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. The series follows Butterbean, a fairy who runs a neighborhood café with her friends. The series involves "creative cooking, a farm-to-table philosophy, and a social-emotional curriculum that focuses on leadership skills". A total of 40 episodes have been ordered. The series premiered on November 12, 2018. On June 4, 2019, the series was renewed for a second season. The series moved to the Nick Jr. channel as of August 25, 2019.

Premise

''Butterbean's Café'' is set in the magical land of Puddlebrook and follows its title character, Butterbean, a young fairy who opens up and works in her own café, with the help of sister Cricket and friends Poppy, Dazzle, and Jasper. The patrons of the café consists of anthropomorphic chipmunks and rabbits. Next to the café is grumpy Ms. Marmalady, who plots to put Butterbean out of business, only to fail every time. There is a running gag where a character (which the episode varies and mostly centers around on) breaks the fourth wall by talking to the viewer in a documentary style confession where they explain the various situations happening at the moment. Working together, the fairies whip up amazing treats in most of the episode. If the treat is successfully saved, Butterbean plants a colorful surprise bean producing special effects based on it, depending on the episode, to which she calls "The Fairy Finish".

Characters

* Butterbean (voiced by Margaret Ying Drake in US and Lily Wilmott in UK), a fairy who owns a café. Her wings have sprinkles and her cooking tool is a whisk. * Cricket (voiced by

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in US and Amelie Halls in UK), Butterbean's younger sister. Her wings have hearts and her cooking tool is an icing bag. * Poppy (voiced by Kirrilee Berger in US and Alisia-Mai Goscomb in UK), a fairy who runs the kitchen. Her wings have flowers and her cooking tool is a kitchen spoon. * Dazzle (voiced by Olivia Grace Manning in US and Imogen Sharp in UK), a fairy who runs the café's front counter. Her wings have stars and her cooking tool is a stylus. * Jasper (voiced by Koda Gursoy and Quinn Breslin in the US and Eric O'Carroll in series 1, and Alexander James in series 2-present in the UK), a fairy delivery boy. His wings have a lighting and his cooking tool is a spatula. * Cookie: A winged, flying cat who lives in Butterbean's Cafe. * Ms. Marmalady (voiced by

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in US and Judy Emmett in UK), Butterbean's foil and the main antagonist. Because she and her workers produce sub-par products, her café hardly gets customers. * Spork and Spatch (both voiced by Chris Phillips in US and both voiced by Mike Cross in UK), Ms. Marmalady's bumbling monkey employees. * Marzipan: A dark grey cat owned by Ms. Marmalady.

Episodes

Home media

and Paramount Home Entertainment released a first DVD of the show entitled ''Let's Get Cooking!'' on January 14, 2020.

Awards and nominations

Ratings

The series' debut on November 12, 2018 yielded Nickelodeon "its highest-rated preschool series debut since the 2013 launch of ''PAW Patrol''", drawing 727,000 Kids 2–5 and 2 million total viewers.

References

External links

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