The Powerpuff Girls
Silent Treatment / Sweet n Sour
TV Flash files “Silent Treatment / Sweet n Sour” as the last listed hour of season 5 — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 5, episode 14, aired 2004-04-09, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E14: listed hour 63 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, last listed hour of season 5. It aired 2004-04-09 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Curses / Bang for Your Buck” (S05E13). Next is “Prime Mates / Coupe d'Etat” (S06E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"The Silent Treatment" When the Girls go to see a silent movie with the Professor, they end up getting pulled into the film by the old time villain. "Sweet n Sour" A new group of criminals, which is a group of cute little animals robs Townsville blind. The girls try to stop them, but because of their innocent looks the animal criminals have the advantage.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Silent Treatment / Sweet n Sour sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?
S05E14 is listed hour 63 of 78 — last listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 14.
When did The Powerpuff Girls S05E14 air?
Silent Treatment / Sweet n Sour aired 2004-04-09 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.
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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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