What About Mimi?

What About Mimi? is a Canadian animated children’s television series. The show was produced by Junior-EM.TV (Germany), Decode Entertainment and Studio B Productions (then DHX Media, now WildBrain). The show was first premiered on Teletoon (now Cartoon Network Canada) on October 4, 2000 with the final episode's airing on August 14, 2002, leading up to three seasons and 39 episodes overall.

What About Mimi?
Genre	Comedy Slapstick
Created by	Chris Bartleman Blair Peters
Developed by	Ian Weir Colleen Holub
Directed by	Josh Mepham Colleen Holub
Voices of	Chiara Zanni Kori Cook Rhys Huber Carly McKillip Tony Sampson Andrew Francis Keith Miller Sam Vincent Ellen Kennedy Colin Murdock Peter Kelamis Saffron Henderson Garry Chalk Dale Wilson Noel Callahan Tabitha St. Germain
Theme music composer	Sarita Baker
Composers	Sarita Baker Hal Foxton Beckett
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	39 (52 segments)[1] (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Chris Bartleman Blair Peters Steven DeNure
Producers	Chris Bartleman Blair Peters
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Junior-EM.TV (Germany) Decode Entertainment Studio B Productions
Original release
Network	Teletoon
Release	October 4, 2000 (2000-10-04)[2] – August 14, 2002 (2002-08-14)[2]

Plot

The show that focuses on Mimi Mortin, a clever, redheaded girl in the sixth grade who lives in the Canadian town of Starfish Bay with two friends, Elaine and Russell and her family, but rivaled with Sincerity.

Characters

• Miriam "Mimi" Mortin (voiced by Chiara Zanni)^[3] - A young, freckle-faced girl in the sixth grade. She is 11 years old and has a clever, optimistic within a powerful imagination. She is always willing to help and solve any problem that she may encounter all the time, adding with creative plans and ideas. Although her plans may not always work out the way she expects them, Mimi receives a lot of help from her best friends (Elaine and Russell), her family, so even her rivals (Sincerity), and finds a way to solve any problem. She has a pet cat named Wimbledon.
• Elaine Pituskin (voiced by Kori Cook) - Mimi's best friend. A fellow 11-year-old girl who is an animal and nature lover, owning many pets. She can be temperamental and argue with Mimi at times, but she always looks up to Mimi as her best friend, in turn, Mimi respects her a lot.
• Russell Van Eden (voiced by Rhys Huber in Seasons 1-2 and Noel Callahan in Season 3) - Mimi's other best friend and male sidekick. Another fellow 11-year old, who is a sports lover, although he is a little clumsy. He has video camera skills and aspires to be a film director. He is shown to have a crush on Sincerity early in the show, but his interest on her later fades away.
• Sincerity Travers (voiced by Carly McKillip) - A snobbish preppy girl with dyed pink hair who, sometimes, does not get along with Mimi. She and Mimi used to be friends in kindergarten, but as they got older, their interests diverged, and they started growing apart. She is Mimi's rival in school, and although she does not get along with her, she admits that her ideas are very good and helps with some of her schemes. Even if she does not get along with Mimi, she has a resentful respect for her, showing that deep inside, Sincerity still considers her a true friend. She has a father named Lance.
• Brock Wickersham (voiced by Tony Sampson) - A bully who enjoys pulling pranks on all of characters, especially on Herbert Finkle.
• Budrick "Buddy" Wickersham (voiced by Andrew Francis) - Brock's younger brother who is also a bully. It is also revealed that he is a genius, but he does not want people to find out about it, especially his big brother, explaining that the fact would embarrass him in front of his family.
• Bradley "Brad" Mortin (voiced by Keith Miller) - Mimi's 9-year-old brother who knows that Mimi's plans always have flaws.
• Jason Mortin (voiced by Sam Vincent) - Mimi's older brother who thinks of himself as an on-the-edge rebel.
• Saffron Mortin (voiced by Ellen Kennedy) - Mimi's vegan mother who always feeds her children vegetables.
• Marvin "Marv" Mortin (voiced by Colin Murdock) - Mimi's father who is also a hippie.
• Hayley Kinaschuk (voiced by Ellen Kennedy) - Sincerity's best friend and "lackey", although she is kind and many times disagrees with Sincerity, and is good friends with Mimi, Elaine and Russell. She is of Russian heritage.
• Herbert Finkle (voiced by Peter Kelamis) - A nerd at Mimi's school. He is in charge of the school's newspaper. He's also often the target of Brock and Buddy's pranks.
• Lodeman (voiced by Peter Kelamis) - A student at Mimi's school who tends to make very bad noises and to act distracted all the time.
• Ms. Grindstone (voiced by Saffron Henderson) - Mimi's main teacher at school.
• Mr. Petri (voiced by Sam Vincent) - A science teacher who blames Brock for everything bad (even over things Brock never did) because of his state of being a bully and for pulling all pranks at his classroom.
• Mr. Jacques (voiced by Dale Wilson) - A gym teacher at school.
• Ms. Murchison (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) - The librarian of Starfish Bay School. Both she and Mr. Pianoforte hate each other.
• Principal Earl (voiced by Garry Chalk) - The principal of Starfish Bay School.
• Mr. Pianoforte (voiced by unknown) - A music teacher at school. Also, both he and Ms. Murchison hate each other.

