#fuzzy lumpkins

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maybe he's all wet bc she saved him from drowning. I tried to make him look sailor like but oh well

Powerpuff Girls pilot: Meat Fuzzy Lumkins (1995) dir. & creator Craig McCraken

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Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins is one of the best Cartoon Cartoon episodes I've ever seen. It originally aired on February 20, 1995, so it's been 31 years now.

Fuzzy Lumpkins made his debut and first appearance in this episode, voiced by Jim Cummings.

I like to call this the pre-"Git off mah property" era

The Powerpuff Girls is one of my favorite Cartoon Network series from my childhood. It was created by Craig McCracken, before he went on to create Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

This came after he made The Whoopass Girls as a pilot.

It was written by Craig McCracken and it was an animated directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Dexter's Laboratory and before he's going to create Samurai Jack primal Hotel Transylvania or fixed

The episode was written by Craig McCracken and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Dexter's Laboratory. This was before he created Samurai Jack, Hotel Transylvania, Primal, or the adult animated film Fixed.

Anyway, now let's analyze this episode and find out more about it!

It all started at the Townsville Mall during the "Let's Get Jammin'' contest. The Mayor was just getting things started.

Hold up!!!! the Mayor’s early design looked different. He kind of resembled Joe Biden before they added the mustache in his final design.

He was telling the audience and introducing the Powerpuff Girls.

Blossom is the commander and leader, Bubbles brings the joy and laughter, and Buttercup is the toughest fighter always standing there with her arms crossed in green.

The audience cheers while the girls judge all the jams. The crowd is freaking out, anxiously waiting for the girls’ decision. Everyone is shivering with anticipation except for Fuzzy Lumpkins.

He confidently says his jam is extra special because it’s made from meat. He made meat jam! He believes he’s the winner with the letter "C", but the girls pick the real winner with the letter "A".

Sorry, Fuzzy. Tough luck!

Fuzzy loses the jam contest. Meanwhile, the girls fly off. According to Buttercup, it was pretty good overall all of them except for the meat jam, which tasted like dog food. They fly away, and Fuzzy Lumpkins angrily calls the Powerpuff Girls losers.

As they leave, Fuzzy Lumpkins grumbles that the Powerpuff Girls are losers. He then begins inventing his Meat Gun in his workshop. The background here looks really familiar a green grid that’s very similar to the 2x4 Tech style from Codename: Kids Next Door.

He starts causing cannibal chaos by eating his way through Townsville and turning people into meat.

Bro, that’s cannibalism! You can’t eat people after they’ve turned into meat! Fuzzy, why? Why?! WHY?!

Anyways back to that

At school, Ms. Keane heard the phone ring and asked what was going on. The Mayor was shocked because Townsville was in trouble. He asked her to get Blossom to answer the call. Ms. Keane called Blossom’s name while Blossom was skipping rope. Then Ms. Keane and Blossom switched places so Blossom could get on the phone.

When the Mayor was terrified because Fuzzy Lumpkins was turning everyone into meat, eating everything in sight, and causing chaos and cannibalism in Townsville, things got even worse when the Mayor himself was turned into meat. Because of this, the girls had to stop Fuzzy and turn Townsville back to normal. They were ready to roll out, but Ms. Keane paused them and said that the girls knew the proper drill. The girls asked, "Teacher, can we go save the world?" and Ms. Keane gave them the green light. After that, they took off, but they crashed the roof, making Ms. Keane face was like "Never mind.'"

Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup race through Townsville to stop the terrifying meat mayhem caused by Fuzzy Lumpkins. Citizens are left in shock as the Townsville Mall begins turning into piles of meat, but the girls quickly work together to clean up the disaster and restore everything back to normal.

While investigating, Blossom questions the people of Townsville about who could be responsible. She wonders if it could have been the Baloney Brothers, All-Beef Patty, or Salami Swami, but everyone denies having anything to do with the chaos. Suspicious of what is really going on, Blossom and Buttercup decide to continue investigating for clues.

