Review: Middlemost Post “I Named It Whiskers/How Angus Got His Groove Back”

Overview (Spoilers Below):

Lily asks for Parker’s help when one of her inventions goes haywire. Angus lost his beanie hat, along with his mojo.

Our Take:

While The Patrick Star Show limits itself to one new episode per week, Middlemost Post is still delivering the goods with double the packages and double the fun. Well, there’s more fun to be had in Mount Middlemost than packages this week, but it still counts as something. The first episode, “I Named It Whiskers”, didn’t involve any packages for the characters to deliver. However, it did revolve around a crazy vacuum that’s shaped like a monstrous rat. 

The episode focuses on one of Parker’s friends, Lily (voiced by Kiren), a caterpillar with a robot suit who runs a convenience store and is excellent with inventing, most of the time. She and Parker team up to clean up the mess caused by her rat-shaped smart vacuum, which she named Whiskers. The episode came equipped with everything you’d expect from the show: charismatic humor, lively visuals, and a robotic showdown between Lily’s super suit and Whiskers. The result is a fun little distraction from Parker’s formulaic mail duty and a solid first impression for his deadpan caterpillar buddy, thanks to Kiren’s vocal performance.

The second episode, “How Angus Got His Groove Back”, shifts back to the post, but only briefly. The plot involves Angus losing his beanie hat, which was given to him by his father. Because of this, he begins to lose his ability to deliver the mail properly and starts acting like a toddler. So Parker and Russell set out to find the supplies that Angus’s father used to create the beanie hat to make a new one.  

This has got to be the weirdest episode I’ve ever experienced so far, which is an odd thing for me to say regarding the concept of Middlemost Post. It wasn’t because of baby Angus running amok in the Middlemost Toast, and it wasn’t because of the beanie hat being made out of beard hair, toenails, and a pair of sweat and tears. Both of which worked well in providing some chuckles. No, it was because of Angus’s face being melted off when he puts on Parker’s beanie hat. The amount of shock value in Angus’s skeleton design combined with its nifty stop-motion animation would surely make some young viewers wet their pants. I wasn’t sure if I should be shocked or amazed at how random that short sequence was. Maybe both? Thankfully, everything that happened in the episode was all a part of Angus’s imagination.

Overall, both episodes of Middlemost Post continue to provide some consistency in their humor, bizarre charm, and entertaining storylines. The first episode proved to be a decent attempt at putting Lily into the spotlight with Parker. The second episode was a silly “what if” scenario that featured baby Angus and one of the most shocking sequences I have ever seen in children’s animation, in my opinion. Hopefully, the series won’t show anything like that again for the rest of the season.