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- Adored by the Network:
- Perhaps on a similar level akin to Teen Titans Go!. Before the series even premiered the series was extremely hyped up by Cartoon Network, announcing toy lines a year prior, releasing many previews, a month before it premiered, holding two special screenings at film festivals, giving it a crossover with Teen Titans Go!, and airing two weeks' worth of new episodes. The series continued to air every day for a few months after it premiered, until September 2016, when it was shafted just to weekends, due to low ratings and disappointment from fans.
- The series was constantly aired on Boomerang, airing twelve episodes every weekday and four episodes every weekend, making a total of 17 hours every week.
- Cartoon Network extremely hyped up the series, releasing many episodes and shorts before it even premiered, and made "PowerpuffYourself.com", a site where you can make a Powerpuff version of yourself.
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Prior to the series' reveal, many articles described it as being based on the "Dance Pantsed" special's art-style.
- Creator Backlash: After the endless criticism from critics and fans, alongside ratings that only dropped increasingly lower, Cartoon Network seemed to eventually disregard the whole show. The show’s premieres were moved to Saturdays with no advertising, and it was given less and less presence on the channel. Eventually, once the network finally pulled the plug, they no longer aired reruns on CN or Boomerang, and started to sell merchandise with the original show’s designs again, seemingly wanting to leave the show behind them. To add insult to injury, Craig McCracken eventually returned to Cartoon Network to make another reboot, more or less putting the 2016 reboot behind them once and for all.
- Disowned Adaptation: While he understands why the reboot was made and that there's nothing he can do about it, Craig McCracken has said that he is entirely opposed to it
(and kindly requests that you please stop asking him about it on Twitter). - Dueling Dubs: Bliss has fifteen different English voice actresses. Various countries used different voices for her.
- Executive Meddling:
- The changing of the VAs was Cartoon Network's idea in order to "infuse new energy" into the reboot.
- The Girls aren't allowed to punch/kick any monsters or villains onscreen, so anytime they do so, the impact is blocked by a Hit Flash to take their place. Apparently this is due to new standards at the network since the days of the original (The show has a Y7 rating just like the original, although what's considered appropriate with this rating has changed since then).
- It turns out that the transgender motif in the infamous "Horn, Sweet Horn" was never intended to be there in the first place according to the episode's lead writer, and the episode was simply marketed as such because the higher-ups read it, thought the subtext was there, and thus pushed the episode as such.
- The producers stated they removed Miss Bellum because she was "not the message they wanted to spread at the time" (paraphrased).
- Follow the Leader: A double example. It's clear that one of the main reasons the show was rebooted was to cash in on the success of Teen Titans Go!, but there also seems to have been more than a little influence from Steven Universe, Cartoon Network's other famous female-lead series. The series does not have the gratuitous action and violence the original series was famous for, making it similar to Steven Universe, which also has relatively little violence. Furthermore, the reboot got rid of characters like Ms. Bellum, as well as sidelining the original villains in favor of giving more focus to characters like Princess and Manboy. But, most infamously of all, the show's marketing tried to force a LGBT message on the episode "Horn, Sweet Horn", which was clearly not written to include such a message.
- God Does Not Own This World: As with Adventure Time and Clarence, The Powerpuff Girls is strictly a Cartoon Network property despite Craig being credited for its creation. This is the reason why they're able to continue it without his involvement.
- God Never Said That:
- Tom Kenny claimed that Craig McCracken gave the reboot his blessing. Actually, no, Craig did not, in fact give his blessing for this reboot. What he actually said was that he wished they hadn't rebooted the show, but he understands why it was done. note
- The writer of "Horn, Sweet Horn" has said that the episode was never intended to be a transgender metaphor and that someone at Cartoon Network only said that it was as a publicity stunt.
- Tom Kenny claimed that Craig McCracken gave the reboot his blessing. Actually, no, Craig did not, in fact give his
- Invisible Advertising: With the exception of "The Last Donnycorn" and "Power of Four", every other season two episode got no advertising, not even on its social media pages, and the only place to figure when new episodes aired was on various TV guides. This continued into the third season, as none of its episodes were promoted.
- The Other Darrin:
- The Girls were replaced by new voice actresses, specifically newcomers Amanda Leighton, Kristen Li, and Natalie Palamides, voicing Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup respectively. Word of God states that this was intentional, so they could "infuse new energy" into the show... Which didn't stop them from getting Tom Kenny, Roger L. Jackson, Jennifer Hale, and Tom Kane back.
