Mochi waffle series#
A year later, the Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground, announced a slate of shows in the works, among them a half-hour kids’ series titled “Listen to Your Vegetables & Eat Your Parents.” At some point between then and now, that spoonerism was downgraded from title to rallying cry-in each episode, as Waffles and Mochi take off in a magic flying shopping cart to explore a special ingredient, Intercommy the intercom calls it out as a valedictory fanfare-but its spirit of childlike anarchy remains.
Mochi waffle full#
O.-under her full name, Michelle Obama-signed a development deal with Netflix along with her husband, the former President. O., an avid gardener who’s ready to help the duo embark on globe-spanning adventures to learn about tomatoes, mushrooms, potatoes, eggs, and other everyday culinary miracles.
Waffles, though, is not Strindbergian in the least (and thank goodness, considering she’s the protagonist of a show aimed primarily at preschoolers)-she’s sunny, curious, and open-hearted, an émigré from the Land of Frozen Food who, after stowing away in a delivery truck, ends up at a grocery store owned by the friendly Mrs. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant, Beaker, and of “Strindberg and Helium,” an early-two-thousands animated series that paired the morose Swedish playwright with a tiny pink balloon of incorrigible cheerfulness, to whom Mochi-also tiny, also pink, also conversing in whistle register-bears an uncanny resemblance. Two food-obsessed best friends (who also both happen to be food, although on her mother’s side Waffles is a yeti), they are a talker and meeper in the grand tradition of the Muppets Dr. Waffles and Mochi, the felt-and-fur puppets of the new Netflix children’s series of the same name, are such a pair. (She was commenting on an odd case-a Massachusetts high-school principal, distressed by his students’ faddish obsession with the nonsense sound, had recently banned all use of “meep,” on pain of suspension-but that’s a story for another day.) Even more delightful, I’d argue, is the pairing of an expressive meeper with a partner who speaks normally, and who, moreover, understands her friend’s musical meeps as fluent speech. “The very sound of meep is cheering,” the lexicographer Erin McKean wrote, in 2009, in a column in the Boston Globe.
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