Miss Mush

**Miss Mush** is a major character of the upcoming JPW Pictures animated feature film, *Wayside School*. She is the lunch teacher at Wayside School, and serves food in the cafeteria on the fifteenth story. She hails from the distant Mamaland, and carries many eccentricities from the land's culture.

She was voiced by Indian voice actress Deepa Khatri.

## Personality

Miss Mush's character is for the most part very similar to her book counterpart, though she does have a much more major role. In "Miss Fortune," she is shown to be excited by what the students have to say, listening to them when they note what they want their future careers to be, and preparing bowls of Mushroom Surprise that help predict their futures. While a little disappointed that people don't like her food, she doesn't mind too much, as shown in "French Fried," when she opens the *www.missmush.mush* mail order business, she notes that it doesn't matter that people aren't buying her food to eat, because she's making "millions of money" either way. While apprehensive to stay when Maurecia struggles to eat her food, she decides to stay to help the kids when Maurecia and Myron note that they'd rather have a terrible chef that is friendly than a great chef that is mean like Le Chef. In "Wayside Christmas," she is excited to prepare broccoli gingerbread men for the students in Mrs. Jewls's class.

Miss Mush is from Mamaland, and often still partakes in the various traditions of her homeland. Even in competitions between Wayside School and Mamaland, in episodes like "Mascot Madness" and "Mad Hot," she typically roots for Mamaland, and in "Mamaland Blues," she expresses excitement when Dana wants to learn about her culture. It is implied that her cooking skills are simply part of Mamalandic culture, as she frequently is shown preparing near inedible meals, such as crayon casserole in "Mrs. Gorf," and pizza with cardboard in "Principles of Principals." Miss Mush seems to have little knowledge about cooking, though she's used to the way she does cook, as in "French Fried," she is surprised to see the kitchen cleaned up.

Miss Mush is revealed not to be entirely brilliant in "Honors Class," where it is revealed she teaches an honors class on the twenty-ninth story. Whenever Maurecia tries to stupid her way out of smart class, Miss Mush mistakens it for untold brilliance, and by the end of the episode, is so satisfied with her spelling of the word "potato," that she sends her to double honors class, which is revealed to just be Mrs. Jewls's classroom. However, Miss Mush still often has a better grip of reality than Mr. Kidswatter, as shown in "Joe n' Fro," where she questions if he knows what a gazebo is when he gets overly excited about adding one to the schoolyard. Miss Mush's sole companion is Sammy, who rarely does anything because he's dead. Miss Mush is shown to care for Sammy a lot, going on a quest to find the Golden Bowl of Mamaland in "The Rat Truth" when he falls sick.

## Physical Appearance

Miss Mush is an older woman with an elliptical head with green hair tied back in a bun, a chef hat, and a large, round nose. She has two eyes with visible eyelashes, and a mouth, with visible wrinkles and a visible chin. She wears a large eggplant-colored coat with a white collar and white cuffs around her hands, alongside a white apron with a pouch on the front. She wears brown shoes with pointed toes. Her cartoon appearance largely matches her description in the books, though her fingernails and toenails are not seen, due to the show's art style.

## Trivia

* Miss Mush's foreign accent may be inspired by Mrs. Waloosh from the books, who is absent from the show, though Mrs. Waloosh spoke with a German accent, as opposed to Miss Mush's Eastern European accent.