Splash and Bubbles

Splash and Bubbles
Also known as	Jim Henson's Splash and Bubbles
Genre	Adventure Educational Musical
Created by	John Tartaglia
Directed by	Bret Nilson David Skelly Hugh Martin
Voices of	John Tartaglia Leslie Carrara-Rudolph Raymond Carr Aymee Garcia
Theme music composer	Mike Himelstein Dena Diamond
Opening theme	"Splash and Bubbles Theme Song"
Composers	Andrew Skrabutenas Mike Barnett Mike Himelstein
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	38 (including 1 TV movie)
Production
Executive producers	Lisa Henson Halle Stanford John Tartaglia Michael Shawn Lewis Jill Shinderman Julie Phillips Merrill Puckett Miller
Producer	Tom Keniston
Editors	Jouvens Exantus Phil Price
Running time	12 minutes
Production companies	The Jim Henson Company Herschend Studios
Distributor	Herschend Studios
Release
Original network	PBS, PBS Kids
Picture format	1080i (16:9 HDTV)
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	November 23, 2016 (2016-11-23) – August 6, 2018 (2018-08-06)
External links
Official website
Production website

Splash and Bubbles is an American computer-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

• Hamilton is a friendly scalloped hammerhead shark.
• A friendly unnamed great white shark.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1a	"Lu the Explorer"	Bret Nelson	Rachel Lipman	November 23, 2016 (2016-11-23)
1b	"I've Got Rhythm?"	David Skelly	Mark Drop	November 23, 2016 (2016-11-23)
2a	"I Only Have Eyespots for You"	David Skelly	Joe Purdy	November 24, 2016 (2016-11-24)
2b	"Double Bubbles"	Bret Nelson	Rachel Lipman	November 24, 2016 (2016-11-24)[nb 1]
3a	"Cleaner of the Kelp"	Hugh Martin	Michael Foulke	November 25, 2016 (2016-11-25)
3b	"How Bubbles Got Her Moves Back"	David Skelly	Denise Downer	November 25, 2016 (2016-11-25)
4a	"Dunk the Artist"	Hugh Martin	Rachel Lipman	November 29, 2016 (2016-11-29)
4b	"Ripple's Sea Dragons"	Hugh Martin	Joe Purdy	November 29, 2016 (2016-11-29)
5a	"Tooth Treasure"	Bret Nelson	Dave Cain, Laura Sams, and Robert Sams	November 30, 2016 (2016-11-30)
5b	"Race Around the Reef"	Bret Nelson	Jack Ferraiolo	November 30, 2016 (2016-11-30)
6a	"Dunk's Cleaning" "Dunk's New Friend"[4]	Drew Massey	Michael Foulke	December 1, 2016 (2016-12-01)
6b	"Ripple's Whale of a Tale"	Bret Nelson	Michael Foulke	December 1, 2016 (2016-12-01)
7a	"Golden Legs Gush"	Drew Massey	Michael Foulke	December 7, 2016 (2016-12-07)
7b	"A Fish Called Mo"	Bret Nelson	Joe Purdy	December 7, 2016 (2016-12-07)
8a	"Deflated Dunk"	Bret Nelson	Rachel Lipman	December 9, 2016 (2016-12-09)
8b	"Kelp Forest Keepers"	Bret Nelson	Rachel Lipman	December 9, 2016 (2016-12-09)
