What About Mimi?

Plot

Characters

• Miriam "Mimi" Mortin - A young, freckle-faced girl in the sixth grade. She is 11 years old. She is clever, optimistic, and has a powerful imagination. She is always willing to help and solve any problem that she may encounter all the time, adding with creative plans and ideas. Although her plans may not always work out the way she expects them, Mimi receives a lot of help from her best friends, her family, so even her rivals, and finds a way to solve any problem. She has a pet cat named Wimbledon.
• Elaine Pituskin - Mimi's best friend. She is an 11-year-old girl who is an animal and nature lover, owning many pets. She can be temperamental and argue with Mimi at times, but she always looks up to Mimi as her best friend, in turn, Mimi respects her a lot.
• Russell Van Eden - Mimi's other best friend and male sidekick. He is an 11-year-old boy who is a sports lover, although he is a little clumsy. He has video camera skills and aspires to be a film director. He is shown to have a crush on Sincerity early in the show, but his interest on her later fades away.
• Sincerity Travers - A snobbish preppy girl with dyed pink hair who, most of the time, does not get along with Mimi. She and Mimi used to be friends in kindergarten, but as they got older, their interests diverged, and they started growing apart. She is Mimi's rival at school, and although she does not get along with her, she has a resentful respect for her, admitting that her ideas are very good and helping with some of her schemes. She has a father named Lance.
• Brock Wickersham - A bully who enjoys pulling pranks on all of the characters, especially on Herbert Finkle.
• Budrick "Buddy" Wickersham - Brock's younger brother who is also a bully. It is also revealed that he is a genius, but he does not want people to find out about it, especially his big brother, explaining that the fact would embarrass him in front of his family.
• Bradley "Brad" Mortin - Mimi's 9-year-old brother who knows that Mimi's plans always have flaws.
• Jason Mortin - Mimi's older brother who thinks of himself as an on-the-edge rebel.
• Saffron Mortin - Mimi's vegan mother who always feeds her children vegetables.
• Marvin "Marv" Mortin - Mimi's father, who is also a hippie.
• Hayley Kinaschuk - Sincerity's best friend and "lackey"- although she is kind and many times disagrees with Sincerity, and is good friends with Mimi, Elaine and Russell. She is of Russian heritage.
• Herbert Finkle - A nerd at Mimi's school. He is in charge of the school's newspaper. He's also often the target of Brock and Buddy's pranks.
• Lodeman - A student at Mimi's school who tends to make very bad noises and act distracted all the time.
• Ms. Grindstone - Mimi's main teacher at school.
• Mr. Petri - A science teacher who blames Brock for everything bad because of his state of being a bully and for pulling all pranks at his classroom.
• Mr. Jacques - A gym teacher at school.
• Ms. Murchison - The librarian of Starfish Bay School. She and Mr. Pianoforte hate each other.
• Principal Earl - The principal of Starfish Bay School.
• Mr. Pianoforte - A music teacher at school. He and Ms. Murchison hate each other.

  Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (2000–01)

Season 2 (2001)

Season 3 (2002)

Awards

Telecast and home media

• Volume 1: Lights, Camera, Action; Outta Sync; The Play's The Thing; A Star Isn't Born and Critics Choice
• Volume 2: Wildthing; High Toon; Skiing is Believing; Iron Guy; Club Mimi and Sports Day
• The Best of J-Squad: Second Honeymoon and ''The Great Campaign''