Meanwhile, a doctor confidently tells them, “Boy, you sure are champs.” Blossom and Buttercup appreciate the encouragement, and even the dog happily smiles as the girls prepare to save the day once again.

However, Blossom soon realizes Bubbles is missing. She finds her calmly drawing pictures inside the mall while the crisis is still unfolding. Blossom reminds her that there’s no time to waste they have to go now before the meat mayhem spreads even further across Townsville.

At the Townsville Mall, Fuzzy Lumpkins rampaged through the city with his dangerous Meat Gun, completely obsessed with turning everything into food.

Soon, the Powerpuff Girls confronted him in the middle of the chaos.

Fuzzy fired the Meat Gun at the girls, but Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup quickly dodged the blast. Bubbles rushed forward to stop him, but Fuzzy managed to hit her left pigtail, instantly transforming it into a giant chicken leg.

Bubbles fell to the ground in shock. She realized it her left pigtail had turned into meat.

“MEAT-HAIR?!” Narrator said.

After she get up and Fueled with rage, Bubbles charged at Fuzzy and began Attacking him over and over again. Blossom and Buttercup watched in surprise as Bubbles completely lost her temper.

During the fight, Bubbles grabbed the Meat Gun and blasted Fuzzy with his own weapon, turning him entirely into meat.

With Fuzzy defeated, Townsville was finally saved.

Later, the Mayor congratulated the girls.

“You saved the day again, girls!” he cheered.

To celebrate, the girls decided to barbecue the giant pile of meat left behind. While eating, the Mayor suddenly looked confused.

“Wait… why does this burger taste like daily pops?” he asked nervously.

The girls stared at him for a moment before bursting into laughter.

And so, once again, the day was saved thanks to the Powerpuff Girls!

It was the most obvious episode I ever heard, but it was crazy because I love how Bubbles tries to kick Fuzzy's ass and turn him into meat. It was totally legit. I'll give it eight out of Ten for Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins.

here’s og bumper for those who want to see it:

Continuing from where we left off, we finally come to the second-most awaited part of this retrospective: the villains!

The Powerpuff Girls has one of the iconic rogues gallery of any cartoon.

Not only that, but also one of the most iconic superhero rogues gallery outside of DC and Marvel.

In terms of the most prominent and recurring villains.

There's Mojo Jojo, a hyper-intelligent, green-skinned chimpanzee that speaks in a pseudo-Japanese accent, and has a convoluted, repetitive manner of speaking, who desires to destroy the girls and take over the world. He's the main antagonist of the series, having the most appearances of all the villains and being the girls' arch-nemesis. This is made even stronger as it's eventually revealed that Mojo was originally Professor Utonium's reckless lab assistant and pet Jojo, before he created the girls, and it was he who caused The Professor to accidentally add Chemical X to the mixture, thus making him responsible for their creation. The reason he hates the girls so much is out of envy of the affection they received from The Professor that he did not.

HIM, who's basically this world's version of The Devil, being the ultimate embodiment of evil, always speaking in a chilling and constantly echoing voice. He lives to spread as much chaos and misery as he possibly can in the world. He's by far the girls' most powerful villain, due to his reality-warping magic.

Fuzzy Lumpkins, a pink-fur hillbilly monster who lives in the woods right outside of Townsville, wanting people to stay off his property, utilizing his immense physical strength and super-powered shotgun Boomstick to make sure of that.

Princess Morbucks, a spoiled rich brat who attends Pokey Oaks Kindergarten as well, who utilizes her immense wealth to commit villainous plots against the girls. She primarily wants to be a Powerpuff Girl, even though she doesn't have powers. The reason why she wants to be one is for the sake of the glory.

The Gangreen Gang, a gang of green-skinned teenage delinquents who are genuinely more of a nuisance to the girls than a legitimate threat, just going around Townsville to actively cause crime because they think it's fun.

The Amoeba Boys, a trio of human-sized anthropomorphic protozoan gangsters that wish to be seen as great villains, but don't really have the brainpower for that. They're barely a threat to anyone and are even more of a nuisance to the girls than The Gangreen Gang.

