Bunsen Is a Beast

Bunsen Is a Beast is an American animated series created by Butch Hartman. It centers on a blue beast named Bunsen and his best friend Mikey Munroe as they navigate through life in their school, while attempting to stop beast-hating girl Amanda Killman. The animation for this show was provided by Elliott Animation Inc., just like the last seven episodes of The Fairly OddParents.

The show ran on Nickelodeon from January 16th to October 14th, 2017, and then Nicktoons from December 18th, 2017 to February 10th, 2018.

Premise
Childish blue monster Bunsen is the first beast to attend Muckledunk Middle School, a school that previously only accepted humans on its property. He befriends a red-haired human boy named Mikey Munroe, who helps him navigate through the school. Bunsen's plan is to show the world that beasts can coexist with humans peacefully without attacking others. However, a braces-wearing girl named Amanda Killman doesn't want that to happen. In an attempt to get rid of Bunsen, she tries to prove that monsters and humans aren't allowed to co-exist. Despite this, Bunsen and Mikey always foil her efforts at every turn.

Facts

 * This show was based on a drawing of a monster and a human boy that Butch created in 2009, and was originally conceived as a picture book that featured both characters, but the idea never went through. After a Nickelodeon executive looked at the drawing, it would ultimately be developed into a TV program.
 * This is the only show created by Butch Hartman not to use his traditional angular, thick-line art style. Instead, it has an art style that looks like a mix between the thin-line animation style (almost everything having a round style) and the thick-line animation style (with the characters and objects still having thick outlines, albeit to a slightly lesser extent than the other Nicktoons created by Butch).
 * Unlike the previous three shows from Butch Hartman, Rob Paulsen and Grey Griffin do not provide voice work for this show. This makes it the only Butch Hartman Nicktoon with this distinction.
 * This is Butch Hartman's shortest-lived series (not counting The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder), running for only one year and with only 26 episodes being made throughout its entire run.
 * Although the show received positive reviews from critics, it was hated by fans of Butch Hartman, who consider this the worst of his shows.
 * This was the last show to be made by Butch Hartman before he departed from Nickelodeon in February 2018.
 * Bunsen's best human friend being named Mikey is a nod to the fact that Timmy Turner from The Fairly OddParents, Hartman's first show, was originally going to be named after one of Butch's brothers, Mikey Hartman, but his name was ultimately changed to Timmy due to an argument between both brothers.