Professor Utonium (1998 TV series)

Professor Utonium (1998 TV series)
Biographical information
Aliases	Dad Daddy Daddy-O Professor Untonium Professor Powerprof. Mr. Utonium (by his elementary school teacher)
Abilities	High Intelligence
Occupation	Scientist Teacher
Physical description
Species	Human
Gender	Male

Professor Jordan Utonium is the deuteragonist of The Powerpuff Girls. He is the scientist responsible for creating The Powerpuff Girls. He teaches classes in quantum physics and micro-nuclear fusion at Townsville Research Center.

Profile

Appearance

Professor Utonium is very "square", handsome, and old-fashioned. He wears a white lab coat with pens in its pocket and a shirt and tie. His head is impossibly rectangular with carefully parted black hair and thick eyebrows. He has blue eyes during one scene in "Mr. Mojo's Rising." In the earlier episodes (such as "Insect Inside"), he is seen carrying a tobacco pipe, but this is not present in the later episodes.

Voice

The Professor's voice is very thoughtful, exactly the sort anyone might expect from a father figure in a 1950s TV series.

Personality

He is overprotective of the girls. He is a very affectionate and supportive father, whose pep talks often bring the girls around when they are discouraged. While he is sometimes portrayed as rather skittish, he can be reasonably strict with the girls when he needs to be, particularly when they are falling asleep in school.

Utonium is a keen golfer. Ironically, his most successful inventions are those that he makes by accident - such as the Powerpuff Girls themselves, or the containment device seen in "Bubble Boy" (he says of it: "Once again, I have no idea what I did!"). Most inventions he creates on purpose usually do not work, or have some great flaw. This extends to his cooking skills as well; the chili he makes for the Townsville cook-off one year results in a hazmat team bordering off the house.

In "Knock it Off" and "Town and Out", the Professor is shown to lack common sense. In the former he never realizes his college roommate was taking advantage of him. In the latter, he moves to Citysville for his new job instead of commuting.

He also does not like liver and onions, and neither do the Powerpuff Girls. However, he lies saying that he likes them to have the girls think he is a mature adult. This is hinted at in "A Very Special Blossom" and "Lying Around the House". He has a predilection for lying, and whenever he lies, it backfires on him, such as when he keeps lying to the girls that he has a lot of work to do even though he has free time to watch a sports game.

Professor Utonium is also unlucky in love if his relationships with Sedusa, Ms. Keane, and Ms. Bellum are any indication. Sedusa worms her way into the family circle so that she can keep the Powerpuff Girls from interfering with her crime sprees. Ms. Keane, on the other hand, does not like nor understands his aversion to cats (which itself is a result of the events in "Cat Man Do"). He is also the would-be husband of Ms. Bellum.

Biography

Professor Utonium introduces himself as "Professor - Professor Utonium" in The Powerpuff Girls Movie.

According to his past, mentioned in "Get Back Jojo", Utonium started out as a terrible brat with no interest in education, let alone science; then he changes his ways and eventually creates the Powerpuff Girls.

In the episode "Get Back Jojo", it is revealed that he went to elementary school with Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane during the 1950s (1959 in that episode). This would mean that if the series takes place in 1998 (the year the show released), he would probably be more than 45 years old by then.

In "Criss Cross Crisis", he swaps bodies with Buttercup.

Likes & dislikes

Likes

• Science
• Ms. Keane
• Blossom
• Buttercup
• Bubbles
• Mayor
• Ms. Sara Bellum
• Golf and anything to do with it
• Inventions
• The City of Townsville
• Pancakes
• Silent movies
• Ima Goodlady (did not know it was Sedusa in disguise)

Dislikes

• The Rowdyruff Boys
• Mojo Jojo
• Fuzzy Lumpkins
• Sedusa
• The Powerpuff Girls getting hurt
• Profanity
• The Town of Citiesville
• Cats (after "Cat Man Do")
• HIM
• Parent Teacher Conferences
• Spiders
• Dick Hardly (in "Knock It Off")
• The Run-of-the-Mill Girls
• When the Mayor acts like a baby
• Wrestling (shown in "Impeach Fuzz")
• Destroying his creations
• Being exposed
• Accidentally doing things (as seen in "Oops, I Did It Again")

Episode appearances

• "Insect Inside"
• "Monkey See, Doggie Do"
• "Mommy Fearest"
• "Octi Evil"
• "Geshundfight"
• "Boogie Frights"
• "Telephonies"
• "Tough Love"
• "Major Competition"
• "Mr. Mojo's Rising"
• "Ice Sore"
• "Bubblevicious"
• "Cat Man Do"
• "Impeach Fuzz"
• "The Rowdyruff Boys"
• "Uh-Oh, Dynamo"
• "Collect Her"
• "Supper Villain"
• "Birthday Bash"
• "Too Pooped to Puff"
• "Dream Scheme"
• "Beat Your Greens"
• "Down 'n' Dirty"
• "Slave the Day"
• "Los Dos Mojos" (mentioned)
• "A Very Special Blossom"
• "Daylight Savings"
• "Mo Job" (non-speaking cameo)
• "Pet Feud"
• "The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever"
• "Just Desserts"
• "Twisted Sister"
• "Cover Up"
• "Speed Demon"
• "Slumbering with the Enemy"
• "The Mane Event"
• "Town and Out"
• "Child Fearing"
• "Criss Cross Crisis"
• "Bubblevision"
• "Bought and Scold"
• "Monkey See, Doggy Two"
• "Jewel of the Aisle"
• "Super Zeroes"
• "Ploys R' Us"
• "The Headsucker's Moxy"
• "Equal Fights"
• "Powerprof."
• "Moral Decay"
• "Meet the Beat Alls"
• "Helter Shelter"
• "Film Flam"
• "Get Back Jojo"
• "Him Diddle Riddle"
• "Superfriends"
• "Members Only"
• "Nano of the North"
• "Stray Bullet"
• "Knock It Off"
• The Powerpuff Girls Movie
• "Keen on Keane"
• "Not So Awesome Blossom"
• "Power-Noia"
• "Nuthin' Special" (mentioned)
• "Shut the Pup Up"
• "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future" (mentioned)
• "Octi-Gone"
• "Toast of the Town"
• "Burglar Alarmed"
• "Shotgun Wedding"
• "Save Mojo" (cameo)
• "The Boys Are Back in Town" (flashback)
• "See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey"
• "Pee Pee G's"
• "The City of Clipsville"
• "Lying Around the House"
• "Bubble Boy"
• "Curses"
• "Bang For Your Buck"
• "Silent Treatment"
• "Sweet 'N Sour" (cameo)
• "Coupe d'etat"
• "Makes Zen to Me"
• "Say Uncle"
• "Reeking Havoc"
• "Live and Let Dynamo" (mentioned)
• "Oops, I Did It Again"
• "A Made Up Story"
• "Little Miss Interprets"
• "Night Mayor"
• "The City of Nutsville"
• "That's Not My Baby" (mentioned)
• "Simian Says"
• "Sun Scream"
• "The City of Frownsville"
• "West in Pieces" (Western counterpart)
• "Crazy Mixed-Up Puffs"
• "Mizzen in Action"
• "Roughing It Up"
• "What's the Big Idea?"
• "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!"
• "The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed"

Creations / Inventions

The Professor's very first experiment

• The Powerpuff Girls (The Powerpuff Girls Movie)
• Dynamo ("Uh-Oh, Dynamo")
• Body Switcher ("Criss Cross Crisis")
• Powerprof. Suit ("Powerprof.")
• Time Portal ("Get Back Jojo")
• Micro-Stabilizer ("Nano of the North")
• Transport Carrier Solution ("Nano of the North")
• Magnavision Helmet ("Nano of the North")
• Containment Ray ("Bubble Boy")
• Antidote X (The Powerpuff Girls Movie)
• K.A.R.R. ("Coupe d'etat")
• P.R.O.F. ("Coupe d'etat")
• Run-of-the-Mill Girls ("Oops, I Did It Again")
• Cold Cream ("A Made Up Story")
• Nocturnatron ("Night Mayor")
• Dune Buggy ("The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!")

Gallery

Click here to visit Professor Utonium's Gallery.

Trivia

• The Professor's voice actor, Tom Kane, performs the role in both the original and reboot. He also voices HIM in both iterations.
• During the years in which Cartoon Network had a city theme, the Professors' physical resemblance to Samurai Jack was joked about in a bumper that had Blossom mistakenly put her clothes in a laundromat washing machine being used by the latter, thus turning his white robes pink.
• The Professor says "We're the Utoniums." in "Roughing It Up", when the girls are angry at Fuzzy Lumpkins and his three nephews, which implies that "Utonium" is his surname.
• It is revealed in "Uh-Oh, Dynamo" that the Professor is left-handed.
• In the episode "Mommy Fearest", the Professor is shown sleeping in a double bed alone, implying that he may have been married at some point.