Bye Bye, Bellum

Bye Bye, Bellum
Premiere date	April 11, 2016
Starring	Amanda Leighton Kristen Li Natalie Palamides Tom Kenny Jennifer Hale Lily Vonnegut Dee Bradley Baker
Story by	Steve Szlaga Haley Mancini Jake Goldman
Writer(s)	Kyle Neswald Benjamin P. Carow
Storyboard artist(s)	Kyle Neswald Benjamin P. Carow
Director(s)	Nick Jennings Bob Boyle Jack Fletcher (voices)
Animation director(s)	Robert Alvarez Brian Sheesley
Art director(s)	Eusong Lee
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"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

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Blossom Utonium	Amanda Leighton
Buttercup Utonium	Natalie Palamides
Bubbles Utonium	Kristen Li
The Mayor	Tom Kenny
Ms. Bellum	Jennifer Hale
Narrator (voice only)	Tom Kenny
Reporter	Jennifer Hale
Bianca Bikini	Lily Vonnegut
Barbarus Bikini	Dee Bradley Baker
Dry cleaning owner (voice only)	Tom Kenny
Mayor's British ancestor	Tom Kenny
Mayor's Scottish ancestor	Tom Kenny
Mayor's Japanese ancestor	Tom Kenny
Video game announcer (voice only)	Jennifer Hale

Organizations

• Powerpuff Girls
• Townsville Times

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

Production

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 and ending songs were written by an uncredited Reagan Bob Boyle, and performed by Tacocat. The end credits song was written by Tristan Sedillo and Hannah Watanabe-Rocco.

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.
• 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.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

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