Deema (Bubble Guppies)

**Character Info** • Outfits • Songs Sung • Gallery

## Deema

You've certainly come to the right place!

* Catherine Ashmore Bradley (Season 5 episodes 1-2 singing, episode 3-26 speaking)
* Zoe Glick (Season 6)

## Characteristics

### Likes

Singing, dancing, and acting in plays, Comedy

### Dislikes

Garbage, Broccoli (formerly)

**Deema** is a main character of the Nickelodeon show Bubble Guppies. She is a female guppy with a personality as big as her hair! She's energetic, funny, and loves to be the center of attention. She often speaks in an operatic, singsong voice. She loves to tell jokes and make others laugh. She is the best friend of Molly. Deema likes to do things in an exaggerated fashion-- from singing joyfully to weeping melodramatically, even in the same scene.

## Personality

Whether playing store or leading our audience in a dance, Deema's style is always over the top! She likes to dance, act in plays, talk in funny voices, and make silly faces. She is often in the shop segments, and sings most of the dance songs. Deema rarely does lunch jokes, however, she has done a few of them. She also has a nickname for Nonny, "Nonners".

## Physical Appearance

Deema has fair skin and blue eyes. She has huge, fluffy, golden yellow 70's hair. She wears orange hoop earrings. Her tail is orange with yellow polka dots. Her bikini top matches her tail.

## Skills

### Singing Skills

Deema sang the most dance songs in Season 1 along with Season 3. She has a powerful singing voice like Molly. She has sung her own song in season 1 which was Big Bubble City. Also, in season 3, she sang with Oona in the song Flutter Guppies Realm Song. Plus, she sings background a lot. In Season 4, Deema also sang So You Want To Be A Princess. You can also notice her singing backup in the song Come To Your Senses.

### Dancing Skills

Deema loves to dance. In Happy Clam Day!, Deema couldn't wait to dance. She was also the main dancer in a lot of dances in all the seasons, especially Season 2 and Season 3. She has done the most dance songs in all seasons. During the pop songs, she is usually seen as backup with Gil and Molly.

### Music Skills

Like the other Bubble Guppies, Deema is very musically talented. She is always smiling and cheerful when it comes to music. You can usually see her playing the keyboard or tambourine. She plays the accordion in sing About Everything, and the trombone in The Unidentified Flying Orchestra!

## Deema's Relationships

### Molly (Best Friend)

Deema and Molly are best friends. They usually sing songs and dance together. In Super Shrimptennial Celebration, Deema sang the pop song instead of Molly, who later sang the dance song in that same episode.

### Gil (Good Friend)

Deema seems to have a strong friendship with Gil. Both of them love to show off and being the center of attention. They both love to sing and dance, and have similar carefree personalities. They both love airplanes as seen in Gup, Gup and Away! when they were both talking about it during the episode.

### Goby (Good Friend)

Both Goby and Deema are a few of the show's main entertainers for they love to pretend to be something else. Whenever Goby tells a story, Deema seems to always have a role in it. In The Summer Camp Games!, they can be seen hugging each other after completing the summer camp challenge.

### Oona (Close Friend)

Like Molly, Oona is also a close friend of Deema's. They work well together, and an example of this is "The Grumpfish Special!", in which they get the idea to open a pizza restaurant together. They both also love baby animals as seen in The Oyster Bunny! and Bubble Puppy!. When Gil and Molly told them what animals they saw at the farm, they were both squealing to each other about it.

### Nonny (Good Friend)

Deema is one of Nonny's good friends. There are examples that show she is the only one to call him Nonners. In the On The Beach pop song, she can be seen putting sunscreen on Nonny's back.

