The Powerpuff Girls
A Documentary / Girls Gone Mild
TV Flash files “A Documentary / Girls Gone Mild” as hour 60 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 5, episode 11, aired 2004-01-16, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E11: listed hour 60 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, hour 11 of 14 in season 5. It aired 2004-01-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Lying Around the House / Bubble Boy” (S05E10). Next is “See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey” (S05E12).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"Documentary" A film student attempts to do a documentary on the Powerpuff Girls and learns that catching these superheroes at rest is harder than he thought. "Girls Gone Mild" When and organization called Parents Against Powerpuffs tell the Girls that their super-heroics are becoming too imitable for children, the Girls must hold back on fighting crime.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Documentary / Girls Gone Mild sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?
S05E11 is listed hour 60 of 78 — hour 11 of 14 in season 5, season 5 episode 11.
When did The Powerpuff Girls S05E11 air?
A Documentary / Girls Gone Mild aired 2004-01-16 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
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- Tara Strong as Bubbles
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- Elizabeth Daily as Buttercup
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- Tom Kenny as Narrator / Mayor
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- Roger L. Jackson as Mojo Jojo
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