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Olli & Waffle
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Waffle the goldendoodle sitting and smiling, cream and apricot curly coat, white blaze down the centre of his face, floppy apricot ears, wearing a yellow bandana with blue dots and a blue paw badge
Meet Waffle

Waffle

A goldendoodle with strong opinions about sandwiches.

Waffle is a cream-and-apricot goldendoodle with a white blaze down the centre of his face, floppy apricot ears, and a yellow bandana he is enormously proud of. Nobody is entirely sure how old he is. Nobody has ever needed to know.

He is not a clever dog. He is a good dog, which is a completely different and far more useful thing. He does not solve the problem in the story — he stays next to the person who is solving it, which turns out to be the whole point.

He cannot sit still. He has never sat still. Episode two is entirely about him attempting to sit still for one hour, and it is the closest thing we have to a thriller.

He believes, with total conviction and no supporting evidence, that every bag in the world contains food. He has an ongoing and unresolved dispute with the postman. He steals exactly one sock at a time, never a pair, which suggests a plan nobody has yet worked out.

Waffle in every mood

  • Waffle sitting and waving a paw
  • Waffle in a play bow
  • Waffle tilting his head
  • Waffle running forward
  • Waffle jumping straight up
  • Waffle leaping through the air
  • Waffle sitting up on his back legs
  • Waffle curled up asleep

Watch Waffle

  • 8:06
    2–4 yearsGetting ready

    A Very Slow Bedtime

    Teeth, pyjamas, one story, then another story. Nothing happens, on purpose, for eight minutes.

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  • 6:24
    6–8 yearsFootball

    The Goal That Nearly Was

    Olli practises the same shot forty times. Waffle saves thirty-nine of them, which is not what anybody wanted.

    Captions & transcript

  • 5:18
    2–4 yearsGentle mysteries

    Who Moved the Wellies?

    Two boots. Two different rooms. One dog with an entirely innocent expression and a great deal to answer for.

    Captions & transcript

  • 8:42
    4–6 yearsCamping out

    The Garden Camp-Out

    You do not have to go far to go camping. Six metres from the back door is quite far enough when it gets properly dark.

    Captions & transcript

Waffle things

Now meet Olli

Seven years old. Four hundred questions a day.

Meet Olli