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The Higgenbottoms
Bessie Higgenbottom
Elizabeth Kajolica "Bessie" Higgenbottom
Voiced by: Amy Poehler
The main character, a 9¾ year old (her words) Honeybee scout, who takes being Honeybee scout very seriously and wants to get every badge.- Afraid of Needles: She is so afraid of them she runs away from the doctors when she has to get her booster shot.
- Art Evolution: Her pale skin and her dirty blonde hair from season one changes into her tan skin and orange hair from season two.
- Break the Cutie: In "Portrait of a Happy" when Fritz, a local photographer, refuses to take pictures of her dog Happy.
- Butt-Monkey: The show's Terrible Trio (Portia, Gwen and Penny) seem to enjoy seeing her suffer.
- Catchphrase: "Awwwwwsome!"
- Cheerful Child: She's rather perky and upbeat.
- Childish Tooth Gap: She's a childish and ditzy kid with two missing front teeth.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She's a brilliant, but absent-minded girl, and seems to be completely ignorant of the attempts of Portia, the local Alpha Bitch, to make fun of or belittle her.
- Disappeared Dad: No mention of Bessie's father has been made.
- Ditzy Genius: Bessie has many talents, including being able to create cold fusion. Also creating a functioning spaceship when she was 5.
- Embarrassing Middle Name: Not embarrassing so much as ''cursed'' to anyone who dares speak it, making it more She Who Must Not Be Named. Before she went through serious lengths of covering it up, her full name was Bessie Kajolica Higgenbottom.
- Everyone Has Standards: Bessie's utterly devoted to the Honeybees, but she's a bit weirded out when she learns Portia's mom eats two boxes of their taffy every day.Bessie: Two boxes every day?
Mrs. Gibbons: One and a half, tops! ...leave us. - Expy:
- Of Spongebob Squarepants. Has yellow as their primary color? Check. Prominent buck teeth in her character design? Overly quirky and air-headed yet incredibly friendly and upbeat at the same time? Check.
- Bessie is also based on Amy Poehler's character Stacy from Late Night with Conan O'Brien. A ditzy girl with a lisp and a sibling to Andy Richter.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Able to create cold fusion or build a working robot with limited AI.
- Gasshole: She farts into a microphone at an audition.
- Genki Girl: She's characterized by her extreme hyperactivity.
- Girlish Pigtails: She has blond pigtails.
- Idiot Hero: Bessie can do anything that will earn her a badge, but that doesn't make her any less of a ditz.
- Kid Hero: She is a 9-year-old Honeybee scout.
- 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.
- Motor Mouth: Bessie can talk a mile a minute.
- Nice Girl: She has an upbeat and friendly personality most of the time.
- Plucky Girl: Ambitious and determined to earn every badge in existence.
- Series Goal: Earn every single Honeybee Badge there is so she'll become the Mighty B.
- Speech Impediment: Bessie's missing her front teeth, so she has a little bit of a lisp. It's cute. Even when she has her teeth back, she still has a lisp.
- Tomboy: Bessie subverts the many gender stereotypes of her peers and has some rather boyish qualities, pretty much being a female SpongeBob in this regard.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Mostly ends out on top despite the abuse she's put through.
Happy Higgenbottom
Happy Walter Higgenbottom
Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker
Bessie's dog, she meets him in the pilot.- Afraid of Doctors: Happy had to be dragged by Bessie to go to the doctor.
- Alliterative Name: Happy Higgenbottom
- Character Development: Happy is a highly trained secret agent.
- Ear Notch: Part of his right ear is torn off.
- Intelligible Unintelligible: He can communicate with other characters.
- Non-Human Sidekick: He is Bessie's dog and accompanies her the most.
- Omniglot: Happy is fluent in 12 different languages, including French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Swahili, Pomeranian, and even Pandaren.
- Only Sane Man: Possibly the closest to normal in the Higgenbottom family.
- Silent Snarker: Bessie reacts to his muttering as if he's saying something sarcastic and he frequently makes annoyed facial expressions towards Bessie's eccentrics.
- The Unintelligible: Dogs in general are the "only understood by other characters" version.
Ben Higgenbottom
Benjamin "Ben" Higgenbottom
Voiced by: Andy Richter
Bessy's little brother- Big Fun: Seeing how he is a little obese.
