The Boss Baby: Back in Business
The Boss Baby: Back in Business is an American computer-animated web television series produced by DreamWorks Animation that is a follow-up of the 2017 film The Boss Baby, loosely based on the book of the same name by Marla Frazee. The series premiered on Netflix on April 6, 2018. JP Karliak voices the title character, replacing Alec Baldwin; only Eric Bell Jr. reprised his role from the film, returning as The Triplets,[1] while Pierce Gagnon replaces Miles Bakshi as Tim Templeton. The second season premiered on October 12, 2018.[2] The third season premiered on Netflix on March 16, 2020.[3]
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Genre | Comedy |
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Developed by | Brandon Sawyer |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 37 |
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Executive producer(s) | Brandon Sawyer |
Running time | 24 minutes |
Production company(s) | DreamWorks Animation Television |
Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution Netflix |
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Original network | Netflix |
Original release | April 6, 2018 – present |
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Preceded by | The Boss Baby |
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A special DreamWorks The Boss Baby: Get That Baby! will be released on September 1, 2020.[4]
Premise
Taking place after the film, in the first season Boss Baby and his big brother Tim navigate around the world of Baby Corp while dealing with a new cute threat that involves battling cats. At the end of the season, Boss Baby and his friends save the town from Bootsy Calico, a man raised by cats. In the second season, Boss Baby battles against old people. And in the third season, Boss Baby is fired and tries to get his job back. Finally, Boss Baby becomes the CEO of Baby Corp.
Cast
- JP Karliak as Theodore Lindsey "Ted" Templeton Jr. / Boss Baby
- Pierce Gagnon as Timothy Leslie "Timmy" Templeton
- David W. Collins as Ted Templeton Sr.
- Hope Levy as Janice Templeton
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Jimbo
- Alex Cazares as Staci
- Eric Bell Jr. as The Triplets
- Nora Dunn as Gigi (season 2)
- Cynthia Erivo as Turtleneck Superstar (season 2)
- Victor Raider-Wexler as Frederic Estes (season 2)
- Flula Borg as Mega Fat
- Jake Green as Bootsy Calico (season 1)
- Sarah-Nicole Robles as Marisol
- David Lodge as Magnus
- Brandon Scott as Manager Baby Hendershot
- Kari Wahlgren as Marsha Krinkle
- Justin Felbinger as Danny Petroski
Episodes
Season | Episodes | Originally released | |||
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1 | 13 | April 6, 2018 | |||
2 | 13 | October 12, 2018 | |||
3 | 11 | March 16, 2020 |
Season 1 (2018)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date | |
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1 | 1 | "Scooter Buskie" | Matt Engstrom | Brandon Sawyer | Scott Cooper, Steve Cooper & Christo Stamboliev | April 6, 2018 | |
A neighborhood baby named Scooter Buskie has been constantly crying and throwing tantrums, and the baby love goes down. So in order to fix this problem, Boss Baby tries to put Scooter Buskie back in training at Baby Corp. However, that doesn't work, so Tim - Boss Baby's brother - tries to reunite Scooter with his family again. It works; everyone goes "aww." | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Cat's in the Cradle" | Pete Jacobs | Brandon Sawyer | Mandy Clotworthy, Steve Cooper & Ben McLaughlin | April 6, 2018 | |
Ted "Boss Baby" Templeton Jr. and his field team investigate kitty chatter translated to Bootsy Calico, and his parents find a stray kitten. Ted and the kitten compete for the parents' love and Tim helps Ted win by pitching the idea of making it seem that the kitten scratched and mauled Ted. Ted learns that the kitten is from an insane vet named Bootsy Calico who knows about Baby Corp and wants to take it down. | |||||||
3 | 3 | "Family Fun Night" | Matt Engstrom & Allan Jacobsen | JD Ryznar | Zeus Cervas, Scott Cooper, Glenn Harmon, Brian Hatfield, Trevor Tamboline & Kenji Ono | April 6, 2018 | |
