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American children's television series
Splash and Bubbles
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Also known as
| Jim Henson's Splash and Bubbles
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Genre
| Adventure
Educational
Musical
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Created by
| John Tartaglia
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Directed by
| Bret Nilson
David Skelly
Hugh Martin
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Voices of
| John Tartaglia
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph
Raymond Carr
Aymee Garcia
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Theme music composer
| Mike Himelstein
Dena Diamond
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Opening theme
| "Splash and Bubbles Theme Song"
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Composers
| Andrew Skrabutenas
Mike Barnett
Mike Himelstein
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Country of origin
| United States
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Original language
| English
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No.
of episodes
| 40 (including 1 TV movie)
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Executive producers
| Lisa Henson
Halle Stanford
John Tartaglia
Michael Shawn Lewis
Jill Shinderman
Julie Phillips
Merrill Puckett Miller
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Producer
| Tom Keniston
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Editors
| Jouvens Exantus
Phil Price
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Running time
| 12 minutes
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Production companies
| The Jim Henson Company
Herschend Studios
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Network
| PBS
,
PBS Kids
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Release
| November 23, 2016
(
2016-11-23
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August 6, 2018
(
2018-08-06
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Splash and Bubbles
(also known as
Jim Henson's Splash and Bubbles
) is an American animated
children's television series
created by
John Tartaglia
. The series debuted on
PBS Kids
on November 23, 2016, after
Wild Kratts: Creatures of the Deep Sea
.
[1]
It is produced using
motion capture
that blends with
animatronic
interfaces which enables the crew to make animation.
[2]
Premise
Splash and Bubbles
follows a
yellowback fusilier
(though at times he and the narrator claim that he is a yellowtail fusilier), Splash, who settles in Reeftown after looking all over the ocean. He then befriends Bubbles, a
mandarin dragonet
, and the duo, along with friends Dunk and Ripple, explore the reef to venture and make new friends. Each episode also includes a documentary segment,
Get Your Feet Wet
,
[3]
which features kids asking questions that are occasionally followed up by a musical number.
Characters
Main
- Splash (voiced by
John Tartaglia
), the protagonist of the series, is an adventurous
yellowback fusilier
who settles in Reeftown after exploring the world for a new home.
- Bubbles (voiced by
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph
), Splash's best friend who is a tomboyish
mandarin dragonet
and likes being messy.
- Dunk (voiced by Raymond Carr) is an intellectual, but extremely nervous
dog-faced pufferfish
who serves as the comic relief of the group. He is also an artist, and can make art out of sand.
- Ripple (voiced by Aymee Garcia) is a pink
Barbour's seahorse
who lives with 499 brothers. She loves adventure and trying new things.
Recurring
- Lu (voiced by Donna Kimball) is a high-spirited
footballfish
who resides in the ocean abyss, along with her husband Bob, who is embedded into her body. Her name is short for
bioluminescent
.
- Bob (voiced by
Allan Trautman
) is Lu's husband, a male
footballfish
that lives on the left side of her body.
- Biggie (voiced by
Sarah Oh
) is one of Lu's friends, a
spookfish
who has big eyes.
- The
firefly squid
are one of Lu's friends.
- Pearline is a clam with a pearl inside. She desires her experience in going to Reeftown with help from the Reeftown Rangers.
- The
clusterwink
(voiced by Sarah Oh) is a species of small sea snail that Lu gave Dunk.
- Zee (voiced by Donna Kimball) is an adventurous
zebra bullhead shark
who lives for danger.
- Mayor Sting (voiced by Raymond Carr), an overconfident
bluespotted ribbontail ray
, who is the mayor of Reeftown.
- Wave (voiced by Dan Garza) is Reeftown's
day octopus
traffic guard. He has an extensive knowledge of the ocean, and often assists the gang in their adventures.
- Tidy (voiced by
John Tartaglia
) is an ablutomanic
garabaldi
, who serves as a
kelp forest
ranger.
- Gush (voiced by
Allan Trautman
) is an intelligent
painted frogfish
who is shown to have experience in dancing, helpful tips, and racing.
- Flo (voiced by
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph
) is a
hawksbill sea turtle
who acts as Reeftown's medical professional. She sings in the style of
Karen Carpenter
.
- Iris is a shy
bluelashed butterflyfish
who tries to find fit into her new lifestyle at Reeftown.
- Chompy (voiced by Aymee Garcia) is a pastel-colored
parrotfish
who experiences eating what she sees.
- Polly and Bell (voiced by Alice Dinnean and Donna Kimball) are peach-colored
twin
white-spotted jellyfish
. They live with their jellyfish siblings. These sisters like different things such as games, but according to their words, they come from the same polyp.
- Polly and Bell's siblings (voiced by Dorien Davies and Alice Dinnean) are the twin sisters of Polly and Bell. They both live in the Sunken Ship as their home with Polly and Bell. They are also called: peach-colored
twin
white-spotted jellyfish
. Their voices are squeaky unlike Polly and Bell.
