The Mighty B!

The Mighty B!
This show is anything to B mighty.
Genre: Comedy Animation Running Time: 22 minutes Country: United States Release Date: April 26, 2008 – June 18, 2011 Network(s): Nickelodeon Nicktoons Created by: Amy Poehler Cynthia True Erik Wiese Distributed by: Viacom Media Networks Starring: Amy Poehler Dee Bradley Baker Andy Richter Dannah Feinglass Megan Cavanagh Grey Delisle Griffin Jessica DiCicco Sarah Thyre Seasons: 2 Episodes: 40 (74 segments)

The Mighty B! is an American animated television series co-created by Amy Poehler, Cynthia True, and Erik Wiese (both from Fairly Oddparents) for Nickelodeon. This creator-driven series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee girl scout who lives in San Francisco with her dog Happy, her 6-year-old brother, Ben, and her mom, Hilary.

Premise

The series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee girl scout who believes she will become The Mighty B (a superhero) if she collects every Honeybee badge. Bessie lives in San Francisco with her single mother Hilary, brother Ben and her best friend of a dog, Happy. Bessie believes anything can be done with the right attitude and a little hard work.

Mighty Bad Qualities

1. The intro, while pretty catchy, is kinda annoying. It's just the word "bee" being repeated too many times. Even when the show itself is all about bees.
2. The show has a handful of clichés.
3. A handful of unlikable characters who are all stereotypes such as Portia, who is the generic Queen Bee-esque character (no pun intended as the main show is bee related).
4. Mediocre character designs in 2000's standards, particularly with Bessie.
5. While the animation is decent, there are some times when it looks slow.
6. The humor in the show is just plain unfunny, cheesy, and generic at the same time since a lot of them are quite predictable, despite Amy Poehler being the driving force of this show.
7. There are many gross jokes and scenes, like Bessie trying to jump into Portia's mouth in "Body Rockers", Bessie farting and being banned from the community center for it in "Toot Toot", and Bessie pouring phlegm out of the thermometer in "Apoxcalypse Now".
8. There are a handful of bad episodes, “Public Enembee” being one prime example.
9. Bessie's scout troop, The Honeybees, are unlikable since they are stereotypical girly girls and the leader, Mary Frances Gibbons, like her daughter, treats Bessie like an idiot for no reason. Also, why do Portia and Gwen have unique uniforms while the other girls don't?

Mighty Good Qualities

1. Pretty decent animation, considering that it is done by Rough Draft Studios.
2. Though annoying, the theme song is quite catchy.
3. There are some fairly funny jokes throughout the show.
4. The premise is interesting, despite being poorly executed.
5. Some good morals are in the show.
6. Great voice acting by the talents of: Amy Poehler, Dee Bradley Baker (Klaus from American Dad! and Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb), Andy Richter, Dannah Feinglass, Megan Cavanagh, Grey Delisle Griffin (The titular character of Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Mandy from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Daphne Blake from 2002-onwards Scooby Doo series and Kitty Katswell from T.U.F.F Puppy), Jessica DiCicco and Sarah Thyre.
7. The show does have a share fair of good episodes, like "We Got the Bee" (which Has a catchy song at the end), "Little Orphan Happy", "Bat Mitzvah Crashers", "An I See Bee", "Something's Wrong With This Taffy", "Thanksgiving Beenactment", “Dragonflies” (which also had a catchy song and was also the season 1 finale), and more. The final episode, "C'mon Get Happy", was intended to be a good way ending the show, but it leaves off on a cliffhanger.
   • The show did improve a bit by its second season. Sadly (and unfortunately), most people never saw this season because Nickelodeon dumped these episodes onto Nicktoons like most of their failed series.
8. There are some likable characters such as Happy, Ben, Penny, Hilary (Bessie's mom) and Bessie.
9. Some people might still like this show.

Reception

Despite positive reviews from critics and high ratings from the first season and the first 13 episodes of Season 2, the series received mixed-to-negative reviews from audiences and currently holds a 5.4/10 on IMDb. The Mighty B! also got good reviews from Google users meeting an 83%.

The show was nominated for six Annie Awards. The show has also been nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards, winning one. It has also been nominated for one Artios Award and one Golden Reel Award.

Trivia

• the series originally titled as Super Scout in 2006, later renamed as The Mighty B! instead.
• some of the other voice actors of The Mighty B! moved on such as Dannah Phirman in Season 9's The Fairly OddParents, Jill Talley and Jessica DiCicco between The Loud House, Puppy Dog Pals, the upcoming The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish and a upcoming Tom and Jerry direct-to-video films, Maya Rudolph in Big Hero 6, Sarah Thyre in All Hail, King Julien, Dee Baker and Audrey Wasilewski both The Lost Dragon and Willy Wonka, Grey DeLisle in current roles of Tom and Jerry related media, Kevin Michael Richardson in Snowman's Land, Keone Young in numerous Tom and Jerry roles such as The Karate Guard, Special Shorts and In New York.

Comments

Loading comments...