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The Home Sweet Home of Bluis & Bubblina (sometimes referred to as Disney's Bluis and 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 & 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 aired on ABC through its Disney's One Saturday Morning programming block from August 2, 1997 until March 17, 2001 and ran with a total of four seasons and 65 episodes. The fourth and final season of the series aired on Disney Channel throughout 2000.
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 ABC after it's buyout from Disney to utilized slapstick humor as well as the first animated series on the network to receive a TV rating.
Characters[]
- Main article: List of The Home Sweet Home of Bluis & Bubblina 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 self-righteous ruler of the Cuisine Community.
Production[]
Production of the series started in 1993 when Canadian studio Cinar pitched a pilot episode to ABC as a part of their Saturday morning catalogue. 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 and became Disney's first foray into an animated romance series. Afterwards, 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 success of Arthur in 1996, the series was given a premiere date of August 1997. Between then and 1997, the series was given some final touches and was given new animation.
Episodes[]
- Main article: List of The Home Sweet Home of Bluis & Bubblina episodes
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Broadcast[]
From the day of its debut, The Home Sweet Home of Bluis & Bubblina aired on ABC as its first original series from after the buyout from Disney and was the network's highest viewed program on the Saturday morning slot. From then forward, the series would later air on Teletoon in Canada starting 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 Toon Disney from 2008 until 2010 when the network was known as Disney XD. ABC Family aired reruns of the series to have an animated series to appeal to teenagers. Disney Channel aired the series from 2000 until 2006.
The series made its streaming debut on Hulu starting on September 15, 2015, and later on Disney+ 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 Walt Disney Home Video and a DVD release in 2007 by the company's successor, Walt Disney Home Entertainment. 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 "Egghead's Brainy Revolution" had all Cinar references removed and replaced by Cookie Jar references. The Disney+ edits had all Cookie Jar references replaced with WildBrain references.
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Trivia[]
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