Meat Fuzzy Lumkins

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Meat Fuzzy Lumkins
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Production number 0184-9423
Network Cartoon Network
Premiere date February 20, 1995
Run time 7:32
Starring Catherine Cavadini
Kath Soucie
E.G. Daily
Ernie Anderson
Jim Cummings
Paul Mercier
Music composed by Pete Houser
Writer(s) Craig McCracken
Director(s) Craig McCracken
Animation director(s) Genndy Tartakovsky
Art director(s) Paul Rudish
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"Meat Fuzzy Lumkins" is the first episode of What a Cartoon! season one. It aired on February 20, 1995 on Cartoon Network. It was written and directed by the creator, Craig McCracken, as well as voice directed by Kris Zimmerman. This, along with "Crime 101," were back door pilots to what led to The Powerpuff Girls being commissioned as a fully realized series in 1998.

When the Powerpuff Girls dismiss Fuzzy Lumkins's meat jam at a jam contest, he takes revenge on the whole town by turning the citizens into meat.

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Memorable quotes

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 Cavadini
Bubbles Utonium Kath Soucie
Buttercup Utonium E.G. Daily
Fuzzy Lumkins 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

Locations

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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.

Filming

It was copyrighted in 1995.

Music

The What a Cartoon! theme song was performed by Gary Lionelli. The episode's main music was composed by Pete Houser. The director of music production was Bodie Chandler.

Crew credits

Release

Dates are in order of release:

  • United States: February 20, 1995 at 7 pm on Cartoon Network[1][2]

Behind the scenes

  • Part of the episode title is a play the word "meet". You're welcome.
  • The short was the winner in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "President's Day Nightmare," being shown in full as a result.
  • 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."
  • Fuzzy Lumpkins is referred in the credits as "Fuzzy Lumkins" (without the "p"). His surname was referred to as such in the later TV series until the episode "Meet the Beat Alls," where it was changed to "Lumpkins".

Errors

  • It's unexplained how Bubbles' hair was turned back to normal, but the Mayor couldn't be.

Legacy

  • Salami Swami was later used as a full-fledged villain in "Slave the Day."
  • Since the first episode of the Adult Swim series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Townsville Mall has been reused/recycled as the Powerpuff Mall.

Critical reception

In other languages

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Home availability

References

  1. ^ "What a Cartoon!: The Powerpuff Girls: Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins". The Paley Center for Media.
  2. ^ Winfrey, Lee (January 14, 1995). "Network Featuring Several New Cartoons". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved January 10, 2022.