What About Mimi?

This show is forgotten indeed.

***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.

## Bad Qualities

1. Unlikeable or just flat out annoying characters.
	* Mimi herself is an incredibly unlikable and unsympathetic protagonist. She essentially believes the world revolves around her and that everything must be done her way, and does not really seem to mind her own business and always jumps to conclusions. Her catchphrase "Mimi's got a plan" is annoying as well.
	* The rest of the characters seem to have pretty bland, generic, or just flat out stereotypical personalities.
		+ Sincertiy, Mimi's rival, is just a generic "mean popular girl", and is pretty much the atypical rich girl who is spoiled, snobby, selfish, and is obsessed with popularity. Her only motives for doing anything is also for popularity.
		+ Brock Wickersham is nothing more but a generic bully, with his friends being generic goons. His personality pretty much begins and ends with him being a dimwitted bully.
		+ Russell usually serves as a punching bag to the other characters, including Brock, and has almost no personality other than being the video guy with an obsessive crush on Mimi's rival Sincerity, though this would be phased out in Season 3.
		+ Elaine has no personality other than being an animal-loving vegan, and is much more blander than the other characters.
		+ The rest of Mimi's family are just a whole batch of generic tropes, such as her younger brother being really deadpan, the dad being really bumbling and idiotic, the mom being a vegan-obsessed airhead. The list goes on.
			- The same can be said for the background characters, with each only having one or two traits for their personality, such as a wimpy nerd and a shy girl.
2. The animation, while decent, tends to suffer from a few animation errors here and there.
3. It tends to overuses cartoon stock sound effects, making it seem somewhat generic.
4. Most of the show's humor is gross-out, which is the worst type of humor for any show to use.
5. It tends to overuse filler in various episodes, not helping is that each episode is 22 minutes long, with no segments, yet all of the episodes plots seem like they could be done in about 11 minutes. In the third and final season however they did finally split each episode into segments.
6. The lessons that are supposedly taught in each episode are treated very lightly and are not carried over into the next episode. Much like Norman Price from *Fireman Sam*, Anytime Mimi would supposedly learn a lesson she would immediately forget it in the next. ***So what's the point?***
7. Much like *Caillou*, the pacing is quite mediocre.
8. Most of the episodes either have mediocre endings or just end on cliffhangers.

## Good Qualities

1. The animation isn't bad and is actually decent, given that it was provided by Studio B Productions (now defunct as of 2010).
2. The voice acting is passable.
3. The theme song isn't too bad.