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Bob the BuilderCan We Fix It ?
In each episode, Bob and his gang help with renovations, construction, and repairs and with other projects as needed. The show emphasizes conflict resolution, co-operation, socialization and various learning skills. Bob's catchphrase is "Can we fix it?," to which the other characters respond with "Yes we can!" This phrase is also the title of the show's theme song, which was a million-selling number one hit in the UK. The show is targeted at children ages 8th. Hot Animation began development on Bob the Builder
in 1997's, with the premise of a main character, Bob, with a gang
of building machines. Sarah Ball, formerly of Cosgrove Hall Film,
joined the development team to flesh out Bob's world. Whilst Bob
was not based on a real person, Wendy was named after Zoe Turnpaugh's
mother. The show's catchphrase Can we fix it?" is also attributed to Sarah Ball.[2] Bob the Builder was nominated in the BAFTA "Pre-school animation" category from 1997 to 2009, and won the "Children's Animation" category in 2003 for the special episode "A Christmas to Remember".[3] Of the show's success, Sarah Ball said: I think diggers and dumpers fascinate kids in
the same way that they are drawn to dinosaurs. They both have a
timeless appeal. The technique of stop motion is very tangible
- the characters look like you can just pick them up and play with
them. It’s a safe, lovely, bright, colourful world, which is very
appealing. Curtis Jobling did a fantastic job designing the show
– it’s very simple and stylized but has such charm!! Bob the Builder has been parodied by Robot Chicken in the episode "More Blood, More Chocolate," and by Comedy Inc. as Bodgy Builder. Bob was also parodied on Cartoon Network's MAD
in the episode "S'Up/Mouse M.D." In the episode when Mickey Mouse portrays Gregory House he goes to perform surgery
on Bob who smashed his thumb asking similar to his famous catchphrase "Can we fix it?" Mickey then replies no and orders for it to be amputated. He later appears in
another episode when Bob interacts with Manny from Handy Manny
after they get into a fender bender and get into an argument with
Bob saying "Stop copying my show!" He leaves then someone tells Manny he just got built. In another episode, "Kung Fu Blander/Destroy Bob the Builder Destroy," Mad parodies Bob the Builder and Destroy Build Destroy. In the episode, Andrew
W.K. of Destroy Build Destroy, is portrayed as being a jerk towards
Bob. Andrew destroys everything Bob builds. In the end, Bob transforms
his construction vehicles into a robot, smashing Andrew W.K. repeatedly. Bob the Builder was licensed when merchandise began. The companies manufactured the Bob the Builder characters (e.g.: Brio, Lego Duplo, Hasbro, Learning Curve, etc). From about 1999-present, they were made and released to stores around the world. Brio Brio created some Bob the Builder characters and minifigures for their Bob the Builder line. They are made out of wood and they use magnets. For example, the Travis and Scoop Wooden Race Set was created, along with other sets that are large and small. Years later, the range has been discontinued. Lego Duplo Lego began manufacturing their Duplo licensed Bob the Builder sets in 2001. Lego Explorer also made the sets and they used the same bricks that Duplo used (e.g. Naughty Spud, Wallpaper Wendy, etc). The sets were aimed at younger children 2 and up. Duplo manufactured the sets (e.g. Scoop at Bobland Bay, Muck Can Do It, etc) until 2009 due to expired license, when HIT Entertainment was said to have wanted too much for their use of the show's characters. 4x4 Evo 1 and 2 (Software) A most popular YouTube user, CEO100able, will be creating trucks and models of the Bob the Builder characters for the racing packages (4x4 Evolution and 4x4 Evo 2) made by Terminal Reality and Gathering of Developers. In these off-road racing games, the user can drive and control a selected vehicle over a chosen track, created or downloaded by the user. Many of the characters and items of trucks and models will be created, along with CEO100able's version of Bobsville, since it was completed in 2011. CEO100able will first upload them to KC's 4x4 Evo 1 and 2 fan-sites. Also, in early 2013, CEO100able will upload them to his sites, CEO100able's 4x4 Evo 1 Place and CEO100able's 4x4 Evo 2 Place. It is unknown if his trucks and models will be completed sometime in the future. [4] [5] Hasbro Hasbro created the licensed Bob the Builder characters that are made out of plastic. They are a lot more fun to use than any other company. They made talking characters and other sites to go with the Bob the Builder line. The Hasbro line was discontinued in 2005 as Learning Curve had a chance to get over the line. Learning Curve Learning Curve created the licensed Bob the Builder
characters that are made out of plastic. They are a lot more fun
to use than any other company. Learning Curve also created the
Thomas and Friends characters, while the company still makes the
sets (e.g. Scoop, Muck, Lofty, Dizzy, Bob's Trailer, etc) and then
sold them to stores. In the second season, a sort of spin-off series was created titled "Project: Build-It". Bob hears of a contest to build a new community in a remote area called Sunflower Valley, outside of Bobsville. He moves from Bobsville (supposedly temporarily) with Wendy and the team and builds a new yard there. Bob convinces his father, Robert, to come out of retirement and take over the Bobsville building business. It is not known whether Bob will return to Bobsville or not. For the US version of the Project Build-It series,
different actors were found to do the voices for many of the human
characters, including casting Greg Proops as the new voice of Bob,
and Neil Morrissey, who played the original Bob, to be the voices
of Spud the Scarecrow and Mr. Bentley. The show also added recycling
and being environmentally friendly to its lessons, emphasising
the phrase "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". The third spin-off has been revealed as Bob the
Builder: Ready, Steady, Build! It was created by Keith Chapman
and Mallory Lewis. The group, now joined by newcomer Scratch are
now residing in the town of Fixham Harbour (which is very similar
to Bobsville, and is even implied to be Bobsville in several episodes),
deal with construction and other building tasks around the area.