Sedusa, a mistress of disguise who uses her cunning and her sex appeal to trick powerful men into doing her bidding and has incredibly prehensile hair.

And The Rowdyruff Boys, the male doppelgangers of the girls created by Mojo in order to destroy them, being more powerful and way more violent then they are.

Each of these villains struck that perfectly balance between being genuinely entertaining and fun to watch while still being legitimate threats.

Well except for The Amoeba Boys....

Even the one-off villains are pretty memorable in their own right.

Mr. Mime, The Broccoloids, White Kitty, Roach Coach, The Boogie Man, Abracadaver, and Lenny Baxter.

Just to name a few.

Now let's look at the villains in the reboot.

Starting off the returning ones.

Mojo is still the arch-nemesis of the girls and the most prominent villain.

But in the reboot, he's been so butchered.....

For starters, he doesn't speak in the third person anymore nor does he do his iconic, overly long repetitive speeches anymore.

Which just doesn't feel right.

Not only that, but he's no longer depicted as the legitimate threat he was in the original.

Instead, he's depicted as being fairly incompetent and treated as more of a nuisance than an actual menace, similar to The Gangreen Gang.

Plus, he also works a lot more with the girls in order to take down a villain.

Whereas in the original, Mojo only worked with the girls ONCE, and that was in the season four episode "Forced Kin".

But in there, it was because they were going up against a very powerful alien threat that was even too much for the girls to handle on their own.

So they needed some help.

But I guess it does make sense why Mojo would help the girls with taking down villains in the reboot, given how incapable they are of taking down villains on their own.

One thing I will give Mojo is that he's at least funny.

He's responsible for some of the VERY few jokes in this reboot that actually WORK.

Next we have HIM.

HIM is largely unchanged from the original, though he doesn't have his echoing voice anymore.

But while he is still portrayed as being threatening, he sadly doesn't appear too much in the reboot, whereas in the original, he was the second-most prominent villain!

Hell, even in the episodes he does appear in, he's usually always in disguise and not in his true form.

The most notable thing about HIM is that in The Power of Four, it's revealed that for the 10 years Bliss was away on that deserted island, he was actually with her with the whole in the form of a creature known as MIH.

This makes no sense since given how he regularly he fights the girls, he would've had to leave the island and Bliss' presence in order to do so.

And Bliss would definitely take notice of this.

Now given his hodge-podge of powers, it could be argued that he he simply duplicated himself into order to trick Bliss.

But he's not shown that kind of ability in the show, nor is it stated that he can do that.

Plus it's very strange how HIM doesn't seemed to be intrigued by the girls, especially given his time with Bliss and trying to get her power.

You're telling that after spending about a decade with her, he wouldn't be interested by a trio of super-powered girls who look exactly like her?!

And then there's Princess Morbucks.

Morbucks here is more prominent than in the original, even rivaling Mojo as the most prominent villain.

And by God, I really wish that wasn't case.

Morbucks in this series will make you feel like you're The Powerpuff Girls.

She is INSUFFERABLE.

And it's funny since this version was intentionally made to be less bratty than the original.

But in an ironic twist, they made her more annoying.

And it's for two reasons.

1#) Her voice. Even though it's much more smoother and less bratty when compared to the original, it's ironically more irritating. Probably because the original Morbucks was a love to hate characters, whereas reboot Morbucks is a character you can't help but straight up hate. It's also probably not help that Morbucks sounds more like a stereotypical mean teenager as oppose to a bratty little girl. Which is what she canonically is.

2#) Morbucks is responsible for most of the show's infamous attempts at being hip and trendy. Which as I (and just about everyone else has) said before, is not done well at all!

And like Mojo, Morbucks' menace and competence is heavily reduced.

In the original, Morbucks utilized technology that allowed her to fight toe-to-toe with the girls!

In the reboot, she also never takes on the girls head-on.

She usually just has her new posse handle them: The Cash Money Crew.

Very creative name I know.

As for the crew themselves, there's literally nothing to them.

They barely talk and none of them even have real names!

