Tuba McBloom

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“Hay it’s not my fault SpongeBob always comes to my rescue. So why stop getting kidnapped all the time?”
” Of course not SpongeBob, why would you think you’re ugl…” [smells his bad breath, screams and slams the door on him] - Something Smells
"HELP ME, HELP ME!!! CAN SOMEONE PLEASE GET THESE JELLYFISH AWAY FROM ME!!!!! Oh no… AHHHH GET AWAY GET AWAY!! DON’T STING ME!!!!" - Old New Neighbor 
“Keep your dirty fins off me Bubble Bass, SPONGEBOB HELP!!”
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Tuba McBloom(born: 15 Apr, 1987) is a female sea sponge and a resident of Bikini Bottom. As her name suggests, she is based on tube sponges (a real kind of sea sponge) and her appearance also somewhat resembles the instrument of the same name. Her surname, McBloom references the type of underwear she wears, which are called bloomers. 
She lives somewhere not too far from SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward, in a light-pink plush rabbit, located on 39 Coral Avenue that at some point found itself under the sea due to a clumsy little girl accidentally dropping her plush off a cruise.
She's the current owner of Snellie, who used to belong to Squidward before he gave her to Tuba, likely as a present.
She was first introduced in the episode Old New Neighbor, where she moves into Bikini Bottom and meets SpongeBob for the first time since childhood.
==Overview==
Tuba is a tube shaped sea sponge. The top of her is wide and slightly narrows down the rest of her body. She is bright yellow with yellowish green holes much like SpongeBob. Her eyes are green with long eyelashes. She wears a purple dress with puffed sleeves with matching bow and boots. She has two holes on the side of her cheeks giving the appearance of blush. She also has white bloomers that are constantly exposed on display much like Minnie Mouse. While rarely only seen at above angles she has a big hole in the middle of the top of her head. Unlike most female sea sponges seen in the show Tuba strangely seems to lack visible hair (SpongeBob's Teenage Years co-creator Spongebobsuperfan confirms she has hair) She is also super absorbent just like SpongeBob.
Sometimes she gets mistaken for being SpongeBob in a dress despite having a different body shape and facial features. Which explains why Patrick calls her ‘Girl SpongeBob’ This is been used as an advantage where she disguises herself as SpongeBob such as when she almost fooled Mrs. Puff when doing SpongeBob’s driving test for him. In ‘License to Disguise’ This also puts her in awkward situations such as when Mr. Krabs employed her as a fry cook on the spot ‘Krabby Tuba’ when SpongeBob couldn’t come thinking that because they look similar she must has the same skill as he does or when Sandy accidentally attacked her with a surprise karate chop thinking she was SpongeBob ‘Day at the Treedome’
Tuba is often shown to be polite, well mannered and overall very friendly. She generally gets along well with most residents of bikini Bottom even Squidward who actually likes being around her. She is often referred to as a absolute “sweetheart” or “sweetie” as she will put others before herself and go out of her way to do nice things without reason. Unfortunately her sweet, polite and gentle demeanour often makes her a target and gets taken advantage of which can lead her into trouble or danger and needing to be rescued, being a helpless damsel in distress in most perilous situations. However, she can get upset when she's pushed to her limits, notably shown when she was a teenager in SpongeBob's Teenage Years. While she does show childish and naïve behaviour (in an enduring and innocent way, rather than annoying like SpongeBob can be) she is shown to be a bit more mature than SpongeBob and Patrick but not to the extent of Sandy or Squidward. In the rare occasion where she’s really angry or upset she will absorb and grow into a monstrous size intimidating those around her and has even nearly destroyed Bikini Bottom shown in the episode 'Tubezilla'.
Tuba is very infatuated with SpongeBob. While she comes across as very obsessed and love crazy for him. She immediately becomes shy and reserved whenever she’s around him most of the time. Tuba often daydreams about him which makes her loose concentration and annoy those around her. SpongeBob is very oblivious towards her feelings and doesn’t notice when Tuba tries to show her affection which can make her feel overwhelmed and frustrated. She has also showed to be jealous whenever she sees SpongeBob with other girls. 
One of her favourite past times is going jellyfishing with SpongeBob and Patrick. While at first she wasn’t into the activity This is how her and SpongeBob met when she moved to Bikini Bottom after many years since they last seen each other, SpongeBob attempted to rescue her from being chased by a group of Jelly fish using a bike only to crash seconds after grabbing Tuba launching her in the air and landed directly in a small cave. SpongeBob comes to check if she’s ok and before she says thank you she realizes who just saved her, SpongeBob afterwards gives Tuba a jellyfish net as a welcome gift and so she can go with SpongeBob and Patrick. In “Band Geeks” it’s shown that she is the only one in Squidward’s band to have played a musical instrument before indicating that she has some musical talent but still played her instrument of the same name poorly at first. She also loves to cook especially baked sweet goods like cookies, cakes and pies ,she has been shown to have a massive sweet tooth often carrying treats for herself or to offer to others.
===History ===
Tuba was born in the McBloom family and is the only daughter of Catharine and Albert McBloom. Her family are upper class and quite wealthy. She was often ignored by her parents and was mainly raised by her Grandmother and nannies. Her mother often had very high expectations of Tuba and controlled nearly every aspect of her life. Tuba didn’t have many friends because her mother would scare anyone away.