- Charlie (Nickname: Papa) (voiced by Dan Garza) is a brownish goldish Barbour's seahorse which lives with Ripple and her 499 brothers. He has a yellow body and he refers to her as
mija
, which literally translated as "my daughter" in Spanish. He likes
mysid shrimp
as his favorite food.
- Ripple's 499 brothers (voiced by Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Sarah Oh, Raymond Carr, and Donna Kimball) are all of the green Barbour's seahorses. Number 66 (voiced by Sarah Oh) wants to go on adventures like his sister. Number 278 always wanders off like number 66. She also mentions that number 342 is a storyteller, number 96 makes the silliest faces, number 77 sleeps next to her every night and number 231 always stealing her things.
- Melody is a female
fin whale
whose brother is in the Southern Ocean which is opposite to the Arctic. She helps Splash and his friends get home twice.
- Mrs. Leafy and Mr. Leafy are a friendly
leafy seadragon
couple that reside in a
kelp forest
off the coast of
Australia
.
- Maury (voiced by John Tartaglia) is a quidnunc
snowflake moray
who lives in the caves and tunnels of Reeftown and is always eager to gather news of what goes on around the reef.
- Snap (voiced by Dan Garza) is a
pistol shrimp
who can't see very well, doesn't like moving and sometimes attacks with his big claw when he thinks they say "Now!"
- Scout (voiced by Donna Kimball) is a
goby fish
who helps and protects Snap.
- Denny (voiced by
Sarah Oh
) is a
cleaner shrimp
who acts as Reeftown's "dentist", and has an extensive knowledge of teeth.
- Myshell is a decorative
decorator crab
who likes to have her shell decorated. Her name is a pun on the phrase "my shell".
- Dorsal is a
spinner dolphin
, he likes playing games, and making friends.
- Finny is a green mandarin dragonet with freckled cheeks who has similar interests with Bubbles, like being messy.
- Mo is a
sunfish
who is Dunk's cousin.
- Tyke is a
harbor seal
who loves to snuggle with friends by nuzzling. She even gets carried away by playing.
- Scoot is a young
sea turtle
.
One-time characters
- Plum, Ruby, Rose and Violet are red
giant tube worms
who finish each other's sentences.
- Mortimer is a little
nautilus
who seems shy at first, but then is excited to talk.
- Puffy is a purple pufferfish who has indigo eyelids.
- Oblo is a
blobfish
.
- Dusty is a green and gray parrotfish.
- Neat is a yellow garibaldi who is Tidy's wife.
- Wart is a frogfish. His body is orange colored compared to his dad's purple body.
- Boo Hagley is a
hagfish
with a British accent.
- Archie is a
sea urchin
whose color seems unknown.
- Whitebeard is an ancient humpback whale with
barnacles
on his chin. He is the
Santa Claus
of the Arctic Ocean, but way deep under the North Pole.
The jellyfish
- There are four Christmas-colored white-spotted jellyfish who appear to be Reeftown tourists. Two are red and the other two are green. Their voices are squeaky unlike Polly and Bell.
The sharks
Episodes
Film
Songs
Home media
Region
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Title
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Release date
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Running time
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Aspect ratio
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Notes
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1
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‘’One Big Ocean’’
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June 12, 2018
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1.2 minutes
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1:78:1
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‘’The Kelp Forest’’
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May 21, 2019
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Awards and nominations
Year
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Award
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Category
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Recipients and nominees
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Result
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Refs
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2017
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44th Annie Awards
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Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
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Leslie Carrara-Rudolph
for "I Only Have Eyespots for You"/"Double Bubbles"
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Nominated
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[7]
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Notes
- ^
This episode first aired a day early on a program called "Splash and Bubbles Premiere," which also aired the first episode.
References
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Mercedes Milligan (May 21, 2016).
"PBS KIDS Dates Premiere for Henson's 'Splash and Bubbles'
"
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Animation Magazine
. Retrieved
November 23,
2016
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"Splash and Bubbles"
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Ninja Puppet Productions
. Retrieved
November 25,
2016
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"New wave of TV cartoons urge children to save seas"
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Phys.org
. October 17, 2016
. Retrieved
November 24,
2016
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"Splash and Bubbles"
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Twin Cities PBS
. 19 September 2016
. Retrieved
November 24,
2016
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"Splash and Bubbles"
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WTTW Chicago Public Media
. Retrieved
November 25,
2016
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Thom Benson (December 21, 2015).
"Special Screening Of S16plash And Bubbles At IMAX Set For Dec. 30"
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Chattanoogan
. Retrieved
December 27,
2016
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Terry Flores (November 28, 2016).
"
'Zootopia' Tops Annie Awards Nominations, 'Kubo and the Two Strings' in Close Second"
.
Variety
. Retrieved
December 27,
2016
.
External links
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Henson family
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films
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projects
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(2023,
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film)
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(2024,
Disney+
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