List of The Mighty B! episodes
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The Mighty B!
is an American animated
children's television series
co-created by Amy Poehler
for Nickelodeon
. The series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee scout that believes she will become a superhero
called the Mighty B if she collects every Honeybee badge
. Bessie lives in San Francisco with her single mother Hilary, brother Ben and dog Happy. The series was picked up for a pilot in early 2006 under the name of Super Scout. The series premiered on Saturday April 26, 2008, which was the morning after Poehler's film Baby Mama
had premiered. In September 2008, the show was renewed for a second season with 20 episodes. Brown Johnson, president of animation at Nickelodeon, called the show a "break-out hit" that "compliments and strengths" the Saturday morning line-up. The second season premiered on September 21, 2009.
The Mighty B! and its crew have been nominated six Annie Award
s, with so far no wins. The show has also been nominated for two Daytime Emmy Award
s, winning one for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. The show has also been nominated one Artios Award and one Golden Reel Award
.
Many titles of the episodes of the series are parodies of particular media. Examples include "Sleepless in San Francisco" (based on the 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle
) and Dirty Happy (based of Clint Eastwood
's 1971 Dirty Harry
, which even includes references quotes from the movie).
The Mighty B!
The Mighty B! is an American animated television series co-created by Amy Poehler, Cynthia True and Erik Wiese for Nickelodeon. The series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee girlscout that believes she will become a superhero called the Mighty B if she collects every Honeybee badge...
is an American animated
Cartoon series
A cartoon series is a set of regularly presented animated television programs with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes typically share the same characters and a basic theme...
children's television series
Children's television series
Children's television series, are commercial television programs designed for, and marketed to children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run in the early evening, for the children that go to school...
co-created by Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler
Amy Meredith Poehler is an American comedian, actress and voice actress. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008. In 2004, she starred in the film Mean Girls with Tina Fey, with whom she worked again in Baby Mama in 2008. She is...
for Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
. The series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee scout that believes she will become a superhero
Superhero
A superhero is a type of stock character, possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers", dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas —...
called the Mighty B if she collects every Honeybee badge
Badge
A badge is a device or fashion accessory, often containing the insignia of an organization, which is presented or displayed to indicate some feat of service, a special accomplishment, a symbol of authority granted by taking an oath , a sign of legitimate employment or student status, or as a simple...
. Bessie lives in San Francisco with her single mother Hilary, brother Ben and dog Happy. The series was picked up for a pilot in early 2006 under the name of Super Scout. The series premiered on Saturday April 26, 2008, which was the morning after Poehler's film Baby Mama
Baby Mama (film)
Baby Mama is a 2008 comedy film from Universal Pictures written and directed by Michael McCullers and starring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear, and Dax Shepard.-Plot:...
had premiered. In September 2008, the show was renewed for a second season with 20 episodes. Brown Johnson, president of animation at Nickelodeon, called the show a "break-out hit" that "compliments and strengths" the Saturday morning line-up. The second season premiered on September 21, 2009.
The Mighty B! and its crew have been nominated six Annie Award
Annie Award
The Annie Awards have been presented by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood since 1972...
s, with so far no wins. The show has also been nominated for two Daytime Emmy Award
Daytime Emmy Award
The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming...
s, winning one for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. The show has also been nominated one Artios Award and one Golden Reel Award
Motion Picture Sound Editors
Founded in 1953, Motion Picture Sound Editors is an honorary society of motion picture sound editors. The society's goals are to educate others about and increase the recognition of the sound editors, show the artistic merit of the soundtracks, and improve the professional relationship of its...
.
Many titles of the episodes of the series are parodies of particular media. Examples include "Sleepless in San Francisco" (based on the 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle
The film was originally to have been scored by John Barry, but when he was given a list of 20 songs he had to put in the film, he quit.#As Time Goes By - Jimmy Durante #A Kiss to Build a Dream on - Louis Armstrong #Stardust - Nat King Cole...
) and Dirty Happy (based of Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
's 1971 Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry is a 1971 American crime thriller produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan....
, which even includes references quotes from the movie).
