Thursday, February 2, 2017

Revealing Burdine Maxwells' true identity

Ok, I know some of you may think that this is a bit childish to talk about some cartoon character villain, but you gotta' admit, aren't you a li'l bit curious? I know I do. So first things first, who is Burdine Maxwell?


Burdine is a cunning, bossy and self-centered woman who only cares about achieving her goal in having a successful business. She has two assistants, Kirstee and Kaycee a.k.a. the Tweevils, whom she constantly orders around and rely on. (Reference link: Burdine Maxwell) So now that we have the basics about her, covered. Let's jump to the pool of mysteries surrounding her identity.


As you all know by now, and obviously, Burdine loves the color pink, so much that she would fight for it and would often find herself blurting out her famous expression, "Mother of Pink!" She would also often boast that she is "The Founder, President, Editor in chief of your thing magazine and the reigning Queen of Fashion." Well, we all know someone familiar who has a lot in common with Burdine. She who is also famous and has been reigned as the Queen of fashion and is always in a mood for Pink.


That's right, it's Barbie! Although this is still a theory, let's sum up everything we know about these two. So they both love pink, they're famous, they're both into fashion, they are both managing a fashion magazine (Well, with Barbie's many titles and jobs, I doubt managing a fashion magazine isn't one of them.) and most of all...



They both have the same BM initials!


Well, Barbie's real name is Barbara Millicent Roberts and Burdine is Burdine Maxwell. Quite a coincidence we have there, don't we? Let's say Burdine really is Barbie. What happened to her? I guess she just aged or grew up. Remember the episode "Gifts, Goofs, Galore" in Barbie Life in the Dream House?


In that episode, it was Barbie's birthday and everybody has been wondering about her age. She was about to tell everyone how old she is but then the vacuum interrupts the conversation where nobody was able to hear it.

While on the other hand, Burdine Maxwell has also revealed her age in the episode "Crush in a rush part 2" Where in, Burdine was flirting with somebody online and when the guy told her his age, Burdine felt like she needed to tell her age too. She slipped out typing her real age but then decided to change it to a lie pretending to be as young as the guy she was flirting with.


So if we calculate Barbie's age starting with what Nikki said, "Barbie was a Doctor and you gotta go to school for at least eleven years for that." and Teresa's statement, "She ran for President, and you gotta' be at least thirty five, so that means she's-- wait lemme' see, plus four carry the two." Wait what?? So could it be?? Thirty five plus four, means she's already thirty nine years old?! Which means, Burdine Maxwell is younger than Barbie!!! Or-- Burdine could've been Barbie when She was younger. Maybe Burdine was just her screen name for Your Thing Magazine to preserve her privacy but then, that would contradict the fact on how much she boasts about her titles to almost everybody.

Maybe something else happened that made her hide her true identity. Like maybe something humiliating that caused her to change her name. Maybe something like fame, happened. She wasn't famous anymore. But then that wouldn't explain as to why she's still running a magazine and desperate to become famous.

Maybe Barbie wasn't really nice after all. Maybe she's like Regina George of The Mean Girls and people found out about her true nature so they started backing away from Barbie and that was the start of her career's downfall which made her changed her name to Burdine. But! ofcourse, there's always a "But". How come Barbie still has friends on the episode of "Gifts, Goofs, Galore"? My guess is, she took a hiding and only her friends could understand her at that time, but then before that, she had already made her second persona as Burdine Maxwell and made Your Thing Magazine at the age of thirty one. Which means, she's trying to maintain being famous, because fame is the only thing she knows about life. Even when it means becoming completely somebody else, which made her friends turn away from her because they no longer know her. Which would also explain Burdine's social life now.

But then why did she became that vindictive, mean and ruthless? I guess it's because she's frustrated and pressured with work all the time, after all, dealing with the new famous people like the Bratz ain't easy, and let's not even get started about who they are.

So the next question is...

Who are the Tweevils and why are they so loyal to Burdine? Although they diss her so much, but they never leave and they always follow her ridiculous commands no matter how much they get yelled at and scolded in the end for messing up.


The Tweevils are twins that make fun of almost everyone. (Reference link: Tweevils) Everytime something goes their way, they say, "YEAH!", put their fingers together and booty bump. Even though they were nicknamed the "Tweevils" since they are twins and often act evil, the Tweevils have a nice and caring side that is shown in a few episodes of the Bratz animated series. Their foremost catchphrases are "yeah" and "like" as revealed in the episode "Manicuring Candidate" where the twins were repeating the two words during Chloe's nightmare. The twins are also experts at spying on the Bratz and trying to steal ideas for Your Thing Magazine. It is also shown that they hate their boss, Burdine Maxwell, as Kirstee is always speaking ill behind her back. The tweevils got fired in the episode "A Little Diss, A Little Dat" and gain their job back at the end of the episode. The Tweevils could get along with only Jade and Yasmin.



