List of The Mighty B! episodes
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.[1] The series premiered on Saturday April 26, 2008, which was the morning after Poehler's film Baby Mama had premiered.[2] In September 2008, the show was renewed for a second season with 20 episodes.[3] Brown Johnson, president of animation at Nickelodeon, called the show a "break-out hit" that "compliments and strengths" the Saturday morning line-up.[4] The second season premiered on September 21, 2009.[5]
The Mighty B! and its crew have been nominated six Annie Awards, with so far no wins. The show has also been nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards, winning one for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.[6] The show has also been nominated one Artios Award[7] and one Golden Reel Award.[8]
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 on Clint Eastwood's 1971 Dirty Harry, which even includes references quotes from the movie).
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Original Network | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | |||||
| 1 | 40 | April 26, 2008 | June 12, 2009 | Nickelodeon | ||
| 2 | 39 | September 20, 2009 | June 18, 2011 | Nickelodeon/Nicktoons | ||
Episodes
Season 1: 2008–09
Main article: The Mighty B! (season 1)
| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | 1a | "So Happy Together" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Cynthia True & Erik Wiese | April 26, 2008 |
| 1b | 1b | "Sweet Sixteenth" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | April 26, 2008 |
| 2a | 2a | "Bee My Baby" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Will Berson | April 27, 2008 |
| 2b | 2b | "Bee Afraid" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Cynthia True & Erik Wiese | April 27, 2008 |
| 3a | 3a | "Artificial Unintelligence" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Dani Michaeli | May 3, 2008 |
| 3b | 3b | "We Got the Bee" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | John Ross Bowie & Dannah Feinglass | May 3, 2008 |
| 4a | 4a | "Li'l Orphan Happy" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | John Ross Bowie & Dannah Feinglass | May 10, 2008 |
| 4b | 4b | "Body Rockers" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | May 10, 2008 |
| 5a | 5a | "Bat Mitzvah Crashers" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | May 17, 2008 |
| 5b | 5b | "Super Secret Weakness" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Dani Michaeli | May 17, 2008 |
| 6a | 6a | "An I See Bee" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | May 31, 2008 |
| 6b | 6b | "Woodward and Beesting" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Dannah Feinglass | May 31, 2008 |
| 7a | 7b | "Doppelfinger" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Will Berson | June 7, 2008 |
| 7b | 7b | "Little Womyn" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | June 7, 2008 |
| 8a | 8a | "The Apprentice" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | June 23, 2008 |
| 8b | 8b | "Beenedict Arnold" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | June 24, 2008 |
| 9a | 9a | "Boston Beean" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | June 25, 2008 |
| 9b | 9b | "Penny Hearts Joey" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | June 26, 2008 |
| 10a | 10a | "Ten Little Honeybees" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | June 27, 2008 |
| 10b | 10b | "Toot Toot" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Cynthia True & Erik Wiese | November 29, 2008 |
| 11a | 11a | "Night Howl" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | September 9, 2008 |
| 11b | 11b | "Hat Trick" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao, Cynthia True & Erik Wiese | September 10, 2008 |
| 12a | 12a | "Apoxalypse Now" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | September 11, 2008 |
| 12b | 12b | "Hive Jacked" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | September 12, 2008 |
| 13a | 13a | "Something's Wrong With This Taffy" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao & Cynthia True | October 25, 2008 |
| 13b | 13b | "Name Shame" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | October 25, 2008 |
| 14a | 14a | "Bee Patients" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | September 8, 2008 |
| 14b | 14b | "To Bee or Not to Bee" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Lynne Naylor & Jessica Gao | October 25, 2008 |
| 15a | 15a | "Eye of the Honeybee" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | January 9, 2009 |
| 15b | 15b | "Thanksgiving Beenactment" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao & Cynthia True | November 29, 2008 |
| 16a | 16a | "Blindsided" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao & Cynthia True | January 5, 2009 |
| 16b | 16b | "Hen and Bappy" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | January 6, 2009 |
| 17a | 17b | "Ben Appetit" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao & Cynthia True | January 7, 2009 |
| 17b | 17b | "Dang It Feels Good to Bee a Gamester" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | January 8, 2009 |
| 18a | 18a | "Portrait of a Happy" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin | June 8, 2009 |
| 18b | 18b | "O Say Can Bess See" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Gao | June 9, 2009 |
| 19a | 19a | "Macro Mayhem" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Mike Bell | June 10, 2009 |
| 19b | 19b | "Ben Screams for Ice Cream" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao & Cynthia True | June 11, 2009 |
| 20 | 20 | "Dragonflies" | Erik Wiese & Larry Leichliter | Jessica Chaffin, Jessica Gao, Cynthia True & Erik Wiese | June 12, 2009 |
Season 2: 2009–11
Main article: The Mighty B! (season 2)
| No. in series |
No. in season[9] |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <span id="Nickelodeon>Nickelodeon | |||||
| 21 | 1 | "Catatonic" | Erik Wiese | Cynthia True & Erik Wiese | October 25, 2009 |
