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Chubbles Wubbington, "Be Still My Harp"
Chubbles Wubbington is a recurring character in the series Kiff. He is an action movie star who is one of Table Town's most famous actors.
Profile[]
Chubbles exiting his limo.
Chubbles Wubbington is one of Table Town's most famous actors. He is best known for his starring roles in action movies, including a popular film series where he plays a fictionalized version of himself.
Chubbles was named after one of his ancestors from the 19th century. Paradoxically, this ancestor was in turn technically named after the present-day Chubbles, as his mother was inspired during her pregnancy to name her baby "Chubbles" after overhearing a time-displaced Kiff and Barry talking about the present-day Chubbles.[1]
Although coming from a long line of "mailbox men and women", Chubbles chose to pursue acting instead of becoming a mail carrier, a decision that initially disappointed his parents.[2] He began his career as a child actor and has been acting since at least 1985, when he starred in the children's TV series Chubbles Wubbington's Spooky Post Stories. In adulthood, he transitioned into more mature rules, transforming himself into a tough and muscular action movie star.
Appearance[]
As a mailbox, Chubbles is one of the few characters in the series who is an anthropomorphic object as opposed to an organic creature. He has muscular arms and a five o'clock shadow, and typically wears a pair of white shoes on his two front legs.
Personality[]
Chubbles handing Kiff her Best Director award for Found in Ambiguity.
In contrast to his tough movie persona, the real Chubbles is a cheerful and friendly man who enjoys interacting and taking selfies with his fans. Similarly, while he has a gruff American-sounding accent in his movies, Chubbles speaks in a refined English-sounding accent in real life.
Kiff and Barry have been fans of Chubbles ever since they first watched his movie Chubbles Wubbington! two years before the events of "Be Still My Harp". Kiff uses a Chubbles backpack at school and has a Chubbles sticker on her laptop. She and Barry also own numerous other pieces of Chubbles merchandise, including comics, figurines, and clothing.
In "Blooper Quest", the blooper reel for Wubbington: The End: Part One inspires Kiff and Barry to make the film Found in Ambiguity solely so they can compile a blooper reel of their own. Found in Ambiguity ends up becoming a highly successful big-budget production, with Chubbles himself presenting Kiff with the Best Director award at the 44th Annual Tableys.
In "Never Meet Your Mailboxes", Kiff and Barry are hired to be Chubbles' rehearsal partners for Rude Mailbox, a movie where he goes against type and plays the titular child-hating "Rude Mailbox". Due to a miscommunication with his agent Flam Bingo, the two spend much of the episode frightened and disappointed by Chubbles' behavior, unaware that he is only method acting. Chubbles participates in a celebrity recording of "We Love the Lighthouse Keeper" produced by Roy Fox in "Lights Out".
After being fired by Roy from the movie Jaw & Order over a salary dispute in "Troubles Wubbington", Chubbles has an existential crisis and questions his life's purpose without acting. Encouraged by Kiff, Chubbles tries following in his family's footsteps and pursuing a normal life as a mailman for the Table Town Post Office, but he performs poorly at his new job. Eventually, Roy comes to regret firing Chubbles and asks him to return to the film, while for his part, Chubbles agrees to reduce his salary demand to 500,000 nuts and a car.
Appearances[]
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| Opening sequence: | Non-speaking | |||
| 1. "The Haunting of Miss McGravy's House": | Absent | 2. "Lore of the Ring Light": | Mentioned | |
Trivia[]
A young Chubbles in Chubbles Wubbington!
- Chubbles' filmography includes:
- While the virtual assistant on Kiff's phone says that Chubbles Wubbington! was released only two years earlier in "Be Still My Harp", later episodes indicate that this is apparently incorrect; he looks exactly the same in the movie as he did in Chubbles Wubbington's Spooky Post Stories in 1985.
- He wrote an autobiography titled Dear Chubbles: A Letter to Myself,[3] as well as the screenplay for Melons for Sale.[4]
- Chubbles (along with Principal Secretary) is one of the few male characters in the series drawn with eyelashes.
Gallery[]
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