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Donald Glover's 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' jokes about Fiona the hippo, gives credit to wrong zoo

Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer
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Cincinnati's favorite hippo bloat got a shoutout on Donald Glover's new series, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith."
Cincinnati's favorite hippo bloat got a shoutout on Donald Glover's new series, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith."

Cincinnati's favorite hippo bloat got a shoutout on actor/artist Donald Glover's newest series.

"Mr. & Mrs. Smith," based on the 2005 spy comedy-drama of the same name, premiered this month on Amazon Prime Video. Glover, the show's co-creator, plays John Smith, while Maya Erskine stars as Jane.

In episode seven, which released Feb. 2, John gets a news alert on his phone announcing Bibi's pregnancy.

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"Fiona the hippo is a big sister again! Big news from the Bronx zoo," the Apple News alert reads.

Obviously, the show got a few things wrong: Fiona and the rest of her bloat live at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" is based in New York, which may be why the writers opted for the "Bronx zoo." Also, Fritz is Fiona's only sibling (that we know of).

John acknowledges the alert while he and Jane, both looking exhausted, sit in the backseat of a taxi.

"Fiona's gonna be a big sister because Bibi had a surprise pregnancy," John says listlessly.

"What are you talking about?" Jane replies.

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John cuts through the funny, tense scene with the perfect line: "They're hippos."

"That came up as news?" Jane asks, confused. "Why is that your algorithm?"

"I like hippos, obviously," he replies.

This isn't the first time Bibi's second-born has received national attention.

Hosts of NBC's "Today" celebrated Fritz's arrival on air. At the time, anchor Al Roker joked about Bibi's ineffective hippo birth control.

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Donald Glover's 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' mentions Cincy's Fiona the hippo

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