List of pop culture references to Powerpuff Girls

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The Powerpuff Girls has become a pop culture phenomenon since its debut in 1998, with the three little girls (Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup) who protect the city of Townsville from the forces of crime with their awesome superpowers before bedtime.

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, which was the second biggest series also created by Craig McCracken, has several references to The Powerpuff Girls.

Comics

Green Arrow (volume 3)

• Issue #4 - "Quiver Chapter Four: Membership Has Its Privileges:" Mia is watching Powerpoofs on Stanley's TV, with a Powerpuff-like leg seen flying away. She also explains to the elderly Stanley the much needed positive role models in Powerpoofs, that girls can kick butt like boys can, instead of being subjected to just being "cute" and "nicey-nice domestic" like Raspberry Shortcakes and Rainbow Sprites. A special news bulletin then interrupts Mia's watching.

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Films

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

• Chip and Dale rescue a bunch of trademarked cartoon characters who have been bootlegged by Sweet Pete (Peter Pan), which includes Bubbles.

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Elf

• One of the toys that Michael mentions in Santa's list is a Powerpuff Girls playset.

Unbreakable

• An upside-down Joseph watches "Mommy Fearest," where Buttercup tuts to Ima after they clean up her mess, and Ima's reaction by pushing over a plant pot. It cuts the in between scene out where Ima walks past the girls.

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Scooby-Doo

Main article: Scooby-Doo (film)

• When Mystery Incorporated abandons Scrappy-Doo in the desert, among his complaints that they shouldn't do this to him is that he is as cute as a Powerpuff Girl.

Songs

"Angels with Dirty Faces" by Sugababes

• The episode "Next of Kin" is used as the basis for British girl group Sugababes' "Angels with Dirty Faces" music video, where they save the day, instead of the Powerpuff Girls, who are watching the Sugababes on TV.

TV series

American Dad!

Main article: American Dad!

• "The Longest Distance Relationship:" Jeff and Sinbad travel through a wormhole to get back to Earth, which temporarily shapeshifts them into different stylized versions of themselves, which includes Jeff and Sinbad as a Powerpuff Girl and Professor Utonium, respectively.

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Amphibia

• "The Hardest Thing:" When taking flight in their calamity forms, Anne, Sasha, and Marcy each leave a trail of the same distinctive colors as the Powerpuff Girls do.

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Animation Domination High-Def

• A sketch called "HBO's Powerpuff Girls," in which the Powerpuff Girls were depicted like the characters from HBO's Girls. When creating the girls, the Professor adds a dose of narcissism. They are now in their 20s and live in New York City. Even though they try to fight monsters still, they spend more time smoking, binge eating, and dating.

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Arthur

• "Desk Wars:" Francine asks for Muffy's Judo Kittens stickers, featuring anthropomorphic cats who somewhat resemble the Powerpuff Girls, due to their head and eye shapes. One of them even has the same hairstyle as Buttercup.

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Main article: Aqua Teen Hunger Force

• One of the locations of the series is named the "Powerpuff Mall," and uses the same building as the mall in "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins," until it was later renovated in the episode "Last Dance for Napkin Lad."
• "Universal Remonster:" Oglethorpe creates several T-shirts featuring a Powerpuff Girl, who resembles Blossom with a hot pink mohawk. When his friend Emory pointed this out, Oglethorpe denied that it was a Powerpuff Girl, claiming that "they're not getting sued".
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters: In a flashback sequence, Meatwad's parachute has pictures of the Powerpuff Girls on it, with Bubbles decorated on the top.
• "Eggball:" While the Aqua Teens land on Death Island to capture a rare animal, Meatwad uses the same Powerpuff Girls parachute as the one in the movie.

Baby Looney Tunes

• "Baby-Gate:" Lola plays a computer game called Pizza Power Challenge, in which she has to control three Powerpuff Girls-looking characters and defeat a pizza monster, but loses because she can't concentrate while Melissa and Petunia are trying to help.
• "A Mid-Autumn's Night Scream:" Lola, Melissa, and Petunia want to go as the Super Sunshine Girls on Halloween, but Granny left it too late to buy their costumes which are all sold out. Lola shows the boys a TV magazine with the Super Sunshine Girls on the front cover, who resemble real girls dressed like the Powerpuff Girls, instead of the super deformed-like Powerpuff Girls.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• "The Body:" A pink shirt with the three Powerpuff Girls is seen inside of Willow's closet, while she panics over what clothes to wear to her mother's funeral.

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Degrassi: The Next Generation

• "Bark at the Moon:" One of the questions to test out the true love test is one's favorite superhero, with Manny sheepishly asks Chester if Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls counts, to which he responds doesn't.

Drawn Together

Main article: Drawn Together

• "The One Wherein There is a Big Twist Part II:" One of the resumes that the gang skims through includes a photo of Buttercup with Blossom's hairstyle and bow.

