The Powerpuff Girls
Hot Air Buffoon / Ploys R' Us
TV Flash files “Hot Air Buffoon / Ploys R' Us” as hour 35 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 3, episode 9, aired 2000-12-01, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E09: listed hour 35 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, hour 9 of 12 in season 3. It aired 2000-12-01 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Candy is Dandy / Catastrophe” (S03E08). Next is “The Headsucker's Moxy / Equal Fights” (S03E10).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"Hot Air Buffoon" The Mayor realizes that the Girls are doing all the work in his city for him. So he mans a hot air balloon and starts fighting crime the old fashioned way. "Ploys R' Us" The Professor sleepwalks and steals toys at the same time. When the girls' find this out they have fun taking advantage of the situation.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Hot Air Buffoon / Ploys R' Us sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?
S03E09 is listed hour 35 of 78 — hour 9 of 12 in season 3, season 3 episode 9.
When did The Powerpuff Girls S03E09 air?
Hot Air Buffoon / Ploys R' Us aired 2000-12-01 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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