Bobobobs
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Bobobobs is a series of fictional children’s stories created by Henk Zwart and Nerida Zwart. The Bobobobs consists of several illustrated books and comics, and an animation children’s television series produced in 1988. The Bobobobs stories were originally published by Standaard Uitgeverij in Belgium, with later animation and merchandising produced by BRB Internacional
in Spain.
The Bobobobs animated children’s television series is based upon the characters and stories created and written by Henk Zwart and Nerida Zwart. It was directed by Tim Reid
and produced by the Spanish company BRB Internacional
, who were also responsible for such series as The World of David the Gnome
, Around the World with Willy Fog
, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
and The Wisdom of the Gnomes
during the 1980s. The television series, consisting of 26 episodes, was subsequently dubbed into English by Telefilm Canada
as well as being dubbed into Hungarian, Italian, Dutch and German. The theme tune, which lasted for over two minutes, had been written by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis, and sung by Cristina D’avena.
Set in the distant past, the plot revolves around a group of nomadic miniature humanoids known as the Bobobobs, who live in a part of the universe far away from the Earth. One crew of these Bobobobs, led by Bob Wouter, the captain, sets sail in the Bobular Quest, their spaceship, described as a "galleon with a protective dome". They head towards Earth where they plan to save the humans from being terrorised by dinosaurs. Along the way they encounter a variety of different alien species, some of which are hostile, and use their psychic
powers, such as their ability to become invisible and to teleport, to aid them.
In several countries, Bobobobs merchandise was produced, including tie-in books, and episodes of the series were released in both PAL
and NTSC
formats of VHS
. Today, the series has retained a fan base on websites like facebook
.
The Bobobobs story is to continue with the future publication of more illustrated children’s books (expected 2011).
Episodes of the Bobobobs in English and Spanish can be watched online on the official YouTube channel of BRB Entertainment
(*)not definitely in right order
BRB Internacional
BRB Internacional is a Spanish animation studio which is best known for producing 1980s cartoon hits such as Around the World with Willy Fog, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds and The World of David the Gnome....
in Spain.
The Bobobobs animated children’s television series is based upon the characters and stories created and written by Henk Zwart and Nerida Zwart. It was directed by Tim Reid
Tim Reid
Timothy L. "Tim" Reid is an American actor, comedian and film director best known for his roles in prime time American television programs, such as Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati , Marcel "Downtown" Brown on Simon & Simon , Ray Campbell on Sister, Sister and William Barnett on That 70's Show...
and produced by the Spanish company BRB Internacional
BRB Internacional
BRB Internacional is a Spanish animation studio which is best known for producing 1980s cartoon hits such as Around the World with Willy Fog, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds and The World of David the Gnome....
, who were also responsible for such series as The World of David the Gnome
The World of David the Gnome
The World of David the Gnome, originally titled David el Gnomo , is a Spanish animated television series based on the children's book The Secret Book of Gnomes, by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet...
, Around the World with Willy Fog
Around the World with Willy Fog
Around the World with Willy Fog is a cartoon adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. The cartoon was produced by Spanish studio BRB Internacional with animation by Japanese studio Nippon Animation...
, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds is an animated cartoon adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas story of d'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers. Most of the characters are anthropomorphizations of dogs, hence the title of the cartoon...
and The Wisdom of the Gnomes
Wisdom of the Gnomes
Wisdom of the Gnomes is an animated series produced by Spanish company BRB Internacional about Gnomes. It was a spin-off of the series The World of David the Gnome...
during the 1980s. The television series, consisting of 26 episodes, was subsequently dubbed into English by Telefilm Canada
Telefilm Canada
Telefilm Canada or Téléfilm Canada is a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Canada.It is the primary federal cultural agency dedicated to the development and promotion of the Canadian audiovisual industry....
as well as being dubbed into Hungarian, Italian, Dutch and German. The theme tune, which lasted for over two minutes, had been written by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis, and sung by Cristina D’avena.
Set in the distant past, the plot revolves around a group of nomadic miniature humanoids known as the Bobobobs, who live in a part of the universe far away from the Earth. One crew of these Bobobobs, led by Bob Wouter, the captain, sets sail in the Bobular Quest, their spaceship, described as a "galleon with a protective dome". They head towards Earth where they plan to save the humans from being terrorised by dinosaurs. Along the way they encounter a variety of different alien species, some of which are hostile, and use their psychic
Psychic
A psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...
powers, such as their ability to become invisible and to teleport, to aid them.
In several countries, Bobobobs merchandise was produced, including tie-in books, and episodes of the series were released in both PAL
PAL
PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is an analogue television colour encoding system used in broadcast television systems in many countries. Other common analogue television systems are NTSC and SECAM. This page primarily discusses the PAL colour encoding system...
and NTSC
NTSC
NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, most of South America , Burma, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories .Most countries using the NTSC standard, as...
formats of VHS
VHS
The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
. Today, the series has retained a fan base on websites like facebook
Facebook
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.
The Bobobobs story is to continue with the future publication of more illustrated children’s books (expected 2011).
