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BrainPOP is an educational website with Flash-based movies about mathematics, technology, health, science, social studies, arts & music, and English. Most of the videos feature the site's recurring characters, Tim and Moby.

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About the site

Founded in 1999, BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. The award-winning online resources include BrainPOP, for grades 3 and up; BrainPOP Jr., for grades K-3; and BrainPOP Español. The newest resource, BrainPOP Educators, features free tips, tools, and best practices by and for our teacher community.

Ideal for both group and one-on-one settings, BrainPOP is used in numerous ways, from Stupid RRRRRto reviewing before a test. Content is aligned to state standards and easily searchable with our online state standards tool. All products are fully compatible with PCs, Macs, projectors, and interactive whiteboards. No downloading, installation, or special hardware is required.

BrainPOP was conceived by Dr. Avraham Kadar, M.D., an immunologist and pediatrician, as a creative way to explain difficult concepts to his young patients. Currently, BrainPOP hosts more than 2 million unique visits each month, from thousands of schools worldwide. BrainPOP takes pride in its' in-house team of educators, animators, and writers, who produce and continually improve BrainPOP, incorporating valuable teacher and parent input.

To start exploring BrainPOP, BrainPOP Jr., and BrainPOP Español, register for a free trial.

Characters

Tim

Tim

Tim (full name Timothy) is a smart and useful teenager who does most of the talking in the movies. He has brown hair and usually wears a white T-shirt with a picture on it which relates to each movie. In some movies, it is implied that Tim and Moby live in New York. Tim's acting is too cartoony and 2-D as stated by his Drama teacher in the Drama movie. In the Dolly the Sheep movie Moby tries to make Tim think that he is a clone.

  • In the Voting and September 11 movies, it is implied that Tim and Moby live in New York.
  • It is revealed in the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy movie that he can't do the pull-ups in gym class.
  • One could infer that Tim likes Rita by watching several different BrainPop movies. In the movie on dreams, it is implied that he likes Rita. During his dream, he mumbled "Hello, Rita." Also in the Puberty movie, it is implied again that Tim and Rita like each other.
  • Tim is fourteen years old, although he sounds much older (around 16 years of age).
  • In the Q&A section, Tim is in middle-school. Though in one movie, he attends "BrainPOP High".
  • According to the Immigration movie, he is of Welsh-Japanese descent- his paternal grandparents are from Wales, and his maternal grandparents are from Japan. Tim's parents can be seen in movies like Airport Security , Fire, Death, Motherhood, Vocals, Voting and Eating Disorders.
  • Tim's grandfather used to collect antique guns, as noted in the Guns movie.
  • In the World War I movie, Tim states that he was named after his Great-Grandfather Timothy, who was a medic in World War I.
  • His birthday is October 31 (Halloween), according to his ID in the movie about blood types.
  • His blood type is O positive (in the Sparktop.org profile), but in the movie on blood types, he is A positive.
  • He is left-handed which is implied in the Translation Movie.
  • He thinks it's "freaky" how the letters he gets in the movies reflect what's going on in his life, as he notes in the Computer Viruses movie.
  • In the movie on cell phones, his cell phone looks a lot like a home phone.
  • In the Credit Card movie, it is shown that Tim owns a credit card, although it is just used as an example as Moby got it for him. Tim's card number is similar to the Pi decimal, without the decimal point.
  • In the Scientific Problem Solving movie, he wore the same shirt for a whole month- possibly satirizing how most cartoon characters rarely change their clothes (although Tim has a different shirt every movie).

Tim's likes

  • Tim's favorite color is orange, as noted in the Q and A section.
  • Tim's favorite sport is baseball, as he himself mentions in the Baseball movie, and his favorite baseball team is the New York Mets. Tim also likes swimming as noted in the Q and A section of the site.
  • It is said that his favorite food is fish (in the profiles).
  • In several movies Tim is shown to be a fan of "Castles and Creatures" a game that is much like Dungeons & Dragons
  • In the Latin Music movie Tim likes Baleadas
  • His favorite music is electronic.
  • Tim is a fan of Star Wars as mentioned in the Pocahontas movie. Also, in the Puberty movie Tim is seen playing with a Star Wars Y Wing Bomber toy, while in the Robots movie, Moby can be seen playing with R2D2 and C3PO toys. And in the dolly the sheep movie, he can be seen on the phone saying "it was a sith lord".
  • In the Internet movie it is suggested that Tim enjoys playing real-time computer games and MMORPG's. This movie also shows Wikipedia in it.
  • In the Jazz movie, it is hinted that he likes Fall Out Boy and Avril Lavigne.
  • Tim thinks that Columbus, Ohio is the coolest town on Earth- as shown in the Christopher Columbus movie.
  • In almost all the movies except for the alcohol one Tim loves wearing his white shirt.