- Princess Morbucks is now voiced by head writer Haley Mancini, rather the her original VA Jennifer Hale (despite Hale returning to voice Ms. Keane).
- Basically, almost all the foreign dubs have changed the voice actors as well.
- Amusingly, the Italian and Hungarian dubs keep the Girls' original voices while giving everyone else new actors. Italy also keeps Mojo Jojo's second voice actor from the original series, but that's it for Role Reprises.
- While most of the classic French cast returned, Buttercup gets a new voice because her original actress had retired years ago.
- Up to eleven in the Latin American Spanish dub: not only were the Girls recast due to creative decisions from the network worldwide, but also the entire supporting cast because of the CN dubbing studio shift from Suite Sync/Sensaciones Sónicas to SDI Media de México, thanks to SS's lesser quality during recent years (in short terms: original founder sold all his shares to his singer wife working in the studio, said singer wife had no dubbing experience, they removed the dubbing director, and various voice actors began to leave the studio). In fact, very few actors like Óscar Flores and Magda Giner appear in both series, while Cristina Hernández and Rossy Aguirre, the original dub voices of Blossom and Buttercup respectively, each guest starred in an episode but in different roles.
- In the Dutch dub, Priscilla Kneteman would replace Hetty Heyting as Blossom and Anneke Beukman would replace Ingeborg Wieten as Buttercup. It's likely the original actresses were blackballed, as Heyting does voice Sarah Jones, who is about the same age as Blossom, and Beukman is about the same age as Wieten.
- Out of Holiday Episode: The episode "Snow Month" was held back several months in America because it was themed around winter. In the UK, it aired in July.
- Out of Order:
- The episode "Power Up Puff" introduces the Girls' Hard Light powers. It first ran after "Little Octi Lost", which features them as if they were already established.
- "The Wrinklegruff Gals" was clearly meant to be one of the very first episodes, as it establishes the girls going to a new school (and even used Bubbles' 1998 design in a flashback of what happened to Pokey Oaks Kindergarten). It first aired two weeks and three days after the show's premiere.
- Playing Against Type: Jason Spisak, who traditionally plays much louder and more emotive characters (generally heroes), plays Silico, a reserved, monotone villain.
- Pop-Culture Urban Legends:
- Prior to the series' release, fake rumors for episodes were spread, including a sexism-themed gaming episode featuring a gator villain called "Gamergater".
- Many people believe that the character Jared Shapiro (Blossom's nerdy boyfriend) was a self-insert of the writer Jake Goldman, most likely due to his appearance looking exactly like Goldman. To make things worse, the voice is also by Jake himself, which many people blew way out of proportion, accusing Jake of being a child predator, especially with a scene with a muscular Jared. Luckily, this rumor has since been debunked by storyboarder Grace Kraft, who stated that the team thought it would be Actually Pretty Funny to model Jared after Jake and fitting if he voiced him, too.
- Due to a picture posted on the (unofficial) Powerpuff Girls wiki, it's been claimed that the "Princess B-Tough" rap scene in original airing of the episode "Once Upon A Townsville" had a brief shot of Bubbles dressed as a prositute and holding a smoking cigarette, which was edited in web videos. A recording of the original airing of this episode shows Bubbles dressed differently, officially debunking that claim. As it turns out, the picture in question was edited from a screenshot of the scene, probably to stir up more hatred for the show than it really deserved.
- Quietly Cancelled: The series had no official confirmation of its cancellation after ending its third season in 2019. But with its dwindling ratings, failed toyline, and the characters no longer showing up in the bumpers, along with the staff having moved on to other projects, viewers pretty much figured the reboot was done for good.
- Recycled Script:
- "Power Up Puff" is pretty much "Ice Sore" from the original 1998 series, only with Bubbles and Buttercup getting new powers first instead of Blossom.
- "Man Up" also has literally the same plot as the 2004 episode "Makes Zen to Me".
- "Bubbles of the Opera" has some similarities to "Los Dos Mojos". It's also similar to "Bubblevicious" in that both involve Bubbles changing due to complexes over her cuteness.
- Bliss was not the first "fourth PowerPuff Girl" as her titular episode is pretty similar to the original series episode "Twisted Sister" complete with their respective Sixth Ranger leaving at the end of the episode (only Bliss doesn't die and isn't deformed). They even have the same color!
