Gil (Bubble Guppies)

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## Gil

Totally awesome!

**Gil** is a main character of the Nickelodeon show Bubble Guppies. He is an energetic male guppy and a turbo charged boy. He is also kind, helpful and a really good friend. Gil is one of the co-hosts of the show, as well as one of the two main protagonists, the others being Molly.

## Personality

Gil is the silly leader of the Bubble Guppies along with Molly. He is messy; he's always been struck by lightning or just getting bad luck. Gil's very silly when it comes to the sketches before the guppies are shown playing or talking after lunch. He's always being chased by animals, objects and even planets! Gil is a (usually) brave, not very cautious male guppy, he never over thinks anything, he just goes with it. He also loves to play music, including singing and dancing. He tends not to do so well under pressure, as seen in the Mr. Grumpfish Special!. He sometimes also gets startled very easily.

## Social Life

Gil's social skills is apprentice-leveled. He's good at speaking. Gil's age could be from 5-7. Gil uses low vocabulary when speaking to the viewers.

## Physical Appearance

Gil has peach skin, cow-licked cerulean blue hair, and blue eyes. He has a medium, pale, and forest green camouflage patterned tail. He usually doesn't wear tops. In Good Hair Day, his hair is too long, so Miss Jenny cuts it just the way he likes it.

## Gil's Relationships

### Molly (Best/Close Friend)

Molly and Gil are the best and close of friends and they are always seen next to each other. They're both the main characters and protagonists of the series as well as the show's co-hosts. There are hints that he may have a crush on her as for the two of them hug each other a lot and Gil often tries to make her laugh. In the end of Good Hair Day, she compliments him that she likes his haircut and he thanks her. She may return his feelings as she often calls him 'Gilly'.

### Goby (Best Friend)

Goby and Gil are best friends. They always play together and they'll never leave each other's side! They are both right-handed and they have the same interest. Goby sees Gil as a brother and best friend. These best friends have a couple of story segments together, and they often walk to school together. They both love rock and roll as well.

### Deema (Good Friend)

Gil and Deema are both great singers and great dancers. They look similar, for example they are the only guppies with blue eyes, and they have almost the same personality. In the episode Call a Clambulance! they are seen holding hands, but in fear.

### Oona (Close Friend)

Gil and Oona are close friends. They are interested in the same things. They love to play around and sometimes tease each other. In Can You Dig It?, throughout the episode, Oona was tricking Gil into thinking there was a real dinosaur until the end of the episode when he realized it was her. These two good friends also do a few story segments together.

### Nonny (Good Friend)

Nonny and Gil are very good friends despite their different personalities. Gil is nice to Nonny and helps him out like in Fishketball when he helps Nonny catch the ball. Gil has been shown to respect Nonny's intelligence.

### Zooli

They met in The New Guppy. Barely anything is known about the relationship. However, they high-fived in Genie in a Bubble!.

### Bubble Puppy

Gil is the owner of Bubble Puppy. Bubble Puppy is Gil's pet puppy and best friend. Gil adopted him at the animal shelter in the episode of the same name. Sometimes Bubble Puppy causes some of Gil's misfortunes. But Gil has never been angry with his puppy anyway. Whenever his pup is in danger, Gil won't hesitate to rescue Bubble Puppy, no matter what trouble he is in.

## Skills

Gil is good at singing, dancing, and could possibly be a comedian someday, due to his goofy personality.

### Singing Skills

Gil's singing voice has gone higher since Season 1. He is fond of singing long and high notes. This is because his voice actor has changed. In Season 1, he'll normally just sing a few notes at a time. He has done many dance songs and pop songs in Season 2, more than in Season 1.

### Dancing Skills

Gil's dancing is very advanced. He has been a background dancer in many episodes, songs and field trips. Gil has done many dances in season 1, 2 and 3.

### Music Skills

Gil's musical ability is similar to the other guppies. He plays in a professional way, as if he had mastered an instrument overnight. He has mastered the 3 primary instruments common to the Bubble Guppies series: vocals, guitar, and drums. Gil has played both kinds of guitars only in Season 1 (acoustic in Who's Gonna Play The Big Bad Wolf" and electric in We Totally Rock). Gil has played the drums only twice: At the concert in We Totally Rock!, and in the Big Warm Friendly Smile pop song from the episode A Tooth on the Looth, and. In later episodes, such as Only the Sphinx Nose! and Bubble Duckies!, he goes back to playing electric guitar during the pop song segments.

## Trivia

* Gil has had the most appearances as a main character (followed by Molly).
* Gil is the only guppy to appear in every pop song.
* Gil is the only one out of the guppies who screams.
* Gil is often the target of the jokes in his and Molly's sketches, usually being chased away by an animal or the Little Fish and sometimes is gullible for doing anything else. Gil just has bad luck (sometimes).
* Gil's favorite color is purple.
* Gil may have feelings for Molly.
* Gil's best friends are Molly and Goby.
* Gil's lunch box is the same color pattern on his tail, but it is blue instead of green.
* Gil has done a lunch joke, he has done two lunch jokes so far. He has done one in Call a Clambulance! and The New Guppy!
* Gil is the only guppy with a one-syllable name (despite the two-syllable name Molly calls him, "Gilly").
* Gil is ticklish.
* Gil (along with Molly and Bubble Puppy) is often used to represent the show on merchandise and other things.
* Gil is named after the gills of a fish.
* In Super Shrimptennial Celebration, during one of the sketches Molly is the target instead of Gil.
* In Happy Holidays, Mr. Grumpfish!, it is revealed that he loves cookies.
* It is revealed in Happy Clam Day! that Gil is afraid of bees, however this is never addressed again. In the episode, "Bring on the Bugs", he got over his phobia.
* In The Grumpfish Special!, Gil was the only one who wasn't wearing a chef's outfit. He was however, wearing one during the pop song in Super Shrimptennial Celebration!
* Gil's favorite book is "Secret Agent Stories" in Check It Out!.
* Gil's US voice actor, Zachary Gordon, is the star of the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies, as Greg Heffley.
* His voice in the UK dub is Hayden Hunter who would later voice Chase from PAW Patrol in the UK dub, but Hunter makes Chase sound older.
* In A Tooth on the Looth! it is revealed that Gil's toothbrush is purple.
* In Check It Out!, it is revealed that Gil carries a toy car and a crayon in his backpack.
* In Season 1, in Bubble Puppy!, Gil adopts a puppy of the same name.
* Whenever something happens to Bubble Puppy, Gil would become worrisome, due to the fact that Bubble Puppy is Gil's pet.
* Gil's favorite ocean animal is a stingray, as seen in The New Guppy.
* Gil is the narrator from The Spring Chicken Is Coming!, The Amusement Parking Lot!, Gobble Gobble Guppies! and The Running of the Bullfrogs!
* Gil and his family are possibly from New York (or whatever the underwater counterpart is). He sings with a New York accent in the backpack song and wears a B&W suit and fedora in a city skyline background in Rock Your Style!