The Powerpuff Girls
Paste Makes Waste / Ice Sore
TV Flash files “Paste Makes Waste / Ice Sore” as hour 8 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 1, episode 8, aired 1999-01-13, 23 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E08: listed hour 8 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, hour 8 of 13 in season 1. It aired 1999-01-13 (23 min). The listed hour before it is “Major Competition / Mr. Mojo's Rising” (S01E07). Next is “Bubblevicious / The Bare Facts” (S01E09).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"PASTE MAKES WASTE" Right after being bullied at school for eating paste, Elmer Skloo becomes a paste monster, It's up to Buttercup to admit her actions to Elmer in her least favorite way ; apologizing. / "ICE SORE" On a very hot and humid day Blossom discovers that she has ice powers.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Paste Makes Waste / Ice Sore sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?
S01E08 is listed hour 8 of 78 — hour 8 of 13 in season 1, season 1 episode 8.
When did The Powerpuff Girls S01E08 air?
Paste Makes Waste / Ice Sore aired 1999-01-13 and is listed at 23 minutes.
Kids' cartoon or style exercise?
Both: kindergarten heroes, minimalist pop-art action, and a design language that defined late-1990s Cartoon Network.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Sugar, spice, Chemical X, and a city that never stays saved. Craig McCracken’s candy-colored action: kindergarten heroes, minimalist design, and villains who play like pop-art nightmares. Cartoon Network’s late-nineties brand in three pigtails — short-form girl heroes with punch, style, and a theme that still sounds like a sugar rush with a flying lesson attached.
Drop year: **1998**. Cartoon Network puts sugar, spice, and Chemical X on the original-identity calendar and a city that never stays saved. Rex can keep the Saturday-morning martini; this is brand architecture in three pigtails, not a museum cartoon with nicer merch. Kindergarten heroes, minimalist design, villains as pop-art nightmares. The metric is not a lecture about girl power. The metric is a network finally photographing as itself — late-1990s original identity, punchy and musical, endlessly merchandisable.
Filed against
- Cathy Cavadini as Blossom
Cathy Cavadini voiced Blossom on The Powerpuff Girls — sugar, spice, Chemical X, a city that never stays saved. Craig McCracken's candy-colored action: kindergarten heroes, minimalist design, villains as pop-art nightmares. Cartoon…
- Tara Strong as Bubbles
Tara Strong powered The Powerpuff Girls as Bubbles — sugar, spice, Chemical X, kindergarten heroes in a city that never stays saved. Craig McCracken's candy-colored action, minimalist design, pop-art nightmares. TV Flash files her as…
- Elizabeth Daily as Buttercup
Elizabeth Daily voiced Buttercup on The Powerpuff Girls — sugar, spice, Chemical X, and the pugnacious third of Craig McCracken's candy-colored action. Cartoon Network's late-nineties brand in a green stripe. TV Flash files her as 1990s…
- Tom Kenny as Narrator / Mayor
Tom Kenny voices the Narrator and the Mayor on The Powerpuff Girls — sugar, spice, Chemical X, and a city that never stays saved. Craig McCracken’s candy-colored action made kindergarten heroes into Cartoon Network’s late-nineties brand.…
- Roger L. Jackson as Mojo Jojo
Roger L. Jackson's Mojo Jojo snarled through The Powerpuff Girls as pop-art nightmare — sugar, spice, Chemical X, Craig McCracken's candy-colored action, kindergarten heroes in a city that never stays saved. Cartoon Network's…