2019 Geek-A-Long: Powerpuff Girls

This is our second Powerpuff Girls square. We originally featured the Professor on the 2015 Scientists blanket.

You can read about the actual Powerpuff cannon on their Wiki. I want to use this post today to talk about a theory I’ve been brewing.

I’ve been binging Fringe. Fringing.

Guys, it’s so obvious that I can’t believe I didn’t see it before, but Professor Utonium is just who Walter Bishop sees himself as when he’s tripping balls on LSD. Chemical X? That is obviously Cortexiphan. Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles are the personifications of Olivia, which help him process his guilt over knowingly sending her home to an abusive environment, not to mention the abuse he had inflicted on her in the name of science. He traded her childhood to try to save is alternate-universe’s son’s. Think I’m stretching? Let’s take a look at the town of Townsville.

First, there’s the professor himself. Sure, he’s doing experiments that you usually have to be in international waters to get away with, but he’ll be the first to tell you how lovable he is. What he does is for the greater good and that end makes all his means perfectly justified in his opinion. Right down to the manly jaw, great hair, and silly name, Professor Utonium is everything Walter Bishop imagines he is.

William Bell becomes Mojo Jojo in Walter’s acid-dream. He’s the scapegoat for all of Walter’s short comings and since Mojo is smarter than the Professor, it gives him a way to blame the “accident” that made the girls on Mojo Jojo. At the time of their creation, Mojo Jojo and the Professor were working together in the lab. The Cortexiphan Chemical X was clearly Mojo’s fault. Art imitates life here, and Mojo Jojo goes off to live somewhere else and do mad science for the bad guys.

And before you try to tell me that William Bell is not evil, or that Walter thinks he’s not evil, can we all unpack how he had zero moments of hesitation before tricking Olivia (who he’d already messed up on an epic scale) into drinking his soul magnets so that in the event of his death he could take over her body. Which he did. He gets absolutely no credit for giving her back her body. He made her into a freaking Horcrux.

Next, we have the girls themselves.

Blossom is the leader that Walter likes to imagine his experiments were creating.

Bubbles is the sweet little girl that Walter imagines she is. When he looks at child Olivia he decides to see Bubbles, and not the damaged and abused child that’s actually in front of him.

Buttercup is the part of Olivia that Walter tries his best to pretend isn’t there. In his trippy dream, the Professor mostly ignores her, favoring the other two girls at every chance. Unless of course he needs her anger for one of his experiments. Buttercup is the most authentic of them all to the real Oliva.

Also, I’m pretty sure that the Mayor is actually modeled after Walter’s perception of Broyles.

Whether you’re knitting, crocheting, or cross stitching this square, you can download the Powerpuff Girls pattern here. Instructions and charts for both knit and crochet are listed in the pattern. When you’re finished making it, don’t forget to Instagram your squares at us @lattesandllamasyarn with the hashtag #geekalong! Want to hang out with other people making the blanket? You can find moral support in the Geek-A-Long group on Ravelry here.

And in case you were wondering, yes — we know the other side of the square is super creepy. Just think of that side as representing the three aspects of Fauxlivia.

~Megan-Anne

Need more proof that the Power Puff girls are really just Walter’s bad trip? I give you Lou Gubrious.

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