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Bubble Guppies
File:BubbleGuppiesTitlecard.png
Title card
GenrePreschool
Created byJohnny Belt and Robert Scull
Opening theme"Bubble Guppies!"
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes39 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time22–23 minutes; Movies: 45 minutes
Production companiesWild Brain (Season 1)
Nelvana (Season 2)
Special Agent Productions
Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Original release
NetworkNickelodeon
Nick Jr.
ReleaseJanuary 24, 2011 (2011-01-24) –
present
Related
SpongeBob SquarePants

Bubble Guppies is an American preschool children's television series produced for Nickelodeon and created by Jonny Belt and Robert Scull.[1] The series is produced by using Autodesk Maya 3D software and revolves around the underwater adventures of a group of merperson preschoolers.[2] The program premiered on Monday, January 24, 2011 as part Nickelodeon's block, The Play Date and also on iTunes.

Format

The Guppies live in the fictional underwater city of Bubbletucky.[3] All the episodes generally follow the same format:

The episode starts with an introduction by Molly, saying "Hi, it's me, Molly, and it's time for-" only to be stopped by Gil performing an act related to the episode's subject. One of the two then states "It's time for Bubble Guppies!", and the theme song plays. After the theme song, the Little Fish says the episode's name.

Something occurs when a character or two goes to school (example: Avi breaks his tail in Call a Clambulance! when Oona was going to school) the character or characters plays a major role in that plot. After that, the school day begins and the Bubble Guppies say "Good morning, Mr. Grouper!". Later, the remaining Guppie tells Mr. Grouper about what happened earlier. He states "Let's think about it," and the characters discuss the topic. A pop song performance follows, focusing on the episode's main topic.

One of the Guppies will go to a shop that mostly focuses on the topic (example: a doctor's office in Call a Clambulance!). The owner of the shop (played by another one of the Guppies) will asks questions about what he or she needs. Later, Mr. Grouper comes into the shop and says it's time for lunch, and the "Lunchtime" song plays.

At lunch, three of the characters make a food joke about the subject of the episode (example: Molly gets pizza and a banana, Oona gets a sandwich and a cookie, and Deema gets a sandwich and an ice cream "sun"-dae in The Moon Rocks!). After lunch, another Gil and Molly sketch is shown. (Note: In almost every episode after the lunch segment, the little fish say the transition quote "That's silly!" or "That's ridiculous!" after repeating the lunch joke.)

The Guppies do something fun which can determine another important character and leads Mr. Grouper talking more about the topic, which leads into a dancing song; though the order of the songs varies from episode to episode. Mr. Grouper then says it's time to go outside, the "Outside" song plays, and the Guppies act out a story about the topic, interfered with Adobe Flash-animated graphics. After this, Gil and Molly do another sketch.

The Guppies go on a field trip that focuses on the topic where it sometimes focuses on a problem shown in the beginning and involves the important characters and might determine another one, and the show concludes with the last Gil and Molly sketch and a reprise of the theme song, before cutting to the credits which includes a pop song featured in each episode.

Production

Bubble Guppies was originally supposed to premiere in 2006.. However, it was never finished due to work on other projects such as Team Umizoomi

Finally, in summer 2007, the episode "Happy Clam Day" was finished, but it had a lot of differences from the version that was aired; one of them being Mr. Grouper was taller and was still voiced by Jamie Watson. In the fall, Nickelodeon said they would air the show for their 2007-2008 season. But by mid-2008, only 10 other episodes were finished. In November 2008, Viacom fired 750 staff — the whole studio.

Nickelodeon decided to give up hope of finishing the show. But when Wild Brain heard about it, they decided to change the whole show.

Work on the show began in Spring 2010 at Wild Brain's new Los Angeles facility, and by December, 20 episodes were finished. Nickelodeon decided to pick it up again, and it was a success.

