Mimsie 4ever

Mimsie 4ever is an American adult animated web series created by Katherine Russo for Argosy New Media. It serves as an “alternate continuity” to the Mimsie and Smokey franchise created by Paul Lopez, and uses reimaginings of existing characters owned by ArgosyMTM Group. The series is available on YouTube, or on Argosy’s websites. Its pilot was uploaded on October 24, 2015, and it officially premiered in 2016.

Plot
The show depicts the lives of MTM employees, in a fictionalized version of Seattle (actually a combination of Seattle, LA, and Vancouver). MTM is shown as a much larger and older company than it is in real life, founded as a film studio in 1904, and owning a TV network called UBS and several other properties; the Argosy name is uniquely not mentioned, though some Argosy properties are shown as MTM properties. The show is a crossover, especially satirizing more obscure Argosy/MTM properties, such as these produced for Fox Family in the late-1990s/early-2000s under the Shaw/Fox deal. The series revolves around Mimsie, the immortal mascot of MTM Enterprises, and a “time-demon” taking the form of a cat. After causing several disasters, such as the extinction of the dinosaurs, the crucifixion of Jesus, and the sinking of the Titanic, she retired from evil deeds after her “big break”: helping the Nazis rise to power in Germany: and, after a brief stint in Argentina, moved to Seattle, where she was immediately hired by the restructuring MTM film studio. Mimsie doesn’t like how her executives, the letters M, T, and M, treat her, so she teams up with several other employees to form a “club” demanding that MTM change its ways. Along the way, Mimsie is put in charge of several things, that she always ends up screwing up in one way or another.

Main protagonists

 * Mimsie, an immortal anthropomorphic cat (who is trillions of years old, but looks only 21), or rather, a demon (currently) in the form of a cat, who has had to meow for the MTM production company’s vanity plate for almost half a century, and wants to die, but can’t. Before getting hired by MTM, she had a job at Hell Incorporated as a “time-demon”, and altered the timeline to cause bad things to happen; after getting her “big break” and ghostwriting Mein Kampf for Hitler, she retired from being evil after the end of World War II, and went to Argentina to relax, before moving to Seattle to find fame. She wants to take over the MTM company so she can mold it in her own image. She created Club Mimsie with a group of disgruntled producers and staff (Smokey, Bobby, Felicia, and the Robot Monkey) so she could achieve this goal.
 * Smokey, Mimsie’s 25-year-old girlfriend, a black-and-white cat who is an influencer on “Instagrom”, and is only dating Mimsie for the money.
 * Bobby, an anthropomorphic Golden Retriever who is a friend of Mimsie and Smokey, and works as a janitor for MTM.
 * Felicia, a Siamese cat who is the star of a mediocre soap opera, and is trying to get into a better show. She is a close friend of Mimsie.
 * The Robot Monkey, the original creator of his titular “Robot Monkey” show of pop-culture parodies (itself a blatant parody of Robot Chicken), which MTM keeps renewing even after he left the show years ago; it is widely agreed that the show “jumped the shark” after he left. He joined Club Mimsie only because Mimsie wants to cancel the show.

Main antagonists

 * M Sr., a red letter M that owns the MTM company, is extremely hostile towards Mimsie for no good reason, and is implied to be a “creepy old man”.
 * T, a blue letter T who is an executive at MTM and M Sr.’s massively younger girlfriend, and is constantly trying to replace Mimsie with a “cuter” cat.
 * M Jr., M Sr.’s near-identical son that is slightly less hostile towards Mimsie, but still hates her.

Minor characters

 * Sharon Spitz/Braceface, a former teen idol who was signed to MTM Records by her parents when she was 14, and blames the MTM company for her fall from grace, rather than her own issues and drug abuse. Her braces can conduct electricity. She tries to shoot up the MTM Studios in the “Braceface Saga” episodes, but is stopped by Mimsie with a flamethrower.
 * Bob and Margaret, a dentist and an eye doctor who moved from Toronto to Seattle, and are happily married. Don’t have very major roles.
 * Angela and Nanette, two claymation characters made by MTM for a kids’ show, which come to life and try to kill the MTM staff, including Mimsie.
 * Andrew Larkin, a mentally disturbed 30-year-old whose idea of a “prank” is phoning in a bomb threat to MTM Studios.
 * Adriana Pendleton, a reporter for KUBS 5 News Seattle, who is actually a Lovecraftian Elder God taking the form of a human (referencing how the original incarnation of the character, one of Ellen Peck’s first creations for TV, was heavily implied to be a descendant of Zeus himself). She is a poor reporter, much like Kent Brockman from The Simpsons, but she’s kept on because she’s attractive.

Reception
The series has received positive reception as a “quirky reboot done right” and a “great way to adapt an ancient franchise into adult animation”.

Trivia

 * Ellen Peck is depicted in a version of her Life at the Studio character, but doesn’t have a major role in the fictionalized MTM company or in the series as a whole.
 * Characters from the Aaron franchise are not featured; Katherine Russo has said that within the M4E continuity, Aaron and his friends are fictional characters created by Ellen Peck.
 * Despite being adult animation, the series is written so that it can also be enjoyed by kids outside the target demographic of teens and young adults, much like The Simpsons and Homestar Runner.
 * Katherine Russo says that this series has no real “heroes”; both Mimsie and the letter executives are villains. Mimsie is vain and will do anything for fame, and the letters are greedy and will do anything for money; Mimsie just has better publicity.