Her and SpongeBob use to go to Elementary school together and were childhood friends. SpongeBob was the only kid who was nice to her when she would get bullied by the other kids. Tuba ended up developing a crush on him that would last for years. She preferred to stay with the SquarePants family as they always welcomed her in their home and treated her better than her own parents. When her family moved away (and was sent to a all girls private school) she wouldn’t see SpongeBob for many years until high school where they reunited much to her Mothers Dismay of sending her to a public high school instead of a the very expensive Mrs Clamp’s private school for young ladies. She then wouldn’t see SpongeBob again until the final days of high school. (Graduation Fools) 
As Tuba got older she would be pressured into being married by her mother. Deep down, she was still in love with SpongeBob, despite not seeing him for many years. Most likely due to her overbearing mother Tuba made the decision to move out and try to find SpongeBob. She ended up moving into Bikini Bottom in hopes she could find her loved one for once and for all. Only 2 days after moving in she finally came across SpongeBob and has tried to win over his heart since.
==Relationships==
===SpongeBob===
Tuba has a long-standing crush on SpongeBob and is very infatuated with him, they were childhood friends. Everyone except SpongeBob himself is aware of her crush and tends to be oblivious to her affection. Usually Tuba is shy about her feelings towards him but let’s everyone else know about them often leading other town residents thinking they’re an actual couple of course which SpongeBob is oblivious to or just passes it off as being good friends. 
No one understands why Tuba has strong feelings for him due to his childish goofball personality , Her crush started in there childhood which Tuba claims SpongeBob was the first kid to show her kindness and encouragement when all the other children would bully her for her shyness and screwing up all the time. As stated before In SpongeBob's Teenage Years he was the only person who wanted to be her friend when all the other kids ignored her in High school, which is when she only started liking him more. Tuba’s feelings also come from the many times he has saved her from peril showing that she sees him as her hero.
Tuba has also been shown to be very protective of him, she doesn’t like to see SpongeBob get hurt and will show bias in favour for him if he’s unpopular with the crowd with the only exception being in “Mermaidman and Barnacle boy IV” where even Tuba was upset at SpongeBob for shrinking everyone and went inside him to attack his heart but apologized in the process “ SpongeBob I’m very sorry for what I'm about to do but YOU BROKE MY HEART NOW I WILL BRAKE YOURS!!!!!”. And In “Gone” Tuba was celebrating national No SpongeBob day beating up a stuffed SpongeBob doll but then kissing it while everyone danced in the ashes indicating that even she can find him annoying at times (mainly due how he doesn't take notice of her)
Despite SpongeBob’s obliviousness towards Tuba’s feelings he dose care a lot about her and sees her as a good friend especially the fact that they both share common interests like jellyfishing. At times he has even shown hints to possibly have feelings for her back (such as coming to her rescue whenever she’s in danger, offering her free Krabby Patties and has even described her as 'the cutest sponge he’s ever seen') but probably not as much as he does for Sandy. 
She would also do anything for SpongeBob as seen in the episode ‘Plushie Problem’, Tubie started getting bullied because she brought plushies to school, and the bullies would take he plushies away from her while everyone else looked on. SpongeBob stuck up for her and defended her, but ended up getting thrown in the trash. Now Tuba was angry and that’s when she said... 
“NOBODY HURTS MY SPONGEBOB!!!” 
The bullies gave up and walked away. 
===Squidward===
Tuba is the only resident in Bikini Bottom that Squidward is happy to see and hang out with. At first Squidward assumed she was just going to be SpongeBob in a dress and just be another headache in his life. However when he made the decision to let her into his house he was quite pleasantly surprised by her gentle and thoughtful nature. He also felt appreciated for the first time when she asked him to play the clarinet for her, while he still played it really badly in typical Squidward style she still politely thanked him for it. Squidward has a soft spot for Tuba always wanting her to be happy even at his grumpiest, he always makes sure that he doesn’t upset her in way even if he’s mad at her. 
Squidward has shown to be very protective of her, if someone makes Tuba upset he would be the first to notice and confront those who hurt her. Whenever she’s in trouble ( such as being kidnapped) Squidward will attempt to go out of his way to save her even though most of the time he either fails to do so or is beaten out by SpongeBob. Squidward will offer to walk her back home if it’s dark to keep her safe, at times he refuses to let her out the Krusty Krab before he finishes work at night being worried for her. 
Squidward is well aware about her feelings for SpongeBob and this often confuses and annoys him as he sees SpongeBob as an annoying pest. He doesn’t get why Tuba is in love with him and may be slightly jealous by this fact. However he doesn’t let it get between their friendship and just accept it for what it is. Even though Squidward isn’t fond with Tuba’s infatuation with SpongeBob he still wants her to be happy and sometimes feels guilt for being critical about it. In “Dying For Pie” Squidward can’t bring himself to tell Tuba about SpongeBob’s potential death knowing it would break her heart but then would feel guilty for not telling her what happened once she notices SpongeBob is gone. 
Tuba often visits Squidward regularly to do Art and music related activities or to help out. She does sometimes come over as an excuse to be close to SpongeBob but she genuinely enjoys Squidward's company. She sees him as a friend that she can always count on. Squidward values this friendship a lot as he has found someone who he can feel relaxed with and is reliable. Some point after The Great Snail Race. Squidward gave away his former purebred snail Snellie to Tuba possibly as a gift.
===Patrick===
Tuba often gets along well with Patrick but can sometimes feel annoyed by his stupidity . Patrick sometimes forgets her name and just refers to her as 'girl SpongeBob' and at times has nearly revealed Tuba’s crush to SpongeBob but either forgets what he says at the end or mixes words up. 
