The Powerpuff Girls
Prime Mates / Coupe d'Etat
TV Flash files “Prime Mates / Coupe d'Etat” as the first listed hour of season 6 — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 6, episode 1, aired 2004-04-16, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E01: listed hour 64 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, first listed hour of season 6. It aired 2004-04-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Silent Treatment / Sweet n Sour” (S05E14). Next is “Makes Zen to Me / Say Uncle” (S06E02).

Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"Prime Mates" Back when Mojo Jojo tried to take over the world with primates, there was one monkey who didn't get his due-Mopey Popo. Now Mopey is back to try and be evil just as Mojo intended. "Coupe d'Etat" When the Professor tries out his car, the Girls realize that this K.A.R.R. is taking the Professor away from them, both figuratively and literally.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Prime Mates / Coupe d'Etat sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?
S06E01 is listed hour 64 of 78 — first listed hour of season 6, season 6 episode 1.
When did The Powerpuff Girls S06E01 air?
Prime Mates / Coupe d'Etat aired 2004-04-16 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.
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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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