| 22a | 2a | "What's the Frequency, Bessie?" | Erik Wiese | Mike Bell | September 25, 2009 |
| 22b | 2b | "Bee Nice" | Erik Wiese & Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | September 24, 2009 |
| 23a | 3a | "Dirty Happy" | Eddie Trigueros & Erik Wiese | Brendan Hay | September 21, 2009 |
| 23b | 3b | "Tour D'Alcatraz" | Eddie Trigueros & Erik Wiese | Brendan Hay | September 23, 2009 |
| 24a | 4a | "Hairy Situation" | Eddie Trigueros & Erik Wiese | Jessica Gao | September 22, 2009 |
| 24b | 4b | "B Plus One" | Erik Wiese & Bill Wray | Julia Miranda | January 16, 2010 |
| 25a | 5a | "Bad to the Bee" | Erik Wiesse | Jessica Gao | November 14, 2009 |
| 25b | 5b | "Hive of Darkness" | Erik Wiese & Alex Kirwan | Jessica Gao, Brendan Hay, & Cynthia True | January 16, 2010 |
| 26a | 6a | "Mr. Turtleton's Wild Ride" | Erik Wiese | Jessica Chaffin | November 14, 2009 |
| 26b | 6b | "Awww-esome!" | Eddie Trigueros, Erik Wiese & Bill Wray | Cynthia True | January 2, 2010 |
| 27a | 7a | "Dogcatcher in the Rye" | Erik Wiese | Brendan Hay | January 2, 2010 |
| <span id="Nicktoons>Nicktoons | |||||
| 27b | 7b | "Rinx!" | Erik Wiese & Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | November 6, 2010[10] |
| 28a | 8a | "Sleepless in San Francisco" | Erik Wiese & Eddie Trigueros | Brendan Hay | November 6, 2010 |
| 28b | 8b | "Finger Pickin' Bad" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Cynthia True, Jessica Gao and Brendan Hay | November 13, 2010 |
| 29a | 9a | "Higgenbottom's 7" | Erik Wiese | Jessica Chaffin | November 13, 2010 |
| 29b | 9b | "It's B's Party" | Erik Wiese & Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | November 20, 2010 |
| 30a | 10a | "B-Chip" | Erik Wiese & Bill Wray | Julia Miranda | November 20, 2010[11] |
| 30b | 10b | "The Old Bee and the Sea" | Erik Wiese, Bill Wray | Brendan Hay | November 29, 2010 |
| 31a | 11a | "One Million Years Bee.C." | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Cynthia True, Jessica Gao and Brendan Hay | November 29, 2010 |
| 31b | 11b | "The Bone Identity" | Erik Wiese and Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao, Brendan Hay and Cynthia True | November 30, 2010 |
| 32a | 12a | "Grumpy Old Bees" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Brendan Hay | November 30, 2010 |
| 32b | 12b | "Children of the Unicorn" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Brendan Hay | December 1, 2010 |
| 33a | 13a | "My Way or the Bee Way" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Brendan Hay | December 1, 2010 |
| 33b | 13b | "A Pirate's Life for B!" | Erik Wiese | Jessica Chaffin | June 18, 2011 |
| 34 | 14 | "Stuffed Happens (Part 1)" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Brendan Hay | December 2, 2010 |
| 35 | 15 | "O Brother, Where Art Thou (Part 2)" | Erik Wiese, Eddie Trigueros | Brendan Hay | December 2, 2010 |
| 36 | 16 | "Gorillas in the Midst" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Brendan Hay | May 15, 2011 |
| 37a | 17a | "Space Evaders" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Jessica Gao, Brendan Hay, Cynthia True | May 22, 2011 |
| 37b | 17b | "YIPs" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Jessica Gao | May 22, 2011 |
| 38a | 18a | "Public Enembee" | Erik Wiese and Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | May 29, 2011 |
| 38b | 18b | "Bang the Drum Timely" | Erik Wiese and Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | May 29, 2011 |
| 39a | 19a | "The League of Ordinary Gentlemen" | Erik Wiese and Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | June 5, 2011 |
| 39b | 19b | "Irritable Bowling Syndrome" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Jessica Gao and Brendan Hay | June 5, 2011 |
| 40a | 20a | "Bess-E" | Erik Wiese and Eddie Trigueros | Jessica Gao | June 12, 2011 |
| 40b | 20b | "C'mon Get Happy!" | Erik Wiese and Bill Wray | Jessica Gao, Brendan Hay and Cynthia True | June 12, 2011 |
DVD releases
| Title | Release date | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| We Got the Bee | February 24, 2009 | 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". |
| BEEing Bessie Higgenbottom | December 8, 2009 | Contains 5 episodes; "Dragonflies", "Bee Patients", "To Bee or Not To Bee", "Ben Appetit" and "Dang, It Feels Good to Be a Gamester". |
References
- Notes
- Citations
- ↑ Martin, Denise (2006-02-15). "Poehler scouting Nick gig". Variety. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ↑ Murray, Rebecca (2008-04-23). "Amy Poehler Interview – Baby Mama and The Mighty B!". About.com. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ↑ Moody, Annemarie (September 17, 2008). "Nickelodeon picks up two new series, renews Mighty B". Animation World Network. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
- ↑ MacIntyre, April (2008-09-17). "Amy Poehler's The Mighty B! keeps buzzing for Nick". Monsters and Critics. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ↑ Liu, Ed (2009-09-12). "Nickelodeon is buzzing with new episodes of The Mighty B!". Nickelodeon. Toon Zone. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ↑ "36th Daytime Emmy Awards Nominees". Emmy Online. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ↑ "2009 Artios Award Nominees and Winners". Casting Society. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ↑ "2009 Golden Reel Awards Nominees: Television". MPSE. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
- ↑ "Schedule: The Mighty B!". Toon Zone. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
- ↑ "The Mighty B! – 'O Brother, Ahat Are Thou?'". MSNTV. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
- ↑ "The Mighty B! – 'Stuffed Happens'". MSNTV. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
- ↑ "The Mighty B!: A Pirate's Life for Bee". Zap2It. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
- ↑ "The Mighty B! – 'A Pirate's Life for Bee'". MSNTV. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
External links
- List of episodes at TV.com
- The Mighty B! at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- List of episodes at the Internet Movie Database