There have been times they had to both work together which often ends in disaster with both of them ending up arguing. In 'Future Mrs. SquarePants' Patrick arranges a blind date for SpongeBob and Tuba and tried to help Tuba prepare for it by trying to make her confidence in her appearance (by over doing her makeup and wearing oversized hells making her look worse) and asking the 'right' questions which ended up causing embarrassment for both SpongeBob and Tuba making the date a failure.
===Sandy===
Tuba regularly visits the treedome to see Sandy. While at first she was quite jealous at Sandy for getting to be around SpongeBob more often “Girl Talk” They have since become great friends and usually spend their time together doing typical feminine activities whenever Sandy wants to take a brake from her usual tomboyish hobbies and show her more feminine side. 
Sandy and Tuba have almost sister like relationship where Sandy sees Tuba as her little sister always on the look out for her while Tuba admires Sandy’s ambitions and knowledge about the land above. 
Sandy dose playfully tease Tuba about her crush on SpongeBob but has tried to help her gain more confidence in herself while promising Tuba she will never tell SpongeBob about it. With the possibility of SpongeBob having a crush on Sandy, this creates a love triangle between the three . 
===Mr. Krabs===
Tuba and Mr. Krabs have a mixed relationship. While usually, Tuba gets along fairly well with him, she can’t stand his selfish and greedy side. She calls him out on his behaviour when it effects SpongeBob and Squidward. Mr. Krabs occasionally has made sexist remarks about her (while not doing so to the female characters) such as telling her to go clean up the restaurant while not actually being employed because it’s a woman’s job, and has made fun of her being a Damsel in distress. He doesn’t like the fact SpongeBob gives her free food making him lose some profits.
Despite seemingly being a bit harsh on Tuba. Mr. Krabs thinks she’s a sweet girl and has tried to suggest SpongeBob to go out with her thinking they’ll make a cute couple ,he jokes about their potential wedding day and has pointed out to him about Tuba’s obvious infatuation. SpongeBob much like how he is towards Tuba’s feelings is also completely oblivious to what Mr. Krabs tries to suggest.
He has temporarily employed Tuba a few times due to desperation or sometimes as a part time employee. 
===Snellie===
Snellie is Tuba’s pet snail who use to belong to Squidward in The Great Snail Race. Squidward most likely gave Snellie to Tuba as a gift rather than selling her due to their friendship despite having to pay a lot for Snellie due to her pedigree status. Just like how SpongeBob loves Gary, Tuba loves her pet snail very much as well. Whenever Snellie goes missing Tuba knows that she’s gone directly to SpongeBob’s house to see Gary. Because of their romantic relationship Snellie eventually had babies leaving Tuba with a load of baby snails to look after while originally she intended to keep them all they turned out to be overwhelming for her to look after and she resorted to trying to get rid of them. (In a behind the scene look, it's shown that Snellie is dating Gary)
===Gary===
Tuba often offers to petsit Gary, and is definitely the safe option for SpongeBob to choose over people like Patrick.
=== Mrs. Puff ===
Tuba use to attend a boating school at some point and earned her drivers license, it’s unknown if she did before or after moving to Bikini Bottom. Tuba however did need to attend Boating School again after getting herself in a boat crash (which wasn’t her fault but got the blame) in “Back to School”. At first Tuba was annoyed about needing to go back to boating school but then found out she would be in the same class as SpongeBob making her happy. Because SpongeBob has attended longer and failed many times Mrs Puff screamed when she saw Tuba and nearly refused her to go to classes because she got reminded of all the bad memories of SpongeBob causing near death experience during driving tests as they look similar. Whenever Mrs Puff sees Tuba driving a boat in the distance she gets a slight heart attack thinking it’s SpongeBob driving on his own. She also might have trust issues with Tuba as she nearly got fooled when Tuba disguised herself as SpongeBob to illegally help him finally pass by doing the driving for him only to be revealed near the end when Tuba got angry when Mrs Puff mentioned some rumours going on about her in “ License to Disguise ” (‘Spongey Boating’ in other countries) 
===Plankton ===
Tuba dislikes Plankton mainly because he's kidnapped and held her hostage many times to try and get the secret formula. Plankton genuinely believes SpongeBob and Tuba are together as he often refers to her as “SpongeBob’s girlfriend” and thinks kidnapping her would bribe him to hand over the secret formula. Due to the amount of times Plankton has kidnapped Tuba (1,257 times to be exact) it’s gotten to the point where even Karen has made fun of him for it and has told him many times that SpongeBob and Tuba are not a couple. Tuba admits that she could probably easily stop Plankton from kidnapping her but allows it anyway because she thinks it funny to watch him fail and gets the thrill of the moment SpongeBob comes and carries her away. 
“It’s just like Boy saves Girl.” -Tuba 
===Bubble Bass===
Bubble Bass seems to have an attraction to Tuba and often harasses her whenever they meet. It’s unclear if he’s doing so to spite SpongeBob (believing they’re a couple) or feels entitled. He has stalked her on some occasions and has gone as far as trying to force her to marry him. Tuba tries to stay away from him when possible. In his most noticeable appearance “Pickles” he threatens to force Tuba to go on a date with him(which of course she objects to) if SpongeBob forgets the Pickles the third time which is the main reason why SpongeBob ends up feeling upset knowing if he fails again ( and ends up doubting himself about his Krabby Patty making skills) he would feel responsible for putting her in a unwanted situation. 
Both SpongeBob and Squidward are aware of his behaviour towards Tuba and will confront him if he’s giving her unwanted attention. This is most likely the reason why Squidward walks Tuba back home after dark.
