Characters / Ask the StoryBots

Team 341-B

Tropes as a group

• Alliterative Name: All 5 of them have first and last names that start with the letter B.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Bing, Bang and Bo tend to derail into off-topic conversations about whatever until Beep has to yell at them to focus on the kid's question.
• Glass-Shattering Sound: Their Christmas caroling is so bad it shatters several tv screens and Hap's coffee mug.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Hap finds that they do nothing but dilly dally all day, but unfortunately has to call them down when there's no one else available in short notice.

Beep

Full Name: Beep Boppalot

Voiced by: Judy Greer

A green StoryBot who's the leader of the team.

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• Enraged by Idiocy: She gets frustrated with her Cloudcuckoolander teammates at times, especially Bing.
  • She is very upset with Gob and Goob because of how messy the Archives department is.
    Beep: What kind of organizational system are you two using here?
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Realist. She's the first to reassure her friends and look for solutions to problems.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine. She is task-oriented and the self proclaimed leader of the team.
• Only Sane Woman: She is the logical and serious member of the team, and the one that stays focused on the mission at hand.

Bing

Full Name: Bing Badaboom

Voiced by: Jeff Gill

A hyperactive yellow StoryBot with the attention span of a gnat.

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• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Optimist. A little guy full of boundless energy who's impulsivity sometimes helps him find the answers he needs.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine with choleric tendencies. He is cheerful and optimistic, but also tends to "act first, think later".
• I'm Your Biggest Fan: He's a huge fan of Super Mega Awesome Ultra Guy, gushing about him and wanting to be like him/his sidekick.
• Keet: He’s the smallest, but he’s also a ridiculous livewire that is always running around and acting on impulse.
• Motor Mouth: Near the end of "Why Do People Look Different?" he tries explaining to Hap how he uploaded the video to his computer:
  Bing: Justlogontotheserver,holdshiftcommandF5,enter! Nowloginasadmin,Alt-tab,copythesubfolderintothedesktop,converttoMP4 AAAAND- (the computer explodes)
• Sweet Tooth: Bing LOVES sweet sugary foods, especially in the episode "Why Can't I Eat Dessert All The Time?" where he joins in on the Wacky Fratboy Hijinx and chugs a full 2 liters of soda.
• Speed Demon: He enjoys the thrill of moving fast as he's the only one not scared of the speeding cart in "How Do Computers Work?"

Bang

Full Name: Bangford "Bang" Bipplebop III

Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore

A chill and lanky StoryBot.

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• Blue Is Calm: He is very relaxed and happens to be blue.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: He eats a burrito filled with linguine, pepperoncini, zucchini, ham, Spam and clams in the 'Glue' episode.
• Delicious Distraction: He gets distracted by fruitcake as shown in "A StoryBots Christmas".
  • He eats a browser cookie he finds in "How Do Computers Work?"
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: He always has his eyes half-closed to show his laid-back and spaced-out nature.
• Erudite Stoner: He is ridiculously chill and calm, while speaking in the stereotypical “stoner voice”, but also admits to “having his moments” on the proper place to search for an answer.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Apathetic. Word of God states he had no ambitions to work or do anything at all, yet somehow landed a spot in the Answer Department.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic. He's very easygoing and goes with the flow.

Boop

Full Name: Boop Bunklebee

Voiced by: Gregg Spiridellis

A cynical red StoryBot who only speaks in boops.

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• Amusing Injuries: A Running Gag is to have him fall on his head whenever he travels through the transfer tubes.
  • This actually serves as a Chekhov's Gun when he falls into a styrofoam cup in "Why Do We Have To Recycle?".
• Bilingual Dialogue: He'll talk in his Pokémon Speak and StoryBots, kids and other guest stars will respond in their normal language.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Cynic, a downplayed example. He's always seen grumpy and indifferent about anything.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic. Somewhat aloof but loyal to his coworkers.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: See The Unintelligible below.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: On the outside he's a perpetual grump but inside he cares deeply about his fellow coworkers and has a persistent fear of failure.
• Not So Above It All: He's just as goofy as the rest of the team.
• Pokémon Speak: He only speaks by saying “Boop”, a holdover from the “Beep & Boop” app, where both he and Beep only said their names, in the sense of a “correct answer, wrong answer” way.
• Silent Snarker: He snarks in eyerolls and facial expressions, may also cross his arms from time to time.
• The Unintelligible: Zig-zagged. The audience can't understand him but everyone else In-Universe can.

