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- "It's bathtime! Swimmin'!"
- ―Tubb at the end of each episode.
Rubbadubbers is a British animated children's television show produced by HIT Entertainment and distributed by Hot Animation.
Plot
From SproutOnline.com:
- "Here come the Rubbadubbers, and here comes the fun! These loveable bath characters dive into one adventure after another – and learn valuable lessons along the way. It’s good clean fun with the Rubbadubbers!" (link)
For Parents
- "Did you know preschoolers love to "talk" with their bodies? Let them express themselves through dance and movement!"
Characters
Rubbadubbers
- Tubb (voiced by John Gordon Sinclair) is a male Scottish rubber frog and the leader of the Rubbadubbers. He is admired by everyone for his cool attitude and enjoys cleaning anything with his cotton bud and floating on a green lily pad. Tubb's catchphrase is 'swimmin'!'
- Sploshy (voiced by Maria Darling) is a female English starfish sponge. She speaks in a childish voice, is very energetic (she is often seen cartwheeling) and is known to have a short temper. Sploshy's catchphrase is 'splish, splash, splosh!'
- Finbar (voiced by the late Sean Hughes) is a male Irish wind-up shark. He often calls himself in third-person 'the mighty, scary shark', while often playing games involving pretend hunting and scaring. He also frequently uses the word 'mighty' in place of 'very' to describe things. In the dream worlds, he usually plays roles that rival the character that made the wish (such as robbers, monsters and even his regular self). Finbar's pirate-like catchphrase is 'arr, arr, arr!' (one which he uses countless times).
- Terence (voiced by John Gordon Sinclair) is a male English soap bottle who resembles a crocodile. He can blow bubbles out of his nose and heavily dislikes getting splashed, often avoiding water altogether. He has a favourite, red toothbrush for cleaning his one tooth. Terence also has several spots on his back and doesn't have a catchphrase.
- Winona (voiced by Maria Darling) is a female purple rubber baby whale. She is mute, thus she cannot speak and make 'if only' wishes, but she can make squeaking sounds in order to communicate with the Rubbadubbers. She can also squirt water from her blowhole and perform tail tricks.
- Reg (voiced by John Gordon Sinclair) is a male toy robot and is the supporting leader of the Rubbadubbers. Just like Terence, he avoids water, as simply getting splashed makes him malfunction. He also stutters rather often. He plays with the others but is always on the lookout for Benjie and Sis' presence in order to make the Rubbadubbers prepare themselves for bath time. At the end of every episode, he announces their arrival with his catchphrase: 'Rubbadubbers! Rubbadubbers! Benjie and Sis/the children are coming! Bath time scramble!'
- Amelia (voiced by Maria Darling) is a female English aeroplane-submarine hybrid toy. Likely named after Amelia Earhart, she and the Rubbadubbers often call her 'the flying submarine'. She is very energetic (like Sploshy), is usually rather happy and loves to try new things, fly around the bathroom and perform tricks.
Others
- Lawrence (voiced by John Gordon Sinclair) is a male English soap bottle that resembles a crocodile. He only appears in the episode 'Terence's Double Trouble' and plays Terence's almost-fully-identical friend in Terence's dream. But the only differences to him and Terence are that the tie that he wears is blue (Terence has a red one), he doesn't have a toothbrush, he has two teeth (Terence has one) and can do better tie tricks than Terence.
- Benjie and Sis are the two owners of the Rubbadubbers that are never seen on-screen. They are two young human siblings that are presumably British. Whenever they need to use the bathroom, Reg the robot alerts the Rubbadubbers to prepare for their arrival.
History on Sprout
The show premiered on Sprout on August 24th, 2009, the same day Sprout's Wiggly Waffle launched, airing at 8:29AM ET on Wiggly Waffle and 8:30PM ET during The Good Night Show. It was replaced by Chloe's Closet on the former block when What's Your News? joined Sprout. When the fourth season of the latter block premiered, the show was replaced by Poppy Cat.
Games
- Tubb and Amelia Coloring Game
- Reg and Terrence Coloring Page
- Finbar, Sploshy, and Winona Coloring Page
- Tubb's Bubbles n' Buds
- Bath Race
Notes
- When Tubb (with John Gordon Sinclar reprising his role) greeted Nina and Star before his show played on The Good Night Show, the soundclip was recycled from a promo.
- The show briefly aired on Noggin.