So now that you know the basics about who the Tweevils are, let's go back to the question as to why they are so loyal to Burdine Maxwell. But, I'm guessing you already know? Yup! The both of them could be Barbie's sister, Chelsea and Stacie. 



Seeing as how their names rhyme with Kirstee and Kaycee, and they both have blonde hairs and loves the color pink as well, it's no doubt, they could've been in the same boat with Barbie. Since Barbie is famous, they were both under her shadows for being Barbie's Sister where they gained their fame, but when Barbie's life started going on a downward spiral, the three of them ended up on the same boat.

Since Barbie (Obviously) looks like the bread & butter of the family. Stacey and Chelsea had no choice but to work in their sister's magazine, enduring all the ridiculousness. For what reason? It couldn't be for Money because, in the episode of Bratz series "Kidnapped" the Tweevils brag about their father being a Doctor and their mother being a vice president of Woman (Whatever that is). Also, in "Manicuring Candidate" episode, Kaycee says, "I'll tell my father to give a free nose job to everyone!" And for allowance they get $60 each every week. (Referrence link: Tweevils)

So, they could've been working for their sister's magazine for fame! They wanted to be famous again even when it means going through hell and doing all kinds of s**t and looking like total fools just to be famous. But they wanted to rise up in the celebrity world again by being someone else, by changing their identities, but unfortunately, their second try to fame didn't exactly go well.

Even so, the two of them still hated Burdine Maxwell or should I say, Barbie? Why? Like I said before, maybe it's because of her sudden changes that made everyone around her walk away, including her sisters. But since they had no choice, the two of them went back to their sister to be as Interns and not as a sister to Burdine/Barbie, although Burdine/Barbie accepted them warmly, seeing as how her sisters' hearts are still far from her, frustrates her, which makes her grumpy towards them.


Then came Jade who applied to be an Intern as well. Which I think you already know about who she is *grin*



That's right, she could've been Skipper, obviously with the same hair color but other than that, they are both edgy, and way into darker fashion. I don't mean goth like. They're also both into the most cutting edge lifestyle. Which is why she applied in her own sister's mag as well. She had the most brilliant idea for a successful magazine, but was turned down by Burdine/Barbie.

Skipper has always been the rebellious one, which would explain why she didn't regret running her own teen magazine competing against her own sister. So she has been affected by Barbie's downfall too, causing her to change her identity as well. But luck seemed to favor her as she surpassed her sister's accomplishments and success. The other bratz? They could've been Skipper's friends that were shown in a few episodes of Barbie Life in a Dream house. So in the end, she became her own sister's biggest problem, seeing as how Burdine/Barbie always find ways to out-scoop Bratz magazine and get them out of commission.

And what's more depressing for her downfall is that she lost her Ken on the process of becoming someone new. So there you have it, folks. Burdine Maxwell is the famous Barbie. I have nothing against this characters, infact I love Barbie and I find Burdine Maxwell funny sometimes. I'm just sharing my thoughts about them. After all, it's just a theory 😁

4 comments:

  1. love this blog it makes so much sense

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  2. apparently the person who created bratz worked for barbie, it makes sense because they didn't have a good experience. as for the twevils being burdines sisters, burdine has a twin who wasn't aware of the twevils in a episode

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  3. Loooove this breakdown but I think the tweevils represent workers at Mattel who are loyal to the company for the paycheck and the job security but don’t necessarily love or adore the company.
    I think reading too much into the other characters similarities is not quite on the nose. Like the Bratz (in general) represent Isaac Larian, their founder who didn’t part ways with Mattel on a Good note. He has mentioned in interviews that Yasmin was inspired by his daughter. He wanted to create a doll that represented minorities accurately which is why there are four Bratz, with different ethnicities, Jade being of Asian descent, Chloe-Caucasian, Yasmin-Middle Eastern and Sasha-African American as opposed to just one representation of the doll like Barbie is.
    So in essence, when Jade was an intern at Your Thing magazine and had a terrible experience, she got comforted by her friends and they told her they could start their own magazine. This is quite similar to Isaac Larians story, where when he felt frustrated with Mattel and left, he then asked his daughter to help out in designing his upcoming doll(which when released became an instant sensation). Their father-daughter teamwork is represented by the relationship the girls have, supporting and encouraging each other, despite the present condition.

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