The Powerpuff Girls
Roughing It Up / What's the Big Idea?
TV Flash files “Roughing It Up / What's the Big Idea?” as hour 76 of 78 in the TV Flash guide — The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005) on Cartoon Network, season 6, episode 13, aired 2004-08-27, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E13: listed hour 76 of 78 in the The Powerpuff Girls guide, hour 13 of 15 in season 6. It aired 2004-08-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Crazy Mixed Up Puffs / Mizzen in Action” (S06E12). Next is “Nuthin' Special / Neighbor Hood” (S06E14).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
"What's the Big Idea?" Twenty stories tall, The Powerpuff Girls spell disaster for Townsville when they delicately try to stop Mojo Jojo from taking over. "Roughing It Up" The Girls and the Professor set on an old-fashioned vacation to the Townsville Swamp. Trouble is, Fuzzy and his nephews are there too.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Roughing It Up / What's the Big Idea? sit in the The Powerpuff Girls guide?
S06E13 is listed hour 76 of 78 — hour 13 of 15 in season 6, season 6 episode 13.
When did The Powerpuff Girls S06E13 air?
Roughing It Up / What's the Big Idea? aired 2004-08-27 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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