Episodes

The show consists of 39 half-hour episodes divided into three seasons. The first two seasons consist of 13 episodes with a full 22-minute story each, while the third season consists of 13 episodes divided into 26 11-minute stories.^[4]

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	13		October 4, 2000 (2000-10-04)	January 10, 2001 (2001-01-10)
2	13		March 7, 2001 (2001-03-07)	July 1, 2001 (2001-07-01)
3	13		April 10, 2002 (2002-04-10)	August 14, 2002 (2002-08-14)

Season 1 (2000–01)

No. overall	No. in season	Title [5]	Written by	Storyboard by	Original air date [2]
1	1	"Second Honeymoon"	Ian Weir	Sam To	October 4, 2000 (2000-10-04)
2	2	"The Great Campaign"	Susin Nielsen	Luisito Escauriaga	October 11, 2000 (2000-10-11)
3	3	"The Stepford Twins"	Susin Nielsen	Jordan Oliwa	October 18, 2000 (2000-10-18)
4	4	"Leapfrog"	Susin Nielsen	Jason Horychun & Lyn Hart	October 25, 2000 (2000-10-25)
5	5	"The Play's the Thing"	Allan Levin	Karen Lloyd	November 1, 2000 (2000-11-01)
6	6	"Into the Woods"	Beth Stewart	Jorden Oliwa	November 8, 2000 (2000-11-08)
7	7	"Wildthing"	Peter Lapres	Sam To	November 15, 2000 (2000-11-15)
8	8	"Lemonade Kid"	Alan Levin	Luisito Escauriaga	November 22, 2000 (2000-11-22)
9	9	"The King of Uncool"	Beth Stewart	Stan Gadziola & Marlon Deane	December 13, 2000 (2000-12-13)
10	10	"Summer in the City"	Ian Weir	Jason Horychun	December 20, 2000 (2000-12-20)
11	11	"Poster Cat"	Victor Nicolle	Marlon Deane	December 27, 2000 (2000-12-27)
12	12	"Teacher of the Year"	Deborah Peraya	Luisito Escauriaga	January 3, 2001 (2001-01-03)
13	13	"A Star Isn't Born"	Susin Nielsen	Karen Lloyd	January 10, 2001 (2001-01-10)

Season 2 (2001)

No. overall	No. in season	Title [6]	Written by	Storyboard by	Original air date [2]
14	1	"Lights, Camera, Action"	Susin Nielsen	Jason Horychun	March 7, 2001 (2001-03-07)
15	2	"Jokers Wild"	Susin Nielsen	Karen Lloyd	March 11, 2001 (2001-03-11)
16	3	"Jellyfish Rule"	Elizabeth Stewart	Louie Escauriaga & Don Boone	March 18, 2001 (2001-03-18)
17	4	"Get a Job"	Cathy Moss	Trent Larson	March 25, 2001 (2001-03-25)
18	5	"Cupid's Arrows"	Susin Nielsen	Marlon Deane	April 1, 2001 (2001-04-01)
19	6	"The Scoop"	Victor Nicolle	Marvin Estropia	April 8, 2001 (2001-04-08)
20	7	"High Toon"	Elizabeth Stewart	Jeff Barker & Sam To & Jason Horychun	April 15, 2001 (2001-04-15)
21	8	"Deep Sea Mimi"	Victor Nicolle	Don Boone & Karen Lloyd	April 22, 2001 (2001-04-22)
22	9	"Mr. Blue Eyes"	Victor Nicolle	Eduardo Soriano & Luisito Escauriaga & Deiter Mueller	April 29, 2001 (2001-04-29)
23	10	"Outta Sync"	Elizabeth Stewart	John Delaney	May 6, 2001 (2001-05-06)
24	11	"Museum Mayhem"	Peter Lapres	Marlon Deane & Sherwin Macario & Eduardo Soriano	May 13, 2001 (2001-05-13)
25	12	"The Big Sleep Over"	Cathy Moss	Marlon Deane & Sherwin Macario & Eduardo Soriano	June 30, 2001 (2001-06-30)
26	13	"Skiing is Believing"	Victor Nicolle	Jason Horychun & Marvin Estropia & Lyn Hart	July 1, 2001 (2001-07-01)

