et’s face it: Your early twenties can be pretty tough. Meeting new people, carving out your place in the world, and somehow finding the time to make rent in between is challenging stuff. It’s helpful to have a grumpy little space-faring best friend by your side, someone to guide you through your intergalactic oddjob adventures — or to just be a pal who can share a snack with you on the couch after a long, long day.

That’s the heart of Natasha Allegri’s creative, cute and cordial animated adventure, Bee and PuppyCat. Our titular heroine and her adorable feline-canine hybrid embark on all sorts of misadventures through the mysterious Fishbowl Space, meeting a cast of quirky, sincerely sketched characters along the way. Through this heartwarming and unabashed weirdness, the show at once defies explanation and feels entirely cozy and familiar, like a long-lost childhood friend.