Pests is the final episode of The Mr. Men Show overall and Season 2, airing on 19 October 2009 on Cartoon Network. The episode focusses on various characters dealing with unwanted creatures.
Synopsis[]
Pests are a real bother for the Mr. Men and Little Misses. Mr. Fussy finds a mouse in Mr. Messy's house; there's a fly in Mr. Quiet's soup; and the biggest wasps' nest is right on Mr. Stubborn's front door!
Plots[]
- Mr. Fussy, Mr. Strong and Mr. Messy's Plot: Mr. Fussy calls Mr. Strong to catch a mouse that went into his house and went over to Mr. Messy's house, but after Mr. Strong and Mr. Messy play a game and leave Mr. Fussy to catch the mouse on his own, Mr. Fussy soon finds many mice and an overgrown mouse in Mr. Messy's attic, forcing him to retreat.
- Advertisement (US version only): Little Miss Naughty does an ad for her "Miss Naughty's Rent-A-Pest". She explains that people can rent any pest for their troublemaking behaviour, such as mosquitoes, ants, and rabbits.
- Mr. Quiet, Mr. Happy, Mr. Grumpy and Mr. Rude's Plot:Mr. Quiet, Mr. Happy and Mr. Grumpy go to Chez Rude and order soup. A fly flies into Mr. Quiet's and makes him splash the soup when he tries to get rid of it. In the end, Mr. Quiet, Mr. Happy and Mr. Grumpy get kicked out of Chez Rude for disliking Mr. Rude's soup.
- Mr. Bump and Mr. Tickle's Plot: Mr. Bump and Mr. Tickle go out exterminating wasps, first at Miss Sunshine's house. Mr. Bump tries to get rid of the wasps, but Mr. Tickle keeps tickling their nest, and they sting Mr. Bump. When they pass by Mr. Stubborn's house, Mr. Bump sees that Mr. Stubborn has a huge wasp nest on his door. Mr. Stubborn refuses to believe that it's a wasps nest and thinks it's a pinata.
Bumpers[]
Characters are having a picnic when a giant spider comes down.
- Miss Daredevil stops it with one of her rockets.
- It kidnaps Mr. Small and comes down wearing his hat.
- The spider eats the picnic and Miss Scary scares it away.
Characters[]
- Little Miss Chatterbox
- Mr. Fussy
- Mr. Messy (last appearance)
- Mr. Strong
- Mr. Grumpy
- Mr. Happy
- Mr. Quiet (last appearance)
- Mr. Rude (last appearance)
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Mr. Bump
- Mr. Tickle
- Mr. Stubborn (last appearance)
- Little Miss Scary (last appearance)
- Little Miss Naughty (US version only)
- Mr. Nosey (last appearance, voice only in the US version)
- Mr. Small (does not speak)
- Little Miss Bossy (last appearance) (cameo)
- Mr. Funny (cameo)
- Mr. Tall (cameo)
- Mr. Lazy (cameo)
- Little Miss Daredevil (last appearance; cameo only in the first bumper)
- Little Miss Curious (cameo)
- Mr. Scatterbrain (last appearance) (cameo)
- Mr. Fussy's unnamed mother (photo cameo)
Voice Cast[]
UK[]
- Teresa Gallagher as Little Miss Chatterbox, Little Miss Naughty
- Rob Rackstraw as Mr. Fussy, Mr. Messy, Mr. Happy, Mr. Tickle
- Simon Greenall as Mr. Strong, Mr. Quiet, Mr. Grumpy, Mr. Bump
- Emma Tate as Little Miss Sunshine
- Joseph J. Terry as Mr. Rude
- Lewis MacLeod as Mr. Stubborn
- Alex Kelly as Little Miss Scary (expressions only)
US[]
- Katie Leigh as Little Miss Chatterbox
- Joseph J. Terry as Mr. Fussy and Mr. Rude
- Peter Rida Michail as Mr. Messy
- Phil Lollar as Mr. Strong
- Alicyn Packard as Little Miss Naughty and Little Miss Sunshine
- Rick Zieff as Mr. Nosey (expressions only)
- Sam Gold as Mr. Grumpy and Mr. Happy
- Paul Greenberg as Mr. Quiet and Mr. Bump
- Jeff Stewart as Mr. Tickle
- Godfrey as Mr. Stubborn
- Susan Balboni as Little Miss Scary (expressions only)
Trivia[]
- This episode is the last for several things:
- The last appearances of The Narrator, Mr. Nosey, Mr. Quiet, Mr. Rude, Little Miss Bossy, and Little Miss Scary in animation to date.
- Mr. Scatterbrain, Mr. Stubborn and Little Miss Daredevil's last appearances.