Season 3 (2002)

No. overall	No. in season	Title [7]	Written by	Storyboard by	Original air date [2]
27	1	"Animal House / Our Little Einstein"	Victor Nicolle / Elizabeth Stewart	Sherwin Macario / Don Boone	April 10, 2002 (2002-04-10)
28	2	"The Birthday Present / Close Encounters of the Herbert Kind"	Susin Nielsen / Cathy Moss	Dennis Crawford / Jordan Oliwa	April 14, 2002 (2002-04-14)
29	3	"Sticky Fingers / Not in My Biosphere"	Elizabeth Stewart / Victor Nicolle	John Delaney / Jason Surridge	April 17, 2002 (2002-04-17)
30	4	"Miss Lonely Hearts / Brock's Robot"	Cathy Moss / Louise Moon	Maurice Sherwood / Jason Horychun	April 24, 2002 (2002-04-24)
31	5	"Club Mimi / Down on the Farm"	Peter Lapres / Elizabeth Stewart	Sherwin Macario / Don Boone	May 1, 2002 (2002-05-01)
32	6	"Forget Etiquette / This Old House"	Victor Nicolle / Leslie Mildiner	Dennis Crawford / Jorden Oliwa	May 8, 2002 (2002-05-08)
33	7	"Iron Guy / Critics Choice"	Sara Snow / Victor Nicolle	John Delaney / Luisito Escauriaga	May 15, 2002 (2002-05-15)
34	8	"My Fair Brocky / Her Girl Friday"	Louise Moon / Susin Nielsen	Maurice Sherwood / Jason Horychun	May 22, 2002 (2002-05-22)
35	9	"Uniformity / Caddy Girl"	Elizabeth Stewart / Susin Nielsen	Sherwin Macario / Don Boone	May 29, 2002 (2002-05-29)
36	10	"The Creeps / Sports Day"	Daegan Fryklind / Leslie Mildiner	Luisito Escauriaga / John Delaney	June 5, 2002 (2002-06-05)
37	11	"A New Leaf / Father's Day"	Susin Nielsen / Cathy Moss	Dennis Crawford / Jorden Oliwa	June 12, 2002 (2002-06-12)
38	12	"Millionaire Mogul / Block Party"	Elizabeth Stewart / Sara Snow	Maurice Sherwood / Jason Horychun	August 7, 2002 (2002-08-07)
39	13	"Law & Disorder / Where's the Fire?"	Victor Nicolle	Sherwin Macario / Don Boone	August 14, 2002 (2002-08-14)

Awards

The show won a Pulcinella Award for the Best Series for Children in 2001.^[8]

Telecast and home media

What About Mimi? was first premiered on Teletoon in 2000 until 2002 with repeats until the late 2000s. The show does not air in the U.S., but PorchLight's now-defunct KidMango had episodes online. Internationally, the show does air on Fox Kids (now as "Disney XD") in Latin America, CITV and Pop Girl in the United Kingdom, Minimax in Central Europe, and KiKa along with Junior in Germany. As of 2023, the show had added with YouTube online.

Two volumes of the show have been released on DVD in Canada by Anchor Bay Entertainment. Volume 1 includes four half-hour episodes and one 11-minute episode.^[9] Volume 2 includes three half-hour episodes and three 11-minute episodes.^[10] The first two episodes were additionally released on DVD in Australia by EM.TV as part of Junior's compilation series.^[11]

• Volume 1: Lights, Camera, Action; Outta Sync; The Play's The Thing; A Star Isn't Born and Critics Choice
• Volume 2: Wildthing; High Toon; Skiing is Believing; Iron Guy; Club Mimi and Sports Day
• The Best of J-Squad: Second Honeymoon and The Great Campaign

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