The Powerpuff Girls meet The Simpsons in a new animation mashup. The Powerpuff Girls was an animated series created by Craig McCracken, which began telling the tale of Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles in 1998. The series ran for six seasons, from 1998 to 2004. The Simpsons, on the other hand, is a less kid-oriented animated series that started almost a decade earlier than The Powerpuff Girls, airing its first episode in 1989. The show has continued on since, and The Simpsons season 36 is currently in progress.
Now, new art from @nathanmadeit shows a mash-up of The Powerpuff Girls and The Simpsons.
The digital painting shows the trio of Buttercup, Bubbles, and Blossom all in flight. The main villain of The Powerpuff Girls, Mojo Jojo, is also shown on screen. Instead of their typical style, the Powerpuff trio is drawn with yellow skin and other Simpsons-like facial features. Mojo Jojo maintains the colors of his original design, but has bugged eyes and a protruding lip more typical to that of The Simpsons.
What This Means For The Powerpuff Girls And The Simpsons
The Simpsons Has Referenced The Powerpuff Girls Before
Though the inspiration comes from two very different series, The Powerpuff Girls and The Simpsons crossover art works surprisingly well. Outside mashup art like this, The Powerpuff Girls actually have previously been referenced in The Simpsons. In The Simpsons season 14, episode 8, for example, Lisa Simpson puts black grease in her hair and tells dad Homer that she “looks just like a Powerpuff Girl.” Lisa’s relationship with the cartoon is also alluded to her timeline of cartoon women’s history, which is seen in the episode “Bart vs Itchy & Scratchy.”
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These instances of reference show how The Simpsons is deeply rooted in homage. From small moments like these to recurring episodes like the Treehouse of Horror recurring series, The Simpsons makes frequent references to pop culture that was created before and after the goofy animated comedy. The show has yet to actually feature the physical Powerpuff Girls in an episode, but rather relegated them to reference or a simple wall sketch. This art gives a good idea of how a Powerpuff Girls and Simpsons crossover could actually manifest.
The next episode of
The Simpsons
season 36 will be a Treehouse of Horror episode airing on November 24.
Our Take On This Mashup Art
The Art Style Is In And Of Itself Amusing (In A Good Way)
Tonally, The Powerpuff Girls and The Simpsons are starkly dissimilar shows, making a real-life mashup of the two far more complicated. The Simpsons has shown countless times, however, that the writers have a knack for making reference to a huge variety of content genre-wise. Stylistically, parodying The Powerpuff Girls is already funny in Simpsons style, as per this art. For this reason, it seems like a Powerpuff Girls and Simpsons crossover could actually work on an artistic level.
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