- The last episode to have Teresa Gallagher, Rob Rackstraw, Simon Greenall, Joey D'Auria, Emma Tate, Lewis MacLeod, Alex Kelly, Katie Leigh, Phil Lollar, Alicyn Packard, Rick Zieff, Donald Corren, Paul Greenberg, Jeff Stewart, Susan Balboni, and Godfrey in the cast to date.
- This is also the last episode to have voice acting to date.
- The last episode whose title does not include a character's name until "The Little Misses Conference Call".
- Mr. Funny's last appearance until "The No-Laugh Challenge".
- Mr. Lazy's last appearance until "Mr. Lazy Goes to the Beach".
- Mr. Messy's last appearance until the Untitled Mr. Men Series.
- Mr. Bump has Mr. Grumpy's personality when he got stung by wasps.
- This is the third time a honeybee/wasp nest is seen, the first two being Hobbies and Birthday. Coincidentally, the bees and wasps from said nests attack Mr. Bump.
- This is the series finale, as the show was cancelled by Cartoon Network due to the show's ratings not being good enough to help toy sales[1].
- This is the only episode of The Mr. Men Show that does not have its British dub uploaded to the official YouTube channel for unknown reasons. Higher quality footage of the episode can be found on the French YouTube channel's upload of the episode. As of 2025, no HD version exists of the UK version of the episode.
- In 2017, the UK dub of the episode was finally found when YouTuber Mr. Chatterbox Wears Earplugs, an alternate account of Mr. Men Memories, uploaded it to YouTube on 16 February. The episode, however, is recorded by an iPad camera.
- However, there is another video combining the French dub footage and the UK audio from the aforementioned video, which can be found here.
- In 2017, the UK dub of the episode was finally found when YouTuber Mr. Chatterbox Wears Earplugs, an alternate account of Mr. Men Memories, uploaded it to YouTube on 16 February. The episode, however, is recorded by an iPad camera.
- Mr. Messy's house is revealed to have an attic.
- Mr. Fussy has another picture of his mother, but he spilled his tea on it.
- Mr. Bump and Mr. Tickle are the last characters to end the episode, the season, and the show.
- This episode had received complaints about the episode itself and the show's ending, especially from Nostalgia Critic's reaction to the episode.
Goofs[]
- When Mr. Quiet tells Mr. Grumpy about the fly in his soup, his legs are missing. The same error occurs when Mr. Bump talks about the difference between a pinata and a wasp's nest to Mr. Stubborn.
- When this episode aired on Cartoon Network, there was a static on the part where Mr. Bump says that a pinata would not have hundreds of angry stinging wasps. This was fixed when the episode aired on Boomerang.
Dub edits[]
- Mr. Fussy says "No, not exactly!", instead of just "Not exactly!"
- After the mouse appears at Mr. Messy's door, he says "Hey!"
- Mr. Strong says "Eh, mouse mousey mouse mouse mousey mouse!", instead of "Cheep!"
- "Checkers" is referred to as "draughts".
- While Mr. Messy and Mr. Strong are playing their game, Mr. Strong and Mr. Messy say, "Your move!" and "Thank you!" respectively, rather than "King me!" and "Gladly!"
- When Mr. Fussy runs down the stairs, he screams "AHHHHH! GIANT MOUSE IN THE HOUSE!" instead of "MOUSE! GIANT MOUSE!", and continues screaming after closing the door.
- When Mr. Messy says "Looks like he caught the mouse!", he says "found" instead of "caught".
- After Mr. Strong says "Way to go, Mr. Fussy!", he says "So, are you gonna make a move or what?" in the UK version and "So, uh, you gonna king me or what?" in the US version.
- After Mr. Grumpy says "To eat", he says "for one" in the US and "obviously" in the UK.
- Mr. Grumpy's last line, "We have a date with liverwurst" is changed to "We'll have a meeting with some sauerkraut".
- When Mr. Bump tells Little Miss Sunshine to go inside to her house, he says "until we're through", but in the UK, he says "until it's over".
- The sound Mr. Bump makes when he gets stung by the wasps isn't dubbed.
- Mr. Bump screams before he falls into the pool.
- When Mr. Tickle runs over to Mr. Bump, he says, "See! A tickle is loads of fun!", instead of the word, "tons" in the US version.
- When Mr. Bump says that wasps' nests aren't intended for people to tickle them, he says "to be tickled" in the UK and "for tickling" in the US.
- When Mr. Bump tells Mr. Stubborn that a pinata would have treats in it, he says "sweeties" instead of "candy".
- At the very end of the episode, when Mr. Bump and Mr. Tickle reappear from their segment, Mr. Bump screams "Leave me alone, you tickling pests!" in the UK version and "Oh, freak me out! This is craziness!" in the US version.
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