- Compressed Vice: In Ben Appetit, Ben is afraid of food touching each other due to Bessie mashing his food together and forcing it into his mouth when they were young. However, this fear (or even getting over it) has never been shown or referenced before or after this as Ben usually eats food without concern of it touching other food.
- Disappeared Dad: No mention of either Bessie and Ben's father has been made.
- Expy: Much like Bessie is modeled after her character Stacy, Ben is a based on Andy Richter from Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
- Only Sane Man: On the occasion Happy isn't being this, it's him.
- Tagalong Kid: He hopes to be Bessie's sidekick when she becomes the Mighty B.
- Vocal Dissonance: His voice sounds quite deep for his age.
Hilary Higgenbottom
Hilary Higgenbottom
Voiced by: Megan Cavanagh
The single hippie mother of Bessie and Ben (and Happy, too). She runs Hilary's Cafe.- Alliterative Name: Her name being Hilary and Higgenbottom.
- Big Beautiful Woman: From what we can see, she's plump and curvaceous.
- Big Fun: She's plump and fun-loving.
- Hippie Parents: Downplayed. She plays this role, following some of the hippie ideals as, the usual portrayals, except she's not a Granola Girl (her eatery mostly serves meat).
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She tends to play this role in most of the episodes, at least in comparison to Mary Gibbons. She lets her kids be free to explore their imaginations and let's them get into whatever schemes, however, she will step in when she sees necessary (like when she forbid Bessie from using radioactive materials in science fair projects).
The Honeybees
Portia Gibbons
Portia Gibbons
Voiced by: Grey DeLisle
Mary Frances' Alpha Bitch daughter, who goes out of her way to get under Bessie's skin.- Alpha Bitch: A stuck-up, blonde, Valley Girl. Her cousin and mother are even worse.
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: She tends to play the beauty to Gwen's brains and Penny's brawn.
- Big Bad: For all intents and purposes, she's the show's principle antagonist, always trying to scheme against Bessie. Though sometimes she forages into Big Bad Wannabe territory instead.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The blonde to Gwen and Penny's brunettes and Mary Frances' redhead.
- The Bully: She seems to go out of her way to humiliate Bessie.
- Disappeared Dad: No mention of Portia's father has been made.
- Dumb Blonde: 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.
- Evil Is Petty: In "Beenadict Arnold" Portia tried to take Happy away from Bessie just because it would make Bessie feel bad.
- Expy: Of Squidward Tentacles, except less sympathetic and more actively antagonistic rather than being somebody who wants to be left alone. Like Squidward, she has a low opinion on Bessie and often antagonizes her, but, like how Bessie is similar to Spongebob, she hardly ever realizes that Portia is trying to antagonize her, like how Spongebob is unable to comprehend that Squidward doesn't like him.
- For the Evulz: Often Portia's evil acts against Bessie have no real motivation.
- Handy Feet: In Ten Little Honeybees she stands on her two big toes to blow out her candles, and in Hive Jacked she uses her feet, instead of her hands, to turn the dial on Bessie's radio.
- Hate Sink: She's just a despicable bully who torments Bessie all the time and serves no other purpose than to help the viewers root for Bessie to succeed.
- Jerkass: She's especially mean to Bessie.
- Laser-Guided Karma: She gets her comeuppance a fair amount of the time.
- Laughably Evil: She's not a good person by any means, but is still a heavily comedic person due to Bessie being completely ignorant of her animosity towards her, and her tendency to fail miserably, and she's just as prone to being comedic relief thanks to her awful personality and shortsightedness.
- Smug Snake: Pretty much all of her evil schemes against Bessie end up failing one way or the other and it's almost always a direct result of her arrogance and/or lack of foresight.
- True Blue Femininity: She wears blue and white.
- Unknown Rival: To Bessie, who doesn't even realize that Portia hates her.
- Valley Girl: In a low, scratchy Californian valley girl voice.
Gwen Wu
Gwen Wu
Voiced by: Jessica DiCicco
Portia's best friend who's "totally tuned into hip-hop and urban culture"- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: She plays much of the brains to Portia's beauty and Penny's brawn.
- Beta Bitch: Portia's right hand girl, along with serving as her dragon.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The brunette to Portia's blonde and Mary Frances' redhead (One of two).
- The Bully: She is seen bullying Bessie along with Portia.
