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7!The Higgenbottoms
8[[folder: Bessie Higgenbottom]]
9!! Elizabeth Kajolica "Bessie" Higgenbottom
10[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_899.jpg]]
11->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AmyPoehler
12The main character, a 9¾ year old (her words) Honeybee scout, who takes being Honeybee scout very seriously and wants to get every badge.
13----
14* AfraidOfNeedles: She is so afraid of them she runs away from the doctors when she has to get her booster shot.
15* ArtEvolution: Her pale skin and her dirty blonde hair from season one changes into her tan skin and orange hair from season two.
16* BreakTheCutie: In "Portrait of a Happy" when Fritz, a local photographer, refuses to take pictures of her dog Happy.
17* ButtMonkey: The show's TerribleTrio (Portia, Gwen and [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Penny]]) seem to enjoy seeing her suffer.
18* CatchPhrase: "Awwwwwsome!"
19* CheerfulChild: She's rather perky and upbeat.
20* ChildishToothGap: She's a childish and ditzy kid with two missing front teeth.
21* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She's a [[DitzyGenius brilliant]], but [[AbsentMindedProfessor absent-minded girl]], and seems to be completely ignorant of the attempts of Portia, the local AlphaBitch, to make fun of or belittle her.
22* DisappearedDad: No mention of Bessie's father has been made.
23* DitzyGenius: Bessie has many talents, including being able to create cold fusion. Also creating a functioning spaceship when she was 5.
24* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Not embarrassing so much as [[spoiler: [[TheScottishTrope ''cursed'' to anyone who dares speak it]], making it more [[HeWhoMustNotBeNamed She Who Must Not Be Named]]]]. Before she went through serious lengths of covering it up, her full name was Bessie [[spoiler: '''Kajolica''']] Higgenbottom.
25* EveryoneHasStandards: 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''.
26-->'''Bessie''': Two boxes every day?
27-->'''Mrs. Gibbons''': One and a half, tops! ...leave us.
28* {{Expy}}:
29** Of WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants. 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.
30** 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.
31* GadgeteerGenius: Able to create cold fusion or build a working robot with limited AI.
32* {{Gasshole}}: She farts into a microphone at an audition.
33* GenkiGirl: She's characterized by her extreme hyperactivity.
34* GirlishPigtails: She has blond pigtails.
35* IdiotHero: Bessie can do anything that will earn her a badge, but that doesn't make her any less of a ditz.
36* KidHero: She is a 9-year-old Honeybee scout.
37* LittleMissBadass: 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.
38* MotorMouth: Bessie can talk a mile a minute.
39* NiceGirl: She has an upbeat and friendly personality most of the time.
40* PluckyGirl: Ambitious and determined to earn every badge in existence.
41* SeriesGoal: Earn every single Honeybee Badge there is so she'll become the Mighty B.
42%%* SmallNameBigEgo
43* SpeechImpediment: 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.
44* {{Tomboy}}: Bessie subverts the many gender stereotypes of her peers and has some rather boyish qualities, pretty much being a [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants female SpongeBob]] in this regard.
45* ThrowTheDogABone: Mostly ends out on top despite the abuse she's put through.
46%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Penny's Girly Girl.
47[[/folder]]
48
49[[folder: Happy Higgenbottom]]
50!! Happy Walter Higgenbottom
51[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_0471.jpg]]
52->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker
53Bessie's dog, she meets him in the pilot.
54----
55* AfraidOfDoctors: Happy had to be dragged by Bessie to go to the doctor.
56* AlliterativeName: '''H'''appy '''H'''iggenbottom
57* CharacterDevelopment: Happy is a highly trained secret agent.
58* EarNotch: Part of his right ear is torn off.
59* IntelligibleUnintelligible: He can communicate with other characters.
60* NonHumanSidekick: He is Bessie's dog and accompanies her the most.
61* {{Omniglot}}: Happy is fluent in 12 different languages, including French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Swahili, Pomeranian, and even Pandaren.
62* OnlySaneMan: Possibly the closest to normal in the Higgenbottom family.
63%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly Man to Ben's Sensitive Guy.
64* SilentSnarker: Bessie reacts to his muttering as if he's saying something sarcastic and he frequently makes annoyed facial expressions towards Bessie's eccentrics.