But anyway, let's see how the reboot handles the rest of the OG villains.

Yep!

Infamously, the reboot essentially phased out all the other OG villains.

Fuzzy Lumpkins is reduced to receiving random cameos and barely gets any lines.

The Gangreen Gang aren't much better, though at least they get one episode where they're the main villains.

Probably because they were off doing things worth their actual time.

Sedusa is completely GONE.

The Amoeba Boys only have one appearance in the entire series.

But unlike the other villains, the reason for their phasing out was understandable.

As their actor Chuck McCann (who voiced them in the original series) would be on the brink of retirement.

And would sadly pass away in 2018.

But anyway…..

Even The Rowdyruff Boys, hands down the most popular villains of the original series, get this.....

Yep!

That's their only appearance in the entire series!

A brief cameo where they get taken down immediately and they don't even talk.

So why were the OG villains mostly phased out?

In order to make room for the new villains!

And in all honesty, they're a total mixed bag.

Starting off with the ones that are actually decent.

First there's The Fashionistas, a pair of fashion-obsessed criminal sisters.....even though one's a human and the other is a gorilla.

They're honestly one of the very few villains that could actually work in the original series.

Given their balance between being comedic while still being actually competent in their villainy.

Something that most of the other villains sorely lack.

Plus they allow for some pretty good digs at the fashion industry.

Then there's Manboy, a lumberjack-style villain who's half-man and half-boy, who believes Townsville has lost its manly ways.

Like The Fashionistas, Manboy is another of the few villains that could work in the original series.

Being both comedic while still being competently villainous.

Plus it's hard not to like him for both his voice and his various pun-based manly henchmen.

Next there's The Gnat, a mutated gnat that grew to large size after being bit by a middle-aged man who was irradiated from being stupid enough to stare at an active microwave. He seeks revenge on the girls after being swatted by them in the past.

The Gnat takes The Ameboa Boys' roles as the resident joke villain of the series.

Being seen as nothing but a nuisance and a joke by the girls and the other villains.

Like Mojo, he's actually consistently fairly funny.

Which for this reboot, is a feat in itself.

And while I think Gnat could work in the original series, unlike The Fashionistas and Manboy, he would have to be heavily redesigned.

His design is not only just overly grotesque, it just wouldn't translate well to the angular style of the original.

And lastly, we have the most interesting villain: Silico.

In contrast to every other villain, he's played completely serious and is consistently shown to be a legitimate threat.

Plus he's constantly hidden in the shadows, so we never get to see what he truly looks like.

Overall, while Silico is a pretty solid villain (especially for this series), and he actually had the potential to be the best villain in not only in this reboot, but even the franchise as a whole.

But at alas, it never really happened because of two reasons.

1#) His follow-up plans. Throughout his five appearances, Silico's goal was consistent. He wanted to either destroy the girls or at least ruin their lives. series. But at the end of each of his episodes (except for the last one), it was revealed that Silico had another scheme up his sleeves. However, these schemes were never followed up on at all.

In fact, that's a major issue in the reboot, as they set stuff but never really follow up on it.

For example, this is Sapna Nehru.

An Indian-American arachnologist who transforms into a giant spider when she feels love, which becomes a major issue as she's dating The Professor.

At the end of her debut episode, we see The Professor getting ready to start trying to find a cure for Sapna's condition.

However, despite of her making two more appearances afterwards, this plot point is never brought up again.

And 2#) Most infamously: his backstory. Now the general gist is pretty solid. Silico had lived a very lonely life, so he created robots in order to keep him company. But one day, after the girls took down a rampaging monster, the monster fell on Silico's house, just as he was on his way back to the store. And there, he found home and his friends complete destroyed, much to his devastation. And from that day, Silico vowed to bring down the girls no matter what.

Doesn't sound too bad, right?

Well, the problem comes with the flashback establishing this motivation.

It's made pretty clear that this took place years in the the past.

We're never given how long ago specifically, especially since we don't really know how old Silico is.

But the flashback shows him as a child, and given his vibes, voice and build, I would assume Silico is in his early 20s.