## Trivia

* Deema started the "Supplies!" running gag on the show, which was again used by Goby in The Legend of Pinkfoot and in Only the Sphinx Nose! by Mr. Grouper and a camel.
	+ The gag again appears in The Kingdom of Clean! in its pop song, Healthy Habits.
* In Super Shrimptennial Celebration, Deema sings the pop song instead of the dance song (the dance song is sung by Molly instead.)
	+ This is the first pop song she has performed in the series.
* Deema has a distinctive opera-style voice that is sometimes heard whenever she is singing or talking.
* Deema's best friend is Oona.
* According to Bubble Guppies Collector Cards, Deema's favorite lunch is mac'n'cheese and fizzy water.
* In The Crayon Prix!, she stated that her favorite color is red.
* Deema seems to be one of the more social guppies and hardly ever frowns.
* In Ducks in a Row!, she called Gil "drummer-boy". She seems to like giving "pet names" usually during shop segments, as she called Molly and Oona "Kitten", "Dear" or "Sweetie".
	+ In We Totally Rock!, she called Nonny "Nonners".
	+ In The Summer Camp Games!, she calls Goby "Sunshine".
* Deema occasionally waves to the viewers during a montage as a way of breaking the fourth wall. She has waved to the viewers in Can You Dig It? during the excavation, and in X Marks the Spot! when the gang crossed Buccaneer Bridge.
* Deema is the only Guppy to normally wear jewelry, which is her earrings.
* In Happy Clam Day! towards the end of the episode, Deema says, "The suspense is maddening!" This is one of her most famous quotes.
* Deema is the first Guppy to have a daydream sequence. This occurs in the end of Tooth on the Looth! when she imagines her visit from the Tooth Fairy.
	+ Deema is the first and only Guppy to lose a tooth, which was in Tooth on the Looth!.
* In Season Two, Deema has had all of the shop segments until Tooth on the Looth! where Goby does the shop segment.

* In Humunga-Truck!, it is revealed that her favorite type of truck is an ice cream truck.
* A running gag has occurred where she points out that someone has something with them. In Ducks in a Row!, she pointed out that Nonny had his whistle. In Bubble Puppy's Fin-tastic Fairytale Adventure, she pointed out that Goby had his magic beans. In The Cowgirl Parade, she pointed out that Molly had her lasso.
* She played the adventure segment's antagonist in The Spring Chicken Is Coming.
* She also played the antagonist in The Kingdom of Clean!
* The top of Deema's hair sort of resembles the preschool that she attends.
	+ Her hair also resembles the hair of another Nickelodeon character, Didi Pickles from Rugrats.
	+ Sometimes, in pictures, Deema's hair is flipped around in the other direction, if you turn your head and look at the picture below so that Deema is right side up, you'll notice that her hair is different.
* Since Season 2, whenever a shop segment takes place, Deema sets the shop up by saying "Well, you've certainly come to the right place!"
* In Check It Out!, she might consider writing a book about her life: an autobiography.
* In Season 2, Deema doesn't sing a lot of dance songs.
* In the dance song "Orbit" her earrings were missing; this may have been either an animation error or she may have taken them off.
* Deema's Season 3 voice actress, Grace Kaufman, is the daughter of David Kaufman; the voice of Danny Phantom.
* For some reason, Deema's name is "Dina" in the European French Dub.
	+ Her name is pronounced "Dema" (deh-ma) in Latin American Spanish Dub.
* A funny gag that some people might not notice is how Deema is able to get her big hair into small hats, like when she is wearing the pirate bandana in X Marks the Spot!
* In Puddleball and in the Sporty Style version of Rock Your Style from Guppy Style, Deema was wearing her baseball cap backwards.
* She is one of only two guppies who know Spanish, the other being Goby. During the adventure segment in Firefighter Gil to the Rescue, she says the phrase "muy caliente" which translates to "very hot".
* She narrates the adventure segments in Bubble Kitty, Sheep Doggy and The Mighty, Untidy Titans!.
* In Fruit Camp!, Deema tried broccoli for the first time.
* Deema's favorite ocean animal is a narwhal, as seen in The New Guppy.
* For some reason, Zooli has Deema's background in the Season 5 theme song.
* She and Gil are the only two guppies that have blue eyes.
	+ Her eyes appear to be a lighter blue than Gil’s.
* Deema has a habit of going upside down. This is seen in the show's intro.
* Her name is of Arab origin, and it ironically means "rainy cloud" as her hair is kind of cloud shaped.
* According to Jonny Belt, Deema was based on Jo Anne Worley from Rowan & Martin's Laugh In. She also has similarities to Goldie Hawn, being the "dumb blonde" and all.
* Deema's birthday was celebrated in Fogzilla!, making her the second Guppy to have their birthday celebrated, the first being Nonny in Secret Agent Nonny!.
* In development, Deema's outfit was originally going to be pink.
* In a scene from It's a Holiday! , Deema seems to be separated from the others in a Thanksgiving feast and around Hanukkah festivities, hinting she could be Jewish. It is also likely because she has pale skin, curly hair, and of her similarities to Didi Pickles and Goldie Hawn (who are both Jewish as well).