Bubble

Bubble or Bubbles may refer to:

Physical bubbles

• Bubble (physics), a globule of one substance in another, usually gas in a liquid
  • Soap bubble, commonly referred to as a "bubble"

People

• Bubbles, a contestant on Real Chance of Love season 1 and Charm School 3
• Bubbles Anderson (1904-1943), American baseball player in the Negro leagues
• Barney Bubbles (born Colin Fulcher; 1942–1983), English graphic artist and album cover designer
• John W. Bubbles, stage name of John William Sublett (1902–1986), American vaudeville performer, dancer, singer and entertainer
• Bubbles Hargrave (1892-1969), American Major League Baseball catcher
• Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere (1933–1992), English socialite and actress
• William James (Royal Navy officer, born 1881) (1881–1974), British admiral, politician and author
• Billy Myers (Canadian football) (born 1923), Canadian football player
• Mary Nolan (1902-1948), American stage and film actress, singer and dancer
• John O'Dwyer (born 1991), Irish hurler
• Beverly Sills (1929–2007), opera singer

Animals

• Bubbles (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee who lived with Michael Jackson
• Bubbles, a hippopotomus who escaped from Lion Country Safari, in Irvine California

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Bubble, a character in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous
• Bubble, the main character in the video game Clu Clu Land
• Bubbles (The Wire), a character from the HBO series The Wire
• Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys), a character in the Canadian series Trailer Park Boys
• Bubbles, in the film Finding Nemo (2003)
• Bubbles, a character in the animated TV series Jabberjaw
• Bubbles, two iterations of a character in The Powerpuff Girls franchise:
  • Bubbles, in The Powerpuff Girls
  • Bubbles (Miyako Gotokuji), in Powerpuff Girls Z
• Bubbles (The Adventures of Little Carp), an anthropomorphic fish from The Adventures of Little Carp
• Bubbles, a Muppet in the films, The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth and The Muppets
• Bubbles the Clown, a doll used in the BBC's Test Card F
• Bubbles the Dolphin, one of the supporting characters in The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
• Mr. Bubbles, from Lilo & Stitch
• Bubbles DeVere, a character in the TV series Little Britain
• Bubbles Yablonsky, the protagonist in a series of mystery novels
• Bubbles, pet monkey of King Kai in the Dragon Ball franchise
• The Dirty Bubble, one of Mermaid Man's enemies in SpongeBob SquarePants
• Bubbles, a character in Oddbods
• Bubbles, a character in the webcomic Questionable Content

Films

• Bubble (film), a 2005 improvised thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh
• Bubbles (film), a 1930 short film featuring a pre-stardom Judy Garland
• The Bubble (1966 film), a science fiction film
• The Bubble (2006 film), an Israeli drama about a gay romance

Games

• Bubbles (video game), a 1982 arcade video game by Williams Electronics
• Bubble Bobble a 1986 arcade game by Taito released for NES
• Score Bubbles, gameplay items from the video gameLittleBigPlanet

Music

Groups and labels

• Bubbles (band), a Swedish girl group
• Bubbles, a record label owned by Erlend Øye and Marcin Oz of The Whitest Boy Alive

Songs

• "Bubbles" (Biffy Clyro song), from Only Revolutions, 2009
• "Bubble" (Fluke song), from Oto, 1994
• "Bubble", by Band-Maid from Conqueror, 2019
• "Bubbles", a version of the song "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" adapted as the anthem of the West Ham United football club
• "Bubbles", by Frankie Laine, written by Bob Merrill, 1955
• "Bubbles", by The Free Design from Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love, 1970
• "Bubbles", by Herbie Hancock from Man-Child, 1976
• "Bubbles", by James from Hey Ma, 2008
• "Bubbles", by Norman Connors from You Are My Starship, written by Shunzo Ono, 1976
• "Bubbles", by Pop Will Eat Itself, first released as B-side to "Beaver Patrol", 1987
• "Bubbles", by Spooky Tooth from It's All About, 1968
• "Bubbles", by System of a Down from Steal This Album!, 2002

Television

Series

• Bubble Guppies, a preschool children's television series
• The Bubble (game show), a British game show hosted by David Mitchell

Episodes

• "Bubbles", a 1997 episode of the series Teletubbies

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Bubbles (painting), an 1886 painting by Sir John Everett Millais, also used to market Pears soap
• Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology, a 2011 translation of the 1998 text by Peter Sloterdijk
• Speech balloon or bubble, a graphic convention used primarily in comics and cartoons

Brands and enterprises

• Bubble Comics, a Russian comic book publisher
• Champagne (wine), sparkling wine or Champagne, colloquially known as bubbles

Computing and technology

• Bubble (computing), a delay in pipeline
• Bubble (programming language), a visual programming language developed by Bubble Group
• Bubble memory, a type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of a magnetic material

Economics

• Economic bubble, a situation where market prices are unsustainable (many historical bubbles are itemized there)
• Filter bubble, a phenomenon in advertising and social media known as bubbling of like-minded viewers

Science

• Bubble chamber, a particle detector in physics
• Bubble Nebula (NGC 6822), an emission nebula in Barnard's Galaxy
• NGC 7635 (also known as the Bubble Nebula), an emission nebula in the Milky Way galaxy

Sports

• Bubble, a term used in poker tournaments
• Bubble, in selecting the field, for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship or NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
• Bubbles, the nickname for the helmet logo of the Detroit Lions
• An isolation zone such as the 2020 NBA Bubble

Other uses

• Bubble, an interpersonal space
• Bubble, a symbol used in logic gate diagrams
• Bubble, another name for pizzo, a pipe used to free base drugs
• Bubble, slang for mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant
• Bubble Act, an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain requiring all joint-stock companies to have a Royal Charter
• Bubble and squeak, a traditional English vegetable dish; usually based on mashed potatoes and "left over" vegetables
• Bubble wrap, a packaging material
• Hi-riser (automobile), also called a "donk rider" or "bubble car", a sedan customized by increasing the ground clearance and adding large-diameter wheels

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Bubble
• All pages with titles containing Bubble
• Antibubble, a droplet of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas
• Bubble Boy (disambiguation) (or 'boy in the bubble'), a person who must live in a sterile environment for medical reasons
• Bubblegum
• Bulla (disambiguation), Latin for "Bubble"
• Microbubbles, bubbles smaller than one millimetre in diameter, but larger than one micrometre
• Venn diagram