Babblarna

Babblarna (The Babblers) are Swedish fictional characters used as children's language tools, created by illustrator and writer Annelie Tisell.^[1] The characters are inspired by professor Irene Johansson and the Karlstadmodel to train people with vocal, language and communication problems.^[2] The characters Babba, Bibbi, Bobbo, Dadda, Diddi and Doddo were created in the early 1980s. Babblarna's Youtube channel has over 600 million views.^{[3][failed verification]} It won a Kristallen award in 2018.^[1]

Babblarna also has channels for English, German, Norwegian and Finnish.^[4] On the Sverigetopplistan record charts, their children's music album Upp och ner och hit och dit med Babblarna! has peaked at number 27 on the albums chart, and has been certified Platinum.^[5][6] Meanwhile, their song "Babblarnas vaggvisa" has peaked at number 22 on the singles chart.^[5]

• Babba is brown and the only one of the Babblers who is not a tadpole person. Babba speaks "Ba babba ba ba baaaaa".
• Bibbi is yellow and oblong. Bibbi speaks "Bi bibbi bi bi bi".
• Bobbo is red, round and has round, mouse-like ears. Bobbo speaks "Bobbo bo bo booo".
• Dadda is green, pear-shaped and wearing a diaper. Dadda speaks "Dadda da da daaa".
• Diddi is pink and round with seven different coloured spikes on his head. Diddi speaks "Diiii diddi di di". He wears a pacifier when he goes to bed. He is the smallest of all the Babblers.
• Doddo is dark blue and heart-shaped. Doddo speaks "Doddo dooo doo do".

The original six Babblers have been supplemented with another six that are alter egos with the aim of providing the opportunity for training several language sounds.

• Gagga has the same shape as Babba but is violet with three lilac spots on their tummy. Gagga speaks "Gagga ga ga ga".
• Giggi has the same shape as Bibbi but is orange. Giggi speaks "Gi gi giggi gi gi".
• Goggo has the same shape as Bobbo but is black. Goggo speaks "Goggo go gooo".
• Sassa has the same shape as Dadda but is light blue. Sassa speaks "Sa sa sa".
• Sissi has the same shape as Diddi but is ice blue. Sissi speaks "Sissi sissi".
• Sosso has the same shape as Doddo but is pink. Sosso speaks "Sooo so so sosso".

• Vovvo is a turquoise blue dog that sounds "Vo vo vo".
• Faffa is a parrot that sounds "Fa faffa faaaa".
• Klonk is a blue talking and singing robot girl with pink hair. She is taller than the Babblarnas.
• Tut is a talking and singing car that can both drive on the ground and unfold his wings to fly.
• Purrpurr is a whistling cat dragon that lives in the mountains near the Valley of Babblers.
• Pling is a female pink bicycle who only appeared in the song "Stompalång Tut Pling Sång", aka "The Babblarna Stomp-Along Ding-a-Ling Song" in English.

There is an unofficial webseries on YouTube created by a Babblarna fan using Scratch, titled "Babba from Babblarna Gets Grounded". Unlike the official Babblarna videos (where the Babblers are happy and never get punished, aren't revealed to have families, and only say their names), the characters speak human English, Dadda is Babba's father, and Bobbo is considered her little sister. Each episode starts with Babba thinking of doing something considered "naughty" and then doing it, resulting in Dadda angrily grounding Babba and telling her to go to her bedroom, as well as giving her punishment, and Babba then cries while going to her bedroom (which isn't seen in the actual, official Babblarna videos).

In the first episode whose title is the same as this webseries, Babba says she will blast the Norwegian pop song titled "Fått deg på hjernen" (literally meaning "Got You On The Brain") by Emma Gunnarsen (a young Norwegian singer who is the younger sister of Marcus & Martinus), from a speaker on max volume, and she does so. She ends up with Dadda angrily grounding her "until the war in Ukraine is over", then telling Babba to go to her bedroom. She cries, and goes to her bedroom.