- ““Muck to the rescue!" and "Let's get mucky!”
- ―Muck's original catchphrases
Muck is a red caterpillar-tracked dump truck with an additional bulldozer blade. Muck often acts before thinking and subsequently gets in trouble for it.
Biography
As shown in When Bob Became a Builder, Muck was the second machine to join Bob's team. Muck was brought in by Bob to help out Scoop dig out more of the foundations.
Personality
Muck is friendly, loves getting muddy and Muck does not like taking baths that much but takes them when Muck feels like it, or when Muck knows it is important. Muck has nyctophobia (a fear of the dark) but Muck learns to be calm. Muck is also kind-hearted and is sometimes silly but Muck learns a lesson in the end.
Livery
Muck is red with an orange blade and dump bed. Muck's caterpillar tracks are black, and Muck's hydraulic cylinders are silver, along with Muck's mouth.
Basis
Muck appears to be freelance designed, since no real-life construction vehicle has similar features as Muck. However, there are multiple vehicles with similar physical features as Muck (tracked dumpers with self-loading buckets actually exist in real life), though they are usually no bigger than a riding lawnmower, unlike the bulldozer-sized Muck.
Appearances
Trivia
- While the rest of Bob's machines are based on or around real-world construction vehicles, Muck is the main exception, almost no vehicle in real life features Muck's combination of features.
- While male in most dubs, Muck is female in the US, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese, Swiss German, and Korean dubs.
- Muck is the only machine to be different genders between the UK and US dub.
- However, Muck's Reboot Series counterpart is male in both English dubs but is female in Japanese dub.
- Wendy and Dizzy were originally the only two main female characters in the UK dub, they decided to make Muck as female in the US dub instead.
- As Muck is female in the US, Greek, Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swiss German, and Korean dubs, you could say that Muck is a tomboy in those dubs.
- Muck was the second machine bought by Bob.
- Muck was the first vehicle that Wendy had a ride on.
- In the Finnish version, Muck is called "Pusku".
- Muck is incorrectly listed as male on the Universal Kids site despite being female in the US dub.
- There are several episodes where Muck has a visible trailer hitch on Muck's rear in the same design as Travis's and Roley's, though more often than not, it often only appears for story purposes, notably in episodes where Muck has to pull a trailer, the only ones Muck has pulled are the line marking machine and Travis's wooden trailer. Even when Muck's hitch is featured, it only shows up in a few specific scenes before vanishing afterwards.
- Muck was mentioned in the lyrics of the song Big Fish, Little Fish (Cardboard Box)
- The Born To Play toy of Muck appears in the Balamory episode Truck Parade.
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Locations | Bob's Yard | Farmer Pickles' Farm | Town Hall | Post Office | Music Studio | Airport | J.J.'s Building Yard | Mr. Sabatini's Pizza Shop | Little Town Tunnel | Crows-foot Car Park | Bobington Harbour | Castle | Bobsville Machine Workshop |
Residents | Bob | Wendy | Spud | Farmer Pickles | Marjorie | Mr. Beasley | Mr. Bentley | Angelo Sabatini | Mrs. Barbara Bentley | Sophia Sabatini | Sunny | Saffron | The Pickers (Micky Picker), (Ricky Picker), (Vicky Picker) | Carlo and Cassia Sabatini | Ella | Annie | Chip Chipper | Meg | Piper | Pablo Sabatini | Llewela | Dickie Chester | |
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Machines | Scoop | Muck | Dizzy | Roley | Lofty | Travis | Scrambler | Sumsy | Packer | Dodger | Tumbler | Flex | Bristle | Splasher | Gripper and Grabber | |
Animals | Pilchard | Scruffty | Giddy | Buttercup | |
Locations | Sunflower Valley Machine Shelter | Bob's Yard | Scarecrow Cottage | Farmer Pickles' Sunflower Factory | Sunflower Valley General Store | Splasher Stop | Bobland Bay (Beach | Promenade | Hotel | Splasher Stop | Sports Stadium | Machine Shelter | The Lighthouse) |
Residents | Bob | Wendy | Spud | Farmer Pickles | Mr. Bentley | Sunny | Saffron | Carlo and Cassia Sabatini | Ella | David Mockney | Brad Rad | Mrs. Toosie | Dickie Oliver | Tony Toberomi | Carlie | |
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Machines | Scoop | Muck | Dizzy | Roley | Lofty | Travis | Scrambler | Packer | Splasher | Gripper and Grabber | Scratch | Rubble | |
Animals | Pilchard | Scruffty | |
Locations | Bob's Yard | Supplies Yard |