9a	"Splash's Swim School"	Bret Nelson	Joe Purdy	December 21, 2016 (2016-12-21)
9b	"Light at the End of the Tunnel"	Bret Nelson	Mark Drop	December 21, 2016 (2016-12-21)
10a	"Small But Mighty"	Bret Nelson	John Tartaglia	December 22, 2016 (2016-12-22)
10b	"Washed Away"	Bret Nelson	Michael Foulke	December 22, 2016 (2016-12-22)
11a	"Super Splash!"	Rita Peruggi	Mark Drop	January 17, 2017 (2017-01-17)
11b	"Pearlene"	Rita Peruggi	Michael Foulke	January 17, 2017 (2017-01-17)
12a	"Guess Who?"		Michael Foulke	January 18, 2017 (2017-01-18)
12b	"Sleepless Sleepover"	Hugh Martin	John Tartaglia	January 18, 2017 (2017-01-18)
13a	"The Kelp Needs Help"	David Skelly	John Tartaglia	January 19, 2017 (2017-01-19)
13b	"Mountain of Fire"	Toben Seymour	Michael Kramer	January 19, 2017 (2017-01-19)
14a	"One Big Ocean Part 1: "Reeftown Rangers""[4]	Bret Nelson	Rachel Lipman	March 1, 2017 (2017-03-01)
14b	"One Big Ocean Part 2: "Riding the Currents""[4]	Bret Nelson	Michael Foulke	March 1, 2017 (2017-03-01)
15a	"One Big Ocean Part 3: "The Fixer-Upper""[4]	Bret Nelson	Rachel Lipman	March 2, 2017 (2017-03-02)
15b	"One Big Ocean Part 4: "No Place Like Home""[4]	Bret Nelson	John Tartaglia	March 2, 2017 (2017-03-02)
16a	"The Greatest Treasure of All"[4]	Bret Nelson	Michael Foulke	March 13, 2017 (2017-03-13)
16b	"Crabulous"[4]	David Skelly	Rachel Lipman	March 13, 2017 (2017-03-13)
17a	"Here Comes the Hammerhead"[4]	Bret Nelson	Ryan Toyama	March 14, 2017 (2017-03-14)
17b	"Denny's New Shell"[4]	Jason Devilliers	Michael Foulke	March 14, 2017 (2017-03-14)
18a	"The Sand Is Grand"[4]	David Skelly	Michael Kramer	March 15, 2017 (2017-03-15)
18b	"The Treasure Trove"[4]	David Skelly	Jennifer Skelly	March 15, 2017 (2017-03-15)
19a	"Mayor for a Day"[4]	Jason Devilliers	Mark Drop	March 16, 2017 (2017-03-16)
19b	"Oblo From Down Below"[4]	Rita Peruggi	Rachel Lipman	March 16, 2017 (2017-03-16)
20a	"Chompy's New Foods"[4]	Bret Nelson	Mark Drop	March 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
20b	"Cloning Around"[4]	John Tartaglia	Ryan Toyama	March 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
21a	"The House Hunt"[5]	John Tartaglia	Rachel Lipman	April 21, 2017 (2017-04-21)
21b	"Dolphin Games"[5]	David Skelly	Rachel Lipman	April 21, 2017 (2017-04-21)
22a	"Partner Pals"[5]	Bret Nelson	Rachel Lipman	May 25, 2017 (2017-05-25)
22b	"Ultimate Hide and Seek"[5]	David Skelly	Alice Dinnean	May 25, 2017 (2017-05-25)
23a	"My Son, The Frogfish"	David Skelly	Rachel Lipman	June 12, 2017 (2017-06-12)
23b	"A Day for Papa"	Christian Jacobs	Michael Foukle	June 12, 2017 (2017-06-12)
24a	"Bubbles' Little Friend"	David Skelly	Rachel Lipman	June 13, 2017 (2017-06-13)
24b	"Mrs. Tidy"	David Skelly	Rachel Lipman	June 13, 2017 (2017-06-13)
