May sound like something only teenyboppers would enjoy, the series is just as much for adults as it is for kids – and not in a guilty pleasure kind of way. Frank-N-Furter of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”) are hell-bent on world domination.

It’s for the better, really, since villains like Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, the Gangreen Gang, Princess, and the über-creepy Him (a cross between Satan and Dr. Created by Professor Utonium in an attempt to produce the perfect little girl, the experiment went wrong when he accidentally added Chemical X to the mix, thus transforming Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup into superhuman kindergartners. Laced with enough pop culture references and adult humor to make the guys over at Pixar blush, “The Powerpuff Girls” may not have delivered the same bite later found in a majority of Adult Swim’s programming, but it certainly helped in bridging the gap between cartoons that both adults and kids can enjoy.įor anyone who wasn't lucky enough to experience the show when it aired on Cartoon Network, “The Powerpuff Girls” features the self-titled trio of pint-sized superheroes as they save the city of Townsville from a constant onslaught of criminals, creatures, supervillains, and even the Mayor’s own incompetence. Ears before Cartoon Network launched their adults-only animation block, Genndy Tartakovsky and Craig McCracken were busy creating modern classics like “Dexter’s Laboratory” and “The Powerpuff Girls.” Sure, the half-hour cartoons are probably best known for the merchandise blitzkrieg that exploited teenyboppers all over the country, but there’s something to be said for the fact that both shows originally aired late at night.

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