Bubble, Bubbles or The Bubble may refer to:
Common uses
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Bubble (physics), a globule of one substance in another, usually gas in a liquid
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Soap bubble
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Economic bubble
An economic bubble (also called a speculative bubble or a financial bubble) is a period when current asset prices greatly exceed their intrinsic valuation, being the valuation that the underlying long-term fundamentals justify. Bubbles can be ...
, a situation where asset prices are much higher than underlying fundamentals
Arts, entertainment and media
Fictional characters
* Bubble,
a character in ''Absolutely Fabulous''
* Bubbles, an oriole from the ''
Angry Birds
''Angry Birds'' is a Finnish action-based media franchise created by Rovio Entertainment. The game series focuses on the eponymous flock of angry birds who try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs. Inspired by the game '' Crush the Castl ...
'' franchise
* Bubble, in the video game ''
Clu Clu Land
is a puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in 1984 in Japan for the Famicom and was later released in North America in 1985 as a Nintendo Entertainment System launch title, ...
''
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Bubbles (''The Wire'')
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Bubbles (''Trailer Park Boys'')
* Bubbles, a yellow tang fish in the
''Finding Nemo'' franchise
* Bubbles, in ''
Jabberjaw''
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Bubbles Utonium, in ''The Powerpuff Girls''
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Bubbles (Miyako Gotokuji), in ''Powerpuff Girls Z''
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Bubbles (''The Adventures of Little Carp'')
* Bubbles, in ''
The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth''
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Bubbles the Clown, a doll used in the BBC's Test Card F
* Cobra Bubbles, in ''
Lilo & Stitch''
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Bubbles DeVere, in ''Little Britain''
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Bubbles Yablonsky
Sarah Strohmeyer (born December 17, 1962) is an American author of eighteen crime novels and humorous books about relations between men and women. She is best known for her Bubbles Yablonsky series about a Pennsylvania hairdresser who is drawn in ...
, the protagonist in a series of novels by Sarah Strohmeyer
* Several
''SpongeBob SquarePants'' characters
* Bubbles, in ''
Oddbods
''Oddbods'' (also known as ''The Oddbods Show'') is a Singaporean computer-animated comedy television series produced by One Animation. The series centers on seven characters—Bubbles, Pogo, Newt, Jeff, Slick, Fuse and Zee—wearing furry su ...
''
* Bubbles, in webcomic ''
Questionable Content
''Questionable Content'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''QC'') is a slice-of-life webcomic written and illustrated by Jeph Jacques. It was launched in August 2003 and reached its 4,500th comic in April 2021. The plot originally centered on Marten ...
''
Film and television
Film
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''Bubble'' (2005 film), a drama by Steven Soderbergh
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''Bubble'' (2022 film), a Japanese animated film
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''Bubbles'' (film), a 1930 short film
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''The Bubble'' (1966 film), a science fiction film
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''The Bubble'' (2001 film), a Greek film
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''The Bubble'' (2006 film), an Israeli romantic drama
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''The Bubble'' (2022 film)
Television
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''The Bubble'' (game show), 2010
* "Bubbles", a 1997
episode of ''Teletubbies''
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"The Bubble" (''30 Rock''), a 2009 TV episode
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"The Bubble" (''Parks and Recreation''), a 2011 TV episode
Gaming
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''Bubbles'' (video game), 1982
* Bubbles, gameplay items in the video game ''
LittleBigPlanet
''LittleBigPlanet'' (stylized as ''LittleBIGPlanet''; abbreviated ''LBP'') is a puzzle platform video game series created and produced by British developer Media Molecule and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Most games in the seri ...
''
Music
Artists and labels
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Bubbles (band), a Swedish girl group
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Bubbles (rapper), from Roll Deep
* Bubbles, a record label owned by Erlend Øye and Marcin Oz of
The Whitest Boy Alive
Songs
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"Bubble" (Band-Maid song), 2019
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"Bubble" (Fluke song), 1994
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"Bubble" (G.E.M. song), 2012
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"Bubbles" (song), by Biffy Clyro, 2009
* "Bubbles", a version of the song "
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" adapted as the anthem of the West Ham United football club
* "Bubbles",
by Frankie Laine, 1955
* "Bubbles", by The Free Design from ''
Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love'', 1970
* "Bubbles", by Herbie Hancock from ''
Man-Child'', 1976
* "Bubbles", by James from ''
Hey Ma'', 2008
* "Bubbles", by Norman Connors from ''
You Are My Starship'', written by Shunzo Ono, 1976
* "Bubbles", by Pop Will Eat Itself, first released as B-side to "
Beaver Patrol", 1987
* "Bubbles", by Spooky Tooth from ''
It's All About'', 1968
* "Bubble", by Squarepusher (credited as Tom Jenkinson) from ''
Bubble and Squeak'', 1996
* "Bubbles", by System of a Down from ''
Steal This Album!