- Role Reprise:
- While the Girls and Princess Morbucks have all been recast, the new show does have Tom Kenny back as the Mayor of Townsville the Narrator, Lil' Arturo and Snake, Jennifer Hale return as Ms. Keane, Tom Kane playing Professor Utonium and HIM again, Roger L. Jackson reprise his role as Mojo Jojo, Jeff Bennett return as Ace, Grubber, and Big Billy, Jim Cummings back as Fuzzy Lumpkins, and Chuck McCann once again playing the Amoeba Boys.
- The European Spanish dub is a rare example of most of the main and supporting cast reprising their roles. Unfortunately, they could not all return, as some of them had passed away in the interim. In particular, Miquel Cors (Mojo Jojo) and Claudi García (the Mayor) are felt absences. It's particularly sad in García's case, as he had consistently reprised the Mayor in earlier projects, such as Powerpuff Girls Z and The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed, the latter of which ended up being one of his last roles.
- In the Dutch dub, Bubbles is voiced by Marlies Somers, who voiced her in the original series, even using the same voice.
- The Italian dub has Monica Ward, Perla Liberatori, Monica Bertolotti, Paolo Buglioni and Ambrogio Colombo reprising their roles as Bubbles, Blossom, Buttercup, Mojo Jojo and Fuzzy Lumpkins from the original series.
- Screwed by the Network:
- At first, the series was Adored by the Network, and was one of Cartoon Network's most heavily promoted series along with Teen Titans Go!. But then the rest of season one episodes beyond "The Secret Life of Blossom" were punted on the Saturday timeslot without warning and without advertisement. That is usually never a good sign for a cartoon on the network, as shows like Transformers: Animated, Generator Rex, all of the Ben 10 sequel series (Alien Force, Ultimate Alien and Omniverse), The Secret Saturdays, Uncle Grandpa and even Adventure Timenote can attest. It's probably the fastest turnaround from being adored to screwed in the network's history.
- Cartoon Network was originally so confident in the series they put it in the 6pm slot (where Teen Titans Go! had been in for almost 2 whole years), but due to unexpectedly low ratings and an incredibly-vocal backlash from fans and critics alike, the show was constantly moved around different times on Thursday nights (which didn't help) and the series was finally put on hiatus for almost three months. When the show returned in the fall, it aired a week of premieres under a big promoted campaign called "Powfactor", but the campaign didn't work and the entire week was met with extremely low ratings. After this the show later aired episodes on Late-Saturday afternoons, and another week of premieres in late November (at a bad time slot).
- The season finale was pulled from its original January slot and was placed and unpromoted at a noon time slot on Christmas Eve (which actually brought high ratings, funnily enough).
- By April 2017, Cartoon Network would only air the series on Sundays from 5:30pm-5:45pm, but only if it was a new episode. Other than that, the series was airing everyday on Boomerang. In January 2018, all reruns of the show were pulled from Boomerang completely.
- The "Power of Four" special "movie event" was only given a week's worth of advertising, with a single promo spot running on-air for it. It only amassed 0.98 million views. Bear in mind that this was a five-episode long TV movie. Very likely because of the results of this, its sequel special ("Never Been Blissed"), despite being built up as a major special event in Cartoon Network's 2018 New Years promo, was given zero advertising, resulting in the special only earning 0.577 million; a 59% drop from Bliss' original debut.
- The 2018 special "Small World" was barely advertised, if even that. The following June, the show was quietly cancelled.
- As of Spring 2020, the show has absolutely no reruns on Cartoon Network or Boomerang. They're still available on the former's website however as well as HBO Max. Indeed, this is pretty odd considering the characters still show up in bumpers.
- Starting in May 2021, official merchandise of the girls in their original designs has begun to appear again, suggesting that Cartoon Network may have officially decided to put the reboot behind them and return to the legacy brand. This was more or less confirmed when during the 30th Anniversary of Cartoon Network, any and all references and airings were of the original show.
- This was completely inverted in Europe until 2023, as most feeds of Cartoon Network over there seemed to believe the reboot started the franchise, and were thus pretending the original series didn't exist. Enter Netflix, and the reboot is dead EVERYWHERE.
- What Could Have Been: While they could go ahead with or without him, Craig McCracken was given the option to return for the reboot, but was under contract to Disney at the time and was too busy with Wander over Yonder.