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ER

• "Next of Kin:" An abandoned baby is checked over at the hospital. Carter finds the umbilical cord clamped down with a Powerpuff Girls barrette, which he calls "Powderpuff Girls," but Susan corrects him.
• "Now What?:" Hannah wears both a Powerpuff Girls t-shirt and a backpack at once.

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Everwood

• "Extra Ordinary:" Amy watches the episode "Mommy Fearest" in her room before her father interrupts, specifically the scene where the girls are shopping at Malph's and the girls each have their own favorite snack they want Professor Utonium to buy.

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Evil Con Carne

• "Ultimate Evil:" The Powerpuff Girls make a cameo in this episode when General Skarr forces Boskov to watch their show.
• "Hector King of the Britons:" The Lady of the Lake asked Hector to impersonate a fight between Huckleberry Hound and Mojo Jojo. Hector also mentions the Powerpuff Girls while impersonating Mojo.

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

• The teenage caretaker Frankie Foster wears a t-shirt with silhouettes of Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup in their trademark colors.
• House of Blues (part one in syndication): Wilt shows Bloo and Mac an imaginary friend resembling Mojo, who was created by a lazy kid who watched TV. In the end credits, Bloo is watching TV at night, with the opening theme song playing off screen, ending with Tom Kenny as the Narrator, saying, "The city of Townsville," before being cut off.
• "Nightmare on Wilson Way:" Frankie is dressed as Blossom for Halloween. One Eye Cy also chooses to be Blossom and asks Frankie if she has seen his bow, only to be dismayed by Frankie's appearance. He mutters about knowing he should've gone as Bubbles, which he later dresses as while pretending to be a zombie to scare Bloo.

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Fresh Off the Boat

• "Hal-Lou-Ween:" Three girls dress as the Powerpuff Girls on Halloween and go to the Huangs for candy, but receive raisins instead. Louis doesn't know who they're supposed to be and calls them "feminine insects," only to be corrected by the one dressed like Bubbles. They aren't happy with the raisins with the Bubbles one once again talking and telling them they ruined their childhoods.

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Gilmore Girls

• "Run Away Little Boy:" When Lorelai talks to Rory about doing some retail therapy and finally buying some Powerpuff Girls shot glasses.
• "Teach Me Tonight:" Rory has a Powerpuff Girls shot glass when she is recuperating in bed from her car accident. Only Buttercup is visible.
• "Lorelai Out of Water:" Lorelai once used Powerpuff Girls stationery to tell a charity worker to go into her own garage to pick up some boxes.
• "Haunted Leg" and "One's Got Class and the Other One Dyes:" Lorelai and Rory eat from a Rice Krispies cereal box that features the Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, and Dexter.

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Kid Cosmic

• The Planet Protection Group is a direct reference to the Powerpuff Girls, as they share the same acronym and the same voice actresses in the series; both shows are created by Craig McCracken.

The King of Queens

• "Ticker Treat:" Deacon regretfully allows his son, Kirby, to wear a Blossom costume on Halloween, after unsuccessfully finding a black superhero costume. Doug acts nice about it and asks which Powerpuff Girl Kirby is dressed as, which Kirby confirms is Blossom.

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Mad

Main article: Mad

• "WWe Bought a ZOO/2 Broke Powerpuff Girls:" During "2 Broke Powerpuff Girls," Bubbles and Buttercup are left broke and jobless in their apartment after being fired from their job as waitresses. They turn to Blossom for help and she employs them to work for her company which owns a restaurant, leaving them at square one again. Tara Strong reprises Bubbles for this skit.
• "Taking Nemo/Once Upon a Toon:" During "Once Upon a Toon," Samurai Jack trims a bush in the shape of the Powerpuff Girls.

Malcolm in the Middle

• "The Grandparents:" A flashback to one of the times that the kids damaged the fridge had Buttercup and Blossom above a Mojo magnet holding the Anubis head from "Monkey See, Doggie Do."

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The Middle

• "Valentine's Day:" Frankie hands out several Valentine's Day cards Brick can use, which include Buzz Lightyear and Powerpuff Girls, although the cards are only seen from the back.

Moesha

• "The Player:" Dorian teasingly asks Myles if he wants to watch The Powerpuff Girls after Myles wants to watch something different than horror movies. Myles wants to know what's wrong with cartoons and admits that "Buttercup is fine."

The Parkers

• "Three's a Shag:" Stevie wears a t-shirt with a print of Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup.

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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

• "Power Ponies:" Dressed like superheroes, the ponies and Spike have defeated Mane-iac, when Spike says, "Once again, the day is saved by..." Similar to the Narrator's final speech at the end of every episode of the original series. The series was created by Lauren Faust, writer of The Powerpuff Girls, and wife of Craig McCracken.

My Wife and Kids

• "He Said, She Said:" Kyle asks Kady what her plans are for the day, which are to watch Powerpuff Girls, but since Kyle was already planning on watching a basketball game, he lies to her and says she can't because the Powerpuff Girls are watching the same basketball game.
• "What Do You Know?:" In a couples game of "What Do You Know?," Kady asks Franklin who her favorite Powerpuff Girl is, but Franklin, knowing nothing about them, responds with a bunch of random names that don't belong to any of the girls, which includes Barney, Pinky, Trixie, Twinky, Lucky, and Sticky.