65* TheUnintelligible: Dogs in general are the "only understood by other characters" version.
66[[/folder]]
67
68[[folder: Ben Higgenbottom]]
69!! Benjamin "Ben" Higgenbottom
70[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_61.jpg]]
71->'''Voiced by:''' Andy Richter
72Bessy's little brother
73----
74* BigFun: Seeing how he is a little obese.
75* CompressedVice: In ''Ben Appetit'', Ben is afraid of food touching each other due to Bessie [[FreudianExcuse 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.
76* DisappearedDad: No mention of either Bessie and Ben's father has been made.
77* {{Expy}}: Much like Bessie is modeled after her character Stacy, Ben is a based on Andy Richter from Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
78%%* KidAppealCharacter: As Bessie's little brother.
79* OnlySaneMan: On the occasion Happy isn't being this, it's him.
80%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Sensitive Guy to Happy's Manly Man.
81* TagalongKid: He hopes to be Bessie's sidekick when she becomes the Mighty B.
82* VocalDissonance: His voice sounds quite deep for his age.
83[[/folder]]
84
85[[folder: Hilary Higgenbottom]]
86!! Hilary Higgenbottom
87[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_412.jpg]]
88->'''Voiced by:''' Megan Cavanagh
89The single hippie mother of Bessie and Ben (and Happy, too). She runs Hilary's Cafe.
90-------
91* AlliterativeName: Her name being ''Hi''lary and ''Hi''ggenbottom.
92* BigBeautifulWoman: From what we can see, she's plump and curvaceous.
93* BigFun: She's plump and fun-loving.
94%%* GoodParents
95* HippieParents: Downplayed. She plays this role, following some of the hippie ideals as, the usual portrayals, except she's not a GranolaGirl (her eatery mostly serves meat).
96* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: 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).
97[[/folder]]
98
99!The Honeybees
100[[folder: Portia Gibbons]]
101!! Portia Gibbons
102[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_4485.jpg]]
103->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GreyDeLisle
104Mary Frances' AlphaBitch daughter, who goes out of her way to get under Bessie's skin.
105--------
106* AlphaBitch: A stuck-up, blonde, ValleyGirl. Her cousin and mother are even worse.
107* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: She tends to play the beauty to Gwen's brains and Penny's brawn.
108* BigBad: For all intents and purposes, she's the show's principle antagonist, always trying to scheme against Bessie. Though sometimes she forages into BigBadWannabe territory instead.
109* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The blonde to Gwen and Penny's brunettes and Mary Frances' redhead.
110* TheBully: She seems to go out of her way to humiliate Bessie.
111* DisappearedDad: No mention of Portia's father has been made.
112* DumbBlonde: 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.
113* EvilIsPetty: In "Beenadict Arnold" Portia tried to take Happy away from Bessie just because it would make Bessie feel bad.
114* {{Expy}}: Of [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants 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.
115* ForTheEvulz: Often Portia's evil acts against Bessie have no real motivation.
116* HandyFeet: 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.
117* HateSink: 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.
118* {{Jerkass}}: She's especially mean to Bessie.
119* LaserGuidedKarma: She gets her comeuppance a fair amount of the time.
120* LaughablyEvil: 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.
121* SmugSnake: 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.
122* TrueBlueFemininity: She wears blue and white.
123* UnknownRival: To Bessie, who doesn't even realize that Portia hates her.
124* ValleyGirl: In a low, scratchy Californian valley girl voice.
125[[/folder]]
126
127[[folder: Gwen Wu]]
128!! Gwen Wu
129[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_233.jpg]]
130->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JessicaDiCicco
131Portia's best friend who's "totally tuned into hip-hop and urban culture"
132----
133* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: She plays much of the brains to Portia's beauty and Penny's brawn.
134* BetaBitch: Portia's right hand girl, along with serving as [[TheDragon her dragon]].
135* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The brunette to Portia's blonde and Mary Frances' redhead (One of two).
136* TheBully: She is seen bullying Bessie along with Portia.
137* InvisibleParents: 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.
138* {{Jerkass}}: Probably slightly nicer than Portia, but she still picks on Bessie.
139* PunchClockVillain: When Portia's not around, she's nicer and doesn't antagonize Bessie as much.
140%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Portia's Girly Girl.