Episodes of the Bobobobs in English and Spanish can be watched online on the official YouTube channel of BRB Entertainment
Characters
- Bob Wouter – is the kindly, level-headed Bob (Captain) of the Bobular Quest with a wooden leg. He has the enormous task of leading his Bobobobs on their adventurous journey through the universe to a newly discovered planet (Earth).
- Little Wouter – is Bob Wouter’s son. He is a clever little boy, smarter than a lot of the Bobobobs think. He is Fuzz’s best friend.
- Fuzz (Blip) – is Cornelius’ mascot and eternal companion. He is a floating fuzzy purple head with little arms and big friendly eyes.
- Cornelius – is the Bobular’s chief astronomer. He is very old, has a long white beard and wears purple clothes and a purple wizard's hat. He is extremely wise, but because he is very old he often nods off to sleep leaving Pievus, his assistant, to do most of his work.
- Wilbur – is the son of the Bobobobs great leader, Big Bob, and Petronella’s brother. He is the Bobular’s not-so-handy handyman.
- Petronella – is a lady you do not want to tangle with. Since she is Big Bob’s daughter she thinks she can order everyone around. She is mean to those around her, with the exception of her brother Wilbur, and is constantly thinking of her own (non-existent) beauty. She is married to A.D.
- A.D. – is the Bobobob’s architect and Petronella’s hen-pecked husband who absorbs himself into his work.
- Fritz – is the temperamental cook. His food is nourishing but tastes terrible. He loses his temper with anyone he disagrees with, especially Aunt Agatha. His best friends are Odd & Sodd.
- Aunt Agatha – is everybody’s auntie. She sneaked aboard to look after her nephew Pievus, but quickly became everyone’s friend, especially Cornelius’s. She is a very kindly old lady who does a lot of much-loved baking.
- Odd & Sodd (Ein & Stein) – are the Bobular’s biologists. They are identical twins and never leave each other’s side. Their main task is growing “Obus” plants for the Bobular Quest’s crew. Although they tend to argue on a regular basis, they care for each other deeply.
- Pievus (Peter) – is Cornelius’ assistant whose ambition is to be chief astronomer one day, but he has a lot to learn and Fuzz, Cornelius’ little mate, doesn’t make it easier for him.
- Doc Bone – is the Bobular’s doctor who’s a bit absent minded and has more eyes for Nurse Mimi than for his patients.
- Nurse Mimi – is Doc Bone's sweet young nurse. She is always ready to help those in need, especially Wilbur.
- Big Bob – is the Bobobobs leader, and father of Petronella and Wilbur.
Episodes
In all, 26 episodes were produced, including:| # | Title | Plot | Dutch Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bobobobs | Whilst sailing around space, Cornelius sees the far away Earth in his telescope where the dinosaurs are terrorising the Bobs. He organises a meeting of all the Bobs, led by their King, Big Bob. The consul agrees that the Bobular Quest should set off for Earth. On the way, they stop off for a picnic on a planet, however they are attacked by two cyclops Cyclops A cyclops , in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead... though they manage to escape |
Picknick op een klein tropisch planeetje (Picnic on a tropical planet) |
| 2 | A Queen in the Swamp | The Bobular Quest is captured by giant vines, and an away team composed of the Captain, Little Bob, and Wilbur, travel down to the planet, which is inhabited by giant frogs. It turns out that the true queen Croakadillia has been usurped by the evil Queen Toadella, who is using her ant army to keep control. Toadella captures the captain and Willbur and plans to eat them for dinner unless the Bobs can overthrow her and rescue them in time. | Een koningin in het moeras |
| 3 | The Demon of the Universe | The Bobs crash land on a planet inhabited by monsters, and only Cornelius can save them from the most dangerous of them all - a "hairy hermit" called the demon of the universe who curses the crew and takes over Cornelius's body. Cornelius eventually casts the demon out and with help from the crew he burns him into the depths of space with a giant fireball. | De Ruimteduivel |
| 4 | Blip has vivid nightmares of his parents being swallowed up by fire. He returns to his home planet only to find out that a severe food shortage has led the formerly friendly Munchums to kidnap Blip's parents. The Bobobobs provide the planet with ample food and set both Blip's parents and the kidnappers free. | Pluis komt thuis (Blip Comes Home) | |
| 5 | Birthday | Cornelius turns 1000 and feels neglected by the crew, who are only pretending to neglect him until his surprise party at the end. | Verjaardag |
| 6 | (*) | The Bobs run into some octopus Octopus The octopus is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda. Octopuses have two eyes and four pairs of arms, and like other cephalopods they are bilaterally symmetric. An octopus has a hard beak, with its mouth at the center point of the arms... like space creatures. |
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| 8 | Little Wouter's New Friends (*) | While fishing over the side of the ship, Little Bob catches two little critters called gubbies. He takes them as pets, but soon they begin causing havoc everywhere, eating all the food and gnawing at the wood. The innocent Blip is blamed, but eventually the real culprits are discovered. The Bobs turn themselves into giants using their special powers and scare away the gubbies. | |
