Season 1

Episode #1-1-1: Insect Inside

• Title is combination of insecticide and "Intel Inside." [osakojj]

Episode #1-1-2: Powerpuff Bluff

Episode #1-2-1: Monkey See, Doggy Do

• After Mojo has turned the world into dogs, two dogs in front of a Victrola spoofs the famous "Nipper" RCA logo. [David Matthew Wood]
• We also see a scene of dogs playing poker as in the famous C. M. Coolidge paintings. [Neko Tsukimi]

Episode #1-2-2: Mommy Fearest

• Title plays on the film Mommy Dearest. [Robert Hutchinson]

Episode #1-3-1: Octi Evil

Episode #1-3-2: Gesundfight

Episode #1-4-1: Buttercrush

• At one point, the Narrator says that Buttercup is "looking for love in all the wrong places." This is the title of a country song by Johnny Lee. [ALPH, Michael S. Cooper]

Episode #1-4-2: Fuzzy Logic

Episode #1-5-1: Boogie Frights

• Title plays on the film Boogie Nights [Robert Hutchinson], and also on the 1976 Heatwave song "Boogie Nights." [Adam Stephanides]
• When the girls first arrive at the monster gathering in Townsville, Buttercup and Bubbles start doing the Bump to the music. [Evan Hammerman]
• Buttercup asks her sister how she likes the music, and Bubbles says, "It's got a good beat and I can dance to it." This is a riff on the old American Bandstand "Rate-a-Record." [Evan Hammerman]
• The monster with fruit on her head who appears briefly is a takeoff on Carmen Miranda. [Adam Stephanides]
• Boogie Man talks about his Grand Master Plan. This is a play on Grand Master Flash, a funkmeister from the early seventies (and late 70s rapper—[CJA]). [Evan Hammerman]
• Bubbles is Luke Skywalker to the Boogieman's Darth Vader as she tries to destroy the death-star-like disco ball. Blossom as Han Solo: "You're all clear kid, now let's blow this thing and go home." The Professor's disembodied voice chimes in doing the Obi-Wan thing. [Collin]

Episode #1-5-2: Abracadaver

• Al Lusion pulls a large moose's head out of his hat; this must be an homage to the Rocky and Bullwinkle teaser in which Bullwinkle J. Moose pulls various large animal heads out of a hat. [Adam Stephanides]

Episode #1-6-1: Telephonies

Episode #1-6-2: Tough Love

Episode #1-7-1: Major Competition

• Bubbles pops up out of a cloud with bits of cloud sticking to her, making her look like a gremlin from the movie Gremlins. [CJA]
• George Jetson is in the crowd watching Major Man's first appearance. [CJA]

Episode #1-7-2: Mr. Mojo's Rising

• The title is an anagram of "Jim Morrison," found in the Doors' "LA Woman." [Jack Bohn]
• Buttercup's line "What you talkin' 'bout Mojo?!" is a takeoff on Gary Coleman's signature line on Diff'rent Strokes. [Collin]

Episode #1-8-1: Paste Makes Waste

• The name of the paste eater, Elmer, is a reference to Elmer's Glue. [Joe Klemm]

Episode #1-8-2: Ice Sore

• Bubbles' request to Blossom to "make the floor all ice like on Tom and Jerry" refers to the T and J cartoon "Mice Follies." [Legion1979]

Episode #1-9-1: Bubblevicious

• Title plays on Bubblelicious bubble gum. [Robert Hutchinson]
• The idea of having the simulator and Mojo Jojo's torture weapon go up to 11 is a reference to the movie This Is Spinal Tap. [Joe Klemm]
• Bubbles' quote "Mercy is for the weak!" is from The Karate Kid. [Collin]
• The Narrator's line "Sister's doin' it for herself" refers to the Eurythmics song "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves." [AllyKatAVR]

Episode #1-9-2: The Bare Facts

Episode #1-10-1: Cat Man Do

Episode #1-10-2: Impeach Fuzz

• This episode contains several wrestling references, with the Mayor stomping his foot as he hits Fuzzy, and imitating Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka's famous dive off the top of a steel cage (though the Mayor only jumped off a turnbuckle). [Frederick J. Barnett]
• The Mayor's speech contains quotes from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and the Gettysburg Address, as well as a takeoff on John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. [CJA]

Episode #1-11-1: Just Another Manic Mojo

• Title plays on The Bangles' "Just Another Manic Monday." [Robert Hutchinson]
• Mojo's turban comes down like Darth Vader's helmet in The Empire Strikes Back. [Collin]

Episode #1-11-2: Mime For a Change

• The finale where the Girls start playing music, bringing color back to Townsville, points back to the finale of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine. [Sean, HubCity]
• The concert at the end of the episode is a parallel to the 1970s animated version of Josie and the Pussycats. Each Powerpuff Girl plays the same instrument as the Pussycat with her hair color (Blossom/Josie on lead guitar, Bubbles/Melody on drums, and Buttercup/Valerie on bass). Also, Buttercup plays a left-handed fiddleback bass à la Paul McCartney. [CJA]
• George Jetson is in the concert audience. [Cartoon Network]

Episode #1-12: The Rowdyruff Boys

• Bubbles crashes into the butcher shop and mispronounces the butcher's name, just as Big Bird used to do with Mr Hooper on Sesame Street. [Legion1979]
• During the fight, one of the Rowdyruff Boys says something like "berserker barrage" and the screen flashes a big X with a sound reminiscent of the "Street Fighter Vs. X-Men" video game, where Wolverine's special move is the "berserker barrage." [Russ]
• After defeating the Powerpuff Girls, the Rowdyruff Boys dump Gatorade on Mojo—much as football teams dump Gatorade on their coaches after a victory. [Carl Banks]
• The Narrator's line "Boy, oh, boy! Those boys are b-b-bad to the bone!" refers to George Thorogood's song "Bad to the Bone." [Josh Johnson]

Episode #1-13: Uh Oh Dynamo

• An entire tribute to/parody of anime, of course, with various anime peculiarities sprinkled throughout. [Collin]
• DyNaMo's name may be a reference to the 1978 robot anime series Daimos. [Arthur Prayogo]
• The five star restaurant is "Le Dunne King Donnet"—Dunkin' Donuts. [ALPH]
• One of the generic kids picnicking at the beginning is playing with a Tranzor Z toy. [Zobovor]
  Tranzor Z was originally called Mazinger Z in Japan. [CJA]
• When DyNaMo flies to meet the Giant Fish Balloon, its hair rotates and its feet glow like USS Voyager (Star Trek: Voyager) before it vanishes into warp. [ALPH]
• Blossom's quote "All right, Tokyo Townsville! Are you ready?" is from the Cheap Trick album Live at the Budokan. [Ken Masuyama]
• DyNaMo's launch sequence resembles that of Mazinger Z. [Arthur Prayogo]
• DyNaMo's scissor attack parodies that of Combattler V (Ultra Electromagnetic Robot Combattler V). [Arthur Prayogo]

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