List of characters

  • Gil (Zachary Gordon),[4] is a boy with a silly personality. He is the silly co-host and the secondary leader of the group. He has blue hair, blue eyes, white skin, and a green camouflage tail.
  • Goby (spoken by Jelani Imani, sung by Christopher Borger),[4] is a boy with an imaginative personality. He is one of the followers of the group. He has indigo hair, brown eyes, brown skin, and a purple/blue wavy tail.
  • Deema (spoken by Angelina Wahler, sung by Selena Gonzalez),[4] is a girl with a zany personality. She is one of the followers of the group, and has yellow curly hair, blue eyes, a yellow spotted bikini top, orange ear rings, and an orange/yellow spotted tail.
  • Molly (Brianna Gentilella),[4] is a girl with a caring personality. She is a co-host of the show with Gil and is a natural leader of the group.[5] She has pink curly hair, brown eyes, light brown skin, a swirly bikini top, and a blue swirly tail.
  • Oona (Reyna Shaskan),[4] is a girl with a sweet personality. She is one of the followers of the group. She has purple hair, pigtails, yellowish skin, brown eyes, and a purple/pink swirly dress-like tail.
  • Nonny (Eamon Pirruccello),[4] is a boy with an intelligent personality. He is one of the followers of the group. He has orange hair, green eyes, a blue scuba mask (his glasses), and a green striped tail. For an unknown reason, he doesn't smile as often as the others. He is relatively the most polite and mature member of the group.
  • Bubble Puppy (Frank Welker)[4] is a puppy who is Gil's pet, he has orange and white fur. He has a green collar and a yellow fish license.
  • Mr. Grouper (Tino Insana)[4] is the Guppies' teacher who is orange and yellow, and can change colors. Mr. Grouper respects the kids imaginations, ideas, and suggestions. He always helps the kids understand the subject of each episode by "thinking about it."
  • Little Fish (Skai Jackson)[4] are a trio of fish that look alike and frequently answer questions that are put to the home audience by the main characters.
  • Crabs, Lobsters & Snails (Chris Phillips) are extra characters often seen doing activities in the background or making cameos.
  • The Witch (Wanda Sykes) is an antagonist who only appears in the episode Bubble Puppy's Fin Tastic Fairytale Adventure.

Episodes

Season Episodes Season premiere Season finale
1 20 January 24, 2011 (2011-01-24) November 24, 2011 (2011-11-24)
2 20 November 4, 2011 (2011-11-04) TBA

Season 1 (2011)

Series # Season # Episode title Original air date Production code
11"Call A Clambulance"January 24, 2011 (2011-01-24)101
22"The Crayon Prix!"January 25, 2011 (2011-01-25)102
33"Bubble Puppy!"January 26, 2011 (2011-01-26)103
44"Build Me a Building!"January 27, 2011 (2011-01-27)104
55"Ducks in a Row!"January 31, 2011 (2011-01-31)105
66"The Grumpfish Special!"February 1, 2011 (2011-02-01)106
77"The Moon Rocks!"February 2, 2011 (2011-02-02)107
88"Who's Gonna Play the Big Bad Wolf?"February 3, 2011 (2011-02-03)108
99"We Totally Rock!"February 28, 2011 (2011-02-28)109
1010"Fishketball!"March 1, 2011 (2011-03-01)110
1111"The Legend of Pinkfoot"March 2, 2011 (2011-03-02)111
1212"Gup, Gup and Away!"March 3, 2011 (2011-03-03)112
1313"The Spring Chicken is Coming!"April 15, 2011 (2011-04-15)113
1414"Boy Meets Squirrel"April 22, 2011 (2011-04-22)114
1515"Have A Cow!"May 6, 2011 (2011-05-06)115
1616"Super Shrimptennial Celebration!"September 19, 2011 (2011-09-19)116
1717"Happy Clam Day!"September 20, 2011 (2011-09-20)117
1818"Can You Dig It?"September 21, 2011 (2011-09-21)118
1919"Bubble Bites!"September 22, 2011 (2011-09-22)119
2020"Haunted House Party"November 24, 2011 (2011-11-24)120