- Invisible Parents: She has five younger brothers (the youngest being a baby) but we don't see her mom or, for that matter, her dad (unless Mr. Wu's supposed to be her dad), though, we can infer them to be very busy, since Bee My Baby had her to be watching them.
- Jerkass: Probably slightly nicer than Portia, but she still picks on Bessie.
- Punch-Clock Villain: When Portia's not around, she's nicer and doesn't antagonize Bessie as much.
Penny Lefkowitz
Penelope "Penny" Lefkowitz
Voiced by: Dannah Feinglass
Bessie's best friend, who's more brawn than brain- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Being Dumb Muscle, she plays brawn to Portia's beauty and Gwen's brains.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The brunette to Portia's blonde and Mary Frances' redhead (One of two).
- Big Eater: Tying into Extreme Omnivore, considering what she'll eat. She eats more taffy than she sells.
- Cargo Ship: In-universe: Fell in love with a robotic kangaroo.
- Depending on the Writer: Some episodes have her join up with Portia and Gwen to torture Bessie, others involved her being Bessie's good friend and going along with her on her adventures.
- The Ditz: Bessie's dimwitted friend and she's not too bright.
- Dumb Muscle: Penny, the
Shallow Parody to Donkey Kong. - The Eeyore: Quite pessimistic at times.
- Expy: Of Patrick Star. She's fat, exceptionally unintelligent, as well as being incredibly strong, and tends to teeter between being the best friend of Bessie to another one of her enemies at the drop of a hat, much like how Patrick himself tends to be a wild-card who goes from being an easy-going buffoon whose friendly and nice to everyone to being an Insufferable Imbecile. Their names even both begin with the letter P as well.
- Fat Bitch: Downplayed; she can be this when she teams up with Portia and Gwen, Bessie's enemies.
- Fat Best Friend: To Bessie, though sometimes she joins Portia to gang up on Bessie.
- Fat Idiot: An awkward, dull, obese girl.
- Gasshole: Belches after drinking a root beer in "An I See Bee".
- Girlish Pigtails: Two little brown pigtails.
- Gonk: Just look at the size and shape of her head. It's shaped like a pear, adding more to her apelike build.
- Gonky Femme: Is really into feminine things, but is rather apish in appearance.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Penny is Bessie's best friend, and yet she frequently goes behind her back to team up with Portia and Gwen (sometimes to gang up against her, even). What's even more odd is that Bessie never seems to have a problem with this.
- Missing Mom: We only see her father, though, one episode (Dang It Feels Good to Be a Gamester), implies that her mom is still alive.
- Simpleton Voice: Very idiotic, and has a deep somewhat congested voice to go along with it.
- With Friends Like These...: She cows to peer-pressure very easily and is willing to bully Bessie to get on Portia's good side. Exactly why Bessie continues to be her friend after this is anyone's guess.
Mrs. Gibbons
Mrs. Mary Frances Gibbons
Voiced by: Sarah Thyre
Portia's mom, who's the den-mother of the Honeybees. According to her, the Honeybees are a "mother-daughter activity".
- '60s Hair: Wears her red hair in a large bouffant with a swooped flip at each side.
- Apathetic Teacher: She hates her job as scoutmaster as much as she hates Bessie, especially when Bessie outshines her daughter.
- Bland-Name Product: She's a certified representative of "Pattie Faye", a Mary Kay parody
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The redhead to Portia's blonde and Gwen and Penny's brunettes.
- Evil Redhead: Has orange hair and is a recurring antagonist.
- Hartman Hips: She's something of a extreme case, as, her hips are so large that one would think she has two sets of buttocks in the front and back.
- Jerkass: Like her daughter, she's especially mean to Bessie.
- The Mentor: She is the den mother and guides the girls by the by-laws (no matter how petty).
- Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: She is the den mother of the Honeybees who flaunts her position within the upper-middle class and always looks for imperfections in her daughter, the other scouts, and especially Bessie. Her suburban respectability is in great contrast to the down-to-earth bohemian small business lifestyle of the Higgenbottoms.
- Parental Favoritism: She showers affection and pampering on her more conventionally attractive (and just as mean) daughter Portia but forces her sons Richard and Dick to function as butlers.
- True Blue Femininity: Like her daughter, she mostly wear shades of blue
Millie Millerson
Mildred "Millie" Millerson
"But you're in the middle of our archery field."