Ted's family plan for a Family Fun Night where they decide to visit a kitten-themed restaurant. Tim is excited but a grumpy Ted grows suspicious of the restaurant's out-of-ordinary feline practices. They discover that Bootsie Calico runs the restaurant and he is trying to win their neighborhood's love by gifting kittens in takeout boxes. Ted and his field team foil Bootsie's plan by using sea shells to make the kittens aggressive. | |||||||
4 | 4 | "Formula for Menace: A Dekker Moonboots Mystery" | Allan Jacobsen | Sam Cherington | Scott Cooper, Kenji Ono, Greg Leysens & Paul Scarlata | April 6, 2018 | |
Ted repeatedly naps unexpectedly during work at Baby Corp. and soon discovers that all the babies working there are showing signs of growing up. Ted and his field team discover that the baby formula meant to keep babies as babies forever was tainted with vanilla milkshake. They suspect Mega Fat CEO Baby but later discover that an abandoned baby had tainted the formula in an attempt to win her place in Baby Corp. despite her imaginative ideas. Ted learns that it is important to allow creative out-of-box thinking in the corporate workplace. | |||||||
5 | 5 | "Monster Machine" | Pete Jacobs | Alexandra Decas & Melanie Kirschbaum | Mandy Clothworthy & Ben McLaughlin | April 6, 2018 | |
Ted is worried that the annual Little Dumpling Pageant will cause a dip in baby love levels after the last year's winner Jarreau McIntosh had his fame go to his head, making him a spoiled baby. Ted enlists Jimbo to enter the competition and win it. However, Jimbo is a fan of Jarreau and becomes his bodyguard. Ted pushes Staci to enter the competition instead and she eliminates the opponents one by one. Meanwhile, Tim tries to get the crown from Jarreau but is stopped by Jimbo. He learns that his own victory years ago was a lie told by his parents to make him feel like winner. Jarreau gives up the crown to go back to being a drummer instead. Staci wins but she turns around and crowns the crying runner-up baby. The other babies join them on stage and pass the crown around; this restores the dipping baby love levels. The parents and the host Marsha terminate the show seeing a contest based on cute looks is vain. Ted commends Staci on the change of her heart, but Staci dismisses him saying that she was merely getting the vain contest cancelled; she prefers contests that are based on talent. | |||||||
6 | 6 | "The Constipation Situation" | Christo Stamboliev | Sam Cherington | Ian Abando, Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss, Paul Cohen, Fred Gonzales, Howard Perry & Rossen Varbanov | April 6, 2018 | |
Ted is constipated and forced by his boss to take a sick day, which he hates. As Tim and their parents try to cure him, his team has to face one of Calico's nefarious plans. Ted isn't one to stay idle, but if he is caught working on his sick day, Mega Fat CEO Baby will fire him. | |||||||
7 | 7 | "The Boss Babysitter" | Allan Jacobsen | Alexandra Decas & Melanie Kirschbaum | Clayton Christman, Brian Hatfield & Arielle Rosenstein | April 6, 2018 | |
Ted and Tim's parents have tickets for a concert and leave them with a well-regarded teenage babysitter. They decide to get rid of her, but then Tim gets a crush on her and Ted has to follow through his plan with the help of his team. | |||||||
8 | 8 | "Into the Belly of the Den of the House of the Nest of Cats" | Pete Jacobs | Alexandra Decas & Melanie Kirschbaum | Jerome Co & Ben McLaughlin | April 6, 2018 | |
9 | 9 | "Spirit Day" | Christo Stamboliev | Sam Cherington | Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss & Fred Gonzales | April 6, 2018 | |
10 | 10 | "Par Avion" | Christo Stamboliev | Brandon Sawyer | Paul Cunningham, Fred Gonzales, Brian Hatfield & Jon Magram | April 6, 2018 | |
Tim and Ted's parents win an all-expenses paid trip to Paris. Once on board, Ted and Time discover that the airplane is full of babies, Stacy and Jimbo included, and that Marsha Krinkle and her cameraman are also on board. The travel was a trap by Mega Fat CEO Baby to create a crisis on-air so he could fire Ted. When Ted gets knocked out by the travel-sickness medication on his milk, is up to Tim and Stacy to prevent the plan's success and save Ted's job. | |||||||