Season 2 (2011-Present)

Series # Season # Episode title Original air date Production code U.S Viewers
(in millions)
211"X Marks the Spot"November 4, 2011 (2011-11-04)201N/A
222""Happy Holidays, Mr. Grumpfish!""December 9, 2011 (2011-12-09)2021.4[6]
233"The Lonely Rhino"February 10, 2012 (2012-02-10)2031.7[7]
244"Bubble Puppy's Fintastic Fairy Tale"February 19, 2012 (2012-02-19)204N/A
255"The Cowgirl Parade"March 9, 2012 (2012-03-09)205N/A
266"Firefighter Gil to the Rescue!"March 23, 2012 (2012-03-23)2061.8[8]
277"A Tooth on the Looth"May 4, 2012 (2012-05-04)2071.6[9]
288"Humunga-Truck!"May 15, 2012208N/A
299"Check It Out!"September 7, 2012 (2012-09-07)209N/A
3010"The Beach Ball!"September 17, 2012 (2012-09-17)2101.4[10]
3111"Sizzling Scampinis"September 18, 2012 (2012-09-18)211N/A
3212"Construction Psyched"September 19, 2012 (2012-09-19)212N/A
3313"Bubble-Cadabra"September 20, 2012 (2012-09-20)2131.4[11]
3414"Bubble Duckies"January 22, 2013 (2013-01-22)214N/A
3515"Triple Track Train Race"January 24, 2013 (2013-01-24)2151.6[12]
3616"Only the Sphinx Nose"March 11, 2013 (2013-03-11)216N/A
3717"Sir Nonny The Nice"March 13, 2013 (2013-03-13)2171.6[13]
3818"Bring on the Bugs!"April 29, 2013 (2013-04-29)218N/A
3919"Good Hair Day"September 27, 2013 (2013-09-27)2191.9[14]

References

  1. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (January 23, 2011). "Splish Splash: Fantastical Fish Tales". New York Times.
  2. ^ Bryson, Carey. "Bubble Guppies – TV Show Review for Parents". About.com:Kids, Movies & TV. About.com. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
  3. ^ "Bubble Guppies". TV.com. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i "About the Cast". Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  5. ^ http://nickpress-bubbleguppies.com/characters.html
  6. ^ Big First Year for Disney Junior Block on Disney Channel
  7. ^ Friday Cable Ratings: 'Gold Rush' Still Tops + 'Bering Sea Gold,' 'Spartacus: Vengeance,' 'Smackdown!,' 'Merlin' & More
  8. ^ Disney Junior's 'Doc McStuffins' Opens as the #1 Preschool Series Launch in Cable TV History in A18-49
  9. ^ Monday Cable Ratings: NBA Playoffs + 'WWE Raw', 'Bad Girls Club', 'Basketball Wives', 'American Chopper' & More
  10. ^ Monday Cable Ratings: 'Monday Night Football' Wins Night, 'WWE Raw', 'Switched at Birth', 'Major Crimes', 'Bad Girls Club', 'Perception' & More
  11. ^ Thursday Cable Ratings: Football, 'Awkward', 'Project Runway', 'Impractical Jokers', 'The Daily Show', 'Braxton Family Values' & More
  12. ^ Thursday Cable Ratings: 'Buckwild' Wins Again, + 'Archer', 'Suits', 'The Daily Show', 'King of the Nerds' & More
  13. ^ Wednesday Cable Ratings: 'Duck Dynasty' Dominates + 'Psych', 'Workaholics', NBA Basketball, 'The Americans' & More
  14. ^ Wednesday Cable Ratings: NBA Playoffs Win Night, 'Psych', 'Mythbusters', 'The Real World', 'The Americans' & More

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