25a	"The Lure of the Rocks"	David Skelly	Michael Foulke	June 14, 2017 (2017-06-14)
25b	"What's the Story, Maury?"	Rachel Lipman	Allan Trautman	June 14, 2017 (2017-06-14)
26a	"Smell of Fear"	Rita Peruggi	Michael Kramer	September 25, 2017 (2017-09-25)
26b	"A New 'Spin'"	Bret Nelson	Jason Ansolabehere	September 25, 2017 (2017-09-25)
27a	"Clubhouse Clash"	David Skelly	Rachel Lipman	September 26, 2017 (2017-09-26)
27b	"Raise The Reef"	Bret Nelson	Michael Shawn Lewis	September 26, 2017 (2017-09-26)
28a	"Stormy Waters"	Bret Nelson	Joe Purdy	September 27, 2017 (2017-09-27)
28b	"Scoot On Over!"	Christian Jacobs	Michael Foulke	September 27, 2017 (2017-09-27)
29a	"Puffy"	Jason Devilliers	Rachel Lipman	September 28, 2017 (2017-09-28)
29b	"The Big Shake"	Bret Nelson	Ryan Toyama	September 28, 2017 (2017-09-28)
30a	"Yuck Or Treat"	Michael Shawn Lewis	Michael Foulke	October 16, 2017 (2017-10-16)
30b	"The Thing from Above The Reef"	Michael Shawn Lewis	Ryan Toyama	October 16, 2017 (2017-10-16)
31a	"Whitebeard"	Bret Nelson	Dave Cain, Laura Sams, & Robert Sams	December 11, 2017 (2017-12-11)
31b	"Coral Day"	Bret Nelson	John Tartaglia	December 11, 2017 (2017-12-11)
32a	"Seal Sitters"	Michael Shawn Lewis	Michael Shawn Lewis	April 23, 2018 (2018-04-23)
32b	"From Ray to Zee"	Jason Devilliers	Ryan Toyama	April 23, 2018 (2018-04-23)
33a	"The Sea Sparkles"	Bret Nelson	Michael Foulke	April 24, 2018 (2018-04-24)
33b	"Tyke and Seek"	Michael Shawn Lewis	Rachel Lipman	April 24, 2018 (2018-04-24)
34a	"Light's Out!"	David Skelly	Michael Foulke	April 25, 2018 (2018-04-25)
34b	"Catching some ZZZ's"	Bret Nelson	Jill Shinderman	April 25, 2018 (2018-04-25)
35a	"The Job Search"	Jason Devilliers	Jennifer Skelley	April 26, 2018 (2018-04-26)
35b	"Reeftown's Got Talent"	Jason Devilliers	John Tartaglia	April 26, 2018 (2018-04-26)
36a	"Mo's Sunburn"	Bret Nelson	Katherine Lewis	June 11, 2018 (2018-06-11)
36b	"Imagin-Ocean"	Bret Nelson	Joe Purdy	June 11, 2018 (2018-06-11)
37a	"Gush's White Whale"	Bret Nelson	Eric De La Rosa	June 12, 2018 (2018-06-12)
37b	"Extreme Clean"	Bret Nelson	Michael Foulke	June 12, 2018 (2018-06-12)
38a	"The End of the Ocean"	David Skelly	Michael Foulke	June 13, 2018 (2018-06-13)
38b	"Antarctic Ranger"	Allan Trautman	Michele Hennessy	June 13, 2018 (2018-06-13)
39a	"Pole to Pole Part 1: "Migration Vacation""	Dave Messey	Rachel Lipman	August 6, 2018 (2018-08-06)
39b	"Pole to Pole Part 2: "Pebbles""	Drew Massey	Rachel Lipman	August 6, 2018 (2018-08-06)
40a	"Pole to Pole Part 3 "The Whistling Whale""	Dave Massey	Michael Foulke	August 6, 2018 (2018-08-06)
40b	"Pole to Pole Part 4: "The Big Krill""	Dave Massey	Michael Foulke	August 6, 2018 (2018-08-06)