===Pearl===
As she's your typical teen girl, Tuba occasionally hangs out with Pearl, but her spoiled behaviour can get on Tuba's nerves easily. She doesn't mind seeing SpongeBob hang out or act kind to Pearl, because she's a minor. She thinks it's sweet of him to act the way he does to her.
==Appearances==
===Movies===
====The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie ====
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Tuba has a supporting role in the SpongeBob SquarePants movie. At the start of the film she phones SpongeBob congratulating him on being the soon to be manager at the new Krusty Krab 2 before the opening and mentions she’ll be returning soon from visiting her parents.
She is next mentioned by Patrick in the nut bar stating 'It’s a shame Tuba isn’t here to join us', causing SpongeBob to cry even more.
She returns to Bikini Bottom after it has been converted to Planktoplis. She notices that SpongeBob, Patrick or Squidward are not home. She heads to the Krusty Krab realizing that everyone is enslaved and sees Mr. Krabs frozen she tries to ask what’s happened but can’t hear him through the ice. Plankton barges in saying “ well it’s nice to see you Tuba I knew I was missing at least one slave” Tuba asks what he’s done to Bikini Bottom and where all her friends are which then Plankton explains that he’s on his way to take over the world and that everyone is under his control and that she’s next. Plankton attempts to put a mind control chum bucket hat on but can’t due to the hole in the middle of her head. She escapes and runs away to get help.
She is next seen in shell city trying to help SpongeBob and Patrick escape out the fish bowl, SpongeBob asks how and why she got there. She explains that Princess Mindy told her about them when she went to get help and went off to find them. When SpongeBob and Patrick tell her to get out, the” cyclops “ lurks behind the three of them she quickly hides and watches in horror as SpongeBob and Patrick are taken on the drying board. She climbs up towards where SpongeBob and Patrick are drying up, she attempts to help them get out but SpongeBob tells her not to come closer and to go save herself. Tuba is crying stating that she can’t leave them behind. SpongeBob and Patrick state to Tuba that they have left everyone down and for being kids, think Tuba is ashamed of them, Tuba replies that she doesn’t care if they’re kids (and explains she’s a goofy goober fan herself) and tells them that they haven’t let everyone down, when she’s about to reveal where they are Patrick interrupts her, he repeats 'Shell City' When they notice they made it to shell city Tuba makes a point that they didn’t fail on their mission , SpongeBob tells Tuba to go and take the crown back and be the one to save the day for once. She finally confesses her feelings telling SpongeBob that she loves him (and says that’s why she can’t leave him behind) and promises to take the crown back for him before they sing the goofy goober song and drying up fully. Tuba cries and the pirate audience in the movie theatre cry along with her, her tears merge with the heart shaped tear from SpongeBob and Patrick and cause it to movie towards the power supply. The smoke let’s off the fire alarm and sprinklers bring SpongeBob and Patrick back, Tuba is amazed and over joyed and hastily jumps to embrace SpongeBob. He asks if what she said about her feelings was true. She hesitates to speak while Patrick interrupts her confirming that her feelings are true. SpongeBob (while surprised by what he herd) says “let’s get going and we’ll discuss a date later” Tuba is overjoyed and flustered .While SpongeBob and Patrick try escape with the crown she tells them she’ll go and find the door the “cyclops “ comes to stop them, he grabs the crown with SpongeBob and Patrick holding onto it and he notices Tuba trying to run away and grabs her. The water sprinklers bring all the dead sea creatures to live, and he “cyclops” is ambushed by the other sea creatures, all three make it out and Tuba asks how they’re going to get back. SpongeBob clarifies that it’s no problem as they have the bag of winds Princess Mindy gave them. While SpongeBob and Tuba read the instructions Patrick let’s go if it and all three panic and run after the bag only for it to disappear into the sea. All three are bummed out and don’t know how to get back until they hear someone say “I can take you there” 
David Hasselhoff shows up to save the day ,while SpongeBob and Patrick asks who he is Tuba says “hello David “ and David says hi back recognising her revealing that she met him on her way to shell city and that’s how she got there. He offers all three a ride back. When they’re on their way home the “bigger boot” shows up revealing a stepped on Dennis emerging. Tuba asks who is he, SpongeBob reply’s with “ uh maybe you don’t want to know “ Dennis notices Tuba and says “ I see you got another little friend with you that’s just means a three kill bounty for me” Patrick gets hit to Hasselhoffs foot (after trying to stand up for himself and say he’s tired of running ) and yells for both of them to run. SpongeBob runs away leaving Tuba behind who is left alone with Dennis and petrified in fear, SpongeBob tells her to run for it, Dennis States that he’s not bothered about her and just wants SpongeBob. He looks at her and says he’ll deal with her later. She watches in fear as Dennis chases down SpongeBob and encourages him to jump to the leg on the other side . When Dennis grabs SpongeBob Tuba runs and yells to beg Dennis to let him go , he taunts her saying that her boyfriend is dead meat and she can’t do anything about it and hits her back next to the crown. SpongeBob brings out his bubbles burning Dennis’s eyes and nearly throws him off but Patrick saves SpongeBob leaving both of them on the edge of the foot. As Dennis is about to end them for good, Tuba comes running down with the crown yelling “ NOBODY HURTS MY SPONGEBOB!!” and hits Dennis off David Hasselhoff‘s body. 
