Mojo Jojo's "braincap" was designed in tribute to the helmet of the title superhero from the Japanese series "Za kagesutaa" (1976).
In the episode "Three Girls and a Monster" of "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Three Girls and a Monster/Monkey See, Doggie Two (#3.6)} Blossom orders the commencement of flight plan Alpha-Omega-Atari. When executing this plan, the girls race through the city, at one point forming, with their color trails, the Atari symbol. In addition, the names Alpha and Omega are the names of the first and last gun turrets in Atari's classic arcade game Missile Command (Delta is the one left out).
In "Something's a Ms" segment of "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Something's a Ms./Slumbering with the Enemy (#2.13)}, Ms. Bellum is kidnapped. The girls are debriefed on this in a scene which mimics similar scenes in The Big Lebowski.
The title of the episode which features the "Human Leech" titled "The Headsucker's Moxy", in "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {The Headsuckers Moxie/Equal Fights (#3.10)}. This is a reference to the Coen Brothers' film, The Hudsucker Proxy.
At the start of each episode, a shot of the city is seen, along with narration that always starts with the phrase, "The city of Townsville...".
In some episodes, Dexter, of _"Dexter's Laboratory" (1996)_ has a few cameo appearances. Four recognized appearances: 1st: A sleeping kid in "Powerpuff Bluff" segment of _"The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Insect Inside/Powerpuff Bluff (#1.2)_. 2nd: In "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Criss Cross Crisis (#3.3)}, Dexter can be seen in the upper-right hand corner during the montage sequence when the Professor is trying to find the right frequency. 3rd: A doll in "Ploy's R. Us" segment of "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Hot Air Buffoon/Ploys R' Us (#3.9)}. 4th: In the background in "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Forced Kin (#4.8)}, Dexter can be seen standing on the sidewalk as the alien ship is covering the town.
The episode "Meet the Beat-Alls" segment of "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Moral Decay/Meet the Beat-Alls (#3.12)} featured a large number of jokes and puns all related to song titles, best known by the Beatles.
In "Slumbering With The Enemy" segment of "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Something's a Ms./Slumbering with the Enemy (#2.13)} the girls are looking though a teen magazine during a slumber party. Amongst the pictures of guys one sees the creator of the show, Craig McCracken. He's the one with the black "e-bay" shirt on.
The location of Townsville is given in the episode in which the girls must solve puzzles given by Him "or else the Professor will pay." The final location in the hunt is given by the Mayor who states that the global coordinates of an intersection is at 32 degrees North and 212 degrees West (or 148 East). This puts Townsville in the Pacific Ocean approximately 400 hundred miles east-by-southeast from Japan's largest island.
In "Collect Her" segment of "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Collect Her/Supper Villain (#2.2)} while the mayor is performing a Role Call of the population of Townsville to discover the identity of the kidnapper of the Powerpuff Girls, he calls out "Genndy McCracken", an amalgamation of producer Genndy Tartakovsky and Powerpuff Girls' creator Craig McCracken.
Originally entitled "Whoopass Stew", with the girls called the Whoopass Girls, but was changed when adult test audiences disapproved children hearing profanity to youngster generations, especially kindergarten, first grade & pre-school.
The devilish creature "Him", is refereed to this title because the producers thought the Devil or Satan or any other name would be too controversial for a kid's show.
Sara Bellum is named after the cerebellum, probably in reference to her job as the "brains" of the mayor's operation.
In "Nuthin' Special" segment of "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Nuthin' Special/Neighbor Hood (#6.9)}, Buttercup discovers that she's the only one in Townsville who can roll her tongue. The rest of Townsville try this, going from on person to another. One of these people is Gene Simmons, the bassist/vocalist from the band KISS.
After The Powerpuff Girls (2002) the show underwent a series of changes: The production switched from traditional inked and painted cels to digital post production, the design for Mojo Jojo was changed to the more sinister-looking one used in the movie, and the end graphic - with the concentric hearts and the girls appearing in an explosion of stars - switched to the slightly more elaborate version used at the end of the movie.
George Jetson, of The Jetsons appears in the background, occasionally.
June Foray, provided the voice of Madame Argentina in the episode, "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future" segment of "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future/Octi Gone (#6.10)}. In honor of this, the episode was made to feel like an episode of "Rocky & Bullwinkle".
According to Tom Kane, he based Professor Utonium's voice on actor Gary Owens.
The girls are made out of sugar, spice, everything nice, and Chemical X.
The Powerpuff Girls debut, Wednesday, November 18th, 1998, was 70 years after first animation short, Steamboat Willie (1928) with volume (voices, music and sounds). Walt Disney was original voice of Steamboat Willie, (Disney quickly re-named Willie, Mickey Mouse) and 90 years after late comical actress and dancer, Imogene Coca's date of birth on Wednesday, November 18th, 1908.
The Powerpuff Girls double episode set of "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998) {Bubblevicious/The Bare Facts (#1.9)}'s original air date of Wednesday, January 20th, 1999. Anniversary of the second portion, of the "Bare Facto Of The Mayor", date occurs during Presidential & Political Inaugurations, of January 20th, in 2001, 'George W. Bush (I)', in 2001 and 2005, Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.
The note written by Mojo Jojo is in Craig McCracken's handwriting.
Mojo Jojo's prison number is 42BN247 (For to be in 24/7).
In "Birthday Bash" when Bubbles trips Mojo's robot,there is a two frames animation gag of the word "trip" in white against a black screen.
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