''Steal This Album!'' is the third studio album by Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down, released on November 26, 2002, by American Recordings and Columbia Records. Produced by Rick Rubin and Daron Malakian, it peaked at number ...
'', 2002
* "The Bubble", by Status Quo from ''
The Party Ain't Over Yet'', 2005
Other uses in arts, entertainment and media
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''Bubbles'' (painting), by Sir John Everett Millais, 1886, also used to market Pears soap
* ''
Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology'', a work by
Peter Sloterdijk
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Bubble Comics, a Russian comic book publisher
People
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Bubbles Anderson (Theodore M. Anderson, 1904-1943), American baseball player in the Negro leagues
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Bubbles Hargrave (Eugene Franklin Hargrave, 1892-1969), American baseball player
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Barney Bubbles (Colin Fulcher, 1942–1983), English graphic artist
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John W. Bubbles (John William Sublett, 1902–1986), American entertainer
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Patricia Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere (1933–1992), English socialite and actress
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William James (Royal Navy officer, born 1881) (1881–1974), British admiral, politician and author
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''Bubbles'' (painting)
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Billy Myers (Canadian football) (1923–2019)
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Mary Nolan (1902-1948), American actress, singer and dancer
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John O'Dwyer (born 1991), Irish hurler
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Beverly Sills (1929–2007), opera singer
* Bianca Sloof, a contestant on
''Real Chance of Love'' (season 1) and ''
Charm School with Ricki Lake''
Science and technology
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Bubble chamber, a particle detector in physics
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Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635, in space
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Bubble Nebula (NGC 6822), in space
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Bubble (computing)
In the design of pipelined computer processors, a pipeline stall is a delay in execution of an instruction in order to resolve a hazard.
Details
In a standard five-stage pipeline, during the decoding stage, the control unit will determine whe ...
, a delay in a pipeline
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Bubble (programming language), developed by Bubble Group
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Bubble memory
Bubble memory is a type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of a magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as ''bubbles'' or ''domains'', each storing one bit of data. The material is arranged to form a series o ...
, a type computer memory
* Bubble, a negation
logic gate symbol
Sports
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Bio-secure bubble, an isolation zone used for hosting sporting events
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2020 NBA Bubble
The 2020 NBA Bubble, also referred to as the Disney Bubble or the Orlando Bubble, was the bio-secure bubble at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando, that was created by the National Basketball Association (NBA) to protect its play ...
* Bubble, a
term used in poker tournaments
* Bubble, in the
NCAA basketball tournament selection process
Other uses
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Bubbles (chimpanzee), who lived with Michael Jackson
* Bubbles, a hippopotamus who escaped from
Lion Country Safari in Irvine, California, U.S.
* Bubble, or
pizzo, a pipe used to freebase drugs
* Bubbles, a
mephedrone product, a synthetic stimulant drug
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Filter bubble
A filter bubble or ideological frame is a state of intellectual isolationTechnopediaDefinition – What does Filter Bubble mean?, Retrieved October 10, 2017, "....A filter bubble is the intellectual isolation, that can occur when websites make us ...
, a state of intellectual isolation
* Bubble, a style of
Hi-Riser automobile
See also
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Bubble Act, a 1720 Act of the Parliament of Great Britain
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Bubble and squeak, a British vegetable dish
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Bubble Boy (disambiguation)
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Bubble tea
Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, tapioca milk tea, boba tea, or boba; , ) is a tea-based drink that originated in Taiwan in the early 1980s. Taiwanese immigrants brought it to the United States in the 1990s, initially ...
, a tea-based drink
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Bubblegum
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Bubble wrap, a packaging material
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Bulla (disambiguation) (Latin, 'bubble')
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Champagne
Champagne (, ) is a sparkling wine originated and produced in the Champagne wine region of France under the rules of the appellation, that demand specific vineyard practices, sourcing of grapes exclusively from designated places within it, ...
, a French sparkling wine
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I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, a popular American song written in 1918
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Microbubble, a very small bubble
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Speech balloon
Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing a char ...
, or speech bubble, a graphic convention
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Support bubble (disambiguation) In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, a support bubble may refer to:
* First COVID-19 tier regulations in England#Linked households – regulations in England
* COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand#Support bubble – regulations in New Zealand ...
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