After SpongeBob sets King Neptune and all the Bikini Bottom residents free. Tuba runs towards and embraces him before Squidward hands over his manager badge telling him that Bikini Bottom is saved thanks to him and Patrick. SpongeBob tells her than it wasn’t just them that saved the town and that if it wasn’t for her they probably wouldn’t be here. Tuba blushes and kisses him on the cheek then whisper to him not to forget about that date he promised , SpongeBob’s whole body turns red and the crowd goes “awwww” Patrick asks Mindy to do the same. 
Because the movie was originally supposed to be the series final this marks the first and only time Tuba has straight out confessed her feelings towards SpongeBob and the ending hints at them dating after the events. In a deleted scene she forcefully kisses him to encourage him to keep going when he doubts himself for being a kid. This scene was used in early trailers and promotional material but got cut from the final film.
====Sponge Out of Water====
Tuba joins with SpongeBob, Patrick ,Squidward, Mr. Krabs and Sandy to go and retrieve the Krabby Patty Formula from Burger beard. When they turn into their Super Hero forms Tuba becomes Mystic Ribbon. Her special power is she can extend and control her long indestructible bow ribbons from her mask to a possible limitless distance making her able to reach and grab from afar. Them being indestructible make it useful for her to grab to Burger Beard’s ship and pull back try to slow it down when her and the rest of the team tried to chase him down the road (they’re also useful to pull SpongeBob’s (Invicibubble) attention towards her) 
====Sponge on the Run====
Tuba heads off with Squidward, Mr Karbs ,Sandy and Plankton to go a rescue SpongeBob and Patrick after learning they will be executed at a show in Poseidon's palace. 
Tuba gives her testimony as to why SpongeBob’s life should be spared, giving her experience of meeting SpongeBob at Kamp Koral. In her flashback, it’s shown that SpongeBob witnesses her being bullied by two older kids who have taken her toy rabbit off her and begin to tease her about being too small and a “cry baby” to grab it back. Tuba begins to cry and runs away. As the bullies laugh, SpongeBob gets angered and confronts the bullies to “give that girl her toy back” but they laugh and mock him replying “Oh yeah how you make us?” SpongeBob brings out a tub of bubble solution and blows bubbles in their faces and gets it in their eyes. The bullies panic and howl in pain causing them to drop the toy rabbit and run off crying. SpongeBob picks the rabbit up and goes to find Tuba who is sat on a tree stump in the woods crying. As SpongeBob seeks out her location he picks a flower from the ground as he approaches behind her 
“Excuse me” he says , Tuba turns around and sees him but shyly hides behind the stump. “I think this belongs to you” he hands out her toy rabbit, Tuba slowly approaches him and reaches for her toy back. She remains silent as she puts her rabbit in front of her face to hide herself. “I suppose you don’t talk very much, I’m SpongeBob nice to meet you” Tuba then has the courage to talk back “uhhhh I’m Tuba ,um thank you for bringing my bunny back”
“Those bullies won’t pick on you anymore, I showed them” SpongeBob explains 
“You…. You did?” Tuba asks.
“Yeah I couldn’t just stand there and do nothing, I saw you getting picked on so I had to step in” SpongeBob replies as Tuba slightly blushes. 
“I never thought I’d see another sponge around here” SpongeBob states 
“Uh yeah me too, I only been here for a few hours but everyone just makes fun of me and no one wants me to be around them” Tuba explains and tears up
“Well I’ll be your friend, you seem like a nice girl and I’ll make sure no one else picks on you again” SpongeBob ensures her
“You will?!”Tuba excitedly asks but she then hides her face behind her rabbit. 
“Sure I will , oh by the way “ he gives Tuba the flower he picked earlier 
“I brought you this as well , I thought it would make you feel better” Tuba blushes and doesn’t say a word “well I’ll hope to see you sometime soon Tuba!” SpongeBob runs off leaving Tuba behind with the flower as she watches him run with awe and continues to blush, she looks down at the flower and smiles and looks back up with adoration settling the beginning of her long term crush. 
After her testimony, the audience approves going “Awwww” and even Poseidon is slightly touched by her story. Tuba explains that if they were to execute SpongeBob, they should execute her as well, because she doesn’t see a life without him worth living and sweetly begs them to not hurt him as SpongeBob has been there for her when she’s down.
However she suddenly goes crazy and pulls out a axe (that belonged to the executioner) threatening anyone who dares to go near or hurt SpongeBob warning that they’ll have to get through her first. Squidward and Sandy restrain her so she doesn’t cause an accident, before Mr Krabs gives his testimony. 
==Spin-Offs==
===Kamp Koral===
A young version Tuba appears in the prequel spin off Kamp Koral. Much like her older counterpart she has a crush on SpongeBob and is usually seeing hanging around Squidward (despite supposedly not knowing him till Old New Neighbour) She is very shy and doesn’t talk very much around others, she often has to be persuaded to join in activities. She is usually seen with her toy rabbit “Bubby” ( which resembles her future house) and tends to hide her face behind it. She has a blue dress instead of purple and has a pink bow and shoes 
=== SpongeBob’s Teenage Years===
Adolescent Tuba appears in the fanon prequel SpongeBob Teenage Years. She is an awkward happy go lucky, live in the moment tomboy that’s not afraid to stick up for herself when she gets bullied. But much like her older counterpart she likes SpongeBob and actually tried to fight Sandy for his love (Which SpongeBob was totally oblivious by) since she is rich she doesn’t like most people seeing her because in her words “They will think I’m a show off”. In this series she also hates being called Tuba So she settled on the nickname Tubie (a call-back to her original prototype name in old concept art). In her first days at her new school she was scared but SpongeBob was the one who helped her come over her fear. That’s when she really started to like him. In this series she wears a Buttoned up collar dress.
