Bubba Bubbaphant

Bubba Bubbaphant

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Bubba Bubbaphant
Full name	Bubba Bubbaphant
Aliases	Experiment 1399 (Secondary Lab experiment)
Affiliation	Playtime Co. (formerly) Smiling Critters Bobby BearHug † CraftyCorn † KickinChicken † DogDay †? (leader) KickinChicken † PickyPiggy † Hoppy Hopscotch † CatNap † (recalled) Bigger Bodies Initiative
Biographical Information
Test Subject(s)	Unknown (1399)
Status	Deceased (Bigger Body) Extant (Ruined Critters) Deceased (Haven Critter) Deceased (Experiment 1399)
Place of birth	Playtime Co.
Creation Date	1989 (toy) Around November 1990 (Bigger Body)
Physical Information
Species	Bigger Body Toy (anthropomorphic elephant) Living toy (Ruined Critters and Haven Critter) Human (formerly)
Gender	Male
Pronouns	He/Him
Pendant	Lightbulb
Scent	Lemongrass
Appearances
Role	Minor character (Bigger Body) Secondary antagonist (Ruined Critters)
Voiced by	Micah Preciado (cutout) Micael Muñoz (Spanish cutout) Luiz Reolon (Portuguese cutout)
Appears In	Chapter 3 Interactable ARG YouTube Recordings Miscellaneous Content Chapter 3: Deep Sleep Orientation Notebook Chapter 4: Safe Haven (Haven Critter; Experiment 1399; cutout)
Debut	Chapter 3 Interactable ARG

“	I'm Bubba Bubbaphant! Hey! I remember you!	”
— Bubba Bubbaphant's cardboard cutout noicon

Bubba Bubbaphant is a toy produced by Playtime Co. who was featured in Chapter 3: Deep Sleep as a recurring antagonist. Miniature and hostile ruined versions of him reside within the Playhouse along with the rest of the Ruined Critters.

Appearance

Bubba Bubbaphant is an anthropomorphic cerulean elephant with black eyes, a S-shaped trunk, a long tail with a bulb-shaped end, and large ears. His feet, hands, and tail end, as well as the inside of his trunk and ears, are blue. Similar to the other Smiling Critters, Bubba is depicted with a wide toothless grin (the inner mouth shrouded in darkness), and he possesses a zipper line running down his center, with the zipper sporting a yellow light bulb pendant with a blue Edison screw base. Bubba also emits a lemongrass scent from the little spray applicator in his mouth.

His cartoon appearance is roughly the same as his toy appearance, albeit with his zipper line removed, the addition of white pupils, and the zipper pendant attached to a black necklace.

Personality

“	Bubba Bubbaphant is the brains of the critters. Bright and attentive, he keeps his friends steady and always steers them to make smart choices, that way they all might grow up to be bright and brilliant, each in their own right.	”
— Critter Entries

According to his Twitter description, Bubba Bubbaphant is the most intelligent Smiling Critter and acts as the brain of the gang. This behavior is backed up by his light bulb pendant (often used in cartoons to convey brilliant ideas), and by his interactions with CraftyCorn in the cartoon's intro, when he removed her painting from her easel to reveal a complex math equation. Bubba is observant and level-headed, keeping his friends on the right track to make smart decisions, so they can create a bright future for themselves.

In the Smiling Critters Cartoon, like the other Smiling Critters, Bubba showcased a more desperate personality when CatNap came to DogDay's house during their sleepover. His retained intelligence was the catalyst for the subsequent events, as he was the first critter to ask CatNap to use his abilities to overcome their fear-induced insomnia. When CatNap complied, Bubba showed signs of euphoria when inhaling the Red Smoke, laughing hysterically with the others until he passed out.

History

Backstory

“	Bubba Bubbaphant is smart and knowledgeable. and we wanted him to represent the value of studying and reading. He often makes interesting observations and loves to share his knowledge with his friends-whether they want to hear it or not!	”
— Orientation Notebook

Bubba Bubbaphant was created as a member of the Smiling Critters toy-line. Soon after, miniature versions of him were created, along with a Bigger Body version to work in Playcare. One of the miniature versions was Experiment 1399, who was deemed a failure and sent to the Secondary Lab. Sometime after The Hour of Joy, the Bigger Body version of Bubba Bubbaphant died of unknown means, presumably killed by CatNap or by another ally of the Prototype, as DogDay refers to himself as the "last" of the Smiling Critters.

Chapter 3: Deep Sleep

In the Home Sweet Home area a single Bubba Bubbaphant plush can be seen peeking from a shelf. Several Bubba Bubbaphant plushies also appear along with the rest of the Ruined Critters, as they chase The Player in the Playhouse. Using the GrabPack's orange hand, the Player has to shoot a flare at him to scare him away. If Bubba gets too close, then he jumpscares them by lunging at their face. Later on, several versions of him crawl inside of DogDay's exposed torso wound to control him and chase after The Player.

Trivia

• Bubba was the first critter to have his description revealed on Twitter.
• According to folklore, Bubba's scent, lemongrass, was used to protect against evil and spiritually clean a house.
  • This contrasts to Bubba's personality, as he focuses more on logic than folklore.
• Bubba's name is slang for brother.
• Bubba is the genius of the Smiling Critters due to him being an elephant, based on the scientific fact that elephants have extraordinary memory. This is also shown in his cutout, as he says, "An elephant always remembers!".
• In early concepts for the cartoon, Bubba's house was in the form of a jungle shack.
• Bubba Bubbaphant is the only Smiling Critter based off of a jungle animal.
  • He is also one of the only two members of the Critters (both the Smiling and Nightmare lines) who is not an animal native to North America. The other being Icky Licky. Elephants are found in Africa and Asia.
• Bubba is the only Smiling Critter whose scent does not match their own color, as Bubba is blue and lemongrass is green.
• Bubba Bubbaphant's design and species could be based off of Lotsa-Heart Elephant from the Care Bear Cousins, with his brilliant personality and light-bulb shaped pendant being similar to Bright Heart Raccoon.
  • Bubba Bubbaphant may also be based on Sniffles from Happy Tree Friends, as both characters are blue in color, very smart and have similar-looking trunks/snouts and are both in fact are animals not native to North America.
• According to Amber, Bubba Bubbaphant uses He/Him pronouns.