Mr. Grouper

Good morning, everyone!

### Likes

Taking the Bubble Guppies on field trips or celebrations at the end of the school day

### Dislikes

Vampires, shark

**Mr. Grouper** is the Bubble Guppies' teacher. He is friendly, funny, and full of information.

## Personality

Mr. Grouper genuinely respects the Guppies' intelligence, encourages their curiosities, and nurtures their imaginations. He sees every day as an opportunity for discovery. He knows how to be silly and play along with the Guppies, joining in their pretend play in the classroom and outside.

From Seasons 1-4, he would always end the school day with a field trip and/or a celebration of the episode's topic. Overall, Mr. Grouper is a very good friend to all the Guppies.

One notable feature with Mr. Grouper (most prominent in Seasons 1-4) is that he can also change his natural orange into a wide variety of different colors like red, yellow, green, blue, purple and pink. He can even change himself into a wide variety of different patterns, such as when he pretended to be a cow in both Have a Cow! and Sheep Doggy! respectively, and when he pretended to be a big bumblebee in The Bubble Bee-athalon!. Many of Mr. Grouper's color-changing moments can occur whilst giving info to the Guppies (such as when he offered to be the traffic light in The Crayon Prix! to teach Molly and Deema what the colors mean), or even in the Guppies' pretend play (such as when he pretended to be a tour bus in Super Shrimptennial Celebration! to give Molly, Goby and Nonny a pretend Big Bubble City tour).

## Trivia

* Mr. Grouper's voice actor, Tino Insana, is well known for playing Dr. Reginald Bushroot in Darkwing Duck, Uncle Ted in Bobby's World and Pig in Back at the Barnyard.
	+ Mr. Grouper's singing voice, Chris Phillips, plays various background characters within the show. He was the original voice of Face, one of Nick Jr.'s previous mascots. He also does voiceover work for Nickelodeon's promos and commercials.
* Mr. Grouper is the only main character who is not introduced in the Bubble Guppies Theme Song.
* Mr. Grouper is the only major Bubble Guppies character to not play an electric guitar in an episode of Bubble Guppies.
* Mr. Grouper can play the acoustic guitar.
* For some reason, his name was changed to "Professor Cooper" in the European French Dub.
	+ His name is "Signor Cernia" in the Italian Dub, which translates to "Mr. Grouper"
* Mr. Grouper and Nonny are usually the only ones to answer questions from the guppies.
* On March 1st, 2013, the Bubble Guppies Facebook page asked the fans to vote on their favorite character, and Mr. Grouper was in last with only three votes.
* Mr. Grouper has three catchphrases:
	+ "Well, good morning everyone!"
	+ "Excuse me, what time is it?"
	+ "Line up everybody, it's time to go outside!"
* When some episodes were used as Noggin's Play-Along videos, some of Mr. Grouper's lines were overdubbed by Fred Tatasciore since Tino Insana passed away on May 31st, 2017.
* It is unknown what Mr. Grouper's first name is.
* He sings in the pop songs more often in Season 1.
* Mr Grouper’s UK voice actor Andy Turvey was known for voicing captain Turbot on Paw Patrol and Andy Holt was known for voicing Bot in Season 4 of Team Umizoomi.