Our Famous First this month features the Powerpuff Girls before they gained that monicker.
Series creator Craig McCracken originally conceived them as The Whoopass Girls, a few years before a certain wrestler made "whoop-ass" a common catchphrase. "A Sticky Situation" was a college project of McCracken's while at UCLA in 1992, and presented at film festivals two years later. The Professor, of course, would be redesigned for the later Cartoon Network run. Also, Lou Romano voices the Amoeba Boys, whom you saw yesterday in "Crime 101".
The name change was largely because of marketing purposes, and, at that time, it was believed that you couldn't market anything with "ass" in the product name. That, of course, would change with the WWE Attitude Era.....
Rating: B.
4 comments:
Such a weird name for a kids cartoon. It's no wonder they had to change the name.
Well, McCracken WAS in college when this was done. What did you expect?
I thought he was at Cal Arts when he made the short. Maybe that’s my fuzzy memory talking. And you know, for a guy inspired by cartoons in his early youth (e.g. Underdog), you’d think he’d know better than to throw “whoo”-“pass” in there. I suppose he never knew he’d be working for Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network back then.
Isn't Cal Arts affiliated with UCLA in some way? If it isn't, I'll correct the first post.
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