Review: Middlemost Post “First Delivery/Chore or Less”

Overview (Spoilers Below):

The series premiere has Parker, Angus, and Russell going through warfare while delivering a letter to a house that never gets mail. Then, Parker and Russell are hired to do some chores for Angus.

Our Take:

Today was a good day to be a Nickelodeon fan. We got ourselves another SpongeBob SquarePants spin-off featuring his gullible starfish friend to please young fans of the popular series. More importantly, we also have the channel’s first original animated series in quite a while, and it centers on…delivering mail. Who doesn’t love a children’s show about working as a mail person?

The show, which SpongeBob SquarePants storyboard artist John Trabbic III created, centers on Parker J. Cloud (Becky Robinson), a former rain cloud, his friend/employer Angus (John DiMaggio), and their pet walrus Russell. They get themselves into some strange predicaments while working as mail people in Mount Middlemost. The show’s intro song did its part in showcasing Angus winding up stranded on top of Mount Middlemost and transforming his ship into a post office. After that, the show managed to stay true to its word by providing a good amount of chuckles and randomness in its first two scenarios.

Its first episode, “First Delivery”, showed the characters’ delivery process throughout the different colored sections of Mount Middlemost. Then, they’re tasked to deliver a letter to Mr. Levi Alone, who hasn’t received any mail in years. What follows next will make them realize why that is the case. There’s plenty to like in this episode, ranging from its colorful animation to its jokes, most notably the booby trap line resulting from Angus’s big butt from the cactus poison.

The series immediately picked itself up afterward with its second episode, “Chore or Less”, which saw Parker and the gang doing chores. After seeing how tedious they can be due to Angus’s teachings, they decided not to do them altogether. However, the number of duties left behind could spell the end of Middlemost Post. In addition to its charming humor, the episode offered an enjoyable plot that features a well-earned message about the importance of doing chores. It’s a teachable moment that affects how we live in a household, or in this case, a ship.

Overall, the premiere of Middlemost Post offers enough charisma and comedy to make mail delivery more fun than we realized. “First Delivery” marked an excellent first impression of its concept, while “Chore or Less” improved the show a bit with the episode’s message and plot. It has enough room in its season to either adjust or maintain the formula it introduced to compete against the other recent shows on Nickelodeon like The Loud House.