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#32 Herb
Season 2, Episode 10b
Herb was created by Antoine Gulibaud a man who has worked on lot of things even created a series called "Get Blake!". It has the voice acting of Clive Revill , a prolific New Zeland actor. Maile Flanagan is also a voice in this, you may know her as the voice of Naruto in 2000's dubs of "Naruto". Mona Marshall is here too, you might know her as the voice of Izzy in Digimon Adventure's dub. and Doraemon in the 2014 dub of that series. Leon Russom whom you might know from The Big Lebowski.
There's a boy named Melvin and his mom took 6 weeks to make a lunch. (Umm what?) He tries to present his lunch to his friends but there's nothing there. Then a boy, a boy with no name, mentions that the cafterea food made him grow this living thing from his back (disturbing) The girl, a girl with no name, tells him to go see Herb. (Hey it's the name!)
Herb is green figure and decides to help Melvin and gets him a nice new lunch. The principal seems to be a cranky man and makes sure that the school food doesn't have good taste since it costs money. The principal suggests that Herb should make lunch for the school the next day - or he's fired!
The three kids from earlier help him. It seems the principal really wants Herb, who was being the janitor, fired because reasons. It's fun to see how Herb makes the food. The principal really feels the Herb is going to fail and looking for replacements. It's lunchtime, and the principal is surprised to see that lunch has been accomplished and the cafeteria looks like a fine dining establishment. Things are going well and the principal is not on the list and gets kicked out for being a jerk.
It's a very simple story, but that doesn't make it bad. It does seem to feel to be a sample of idea for what could have be a series that might have had maybe 11 minute episodes or something to make a full story. Here it feels random the principal doesn't like Herb for some reason, but also has him working as a janitor there. It does give it a bare bones feel, but the story is enjoyable enough and it probably would have been a fun series if it had made it to be one.
It has a classic toon dynamic of a character, a good guy, and an antagonist who gets defeated just by default. It's also nice contrast with Herb being a guy on the side of the children. I wish there was more to say, but it's nice and simple check it out.
That's it for now, tune in next time when we get a nice seat and try a meal from Herb.
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