==Specials==
===Christmas Who? ===
Tuba appears when SpongeBob tells her , Patrick , Mr Krabs and Squidward about Christmas and gets excited about it. When SpongeBob tells her that Santa can bring her anything she wants she writes down “ A kiss from SpongeBob “ as the only gift on her wish list. She sings with the chorus during “ The very first Christmas to me “ song. She tries to get Squidward into the Christmas mood but he refuses to listen to her. She gets disappointed when she finds out Santa isn’t coming and tells SpongeBob that it wasn’t his fault and it’s wonderful that the whole town came together even if it didn’t go to plan. SpongeBob ignores her and is still upset about Santa not appearing she gives up and goes off with Patrick. When SpongeBob gives Squidward a wooden hand made clarinet, Squidward feels like a [donkey noise] for laughing at SpongeBob and dresses up as Santa to make him Happy , Tuba appears again not realising it’s Squidward in costume she whispers to him in secret what she wants ( being a kiss from SpongeBob) Squidward brings them close facing each other under the mistletoe and forces Tuba and SpongeBob’s faces together bashing their heads with their lips just barely touching causing SpongeBob to go dizzy with Tuba happily saying “ yay our first kiss awwwww thank you Santa!” and runs off happily.
=== Ugh===
Tuba doesn’t physically appear in this episode but her other ancestor Tube-Org she is very curious of the outside world but also very sensitive. She has also has a hunch for food eating almost all of the food she as served. She has proven to be very intelligent being part of the creation of “Underwater Fire” much like her present counterpart. At times she can be naïve she has a purple dress with blue flower shaped dots. She also has a stick bow on her head and she has one tooth in front that can be seen.
===Dunces and Dragons===
While Tuba herself dose not appear in this episode, her ancestor Tubella is a witch who is found in the forest by SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidly. She has a rivalry with Planktomamor and has tried to protect the village from him for years but gave up after always being accused of doing evil magic and threatened to be burned at the stake and left into a nearby forest knowing King Krabs and the Villagers will regret the way they treated her. She goes with SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidly to go a save princess Pearl to prove she’s not a wicked witch and be let back into the village. Unlike her future granddaughter Tuba, she does not show attraction to SpongeBob and she claims to dislike Knights due to how they always tried to arrest her for no reason.
===Pest of the West===
When SpongeBob asks Tuba if she has any famous relatives, she tells him that the McBloom family has been known for many generations (due to their high status) but mentions that her Great great great great aunt Lady Flute McBloom who was known for her charitable work for making clothing for the less fortunate as a skilled seamstress and that she was in a musical duo with her Cowboy brother Banjo McBloom (Her Great great great great great grandfather)
Even though they were more well off in comparison to everyone else, Banjo and Flute were among the many citizens of Dead Eye Gluch who were under the oppression of Dead Eye Plankton, Flute was the object of desire for Dead Eye Plankton, wanting to marry her for money. Flute refused to her hand in marriage to him even if he insisted that she had no choice, she refers to Dead Eye Plankton as “The most evil, vile and dastardly creature”. Banjo states that Dead Eye spooked all his livestock off his ranch forcing him to give it to Dead Eye . Pappy Krabs mentions that Banjo was one of the town’s previous Sheriff’s but immediately gave up the position not long after out of fear ensuring Spongebuck that he’ll hopefully be better a sheriff than Banjo was, who is now seen as a coward and laughing stock amongst the town.Banjo tries to defend himself saying that he didn’t know what would have happened to him as sheriff if he refused Dead Eye Plankton to marry his sister and not wanting to end up like the rest of the sheriffs at “Boot Hill” 
===Truth or Square===
Tuba appears in the flashback of SpongeBob and Sandy’s “wedding” as audience member crying thinking it’s real, a random fish asks her “ do you always cry at weddings” Tuba replies whining “ YOU HAVE NO IDEA!! IT SHOULD BE ME UP THERE!!!” When it’s revealed its just a play she is relieved and is the only one who applauds While everyone else leaves feeling ripped off. 
===What Ever Happened to SpongeBob===
Tuba Appears in the beginning when SpongeBob is trying to help his friends, She appears when SpongeBob tries to give her a drink but acsedently spills the drink on her with her saying “THANKS ALOT THIS IS GONNA TAKE MONTHS TO GET OUT AND, THIS WAS MY FAVORITE DRESS…IDIOT BOY. Covering her mouth right after she said that. She also appears when SpongeBob’s friends are noticing that SpongeBob is missing asking herself why did she be so mean to him. She also appears when they are searching for SpongeBob and she wonders if they are ever going to find him She also appears at the very end when SpongeBob sees that he’s not wanted in new kelp city anymore by saying to herself “I’m just glad your safe and sound SpongeBob”
Video games 
===Revenge of the Flying Dutchman===
Tuba is a NPC, just like SpongeBob’s other friends she gets hypnotized and kidnapped by the Flying Dutchman to join his crew. The Flying Dutchman hypnotizes her with a photo of SpongeBob. Before she’s taken she can be found in jellyfish fields and Bikini Bottom in her house. 
===Battle for Bikini Bottom===
Tuba is a NPC and appears in the main hub world outside her house. She will ask the player to destroy at least 100 robots in total so she feels safe. Doing so the first time rewards the player with a golden spatula. For every other 100 robots destroyed in total she rewards the player 2500 shiny objects. Once the robot counter has reached its maximum at 999 she will reward 25,000 shiny objects and then reward the player another golden spatula. 
