flapjack

Perhaps a lifetime of listening to flapjack jokes had worn away his good nature.

During the Bill Clinton presidency, Mr. McGrath entertained New Republic readers with “The Flapjack File,” a White House parody as told by a Secret Service agent describing a fast-food-gobbling president and a conniving first lady, “Mrs. Rodham Flap.”

The game is light fun, yes, but I just cannot commit to a sport that takes seriously terms like “dingles” and “flapjack” and where falafel does not refer to a food I love.

Gently twisted, with some Disneyfied action and heartwarming folded in, the series was created by Alex Hirsch, yet another young product of Cal Arts, the Harvard Business School of animation, and a veteran of Disney Channel’s “Fish Hooks” and Cartoon Network’s “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.”

Huge aeoniums — sort of the succulent version of a sunflower — and flapjack kalanchoe share space with seaside daisies and the long-stemmed purple flowers of lavender and Mexican sage.