Powerpuff Girls

The Powerpuff Girls is an American animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken, and first produced by Hanna-Barbera until 2001 when Cartoon Network Studios took over production for Cartoon Network. more...

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The animation director is Genndy Tartakovsky, of Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack fame. He has also directed many of the shows themselves.

The series is a spoof on American superheroes as well as Japanese Tokusatsu heroes like Super Sentai.

The end credits theme tune is performed by Scottish band Bis.

Overview

History

Originally the Whoopass Girls (with the intention of having a gag where the "ass" part of the name would always sound as a bleep censor), the Powerpuff Girls were created by CalArts student Craig McCracken in 1992 in his short film The Whoopass Girls in A Sticky Situation. The short was selected for Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation in 1994; McCracken submitted it to Cartoon Network while working on Dexter's Laboratory. As Cartoon Network couldn't keep the offending name, the girls were renamed the Powerpuff Girls. Their first appearance on Cartoon Network was the short The Powerpuff Girls in: Meat Fuzzy Lumkins as part of World Premiere Toons.

Current status

As of March 2006, The Powerpuff Girls continues to play on Cartoon Network as part of the Cartoon Cartoon show. Episodes also still air in Britain in the Cartoon Cartoons hour on the channel, as well as in half-hour compilations on the UK-only Cartoon Network TOO, and new stories featuring the Girls are printed regularly in Cartoon Network Block Party. An anime adaptation of this series, Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z, began airing in Japan on July 1, 2006.

Opening sequence

Opening narration reveals that the girls were made by Professor Utonium out of sugar, spice and everything nice plus the accidental addition of 'Chemical X'. The opening of the program pays homage to the animated beginning of 1960s Batman live-action television series, as both shows feature a pan across a gallery of villains, with the animated heroes running toward the viewer while striking the villains, who are tossed away in slow motion. The show also shares the grandiose narration style of the Batman series.

Characters

The Powerpuff Girls

They live in the fictional city of Townsville (not to be confused with Townsville in Queensland, Australia). The girls are drawn with physical traits to make them "super-cute". They have large eyes, and, although they are able to hear, smell, and hold, their bodies are drawn without noses, ears, fingers, or toes. The girls are very aware of that, and it is shown that they cannot use their fingers, and instead, their fingerless hands can pick things up at will.

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