Line #24 WesternAnimation/BimblesBucket


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3	Cult Creator/{{CITV}} children's AnimatedSeries from the mid 1990s. Created by Mike Jupp and Martin Gates Productions as a SpiritualSuccessor to their previous project ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone''.
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5	The show follows Bimble, who comes into possession of a magical wish granting bucket, occupied by the miniature elf-like Teeny Weeny. Soon, nearby despot Queen Kak of Sleaze City and her Sleezian minions comes to know of this bucket, with bumbling witch Dolly Clackhanger and her Mooks often attempting to steal to appease their queen. Similar to its predecessor, the show follows a simplistic formula, usually revolving around the villains bungling attempts to steal the bucket, though it was kept fresh by an ongoing continuity.
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7	The show ran for three seasons from 1996 to 1998. While the first series was a standard 22 minute show, the second and third were downgraded into ten minute shorts.
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9	Though the show slipped into obscurity for a fair while after airing, the company Monster Entertainment, who own the rights to all the shows in Martin Gates' catalogue, have streamed episodes of the show on their official Youtube account.
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14	* AllThereInTheManual: WordOfGod is that Bimble's species are termed "Squonks".
15	* AlliterativeTitle: ''Bimble's Bucket'' repeats the letter "B".
16	* BritishBrevity: As per UK norm, the show ran 13 episodes per season, totalling to three seasons of 39 episodes.
17	* CartoonCreature: Bimble.
18	* CoDragons: Dolly and Mudge. They usually mirror Sgt. Blob and Urpgor's glory seeking rivalry from ''The Dreamstone''.
19	* EvilIsHammy: Julia Mc Kenzie rather gloriously chews the scenery as the shrill Dolly Clackhanger.
20	* TheExile: Dolly Clackhanger was kicked out of Stiltsville after all her botched witchery caused too much collateral damage. Ironically, her bungling caused ''much'' worse problems since then, such as leaving the entire village stranded above the planet.
21	* {{Expy}}: The show shares a heavy resemblance to ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'', in premise, cosmetics and even many of the character archetypes.
22	* FatBastard: Queen Kak and Dolly Clackhanger.
23	* FriendlyEnemy: Sploot sometimes has problems understanding who's the opposing side or not.
24	* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Queen Kak is ''not'' a good ruler.
25	* HarmlessVillain: Queen Kak's ambitions mostly consist of trying to enforce taxes from civilians and have the fairy tales they create abolished. None of her minions are effective at either.
26	* IdiotHero: Bimble at times is somewhat air headed and careless.
27	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The Sleezians are generally incompetent, many episodes their plans don't even make a starting run.
28	* IneptMage: Dolly ''really'' isn't very good at magic. She can conjure up perfectly edible food, but that's about the limit of her powers.
29	* InvincibleHero: Reconstructed. The bucket can grant the heroes any desire they wish, however there a lot of stipulations and restrictions as to what it can grant. The majority of the heroes' plot in an episode revolves around getting around this, though when they do, the villains lose handily.
30	* LighterAndSofter[=/=]DenserAndWackier: The show is less actionized than ''The Dreamstone'', with any dark undertones completely discarded for good natured slapstick and whimsy. Keeping in mind ''The Dreamstone'' itself was fairly light hearted.
31	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Sploot is adorably cheerful and docile, usually only interested in pleasing Dolly than committing evil. Bilge and Oiler and the rest of the grunt Sleazians are only a smidgen higher up on the abrasive scale.
32	* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: The bucket can grant all kinds of wishes, but it comes with rules. In addition, said wishes only last a day.
33	* PragmaticVillainy: The reason Queen Kak hires and provides resources for Dolly is she believes magic could be a potential threat to her rule and, not knowing Dolly's actual inept level of sorcery, decides she would be better kept loyal and eager to her services than risk becoming an enemy.
34	* PunchClockVillain: Most of the Sleazians.
35	* SitcomArchNemesis: Dolly and Mudge, being CoDragons, regularly bicker for Queen Kak's approval. Dolly also does ''not'' get along with the Mayor of Stiltsville, who exiled her due to her past troublemaking.
36	* SealedEvilInACan: After a mishap with a spell leaves Stiltsville floating above air, Kak's lair sinks into the deep crater below. Episodes after involve the villains trying to escape after Bimble blocks any way back up, and even after they succeed, Kak and her lair still stick there ([[FatBastard not that she was]] [[OrcusOnHisThrone very active beforehand anyway]]).
37	* SugarBowl: The heroes' world is fairly sickly sweet and peaceful. There's a mild bit more wackiness to hold it up than the previous show however.
38	* SycophanticServant: Sploot serves Dolly with mindless joy in spite of constantly being at the brunt of her wand.
39	* VillainProtagonist: As with it's predecessor, the show often focuses more dominantly on the villains' buffoonery than Bimble himself.
40	* VillainousUnderdog: The Sleazians are pretty ineffectual and helpless against the bucket's powers. For a lengthy arc they get stuck in a large crater beneath the heroes' village, leaving them with the drawback of actually having to escape before they can do any antagonising at all.
41	* WalkingDisasterArea: Nearly all the Sleazians, but Dolly takes the cake. After being kicked out by the Squonks for causing loads of disasters with her botched up spells, she relocated to a lair in the pleasant countryside, which she quickly reduced to a barren wasteland. Her poor witchcraft combined with Mudge's own schemes ends up leaving Stiltsville elevated about the planet isolated from everyone else.
42	* WomenAreWiser: Teeny Weeny is usually more level headed than Bimble. On the villain side however, both gender Sleezians come at varying levels of incompetence.

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