Dance Pantsed

Dance Pantsed
Network	Cartoon Network
Production company	Cartoon Network Studios
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release date	January 20, 2014
Run time	21:38
Starring	Catherine Cavadini Tara Strong E.G. Daily Tom Kane Tom Kenny Roger L. Jackson Ringo Starr
Executive producer(s):	Brian A. Miller Jennifer Pelphrey Curtis Lelash Rob Sorcher
Producer(s)	Pernelle Hayes
Music composed by	James L. Venable
Story by	Dave Tennant David P. Smith
Screenplay by	Chris Mitchell David P. Smith Will Mata
Storyboard artists	Chris Mitchell David P. Smith Will Mata
Director(s)	David P. Smith
Art director(s)	Kevin Dart
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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.

Detailed summary

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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

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Narrator (voice only)	Tom Kenny
Frankie	Unavailable
Fibonacci Sequins	Ringo Starr
Wendy Bags	Catherine Cavadini
Calcutta stink badger	Unavailable
The Mayor	Tom Kenny
Ms. Bellum	Jennifer Martin
Bubbles Utonium	Tara Strong
Buttercup Utonium	E.G. Daily
Blossom Utonium	Catherine Cavadini
Professor Utonium	Tom Kane
Mojo Jojo	Roger L. Jackson
Ed Mol
Soul Hayride host	Kevin Michael Richardson
Professor Utonium's dance partner	Grey DeLisle
Isaac Newton	Unavailable
Gregor Mendel	Unavailable
Slim Jim Wellbody	Unavailable
Stephen Hawking	Unavailable
Winston Churchill
Zookeeper	Tom Kenny
Townswoman	Jennifer Martin
Townsman	Unavailable
Blue fairy	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

Production

Development

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.

Critical reception

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

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

References