After many years, multiple delays, and some accidental leaks, cult-favorite cartoon Bee and PuppyCat is available on Netflix. And that includes the long-awaited season 2.
But true to Bee and PuppyCat fashion, this Netflix release isn’t just a straightforward drop of new episodes. To fully understand what’s now on Netflix, one has to understand how Bee and PuppyCat got there.
Bee and PuppyCat started as a short web series by former Adventure Time character designer Natasha Allegri, with a single two-part episode posted on Frederator Digital’s YouTube channel Cartoon Hangover. It became so popular, that Frederator launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce a full web series. At the time, it was the most successful animation Kickstarter in history.
The show follows the adventures of a cheerful, chronically out of work twentysomething named Bee, who finds a strange hybrid puppy-cat creature that talks in mysterious chiming noises. PuppyCat brings Bee along on temp jobs in space, while Bee introduces PuppyCat to her friends in her small town. The episodes balance exciting space adventures and mundane-but-still-challenging Earth problems. The show is notable for being an adult animated show focusing on grown up characters that doesn’t rely on crass humor or mature content; it’s still approachable to younger audiences, but gives the characters a different set of challenges.
In 2014, the first four episodes of Bee and PuppyCat aired on YouTube, with the next six originally supposed to follow suit. But they ended up on digital aggregation platform VRV two years later. Many fans didn’t even realize new episodes were made. Eventually, in 2018 they ended up on YouTube again, where they still remain to this day.
However, the second
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