The Great Recitating Platypus of the North

The Great Recitating Platypus of the North is a giant magical platypus. It supposedly appears to sick children and reads them poems to help them get better, as well as granting their wishes if it is still there when they wake up.

Before episode 8, the platypus was thought to be a myth, told by parents to their children to make them behave while sick. In episode 8, it appears to Julian while he is in the hospital, healing his injuries. At the end of the episode, John Cameron asks the platypus to appear on the Orbiting Human Circus in order to save the show, and it complies, but Julian leaves the daydream before the platypus is able to actually speak.

After he wakes up from the daydream, Julian "sees" the platypus standing behind Mr. Chouinard, and wishes on it. His wish is that his imaginary audience will become real, which supposedly happens, as the podcast listeners "are" that audience. However, the platypus does not actually seem to exist outside the daydream, and was instead lingering in Julian's mind, as dreams sometimes do shortly after waking.