Series Overview
| Season | Episodes | Season premiere | Season finale | DVD releases | ||
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| DVD volume | Region 1 DVD region code DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region... release |
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| 1 | 20 | April 26, 2008 | June 12, 2009 | We Got the Bee | February 24, 2009 | |
| BEEing Bessie Higgenbottom | December 8, 2009 | |||||
| 2 | 20 | September 21, 2009 | June 18, 2011 | — | — | |
Season 1: 2008–2009
| Series # | Season # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate |
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| 1 | 1 | "So Happy Together" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Cynthia True, Erik Wiese Erik Wiese Erik Wiese is a storyboard artist and writer who has worked on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants for four seasons, beginning with his character development and design for the pilot "Help Wanted." After this he became the Co-Creator of the series The Mighty B!, where he directs all of the... |
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| "Sweet Sixteenth" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin Jessica Chaffin Jessica Chaffin is an American actress and comedienne best known for her role as Coco on Zoey 101.-Career:Chaffin was born and raised in Newton, Massachusetts. She is a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles, often performing with her comedy partner Jamie Denbo.... |
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| 2 | 2 | "Bee My Baby" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Will Berson | |
| "Bee Afraid" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Cynthia True, Erik Wiese | |||
| 3 | 3 | "Artificial Unintelligence" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Dani Michaeli Dani Michaeli Daniel "Dani" Michaeli is an American television writer and producer. He is known as a writer on SpongeBob SquarePants.-Television:*2004: South Park - Consultant, 6 episodes*2006-present: SpongeBob SquarePants... |
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| "We Got the Bee" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | John Ross Bowie John Ross Bowie John Ross Bowie is an American actor and comedian best known for playing Barry Kripke in The Big Bang Theory, and modeling as the benefits spokesperson for Target Corporation "Ben E. Fitz". He has also appeared in commercials for Progressive and appeared in the film What The Bleep Do We Know?... , Dannah Feinglass Dannah Feinglass Dannah Phirman is an actress, writer and comedienne. She was a member of Respecto Montalban, a long-running improv team at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in both New York City and Los Angeles.... |
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| 4 | 4 | "Li'l Orphan Happy" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | John Ross Bowie, Dannah Feinglass | |
| "Body Rockers" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | |||
| 5 | 5 | "Bat Mitzvah Crashers" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | |
| "Super Secret Weakness" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Dani Michaeli | |||
| 6 | 6 | "An I See Bee" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | |
| "Woodward and Beesting" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Dannah Feinglass | |||
| 7 | 7 | "Doppelfinger" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Will Berson | |
| "Little Womyn" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | |||
| 8 | 8 | "The Apprentice" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | |
| "Beenedict Arnold" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | |||
| 9 | 9 | "Boston Beean" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | |
| "Penny Hearts Joey" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | |||
| 10 | 10 | "Ten Little Honeybees" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | |
| "Toot Toot" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Cynthia True, Erik Wiese | |||
| 11 | 11 | "Dragon Flies" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao, Cynthia True, Erik Wiese | |
| 12 | 12 | "Bee Patients" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | |
| "To Bee or Not To Bee" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Lynne Naylor, Jessica Gao | |||
| 13 | 13 | "Night Howl" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | |
| "Hat Trick" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao, Cynthia True, Erin Eltman | |||
| 14 | 14 | "Apoxalypse Now" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | |
| "Hive Jacked" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | |||
| 15 | 15 | "Ben Appetit" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao, Cynthia True | |
| "Dang, It Feels Good to Be a Gamester" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | |||
| 16 | 16 | "Something's Wrong with This Taffy" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao, Cynthia True | |
