The Powerpuff Girls
Town and Out / Child Fearing
TV Flash files “Town and Out / Child Fearing” as hour 28 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 3, episode 2, aired 2000-08-18, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E02: listed hour 28 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, hour 2 of 12 in season 3. It aired 2000-08-18 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Fallen Arches / The Mane Event” (S03E01). Next is “Criss-Cross Crisis” (S03E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"Town and Out" When the Professor gets a new job, the Girls have to move to a new town. They try to make the best of it, but it's just not the same. In fact, it's awful. "Child Fearing" The Professor has to go out to an award's ceremony. He forgets to call the babysitter so he calls the Mayor who calls up Mojo Jojo to babysit.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Town and Out / Child Fearing sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?
S03E02 is listed hour 28 of 78 — hour 2 of 12 in season 3, season 3 episode 2.
When did The Powerpuff Girls S03E02 air?
Town and Out / Child Fearing aired 2000-08-18 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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- Tom Kenny as Narrator / Mayor
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