She appears in the levels Jellyfish fields looking after Squidward after being stung, Goo Lagoon, kelp forest and her own dream segment in SpongeBob's dream. Her dream level is themed around her love for SpongeBob with floating clouds, rainbows, hearts and paintings depicting her and SpongeBob in romantic situations. In the starting cutscene she panics and SpongeBob asks “What’s with all the paintings “ tries to pass it of as her and his “half step brother cousin nephew” who happens to have a uncanny resemblance to SpongeBob in the paintings. SpongeBob mentions he doesn’t have a half step brother cousin nephew leaving Tuba very embarrassed, trying to talk to tuba afterwards will result with the response “don’t look at me, in fact just pretend all of this doesn’t exist okay? “ 
Once the player has collected 70 golden spatulas the player returns to SpongeBob's house. SpongeBob says “ Wow I’m amazed at all this time I haven’t had to rescue Tuba once, hay what you got there Gary?” Gary then hands him a letter that says “ I HAVE GOT YOUR GIRLFRIEND,STOP DESTROYING ROBOTS OR ELSE “ SpongeBob feels laughs and says what the-”that’s funny I don’t have a girlfriend and why do they want these robots around?” Gary meows guiding SpongeBob to the tv notifying him that the news is on “BRAKING NEWS!! LOCAL SWEETIE TUBA MCBLOOM IS MISSING, A KIDNAPPING HAS BEEN SUSPECTED BUT WE DON’T KNOW WHO AND WHY THEY’LL DO SUCH A THING AND WE HAVE THIS WITNESS WORD” plankton is interviewed stating that it wasn’t him. SpongeBob sighs “oh tarter sauce at least it’s not Plankton this but I hope she’s okay I gotta go and find her Gary” the player then has to obtain 5 more spatulas to open the Chum Bucket . At this point in the game the player can’t obtain anymore shiny objects or golden spatulas from Tuba if the player hasn’t obtained them before then. And except for SpongeBob’s Dream she doesn’t appear in any previous levels she appeared in before. When the player has gained access to the Chum Bucket it is revealed that it wasn’t actually Plankton who kidnapped Tuba but his robot doppelgänger who was getting fed up with SpongeBob and friends destroying the robots under his command and held her hostage to bait him in to finish him off with the SpongeBot believing she his girlfriend ( much like the real Plankton). When Robo Plankton reveals he’s has Tuba ( who is locked up in a cage ) he accidentally shoots the lock when trying to stop plankton from switching the Obey switch. She rushes to SpongeBob hugging him saying “ Oh SpongeBob I was terrified, I thought I would never see you again and uh sorry I got kidnapped again hehe”. After the first round of the SpongeBot boss fight. Robo Plankton enraged swoops down and abducts her again saying “ you’re coming with me again toots” taking her inside the SpongeBot where the final battle takes place. 
There are some unused animations in the games code indicating that Tuba was going to be playable at some point, this includes a attack animation with a jelly fish net, triple jump and obtaining a golden spatula. Some early beta footage show textures on walls where only SpongeBob can wall jump on that have rough drawings of both SpongeBob and Tuba showing that they were intended for her to use as well. She can be played using hacks but is incomplete and glitches out when trying to do certain actions which can lead to the game freezing. 
===Playable===
==== Lights, Camera, Pants! ====
====SBFW Circuit====
==== Nicktoon Heroes: Full Team Assault ====
In this game ( that’s totally not a ripoff of sonic heroes) Tuba is a run type character and is the leader of the Sweet team (the easy mode of the game). She teams up with Stimpy (Fight type) and Timmy Turner (Air type being able to wish to fly by Wanda) to go find and rescue Ren and Cosmo who have gone missing. At first they believe SpongeBob (who is teamed up with Danny Phantom and Jimmy Neutron as the Hero Team) might have something to do with their disappearance due to a mysterious picture that looks like it was sketched by a pencil so they try to track him down to get some answers ( also gives Tuba an excuse to see him)
Fun fact: According to the Japanese version’s dialogue she tries to force SpongeBob to marry her Wait WHAT? “スポンジ・ボブ君は逃げられない 今私たちは結婚するつもりです!” roughly translates to “You can’t escape SpongeBob, now we are going to get married! “ what the heck ? This really just a sonic heroes rip off right down to the that awkward Team Sonic and Team Rose cutscene. Did they not realise Tuba is supposed to be a bit shy about her feelings? She’s never said anything like this in anything else she’s been in so what the heck THQ or whoever the Japanese translator was.
== Fanon Series==
In the Fanon series,Tuba was introduced in season 336 in the episode ' Tuba McBloom' She is way more obsessive towards Spongebob and he is aware of her of her crush. Tuba actively Stalks him and annoys him but Spongebob still likes her as a friend. Depending on the writer she is shown to be his girlfriend.
== Behind the scenes==
She was created when during development of the series, Nickelodeon requested a female counterpart to SpongeBob (at the time was named SpongeBoy) for mainly possible merchandising purposes to appeal more to girls (as they thought Sandy and Pearl wouldn’t be as marketable)and be the Minnie Mouse equivalent to SpongeBob’s Mickey Mouse. Hillenburg was against the idea of SpongeBob being in a relationship and it went against his vision of all the main characters being different animals but liked the concept of having another female character in the cast who could be a trio with Sandy and Pearl. 