Tim's dislikes

  • In the Fax Machine movie, Tim stated that he didn't like egg rolls when Moby ordered Chinese food.
  • In the Jazz movie, Tim disliked Moby's Jazz-Bot after Jazz-Bot freezes Tim in place. While Tim is frozen, he exclaims to it "You'll pay for this Jazz-Bot!"
  • In the Venus movie, Tim states he doesn't like the planet Venus very much.
  • In the Adolf Hitler movie, Tim states that he thinks Hitler is a jerk.
  • In the Honeybees movie, he says nature can be cruel.
  • In the Music movie, he says he dislikes the band Rage Against the Machine.
  • In the Armed Forces movie, when Tim and Moby are playing "Air Force", Tim stated Moby "had been a lone wolf since basic and I don't have room on my squad for hot dog pilots!"

Tim's health

Tim's possessions

  • In the Credit Card movie, Tim has a credit card which is most likely just a fake and is only used as an example, given by Moby and The First National Bank of Moby and its number is similar to the Pi decimal (without the decimal point).
  • In the Credit Card movie Tim bought a GameStation 3, a parody of the PlayStation 3.
  • In the Blog movie, it is implied that Tim owns pink, polka dotted boxers.
  • In the measuring matter movie, it is stated that Tim owns a Rubiks Cube.
  • In the String instrument movie, it is shown that Tim owns a violin.
  • In all the episodes we see Tim owns a t-shirt with a picture relating to the main subject of the movie.
  • In the Alcohol movie, Tim owns a Snappy Green Sweater-Vest.
  • In the Dreams movie, he has a REM poster in his bedroom.
  • In the movies about Floods and Addiction, Tim has a collection of comic books. [1]

Tim's pets
  • Tim has a pet lizard named Gunther, as noted in the Q and A section.
  • Tim also has a pet snake named Clyde.
  • Tim used to have a pet fish named Ewan, who appeared in the Fish movie. In the Carbon Dating movie, Moby digs up old fish bones, with Tim revealing that the bones were those of Ewan, saying that he died two years ago.
  • In the Carnivorous Plants movie, it shows that Tim has a frog named Hoppy that was eaten by one of Moby's carnivorous plants.
  • Tim also has a pet dog named Sadie that is shown in the movie about dogs.

Tim's talents

  • In the String Instrument movie, Tim plays the violin well.
  • In several movies Tim is a writer and a poet

Moby von Robot III

Moby

Moby is an orange robot who communicates in bleeping noises (similar to R2D2). He has three lights on his chest that light up every time he beeps and Tim usually translates what he's saying. Moby is Tim's friend but loves to drive him insane. In the Eclipse movie, he forgot that Tim was and is his friend. While Tim does most of the talking during a movie, Moby usually helps out by fetching things for Tim and asking questions about the topic they are talking about. As a robot, he can do lots of things that Tim is unable to do (e. g. changing his hand into a freeze-ray, sending himself back in time, removing his head). Most of the movies end humorously, often with Tim getting angry with Moby or vice versa. It is often hinted that he wants to take over the world with Tim. In one movie, it is supposed that Tim and Moby are brothers ("I'm going to tell Mom!").

One funny thing about Moby is that he has a blog, in which he states he has seen Tim's underwear glittering. This is made public by the Blogs movie.

It is occasionally implied, especially if one looks in the Space sub-category, that Moby is of an extraterrestrial origin; in the Earth movie, for example. Sometimes, Moby says too much about the subject (or when Tim asks (when the two met) where he came from, or when he saw an old rock painting that featured a Moby-like robot coming out of a rocket and being observed by people) and erases Tim's memory (e.g. outer solar system movie). However, the Leonardo da Vinci movie ends with Moby sliding down a panel on his chest, revealing a panel labeled "Robots by Leonardo" to which Tim replies "Oh, no way." In the Mars movie, Tim mentions something about people mistaking Moby for a Martian, but when he is about to mention where Moby really comes from, Moby interrupts and glares at him angrily, prompting Tim to move on.

Stated in the Leonardo Da Vinci movie, Moby is 500 pounds, but in the Graphing and solving Inequalities Movie, he is 300 pounds.

Moby's blood type (in the profile section) is 30 weight synthetic oil.

There is a part when he has a clone "brother", which he supposedly built from spare parts, in the Twins movie.

In the movie about Hiccups, Moby's "Vagus nerve" is literally a Las Vegas slot machine.

In the Brain movie, Moby keeps his brain in a jar. According to the Filmmaking movie, Moby likes to pretend his last name is Calrissian- an obvious reference to Star Wars character Lando Calrissian.

Moby's favorite things

Moby's favorite color is red, as noted in the Q and A section.

Moby likes running (as his exercise).

His favorite food is chocolate, as noted in the Chocolate movie.

