Mila, a blue-clad girl of about ten, gives terse instructions and Arthur van Merwijk’s crimson, rabbit-eared Morphle obeys by morphing into fire engines, dinosaurs or whatever the crisis demands. Each episode runs between one and five minutes, long enough to practise colours, shapes or basic counting before the next autoplay kicks in.
The franchise began in December 2011 as a one-man YouTube nursery-rhyme channel shot in van Merwijk’s bedroom; a tail was lopped off Morphle’s model in 2014 and viewership snowballed once the creator started treating uploads as sequential TV episodes. After Moonbug Entertainment bought the channel in late 2018 the back-catalogue of 324 micro-shorts was repackaged for Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV+, where algorithm-driven toddlers now supply 3.7 billion views and climbing.
Production Details
.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol / 8 Seasons / 89 Episodes / 2019 - Present
Writer(s): Kate Henderson
Main Cast
Arthur van Merwijk as Morphle (voice)
Sabrina Glow as Mila
