The Powerpuff Girls
The Boys Are Back in Town
TV Flash files “The Boys Are Back in Town” as hour 56 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 5, episode 7, aired 2003-11-06, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E07: listed hour 56 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, hour 7 of 14 in season 5. It aired 2003-11-06 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Save Mojo / Substitute Creature” (S05E06). Next is “Pee Pee G's / Boy Toys” (S05E08).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Him is sick and tired of all the villains (including himself) failing in their never-ending plot to destroy the Powerpuff Girls, so he brings the Rowdyruff Boys back to life and stronger than ever.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Boys Are Back in Town sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?
S05E07 is listed hour 56 of 78 — hour 7 of 14 in season 5, season 5 episode 7.
When did The Powerpuff Girls S05E07 air?
The Boys Are Back in Town aired 2003-11-06 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…