Total Eclipse of the Kart
Total Eclipse of the Kart | |
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Premiere date | August 12, 2018 |
Run time | 22:33 |
Starring | Amanda Leighton Kristin Li Natalie Palamides Tom Kane Tom Kenny Roger L. Jackson Anais Fairwather Haley Mancini Maurice LaMarche Packrat Jason Kaye Josh Fadem Lily Vonnegut Dee Bradley Baker Fred Tatasciore |
Music composed by | Mike Reagan |
Writer(s) | Haley Mancini Jake Goldman Kyle Neswald Leticia Abreu Silva Jaydeep Hasrajani John Martinez |
Storyboard artist(s) | Kyle Neswald Leticia Abreu Silva Jaydeep Hasrajani John Martinez Andy Cung (revisionist) Karen Wang (revisionist) |
Director(s) | Nick Jennings Bob Boyle Abe Audish (supervising) James Burks (supervising) Jack Fletcher (voices) |
Animation director(s) | Robert Alvarez Randy Myers Sheri Wheeler (also supervising) Ki-Yong Bae (overseas) Hwang Gi-Ho (overseas) |
Art director(s) | Roman Laney |
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"Total Eclipse of the Kart" is the twelfth episode of The Powerpuff Girls season three, and the ninety-first overall. It aired on August 12, 2018 on Cartoon Network. It was written by Haley Mancini, Jake Goldman, Kyle Neswald, Jaydeep Hasrajani, and John Martinez, produced by Pernelle Hayes, directed by series creators, Nick Jennings and Bob Boyle, and voice directed Jack Fletcher.
The Powerpuff Girls and Townsville's supervillains compete in the annual Eclipse Grand Prix to win the contents of the Mayor's mysterious box, which unbeknown to the Powerpuff Girls will bring the apocalypse if it falls into the wrong hands.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Characters
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Organizations
- Fashionistas
- Team Morbucks
- Powerpuff Girls
- Rowdyruff Boys
- Jemoiré's army
Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Africa
- England
- Atlantis
- Pacific Ocean (billboard)
- Mariana Trench (billboard)
- Beluga Bay (billboard)
- Starfish Grotto (mentioned)
- The Sun
- The Moon
- Unicorn Land
Objects
- Mysterious box
- Deceleray
- Nepthemet
- Gem of Hathos
- Farmer Cody's Creamed Corn
Vehicles
- Fashionistas' racecar
- Packrat's racecar
- Jemmica's racecar
- Pug-Faced Pauly's racecar
- Princess Morbucks's racecar
- Powerpuff Girls' racecar
- Mojo's racecar
- Fuzzy's racecar
- The Gnat's racecar
- Mayor's helicopter
- Road Raptor
- Rainbow Rocket
- Cat-A-Lac
Production
Development
Haley Mancini and Jake Goldman were story editors.
Filming
It was copyrighted in 2017.
Music
The theme song and music were composed by Mike Reagan, with the former having been written by Reagan and Bob Boyle. The opening and ending songs are performed by Tacocat. The end credits song was written by Tristan Sedillo and Hannah Watanabe-Rocco.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: August 12, 2018 on Cartoon Network
Behind the scenes
- The episode title is a play on the 1983 Bonnie Tyler song "Total Eclipse of the Heart."
- This is double the length of a regular episode. It's made even more special by the end credits song being remixed.
- The race is a parody of the Wacky Races TV series.
- The back half of Mojo's race car resembles the Mean Machine.
- Buttercup's has a need for going fast, which is a paraphrase of Maverick having a need for speed in the 1986 film Top Gun.
- This is the only appearance of the Rowdyruff Boys in the reboot.
- The Gnat hums "Flight of the Valkyries."
- Bubbles spends most of the episode butchering Whitney Houston's 1987 song "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," but it's about about lunch, instead.
- The mage resembles the Mayor.
- Buttercup discovered her aura power in "Power Up Puff."
- Cartoon Network Video numbers this as episode eleven of season three.
Errors
- There's an inconsistency with the race participants: Tankenstein is in the race at the beginning, there are cars belonging to unidentified racers, Fuzzy, the Rowdyruff Boys, and the Gnat only pop up once the race starts, but only the Gnat continues in the race.
- The transformation of Jemoiré into Jemmica and the transition into her traveling Egypt is merged into one, making it look like ancient Townsville resembled Egypt.
Critical reception
In other languages
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Home availability
- Not available. 😢
References
- Episodes
- 2017
- 2018
- Cartoon Network Studios
- Directed by Bob Boyle
- Directed by Jack Fletcher
- Directed by Nick Jennings
- Powerpuff Girls (franchise)
- Powerpuff Girls episodes
- The Powerpuff Girls (2016 TV series) episodes
- Written by Haley Mancini
- Written by Jake Goldman
- Written by Jaydeep Hasrajani
- Written by John Martinez
- Written by Kyle Neswald
- Written by Leticia Abreu Silva