The Mighty Ones

7.4
202023m

Production

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Follow the hilarious adventures of a group of creatures: a twig, a pebble, a leaf and a strawberry. These best friends, self-named The Mighty Ones, live in an unkempt backyard belonging to a trio of equally unkempt humans whom they mistake for gods.

Trailers & Videos

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The Mighty Ones - Trailer (Official) • A Hulu Original Series

Seasons

20 Episodes • Premiered 2020

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1. Rocksy's In a Hole Lotta Trouble

8.5

When Rocksy sinks to the bottom of a giant pond, her friends must figure out how to rescue her… without Rocksy’s help.

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2. The Great Invisi-Barrier

10.0

When an invisible force-a-wall (a pane of glass) descends upon the yard and separates the Mighty Ones, Rocksy must figure out how to penetrate it so the group can be reunited.

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3. Colossal Strawberry

10.0

When Berry sees a “giant strawberry,” she’s convinced that the prophecy of the berry colossus has come true and that she’s been chosen to lead her people to their true calling. Meanwhile, Rocksy is devastated that her friend is leaving, until she realizes the strawberry is actually a piñata and Berry is in danger!

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4. The Sappening

10.0

Twig is afraid his sapping will put the Mighty Ones in peril, but Rocksy aims to show him that his sap can be used for good.

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5. Wad of Friendship

10.0

Berry and Rocksy are thrilled about spending every waking moment together when they get stuck to the same piece of gum, but as more people join their gum ball, things spiral out of control.

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6. Twig Puts Down Roots

10.0

When Twig begins to root, he thinks his dreams of becoming a Mighty Oak Tree are finally coming true! But as the Mighty Ones observe his “roots” growing in a weird and gross manner, they try to convince Twig that maybe things aren’t what they seem.

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7. Egg Nag

10.0

The Mighty Ones accidentally knock a bird’s Egg out of its nest and must take turns trying to incubate the incredibly annoying Egg until it hatches.

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8. Game On

10.0

The Mighty Ones move into a board game in the yard that they believe to be a “city,” and it’s all fun and games until Berry’s capitalist greed gets the best of her.

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9. Creepy Caterpillar

10.0

When Twig introduces Leaf to his new caterpillar friend Josh, Leaf must overcome his debilitating fear of caterpillars in order to give Josh a chance.

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10. Code of Silence

10.0

Hot tempered Rabbit is sick of the noise from the Mighty Ones’ games, so he makes them a bet that they can’t go for a whole day without making a sound. Desperate to see them fail, Rabbit spends the entire day making secret attempts to get the Mighty Ones to talk.

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11. Bug Zapper

10.0

When Mr. Ladybug finds the new bug zapper the Humans installed to be irresistible, the Mighty Ones try creating distractions to keep him from zapping himself.

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12. The Helper

10.0

When Rabbit realizes Rocksy is great at “conflict management,” he tricks her into helping him strong arm other yard denizens in order to get what he wants.

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13. Naked Mole Wrath

10.0

The Mighty Ones think they are being menaced by a vicious mole rat, but it’s a case of mistaken identity.

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14. Mamma Leaf

10.0

Leaf discovers eggs stuck to his body and enlists Twig’s help so he can be a good momma.

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15. Twig for a Day

10.0

In an attempt to understand Twig better and demonstrate their appreciation for him, the Mighty Ones try to live a day as Twig. But when they end up in a precarious situation, four Twigs won’t do, and they must utilize their individual strengths in order to save themselves.

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16. Eternal Day

10.0

The humans in the house install a very bright light in the backyard, creating an eternal day for the Mighty Ones, who get a little loopy as a result.

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17. Silly Collection

10.0

Leaf has a collection of sand, but when Rocksy discovers the sand is sentient, she tries to rescue them.

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18. Hat Wars

10.0

Very Berry creates a new hat that everyone hates, except when Twig wears it. Berry becomes jealous of Twig’s newly found attention and tries to steal her hat back.

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19. The Queen

10.0

After a group of ants steal stuff from the Mighty Ones, including Rocksy’s hair, they must head underground to the creepy ant farm in order to confront the Queen Ant to get their stuff back.

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20. A Mighty Arm

10.0

When the Mighty Ones accidentally neglect Twig, they make it up to him by embarking on a dangerous adventure to scale a snowman so Twig can live out of his dream of becoming the arm of the Mighty Snow Wizard… which is not actually his dream at all.

Cast

Photo of Jessica McKenna

Jessica McKenna

Rocksy (voice)

Photo of Alex Cazares

Alex Cazares

Verry Berry (voice)

Photo of Josh Brener

Josh Brener

Twig (voice)

Photo of Jimmy Tatro

Jimmy Tatro

Leaf (voice)

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Reviews

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W.Wolf

8/10

A relatively simply series about 4 friends and the crazy hijinks and adventures they get into. Staring the chaotic Verry Berry, cool-guy Leaf, nervous wreak Twig and the leader Rocksy. Together they live in the backyard of a punk rock girl band who apparently haven't mowed their lawn in a very long time. Leading to a whole host of anthropomorphic critters and objects.

A SpongeBob but in your backyard is probably the simplest description of the show and its general vibe. While it never reaches the heights that SpongeBob reached, The Mighty Ones is a solid show. Good jokes, fun adventures, some life lessons sprinkled in. Like most cartoons there are some double meaning jokes tossed in for adults. In terms of language the worst the show ever uses is "shut up". Violence wise it follows standard Looney Tunes rules, everything is reset each episode. So characters disintegrate into dust, get body hijacked by brain worms or get totally buff by fertilizer on the regular.

I'd say its fine for children, again same vibe as SpongeBob, so if that show is cool with parents The Mighty Ones will be as well.

Verry Berry is the standout character as she is an agent of chaos who will go to extremes to do things her way. Though when things eventually go wrong she does eventually apologize, before she launches into her next scheme.

The show does a good job of rotating through each character so they all have their own episodes. They have unique personalities so they all very distinct and different enough from each other that their adventures have a distinct feel to them. Instead of being just interchangeable scripts that any of them could be in.

The show survived one cancellation, moving from Hulu to Peacock (NBC). This is noted in a 4th wall nod by the characters and location change in first 4 episodes of season 3. When a new hipster couple moves into the house and replaces the yard with AstroTurf. The Mighty Ones subsequently "time travel", aka go next door, to where the punk girls now live after having failed to pay their rent.

The show seems to be anticipating not being renewed for a 5th season. The final episode of season 4, "Boat Day", is bitter sweet goodbye as our characters sail off into a literal streaming void.

The show seems to have suffered from bad or no marketing. I only stumbled onto it through pure accident. Looking online there are no super cuts of funniest moments on YouTube or anything else indicating a strong audience community. I think the show just got very unlucky, there are much worse cartoons out there that get far more traction online. So its sad to see this one fade into obscurity.

Overall I enjoyed the show and would recommend giving it a watch.

Episode S01E02 - The Great Invisi-Barrier, is a good example of the Mighty Ones acting as a team to overcome another obstacle the punk girls leave in the backyard.

Episode S04E01 - Battle of the Babies, is a fun Godzilla style episode that demonstrates how creative the show can be.

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