Voiced by: Grey DeLisle
An odd little girl who's monotone and has braces
- Alliterative Name: Millie Millerson
- Ascended Extra: The makers of the show loved her voice so much they decided to make her more than just a background character.
- Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: Downplayed, as she had regular braces. She used to have braces throughout the show, but in the episode "Children of the Unicorn", her braces were removed.
- A Day in the Limelight: "Mr. Turtleton's Wild Ride", the episode concerning her trying to get the titular turtle back.
- Dumb Blonde: She has blonde hair, a slow voice, and can be silly, however, she's not stupid as most portrayals.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's usually kind and friendly.
- Hidden Depths: According to the episode "Irritable Blowing Syndrome", she's good at giving advice.
- Temporarily a Villain: In "Stuffed Happens", she helps Mr. Pants ruin Bessie's reputation.
Other
Other Characters
Finger
Bessie's right index finger and imaginary friend- Imaginary Friend: Though, he acts a lot less imaginary than the usual, complete with making his own expressions.
Anton St. Germain
Voiced by: Matt Besser
The judge of whatever competition in town
- Demoted to Extra: He's only had two speaking roles in Season 2
- Gonk: Not as much as Penny, but he's weird-looking.
- Hair Color Dissonance: His black hair looks purple in some shots.
- Pretentious Pronunciation: He insists his last-name is pronounced "San Ger-man" but everyone pronounces it as "Saint Ger-MAIN"
Geneva
Voiced by: N/A
- Companion Cube: She's Anton's doll and his favorite one.
- True Blue Femininity: She's dressed in a blue dress (with pearls).
The Hippie
In Macro Mayhem
Voiced by: Matt Besser
A hippie that's somewhat friends with Bessie and lives without a care in the world
- The Mentor: He acts like this to Bessie and gives her advice when she needs it.
- New-Age Retro Hippie: He dresses the part and acts the part, wearing tie-dye, hates shoes, and uses sayings "Like far out".
- No Name Given: He's not called anything but "Hippie", though whatever his real name is abbreviated with "M."
- Only Sane Man: Actually, in one episode, he plays this role in Macro Mayhem, where, he tells Bessie that she has a "gift" but shows her that her "gift" has a cost, that cost being that the sheep can't produce enough wool to meet the demand and that, no wool means "no yarn" for macrime.
Mr. Wu
"So, you won this time, Mighty B. I honor you with this fresh dumpling."
Voiced by: Keone Young
An owner of the Chinese resturant, who's friends with Bessie
- Cloudcuckoolander: He'd have to be if he's willing to go along some of Bessie's zany schemes.
- Look Both Ways: Implied in one episode, where he tells Bessie, "It's okay, I look both ways."
- You No Take Candle: Downplayed but, sometimes, he talks like this.
Rocky Rhodes
Voiced by: Kenan Thompson
The 13-year old skateboarding waiter at Hillary's cafe
- Meaningful Name: His favorite genre of music is rock music.
- Punny Name: Of "rocky roads", on top of being named after the ice cream (rocky roads)
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He doesn't show up at all in Season 2 and we never get an explanation why.
Chelsea Gibbons
"Laters, Portia. You are so officially not my cousin."
Voiced by: Jessica Chaffain
Portia's 13-year old cousin who's even more obnoxious
- Even Evil Has Standards: Or a case of, Everyone Has Standards. She shows this in the special Dragonflies, when she tells off her old Dragonflies troop, "Was. Past tense. And back in my day, we played rough. But not dirty."
- Shared Family Quirks: What we see of her family, like her aunt and cousin, they all wear varying shades of blue.
- Valley Girl: An example of her speaking, as seen in her caption.
The Dragonflies
Bibi (right), Cherry (center), "Laurie" (left), and Maude (rear)
A scout troop from Oakland, California. Their names are Cherry, Maude, and Bibi, with an unnamed fourth member and a dog, Cha-Cha
- Ambiguously Brown: Bibi and "Laurie's" ethnicity are harder to pinpoint other then them being darker-skinned.
- Brawn Hilda: Contrasting with the Big Fun Penny, we have Maude and she's The Heavy of the group
- Evil Counterpart: Cherry, Maude, Bibi, "Laurie", and Cha-Cha are the meaner and tougher versions of Bessie, Penny, Gwen, Portia, and Happy (respectively)
- Meaningful Name: Cherry's hair is a cherry (or raspberry) color.
- No Name Given: The fourth member, though fans call her "Laurie"
