“Seeing someone like yourself on TV, especially on a cartoon that you love or that you watch, gives you some sense of connection to your identity and your self-worth,” Sonal Singh, a mom to a toddler, says.
For Penn, who plays Mikku, one of the mongooses, being part of the show is a thrill. He’s excited for people like his young nephew to have a show like this and other diverse offerings on television.
If anything, he said, “my excitement coming into it I have to temper because I don’t want him to think there’s something abnormal.” “I haven’t been able to celebrate a show like this my whole life, I think it’s pretty cool,” said Paiva, of Renton, Washington, who works in a medical lab but also does some standup comedy.
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