45 Fun Facts About Big Mouth

Which streaming service made Big Mouth?

Netflix released every season of the adult animated puberty comedy, and its first episode premiered on the service on 29 September.

Which comedian co-created the show and voices a fictionalised version of his younger self?

Nick Kroll co-created the series and voices its lead, a version of himself at around 12, plus dozens of other characters, including Lola and several tampons.

How many seasons did Big Mouth run for?

Eight: the streaming service renewed the show for an eighth and final season in April 2023, announcing the ending two years ahead.

In which year did the first season premiere?

2017: the first season landed on the streaming service on 29 September 2017.

Who voices Andrew Glouberman, Nick's best friend?

John Mulaney voices Andrew Glouberman, the anxious, hormone-racked best friend, a role he played for the show's entire run.

What is the name of Andrew's raspy-voiced hormone monster?

Better known as Maury, his full name is Maurice Beverly, and he is also Matthew's hormone monster.

Who voices Connie the Hormone Monstress and Nick's mother Diane?

Maya Rudolph won the Emmy for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance as Connie in both 2020 and 2021, and again later in the run.

Which member of Nick's family does Fred Armisen voice?

His father Elliot: Fred Armisen voices the gushingly affectionate Elliot Birch, a man who showers his children with declarations of love.

Which real jazz musician's ghost lives in Nick's attic?

Duke Ellington's ghost haunts the Birch attic, dispensing lecherous advice and bursting into song; the real bandleader died in 1974.

Which comedian voices the jazz ghost in Nick's attic?

Jordan Peele voices the attic ghost as well as Missy's father Cyrus and the Bilzerians' self-aware pitbull, Ludacris.

Who voices sarcastic, smart Jessica Glaser?

Jessi Klein, head writer of Inside Amy Schumer, voices the character across the whole run.

Where does Jessi get her first period in season one?

On a school trip to the Statue of Liberty: in the episode 'Everybody Bleeds', Jessi's period arrives while she is wearing white shorts inside the statue.

Who voices Jay Bilzerian, the magic-obsessed boy who dates a pillow?

Jason Mantzoukas voices Jay Bilzerian, Judd Birch and Jay's father Guy, as well as the ghost of Socrates.

What is the name of the pillow Jay has a relationship with, voiced by Kristen Bell?

Pam, the pillow voiced by Kristen Bell, is Jay's first love and ends up 'pregnant' with pillow babies; Suzette, a different pillow at the motel, is voiced by Natasha Lyonne.

What is Guy Bilzerian's job?

Divorce lawyer: Guy Bilzerian is a sleazy local attorney whose TV commercials Jay constantly quotes, and he also owns a seedy all-male motel called Guy Town.

Who originally voiced Missy Foreman-Greenwald before stepping down in 2020?

Jenny Slate stepped down in June 2020, saying that a Black character should be voiced by a Black actress; she had voiced Missy since the first season.

Which actress took over as Missy from late season four onward?

Ayo Edebiri, later a star of The Bear, made her first appearance as the reassembled 'Mosaic Missy' in the season four episode 'Horrority House'.

What is the name of Missy's British-accented hormone monstress?

Mona, voiced by Thandiwe Newton with a British accent, arrives in season three as Missy's hormone monstress.

Which British actor voices the Shame Wizard?

David Thewlis voices the Shame Wizard, a character later named Lionel St. Swithens, whose mother Rita is played by Helen Mirren in the spin-off.

Which character is the only one immune to the Shame Wizard, because he cannot feel shame?

Coach Steve, the dim gym teacher, is the only character the Shame Wizard cannot affect; season two also reveals he was a virgin until a night with Jay's mother.

Which actress voices the Depression Kitty in seasons two to four?

Jean Smart voices the Depression Kitty, the purring purple cat who smothers Jessi in season two and returns to tempt her in later seasons.

What kind of creature is Tito, the embodiment of anxiety?

A mosquito: Tito the Anxiety Mosquito, voiced by Maria Bamford, first swarms the kids in season four and later appears in the spin-off.

Which comedian voices Jessi's talking vulva?

Kristen Wiig voices the talking vulva that chats with Jessi from a hand mirror in the season one episode 'Girls Are Horny Too'.

