The Home Sweet Home of Bluis & Bubblina

The Home Sweet Home of Bluis & Bubblina is an American animated series created by Wilton Lawrence for Rainbow. The show follows two anthropomorphic gumballs — Bluis and his girlfriend Bubblina (respectively voiced by Billy West and Lauren Tom) — and their misadventures in a world built out of and populated by food. Lawrence has cited the show's stylistic and tonal influence from various animated shorts and commercials from the 1940's-1970's (he specifically cited Rocky &amp; Bullwinkle ' s Jay Ward and Mr. Men ' s Roger Hargreaves as main influences), as well as contemporary editions of the board game Candy Land.

Bluis & Bubblina made its debut on Rainbow on November 6, 1997, and ended on December 16, 2000 with a total of 52 episodes in three seasons.

Plot
The Home Sweet Home of Bluis & Bubblina is set in the town of Foodville in the Cuisine Community, where most of the residents are based on food. The series revolves around two gumballs named Bluis and Bubblina who are currently dating as they go through their everyday lives. The show is known for being one of the first original shows from Rainbow to utilized slapstick humor as well as the first one to receive a TV rating.

Characters

 * Bluis (voiced by Billy West) — a strong, sensitive, and stubborn blue-colored gumball.
 * Bubblina (voiced by Lauren Tom) — Bluis' girlfriend. She is a soft, but very sharp-minded pink-colored gumball.
 * Lucky Bone (voiced by Tom Kenny) — a child-like, open-minded chicken drumstick who acts as a good sport and the trusting companion of Blues. He is also an amateur baseball player.
 * Egghead (voiced by Tom Kenny) — a deadpan-voiced, screwy, and unpredictable yellow egg who wears a bow tie and hollow glasses that show his complete lack of eyes, and is missing one tooth.
 * Ol' Toasty (voiced by James Patrick Stuart) — a walking slice of toast and the strict, straight and righteous ruler of the Cuisine Community.

Production
Production of the series started in 1993 when Canadian studio Cinar pitched a pilot episode as an episode of "Toon in for the Tunes". The pilot of the series, named "Blueball and Pinkball" just simply revolved around Bluis (then known as Blueball) meeting Bubblina (Pinkball) as he finds a way to become her love. The pilot itself was accepted as if it was accepted, it would be Rainbow's first foray into romance programming. Once the pilot was accepted, Cinar decided to work on the show some more. This time, renaming it to The Home Sweet Home of Bluis & Bubblina and adding more to the cast of characters.

The series was set for a July 1995 premiere date, but it was delayed because Cinar wasn't too sure if it was going to be successful or not. However, following the instant sucess of Arthur in 1996, the series was given an actual premiere date of November 1997. Between then and 1997, the series was given some final touches and was given new animation.

Episodes
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Broadcast
From the day of its debut, The Home Sweet Home of Bluis & Bubblina aired on Rainbow as its first original series with a TV rating (TV-Y7) and was the network's highest viewed program. From then forward, the series would later see a TV channel in Canada on March 23, 1998 on Teletoon where it too gained good ratings.

Following the series' cancelation, the series would later have reruns air on Fox Kids Play (later Jetix Play) from 2003 to 2007 and then on Qubo via Qubo Night Owl from 2010 to 2012. The series would later air on NBC Family from 2013 to 2016.

The series made it's streaming debut on Hulu starting on September 15, 2015 and later on Peacock starting on July 7, 2021.

Home Media
The Home Sweet Home of Bluis & Bubblina had four VHS releases during between the years of 1999 and 2001 by Sony Wonder and Universal Studios Home Entertainment and a DVD release in 2007 by Sony Wonder. The series also had various episodes be featured on "The Best of Rainbow" VHS and DVD releases from 1999 to 2008. The entire series was released on to DVD in 2009 by NCircle Entertainment with licensing rights from Universal Studios. All Home Media releases since 2004's "The Best of Rainbow: Sailin' the 7 Seas" had all Cinar references removed and replaced by Cookie Jar references. The Peacock version had all Cookie Jar references replaced by the WildBrain logo.

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Trivia
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