Unlike previous series, "Ready, Steady, Build!" is animated in full CGI animation, though still retains the theme song.[6] Scratch
is first seen in this spin-off. Celebrities who have provided voices for the series
(usually for one-off specials) include John Motson, Sue Barker,
Kerry Fox, Ulrika Jonsson, Alison Steadman, Stephen Tompkinson,
Elton John, Noddy Holder, and Chris Evans (Bobsville's resident
rock star Lennie Lazenby). Bob the Builder is shown in more than thirty countries,
and versions are available in English, French, Spanish, Slovenian,
German, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi and Croatian, among other
languages. It is shown on CBeebies on BBC television in the UK.
Voice actors who have contributed to the original British version
include Neil Morrissey, Rob Rackstraw, Kate Harbour, Rupert Degas,
Colin McFarlane, Maria Darling, Emma Tate, Richard Briers, June
Whitfield, Richard Herman, Wayne Forester Bob the Builder is shown with the ABC Kids programming
in Australia.[7] "Bob, o Construtor" is
aired in Brazil on Discovery Kids.[8] Treehouse TV and TVOntario air Bob the Builder in Canada, and it was shown on Nick Jr. beginning on 15 January 2001 up until 2005 in the United States until the 2005–06 season when it was offered as part of PBS Kids lineup, and currently airs on the PBS Kids Sprout cable network. The show also aired in the US on CBS between 2001 and 2002 as part of the "Nick Jr. on CBS" E/I lineup. The Northern American version of the show uses
the original British footage, but dubs the voices in local accents
and slang—for example, the word "soccer" is used instead of "football" to avoid confusion with the gridiron forms of the game (though sometimes this
is done haphazardly; in one episode, a "soccer field" is referred to but later it talks about "football tricks"). The original North American voice of Bob (and Farmer Pickles/Mr. Beasley/Mr.
Sabatini) was William Dufris, however, he was replaced with comedian
Greg Proops. More recently, Bob's US voice has been provided by
Marc Silk[9] - an English voice actor from Birmingham.[10] In the province of Quebec, the series is entitled "Bob
le Bricoleur" and airs on Télé-Québec. "Bořek stavitel" is
aired on Česká televize, the national public television. "Puuha-Pete" is
aired in Finland on Nelonen every week from Monday to Friday at
7.50 AM (in June 2010). Beginning from October 22, 2005, "Bob
le Bricoleur" has been airing on France 5 in France. This is the second season (called "Project: Build It" in English): "Mission Nature".[11] Beginning from February 2, 2001, "Bob
der Baumeister" has been airing on Super RTL in Germany. Since then, 157 episodes have been
aired. "Bob o Mastoras" is
aired on Alter Channel, in both Greek and English. In 2007, beginning 20 November until the end of
the year, “Bob, a mester” was aired every weekday (from 16:15)
on Channel m1 of Hungarian Television.[12] The names of the characters
are either translated in a more or less literal way (Farmer Pickles,[13]
Pilchard,[14] Lofty, Roley[15]), left untranslated (Bob, Wendy[16]),
or replaced to a phonetically similar word (Muck became Muki,[14]
this similar-sounding word is semantically unrelated); in some
cases, entirely new names were given, unrelated to the original
ones both semantically and phonetically (Dizzy has become Trixi,[15]
Scoop has become Márkus,[16] and Spud has become Piff,[17] neither
of these new names has any meaning in Hungarian). Bird is given
a new name as well,[15][18] a word meaning “short” in a countryside
dialect (infiltrated into youth slang as well);[19] but the choice
may be motivated also by its onomatopoetic sounding. Not only the
broadcast episodes have been translated, but also the 2006 Annual.[20] In India, the name is still "Bob
the Builder" and it is broadcast on POGO. It is dubbed in Hindi. In Israel, "Bob HaBanai" (בוב
הבנאי) is aired in the Israeli Educational Television and in other
children's channels in Cable and Satellite television. It is dubbed
to Hebrew, and Bob's catchphrase is "נצליח לתקן?," to which the other characters respond with "כן! כן! כן!" In Italy the show is named "Bob
Aggiustatutto" and is being aired on RaiSat Yoyo. When being exported to Japan, it was reported
that characters of Bob the Builder would be doctored to have five
