THE Powerpuff Girls find The Simpsons in a new animation mashup. The Powerpuff Girls was an animated series created by Craig McCracken, who began telling the story of Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles in 1998. The series ran for six seasons, from 1998 to 2004. The Simpsonson the other hand, it is a less child-oriented animated series that began almost a decade before The Powerpuff Girlsairing its first episode in 1989. The program has continued since then, and The Simpsons season 36 is underway.
Now, new art from @nathanmadeit shows a mash-up of The Powerpuff Girls and The Simpsons.
The digital painting shows the trio Buttercup, Bubbles and Blossom in flight. The main villain of The Powerpuff GirlsMojo Jojo is also shown on screen. Instead of their typical style, the Powerpuff trio are designed with yellow skin and other Simpsons-similar facial features. Mojo Jojo maintains the colors of his original design, but has bulging eyes and a protruding lip more typical of Mojo Jojo’s. The Simpsons.
What this means for the Powerpuff Girls and The Simpsons
The Simpsons has referenced the Powerpuff Girls before
Although the inspiration comes from two very different series, The Powerpuff Girls and The Simpsons the cross art works surprisingly well. Outside of mashup art like this, The Powerpuff Girls in fact, they have already been referenced in The Simpsons. In The Simpsons Season 14, Episode 8, for example, Lisa Simpson puts black grease in her hair and tells her father Homer that she “looks like a Powerpuff Girl.” Lisa’s relationship with the cartoon is also alluded to in her timeline of the history of cartoon women, which is seen in the episode “Bart vs Itchy & Scratchy”.
These reference examples show how The Simpsons it is deeply rooted in homage. From little moments like these to recurring episodes like Treehouse of Horror recurring series, The Simpsons makes frequent references to pop culture that was created before and after the silly animated comedy. The show has yet to feature the physical Powerpuff Girls in an episode, but has relegated them to a reference or a simple wall sketch. This art gives a good idea of ​​how a Powerpuff Girls and Simpsons crossover could really manifest itself.
Our opinion on this mashup art
The art style is fun in its own right (in a good way)
Tonally, The Powerpuff Girls and The Simpsons they’re entirely different shows, making a real-life mashup of the two much more complicated. The Simpsons has shown time and time again, however, that writers have a knack for referencing a huge range of content in terms of genre. Stylistically, parodying The Powerpuff Girls It’s already funny Simpsons style, according to 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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