Multi-Episode and General References

• In an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Craig McCracken said that the Mayor's office is a direct detail-for-detail borrowing from Commissioner Gordon's office on the Batman TV series of the 1960s. [Holygoat]
• McCracken's commentary to "Whoopass Stew" on the "Mane Event" DVD notes that the shot in the opening sequence when the girls are running towards the viewer was also an homage to the Batman TV show, which he says "was always one of my biggest inspirations." [Adam Stephanides]
• According to Powerpuff Girls Magazine, Him was inspired by the Blue Meanies in the Beatles' Yellow Submarine. [Joe Klemm]
• Princess' frizzy red hair and surname "Morebucks" make her and her father a takeoff of Little Orphan Annie and Daddy Warbucks. [Julia Lutz]
• Arturo is derived from the comedy routines of Señor Wences. [Collin]
• Mitch Mitchellson, the class bully in the girls' school, laughs like Popeye ("A-gi-gi-gi-gi"). [CJA]
• Malph's grocery store refers to both Ralph Malph (Donnie Most) from Happy Days and the Ralphs supermarket chain in California. [CJA]
• The girls' big-eyed appearance was inspired by the paintings of Margaret Keane, who is also referenced by her namesake in the series: Ms. Keane, the girls' kindergarten teacher. [Marisa Young]
• The Pokey Folks nursing home that pops up in a number of episodes has a street number of 3400, as did Hanna-Barbera's 3400 Cahuenga Boulevard building, and mimics the building in style as well. [L.E.R.]
• The "Circle J" convenience store seen in "Power Lunch" and "Superfriends" is a takeoff on the Circle K chain in California. [CJA]
• The way in which Buttercup says "Why, I oughta...." is reminiscent of Moe Howard of the Three Stooges. [Rich Finegan, via Frank Lhota]
  Frank surmises that if Buttercup is Moe, then Blossom might be Larry, and Bubbles, Curly. The girls' personalities "soitenly" (pardon the gratuitous Curly reference) seem to match up that way.... [CJA]
• Mojo Jojo's shout of "Newman!" in "Mo Job" and "What's the Big Idea" comes from the Seinfeld episode "The Doodle," during which Jerry says to Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), "I know the chunky who left these Chunkies.... NEWMAN!" [CJA]

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