Splash and Bubbles


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. It is produced using motion capture that blends with animatronic interfaces which enables the crew to make animation.

Premise

Splash and Bubbles follows a yellowback 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, which features kids asking questions that are occasionally followed up by a musical number.

Characters

Main

  • Splash, the protagonist of the series, is an adventurous yellowback fusilier who settles in Reeftown after exploring the world for a new home.
  • Bubbles, Splash's best friend who is a tomboyish mandarin dragonet and likes being messy.
  • Dunk 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 is a pink Barbour's seahorse who lives with 499 brothers. She loves adventure and trying new things.

    Recurring

  • Lu is a high-spirited footballfish who resides in the ocean abyss.
  • Bob is Lu's husband, a male footballfish.
  • Biggie is one of Lu's friends, a spookfish.
  • Zee is an adventurous zebra bullhead shark.
  • Mayor Sting, an overconfident bluespotted ribbontail ray who is the mayor of Reeftown.
  • Wave is Reeftown's day octopus traffic guard.
  • Tidy is an ablutomanic garabaldi, who serves as a kelp forest ranger.
  • Gush is an intelligent painted frogfish who is shown to have experience in dancing, helpful tips, and racing.
  • Flo is a hawksbill sea turtle who acts as Reeftown's medical professional. She sings in the style of Karen Carpenter.
  • Chompy is a pastel-colored parrotfish who experiences eating what she sees.
  • Polly and Bell are peach-colored twin white-spotted jellyfish.
  • Polly and Bell's siblings are the twin sisters of Polly and Bell.
  • Charlie is a brownish goldish Barbour's seahorse which lives with Ripple and her 499 brothers.
  • Ripple's 499 brothers are all of the green Barbour's seahorses.
  • Maury 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 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 is a goby fish who helps and protects Snap.
  • Denny is a cleaner shrimp who acts as Reeftown's "dentist", and has an extensive knowledge of teeth.

    Episodes

Film

Songs

Home media

Awards and nominations