Mighty B! Hier kommt Bessie

I remembered watching The Mighty B! on Nickelodeon and was nice. The characters, the humor, the writing are all well-done and I can say that this is one of my favorite Nucktoons of all time. Man, was The Mighty B! a fun show. Give this one an 8.4/10

Mighty B! is an OK cartoon. High production value, but not totally unique. After all, kids love the same formula.

But what I think is really intriguing is the fact that this character is based off one of Amy Poehler's UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE characters, "Cassie." Cassie, played by Poehler can be seen in Episode 101: Bucket of Truth, and is called back a few other times throughout the three season run. Cassie, like Bessie, is a girl scout, she has a hilarious lisp, and her troupe name is "The Honeybees".

UCB is in my opinion the funniest most creative show ever on television... ever. But Mighty B! just seems like an average cartoon. Even if Amy Poehler and Matt Bessie, I mean Besser, have a hand in creating it.

Seriously, I can't stand how annoying this show is. I thought I would like it because of the fact that Amy Poehler is the main voice and one of the creators, but boy was I wrong. I couldn't even watch 2 minutes of it without getting annoyed by the bad dialogue. It was like watching Allen Gregory all over again. I thought I would like that because Jonah Hill made it, but it sucked hard because of how much it aggravated me with the characters!

All it did was make me mad how much annoyance was in the show, it's like the creators weren't even trying to make this show good, it was like they were trying to make it annoying on purpose.

3/10

Nickelodeon is a very mixed bag when it comes to their animated shows. There are classics such as 'Rocko's Modern Life', 'Ren and Stimpy', 'The Angry Beavers' and 'Doug'. As well as prime-'Spongebob Squarepants' and prime-'The Rugrats' (the early episodes in both cases). It also boasted some very bad shows like 'ChalkZone', 'Tak and the Power of Juju', 'Fanboy and Chum Chum' and 'Rocket Power', am also someone who has personally never cared for 'The Fairy Odd Parents'.

There are certainly far worse animated shows out there than 'The Mighty B' in my view, with it not being as bad as the really bad shows that have been listed. Not just on Nickelodeon, but also overall. Having said that, count me in as another person who has never cared for it and who considers it a lesser Nickelodeon effort. This is not being said with pleasure, this is coming from a 30 something female who still loves animation and appreciates all styles and decades as well as humour styles.

By all means, 'The Mighty B' has some good things. The voice actors all make game efforts and inject a lot of energy and enthusiasm into their characters (at times too much so). Did like the backgrounds, which does have some nice colour and detail.

Some of the music is quite cool.

However, this reviewer does have to agree that the characters are very irritating. Bessie is up there with one of the most insufferably annoying lead characters of any Nickelodeon animation, a strong case of negative character traits being badly exaggerated. Didn't care for the humour, gross out, crude humour has worked very well in animation numerous times. The writing and jokes just come over as really juvenile and generic, as well as lacking in variety and overdone in the gross out aspect to a distasteful degree.

Furthermore, the stories really lack energy and are very predictable and bland, they also go well overboard on the random-ness. Random-ness and weirdness has been known to work in animation but for it to work it needs wit and imagination and the stories in 'The Mighty B' lack both and come over as too silly and confused. Despite some nice backgrounds, the animation is not to my tastes. The colours are flat and the character designs hideous.

Overall, a long way from mighty. 3/10.

Part of me wanted to hate this show, but in a way it grew on me. Only issue I have is the occasional art/animation inconsistency (noticeable if you pay enough attention.) Once you understand its humor and intent, it's really a slow-burner, nothing particularly hatable.