| "Name Shame" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | |||
| 17 | 17 | "Eye of the Honeybee" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | |
| "Thanksgiving Beenactment" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao, Cynthia True | |||
| 18 | 18 | "Blindsided" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao, Cynthia True | |
| "Hen and Bappy" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | |||
| 19 | 19 | "Portrait of a Happy" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | |
| "O Say Can Bess See" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | |||
| 20 | 20 | "Macro Mayhem" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Mike Bell | |
| "Ben Screams for Ice Cream" | Erik Wiese, Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao, Cynthia True |
Season 2: 2009–2011
| Series # | Season # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1 | "Catatonic" | Erik Wiese | Cynthia True, Erik Wiese | |
| 22 | 2 | "What's the Frequency, Bessie?" | Erik Wiese | Mike Bell | |
| "Bee Nice" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | |||
| 23 | 3 | "Dirty Happy" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Brendan Hay | |
| "Tour D'Alcatraz" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Brendan Hay | |||
| 24 | 4 | "Hairy Situation" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | |
| "B Plus One" | Erik Wiese, Bill Wray | Julia Miranda | |||
| 25 | 5 | "Bad to the Bee" | Erik Wiese | Jessica Gao | |
| "Hive of Darkness" | Erik Wiese, Alex Kirwan | Jessica Gao, Cynthia True, Brendan Hay | |||
| 26 | 6 | "Mr. Turtleton's Wild Ride" | Erik Wiese | Jessica Chaffin | |
| "A Pirate's Life for B" | Erik Wiese | Jessica Gao | |||
| 27 | 7 | "Awww-esome!" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros, Bill Wray Bill Wray William York Wray is an American cartoonist and landscape painter, notable for his Urban Landscape series of paintings, his many pages for Mad and his contributions to The Ren & Stimpy Show... |
Cynthia True | |
| "Dogcatcher in the Rye" | Erik Wiese | Brendan Hay | |||
| 28 | 8 | "Rinx" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | |
| "Sleepless in San Francisco" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Brendan Hay | |||
| 29 | 9 | "Finger Pickin' Bad" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Cynthia True, Jessica Gao and Brendan Hay | |
| "Higgenbottom's 7" | Erik Wiese and Trigueros | Jessica Gao | |||
| 30 | 10 | "O Brother, What Are Thou?" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Brendan Hay | |
| 31 | 11 | "Stuffed Happens" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Brendan Hay | |
| 32 | 12 | "Gorillas in the Midst" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Brendan Hay | |
| 33 | 13 | "It's B's Party and She'll Cry If She Wants To" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | |
| "B-Chip" | Erik Wiese, Bill Wray | Julia Miranda | |||
| 34 | 14 | "The Old Bee and the Sea" | Erik Wiese, Bill Wray | Brendan Hay | |
| "One Million Years Bee.C." | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Cynthia True, Jessica Gao and Brendan Hay | |||
| 35 | 15 | "The Bone Identity" | Erik Wiese and Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao, Brendan Hay and Cynthia True | |
| "Grumpy Old Bees" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Brendan Hay | |||
| 36 | 16 | "Space Evaders" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Jessica Gao, Brendan Hay, Cynthia True | |
| "Yips" | Erik Wiese, Bill Wray | Jessica Gao | |||
| 37 | 17 | "Children of the Unicorn" | Erik Wiese, Bill Wray | Brendan Hay | |
| "My Way or the Bee Way" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Brendan Hay | |||
| 38 | 18 | "Public Enembee" | Erik Wiese and Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | |
| "Bang the Drum Timely | Erik Wiese and Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | |||
| 39 | 19 | "The League of Ordinary Gentlemen" | Erik Wiese and Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | |
| "Irritable Bowling Syndrome" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Jessica Gao and Brendan Hay | |||
| 40 | 20 | "Bess-E" | Erik Wiese and Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | |
| "C'mon Get Happy!" |
Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Jessica Gao, Brendan Hay and Cynthia True |
DVD releases
A DVD called We Got the Bee was released on February 24, 2009. It contains 8 episodes; "So Happy Together", "We Got the Bee", "The Sweet Sixteenth", "Bee My Baby", Bee Afraid", "Artificial Unintelligence", "Bat Mitzvah Crashers" and "Super Secret Weakness". A second DVD called BEEing Bessie Higgenbottom was released on December 8, 2009. It is only available on Amazon.com. It contains 5 episodes; "Dragonflies", "Bee Patients", "To Bee or Not To Bee", "Ben Appetit" and "Dang, It Feels Good to Be a Gamester".External links
- List of episodes at TV.comTV.comTV.com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Japan...
- List of episodes at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...