All episodes Season 2 S02E09 2000-03-17 30 min 1990s Cartoon Network

The Powerpuff Girls

Imaginary Fiend / Cootie Gras

TV Flash files “Imaginary Fiend / Cootie Gras” as hour 22 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 2, episode 9, aired 2000-03-17, 30 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S02E09: listed hour 22 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, hour 9 of 13 in season 2. It aired 2000-03-17 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Mo Job / Pet Feud” (S02E08). Next is “The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever / Just Desserts” (S02E10).

The Powerpuff Girls — Imaginary Fiend / Cootie Gras (S02E09)

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In "Imaginary Fiend", a new kid at school proves so unpopular with his classmates that he conjures up an imaginary friend, who turns out to be quite destructive. In "Cootie Gras", one of Pokey Oaks' students develops the cooties and everyone in school, even the Powerpuff Girls, are avoiding him. Mojo Jojo uses the situation to his advantage.

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Where does Imaginary Fiend / Cootie Gras sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?

S02E09 is listed hour 22 of 78 — hour 9 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 9.

When did The Powerpuff Girls S02E09 air?

Imaginary Fiend / Cootie Gras aired 2000-03-17 and is listed at 30 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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