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- 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 his ex-wife. 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[]
- Main article: Regular Sized Rudy/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").
His mom[]
According to Rudy in the episode "Carpe Museum," she "hates fun" and is seemingly overprotective of her son since he also claimed that she "barely allowed" him to go on the field trip to the museum in the first place. According to Rudy, his mother once told him that he'd "never climb a tree" and he says this to himself while climbing a fake dead tree while at the "Amazon Exhibit" in the museum.
Love interests[]
Louise Belcher[]
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 ("Dawn of the Peck") give him but knows when to walk away. They have come a long way since "Carpe Museum," and in "Bob Actually," Louise reveals that she like-likes him and she certainly holds a soft spot in her heart for Rudy, which he holds for her as well, stepping far out of his comfort zone for her.
Chloe Barbash[]
Friends[]
The other Belchers[]
Zeke[]
Andy and Ollie Pesto[]
Darryl[]
Peter Pescadero[]
Millie Frock[]
Harley[]
Arnold Evans[]
Kaylee Morganstern[]
Esmeralda[]
Acquaintances[]
Jimmy Pesto, Jr.[]
Tammy Larsen[]
Jocelyn[]
Wagstaff Faculty[]
Ms. LaBonz[]
Appearances[]
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Season 14[]
- Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral
- The Amazing Rudy
- Running Down a Gene
- Bully-ieve It or Not
- The (Raccoon) King and I
- Fraud of the Dead: Zombie-docu-pocalypse
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| "The Demo" | "Bored" | My Butt Has a Fever | The Bob's Burgers Movie | ||||||
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References[]
- ↑ s6e12 "House of 1000 Bounces" Rudy celebrates his birthday.
- ↑ 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