| “ | Fun hurts my lungs. | ” |
— Regular Sized Rudy
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Rudolph Stieblitz, or more commonly Regular Sized Rudy or just Rudy, is the only child of Sylvester Stieblitz and Holly. Rudy is a fourth-grader at Wagstaff School in the same classes as Louise Belcher, and he's close friends with her and her family. He is known for being asthmatic and requiring his inhaler everywhere he goes. He makes his first appearance in "Carpe Museum."
He is voiced by Brian Huskey.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
Rudy has a close buzzcut that is light-ginger. He wears a light navy blue shirt, with red shorts, white tube socks and brown shoes. He is slightly taller than four feet tall,[5] about the height of Louise without her ears.
Personality[]
Rudy is a sweet and somewhat awkward young boy who is overall friendly and a nice person.
Rudy is a big follower of rules and has trouble breaking or rebelling. When working as a hall monitor in "Midday Run," he rats out Tina for letting Zeke escape her custody and then lying about bringing him to the principal's office out of a sense of duty and right. Rudy has gone along with some of Louise's schemes but usually ends up being a voice of reason or morality, like in "Ancient Misbehavin'," when the boy goes along with the plan to counterfeit the clay Greek-style coins used in their class with Louise and Millie. He even gets intoxicated at the thought of fusing the coins to get a wind-up bathtub dolphin toy. However, he begins freaking out once he realizes they will get in trouble and rejects Millie's plan to counterfeit actual money in a panic.
As seen in several situations, Rudy can become incredibly angry when something goes wrong; for example, he gets mad at Louise in "House of 1000 Bounces" for the plot to steal a bounce house that results in all the attendees at his birthday party getting arrested by Ranger Dainko, and at Tina after she rejects his item for the official time capsule in "Fast Time Capsules at Wagstaff School." He can also become narcissistic if things are going exceptionally well for him; in "Y Tu Ga-Ga Tambien," he becomes more of a celebrity jock in the school, winning at Ga-Ga Ball, even taunting Zeke and other students who played with less ability.
His parent's divorce has hurt Rudy deep down; as shown in "The Fresh Princ-ipal," he publicly asks Don, Wagstaff's brief replacement of Mr. Frond, if his parents getting divorced was his fault. The divorce could be why he forms very close with inanimate objects, similar to Bob. When brought along on his father's wine train dates, he developed a bond with a bean bag chair he named "Bean Bag" and was horrified when Ethan tore it apart. In "The Amazing Rudy," he appears to hate the nights his parents meet and almost drag him along on their dinners with their new partners. He eventually runs off crying to the Belcher's apartment when one of his magic tricks goes wrong.
Story[]
Relationships[]
Family[]
Rudy's parents are divorced and share joint custody, with his father having him on weekends.
Sylvester Stieblitz[]
His father, Sylvester, is a self-described "middle-aged man" who's "trying to get back out there" ("The Kids Rob a Train").
Holly[]
In "Carpe Museum," Rudy reveals Holly "hates fun" and is seemingly overprotective of him since he also claimed that she "barely allowed" him to go on the field trip to the museum in the first place. Additionally, she has told him he'd never be able to climb a tree.
Love interests[]
Chloe Barbash[]
Friends[]
The Belchers[]
Rudy has the right balance of enabling and shutting Louise down when needed. He does not try to change her but can speak up. They work because Rudy recognizes how much fun she and the other Belchers give him but knows when to walk away. They have come a long way since "Carpe Museum."
In "Bob Actually," Louise thought Rudy like-liked her and became disgusted by the idea, but when she found it was Chloe Barbash he liked and wanted a kiss from on Valentine's Day, it saddened her a little. However, she secretly did everything possible to get Chloe to give her friend his first "non-parents-and-grandmother" kiss. When it doesn't work, Louise surprises her friend by kissing him instead, but she threatens him not to tell anyone about their kiss, or she will "end" him. Rudy seems to have upheld it as it has never gotten mentioned afterward, but Louise often displays annoyance when Rudy brings up Chloe ("Copa-Bob-bana" & "Crystal Mess").
