Bartlebee Advertising Posters

An advertisement for “Bartlebee Brands Nutty Caramel Meadow Bars.” Beetrice flies through the air gesturing to a shiny gold candy bar while Seamore and Strawbetty stand in the field below looking upwards.

A poster reading: “no picnic is complete without our new Bartlebee Brands Springtime Flavors! Strawberry mint poppyseed” It contains art of Seamore and Strawbetty at a picnic looking up towards the sky through which Beetrice flies.

A badly deteriorated advert of Seamore and Strawbetty holding a heart shaped box of chocolates. An eerily cherubic caricature of Beetrice holds a bow and arrow off to the side. The text reads “Set their heart abuzzzz with that homey Honey flavor.”

Bartlebee brands poster with the text “we’ve got a treat for you…nothing’s sweeter than honey!” Beetrice waves her scepter at the audience while Seamore and Strawbetty share a bag of candy.

The poster has the text “All your favorite candy is made at factory nine!” The illustration in the poster is of beetrice whisking a mixing bowl out of which rises a factory with smokestacks and smaller buildings. Beetrice‘s smile is wide and her eyes have beads of light shimmering in them. It should be noted this illustration was not 1:1 accurate with the appearance of the actual factory nine

More artwork of Beetrice and her two pupils Seamore and Strawbetty in this selection of old advertisements. I think it is a shame that the two puppets came about so late in Bartlebee Brands life span, as it never quite feels like they ever got enough time to become their own individuals defined outside of their relationship to Beetrice. There is not much official lore on the characters either (besides what has already been said in the character article posted at the archives foundation.) It is also uncertain just what the two characters' relationship was to each other. Some early advertisements portrayed the two puppets as siblings, others as a romantic couple, and others as just two friends that stumbled into Beetrice’s life. Beetrice’s connection to the duo is a little more clear but still cloudy, with early materials delegating her to being a teacher-like figure in their life, but other later depictions stating her to be more like their mother. I think it is interesting that these characters have, in their own way, outlived the character they were based around, at least in heavily restored puppet form.