The Powerpuff Girls/Shout-Out

• "Meet the Beat-alls" one long string of Beatles references. For those who aren't well-versed in Beatles history, this video can be quite helpful in getting them all.
• Speaking of The Beatles, the episode entitled "Get Back Jojo".
• Additionally, Him has a very similar voice to the Chief Blue Meanie from Yellow Submarine, and according to McCracken, he was a major inspiration on the character.
• "The Powerpuff Girls Rule" makes as many pop culture references as it possibly can in its 30-minute timeslot. Everything from George Orwell^[1] to Mario Kart^[2] gets its fair share of homage.
• One episode had the Mayor playing a video game with a character and an HUD that looked suspiciously like those from 3D Zelda titles. The Mayor even killed Navi, accomplishing something OoT fans could only dream of.
• The girls' big eyes were inspired by the art of Margaret Keane; Ms. Keane is named after her.
• There's one to 2001: A Space Odyssey in "Coupe D'etat".

Blossom: This isn't very funny. Open the door, KARR!
KARR: (close-up on just one of KARR's headlights) I'm sorry, Blossom. I'm afraid I can't do that.

• When Buttercup shows off all of her powers in an attempt to find one her sisters don't have, she finally yells out "The Matrix!" and begins to "dodge" backwards in slow-motion.
• From "Mojo Jonesin'": "Together, you will be a wonderfully diverse and multi-ethnic super hero team, perhaps saving the environment or, whatever."
• "Dream Scheme" has this reference to The Princess Bride.

Professor: No buts! I mean it!
Bubbles: Anybody want a peanut?

• The title of "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey" is a reference to the recurring "See me, feel me" lyrics from The Who's Tommy. Of course, there must have been more inspiration taken from it as well, with one specific example being a brief Jimmy Hart Version of the opening of "Pinball Wizard" playing when the gnome is granting the girls' wish.
• In addition, during the final song, the faces of several villains appear in nine boxes around the screen. "The baddie bunch! The baddie bunch!"
• "Imaginary Fiend" has Blossom thrown into a pile of coats, emerging dressed as Cartman.
• In the movie, the spices used to create the Powerpuff Girls are revealed to be parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
• The title of the episode "A Very Special Blossom" alludes to the NBC sitcom Blossom (starring Mayim Bialik) in which every other episode was "a very special" episode.
• In "Knock It Off", there were giant robots in a shot. One had the head of the Mazinger Z. Another had the head of the getter-1, the arms of Grendizer, and the Mazinger's breast fire thing. The last one was blatantly Ultraman. Pretty impressive considering their obscurity outside their home country.
• There's a certain scene in the movie with Mojo Jojo holding a newspaper headlining the girl's destruction of Townsville. The back page of the paper has a small poster for a certain ape-based virtual band complete with a heading stating that they're headlining Townsville's Music Fest. Cue Troper's head exploding after a second viewing of the film 9 years after watching it in theaters.
• In the comic book "Trick or Beatings", the following exchange occurs as the Powerpuff Girls (and Mojo Jojo) are out trick or treating:

Buttercup: I got a gooey bear!
Blossom: I got a lollipop!
Bubbles: I got a candy bar!
Mojo Jojo: Mojo got a rock.

• In "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas", there's a scene near the beginning where Buttercup worries that waiting until the last minute to send her wish list to Santa might mean she won't get her "official Red Ryder carbine-action 200 shot range model air rifle".
• In "Jewel of the Aisle", the girls watch a cartoon called Mech-Animals.
• In "Los Dos Mojos", after knocking out Bubbles, who was convinced she was Mojo Jojo, the real Mojo says "One shall be the number of Mojo Jojos in the world, and the number of Mojo Jojos in the world shall be one. Two Mojo Jojos is too many, and three is right out."
• In the first Rowdy Ruff Boys episode in Season 1, Bubbles crashes through a window and apologizes to the clerk, "sorry about your window Mr. Looper." with which the clerk states "Its Hooper!! Hooper!!!".
• In "Collect Her", when the Mayor is trying to determine who the culprit is, one of the name he comes up with is Genndy McCracken. This is an amalgam of two of the show's main writers, Genndy Tartakovsky and Craig McCracken.
• McCracken received another shout-out in a subsequent episode in the form of a pirate names Crack McCraigan.
• A scene in the episode "Silent Treatment" has the girls sitting in a movie theater, positioned at the bottom right of the screen making fun of a movie as it plays.
• "Get your paws off me you damn dirty ape!"

1. ↑ Buttercup has a fantasy where she rules the world with an iron fist; an Imagine Spot shows her giant face on TV screens with the tag "Big Butter Is Watching You."
2. ↑ All the characters have a Mario Kart-style kart race at one point