The Beatles legend Ringo Starr joins the cast in the groundbreaking and Emmy®-winning series The Powerpuff Girls in “Dance Pantsed” a redesigned and re-imagined CG special to screen Saturday 10 May at 12pm and Sunday 11 May at 3pm on Cartoon Network.
Starr will take on the role of Fibonacci Sequins, Townsville’s famous flamboyant mathematician, performing an original music video and song “I Wish I Was A Powerpuff Girl”.
The trio of pint-sized super heroines will be called upon to rescue to world before bedtime in the special, with Starr joining the original voice cast.
“Sugar, spice and everything nice… plus a dash of mysterious Chemical X” were the ingredients that created the crime-fighting trio Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup – also known as The Powerpuff Girls, which is celebrating its 15-year anniversary on Cartoon Network.
“Dance Pantsed” is produced by Cartoon Network Studios in association with UK’s Passion Pictures, with Dave Smith directing and Kevin Dart on board as art director.
The special will screen Saturday 10 May at 12pm and Sunday 11 May at 3pm on Cartoon Network.
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About The Powerpuff Girls “Dance Pantsed”
The Powerpuff Girls are back in an all-new 22-minute special “Dance Pantsed” with an exciting CG look. Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup return with sugar, spice and everything nice, as they once again need to save the city of Townsville and all before bedtime! Why is Mojo Jojo kidnapping a mathematician, an opera singer, and a badger? To steal Chemical X, of course, and to finally take over Townsville. But when The Powerpuff Girls thwart his plan, he invents an evil video game called “Dance Pants R-EVILution” to control their minds and bodies to execute his evil plan! With surprise aid, The Professor must visit his dark dancing past to save his girls so they in return can save all of Townsville!
About Cartoon Network ANZ
Launched in Australia in 1995, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.’s (TBS) Cartoon Network offers the best in animated entertainment. Drawing from the world’s largest cartoon library of Warner Bros., MGM and Hanna-Barbera titles, Cartoon Network showcases the best animated comedy content including Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated and The Looney Tunes Show. The Network also produces original series including the hugely successful Ben 10 franchise, Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball and Regular Show. Cartoon Network is seen in over 2.2 million and 800,000 households across Australia and New Zealand respectively. Online, Cartoon Network typically reaches more than 300,000 and 50,000 unique visitors every month across Australia and New Zealand respectively. Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Inc., a Time Warner company, is a major producer of multiplatform news and entertainment content around the world and the leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry.
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