Spud (Bob the Builder)

Spud is a major character in Bob the Builder. He is a mischievous scarecrow who lives on Farmer Pickles' farm. Initially appearing as somewhat of an antagonist, Spud would eventually loosen up a bit and become more friendly to Bob and his team.
He is voiced by Rob Rackstraw in the UK in the whole series and US in Project: Build It and Ready, Steady, Build!, who also voices Scoop, Muck, Travis in the UK, as well as Toby, James, Donald, Flynn, Owen, and plenty of other characters in Thomas & Friends, and Alan Marriott in the US in the Original Series only, who also voices Scoop and Travis in the US, and both also voice Mr. Bentley.
==Personality==
Spud is mischievous but often kind-hearted, he often gets into trouble for his mischievous actions but he always learns a good lesson in the end.
He is friends with Travis, Farmer Pickles, Bob and his Can-Do Crew, however, he likes playing tricks on them from time to time and likes to have fun with them as well, as seen in "Scoop Has Some Fun", where he and Scoop played some tricks on the other machines with each other.
He and Lofty also used to have a rivalry with each other, as Lofty was previously scared of him and Spud would normally like to make fun of hin for having a fear of heights. However, their rivarly came to an end in the episode "Scoop Has Some Fun".
Sometimes, he tries to help Bob on occasions, but usually ends up messing things up, as seen in "Spud the Spanner/Spud the Super Wrench", where he tried to be a builder like Bob, but didn't a good job at trying to be one.
He is sometimes shown to have some anger problems too, as seen in the episode called "Travis and Scoop's Race Day", where Spud gets angry at Travis for not beating Scoop.
==Trivia==
* In the UK dub in Series 1-4 in the Original Series, Spud's voice was more nasally and had a bit of a lisp, but on Series 5-9 of the Original Series, Spud's voice resembles the one of Zippy from the ITV television series Rainbow. This also continues in Project: Build It and Ready, Steady, Build!
* In the US dub of the Original Series, he speaks with a Canadian accent, but in Project: Build It and Ready, Steady, Build!, he speaks with the same accent from the original UK dub.
*He was voiced by Alan Marriott in the US in the original series, but when he stepped down his role for Spud in Project Build It, Rob Rackstraw (who also voices him in the UK dub) voiced him for the rest of the US dub until the cancellation of Ready Steady Build. This also happens to Mr. Bentley. It is currently unknown why Alan Marriott didn't continue voicing Spud in 2005 to 2009 in the US dub as he still remained voicing Scoop and Travis in the series.
*Spud is one of the longest-running Bob the Builder characters that sometimes appear in the 2015 reboot, along with Travis, Bird, Scruffty and Scrambler.
*Spud is called Putte in the Finnish version of Bob the Builder.
*In the German version, Spud is called "Knolle", the German word for tuber.
*In the Slovenian version, Spud is simply called "Pepi" which is common countryside name in Slovenia. It is very similar to the Slovene version of the first name of Farmer Pickles, which is "Pepe".
*His name is a synonym or another word for "potato".
*In 2009, Spud sung and appeared alongside various other children's TV characters in the music video to "The Official BBC Children in Need Medley" by Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band.
*He shares a similar personality to Norman Price from Fireman Sam, because they're both naughty troublemakers who like playing tricks on Bob and Sam respectively and they often get grounded to the point they apologize for their irresponsible actions and learn from their mistakes during an apology.
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