11 | 11 | "Cat Cop!" | Pete Jacobs | JD Ryznar | Mandy Clotworthy & Ben McLaughlin | April 6, 2018 | |
While Ted and Tim were on Paris, Calico managed to get one of his cats appointed as a police officer. The cat is inducing her human partner to fine families with kids so they'd sell their houses to Calico and leave the city. Ted makes a deal with Mega Fat CEO Baby to get the golden surveillance equipment and he and his team must find proof of Calico's schemes or Ted will lose his job. | |||||||
12 | 12 | "Hang in There, Baby" | Allan Jacobsen | JD Ryznar | Paul Cunningham & Arielle Rosenstein | April 6, 2018 | |
When Mega Fat CEO Baby threatens to fire Ted thanks to a secret of his he'd found, Tim, Ted and his team plan a nocturnal raid on BabyCorp to steal the evidence. But it turns out all of it was a trap by Mega Fat CEO Baby to fire them. He calls Tim and Ted parents and when they're unable to return home in time, their scared parents put all kinds of security and vigilance on their rooms. Meanwhile, Calico uses Jimbo's lost pacifier to break into BabyCorp. | |||||||
13 | 13 | "Six Well-Placed Kittens" | Christo Stamboliev | Brandon Sawyer | Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss & Fred Gonzales | April 6, 2018 |
Season 2 (2018)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date | |
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14 | 1 | "As the Diaper Changes" | Pete Jacobs | Sam Cherington | Jerome Co & Ben McLaughlin | October 12, 2018 | |
15 | 2 | "Super Cool Big Kids, Inc." | Allan Jacobsen | Alexandra Decas & Melanie Kirschbaum | Paul Cunningham, Brian Hatfield, & Rob Porter | October 12, 2018 | |
Tim starts a business called Super Cool Big Kids, Inc. with Ted’s help. He starts to get big kids love because of starting it. | |||||||
16 | 3 | "P.U.!" | Christo Stamboliev | JD Ryznar | Fred Gonzales & Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss | October 12, 2018 | |
R&D Baby Simmons messes up the Stink-less Serum formula colossally and becomes the stinkiest baby in the planet. Meanwhile, Ted and Tim make a wager that Tim should make $20 before dawn or else, Ted gets the room. However, Ted must stop baby love from going down and make Simmons stink-less again. | |||||||
17 | 4 | "Hush, Little Baby" | Pete Jacobs | Brandon Sawyer | Jerome Co & Ben McLaughlin | October 12, 2018 | |
Tim tries to bring Ted and Gigi together, so Gigi takes them to the senior center library for story time until Estes and the oldies take the room. Ted must find a way to get story time back. | |||||||
18 | 5 | "Night of the Frodarg" | Allan Jacobsen | Sam Cherington | Paul Cunningham & Brian Hatfield | October 12, 2018 | |
19 | 6 | "Fugitive's Day Out" | Christo Stamboliev | Brandon Sawyer | Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss & Fred Gonzales | October 12, 2018 | |
Ted is falsely accused and Turtleneck Superstar CEO Baby brings back Mega Fat Regular Baby back to nab Ted. Ted must escape and get his team to prove his innocence and who’s guilty. | |||||||
20 | 7 | "El Apasionado Negocio de la Niñera" | Pete Jacobs | Alexandra Decas & Melanie Kirschbaum | Jerome Co & Ben McLaughlin | October 12, 2018 | |
Old people hire Marisol to babysit for the rest of the summer. Meanwhile, when Gigi is sick, Ted gets his team to make Gigi look like a babysitter while he and Tim tries to get Marisol back to sitting babies | |||||||
21 | 8 | "Plushythingy" | Allan Jacobsen | Megan Atkinson | Paul Cunningham & Brian Hatfield | October 12, 2018 | |
Ted falls in love with a furry new doll called Plushythingy and the other babies do too. But the old people who made it takes the toy back due to making flaws which saddens Ted. | |||||||
22 | 9 | "Number One Problem" | Pete Jacobs | JD Ryznar | Ben McLaughlin & Steve Trenbirth | October 12, 2018 | |
