribute album Heroes & Villains alongside Devo and Frank Black.

How much did The Powerpuff Girls Movie gross worldwide, against an $11M budget?

$16M was the worldwide take, about $16.4 million against an $11 million budget; it was Cartoon Network Studios' first theatrical film and told the girls' origin story.

In the 2002 prequel movie, the newly created girls are ostracised for wrecking the city while doing what?

Playing tag at super-speed, the new girls smash up the city and are shunned by the townspeople, which is how Mojo Jojo wins their trust.

Powerpuff Girls Z, the 2006 anime, was made to mark the 50th anniversary of which studio?

Toei Animation, founded in 1956, marked its half-century with the series, whose heroines are ordinary 13-year-olds who transform into Hyper Blossom, Rolling Bubbles and Powered Buttercup.

Bliss, the 'fourth Powerpuff Girl' introduced in 2017, is what relation to the original three?

'Their older sister': Bliss was the Professor's first creation years before the trio, debuting in the 2017 multi-part special The Power of Four, voiced by Olivia Olson.

Which actress was cast as the trio's leader in The CW's cancelled live-action series?

Chloe Bennet was cast as Blossom opposite Dove Cameron's Bubbles and Yana Perrault's Buttercup; the pilot was retooled and the project was eventually dropped.

How much did each half-hour episode of the original series cost to produce?

By 2002 the franchise's retail sales had reached nearly $1 billion.

The show's creator got his first animation job as art director on which Hanna-Barbera series?

2 Stupid Dogs, the early-1990s Hanna-Barbera series, gave the creator his first industry job as art director, working alongside fellow CalArts alumnus Genndy Tartakovsky.

Mojo Jojo's dialogue rhythms were also inspired by the English dub of which anime?

Speed Racer's stilted English dub, with its rushed, over-explained lines, shaped the cadence of Mojo Jojo's long-winded speeches.

What name does the Mayor's wife call him in the episode 'Boogie Frights'?

Everywhere else in the series he is simply 'Mayor', the tiny official whose dependable secretary quietly handles the issues he cannot.

Princess Morbucks' indulgent, wealthy father is a play on which comic-strip character?

Daddy Warbucks, the tycoon from Little Orphan Annie, is the model for Princess's billionaire father, whose money funds her revenge on the girls who refused to let her join.

Where does the Gangreen Gang live?

'A shack in the junkyard' is home to the green-skinned hoodlums, who have no powers and rarely pose a real threat.

Who voiced the girls' kindergarten teacher Ms. Keane in the original series?

Jennifer Hale voiced Ms. Keane, as well as Princess Morbucks; in class Ms. Keane forbids all fighting, even mid-crisis.

What was the title of the CGI Powerpuff Girls special that finally aired in January 2014?

Dance Pantsed, a CGI special with Ringo Starr voicing Fibonacci Sequins, finally aired on Cartoon Network on 20 January 2014.

How many Annie Award nominations did the original series receive during its run?

It also picked up Emmy nominations and a Kids' Choice Award nod, making it one of Cartoon Network's most decorated originals.

In The Powerpuff Girls Movie, where do the dejected girls exile themselves?

'An asteroid' is where the girls sulk after the town turns on them; they race back to Earth when they realise the Professor is in danger.

Who voiced Blossom in the 2016 reboot?

Amanda Leighton voiced Blossom in the reboot, with Kristen Li as Bubbles and Natalie Palamides as Buttercup.