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“Spud's on the job!" and "Oh, yes, yes, yessity yes!”

―Spud's Catchphrases

Spud
Background Information
First Appearance	Bob Saves the Hedgehogs (Season 1, 1998)
Last Appearance	Bob's Big Bounce (Season 18, 2011)
Voice Actors
US Voice Actor	Alan Marriott (2001-Early 2005)
UK/US Voice Actor	Rob Rackstraw: UK: 1998-2011 US: 2005-2011
Character Overview
Name	Spud
Gender	Male
Biographical Background
Occupation	Scaring Crows
Years Active	1998-Present

Spud is a naughty scarecrow with an Australian accent on Farmer Pickles' farm and tries to help Bob and the crew.

Appearance

Spud is a living (presumably mutated) Australian scarecrow that wears a lavender shirt with a red and green scarf, blue jeans, a brown belt, and he has a sharp cone-shaped replaceable parsnip nose.

Personality

Spud is a mischievous scarecrow who often causes more problems than he solves, but usually everything works out in the end. It is Spud who needs to learn to be patient, not to eat all of the food, not to take things from other characters, etc. Spud has a habit of trying to do work and, with his limited intelligence, getting it wrong and spoiling materials. Squawk is his rival.

Appearences

• Original Series
• Project: Build It
• Ready, Steady, Build!

Original Series: Season 1 - Bob Saves the Hedgehogs (debut), Pilchard in a Pickle, Wendy's Busy Day, Travis Paints The Town, Travis and Scoop's Race Day, Bob's Birthday, Naughty Spud, Scary Spud and Bob's Barnraising Season 2 - Spud The Spanner, Runaway Roley, Lofty to the Rescue, Wendy's Big Match, Tea Set Travis, Wendy's Tennis Court and Bob's White Christmas Season 3 - Bob's Boots, Mucky Muck, Bob's Day Off, Special Delivery Spud, Scoop Has Some Fun, Spud and Squawk, Muck's Sleep-Over and Trailer Travis Season 4 - Scoop's Stegosaurus, Sneezing Scoop, Scarecrow Dizzy, Spud Lends A Hand, Bob and the Bandstand, Farmer Pickles' Pigpen and Scruffy The Detective Season 5 - Inspector Spud, Cock-A-Doodle Spud, Skateboard Spud, Muck's Monster, Spud the Dragon, Bob's Hide, Bob and the Big Freeze and Bob of the North Season 6 - Bob's Pizza, Bob's Metal Detector, Lofty and the Rabbits, Lofty and the Giant Carrot, Bob's Egg and Spoon Race, Spud's Big Splash and Spud the Musketeer Season 7 - Spud the Pilot, Trix and the Otters (cameo), Mr. Ellis' Art Exhibition, Bob and the Badgers, Bob and the Goalie, Pilchard's Pets, Snowman Scoop and Hamish's New Home (cameo) Season 8 - Bob the Photographer, Mr. Bentley's Trains, Racing Muck, Lofty's Jungle Fun, Ballroom Bob, Molly's Fashion Show, Spud and the Doves, Travis Gets Lucky and Scruffty On Guard Season 9 - Bob the Farmer, Mr. Bentley's Winter Fair, Spud's Statue, Trix's Pumpkin Pie, Travis' Busy Day, Muck's Surprise and Trix and the Bug Specials A Christmas To Remember (2001) Bob the Builder: The Live Show (2002) The Knights of Can-A-Lot (2003) Snowed Under (2004)

Project: Build It: Season 10 - Bob's Fresh Start, Scoop's Recruit, Wendy's Welcome, Benny's Back!, Spud's Straw Surprise and Muck's Mud Hut Season 11 - Scrambler in the Doghouse, Put-It-Together Spud, Dizzy the Detective, Spud's Bumper Harvest and Bob's Three Jobs Season 12 - Sumsy's Willow Tree, Travis and the Tropical Fruit, Sir Muck, Scoop the Teacher, Spud's Cork Tree, Sumsy and the Beast and Mr. Bentley's Assistant Season 13 - Spud Rushes It, Roley's Apple Press, Travis' Giddy Day, Dizzy the Walking Bus Season 14 - Spud the Woodsman, Bob's Beach Hut. Season 15 - Star Struck Spud, Spud and the Hotel, Zoomer's Snowy Adventure. Season 16 - Spud the DJ Specials Bob's Big Plan (2005) Built To Be Wild (2006) Scrambler to the Rescue (2006) Race to the Finish (2007)

Ready, Steady, Build!: Main Series - Lofty's Helpful Day, Scrambler's Stage Surprise, Wendy's Birthday Surprise (cameo), Scratch and the Dream Room, Stage Struck Dizzy and Bob's Big Bounce The Legend of the Golden Hammer - Scrambler and the Clue, Lofty and the Teddy Bear Rescue, Muck and the Old School Wall, Scoop's Big Job, Dizzy Finds a Pirate and Roley and the Seagull The Big Dino Dig - Lofty and the Diggers Three, Scoop and the Roller Coaster, Rubble and the Seagull Surprise, Roley and the Impossible Bump, Muck's Train to Trouble and A Dinosaur for Scratch

Trivia

• In the UK dub of the earlier seasons in the Original Series from seasons 1-5, Spud's voice was more nasally and had a bit of a lisp. But in the later seasons of the Original Series from seasons 6-9, Spud's voice sounds very similar to Zippy from Rainbow. This also continues in Project: Build It and Ready, Steady, Build!
• Spud is the only character who's been in jail. This was featured in the special, Built To Be Wild (2006).
• In "Bob's Boots" (Season 3), it was revealed that Spud does not like cheese and chutney in the United Kingdom dub. This was changed to peanut butter and jelly in the United States dub.
• Until "Scoop Has Some Fun" (Season 3), Lofty was afraid of him.
• Spud appeared only a few times in the first season of Ready, Steady, Build!, but appears in every episode from the two mini series.
• As for now, Spud is one of the few long time characters who never received a redesigned counterpart for the 2015 reboot along with Bird, Travis and Scruffty.
• In the Original Series between Seasons 1-9, he spoke with an American accent in the US dub.
• It is currently unknown why Alan Marriott didn't continue voicing Spud in 2005 to 2009 in the US dub as he still remained in the series as Scoop and Travis.
• In the Finnish version, Spud is called "Putte".
• Spud is very similar to Bart Simpson, Eric Cartman, Devious Diesel, Curious George and Horrid Henry as all characters get into a lot of trouble but they do make up for it.

Can-Do Crew

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