Ted is getting potty-trained by Gigi, so he sits naked till he poops which annoys Tim. This also benefits Ted to impress Turtleneck Superstar CEO Baby as he is relaxed. Tim tries get him with pants on. | |||||||
23 | 10 | "Picture Perfect" | Christo Stamboliev | Sam Cherington | Fred Gonzales & Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss | October 12, 2018 | |
24 | 11 | "Play It Again, Tim" | Allan Jacobsen | Alexandra Decas & Melanie Kirschbaum | Paul Cunningham & Brian Hatfield | October 12, 2018 | |
25 | 12 | "Research & Development" | Pete Jacobs | Sam Cherington | Ben McLaughlin & Steve Trenbirth | October 12, 2018 | |
26 | 13 | "Wrinkles & Stinkles" | Christo Stamboliev | JD Ryznar | Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss & Fred Gonzales | October 12, 2018 | |
After Tim discovered the new formula, Boss Baby became the new CEO of Baby Core and he takes advantage of the Occasion. While they eliberation Turtleneck Superstar CEO Baby wasn't actually old. She and Estes had a plan to take the love of the elders. And Bebe Chief must behave like a leader True. Fortunately at the end of the episode, Frederic Estes and Turtleneck Superstar CEO were arrested. |
Season 3 (2020)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date |
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27 | 1 | "Bossa Nova" | Dan Forgione | Brandon Sawyer | Matt Engstrom, Dan Forgione & Christo Stamboliev | March 16, 2020 |
28 | 2 | "The Museum Job" | Matt Whitlock | Tanner Tananbaum | Fred Gonzalez, Whitney Martin & Matt Whitlock | March 16, 2020 |
29 | 3 | "Ga Ba Goo Ba Ga (The Babblist)" | Pete Jacobs | JD Ryznar | Federico Ferrari, Darwin Tan & Pete Yong | March 16, 2020 |
30 | 4 | "The Coo Chi Coup" | Dan Forgione | Sarah Katin & Nakia Trower Shuman | Paul Cunningham, Jason Dorf & Dylan Holden | March 16, 2020 |
31 | 5 | "Lights, Camera, Org Chart!" | Pete Jacobs | Tanner Tananbaum | Federico Ferrari, Darwin Tan & Gener Ocampo | March 16, 2020 |
32 | 6 | "The Big Break" | Matt Whitlock | Brandon Sawyer | Lynell Forestall, Fred Gonzalez & Whitney Martin | March 16, 2020 |
33 | 7 | "Escape from Krinkle's" | Dan Forgione | JD Ryznar | Paul Cunningham, Jason Dorf & Dylan Holden | March 16, 2020 |
34 | 8 | "Puppy Party" | Pete Jacobs | Tanner Tananbaum | Federico Ferrari, Darwin Tan & Gener Ocampo | March 16, 2020 |
35 | 9 | "Mega Fat" | Matt Whitlock | JD Ryznar | Lynell Forestall, Fred Gonzalez & Whitney Martin | March 16, 2020 |
36 | 10 | "Halloween" | Matt Whitlock | Sarah Katin & Nakia Trower Shuman | Lynell Forestall, Fred Gonzalez & Whitney Martin | March 16, 2020 |
37 | 11 | "Who's a Good Baby?" | Dan Forgione | Brandon Sawyer | Paul Cunningham, Jason Dorf & Dylan Holden | March 16, 2020 |
Release
The series premiered its first season on Netflix in the US on April 6, 2018. The second season was released October 12, 2018.[5][6] The third season was released on March 16, 2020.[3]
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Kidscreen Awards | Best New Series | The Boss Baby: Back in Business | Nominated | [7] |
Best Animated Series | The Boss Baby: Back in Business | Nominated | |||
Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Cartoon | The Boss Baby: Back in Business | Nominated | [8] |
References
- Lawrence, Derek (March 2, 2018). "Watch the trailer for the Netflix animated series The Boss Baby: Back in Business". ComingSoon.net.
- AWN Staff Editor (October 2, 2018). "WATCH: 'The Boss Baby: Back in Business' Season 2 Trailers".
- Jensen, Erin (February 19, 2020). "Netflix: Everything coming (and disappearing) in March 2020 (including 'Ozark')". USA Today. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
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- "New Trailer for the Netflix Series The Boss Baby: Back in Business". comingsoon.net. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- Julia Alexander. "'The Boss Baby, just nominated for a Golden Globe, gets a Netflix series". Polygon. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
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- Kimberly Nordyke (23 March 2019). "Kids' Choice Awards: Full List of Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter.