Goby (Bubble Guppies)

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

## Goby

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**Goby** is a main character of the Nickelodeon show Bubble Guppies. He is a creative male guppy with a vivid, offbeat imagination. He loves to put on costumes, tell stories, and speak in silly voices. Goby does not keep his imagination to himself, instead he uses it to invent exciting outdoor adventure stories for his friends to act out. Goby loves to bring his friends together for some adventurous imaginative play both in the classroom and on the playground. He likes to eat turkey sandwiches and cran-apple juice and he also likes to wear baseball caps. He is best friends with Gil. Along with Deema, he sings few of the dance songs, however none in season 3

## Personality

Goby has many hidden personalities. He is outgoing, creative, smart and has all sorts of wonderful traits. Goby loves animals. He wants a pet dragon as revealed in Bubble Puppy! Goby loves to talk and pretend to be people he is not. He is the perfect guppy to act withrangely.

## Social Skills

Goby's social skills are very high for his age, and like Molly, his age cannot be verified. Goby doesn't talk that often in the show, not as much as Gil.

## Physical Appearance

Goby has brown skin, indigo hair, and brown eyes. His tail has wavy blue and purple stripes.

## Goby's Relationships

### Molly (Good Friend)

Goby's relationship with Molly is a friendly relationship, although they do not interract much in the show. However, they do care for each other, and have some story segments with each other.

### Gil (Best Friend)

Goby and Gil are best friends. They sing together, play together and they share the same interests. In the beginning of "Construction Psyched!", the two are seen playing dump trucks together before school started. In the same episode, when Goby lost his dump truck, Gil helped him get it back and at the end, they are seen playing together again.

### Deema (Good Friend)

Deema and Goby are good friends. They love to play, hang out, or just be together and have been together in some shop segments. In the shop segment of The Cowgirl Parade, Deema made an expression towards Goby that may implies that she has feelings for him. There are other possible hints but it is not confirmed whether they are intentional or not.

### Oona (Good Friend)

Goby has a good and close friendship with Oona for they can be seen dancing in many pop songs. But their relationship seem to have gotten much closer in season two, specifically in the episode "Bubble-Cadabra!" when Oona was worried after Goby disappeared. After finding him, she hugged him, telling him she was glad he wasn't gone. Also, in "Triple-Train-Track Race!" when they can be seen high-tailing each other.

### Nonny (Good Friend)

Goby and Nonny aren't as close as some of the other guppies, but they are still good friends. They talk about their skills and share interests. They are both right handed in writing, unlike Molly. In the season three they are closer than in the other seasons. In The Amusement Parking Lot!, they share a car.

## Skills

### Singing Skills

Goby has talents in singing, and has sung many dance songs in the whole Bubble Guppies series. He's sung more dance songs in Season 1 than Season 2 and sung his own song in Season 3.

### Dancing Skills

Goby's skills as a dancer are very active. He dances with Gil and in some pop songs. Goby is normally put as a background dancer in many songs.

### Music Skills

Goby is very good at music. He loves to play his guitar. Goby's music skills brings up his creativity. Goby's guitar skills could be seen in the pop song Build Me a Building!, We Totally Rock, and Brave, Brave Knights.

## Trivia

* In The Moon Rocks!, it is revealed that Goby likes to collect rocks.
* Due to Goby being very creative, he's normally the Guppy to come up with most of the games they play during recess and has narrated the most adveture segments.
* In The Crayon Prix!, it was suggested that his favorite color is green, but according to Nick Jr's Bubble Guppies Collector Cards , it says his favorite color is blue.
	+ Also according to the trading cards, his favorite lunch is a turkey sandwich with cran-apple juice.
* Goby's name comes from the same name of a fish named Goby.
* Goby is good friends with Gil.
	+ Coincidentally, Gil is Goby's best friend.
* For some reason, Goby's name is "Lenny" in the European French Dub.
* On November 10, 2011. Bubble Guppies' Official Facebook page asked the fans to answer "Which Guppy is your kid most like?" The results, Goby is in sixth/last place with 12 votes (and ties with 'None of the Guppies' option).
* He is one of only two guppies that know Spanish. During the shop segment in Bubble Puppy!, he says "gracias" which means "thank you".
	+ In Running of the Bullfrogs!, the episode had many Spain references while being an episode centered around Goby. Since Spain is a Spanish-speaking country, this might suggest Goby could certainly know some Spanish (hence even giving Fernando a Latin name).
* Goby can be seen wearing a firefighter costume in four episodes. ("Happy Holidays, Mr. Grumpfish!","Firefighter Gil to the Rescue!", "Humunga-Truck!", and "The New Doghouse!").
* In one episode, Goby once cried because his truck was missing.
* Goby's favorite ocean animal is a shark, as seen in The New Guppy and A Dolphin is a Guppy's Best Friend!.
* Goby mentions in Costume Boxing! that he plays baseball. He continuously is shown in baseball gear.