What does an untidy backyard look like when you are the size of a pebble? The Mighty Ones, an American animated comedy series from 2020, answers by handing the whole lawn to four tiny friends with very large opinions of themselves.
What is The Mighty Ones about?
A twig, a pebble, a leaf and a strawberry have decided they are a team, and they have given that team a name far grander than their size: The Mighty Ones. Home is a neglected garden where nothing gets mown, raked or put away, which suits them perfectly, because every abandoned object and overgrown corner becomes somewhere to explore. Sharing the property are three humans just as scruffy as the yard. The little quartet cannot make sense of creatures that enormous, so they settle on the obvious explanation and treat them as gods. Each episode spins a small backyard event into an outsized adventure.
About the cast
The voice cast listed for the series is Jessica McKenna, Alex Cazeres, Josh Brener, Jimmy Tatro and Fred Tatasciore. As an animated show, everything depends on those voices giving personality to characters that are, on paper, garden debris and a piece of fruit. The catalogue credits Carl Schenkel as director. Because the leads work as an ensemble of best friends rather than a hero with sidekicks, the comedy comes from how the four bounce off one another.
Context & significance
The Mighty Ones is filed under Animation, Comedy and Family, and episodes run about 22 minutes, the standard length for a half-hour cartoon slot. That makes it easy to watch one instalment at a time or several in a row. The premise belongs to a long line of small-world stories, where an ordinary place turns epic once the camera drops to ground level, and the running joke about mistaking people for gods gives it a playful angle of its own. The series has had a fair reception from viewers. It is offered in its original English; the catalogue lists no Persian dub and no Persian subtitles, which is worth knowing if younger children will be watching.
Watching The Mighty Ones on Ktime
You can stream The Mighty Ones on K-Time, the Persian-focused service made for Iranian families living abroad. This page is open to read without signing in, while playback needs a K-Time account login. Menus, search and the continue-watching row are all available in Farsi, so parents can find the next episode quickly.