fingers instead of the original four. This was because of a practice
among the Yakuza, the famed Japanese mafia, where members would "cut off their little fingers as a sign they can be trusted and have strength
of character, and will stay through.".[21] In the Spanish speaking part of Latin America,
the show is called "Bob, el Constructor" (literal translation of the title) and is aired by several public TV channels
as well as by Discovery Kids. It was dubbed in México and some
of the voice actors are: 'Arturo Mercado' (Bob), 'María Fernanda
Morales' (Wendy) and 'Jesús "Chucho" Barrero' (Spud). The name of the program remains unchanged, however
the program has been dubbed into Malay by Filem Karya Nusa. The
programme originally premiered on TV3 in January 2000. Shortly
after, Astro picked it up for its Astro Ria in-house channel. The
version aired on Astro Ria is dubbed into Malay, with the original
British English soundtrack is also available by using the audio
language button on the satellite decoder's remote. TV3 stopped
airing the programme in 2003, however resumed in 2006 for a short
period of time. Shortly after, TV9 picked up the programme for
a short period of time in original version. As of January 2010,
Astro Ceria no longer broadcast this programme. It is now airing
on NTV7 with new episodes. Soon after the BBC started airing, KRO aired the
episodes of "Bob de Bouwer" in the Netherlands. Main voices are done by Bram Bart (Bob, Spud, Mr. Dickson,
Mr. Ellis, Benny), Caroline Mout (Wendy, Dizzy, Scrambler) and
Fred Meijer (Scoop, Lofty, Mr. Beasley, Mr. Bentley, Mr. Fothergill,
Pogo ), Laus Steenbeeke (Farmer Pickles, Jake, Mr. Adams, Mr. Sabatini,
Mr. Stevens, Robert the Builder, Skip, Tom the Twin Brother, Tony,
Travis, Zoomer), Marjolein Algera (Aunt Doris, Charlene, Del, Dot
the Builder, Jana von Strudel, Jenny, Marjorie Mayor, Molly, Mrs.
Broadbent, Mrs. Percival, Mrs. Potts, Ms Barbara Bentley, Scoot,
Trix) and Stan Limburg (Muck, Roley, JJ, Lenny Lazenby). Stan Limburg
also is the Dutch voice-director. In Norway the show is named "Byggmester
Bob" and is being aired on TV2. In the Philippines, the name is still "Bob
the Builder" and it is broadcast on TV5. It is dubbed in Tagalog. "Bob Budowniczy" is
aired on TVP1 7.00PM. MiniMini aired the third season called "Bob the Builder: Ready Steady Build" since 2010. In Portugal, the series is entitled "Bob,
o Construtor" and airs on RTP1, RTP2, Canal Panda and Jim Jam. "Мајстор Боб / Majstor Bob" is
aired on Happy TV. In Slovenia the show is named "Mojster
Miha" and is being aired on RTV slovenija channel TV Slovenija 1. "Bob y sus amigos" is
aired in Spanish on Playhouse Disney. Bob always asks "¿Podemos hacerlo?" and his friends answer "¡Sí, podemos!". The show is also aired in Catalan on TV3, the regional public television of
Catalonia as "Bob el Manetes". Bob always asks "Ens en sortirem?" and his friends answer "Sí, i tant". In Sweden the show is named "Byggare
Bob" and is being aired on SVTs child times. Beginning from August 2, 2003, the name is still "Bob
the Builder" and is being broadcast on CBeebies. The voice of Bob is done by Neil Morrisey,
a creator for drama adult's programme Men Behaving Badly. The third
spin-off is being broadcast (Ready, Steady, Build)[22] The Scottish Gaelic language version is called "Calum
Clachair". Clachair literally means a stonemason rather than a builder, and is used for
alliteration.[23] The Welsh language version is called "Bob
Y Bildar" and began airing on S4C in October 2006, as part of the Planed Plant Bach lunchtime
segment between 12:30 and 1:30pm. The show has been dubbed into
the Welsh language by record label Sain, which had previously provided
Welsh dialogue for children's series Thomas the Tank Engine, The
Large Family, Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom, Angelo Rules and
Octonauts. A.[24] In Chinese Language version is called "Babu
engineer". The show has been dubbed to into the Chinese Language. Release date: 3 October 2001 1 59 32 4 AUS: 2× Platinum[29] Never Mind the Breeze Blocks Release date: 8 December 2008 — — — 87 AUS: 2× Platinum[32] Bob the Builder: The Album AUS: Platinum[32] 2008 "Big Fish Little Fish" — — 81 Never Mind the Breeze Blocks
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