The Powerpuff Girls: What Went Wrong?
This week on Steve Reviews we take a look back at the critically acclaimed Cartoon Network show: The Powerpuff Girls, and what went wrong for it. Looking at what factors made the show so amazing, and what changes unfortunately led to its decline.
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The original show is a prime example of creating a show for both boys and girls without alienating either.
Remember when the girls were kidnapped and packaged by a 30 year old stalker fanboy who collected dolls of them?
Remember that one weird episode where Mojo Jojo makes a evil genderbend of the powerpuff girls and they defeated the genderbend by..kissing them? And embarrassing them?
One of their powers is also to hold chopsticks without fingers
I love how like the “Boy” Version of bubbles is called “Boomer” 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣
Simple: They traded originality and creativity for profitable nostalgia.
I didn't realise how brutal this show was... how come my aunt tried so hard to keep me away away from tom & jerry when I watched this just as much??
They really miss understood all the characters every single one. Blossom went from Strong confident, brave, bossy, smart, straight man, with a bit of an ego to a full blown sterotypical nerd, Bubbles went from being the heart of the group to being the wacky goofball of the group. She was always like that but here she rarely has sweet moments you would never see her crying because she wants everyone to get along, or nurce Bullet the Squirrel back to health. Buttercup went from the sassy short tempered one who always speaks her mind but is sweet deep down , to a trouble maker that causes 90 percent of the problems. In the original she was rarely mischievous.
The original was great because it was extreme sailor moon where instead of using the power of love, they just beat the shit out of the bad guys.
The old PowerPuff girls was honestly pretty violent for a kids show... and it looks pretty good
It's so funny and sad that they got rid of Ms. Bellum. Despite being bodacious, she was designed to look like a brain, which was so fitting for a character named after the cerebellum. Her hair was like the cerebral cortex. Her torso and body resembled the midbrain and br¹ainstem to me. I noticed this even as a child. She was so cool! I loved this show growing up.
A few things:
“Don’t worry professor I’m an accident too”
What I loved about PPG as a kid was that it was never a "girly show". Sure the protagonists were female, but the story lines, character arcs and conflicts appealed to both boys and girls. A lot of my guy friends used to watch and love the show as kids too! Aah.. the golden age of cartoons
HIM was basically the showrunners way of showing Satan in a show aimed at kids.
To be fair, there were some episodes from seasons 5 and 6 of the original Powerpuff Girls that I actually quite like. Such as when Buttercup becomes the student of a Buddhist monk and learns to better control her temper and aggression. Or when the girls think that their monster substitute teacher is evil, only to reveal that he is actually be a really kind man who wants to help and educate the kids.
For those who don't know why it was called Chemical X, it's because the letter 'x' is often used to represent an unknown quantity or variable, and technically has unlimited potential in that sense alone. The naming convention of chem x in the original show was more clever than it seemed.
Everyone talks about the Speed Demon episode and how creepy it was but the episode with Professor Dick scared me more and gave me nightmares as a kid. The girls literally died for a moment cuz Dick was draining the literal life out of them. Dude literally swallowed the chemical X bottle, mooched off them then died in that burning castle along with all of those other creepy looking powerpuff clones. That episode was pure nightmare fuel…
One of THE DARKEST episodes of this show I never see anybody talk about is Abracadaver, genuinely freaked me out as a little kid