50 Fun Facts About Powerpuff Girls

Who created The Powerpuff Girls?

He went on to make Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Wander Over Yonder.

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

Cartoon Network would not let him market a show with the word 'ass', so friends came up with 'Powerpuff'.

In the original student film, what gave the girls their powers before the network made McCracken change it?

The 1966 Batman TV series was the inspiration for the superhero parody.

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

The same accident turned his lab assistant, a chimp named Jojo, into the super-intelligent Mojo Jojo.

In which fictional city do the Powerpuff Girls live?

The Mayor calls them on the Powerpuff hotline whenever there is trouble.

What is Bubbles' signature colour?

Cartoon Network executives once suggested renaming the girls Pink, Blue and Green because they could not tell them apart.

Which ingredient is Buttercup's 'personality ingredient'?

McCracken originally wanted to call her Bud until a friend suggested Buttercup.

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

Bubbles can understand animals, and Blossom has ice breath.

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

She is the 'sugar' of the trio and cries a lot, but she can hold her own in a fight.

How old are the girls?

They attend Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, taught by Ms. Keane.

What is the name of the kindergarten the girls attend?

Ms. Keane is named after Margaret Keane, the big-eyed-children painter whose work inspired the girls' design.

Which character's face is never shown on screen?

McCracken described her as 'the typical hot assistant, though her best feature is her brain'.

Mojo Jojo is what kind of animal?

He lives in an observatory on top of a dormant volcano in Townsville Central Park.

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

His rhythms were also modelled on the English dub of Speed Racer.

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

The staff set out to make Him 'as scary as possible'.

Fuzzy Lumpkins is described as what kind of monster?

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?

Brick is voiced by Rob Paulsen, better known as Yakko and Pinky.

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?

The Gang lives in a shack in Townsville's junkyard and has no superpowers at all.

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?

He was voicing SpongeBob SquarePants at the same time.

Which actor voiced both Professor Utonium and Him?

He also voiced the Talking Dog, whose pain is a running gag no one ever notices.

Who voiced Mojo Jojo?

Jackson is also the voice of Ghostface in the Scream films.

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

She also voices Twilight Sparkle, Timmy Turner and Ben Tennyson.

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

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?

McCracken said her voice had 'sincerity and strength and cuteness' and called her perfect for the part.

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

It was the highest-rated premiere of any Cartoon Network series at that time.

How many seasons did the original series run?

McCracken left after four to concentrate on 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?

Much of the Dexter's crew moved over to the Powerpuff Girls when it was greenlit in 1997.

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

The girls have no fingers or noses, and feet McCracken likened to 'socks filled with wet sand'.

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?

Devo, The Apples in Stereo and Frank Black all recorded songs for the 2000 tribute album.

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

The film earned good reviews but flopped at the box office in a crowded summer.

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

Its 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?

She debuted in the five-part TV film The Power of Four, voiced in the US by Olivia Olson.

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

The pilot was reworked after bad reviews and finally cancelled in May 2023.

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?

His CalArts friend Paul Rudish hired him; while there in 1993 he pitched the girls' prototype to former Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert.

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

The creator first imagined him simply as a green-faced evil monkey being beaten up by three kindergarten-age girls.

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?

Princess hates the girls because they rebuffed her attempt to join the team, and her father's money funds her revenge schemes.

Where does the Gangreen Gang live?

The five green-skinned hoodlums have no powers and rarely pose a real threat, but can be dangerous when properly motivated.

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

Kath Soucie had voiced the character in the early What a Cartoon! shorts; Ms. Keane forbids all fighting in class, even mid-crisis.

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

Announced in January 2013 for that year, the special slipped by a full twelve months before premiering.

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?

They return to Earth only after hearing Mojo trying to strangle the Professor; a critic called the asteroid scene 'a brilliant sequence'.

Who voiced Blossom in the 2016 reboot?

Kristen Li and Natalie Palamides took over Bubbles and Buttercup, while Roger L. Jackson returned as the show's monkey mastermind.