Moby likes peanut butter and anchovy milkshakes, as noted in the Anthrax movie.

You can infer that Moby likes peas based on the Heredity movie.

In the Baseball, movie, it is stated that Moby is a huge fan of David Wright.

Moby's possessions

  • Moby owns a jazz-bot that he made in the Jazz movie.
  • Moby also owns a collection of carnivorous plants and he named almost all of them in the Carnivorous Plants movie.
  • In the movie of String Instruments, it is shown that Moby plays piano.
  • In the movie on woodwinds, it is shown that Moby plays the tenor saxophone without a neck strap.
  • In the motherhood movie, Moby has a baby. Where this baby came from is unknown.
  • In the DNA movie Moby owns a Brown Fedora.
  • In several movies Moby owns an blue electric guitar.
  • In several movies Moby owns a bank called the First National Bank of Moby.
  • In several movies Moby has a record.
  • In the Halloween Movie Moby owns a red and orange monster costume
  • In one movie, Moby has a criminal record.
  • In the Sparktop profiles, it is written that Moby collects shiny objects.
  • Also, in the Floods movie, Moby has a collection of non-famous autographs.
  • Moby has a robot that looks like Tim in the "Robots" movie. This robot has malfunctioned.
  • In the Brain movie, Moby has a brain in a jar.
  • Moby owns a small baby that looks like him.
  • In the Pocahontas movie, Moby has a C-3PO (also from Star Wars) mask.
  • Moby once created a scary-looking robotic bird which flies away. Tim says that he has "created a monster".

Moby's pets

Moby claims Tim as his pet as noted in the Sparktop.org profile.

Moby also has a blue, dog-bird hybrid named Hector, who is shown in the Six Kingdoms movie.

Cassie and Rita

Cassie and Rita are two teenage girls, who are best friends and are mainly featured in comics which accompany most of the movies. They also occasionally appear in the movies, and even narrate some of them, like the "on" on Telephones.

Rita tends to be more composed and intelligent, while Cassie tends to be more absent-minded. A common theme in the comic strip is Cassie doing something silly and Rita helping her.

In the movie on Motherhood there is a picture of Tim and Rita as adults, married, with two kids (this is seen again in the Adulthood movie).

In the "period" film, Tim read the letter and realized he couldn't describe it, so he called on Cassie and Rita to explain.

Cassie Burton

Cassie's favorite color is green.

She has a goldfish named Puffer and two hermit crabs.

She can cry by will.

Her birthday is November 10, as seen in the Ask Us Section.

You can infer that her last name is Burton in the "Primary and Caucasus" FYI

Rita

Rita's favorite colors are black and pink.

She has a ginger cat named Pickle, which Tim has to take care of in the Body Scans movie. She also owns a dog named Dakota that is shown in a "Just for Fun" comic strip.

Her birthday is on May 18, also as seen in the Ask Us section.

Bob, The Ex-Lab Rat

Bob the Ex-Lab Rat

Bob is a rat that has a broken tail and a patched chest. Bob is featured in experiments called "Experiment with Bob the Ex-Lab Rat", which relate to the movies. People write to him asking for ideas for experiments-- sometimes, he sends them to Tim and Moby so they can make a movie about them. Bob himself has been featured in a few movies. Bob did experiments in videos in many, many Brainpop movies.

His favorite color is yellow.

Bob is shown in the movie on computer mouses. Where at the beginning, after Tim reads the letter, Tim asks where his mouse went and Moby shows Bob to Tim and Tim replies "You silly robot." Then Bob says that he's not a mouse, he's a rat.

In the experiment of "Winter Holidays", Bob states that every year, he celebrates his escape from the lab. Hinting that he wasn't released, he escaped. Which could be why he is called Bob the "Ex-Lab" Rat

Gary and gary

Gary and gary are also featured in some comics on BrainPOP, called "How To With Gary and Gary", which shows how to do something safely. The capitalized "Gary" is the father, and the lowercased "gary" is the son.

Gary's favorite color is blue as noted in the Q and A page.

BrainPOP Jr.

BrainPOP Jr. was launched on September 4, 2006. It is similar to BrainPOP, but the movies are geared towards grades K-3 (age 6-9). They star Moby and a little girl named Annie. The movies were free until May 2007. Since then, subscriptions have been required to see most of the movies.

Characters in BrainPOP Jr.

Annie

Annie from BrainPop Jr.

Annie is a young girl who narrates the movies. She wears red framed glasses and also works with Moby.

She has a sister named Mia that talks on the cell phone too much and is allergic to dust, who gets angry when Annie says something embarrassing about her. Annie has parents, but they aren't mentioned in any movies yet. Annie has a grandfather as well. There are many hints in BrainPOP Jr. that Annie is Mexican, like her dog's name (Sr. Marice), her mother and father, and she sometimes refers to her father as papi, or her grandfather as grandpop.