141[[/folder]]
142
143[[folder: Penny Lefkowitz]]
144!!Penelope "Penny" Lefkowitz
145[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_016.jpg]]
146->'''Voiced by:''' Dannah Feinglass
147Bessie's best friend, who's more brawn than brain
148----
149* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Being DumbMuscle, she plays brawn to Portia's beauty and Gwen's brains.
150* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The brunette to Portia's blonde and Mary Frances' redhead (One of two).
151* BigEater: Tying into ExtremeOmnivore, considering what she'll eat. She eats more taffy than she sells.
152* CargoShip: In-universe: Fell in love with a robotic kangaroo.
153* DependingOnTheWriter: 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.
154* TheDitz: Bessie's dimwitted friend and she's not too bright.
155* DumbMuscle: Penny, the ShallowParody to Franchise/DonkeyKong.
156* TheEeyore: Quite pessimistic at times.
157%%* EvilAllAlong: In "Super Secret Weakness".
158* {{Expy}}: Of [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants 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 InsufferableImbecile. Their names even both begin with the letter P as well.
159* FatBitch: Downplayed; she can be this when she teams up with Portia and Gwen, Bessie's enemies.
160* FatBestFriend: To Bessie, though sometimes she joins Portia to gang up on Bessie.
161* FatIdiot: An awkward, dull, obese girl.
162* {{Gasshole}}: Belches after drinking a root beer in "An I See Bee".
163* GirlishPigtails: Two little brown pigtails.
164* {{Gonk}}: Just look at the size and shape of her head. It's shaped like a pear, adding more to her apelike build.
165* GonkyFemme: Is really into feminine things, but is rather apish in appearance.
166* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: 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.
167* MissingMom: We only see her father, though, one episode (''Dang It Feels Good to Be a Gamester''), implies that her mom is still alive.
168* SimpletonVoice: Very idiotic, and has a deep somewhat congested voice to go along with it.
169%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Bessie's Tomboy.
170* WithFriendsLikeThese: 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.
171[[/folder]]
172
173[[folder: Mrs. Gibbons]]
174!! Mrs. Mary Frances Gibbons
175->'''Voiced by:''' Sarah Thyre
176[[quoteright:145:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mary_frances_wants_fishpng.png]]
177Portia's mom, who's the den-mother of the Honeybees. According to her, the Honeybees are a "mother-daughter activity".
178----
179* SixtiesHair: Wears her red hair in a large bouffant with a swooped flip at each side.
180* ApatheticTeacher: She hates her job as scoutmaster as much as she hates [[ButtMonkey Bessie]], especially when Bessie outshines her daughter.
181* BlandNameProduct: She's a certified representative of "Pattie Faye", a Mary Kay parody
182* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The redhead to Portia's blonde and Gwen and Penny's brunettes.
183%%* DeadpanSnarker: Especially in "Body Rockers".
184* EvilRedhead: Has orange hair and is a recurring antagonist.
185* HartmanHips: 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.
186* {{Jerkass}}: Like her daughter, she's especially mean to [[ButtMonkey Bessie]].
187* TheMentor: She is the den mother and guides the girls by the by-laws (no matter how petty).
188* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: 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.
189* ParentalFavoritism: 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.
190* TrueBlueFemininity: Like her daughter, she mostly wear shades of blue
191%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds
192[[/folder]]
193
194[[folder: Millie Millerson]]
195!! Mildred "Millie" Millerson
196->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GreyDeLisle
197[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/millie_look.png]]
198[[caption-width-right:300:"But you're in the middle of our archery field."]]
199An odd little girl who's monotone and has braces
200----
201* AlliterativeName: '''Mill'''ie '''Mill'''erson
202* AscendedExtra: The makers of the show loved her voice so much they decided to make her more than just a background character.
203* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: 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.
204* ADayInTheLimelight: "Mr. Turtleton's Wild Ride", the episode concerning her trying to get the titular turtle back.
205* DumbBlonde: She has blonde hair, a slow voice, and can be silly, however, she's not stupid as most portrayals.
206* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's usually kind and friendly.
207* HiddenDepths: According to the episode "Irritable Blowing Syndrome", she's good at giving advice.
208%%* TheHeart
209* TemporarilyAVillain: In "Stuffed Happens", she helps Mr. Pants ruin Bessie's reputation.
