40 Fun Facts About The Buzz on Maggie

What kind of insect is Maggie, the ambitious 13-year-old heroine of The Buzz on Maggie?

A fly, Maggie lives in a world built on insect habits, right down to her kind's appetite for spoiled and rotten food.

Which network premiered The Buzz on Maggie with two back-to-back episodes on a Friday?

Disney Channel moved the series into its weekend block just one week later.

In The Buzz on Maggie, Maggie's family lives inside which discarded household container?

A milk carton is home to six: Maggie, her parents, two brothers and a little sister.

What does Maggie, the impulsive tween at the center of The Buzz on Maggie, aspire to become?

A rock star is the goal, and chasing it on impulse, against the rules and her parents' wishes, keeps landing her in jeopardy.

The insect city in The Buzz on Maggie is built in what kind of human place?

A junkyard setting gave director Dave Wasson what he called a lot of visual opportunities.

As a homecoming prank in The Buzz on Maggie, what does Maggie try to land on her principal's face?

A pie is her weapon of choice, and the segment is simply titled Pieface.

For which holiday do Maggie and her friends venture into the human world in The Buzz on Maggie?

Halloween sends the bugs trick-or-treating among humans in The Big Score, paired with a second spooky segment called Scare Wars.

Which actress, Susie Carmichael in Rugrats, voices Maggie's best friend in The Buzz on Maggie?

Cree Summer won over the Hartford Courant's critic, who called her performance as the sidekick wonderfully deadpan.

Which actress, Bubbles in The Powerpuff Girls, voices Maggie's nemesis Dawn in The Buzz on Maggie?

Tara Strong pulls double duty on the series, also voicing Maggie's youngest sibling, Bella.

In The Buzz on Maggie, Maggie disguises herself as what insect to audition for her favorite team?

A bee is the only kind of member the team will take, and a famous one at that, in the pun-titled segment Spelling Bees.

What is the name of the suburban insect metropolis where The Buzz on Maggie takes place?

Stickyfeet comes under threat in one episode, when humans plan to clear the whole site for new construction.

What is the first name of Maggie's best friend and classmate in The Buzz on Maggie?

Rayna is drawn into most of Maggie's schemes, from sneaking into violent movies to dodging the work on a science project.

What is the name of Maggie's football-playing older brother in The Buzz on Maggie?

Aldrin is the sibling to beat: Maggie tries to outdo him herself, then invents a new game so their little brother can win for once.

What is the fitting surname of Maggie and her family in The Buzz on Maggie?

Pesky suits a family of household pests, and the writers worked the name into two episode titles.

What subject does the pompous Mr. Bugspit teach at Buzzdale Academy in The Buzz on Maggie?

History follows Maggie home in one episode, when her teacher strikes up a friendship with her father.

The Buzz on Maggie was its studio's first series animated entirely with which software?

Adobe Flash got the nod because director Dave Wasson had already used it on commercials and short films.

Which accessory do characters in The Buzz on Maggie wear as a homage to 1930s cartoon shorts?

White gloves are one of what director Dave Wasson called a lot of 1930s touches, borrowed from Tex Avery and Warner Bros. shorts.

Which singer, a Britney Spears tour opener, performed the theme song of The Buzz on Maggie?

Skye Sweetnam, from Ontario, went on to provide Barbie's singing voice in The Barbie Diaries.

What is the title of the theme song of The Buzz on Maggie, an anthem about pride and acceptance?

Just the Way I Am was written by Bob Thiele Jr. and Dillon O'Brian, and one critic wrote that every episode explodes with it.

The theme song of The Buzz on Maggie earned its two writers a nomination at which awards?

Daytime Emmys voters shortlisted it for Outstanding Original Song, but the prize went to a tune from the soap The Young and the Restless.

In The Buzz on Maggie, Maggie gives a homecoming makeover to Maria, a nerdy insect of what kind?

A butterfly named Maria emerges from the makeover as a real rival to Dawn for Homecoming Queen.

Maggie and her youngest sibling Bella audition in The Buzz on Maggie for a commercial selling what?

Baby food is the product in Sister Act, one of the segments built around the infant of the household.

Scum Bites, sold in a school charity drive in The Buzz on Maggie, are what kind of product?

Candy called Scum Bites turns a charity fund drive into a sales duel between Maggie and her nemesis Dawn.

Maggie volunteers as a child's mentor in The Buzz on Maggie and is matched with a cranky what?

A cocoon is her charge in the pun-titled segment Metamorpho Sis, and Maggie soon regrets signing up.

In The Buzz on Maggie, what tiny pet does Maggie sneak home after her parents refuse to allow it?

A germ becomes her secret pet in the segment Germy, and training it goes badly even before her parents find out.

In The Buzz on Maggie, Maggie reluctantly goes on a date with what kind of insect?

A stinkbug is her unwanted date in a segment aptly titled Love Stinks.

Working as a restaurant maid in The Buzz on Maggie, Maggie tells her parents she has what job?

Head chef is the lie she tells in Le Termite, a segment set at a gourmet restaurant.

In The Buzz on Maggie, humans threaten to tear down Maggie's home city to build what?

A strip mall is the threat in Bugs on the Brink, and Maggie's rescue plan is to pass off her best friend as an endangered beetle.

When the kids strike for bigger allowances in The Buzz on Maggie, whom do Maggie's parents hire?

Roaches are brought in to do the children's chores, which rather takes the sting out of the strike.

For her school newspaper in The Buzz on Maggie, Maggie investigates living conditions inside what?

An ant farm owned by a human kid turns out to be a better place to live than she expected, so she writes a false article instead.

Which animal causes trouble for the whole insect city in an episode of The Buzz on Maggie?

A raccoon is the menace, and the segment's title stretches the word out like a scream: Raccooooon!

Maggie's older brother injures his wing in The Buzz on Maggie while winning her which prize?

A scooter costs him dearly: a guilty Maggie does all his chores and nurses him back to health before his team's football game.

Which family tradition, set to be shown on cable TV, embarrasses Maggie in The Buzz on Maggie?

Clogging is the family's age-old custom, and the whole household is set to demonstrate it on a local cable network.

Which class project does Maggie rush in The Buzz on Maggie so that she can enjoy spring break?

A diorama gets the shortcut treatment, and the plan unravels once her father befriends the teacher who assigned it.

Which Caddyshack and Groundhog Day actor voices Maggie's father in The Buzz on Maggie?

Brian Doyle-Murray brought what one critic called a recognizable gruffness to the family patriarch.

Which actress, later Lynn and Lucy in The Loud House, voices the lead in The Buzz on Maggie?

Jessica DiCicco was a newcomer when she was cast, and the part was her first main voice role on a television series.

The creator of The Buzz on Maggie had earlier written for which adult animated comedy?

South Park was an unlikely stop on the way to a children's cartoon: creator Dave Polsky had written for it and co-wrote Scary Movie 2.

Which future director of The Book of Life supervised character design on The Buzz on Maggie?

Jorge Gutierrez went on to co-create El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera for Nickelodeon with his wife, Sandra Equihua.

Many animators on The Buzz on Maggie were hired from which Kids' WB cartoon after its cancellation?

¡Mucha Lucha!, a comedy about three friends at a school for masked wrestlers, ended in early 2005, just months before Maggie's debut.

Where do Maggie and her best friend volunteer in The Buzz on Maggie to meet a famous musician?

A hospital is where their injured idol is recovering, so the pair sign up to work there in the segment Honey Striper.