So we'll put the flashback at about 10 years before the present.

And that establishment is the main problem.

There's no way the girls have been around that long.

Especially since they still look exactly the same as they always did.

And despite not being technically human, the franchise has shown that they can still age like normal humans.

With that logic, in the present, they should be teenagers now!

Like 15-16.

This gets even more muddled when taking in the existence of Bliss, who actually would've been around when Silico's tragedy happened.

But there's no way she could've caused it.

And going back to the girls, it could be assumed that they've been around for at least a year.

Especially since the first episode (in production order since the series was infamously aired out of order) establishes the girls going back to Pokey Oaks Kindergarten for the new school year.

I have no clue how the crew let such a glaring oversight just slide.

Especially given how much they would use Silico in the future.

And once again, when taking in Bliss' existence, this becomes even more of a clusterfuck.

One last thing to note is how Silico's is taken out for good.

In his last appearance Lights Out, Silico sees his defeat after Bubbles uses a Bugley (a device that can make anything a person asks for come to life) she programmed to put him in a neverending dream where he successfully manages to destroy the girls, while he himself is actually locked up in an insane asylum, where he'll spend the rest of his life in.

This is very shocking since for a show that's about as toothless as the reboot, for them to give one of their villains such as a dark defeat was quite the surprise.

But anyway, outside of those five villains, everyone else leaves much to be desired.

First there's Allegro, a party-loving panda with strange, cosmic powers.

He's by far the second-most annoying villain in the entire series, only surpassed by Morbucks.

He's also just a generic doomsday villain with his only motive being trying to make every citizen in Townsville overly cheery and just party all the time.

But even then, he really isn't that much of an actual villain.

Even though he only appears in three episodes, you really feel those appearances.

He does get somewhat interesting in his final appearance, Largo, where it's revealed that used to be one half of a whole being by the name of Cosmic Bear, alongside the titular Largo.

Allegro was his positive half, Largo was his negative half.

Plus it was kinda funny to see Allegro showcases other emotions besides obnoxious joy, particular with him being annoyed by Largo and not wanting to be around him.

Next there's Jemmica Thrash, an Indiana Jones wannabe girl who's always on the hunt for rare and powerful ancient artifacts.

She's probably the most boring of the reboot villains.

That is until her final appearance Total Eclipse of the Kart, where it's revealed that she's actually Jemoire, an ancient powerful sorceress who once ruled over ancient Townsville. But she was eventually defeated and had her power removed from her, turning her into a human girl cursed with immortality (in the Samurai Jack fashion, where she remains looking like a girl). And so, Jemoire spent centuries roaming the Earth, looking for some kind of way to break her curse and get her power back.

This was honestly a pretty solid reveal, and elevated Jemmica from being such a basic bitch villain.

However, I do think it would've been more effective if there was some foreshadowing prior.

Then there's Pug Face Pauly, a mobster pug that often acts cute to pull off his heists.

I hardly remembered he was even in the show and I literally have nothing to say for him.

And lastly, there's Packrat, a mutant, human-sized rat that lives in the Townsville dump who likes to take shiny things and hoard them.

Packrat might be the most shit villain in the whole reboot.

Not because he's annoying or cringe-worthy, but because he's just such a nothing villain.

His gimmick is fine, but they don't really do much with it.

And although almost all the villains have this issue, Packrat is probably the least intimidating of them all.

Like bro, even The Gnat feels more dangerous than this loser.

But what truly makes him so shit is his lack of presence.

Like Allegro and Jemmica, Packrat only makes three appearances in the series.

But whereas theirs were decently spaced out throughout the series, Packrat made his first two appearances in season 1, back-to-back, and didn't appear again until SEASON 3!

Not only that, but he wasn't even around for most of his appearances!

His last one is by far the worst, as he only has one line, gets taken out not even halfway through the episode, and doesn't appear again until the very end!

And it's so funny since Packrat was being pushed as one of the big villains of the reboot.

But then he went on to barely be used in the series.

He is literally the definition of....