210[[/folder]]
211
212
213!Other
214[[folder: Other Characters]]
215!!Finger
216Bessie's right index finger and imaginary friend
217----
218* ImaginaryFriend: Though, he acts a lot less imaginary than the usual, complete with making his own expressions.
219
220!! Anton St. Germain
221->'''Voiced by:''' Matt Besser
222[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anton_st_germain_3.jpg]]
223The judge of whatever competition in town
224----
225%%* BigBad
226* DemotedToExtra: He's only had two speaking roles in Season 2
227* {{Gonk}}: Not as much as Penny, but he's weird-looking.
228* HairColorDissonance: His black hair looks purple in some shots.
229* PretentiousPronunciation: He insists his last-name is pronounced "San Ger-man" but everyone pronounces it as "Saint Ger-MAIN"
230%%* TheRival
231%%* SitcomArchNemesis
232%%* UngratefulBastard
233%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds
234
235!!! Geneva
236->'''Voiced by:''' N/A
237* CompanionCube: She's Anton's doll and his favorite one.
238* TrueBlueFemininity: She's dressed in a blue dress (with pearls).
239
240!! The Hippie
241->'''Voiced by:''' Matt Besser
242[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/macromayhem22png.png]]
243 [[caption-width-right:300:In ''Macro Mayhem'']]
244A hippie that's somewhat friends with Bessie and lives without a care in the world
245----
246* TheMentor: He acts like this to Bessie and gives her advice when she needs it.
247* NewAgeRetroHippie: He dresses the part and acts the part, wearing tie-dye, hates shoes, and uses sayings "Like far out".
248* NoNameGiven: He's not called anything but "Hippie", though whatever his real name is abbreviated with "M."
249* OnlySaneMan: 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.
250
251!!Mr. Wu
252->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeoneYoung
253[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_wupng.png]]
254[[caption-width-right:300: "So, you won this time, Mighty B. I honor you with this fresh dumpling."]]
255An owner of the Chinese resturant, who's friends with Bessie
256----
257* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He'd have to be if he's willing to go along some of Bessie's zany schemes.
258* LookBothWays: Implied in one episode, where he tells Bessie, "It's okay, I look both ways."
259* YouNoTakeCandle: Downplayed but, sometimes, he talks like this.
260
261!!Rocky Rhodes
262->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenanThompson
263[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rocky_9.jpg]]
264The 13-year old skateboarding waiter at Hillary's cafe
265----
266* MeaningfulName: His favorite genre of music is rock music.
267* PunnyName: Of "rocky roads", on top of being named after the ice cream (rocky roads)
268* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He doesn't show up at all in Season 2 and we never get an explanation why.
269
270!!Chelsea Gibbons
271->'''Voiced by:''' Jessica Chaffain
272[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chelsea_two.jpg]]
273[[caption-width-right:300: "Laters, Portia. You are so officially not my cousin."]]
274Portia's 13-year old cousin who's even more obnoxious
275----
276* EvenEvilHasStandards: Or a case of, EveryoneHasStandards. 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''."
277* SharedFamilyQuirks: What we see of her family, like her aunt and cousin, they all wear varying shades of blue.
278* ValleyGirl: An example of her speaking, as seen in her caption.
279
280!!The Dragonflies
281->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MayaRudolph (Cherry), Creator/GreyDeLisle (Maude) and Creator/AudreyWasilewski (Bibi)
282[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonflies3.jpg]]
283[[caption-width-right:300: Bibi (right), Cherry (center), "Laurie" (left), and Maude (rear)]]
284A scout troop from Oakland, California. Their names are Cherry, Maude, and Bibi, with an unnamed fourth member and a dog, Cha-Cha
285-----
286* AmbiguouslyBrown: Bibi and "Laurie's" ethnicity are harder to pinpoint other then them being darker-skinned.
287* BrawnHilda: Contrasting with the BigFun Penny, we have Maude and she's TheHeavy of the group
288* EvilCounterpart: Cherry, Maude, Bibi, "Laurie", and Cha-Cha are the meaner and tougher versions of Bessie, Penny, Gwen, Portia, and Happy (respectively)
289* MeaningfulName: Cherry's hair is a cherry (or raspberry) color.
290* NoNameGiven: The fourth member, though fans call her "Laurie"
291[[/folder]]

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