SHE-RA. RAINBOW BRITE. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE.
For many years, they have tried to put out cartoons with female leads and each time, they fail miserably. After several years, there is finally a female-lead show that accomplishes where all the others have failed...THE POWERPUFF GIRLS!
Do you want to know where all those other girls shows went wrong? They tried too hard to pander to girls with their shows. As a result, those shows wound up being too preachy, too mushy, and only seemed to talk down to their audience. It's no wonder those shows didn't last very long.
Meanwhile, the Powerpuff Girls avoided all those pitfalls by making a show that doesn't just pander to girls. This show is so well executed, ANYBODY will enjoy it--girls, boys, men, women---this show has something for everyone. This show has humor that the kids will get as well as humor for the adults, all without alienating either audience.
Born out of a laboratory mishap (because all your best comicbook origins start out that way, don't they?), three little girls with SUPERMAN POWERS (super strength, superspeed, flight, near-invulnerability, heat vision, and a bunch of other powers they'll probably think up later!) are out to protect the trouble-prone people of TOWNSVILLE! BLOSSOM (who think that since she's leader, she can do wrong...and always does!), BUBBLES (who's so naive, it's funny! Plus, she loves to color!), and BUTTERCUP (who's always MAD ABOUT SOMETHING...even if she has to go look for reasons to GET MAD!) are all out to defend the city from such EVIL villains like MOJO JOJO, WILLY LUMPKIN, HIM, THE GANGREEN GANG, and whatever obligatory monsters get thrown at them!
Another thing about this show is that it NEVER TAKES ITSELF SERIOUSLY!!! Every single cartoon cliche gets joked on throughout this series...from the 'SUPERFRIENDS' style announcer, to the predictable antics of the villains, to the obligatory 'funny' moment at the end (because every cartoon has to have one in the end)! You have a bugaboo about certain things in cartoons? There's a good chance that they've already joked on it!
With lots of laugh-out-loud humor and lots of interesting characters, the Powerpuff Girls will be the only girls show that will be talked about decades from now, whereas other girl shows like JEM will hardly get mentioned at all!
