Description

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, 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, In his two appearances, Le Chef is shown to be a rival of Miss Mush, contrasting his brilliant cooking and uptight personality with Miss Mush's disgusting cooking, yet amiable personality. In "French Fried," she quits her job after discovering the students like his cooking better, and when invited back, is horrified by how nice the kitchen looks when he cleans it up. At the end of the episode, she and Le Chef battle in a cooking contest, and while she technically has the worse food, she wins because of her nicer personality. In "Le Race," Le Chef encounters Miss Mush again, and Miss Mush quickly pulls ahead of him in the parkour match, though he ends up sabotaging her with chocolate mousse splattered against the wall. Miss Mush thinks little of Le Chef, bragging that it's easy to climb a building without a donkey on her back, and scoffing when he brags about his chances of winning. The feeling is mutual, as Le Chef believes Miss Mush's three-time thumb wrestling victories can not beat out his four-time parkour victories, and he also criticizes her non-French accent, Miss Mush and Mr. Kidswatter do not interact often, though their few interactions are hardly ever shown to be positive. In "Dr. Dana," when Myron suggests that Mr. Kidswatter try marrying Miss Mush, he immediately realizes he has nothing in common with her, and Miss Mush readily accepts the rejection, saying she doesn't want to marry Kidswatter either. In "Joe n' Fro," Miss Mush criticizes Mr. Kidswatter for attacking a gopher that isn't hurting him, and snarks at him when he doesn't seem to realize what a gazebo is. However, in "French Fried," she at least is willing to hand him her online business when she sees no more use for it, Whether it's sock soup or underwear roast, Miss Mush always means well and is a vital part of Wayside School.