When Fuzzy Lumpkins loses a jam contest, he creates a meat ray gun that turns anything into raw, butchered meat, leaving it up to the Powerpuff Girls to save the day before everyone and everything in Townsville is turned into a butcher shop. This short was only shown in animation conventions and was never aired publicly on television due to the suggestive word, 'Whoopass', and other inappropriate themes.īoth shorts are written and directed by Craig McCracken, with Genndy Tartakovsky as animation director, Paul Rudish as art director and Mike Moon as layout designer. The Whoopass Girls fight the Amoeba Boys, get stuck to them, and have to fly them into the sun to beat them.
#īegins with the same opening sequence as the series, except that the Professor accidentally adds a can of whoopass rather than Chemical X. The other three pilots are presented on the Complete Series DVD set accompanied by the original storyboards and their original audio. Four pilot shorts were started, though only one was finished. He submitted it to Cartoon Network, with the name 'Whoopass Stew' changed to 'The Powerpuff Girls'. A short was made by Craig McCracken while he was in college at CalArts.