Bo

Full Name: Bolina "Bo" Bumblefoot

Voiced by: Erin Fitzgerald

A purple StoryBot with a big heart.

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• All Girls Like Ponies: She really loves unicorns.
• Big Fun: The tallest and widest of the StoryBots, she’s also ridiculously heartfelt and loves just about everything.
• Cuteness Proximity: When she's surrounded by cute little babies she couldn't help but yell in excitement.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Optimist. She is the most emotional of the team and sees good in everyone.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine. She brings unbridled enthusiasm when it comes to getting answers for kids.
• Genki Girl: Gets excited at tons of things and switches between lots of emotions in a few seconds.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She carries around her Rainbow Unicorn plush and has several posters in her room.

Recurring Characters

Hap

Full Name: Harry "Hap" Hacklebee

Voiced by: Evan Spiridellis

The grumpy boss of the Answer Department.

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• Alliterative Name: Harry "Hap" Hacklebee.
• Cuteness Proximity: Twice the things that drop down the transfer tubes have caused him to devolve into squeeing. Once it was baby bunnies, the other time it was baby birds.
• Hair Reboot: When he gets his unibrow and mustache shaved off by a vacuum, he proceeds to go into an angry Luminescent Blush to grow them back.
• Ironic Nickname: His hard shell has earned him the nickname 'Hap', short for Happy.
• Mean Boss: Hap is ridiculously short-tempered, shouting at his workers and demanding them around, though it's mostly because he's stressed out from his tight work schedule.
• Workaholic: He's constantly having to answer questions from kids every episode and doesn't make a lot of time to relax. Word of God states that he's responsible for way too much with too few resources, has a fixed budget and tight timeline and sending teams to the Outer World is expensive and time-consuming.

Hub and Bub

Huh huh. Huhuhuhuhu. TV Tropes.

Voiced by: Nate Theis

Two StoryBots that cause a lot of mischief.

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• Identical Twin ID Tag: Hub is yellow and Bub is orange.
• One-Word Vocabulary: Their vocabulary is limited to the last thing they've heard.
• Those Two Guys: Their scenes preface the song breaks of the episodes, with small vignettes at their station that relate to the song in question.
• The Hyena: The two are almost always giggling, often at their own mischievous handiwork.

Franklin

The lead engineer of the Fun Fact Machine.

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• Once per Episode: Every episode he's seen reading out a random fact from the Fun Fact Machine.

Characters that appear in Answer Time

Gob and Goob

Two StoryBots who work in the Archives organising and cataloging stuff. Well, "work" is being generous...

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• Fat and Skinny: Gob and Goob respectively.
• Lazy Bum: They do the bare minimum so as to not get in trouble and would rather laze around all day.

Ada and Pythagoras

Full Name: Ada Pattycakes

A pink StoryBot who's head of the Math Department with her assistant, a New York rat named Pythagoras.

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• Hamster-Wheel Power: The Math Machine is powered by Pythagoras running on a wheel.
• Nerd Glasses: Ada wears grey thin rimmed glasses and is obsessed with math.

Eleanor

Full Name: Eleanor Smartypants

Eleanor Smartypants is a one-person Answer Team! She’s smart with books, Good with information; but not so efficient with everything else…

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• Amusing Injuries: Every segment she's hurt in some amusing way, like being blown by a fan or having uncontrollable hiccups.

Dink and Doink

Voiced by: Dave Goelz and Frank Oz

Two friends who are always seen bickering alot.

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• Identical Twin ID Tag: Dink is purple with separated eyebrows and Doink is yellow with a unibrow.
• With Friends Like These...: They're always arguing about something trivial like the number of plants on Earth and almost end their friendship everytime.

Emmett

Voiced by: "Weird Al" Yankovic

A nerdy StoryBot who lives with his mom and builds all sorts of model toys.

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• Basement-Dweller: Lives in his mom's house, though he's not a Jerkass like many examples of this trope.
• Big Eater: He makes a large sandwich filled with tomatoes, lettuce, cheese and ham.
• Kitsch Collection: Has an impressive collection of various toy vehicles and ships.
• Nice Guy: He's well-mannered and has a good relationship with his mom.
• Speech Impediment: He speaks and sings with a lisp.

Madame FuFu

Voiced by: Candi Milo

A talented ballet dancer with her own repertory theater.

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• Contortionist: She can bend her body into various shapes like squares and triangles... until her back breaks near the end of her performance.