Bunsen Is a Beast is an American children's animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. In spite of prejudice against beasts, Bunsen befriends a human boy named Mikey Munroe and his homeschooled companion, Darcy. Together, Bunsen and his friends attempt to navigate through school life while outsmarting a student named Amanda Killman who wants to rid society of Bunsen's kind.