Animated masterpiece? No way! Barely any time, effort, or thought was put into this show, and it did not deserve anywhere near all the popularity it got. It was only very popular for a very brief period, yet Internet over-hype put this show on life support for years, extending on and off into the present day, but growing ever weaker still, as far as I'm concerned. Name me any 70s Hanna-Barbera animated series: "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kids", "Speed Buggy", "The Funky Phantom", it doesn't matter, and I'll tell you all of these shows are MUCH better than "The Powerpuff Girls". And if I have bad taste, or if I'm WRONG, Joe Cocker is Italian-American, and he was born in Brooklyn as Joseph John Cocca.
@Classicalfan626: What the hell? Are you insulting someone for liking something? That's not good wiki etiquette you know. I just hate it when people say that something "does not deserve praise".
I'm not insulting anyone, and to think that I am would be insane.
Yeah, you're right. A person objecting to a kid's show being called "The Whoopass Girls" MUST be a Moral Guardian. Surely no one else would see anything wrong with that. Also, it's such a shame that Ed, Edd n Eddy was never called "The Three Douchebags" and Johnny Bravo was never called "Mr. Craphead".
Classicalfan, we get it. You can stop posting disjointed nonsense on different Powerpuff Girls reviews - you seem to enjoy pretty much anything else, so maybe instead of name-dropping every other cartoon you can think of as superior, you can watch them instead of posting the same rubbish about a show you don't like.
As for this review - pretty well-written. The show sounds about the same as I remember. I was into the show when I was like 6 or 7 and never got any of the meta/adult stuff, and though I can't remember too much I can remember a few choice scenes and - of course - Mojo Jojo.
It was a pretty decent series - I'm glad I didn't entirely write it off as a "girl's show".
Come sail your ships around me, and burn your bridges down.
Mr Mallard: Will you PLEASE stop bashing me?! What the hell is wrong with you?! You CAN'T force me not to criticize things I hate/don't like. You people want to think everything in this world should be about cotton candy and lollipops! GET OFF MY BACK!!
Sorry I CAPS-shouted, though. I was provoked, and I hate it when people gang up on me or act like thought police towards others.
I actually agree with Mr Mallard, you're just bashing now. You have gone through several PPG reviews just to repeat the same thing over and over, on completely different reviews (content). It's always, no thought and or effort was put into it, here are shows that are better, since and repeat, regardless of the content of the review you're commenting on.
marcellX:
None of you have to agree with me, yet I actually feel sorry now for bashing this show over and over and over again. Can we end this ridiculous thread already?
This was never really about agreeing or disagreeing to begin with but behavior, and sure ok.
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First two series are excellent by my standards. I want to see more.
The city of Townsville. I never "got" what the appeal of the place was when I was younger, I just saw the setting of a generic Hanna-Barbera cartoon...
Now, older and hopefully wiser, I have had the honour to watch through the first two series of a true animated masterpiece. The humour is at times subtle and clever, while at others dirty and filled absolutely to the brim with innuendo, at times managing to sneak some rather vulgar language past the censors. In fact, at times it seems as if more of the humour is aimed at adults than children, which isn't really a surprise when you consider that the original pilot short was entitled "Whoopass Stew" and the characters were only renamed from The Whoopass Girls to The Powerpuff Girls when some Moral Guardian at one of America's cable providers complained to Cartoon Network about having a show with such a title.
But as I say, the humour aimed at adults is very, very richly entrenched in the series. The show is almost entirely based around parodying numerous things that younger viewers would simply not realise it was parodying; most notably, of course, generic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Superheroes, and Magical Girl anime, but also Humongous Mecha, bad English anime dubs, and 50s American Sitcoms.
Another highlight is, of course, the villains, as should be the case with any good work of fiction. Mojo Jojo easily stands out as the best villain, with only the pure evil that is Him providing competition. Lenny Baxter the comic book geek also stands out as a one shot "villain".
Of course, I have not yet gotten onto The Powerpuff Girls themselves, nor their Standard '50s Father Professor Utonium. Blossom is a typical superhero Mary Sue, and that's basically the point, although her character can at times prove to be deeper and more interesting than that, such as in A Very Special Blossom. Bubbles, meanwhile, basically behaves like one would expect a five year old girl to do, although she can Take a Level in Badass if she so desires. Buttercup deserves special mention on the grounds of basically just being a massive jerk who always gets forgiven in the end simply on the grounds of having saved the world despite only being five. I approve of this.
So once again, a fantastic show, easily in my top ten of all time. Watch it, now.