NCIS

• "Doppelgänger:" When a discussion arises as to which superhero Abby looks like, she compares herself to "the Powerpuff Girl," indirectly referring to Buttercup.

Robot Chicken

Main article: Robot Chicken

• "Celebrity Rocket:" During a three-second channel flip, Professor Utonium (voiced by Abe Benrubi), who's spiraled on the floor of his lab, comments to the Powerpuff Girls, "All thanks to stem cell research," with the girls (voiced by Seth Green) either cheekily or sinisterly replying, "Uh huh."
• "I Love Her:" In the segment "Perfect Little Girls Who Flip The F&%$ Out," while creating the Powerpuff Girls, Professor Utonium adds cocaine to the recipe, causing the girls to go crazy and ravage the town.
• "May Cause a Squeakquel:" Mojo Jojo is thrown into jail when the Powerpuff Girls realize that the town's judicial system is unfair and doesn't rehabilitate its criminals, so they break into the mayor's office and beat him up.

The Simpsons

Main article: The Simpsons

• "The Dad Who Knew Too Little:" Lisa says she looks like a Powerpuff Girl (specifically Buttercup) after painting her hair black with shoe polish.
• "Bart vs. Itchy & Stratchy:" In Lisa's room, there is a poster containing what Lisa believes to be historic moments in cartoon women's history, which includes the Powerpuff Girls for their debut in 1998.
• "Lisa's Belly:" Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup were all crushed by the chunky sign that Marge put in Lisa's mind after having called her that.

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Spaced

• "Gone:" Sophie holds a Buttercup plush doll while she talks to Daisy on the phone.

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Six Feet Under

• "Bomb Shelter:" At the back of the Gorodetskys' car, Mandy is watching the very end of "Los Dos Mojos," where the Narrator goes on a Mojo-like tangent while trying to end the episode. The Powerpuff Girls are briefly seen on the car TV, in front of the pulsating heart as they are replaced with "The End" sign.

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Sugar and Toys

Main article: Sugar and Toys

• "It's Hard to Raise Yourself These Days:" Mojo (called Mad Monkey) takes part in a rap showdown with other knock-off cartoon characters in a segment called "Cartoon Cypher." During one of his take-downs, he tears off the head of a Buttercup doll.
• "Verified:" Mad Monkey goes to a court-mandated therapy group for villains trying to reform. The class is headed by a Mr. Rogers parody, who ends up getting vaporized by Mad Monkey, who can't help his evil urges.
• "Thirst Day Was the Worst Day:" In two Las Powderpoof Girlz segments, in which the girls are Latinas, they search for other missing Latinas. They discover that Ariana Grande has kidnapped other famous Latina celebrities and hooked them up to their booty machine to drain their buttocks to make her more Latina.
• "Rebooty Call:" Mad Monkey is in another villains therapy, listening to the problems of Gargamel, Skeletor, and Tom Cat. The Powerpoofs also appear in a segment called "Puerto Rico, We're Not Your Sidepiece," which acts as a PSA on how to treat Puerto Rico better, instead of just a vacation getaway, which is destroying the land.
• "Revenge of the Nerfs:" In another two Las Powderpoof Girlz segments, the Powderpoofs find out that every liquid in the city has been replaced with hot Cheeto sauce, which OAC gets addicted to. They find out it is due to the blue-skinned Flavorless Gang, a parody of the green-skinned Gangreen Gang, who want to dry the Earth of its spices leaving the planet bland of flavour. They are backed by Mayor DeBlah, who they literally have in the palm of their hands, and who is as scatterbrained as his template.

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Teen Titans Go!

Main article: Teen Titans Go!

• * "TTG v PPG:" There is a crossover between the 2016 incarnation of The Powerpuff Girls and Teen Titans Go!, when Mojo creates a portal between their worlds.
• "Shrimps and Prime Rib:" The Titans have been distracted from being real superheroes by things such as "totally organic crossovers" like the "TTG v PPG."
• "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary:" The Powerpuff Girls and Mojo Jojo appear as guests at Warner Bros.' Burbank lot to celebrate their 100th anniversary.

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Undeclared

• "The Perfect Date:" The girls have a Blossom pillow doll in their dorm lounge room.
• "Eric's POV:" The girls have a Blossom pillow doll in their dorm lounge room.

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Veronica Mars

• "Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough:" Veronica talks to Weevil's young niece Ophelia who carries a Powerpuff Girls backpack, which she wants to check if it has the stolen senior trip money. In a twist, it turns out Weevil did hide it in the backpack, but then had Ophelia hide it in the ball pit because he knew Veronica would come looking for him.

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X-Men: Evolution

• "Dark Horizon Part 1:" Blob and Toad watch an ersatz-styled Powerpuff Girls show, where three girls resembling Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles fight a Mojo-looking bad guy.

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Video games

MultiVersus

Main article: MultiVersus

• Townsville appears as a stage.