Dance Pantsed

Dance Pantsed is an American animated television special based on the The Powerpuff Girls TV series. It aired on January 20, 2014 on Cartoon Network. It was written Chris Mitchell, David P. Smith, and Will Mata, and directed by Smith, who also served as voice director.

Memorable quotes
Narrator: The city of Townsville, a hustling, bustling whirlwind camaraderie, friendliness, and friendship... Frankie: Huh, me? I'm special? Narrator: Sorry, bub, not you. I was talking about the most flamboyant mathematician, Fibonacci, debuting his Fibonacci Sequins.

Narrator: And, so, once again, the day is saved thanks to the Powerpuff Girls!

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Narrator (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Frankie
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Fibonacci Sequins
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Ringo Starr
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wendy Bags
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Catherine Cavadini
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Calcutta stink badger
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| The Mayor
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Ms. Bellum
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jennifer Martin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Bubbles Utonium
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tara Strong
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Buttercup Utonium
 * style="background-color:#clear"| E.G. Daily
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Blossom Utonium
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Catherine Cavadini
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Professor Utonium
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tom Kane
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mojo Jojo
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Roger L. Jackson
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ed Mol
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Soul Hayride host
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kevin Michael Richardson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Professor Utonium's dance partner
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Grey DeLisle
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Isaac Newton
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Gregor Mendel
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Slim Jim Wellbody
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Stephen Hawking
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Winston Churchill
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Zookeeper
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Townswoman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Martin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Townsman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Blue fairy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Catherine Cavadini
 * }
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Gregor Mendel
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Slim Jim Wellbody
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Stephen Hawking
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Winston Churchill
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Zookeeper
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tom Kenny
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Townswoman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Martin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Townsman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Blue fairy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Catherine Cavadini
 * }
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Martin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Townsman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Blue fairy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Catherine Cavadini
 * }
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Catherine Cavadini
 * }

Organizations

 * Powerpuff Girls
 * Townsville Times (mentioned)
 * Townsville Police Department

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Pokey Oaks County
 * Townsville
 * Frankie's Dogs
 * Townsville Opera House
 * Townsville Hall
 * Utonium residence
 * Townsville Park
 * Townsville Central Park
 * Townsville Volcano Mountain
 * Mojo's residence
 * Malph's Mart
 * Townsville Zoo
 * India (indirectly mentioned)
 * Calcutta (mentioned)
 * China
 * The Moon
 * The Sun

Objects

 * Powerpuff Hotline
 * World's largest pillow
 * Octi
 * Chemical X
 * Dance Pants Revolution
 * Townsville Times newspaper
 * Dance Pants R-Evil-ution 2

Vehicles

 * Professor Utonium's car

Filming
It was copyrighted in 2013.

Music
The music was composed by James L. Venable.

Crew credits

 * Art director: Kevin Dart
 * Storyboard artists: Chris Mitchell, David P. Smith, Will Mata
 * Story by: Dave Tennant, David P. Smith
 * Producer: Pernelle Hayes
 * Story editor: Dave Tennant
 * Production coordinator: Kelly Derr
 * Production assistant: Chris Marino
 * Character, prop, and effects designers, and color stylists: Kevin Dart, Chris Mitchell, Jasmin Lai, Tiffany Ford, Craig Kellman
 * Character designers: Chris Battle, "C" Raggio IV, Shannon Tindle, Shane Prigmore, Craig McCracken, Craig Kellman, Marc Perry, Andy Bialk
 * Animatic timer: Suzie Vlček
 * Animatic scanner: Miguel Jimenez
 * Additional timer: Robert Alvarez
 * Storyboard revisionists: Chris Mitchell, Adam Rosette
 * Casting and recording studio manager: Karie Gima Pham
 * Recording engineer, supervising sound editor, and re-recording mixer: Robert Serda
 * Picture editor: Paul Douglas
 * Dialogue editor: Jim Hearn
 * Director production technology: Antonio Gonella
 * Post production supervisor: Tony Tedford
 * Post production coordinator: Alicia Parkinson
 * Production estimator: Carolyn Urban
 * Production administration: Linda Barry
 * Overseas production house: Passion Paris
 * Overseas production facilities for 2-D: Je Suis Bien Content
 * Overseas production facilities for 3-D: Planktoon
 * Overseas director: Stephane Coedel
 * Executive producers for Cartoon Network Studios: Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey
 * Executive producers for Cartoon Network: Curtis Lelash, Rob Sorcher
 * Cartoon Network production executives: Katie Krentz, Nicole Rivera
 * Supervising producer: David P. Smith

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: January 20, 2014 at 7:30 pm on Cartoon Network
 * United Kingdom and Ireland: June 26, 2014 at 4:00 pm on Boomerang

Behind the scenes

 * In the special, the only on-screen title is "The Powerpuff Girls."
 * This is the last cartoon to be set in the original continuity, as well as the only one not to have any involvement from the creator, Craig McCracken. He is only given a creator credit out of respect.
 * Dance Pants Revolution is a parody of the Dance Dance Revolution video game series which began in Japan in 1998, before spreading out to the rest of the world.
 * Soul Hayride is a parody of the musical variety TV series Soul Train, which ran from 1971 to 2006.
 * David P. Smith, who directed the special, was previously a storyboard artist on several episodes of the series.

Errors

 * Bubbles uses ice breath on more than one occasion, but Blossom is the sister with that particular unique power.
 * The girls wear their clothes to bed, even though Professor Utonium wore his pajamas.
 * It is established that Professor Utonium originally came to Townsville to participate in Soul Hayride, which would be a great origin story if it were not for the fact that Townsville was already established as Professor Utonium's childhood hometown in "Get Back Jojo."
 * The newspaper that Professor Utonium reads is June 14, but the calendar says July.

Marketing and promotion
Ringo Starr wrote a song called "I Wish I Was a Powerpuff Girl," which was made into an animated music video with the same design as the special, which had non-speaking cameos of the Powerpuff Girls, of course.

Home availability

 * In Australia:
 * January 7, 2015: Madman Entertainment releases The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed on DVD.