Bunsen Is a Beast
| Bunsen Is a Beast | |
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| Genre |
Comedy Fantasy Slapstick |
| Created by | Butch Hartman |
| Directed by | George Elliott Keith Oliver |
| Creative director(s) | George Goodchild |
| Voices of |
Jeremy Rowley Ben Giroux Kari Wahlgren |
| Theme music composer | Butch Hartman Guy Moon |
| Composer(s) | Guy Moon |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Butch Hartman |
| Producer(s) | Wren Errington Christine Thompson Karen Malach Supervising producers: George Elliot George Goodchild |
| Running time | 12 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Billionfold Inc. Nickelodeon Animation Studio |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nickelodeon |
| Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
| Original release | January 16, 2017 – present |
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| Related shows |
The Fairly OddParents Danny Phantom T.U.F.F. Puppy |
Bunsen Is a Beast is an American animated children's television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. It revolves around an eccentric beast named Bunsen, who begins attending a middle school that had previously only admitted humans. In spite of prejudice against beasts, Bunsen befriends a human boy named Mikey Munroe and his homeschooled companion Darcy. Together, Bunsen and his friends try to navigate through school life while outsmarting an evil student named Amanda, who wants to rid society of Bunsen's kind.
The show is based on a drawing of a monster and a boy that Hartman created in 2009. He originally considered writing a picture book featuring the characters, but decided against going forward with the idea until an executive from Nickelodeon saw the drawing and encouraged him to develop the concept into a television program. Prominent themes highlighted in the series include the positive aspects of social integration and the celebration of different cultures.
One season, consisting of twenty episodes, was ordered by Nickelodeon in December 2015. The series was previewed on January 16, 2017, and premiered on February 21, 2017. The sixth episode of the series, aired on March 4, 2017, is a crossover with The Fairly OddParents.Bunsen is a Beast received mixed to positive reviews.
Bunsen Is a Beast centers around a blue monster named Bunsen, who is the first beast to attend Muckledunk Middle School. Mikey Munroe, his human friend, helps him navigate through school as he feels the pressure to prove that monsters can coexist peacefully without eating or harming others. Episodes typically focus on Bunsen learning how to complete human tasks or discovering a human tradition. Mikey also learns more about the monster world, meeting new creatures whenever he visits Bunsen's home. However, a girl named Amanda Killman believes Bunsen is dangerous and wants to destroy him so that his kind will suffer from extinction. Bunsen and Mikey must outwit Amanda whenever she comes up with a new scheme, occasionally with the help of their friend Darcy.
The idea for Bunsen Is a Beast originated in a drawing of a monster facing a boy that Hartman drew in 2009. According to an article published in Variety, he kept the drawing in his office at Nickelodeon until a network executive noticed it and asked him to pitch the concept as a television show. The message that "no matter who you are, you can always find a place to fit in" inspired the show's underlying theme of embracing integration. When asked in an interview with Heidi MacDonald's Comics Beat if the show could be interpreted as a metaphor for "accepting and befriending refugees," Hartman mentioned that the social commentary was "a little bit" intentional. Animation began about a year before the show premiered.
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