She comes across as relatable rather than annoying, an image that is helped by her calm, but cranky voice and cute round body. This might sound like a recipe for disaster, but Bee is actually quite kindhearted and smart. The main character, Bee, is a somewhat exaggerated version of people my age – snarky, listless, and unsure of her purpose in life. It still has that early Cartoon Network-style weirdness of Adventure Time, but with a more laid-back atmosphere that creates the feel of a bedtime story rather than the frantic antics that define its predecessors. In contrast, “Bee and Puppycat” seems like a breath of fresh air to me. I’m sure they’re amazing shows, but they can’t hold my interest solely because my brain hit its maximum capacity of that particular genre over 10 years ago. Now, I’ll be honest – I’ve never really been able to get into Adventure Time or Bravest Warriors, mostly because I feel like they’re the new generation’s evolution of the same cartoons I misspent so much of my youth watching, and I just don’t know if I can sacrifice any more of my life at the altar of trippy animated craziness. (What, you thought SpongeBob didn’t count? This is tame compared to some stuff early in the series.) Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ren and Stimpy, SpongeBob, Rocko’s Modern Life…the whole gamut of acid trip shows from the ‘90s and early 2000s that couldn’t possibly have been appropriate for an impressionable little kid. I’m a 20-ish year old woman myself (21, to be exact), and I used what little time I didn’t spend playing video games as a child slouched in front of the TV watching early-era Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon shows. The collection of both shorts is only 10 minutes long, and it’s well worth your time. So before we go on, you should go ahead and watch “Bee and Puppycat” for yourself. Natasha Allegri (known for working on Adventure Time and creating the gender-swapped characters Fionna and Cake) has created a cartoon that caters to the interests of 20-ish year old women, and somehow it works perfectly. It isn’t too violent, sexual, or vulgar for a child to watch it – it just isn’t written for them. The Cartoon Hangover short “Bee and Puppycat” is not for kids.
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