Norbert Beaver

**Norbert Beaver** is a fictional character in the American animated television series *The Angry Beavers*. He is voiced by actor Nick Bakay and was created and designed by Mitchell Schauer. He first appeared in the series' first episode "Born to be Beavers" on April 19, 1997.

He is the oldest son and child of Leonard and Rose Beaver, and the older brother of Daggett, Stacy, and Chelsea. He is also the boyfriend/future husband of Treeflower, as well as the future father of Lily and Petunia Beaver.

## Physical Appearance

Norbert is an American beaver with blond fur, light brown tail, and a light purple nose. His hairstyle is not static, and he varies it for special occasions or as the plot demands. Throughout the series, Norb is often seen wearing small eyeglasses for reading, hinting that he may have inherited some vision problems from his father. He gets his face from his mother and his fur, nose, and tail color from his father.

His nightwear consists of a golden yellow shirt with a purple N and stripe on the collar and sleeves and purple pants with golden yellow pinstripes.

His swimwear is a black speedo.

In the beginning of the episode "Beach Beavers a Go-Go", he wore a pink Hawaiian shirt with medium purple triangles.

After meeting Treeflower, Norbert would occasionally dress as a hippie, specifically when she visited or while thinking of her.  This outfit consisted of a brown fringed jacket, a purple and blue zigzag headband, brown sandals, small round sunglasses and a tie-dyed tail. He also wore a chain around his neck with a special springy doorstop that he received as a gift from Treeflower.

For winter, his outfit consists of a blue knit hat, a green sweater, blue mittens, a red-white-and-blue striped scarf, blue pants, and white boots.

Whenever he plays soccer, his uniform consists of a black and white striped shirt with a red stripe on the sleeves and collar, black shorts, white gloves, and red cleats.

In the pilot episode "Snowbound", Norbert had a different character design very similar to Dag. He was re-designed so that the two beavers could be told apart more easily. This design was changed in the Season 1 version of the episode.

## Personality

Norbert (often called Norb or Norby) is more relaxed than his younger brother, but most of the time he's just being lazy. He's only older than Daggett by four minutes , but Norb usually takes advantage of this and bosses Dag around. Norb also enjoys tricking Dag into getting himself into trouble or to make him look like an idiot or even hurt.

Norb mispronounces words on purpose to sound cool. On the rare occasions Norb gets along with his brother, he will give him a big bear hug and say "Big hug!", even though he knows that Dag hates it.

Despite being mostly mellow, he cares more about what other people think of him than Dag does. He also tends to panic and lose his self-confidence the moment he notices Daggett manages to outperform him in any way. When this happens, he tends to desperately go through great lengths to come out on top again. This is best shown in the episode "Un-Barry-ble", where Norbert becomes utterly horrified at the fact of Daggett being cooler than him. As a result, he started acting like Daggett in a desperate attempt to be as cool as him. A similar thing happened in "Long Tall Daggy", where he became very uncertain of himself after he noticed that Daggett has become taller than him, despite Daggett being his younger brother. He immediately started trying out all sorts of insane methods to make himself be taller than Daggett.

Although Norbert seems like a big jerk, he does have a more sophisticated side and is a great lover of the arts. This is best seen in the episode "Euro Beavers". He also seems to enjoy playing classical music, as shown in "Un-Barry-ble", "Slap Happy" and "Three Dag Nite". In "Nice & Lonely", it has also been shown that he likes origami.

Norbert can also be very understanding and compassionate at times. An example of this is in the episode "Gift Hoarse," in which after seeing Daggett get a measly pine tree air freshener for Arbor Day (a crummy gift compared to the massive toy train set Norb got), Norbert actually offers to give his brother his much better gift in exchange for his pine tree air freshener purely out of brotherly kindness. Another example of this is in "Bummer of Love" in which at one point Treeflower expresses her stage fright to him and tells him that she's scared. After hearing this, Norbert relieves his girlfriend's worries and calms her down by calling her "babe" and telling her that she should be positive about the performance.

Norbert is also a ladies man, as if this wasn't already apparent with his romantic relationship with Treeflower. Examples include "Born to Be Beavers", in which during his temporary residence inside the Hen House, he addresses all of the hens as "ladies" and treats them as actual women. Another example is in the episode "Beaver Fever," in which during the scene where Norbert and Daggett argue over who's song it is, Norbert can be seen surrounded by human women on the couch (all of which are fangirls that Norbert would never want a romantic relationship with). Another example is in the episode "Beach Beavers a Go-Go", where multiple human women all admire him for his volleyball skills and his musical/singing skills. This has always been attributed to his charismatic and laid-back personality. However despite the many women that admire him, Norbert would never want to be in a committed romantic relationship with any of them as he is already in a relationship with Treeflower and would never be with anyone else besides her.

## Trivia

* Norbert is based off of Mitch Schauer, as states in a 1996 interview.
* He is a bed biter.
* He loves sucking the filling out of jalapeno peppers.
* He does not like eating baklava.
* According to *The Angry Beavers* pitch bible, Norb's original name was "Stig".
	+ In an earlier piece of concept art, his name before that was “Slack”.
* In the episode "Bye Bye Beavers," Norbert was referred to as Salem multiple times by Daggett. This is obviously a reference to the fact that Nick Bakay voiced Salem Saberhagen in the 1996 *Sabrina the Teenage Witch* TV sitcom and *Sabrina: The Animated Series*.
* He and Daggett are the only two characters to appear in every single episode of the entire series.
* His hairstyle got thicker throughout each season.
* His favorite song is "Patches" by Clarence Carter.
* When asked which beaver is harder to draw, Mitch Schauer stated Norbert was due to his hairstyle.
* He and Daggett’s horoscope is Pisces, which is fitting considering they’re twins much like the zodiac.