Bye Bye, Bellum

"Bye Bye, Bellum" is the seventh episode of The Powerpuff Girls season one. It aired on April 11, 2016 on Cartoon Network. It was written by Steve Szlaga, Haley Mancini, Jake Goldman, Kyle Neswald, and Benjamin P. Carow, produced by Pernelle Hayes, directed by series creators, Nick Jennings and Bob Boyle, and voice directed by Jack Fletcher.

Ms. Bellum uses her vacation days--a thousand of them--leaving the Mayor without an assistant to run his life, so he turns to the Powerpuff Girls to do all of his chores.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Blossom Utonium
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Amanda Leighton
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Buttercup Utonium
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Natalie Palamides
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Bubbles Utonium
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kristen Li
 * style="background-color:#clear"| The Mayor
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Ms. Bellum
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jennifer Hale
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Narrator (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Reporter
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Hale
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Bianca Bikini
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Lily Vonnegut
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Barbarus Bikini
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Dee Bradley Baker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Dry cleaning owner (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mayor's British ancestor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mayor's Scottish ancestor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mayor's Japanese ancestor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Video game announcer (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Hale
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Dry cleaning owner (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mayor's British ancestor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mayor's Scottish ancestor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mayor's Japanese ancestor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Video game announcer (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Hale
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Video game announcer (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Hale
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Hale

Organizations

 * Powerpuff Girls
 * Townsville Times (mentioned)
 * Fashionistas

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Townsville
 * Utonium residence
 * Townsville Hall
 * Albatross Island
 * England (photo)
 * Scotland (photo)
 * Japan (photo)
 * The Moon

Objects

 * Dragon Wizard Skateboard Fighters
 * L-Cube
 * Powerpuff Hotline
 * Townsville Times newspaper

Vehicles

 * None

Development
According to co-creator/executive producer Nick Jennings, Ms. Bellum was written out of this particular series due to her not being the kind of message they wanted to give at the time.

Filming
It was copyrighted in 2016.

Music
The theme song, "Who's Got the Power?," and the music were composed by Mike Reagan. The opening theme song was written by an uncredited Reagan and Bob Boyle, and the end credits song was written by Tristan Sedillo and Hannah Watanabe-Rocco, with both songs being performed by Tacocat.

Crew credits

 * Storyboard artists: Kyle Neswald, Benjamin P. Carow
 * Art director: Eusong Lee
 * Supervising director: Julia "Fitzy" Fitzmaurice
 * Production coordinators: Adrienne Lee, Stacy Renfroe
 * Production assistant: Jesse Sheehan
 * Digital production assistant: Corey Booth
 * Character designers: Cheyenne Curtis, Carlos Nunez, Alison Donato
 * Props and effects designer: Sarah Craig
 * Character, props and effects design clean-up artists: Miranda Dressler, Erik Elizarrez
 * Background designers: Santino Lascano, Carrie Hobson
 * Background painters: Tania Franco, Solbi Park, Levon Jihanian, German Orozco, Maria Vitan
 * Color stylist: Rachel Yung
 * Animatic editor: Miguel A. Jimenez
 * Storyboard revisionist: Andy Cung
 * Animation directors: Robert Alvarez, Brian Sheesley
 * Animation checkers: Sandy Benenati, Vicki Casper
 * Casting director: Linda Lamontagne
 * Additional casting director: Jack Fletcher
 * Recording studio manager: Susy Campos
 * Recording engineer: Robert Serda
 * Director production technology: Antonio Gonella
 * Picture editor: Robert Gibis
 * Assistant editor: Anna Granfors
 * Dialogue editor: Tony Ostyn
 * Track reader: Slightly Off Track
 * Supervising sound editors and re-recording mixers: Alex Borquez, Timothy J. Borquez
 * Sound effects editors: Daisuke Sawa, Tony Orozco
 * Post production supervisor: Tony Tedford
 * Post production manager: Alicia Parkinson
 * Production estimators: Carolyn Johnstone, Cecilia Rheins
 * Production administrator: Linda Barry
 * Overseas production facility: Smip, Inc.
 * Overseas director: Geun-Sik Song
 * Main title animation: Golden Wolf
 * Development executive: Katie Krentz
 * Current series executive: Nicole Rivera
 * Executive producers: Jennifer Pelphrey, Curtis Lelash, Brian A. Miller, Rob Sorcher, Nick Jennings
 * Co-executive producer: Bob Boyle

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: April 11, 2016 on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

 * The episode title is a reference to the 1963 film Bye Bye Birdie.
 * This is the first full length appearance of the Fashionistas, as they previously appeared in non-speaking cameos in the "Who's Got the Power?" short.
 * Albatross Island is a parody of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco.

Errors

 * There is only one props and effects designer, but the credit is plural.

Everlasting influence

 * In "Memory Lane of Pain," the Mayor cheers Bubbles up by telling her he helped him after Ms. Bellum left him by giving him a hanky, which he had kept since then.

Home availability

 * In Australia:
 * October 25, 2017: Madman Entertainment releases The Powerpuff Girls: Season 1 on DVD.