She is allergic to eggs.

She gets red in the face when angry or embarrassed.

In the Internet Safety short, while watching the Leonardo Da Vinci short on BrainPOP, Annie asks Moby, "You know this guy?". This implies that Annie does not know Tim.

Moby

In BrainPOP Jr., Moby shows his emotions more often, like crying or being overly hyper. Moby is a little more kind hearted in BrainPOP Jr. than in BrainPOP. He can also do things the other Moby can't do like sneeze or losing a line from his mouth. Even though his appearance is still the same he seems to have human stats like eat human food and sweat and drink things like water. He can also can be sick and smell flowers.

Frank and Joey

Frank and Joey are two fish that star in the comic strip "Belly Up." They aren't technically characters but do appear in some movies.

Trivia

  • In the Analog and Digital Recording Movie Tim has an ipop (ipod spoof) but in the mp3 movie he begs Moby for an mp3 player.
  • In the Graphing and Solving Inequalities movie, Moby weighs 300 pounds, but in the Leonardo Da Vinci Movie, he weighs 500 pounds.
  • In the Smoking movie, Tim states all the bad things smoking can do to you, then Moby throws the pack away, but Moby doesn't have a heart, lungs, or any human body part (except for brain which he keeps in a jar). Tim never stated what smoking would do to robots.
  • The Last question in the Back to School Quiz is actually a joke. Q: Why did Silly Billy throw the clock out the Window? A: To See Time Fly.
  • Tim's card number in the Credit Card movie is different than the one that he types into the computer.
  • In the Mixed Numbers movie, when we 1st see Tim, he gets oiled spots splashed on him, but after he reads the letter, there aren't any oil spots on him.
  • Tim's blood type is A positive in the 'Blood Types' movie but he is O positive in the profile.
  • The Movie that explains about Homophones itself is called "They're, Their, & They're" instead of Homophones.
  • The alien that Tim said to that he only has 200 minutes of shields left (though the shields have already been up 195 minutes) from the calculator movie happens to be one of the aliens shown when Tim explains that the Scientologists believe that many individual Thetans may take many forms of existence.
  • In the Blood types movie the cartoon shows the AB reacting badly to receiving O blood when AB can receive from any and O can donate to any.
  • In the Sumerians movie, Moby's three dots on his chest seems to move apart.
  • In the Allergies movie, Moby's head is a little crooked.
  • In the Dinosaurs movie, Tim and Moby switched places after they time-traveled and got back when Tim was explaining what dinosaur meant.
  • In the Reptiles movie, the snake print on Tim's shirt was bulging, making it look like a real snake.
  • On the movie about drama, Moby was the only person (robot) in the audience, and about 10 roses were thrown.
  • In the movie about brass instruments, Tim was blowing through a sousaphone when he was suppose to be buzzing, as he demonstrated later on.
  • In the hearing movie Tim apparantly has a rock instead of a brain and can not get out of bed.
  • In the Brass movie, the guy who was playing the tuba was holding it incorrectly.
  • In the World War 2 movie, Tim stated that during the time of the German Blitzkrieg of Poland and Great Britain and France declaring war on Germany, Germany was allied with the Soviet Union, but they weren't really allies, they just were in a non-aggression pact, which is where if one country doesn't fight them, the other won't.
  • In the Scoliosis movie, when Tim told what do they do when the curve is 40-50 degrees, after Moby beeped, his three dots didn't flash as they were supposed to.
  • In the movie on magnetism, the paper clips glitch to be invisible for a period of time.
  • In the movie on pirates, the captain of the ship seems to be hovering in mid-air when Tim is explaining the difficulty of being a sailor.
  • In the Dance movie, the tune Tim hums in the beginning is similar to (if somewhat shortened version of) the underwater theme of Super Mario Bros.
  • In the Analog and Digital Recording movie, the song Tim listens to on his IPOP (an iPod spoof) is like the song "Party All the Time" by Eddie Murphy.
  • In the "Imperial vs. Metric" movie, Tim says that all humans have ten fingers. He then counts the number of fingers he has, and finds that he only has eight. This was possibly done to satirize Tim's unrealistic appearance.
  • In the woodwinds movie Moby plays the tenor sax without the neck strap.
  • In the precision and accuracy movie Tim and Moby have lunch with Rita at 3:05 p.m.
  • In the nutrition movie when showing the vegetable section there is a tomato in it which is really a fruit. But then again, many people do think tomatoes are vegetables.
  • In the Percussion movie's FYI, Cassie is playing the clarinet wrong.
  • In the nanotechnology movie, the ferris wheel has three robots on it from afar, but when magnified by moby, it only has two.
  • In the Dreams Movie, Tim states that Moby doesn't have a brain, but in the brain movie, Tim states that Moby does have a brain but keeps it in a jar.

External links

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