Film

Title	Original air date
"One Big Ocean"[6]	January 16, 2017 (2017-01-16)
The Reeftown kids catch the currents and embark on an epic journey across the sea to help a friendly young turtle named Scoot. Along the way they learn that all creatures are interconnected and how even a small gesture can greatly affect the friends and neighbors who share the one big ocean they call home.

Songs

No.	Song	Episode(s)	Sung by
1	"And So We Celebrate (Coral Day)"	"Coral Day"	Everyone in Reeftown
2	"Catch A Current"	"Ripple's Sea Dragons", "Race Around the Reef", "Ripple's Whale of a Tale", "The Kelp Needs Help", "One Big Ocean Part 1: "Reeftown Rangers"", "The Greatest Treasure of All", "The Treasure Trove", “Gush’s White Whale”	Splash (and sometimes, Bubbles, Dunk, Ripple, or Gush)
3	"Dark in the Deep"	"Lu the Explorer", "Mountain of Fire", "Yuck or Treat", "Lights Out!"	Lu, Bob, and the Firefly Squids
4	"Hanging With Friends"	"I Only Have Eyespots for You", "How Bubbles Got Her Moves Back", "Deflated Dunk", "A Fish Called Mo", "Light at the End of the Tunnel", "One Big Ocean Part 1: "Reeftown Rangers"", "Dolphin Games", "Ultimate Hide and Seek", "The Lure of the Rocks", "Bubbles' New Friend", "Raise the Reef"	Splash, Bubbles, Dunk, and Ripple
5	"Have You Heard?"	"Denny's New Shell", Mayor for a Day", "What's the Story, Maury?", "Smell of Fear", "Scoot on Over", "Reeftown's Got Talent!"	Maury
6	"I Don't Know What I'm Doin' (I'm Just Doin' It)"	"Dunk the Artist", "Washed Away", "One Big Ocean Part 3: "The Fixer-Upper"", "Puffy", "The Thing from Above the Reef", “Mo’s Sunburn”	Dunk
7	"I Never Knew About You"	"Crabulous", "Denny's New Shell", "Cloning Around", "Dolphin Games", "My Son, The Frogfish", "From Ray to Zee", “Imagin-Ocean”, “The End of the Ocean”, "Pole-to-Pole Part 3: The Whistling Whale"	Splash and Bubbles
8	"Keep It Clean"	"Cleaner of the Kelp", "Kelp Forest Keepers", "Guess Who?", "Mrs. Tidy", "Seal Sitters", "The Job Search"	Tidy
9	"My Best Friend Ever"	"Partner Pals", "A New ‘Spin’", "The Sea Sparkles", "Pole-to-Pole Part 2: Pebbles"	Splash and Bubbles
10	"One Big Ocean"	"One Big Ocean Part 4: "No Place Like Home"", "Clubhouse Clash", "The Big Shake", "Pole-to-Pole Part 1: Migration Vacation"	Flo, Polly, Bell, Polly And Bell's Sibling #1, and Polly And Bell's Sibling #2
11	"One Small Ripple"	"Pearlene", "One Big Ocean Part 3: "The Fixer-Upper"", "A Day for Papa", "Whitebeard"	Ripple and her brothers
12	"Only In The Ocean"	"Oblo From Down Below", "Bubbles' Little Friend", "Ultimate Hide & Seek", “Gush’s White Whale”, "Pole-to-Pole Part 4: The Big Krill"	Splash, Bubbles, Dunk and Ripple
13	"Reeftown Rangers"	"The Greatest Treasure of All", "Here Comes the Hammerhead", "The Treasure Trove", "Chompy's New Foods", "The House Hunt", "Stormy Waters", "Tyke And Seek", “Antarctic Ranger”	Splash, Bubbles, Dunk and Ripple
14	"Rhythm of the Reef"	"I've Got Rhythm?", "One Big Ocean Part 4: "No Place Like Home"", "Raise the Reef", "Pole-to-Pole Part 4: The Big Krill"	Everyone in Reeftown
15	"Yucky"	"Double Bubbles", "A Fish Called Mo", "One Big Ocean Part 2: "Riding the Currents"", "The Sand is Grand", "Oblo from Down Below", "Catching Some ZZZs"	Bubbles

Home media

Region	Title	Release date	Running time	Aspect ratio	Notes
1	‘’One Big Ocean’’	June 12, 2018	1.2 minutes	1:78:1
	‘’The Kelp Forest’’	May 21, 2019

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipients and nominees	Result	Refs
2017	44th Annie Awards	Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production	Leslie Carrara-Rudolph for "I Only Have Eyespots for You"/"Double Bubbles"	Nominated	[7]

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Splash and Bubbles at IMDb