Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins

Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins
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Production number	0184-9423
Premiere date	February 20, 1995
Run time	7:32
Writer(s)	Craig McCracken
Director(s)	Craig McCracken
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"Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins" is the first episode of What a Cartoon!, and the first of two pilots within that anthology series (the other being "Crime 101"), which led to The Powerpuff Girls being commissioned as a fully realized series in 1998. It aired on February 20, 1995 on Cartoon Network. It was written and directed by the creator, Craig McCracken.

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

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Narrator (voice only)	Ernie Anderson
Mayor	Jim Cummings
Blossom Utonium	Catherine Cavanaugh
Bubbles Utonium	Kath Soucie
Buttercup Utonium	E.G. Daily
Fuzzy Lumpkins	Jim Cummings
Ms. Keane	Kath Soucie
Bologna Brothers	N/A
All-Beef Patty	N/A
Salami Swami	N/A
Talking dog	Paul Mercier
Dad	Paul Mercier

Organizations

• Powerpuff Girls

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Townsville
      • Townsville Mall
      • Pokey Oaks Kindgarten

Objects

• Meat Gun

Vehicles

• None

Production

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.

Music

The score was composed by Pete Houser, while the What a Cartoon! theme song was performed by Gary Lionelli.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: February 20, 1995 at 7pm on Cartoon Network<ref>"What a Cartoon!: The Powerpuff Girls: Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins (TV)". The Paley Center for Media.

Behind the scenes

• The episode title is a play on "Meet Fuzzy Lumpkins." You're welcome.
• 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".
• The Townsville Mall is reused/recycled, but renamed the Powerpuff Mall, in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Rabbot."

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning