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Professor Utonium (1998 TV series)

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Professor Utonium
Utonium
"Once again, I have no idea what I did!" -- "Bubble Boy"
Name: Professor Utonium
Nickname: Pookie Bear, Fuzzy Muffin, Cuddlefish, Love Bucket, Snootypoo, Sugar Cookie, Shlubbypuff, Duck-Billed Platypus, Physics Pants, Silly Billy, Soccerman, RockStar, Poogly Pie, Cutie Patootie (by Ms. Keane), Professor U.
Alias: Dad[1]
Daddy[2]
Daddy-O[3]
Professor Untonium
Professor
Powerprof.
Mr. Utonium (by his elementary school teacher)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown (about the same age as Ms. Keane and Sara Bellum)
First appearance: "Monkey See, Doggie Do"
Last appearance: "The Powerpuff Girls: Dance Pantsed"
Episode count: 93
Voice actor: Tom Kane
Rob Paulsen (young)
Family: Blossom (daughter)
Bubbles (daughter)
Buttercup (daughter)
Eugene (brother)
Creator: Craig McCracken

Professor 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.

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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 was seen carrying a tobacco pipe, but this was dropped 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 were 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 made for the Townsville cook-off one year resulted 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 realized his college roommate was taking advantage of him. In the latter, he moved 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 kept lying to the Girls he had a lot of work to do even though he had 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 wormed her way into the family circle so that she could keep the Powerpuff Girls from interfering with her crime sprees. Ms. Keane, on the other hand, did not like nor understand his aversion to cats (which itself is a result of the events in "Cat Man Do"). He was 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 who had no interest in education, let alone science; then he changed his ways and eventually created 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. This would mean that if the series took place in 1998 (the year the show released), he would probably be more than 45 years old by then.

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

Likes & Dislikes

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Episode Appearances

Creations / Inventions

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The Professor's very first experiment

Gallery

Click here to visit Professor Utonium's Gallery.

Trivia

  • The Professor's voice actor, Tom Kane, performed 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 said "We're the Utoniums." in "Roughing It Up", when the girls were angry at Fuzzy Lumpkins and his three nephews, which implies that "Utonium" is actually his surname.
  • It was 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.

References

  1. ↑ Bubbles twice in The Powerpuff Girls Movie/Transcript, Blossom and Buttercup in Members Only/Transcript
  2. ↑ Mojo in in The Powerpuff Girls Movie/Transcript, possibly Bubbles too in an unidentified episode
  3. ↑ Buttercup in in The Powerpuff Girls Movie/Transcript
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