| 9 | A pair of alien space-combers, the brothers Lest and Pest, come aboard, much to the dismay of Petronella, who ends up in the bathtub with them. | ||
| 10 | (*) | A very dirty ship arrives wishing to trade with the Bobular Quest, however their true intentions are revealed when it is discovered that they want to take over the Bobular Quest. | |
| 11 | (*) | An alien ship (which resembles a flying saucer Flying saucer A flying saucer is a type of unidentified flying object sometimes believed to be of alien origin with a disc or saucer-shaped body, usually described as silver or metallic, occasionally reported as covered with running lights or surrounded with a glowing light, hovering or moving rapidly either... ) tries to capture the Bobular Quest. |
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| 12 | The Fall of Fritz | Fritz gets into an altercation with Petronella which resolves in Fritz falling down the stairs. After his fall he becomes kind and decides to let Aunt Agatha take over the kitchen. After getting hit in the head again, Fritz turns back into his normal mean tempered self, and the crew is happy again. | De val van Frits |
| 13 | The Puffy Pink Space Spook | Crew members report seeing ghosts aboard the ship but their worries are dismissed by Cornelius. After more and more sightings, the ghost is revealed to be the very dangerous Puffy pink space monster. The Bobs finally gang together, and after drinking a blue potion that turns them into similar pink ghosts, terrify their enemy, who promptly explodes. | Spoken |
| 14 | Terugkeer van Saracenus | ||
| 15 | De Tripussenv | ||
| 16 | Fitness Training (1) | ||
| 17 | Fitness Training (2) | ||
| 18 | The Tree People | The Bobular runs out of water when A.D.s water making invention is destroyed by Ein and Stein, so the Bobular Quest travels to a planet with lots of water. Once there, Little Bob is declared King by the natives (who live in trees) while the other Bobs worry that he has been kidnapped. | Het boomvolk |
| 19 | De scheepsdieven | ||
| 20 | Fritz the Painter | When Fritz's food is insulted again (this time his soup that is described as glue), he decides to become an artist and give up his life of cooking. All night he stays up painting abstract art Abstract art Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an... only to find a very hungry crew the next morning. |
Frits de schilder |
| 21 | Treasure Hunt | The crew find a treasure map floating around space in a giant bottle. Despite some people's warnings, an expedition is set up to find the treasure, however after arriving on the barren wastland planet, the expedition team end up being captured by giant pirates on a deserted planet. The pirates had sent out the map to lure space travellers to their planet, where the pirates plan to eat them. The Bobs finally escape but don't get the pirate's treasure. | Schatgraven |
| 22 | The Storm | A huge storm hits the Bobular, damaging its windows, and severely injuring the captain. The Bobs stop off on an asteroid to make some new windows. However, on the asteroid, Wilbur gets a crack on the head bringing on amnesia and he is abducted by a giant crab whom he assumes is his mother. Petronella leads a rescue expedition and succeeds. Whilst leaving the asteroid, the Bobs notice that a meteor is headed for it, and shall destroy both it and the giant crab, so they use their powers to divert the meteor away, saving the crab. | De stofstorm |
| 23 | De reddingsploeg | ||
| 24 | The Bobular heads through an ice field, and an expedition sets off to find a safe way through. | De woeste kinderen (deel 1) | |
| 25 | The expedition finds a vicious race of little furry creatures on the icebergs who are bullying a much larger furry creature. | De woeste kinderen (deel 2) | |
| 26 | A marriage takes place. | Susu gaat trouwen |
(*)not definitely in right order
Voice actors and their characters
- Walter Massey - Bob Wouter
- Rick JonesRick Jones (voice actor)Rick Jones is an animation writer, director, content developer, and voice actor. Since 1983, he’s worked with Fox, Disney, Universal, Hanna-Barbera, Alphanim, Cinar and Nelvana...
- Cornelius/Blip - Dean Hagopian - Narrator
- Andrew Bednarski - Little Bob
- Michael RudderMichael RudderMichael Rudder is a Canadian film, television, theatre and voice actor, who was injured in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.-Acting work:...
- Wilbur/Fritz - Kathleen Fee - Petronella
- Richard DumontRichard DumontRichard M. Dumont is a voice actor and director who has worked in both Canada and the United States. He voices Menator, the aging leader of the Olmecs in The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Grognard in Night Hood and Scarecrow in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
- A.D. - Bronwen MantelBronwen MantelBronwen Mantel is a Canadian actress who has appeared in several movies including Secret Window and Gothika, and as a voice actress in the TV series Mega Babies, Adventures of the Little Koala, Arthur, Bobobobs, Tripping the Rift, Sharky and George, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Papa Beaver's...
- Aunt Agatha/Nurse Mimi - A.J. HendersonA.J. HendersonA.J. Henderson is a Canadian voice actor, born in Montreal, Quebec.- Biography :He is very prolific, having done voices for numerous anime, cartoons, and video games...
- Ein/Doc Bone - Paul Zakaib - Stein
- Mark Hellman - Peter