Before the Powerpuff Girls became a series, they were part of What A Cartoon, a series of short cartoons made exclusively for Cartoon Network (with some of them, like Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Bravo, going on to become the first of what was known as Cartoon Cartoons). In this, the second of three pilots (the first never aired due to the girls having a different name that Cartoon Network rejected for having vulgar language, as this was long before they thought of Adult Swim), after his meat jam loses Townsville Mall's annual jam contest, in which the girls, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup judged, Fuzzy Lumpkins, the titular antagonist of the short, invents a Meat Gun that turns anything it zaps into any meat product.
Seeing this after so long, you can see that, as a pilot, it has a lot of differences from the cartoon that would premiere three years later. Here, Fuzzy Lumpkins is more intelligent and actually uses a ray gun, something that would be normally Mojo Jojo's gimmick, and the mayor has a different design and is voiced by Jim Cummings (who also voices Fuzzy) and Bubbles is voiced by Kath Soucie. Also, Ernie Anderson, an announcer for ABC, served as narrator instead of Tom Kenny (although the latter would replace him in the next pilot). The animation is done by a different studio than the series. It is a neat pilot and a good example of how pilot episode can be different from the series it spawns.
Seeing this after so long, you can see that, as a pilot, it has a lot of differences from the cartoon that would premiere three years later. Here, Fuzzy Lumpkins is more intelligent and actually uses a ray gun, something that would be normally Mojo Jojo's gimmick, and the mayor has a different design and is voiced by Jim Cummings (who also voices Fuzzy) and Bubbles is voiced by Kath Soucie. Also, Ernie Anderson, an announcer for ABC, served as narrator instead of Tom Kenny (although the latter would replace him in the next pilot). The animation is done by a different studio than the series. It is a neat pilot and a good example of how pilot episode can be different from the series it spawns.
