Pipo

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**Pipo** is one of the main protagonists of *Sammy & Co*. He is a student in Lulu's class in the reef village located in the Southern Seas.

## Appearance

Pipo is roughly the same size as Ricky and Ella. He has a gray face that goes ecru under his mouth. His eyes are blue, and he has yellow scales.

## Personality

Pipo is cynical, pessimistic, grumpy, stubborn, and a bit lazy. He mainly prefers eating and sleeping all day instead of going outside the reef village to explore. He also has a tendency to complain which often drives Ricky, Ella, and Annabel crazy.

But despite his laziness and being a complainer, Pipo cares deeply for his friends and he's very loyal to them. He's deeply saddened when he and his father are about to move away from the reef village due to the noises in the village in "The Oasis", which lead to Pipo almost part ways with his friends. He's also a bit of a worrywart whenever he and his friends venture outside the reef village since he knows that the ocean can be very dangerous with numerous predators around, but he also has courage whenever his friends' lives are at stake. And whenever there's a situation, Pipo is often there to help them in need and he enjoys spending time with them.

Like his best friend Ricky, Pipo tends to be a bit egotistical. His friendship with his friends was put to a test in "Pipo's Pack" when Pipo left the group to join the Rockfish to rehearse for a synchronized swimming competition that was organized by Lulu and he behaved like a mean leader of the pack by bossing them around and demanded each of them to correctly do his dance movements. Eventually, Pipo realized how pushy he was to the Rockfish when he found out that they planned to get rid of him from the group once they win the competition due to his bossiness, and he returned to his real friends at the end of the episode.

Pipo can also be a bit gullible at times and often believe in lies. This is evident in "The Walk of the Butterfly Fish" when he believed that George is going to teach him how to walk on his fins, unaware that the seagull is tricking him so he can try to eat him. Once he found out he's been tricked, Pipo can get very upset and mad for being lied at by someone even when the lies are very obvious to him, but he didn't pick it up sooner.

## Family

### Tree

    = **Male**

    = **Female**

    = **Gender Unknown**

## Relationships

### Ricky and Ella

Pipo is good friends with the two baby sea turtles of the reef village. But out of the two, Pipo views Ricky as his best friend, as revealed in "The Pearl Hunt". Pipo is oblivious about Ricky's infatuation with Ella and he often unintentionally ruin it for him, as seen in "The Rival". However, he's willing to secretly help them hang out with each other when Sammy and Ray got into an argument and split the reef in "A Divided Reef".

### Annabel

As the only members of the group to not be a turtle, Pipo and Annabel are very close despite being polar opposites when it comes to their personalities. They're both very loyal to Ricky and Ella, and they would often help them in need. Whenever the two turtles got into a fight, as seen in "A Pretend Fight" and "A Divided Reef", Pipo and Annabel would both serve as their mediator to help find an alternative solution for them.

### Pipo's father

Pipo lives with only his father at the reef village. He tends to be annoyed by his father's blindness and stubbornness, but he loves him very dearly and is very protective of him. And because of his father's inability to see well, Pipo often acts as his guide so that he doesn't run into something or someone in the village.

### Sammy and Ray

While Pipo doesn't interact with Sammy and Ray a lot, he respects them since they're the leaders of the reef village as well as the grandfathers to Ella and Ricky, respectively.

### Elliot

Pipo befriends Elliot after he escapes from "The Tank" in "Wild Life" since they're both butterfly fish. He and his friends help teach him how to live in the wild before they can get him back to his mother who still lives in the tank.

### Roby

Pipo met Roby when they're outside of the reef village with Ricky, Ella, and Annabel in "The Rival". When he visited the village, Roby told him and his classmates a whole bunch of lies about himself in order to gain their attention and Pipo believed that Roby is an orphan who travels by himself. Later when Ricky got himself inside of a lobster cage and is about to pull away, Pipo, his friends, and Roby all work together to save him. After his lies are exposed near the end of the episode, he apologizes to him and his friends for lying and they all become his friends.

### The Rockfish

Like the rest of his friends, Pipo doesn't like Glitz, Crudd, and Babbles since they like to bully him and his friends, and the Rockfish are on Big Boss's side. In "Pipo's Pack", Pipo briefly joined the Rockfish when he had enough of his friends' inability to correctly rehearse his synchronized swimming for a competition. Throughout his time with the Rockfish, Pipo bossed them around and demanded each of them to correctly do his synchronized swimming movements in order for him to beat Ricky's group. Eventually, Pipo realized how pushy he was to the Rockfish when he found out that they planned to get rid of him from the group due to his bossiness, and he returned to his real friends at the end of the episode.

