Bee and PuppyCat
Series, 2022, The 2020s, Set in Puppycat's space temp jobs
Bee and PuppyCat is #17 of 18 in release order and #17 of 18 in chronological order in the Modern Cartoon Classics.
The story
Bee is a young lady trying to make her way in the world. She often acts before thinking, which can lead her into trouble (and adventure!). She also has a strong, nurturing personality, and doesn’t think twice about taking in Puppycat when he needs help. Although her laid-back-space-casey attitude and lack of skills tend to keep her from maintaining a job for long in the human world, she isn’t someone who easily gives up, and with the experiences she gains at the magical temp agency she stumbles on, she’ll finally have the chance to find out what she’s meant to do with her life.
Bee and PuppyCat recap
Bee is a broke young woman who lives in a small island town. A cat-dog creature called PuppyCat falls from the sky, and she takes him in. To pay her rent, they take temp jobs from TempBot, a giant screen that sends them through space to strange little worlds where the work is never quite what it seems. Bee's neighbours include Deckard, who cooks and has a crush on her, his sister Cas, and Cardamon, her very serious child landlord, who cares for his mother Violet, in a coma. PuppyCat was once a fearsome space outlaw before being cursed into his current form, and a group of Warlocks hunt him. Bee herself turns out to be a robot, built by a father she does not remember. The story began as a web series in 2013, funded on Kickstarter, and was rebooted on Netflix in 2022 as Lazy in Space, which retells the original and then carries the story further.
Bee and PuppyCat ending explained
The Netflix season ends with "I Won't Leave You Alone": the island is attacked by giant magical hands while PuppyCat tries to restart his ship, and the Warlocks close in. The story is left open, with many mysteries about Bee, her missing father and PuppyCat's past still unexplained. No further season has been announced since the Netflix release in 2022, so this is effectively where the series stops.
Ratings
IMDb 8.1/10
Where it fits
- Release order: after Adventure Time: Distant Lands, before Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake.
- Chronological order: after Adventure Time: Distant Lands, before Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake.
What to watch before Bee and PuppyCat
In release order, 16 Modern Cartoon Classics essentials come before Bee and PuppyCat (2022), from Adventure Time (2010) to Adventure Time: Distant Lands (2020).
Cast
- Allyn Rachel as Bee (voice)
- Ashly Burch as Cas / Temp Training School Teacher (voice)
- Alexander James Rodriguez as Cardamon / Dinosaur Kid (voice)
- Terri Hawkes as Toast (voice)
- Tom Sandoval as Crispin (voice)
- Kent Osborne as Deckard (voice)
- Eric Bauza as Warlock R / Heart Head / John Hammerbottom (voice)
- Patrick Seery as Pretty Patrick (voice)
- Liam Mackay as Moully (voice)
- Kumail Nanjiani as Howell (voice)
- Doug Smith as Merlin / Grasshopper / Boombox Voice (voice)
- Arin Hanson as Wesley (voice)
Created by Natasha Allegri.