Zeke[]
Andy and Ollie Pesto[]
Darryl[]
Peter Pescadero[]
Millie Frock[]
Harley[]
Jeremy[]
Arnold Evans[]
Kaylee Morganstern[]
Esmeralda[]
Acquaintances[]
Jimmy Pesto, Jr.[]
Tammy Larsen[]
Jocelyn[]
Jessica[]
Wagstaff faculty[]
Ms. LaBonz[]
Appearances[]
- 0322. "Carpe Museum"
- 0323. "The Unnatural"
- 0407. "Bob and Deliver"
- 0412. "The Frond Files" (fantasy)
- 0415. "The Kids Rob a Train"
- 0422. "World Wharf II: The Wharfening"
- 0501. "Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl"
- 0502. "Tina and the Real Ghost" (non-speaking cameo)
- 0503. "Friends with Burger-fits"
- 0504. "Dawn of the Peck"
- 0508. "Midday Run"
- 0512. "The Millie-churian Candidate"
- 0517. "The Itty Bitty Ditty Committee"
- 0605. "Nice-Capades" (non-speaking cameo, flashback)
- 0607. "The Gene & Courtney Show" (non-speaking cameo)
- 0610. "Lice Things Are Lice"
- 0611. "House of 1000 Bounces"
- 0612. "Stand by Gene"
- 0619. "Glued, Where's My Bob?"
- 0703. "Teen-a Witch" (non-speaking cameo, mentioned)
- 0709. "Bob Actually"
- 0719. "Thelma & Louise Except Thelma is Linda" (mentioned)
- 0720. "Mom, Lies, and Videotape"
- 0809. "Y Tu Ga-Ga Tambien"
- 0814. "The Trouble with Doubles"
- 0818. "As I Walk Through the Alley of the Shadow of Ramps"
- 0820. "Mission Impos-slug-ble"
- 0903. "Tweentrepreneurs"
- 0904. "Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street"
- 0905. "Live and Let Fly"
- 0910. "Better Off Sled"
- 0915. "The Fresh Princ-ipal"
- 0918. "If You Love It So Much, Why Don't You Marionette?"
- 0920. "The Gene Mile"
- 1006. "The Hawkening: Look Who's Hawking Now!"
- 1012. "A Fish Called Tina"
- 1014. "Wag the Song"
- 1015. "Yurty Rotten Scoundrels"
- 1018. "Tappy Tappy Tappy Tap Tap Tap" (mentioned)
- 1019. "The Handyman Can" (fantasy)
- 1020. "Poops!… I Didn't Do It Again"
- 1022. "Prank You for Being a Friend"
- 1103. "Copa-Bob-bana"
- 1105. "Fast Time Capsules at Wagstaff School"
- 1107. "Diarrhea of a Poopy Kid" (fantasy)
- 1108. "The Terminalator II: Terminals of Endearment" (non-speaking cameo, fantasy)
- 1116. "Y Tu Tina También" (non-speaking cameo)
- 1117. "Fingers-loose"
- 1119. "Bridge Over Troubled Rudy"
- 1202. "Crystal Mess"
- 1211. "Touch of Eval(uations)"
- 1215. "Ancient Misbehavin'"
- 1222. "Some Like It Bot Part 2: Judge-bot Day" (non-speaking cameo)
- 1303. "What About Job?" (fantasy)
- 1306. "Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory)"
- 1308. "Putts-giving" (mentioned)
- 1311. "Cheaty Cheaty Bang Bang"
- 1313. "Stop! Or My Mom Will Sleuth!"
- 1315. "The Show (and Tell) Must Go On" (non-speaking cameo)
- 1322. "Amelia"
- 1401. "Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral"
- 1402. "The Amazing Rudy"
- 1404. "Running Down a Gene"
- 1405. "Bully-ieve It or Not"
- 1407. "The (Raccoon) King and I"
- 1409. "Fraud of the Dead: Zombie-docu-pocalypse"
- 1414. "The Big Stieblitzki"
- 1501. "The Tina Table: The Tables Have Tina-ed"
- 1503. "Colon-ly the Dronely" (non-speaking cameo)
- 1506. "Hope N' Mic Night" (non-speaking cameo, mentioned)
Other media
References[]
- ↑ s6e12 "House of 1000 Bounces" Rudy celebrates his birthday and says, "I'm turning nine, and I'm feeling fine."
- ↑ s5e8 "Midday Run" He is a hall monitor alongside Tina in this episode, and he is a "hall minnow," the lowest rank of hall monitors at Wagstaff.
- ↑ s14e2 "The Amazing Rudy" Rudy talks about how he mowed a lawn, but it's how he discovered he's allergic to grass.
- ↑ s12e15 "Ancient Misbehavin'" When he asks Millie what a virgin is, she tells her it's someone who gives a lot of blood. Based on that, Rudy says his grandfather is a virgin.
- ↑ https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/File:Fish_Tina_Script.png