### Big Boss

Like the rest of his friends, Pipo doesn't trust Big Boss because of his desire to rule the reef village with an iron fin. And because of Pipo's loyalty to his home, he and his friends often work together to foil Big Boss's numerous plans before he overthrows Sammy as the village chief and takes over the reef.

### Marco and Philippe

Since Marco and Philippe are both henchmen to Big Boss, Pipo doesn't trust them and he views them as his enemies. When Philippe briefly quits being Big Boss's henchmen in "Moray's Word of Honor", Pipo became suspicious and believed that he's faking it.

### Jax

Just like with Marco and Philippe, Pipo doesn't trust Jax since he's heavily associated with Big Boss.

## Trivia

* In the Polish version, he is called Figo.
* Because Pipo is created to be the fourth main character of *Sammy & Co*, he's the only main character who didn't appear in *A Turtle's Tale 2: Sammy's Escape from Paradise*.
	+ And as a result, it's unknown how he met and become friends with Ricky, Ella, and Annabel.
	+ He's also the only main character who didn't have a character biography on the official *Sammy & Co* website.
* Despite being the main character, "Eggheads" and "Grandmas to the Rescue" are the only Season 1 episodes in which Pipo didn't appear.
* As of "The Walk of the Butterfly Fish", Pipo is the only fish to have seen walking on the island after George taught him how to walk on his fins.
* Pipo once accidentally swallowed a pearl in "The Pearl Hunt", but he manages to spit it out near the end of the episode.
* Pipo seems to like eating jellyfish, as revealed in "Feathered Turtle".
* According to Pipo in "The Precious Ring", he always fails a test even if he does his homework or not.
* In "Fortune and Fib Telling", Pipo had trouble figuring out what he wants to be when he grows up. Eventually, after he tricked Big Boss into believing there's a seaquake, Pipo decided to be an actor.
* An Animation Magazine article erroneously wrote that Pipo is a flute fish instead of a butterfly fish.

## References

1. ↑ File:International Credits 008.png
2. ↑ File:International Credits 002.png
3. ↑ In "Pipo's Pack"
4. ↑ By Ricky in "Pipo's Pack"
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 By Babbles in "The War of the Fish"
6. ↑ Only in "Pipo's Pack"
7. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20160117051348/http://www.sammy-series.com/en
8. ↑ https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/zodiak-kids-snaps-up-sammy-co-rights-ahead-of-miptv/

Albert • Alpha • Arthur • Billy • César • Jimbo • Lulu • Margaret • Ray • Rita • Rose • Sammy • Shelly

Lulu's class
Aroun • Mika • Mya • Oscar • The Rockfish (Babbles • Crudd • Glitz)

Characters from outside the reef
Barracudas • Big Boss • Jax • John's flock (George • John • Paul • Ringo) • Leonard • Marco • Philippe

Albert (hammerhead shark) • André • André's lobster colony • Bernard • Big Boss's girlfriend • Boris • Boris' pilot fish • Brice and Bronco • Coralia • Eddy • Edgar • Leopold • Lucille • Manuel and Consuelo • Maurice • Nautilus • Niko's mother • Roby's parents • Rosie • Rudy Reef • Seaweed Ball Guardian • Sea snake • Visto • Yoko

Children
Coralia's children • Eliot • Ella's cousins • Ella's siblings • Jumpette • Leopold's children • Marius • Niko • Ricky's siblings • Roby

Characters from the past
Ben • Fluffy • Jacko, Ollie, and Sandra • Robbie • Sammy's siblings • Shelly's siblings • Slim • Vera

Humans
Snow • Snow's hippie community

"Perfect Universe" characters
Lola • Perfect Universe's Annabel • Perfect Universe's Crudd • Perfect Universe's Glitz • Perfect Universe's Pipo • Perfect Universe's Ricky • Perfect Universe's Sammy

Mentioned characters
Alpha's mother • Clara • Coco • Eliot's mother • Ella's mother • John I • Lulu's grandmother • Lulu's great-aunt • Pipo's mother • Ricky's cousins