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Bessie Higgenbottom (voiced by co-creator [[Amy Poehler]]) is a Honeybee scout determined to collect every single Honeybee scout badge ever, believing that once she does this nigh-impossible task, she'll become a super hero (the titular "Mighty B"). Living with younger brother Ben, pet dog Happy, and mother Hilary in [[San Francisco]], Bessie ends up going on a multitude of strange adventures. From covering the entire city in wool to getting trapped in [[The Alcatraz|Alcatraz]], Bessie does everything either to get a badge or have some fun.

The show debuted in April, 2008. After a rough air schedule, ''The Mighty B!'' was pretty much forgotten halfway through 2010. It took a station change to Nicktoons Network and another year before the final episodes ever got released, eventually ending its run in June 2011.

 

 

* [[Acid Trip Dimension]]: "O Say Can Bess See" and "Irritable Bowling Syndrome".

* [[Adorkable]]: Bessie

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Portia

* [[Bank Robbery]]: Bessie successfully robs a bank in "Higgenbottom'$ 7".

* [[Big Bad]]: Marry Gibbons and Anton St. Germain

* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Bessie in the episode "Blindsided".

* [[Body Horror]]: Dear. Lord. "Hen and Bappy". Watch and try to be horrified.

* [[The Eeyore]]: Penny

* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: {{spoiler|Bessie Kajolica Higgenbottom. And [[The Scottish Trope|it's cursed]].}}

* [[Evil Is Petty]]: In "Beenadict Arnold" Portia tried to take Happy away from Bessie just because it would make Bessie feel bad.

* [[Expy]]

** Happy seems a bit similar to [[Doug|Porkchop]].

* [[Fat Idiot]]: Penny

** Mary Francis is [[Mentor Archetype|The Mentor]]

* [[For the Evulz]]: Often Portia's evil acts against Bessie have no real motivation.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Bessie, so very much.

* [[Girl Posse]]: Portia and Gwen (and Penny and Bessie on occasion)

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: A couple instances of this...

** In the episode "Sweet Sixteenth", when riding a rollercoaster for the first time she says to the attendant while handing said objects "Hey, can you hold my keys, and my compass, and my popcorn, and my lucky rabbit, and my swiss army knife, and my raisins, and my hand buzzer?" The shot switches to all the objects hitting the floor when she says "raisins" which oddly enough doesn't get handed over. The joy buzzer is. Hmmm. For those that don't get it, [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?defid=1800618&term=raisins raisins are a slang term for a prepubescent girl's breasts.]

** Quite literally in a faux [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]], where Bessie and a friend get trapped in a giant model of the human body. To get out, they end up in a simulation of the digestive tract, which ends with them coming out a hatch in the model's butt as a massive torrent of chili pours out. Bessie ''screaming'' "Chili!" during this seemed like a desperate bid to assure the censors that it wasn't something else.

** In "Boston Beean" one of the coffee flavors at the café is 'Irish'.

* [[Gonk]]: Penny and Ant St. Germain, to lesser extents.

* [[Grumpy Bear]]: Anton St. Germain

* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Catatonic"

* [[Hartman Hips]]: Mary Gibbons (Portia's mom), oddly

* [[Hook Hand]]: Daren, the neighbor has hooks for his hands.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Subverted. See the trope entry.

** There is one honeybee who, if the dialogue proved true, got every badge though she never turned into a superhero. Bessie helped her get her last badge, the Sock Hop Badge, in ''Grumpy Old Bees''.

* [[Levitating Lotus Position]]: Bessie into the Zone in "Dang it Feels Good to be a Gamester" and levitates briefly in the [[Lotus Position]].

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: The crew may have gotten bored with the direction of season 1, so most season 2 episodes have some sort of unnecessary action sequences from nowhere, which seem highly out of context compared to season 1. (Water) Gun fights, (multiple) giant monster fights, sword fights, a high speed downhill chase, and piledriving a bear, just a to name a few.

* [[Merit Badges for Everything]]: And how: there are even merit badges for {{spoiler|farting and time travel}}.

* [[Missing Mom|Missing Parent]]

** [[Disappeared Dad|Bessie]], [[Missing Mom|Penny]], [[Disappeared Dad|Portia]] and Gwen are all in single parent families.

** Oddly enough, MF Gibbons is referred to as "Mrs. Gibbons", and not "Ms. Gibbons".

* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: The Nameless Hippie, as well as Rainbow, the female hippie.

* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Happy

* [[No Name Given]]: Past Bessie, Portia, Gwen, Millie, and Penny, the rest of the Honeybee Scouts don't speak, nor are their names ever referenced (though some concept drawings prove they DO have names). In "Irritable Bowling Syndrome", Portia picks a player for her team by referring to her as "Not Millie, and not Messy".

* [[Omniglot]]: Happy is fluent in 12 different languages, including French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Swahili, Pomeranian, and even Pandaren.

* [[Pinball Gag]]: "Bee Patients" and "Gorillas in the Midst".

* [[Poke the Poodle]]: In "Bad to the Bee" Bessie decides to become a bad girl and goes around doing very minor things. Subverted in that everyone else treats these things just as [[Serious Business|seriously]] as she does.

* [[Popular Is Dumb]]: In the pilot episode, "So Happy Together", Portia spent the whole episode carrying around a rat thinking it was a dog, even kissing it. To be fair, everyone else thought so too.

* [[Pounds Are Animal Prisons]]: Literally, there is even a state pound!

* [[Rich Bitch]]

** Portia, though she isn't much rich. Even so, she plays the part, and she plays it well.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Several episodes follow this formula.

** "Hat Trick" subverts it by having the shaggy dog turning point in the middle of the episode, when it turns out Bessie suddenly can do the trick.

* [[Speech Impediment]]: Bessie; she's missing her front teeth, so she slurs a little. It's cute. Even when she has her teeth back, she still slurs.

* [[Simpleton Voice]]: Penny, debatable.

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Bessie regains and loses her front teeth in "Irritable Bowling Syndrome".

* [[Strange Girl]]: Millie; Bessie

* [[Suck E. Cheese's]]: {{spoiler|Penny Heart Joey}}

* [[Summon Magic]]: Bessie and Happy summon giant monsters made from their stench to do a Godzilla-esque brawl in "Dirty Happy".

** Millie seems to have a talkative relationship with her turtle, Chester. He's written haikus and they've had verbal arguments, though its all happened offscreen, so Millie's strangeness could play a factor here.

* [[Mirror Monologue|Toilet Water Reflection Monologue]]: With the subversion into Toilet Water Reflection Arguement.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Penny, The Honey Bees, Geniva, & Anton in "Ten Little Honey Bees".

* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: Anton St. Germain

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Happy hulks out in "B-Chip" after his suppressed bad behavior breaks loose.

* [[Valley Girl]]: Portia, in a low, scratchy Californian valley girl voice.

* [[We Could Have Avoided All This]]: That Painting Bessie got from the mail.

* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: Anton St. Germain the loud [[Courage the Cowardly Dog|Eustace Bagg]].

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Portia, of all people.

 

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