The Powerpuff Girls
The Rowdyruff Boys
TV Flash files “The Rowdyruff Boys” as hour 12 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 1, episode 12, aired 1999-04-07, 24 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E12: listed hour 12 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, hour 12 of 13 in season 1. It aired 1999-04-07 (24 min). The listed hour before it is “Just Another Manic Mojo / Mime For A Change” (S01E11). Next is “Uh-Oh, Dynamo” (S01E13).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"THE ROWDYRUFF BOYS" Seeking to defeat the Powerpuff Girls once and for all, Mojo Jojo creates the Rowdyruff Boys - Brick, Boomer, and Butch - to fight them. When regular fighting doesn't work against the boys, the girls must use their feminine wiles to seal a victory.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Rowdyruff Boys sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?
S01E12 is listed hour 12 of 78 — hour 12 of 13 in season 1, season 1 episode 12.
When did The Powerpuff Girls S01E12 air?
The Rowdyruff Boys aired 1999-04-07 and is listed at 24 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.
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- Elizabeth Daily as Buttercup
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- Tom Kenny as Narrator / Mayor
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