Who voices Matthew MacDell, the drama-loving gay student?

Andrew Rannells, the Broadway star of The Book of Mormon, voices Matthew MacDell; Zachary Quinto voices Aiden, Matthew's boyfriend.

Jon Hamm guest-stars as which object of Marty Glouberman's secret obsession?

A plate of scallops: Andrew's grumpy father Marty loves scallops above all else, and Jon Hamm voices the seductive plate that tempts him.

Which Big Mouth character is shown grown up as a slick future game-show host?

Nick: a future Nick hosts a game show and lives alone but for a robot replica of Andrew, a vision meant to warn him about his selfishness.

Which reality show's cast appears as themselves to make over the gym teacher?

Queer Eye's Fab Five, including Jonathan Van Ness and Tan France, voice themselves in season two, giving the hapless gym teacher a full makeover.

Which actor voices Andrew's constipation, personified as his own feces?

Paul Giamatti voices the talking faeces in the season four episode 'Poop Madness', in which Andrew refuses to use the camp toilets.

Which Doctor Who star voices Nick's long-lost Scottish grandfather Seamus?

Peter Capaldi, the twelfth Doctor, voices Seamus MacGregor, the abrasive grandfather who moves into the Birch house in season six.

What is the name of the school the kids attend?

Bridgeton Middle School is the kids' school; Ali, voiced by Ali Wong, arrives there as a new student in season three.

Which real-life rapper appears as a Hormone Monstress modelled on herself?

Megan Thee Stallion voices a Hormone Monstress version of herself in season seven, assigned to the new student Danni, voiced by Zazie Beetz.

What is the name of Nick's Lovebug, who turns into a hate-worm?

Walter, voiced by Brandon Kyle Goodman, is Nick's lovebug in season five; Rochelle is Missy's and Sonya is Jessi's.

Which real place are the kids' suburbs based on?

Westchester County, New York: the creators grew up together in Rye, a Westchester suburb, and drew the kids' town from it.

What is the title of the show's very first episode?

It is the episode in which Jessi and Nick share a kiss.

Who wrote most of the show's original songs?

Mark Rivers, the show's composer, wrote most of its songs; his 'Totally Gay' from season one earned a 2018 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.

What is the title of the workplace spin-off set in the hormone monsters' office?

Human Resources premiered on 18 March 2022 and follows the hormone monsters, lovebugs and other creatures at the office where they are assigned to human clients.

Which comedian stars in the spin-off as Emmy Fairfax, an amateur Lovebug?

Aidy Bryant, a Saturday Night Live veteran, voices Emmy Fairfax, the slapdash young Lovebug at the centre of the spin-off.

What is the name of the gym teacher's elderly, dysfunctional hormone monster?

Rick, the decrepit old hormone monster, looks after the gym teacher and was also the lead boy's first monster in season one before younger monsters took over.

Which comedy's stars, Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, cameo as Misha and Izzy of 'Cafeteria Girls'?

PEN15 stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle as 13-year-old versions of themselves, so their cameo as seventh-graders in the show-within-a-show 'Cafeteria Girls' is the joke.

In which year was Big Mouth's eighth and final season released?

2025: the final season arrived on 23 May 2025, with the creators having announced the ending two years earlier.

How many seasons did the spin-off Human Resources run for before Netflix cancelled it?

Two: the spin-off debuted in March 2022 and its second season, released in June 2023, had already been announced as its last.

How many episodes were in Big Mouth's first season?

Ten: all ten episodes of the debut season arrived at once on 29 September, ending with 'The Pornscape'.

A special episode released ahead of season three was themed around which holiday?

Valentine's Day: the 45-minute special 'My Furry Valentine' arrived on 8 February 2019, several months before the rest of season three.

In Human Resources, Randall Park voices Pete Doheny, a rock that embodies what within humans?

Pete the Logic Rock works alongside Lovebugs, Hormone Monsters and a Shame Wizard in the creatures' office.

Which screenwriter-director duo co-created Big Mouth with Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg?

Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, the married writer-director team behind Little Manhattan and Nim's Island, rounded out the show's four creators.