Ms. Keane

Ms. Keane
Name:	Ms. Keane
Nickname:	Miss K (by Buttercup in "Down 'n' Dirty") Honey Bunny, Cutie Pie, Sweetie Pants, Pumpkin Pants, Snuggle Puppy, Wormy Piggums, Lumpy Bones, Cheesy Quesadilla, Lovey Bear, Googly Moogly, Apple Dumplin, Sticky Bun, Sugar Booger (by Professor Utonium) in "Keen on Keane")
Gender:	Female
Age:	About the same age as Professor Utonium and Sara Bellum.
First appearance:	"Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins"
Last appearance:	"The Powerpuff Girls Rule!"
Episode count:	43
Voice actor:	Kath Soucie (What-a-Cartoon episode "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins") Jennifer Hale
Family:	Valentino (pet cat)
Creator:	Craig McCracken

Ms. Keane is a character from the Cartoon Network animated series "The Powerpuff Girls". She is named after the famous American artist, Margaret Keane.

Background

Ms. Keane teaches Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, which is where the Powerpuff Girls attend school. She wears an orange short sleeve shirt dress, a red vest, brown leggings, and red flats. She has short black hair and sky blue eyes (colored black in some episodes). She is patient, understanding, and very protective of her students, making her a well-liked, motherly figure. She and Miss Bellum occasionally serve as maternal figures to the Powerpuff Girls. She drives a tangerine hatchback vehicle, as seen in "Reeking Havoc".

Ms Keane in The Powerpuff Girls Movie.

Ms. Keane also seems to have a fair command of general relativity, being able to produce complex equations at an incredible pace, as seen in "Speed Demon". Her name is first revealed in "Tough Love" by Bubbles telling her that Billy threw paper at her; however, Ms. Keane is under Him's hatred spell, so her first lines are rather callous. In several episodes, her innate motherly instincts come into play when she is teaching her surrogate children in her class, particularly when weaker kids (like Elmer Skloo in "Paste Makes Waste") get picked on and bullied by the other children. Ms. Keane also forbids any fighting in school even if there is a crisis taking place within it; she convinces the girls that there other ways to solve problems other than fighting, such as in the episode "Schoolhouse Rocked".

Ms. Keane once had a relationship with Professor Utonium and went on a date with him in "Keen on Keane", however their romance failed after she refused to believe the Professor's story about a cat who controlled his actions (the events of "Cat Man Do"), although less believable things have happened in Townsville.

Episode Appearances

• Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins
• Geshundfight (cameo)
• Buttercrush (cameo)
• Tough Love
• Paste Makes Waste
• Ice Sore
• Stuck Up, Up, and Away
• Schoolhouse Rocked
• Collect Her (cameo)
• Birthday Bash
• Too Pooped to Puff (cameo)
• Down 'n' Dirty
• Daylight Savings
• Imaginary Fiend
• Cootie Gras
• Speed Demon
• Mojo Jonesin' (cameo)
• Bought and Scold
• Gettin' Twiggy With It
• Equal Fights
• All Chalked Up
• Get Back Jojo
• Superfriends
• Forced Kin (cameo)
• The Powerpuff Girls Movie
• Keen on Keane
• Power-Noia (dream only)
• Octi Gone
• Divide and Conquer
• Substitute Creature (picture frame)
• 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas
• Seed No Evil
• City of Clipsville
• A Documentary
• Curses
• Say Uncle
• Reeking Havoc
• Oops, I Did It Again (dream only)
• A Made Up Story (cameo)
• Little Miss Interprets
• That's Not My Baby
• The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!! (cameo)

Gallery

See: Ms. Keane (1998 TV series)/Gallery

Trivia

• In the What-A-Cartoon episode "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins", Ms. Keane looks taller and has a longer neck.
• It is revealed in Down 'n' Dirty when Ms. Keane is writing on the chalkboard while teaching her students about the color green that she is left-handed.
  • Strangely enough, in Speed Demon, she writes using her left hand and right hand at the same time.
• She may represent a nod to cartoonist Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus, as she closely resembles that cartoon's character Mommy (Thelma), with dark hair and flip hairdo.
• Ms. Keane is named after American artist and painter Margaret Keane. As a reference to Margaret Keane's 'waif' painting in which the Powerpuff Girls have the same big eyes that Margret Keane did whom her husband claimed credit for.
• She and Ms. Bellum and are the only main characters who didn't appear in See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey.