The Powerpuff Girls
Moral Decay / Meet the Beat-Alls
TV Flash files “Moral Decay / Meet the Beat-Alls” as the last listed hour of season 3 — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 3, episode 12, aired 2001-02-09, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E12: listed hour 38 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, last listed hour of season 3. It aired 2001-02-09 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Powerprof.” (S03E11). Next is “Him Diddle Riddle” (S04E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"Moral Decay" When Buttercup accidentally knocks out Bubbles' tooth, she learns that tooth decay does pay and soon goes on a spree knocking out teeth and collecting the cash. "Meet the Beat-Alls" Mojo Jojo, Princess Morebucks, Fuzzy Lumpkins, and Him all team up as The Beat Alls to defeat the Powerpuff Girls. All is going well until Mojo Jojo falls in love with Moko Jono who breaks up the Beat Alls.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Moral Decay / Meet the Beat-Alls sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?
S03E12 is listed hour 38 of 78 — last listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 12.
When did The Powerpuff Girls S03E12 air?
Moral Decay / Meet the Beat-Alls aired 2001-02-09 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.
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…