In early concept art she is given the name “SpongeGirl” (which was most likely a place holder name) which was then changed to “Tubie” then finally Tuba when a animator made a comment on how she kind of resembles the instrument very late into production (the original script for Old New Neighbor refer to her as Tubie) She was designed as a tube sponge as a reference to the actual animal and also differentiate her from SpongeBob to avoid her just being a female version of him and make her somewhat unique. She also originally lacked the bloomers with having a petticoat underneath her dress instead. To satisfy Nickelodeon’s requirement that there should be some romantic interest between the two, Tuba was made to have feelings that were kept secret much like Helga from Hay Arnold while keeping SpongeBob out of a romantic relationship.
Mary Kay Bergman was the original voice actress of Tuba in the first season of the show but tragically died within the same year the series first premiered. She was well known for her portrayal of multiple female characters on South Park and other voice over roles including some Nickelodeon shows being the original voice of Timmy Turner in the Oh Yeah Cartoon Fairly Odd Parents shorts. Her last episode she was credited on was “Fools of April”
After Bergman’s death Kath Soucie was offered to audition for Tuba as she was already working closely with Nickelodeon at the time mainly on Rugrats. Hillenburg thought she could give Tuba her cutesy innocents while also being able to show her feisty side that Bergman portrayed beforehand.
Tuba being a damsel in distress was made to be a running gag making fun of the cliché and to contrast with Sandy’s more tomboyish and independent personality. Over the years while most of the main cast would get flanderised to some degree, her crush on SpongeBob and being a damsel has been played down mainly due to media criticism of the character being a sexist stereotype and because in the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was given some character development proving herself to be the hero for once saving SpongeBob and Patrick from a near death experience. In more recent seasons while still having a crush on SpongeBob (despite confessing her feelings in the movie and apparently dating after the end) she is mainly seen hanging with Squidward being his only friend. Even though her crush isn’t brought up as much she has become noticeably more annoyed, angry and obsessed towards SpongeBob in the uncommon occurrence it is regarded or mentioned. She arguably has been flanderised with this aspect of her character. ( especially in seasons 6 and 7 where most fans claim that’s when the characters were at their worst)
==Trivia == 
*Her voice Actress Kath Soucie, has also voiced in other Nickelodeon shows most noticeably Phil and Lil and their mother Betty from Rugrats. She is also the original voice for Lola Bunny in Space Jam.
* She share many similarities with Minnie Mouse, both are female counterparts to the main character and wearing bows. Tubas underwear is on display and often plays the role of damsel in distress like Minnie did in her early appearances. She also shows similarities with Amy Rose from the Sonic The Hedgehog series with both having unreciprocated feelings for the title character and also having to be rescued. Tuba’s mannerisms and pose are quite similar with Amy’s classic design. Difference being that Tuba is shy towards SpongeBob while Amy is obsessed with Sonic.
*Excluding Gary and Plankton, Tuba is the shortest of the main cast being slightly shorter than SpongeBob.
*She claims to be 9 months and 1 day younger than SpongeBob putting her birthday at 15th of April 1987 based on SpongeBob’s birthdate on his drivers license.
*Tuba was once quiet popular in Japan most likely because her personality is seen as very cute among Japanese audiences. There was a whole line of clothes, accessories and cosmetics released exclusively in Japan in 2013 that focused on Tuba as well as some other female characters such as Sandy and Pearl.
*In season 1 her boots are more of a pinkish colour which got changed to match her dress and bow when the animation switched from cell animation to digital ink and paint. A lot of early pre movie merchandise have her in these pink boots.
*From the SpongeBob movie onwards her outfit has changed to a brighter violet colour. In some promotional artwork her boots are the original darker purple colour.
* Her super hero form (Mystic Ribbon) in Sponge out of Water is a parody of magical girl genre of anime sharing similar design aspects with Sailor Moon.
*Patchy the Pirate apparently ships them stating “Awwwrrr look how cute they are together “
*The maid outfit SpongeBob sometimes wear was revealed to belonged to Tuba when she mentioned she couldn’t find it for a fancy dress party meaning that he stole it at some point and this might be the same case for other dresses SpongeBob has worn.
*TuBob ( sometimes known as SponBa) is the fan term for the shipping of SpongeBob and Tuba. Another popular shipping among fans is SquiBa for Squidward and Tuba, this shipping is arguably more popular than TuBob due to Tuba and Squidward’s friendship and many fans preferring to ship SpongeBob and Sandy together.
* In the Persian dub of SpongeBob SquarePants much like how Sandy’s bikini attire got censored (in a very poorly edited dress) Tuba also received similar censorship in regards to her exposed bloomers with them edited to match the colour of her the rest of her outfit to make it look like a part of her dress and not as separate underwear.
*At the end of 'The Great Patty Caper' it shows SpongeBob has a grandson 75 years into the future. If taking into consideration that only those of the same species can have children (in real life Sea Sponges reproduce asexually) then it’s likely possible SpongeBob ended up marrying Tuba or at least had children with her.
* In the episode “The Tacky Time Travelers“ shows many possible future timelines one of them being him and Tuba end up married with 10 children with an 11th on the way as Tuba is seen visibly pregnant and exhausted with all her children bothering her, the infants and SpongeBob are crying non stop showing they got it from their father.
*In early production of “SpongeBob's Teenage Years” she was known to have a pinkish-purple Polo dress but after some changes she had the clothing she has today.
*As shown in “SpongeBob's Teenage Years” Tuba was in the high school cheerleading team, and would usually compete with Sandy even though they were on the same team.
* As shown above in the SpongeBob SquarePants fannon special finale SpongeBob’s Greatest Day! He proposes to Tuba but that episode is not cannon as it is a scrapped episode. 
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