Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins

"Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins" is the first episode of What a Cartoon! It aired on February 20, 1995 on Cartoon Network. It was written and directed by the creator, Craig McCracken, as well as voice directed by Kris Zimmerman. This, along with "Crime 101," were back door pilots to what led to The Powerpuff Girls being commissioned as a fully realized series in 1998.

When the Powerpuff Girls dismiss Fuzzy Lumpkins's meat jam at a jam contest, he takes revenge on the whole town by turning the citizens into meat.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Narrator (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Ernie Anderson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mayor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Cummings
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Blossom Utonium
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Catherine Cavadini
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bubbles Utonium
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kath Soucie
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Buttercup Utonium
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| E.G. Daily
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Fuzzy Lumpkins
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Cummings
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Ms. Keane
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kath Soucie
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bologna Brothers
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| All-Beef Patty
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Salami Swami
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Talking Dog
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Paul Mercier
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Dad
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Paul Mercier
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| All-Beef Patty
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Salami Swami
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Talking Dog
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Paul Mercier
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Dad
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Paul Mercier
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Paul Mercier
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Dad
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Paul Mercier
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Paul Mercier

Organizations

 * Powerpuff Girls

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Pokey Oaks County
 * Townsville
 * Townsville Mall
 * Pokey Oaks Kindgarten

Objects

 * Meat Gun

Vehicles

 * None

Development
The Powerpuff Girls began life as the Whoopass Girls, created by Craig McCracken in 1992 while at CalArts college. The first short for Whoopass Stew/The Whoopass Girls was "A Sticky Situation", which was sent to Cartoon Network, while he worked at Hanna-Barbera. McCracken was in the middle of making three other shorts of Whoopass Girls, when Cartoon Network bought the idea, but rejected the name in favor of The Powerpuff Girls to suit its target audience. Those three shorts were dropped when the more aggressive concept was also dropped. "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins" and "Crime 101" continued to refine the violence until the series came out in full in 1998.

Filming
It was copyrighted in 1995.

Music
The What a Cartoon! theme song was performed by Gary Lionelli. The episode's main music was composed by Pete Houser. The director of music production was Bodie Chandler.

Crew credits

 * Animation director: Genndy Tartakovsky
 * Art director: Paul Rudish
 * Layot designer: Mike Moon
 * Executive producer: Buzz Potamkin
 * Supervising producer: Larry Huber
 * Line producer: Bob Onorato
 * Unit production coordinator: Nicole Pouliot
 * Design assistants: Donna Zeller, Dana Jo Granger
 * Casting director: Kris Zimmerman
 * Talent coordinator: Jill Ziegenhagen
 * Supervising sound engineer: Ed Collins
 * Recording engineer: Preston Oliver
 * Background supervisor: Al Gmuer
 * Background artists: Jerry Loveland, Tim Maloney, Andrew Phillipson, Craig Robertson, Leonard Robledo
 * Ink and paint supervisor: Alison Leopold
 * Color stylist: Casey Clayton
 * Final checker: Nelda Ridley
 * Ink and paint artists: Meling Pabian, Catherine Peterson, Lydia Swayne
 * Graphics artist: Iraj Paran
 * Camera operator: Dan Larsen
 * Executive in charge of post-production: John Forrest Niss
 * Animation checkers: Beth Goodwin, Mary Jane Hadley
 * Xerographists: Star Wirth, Martin Crossley, Richard Wilson
 * Track readers: Kay Douglas, Jim Hearn, Carol Iverson, Kerry Iverson
 * Supervising film editor: Tom Gleason
 * Post-production supervisor: Gayle Mnookin
 * Post-production coordinators: Valerie Menk, Gail D. Silvers
 * Sound services: Advantage Audio
 * Sound editor: Michael Warner
 * Re-recording mixers: Bill Koepnick, Jim Hodson
 * Negative consultant: William DeBoer, Jr.
 * Video services: Four Media
 * Telecine: Scott Ostrowsky
 * On-line editor: Brian Schnuckel
 * Pre-production manager: Debby Hindman
 * International production coordinator: Brooke Williams
 * Production assistants: Sandra Benenati, Duke Heberlein, Linda Moore
 * Executives in charge of production: Joe Mazzuca, Catherine Winder
 * Program executive: Margot McDonough
 * Development executive: Dan Smith
 * Produced in association with: Animal House Animation
 * Overseas animation director: Kunio Shimamura

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: February 20, 1995 at 7 pm on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

 * The episode title is a play on "Meet Fuzzy Lumpkins." You're welcome.
 * The short was the winner in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "President's Day Nightmare," being shown in full as a result.
 * When the pilots led to a full-fledged series, the Mayor was redesigned completely, and Jim Cummings who voiced him, was replaced with Tom Kenny, who also replaced Ernie Anderson as the Narrator.
 * Kath Soucie, the voices of Bubbles and Ms. Keane, would eventually be replaced by Tara Strong and Jennifer Hale, respectively.
 * Ms. Kean is only called "Teacher."

Errors

 * It's unexplained how Bubbles's hair was turned back to normal, but the Mayor couldn't be.

Everlasting influence

 * Salami Swami was later used as a full-fledged villain in "Slave the Day."
 * Since the first episode of the Adult Swim series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Townsville Mall has been reused/recycled as the Powerpuff Mall.

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * April 13, 1999: Warner Home Video releases Classic Scooby-Doo: That's Snow Ghost! on VHS.
 * January 20, 2009: Warner Home Video releases The Powerpuff Girls: The Complete Series: 10th Anniversary Collection on DVD.
 * In Japan:
 * February 28, 2002: ??? releases The Powerpuff Girls: Volume 4 on DVD.
 * In Australia:
 * April 16, 2007: Madman Entertainment releases The Powerpuff Girls: The Complete Season 1 on DVD.
 * December 2, 2015: Madman Entertainment releases The Powerpuff Girls: The Complete Series on DVD.
 * October 17, 2018: Madman Entertainment releases The Powerpuff Girls: 20th Anniversary Edition on DVD.