Bubble, Bubbles or The Bubble may refer to:

Common uses

  • Bubble (physics), a globule of one substance in another, usually gas in a liquid
  • Soap bubble
  • Economic bubble, a situation where asset prices are much higher than underlying fundamentals

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional characters

  • Bubble, a character in Absolutely Fabulous
  • Bubble, a character in the animated series Adventure Time episode "BMO Lost"
  • Bubble, a character from the animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus
  • Bubble, a character from Battle for Dream Island, an animated web series
  • Bubble, in the video game Clu Clu Land
  • Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys)
  • Bubbles (The Wire)
  • Bubbles Utonium, in The Powerpuff Girls
  • Bubbles (Miyako Gotokuji), in Powerpuff Girls Z
  • Bubbles (The Adventures of Little Carp)
  • Bubbles the Clown, a doll used in the BBC's Test Card F
  • Bubbles, an oriole from the Angry Birds franchise
  • Bubbles, a yellow tang fish in the Finding Nemo franchise
  • Lourdes "Bubbles" Torres, in Philippine action drama series FPJ's Ang Probinsyano
  • Samantha "Bubbles" Montenegro, in Philippine action drama series FPJ's Batang Quiapo
  • Bubbles, in Jabberjaw
  • Bubbles, in The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth
  • Bubbles, the pet goldfish of Peanut, Baby Butter and Jelly Otter in PB&J Otter
  • Cobra Bubbles, in Lilo & Stitch
  • Bubbles DeVere, in Little Britain
  • Bubbles, in Oddbods
  • Bubbles, in the webcomic Questionable Content
  • Bubbles Yablonsky, the protagonist in a series of novels by Sarah Strohmeyer
  • Bubbles, several SpongeBob SquarePants characters

Film and television

Film

  • Bubble (2005 film), a drama by Steven Soderbergh
  • Bubble (2022 film), a Japanese animated film
  • Bubbles (film), a 1930 short film
  • The Bubble (1966 film), a science fiction film
  • The Bubble (2001 film), a Greek film
  • The Bubble (2006 film), an Israeli romantic drama
  • The Bubble (2022 film), an American comedy film

Television

  • The Bubble (game show), 2010
  • "Bubbles", a 1997 episode of Teletubbies
  • "The Bubble" (30 Rock), a 2009 TV episode
  • "The Bubble" (Parks and Recreation), a 2011 TV episode

Literature

  • A Bubble, an 1895 novel by Lucy Bethia Walford
  • The Bubble, a 1984 novel by Mulk Raj Anand
  • Bubbles, a 2000 novel by Peter Prince
  • Bubble, a 2012 novel by Anders de la Motte

Gaming

  • Bubbles (video game), 1982
  • Bubbles, gameplay items in the video game LittleBigPlanet

Music

Artists and labels

  • Bubbles (band), a Swedish girl group
  • Bubbles (rapper), from Roll Deep
  • Bubbles, a record label owned by Erlend Øye and Marcin Oz of The Whitest Boy Alive

Songs

  • "Bubble" (Band-Maid song), 2019
  • "Bubble" (Fluke song), 1994
  • "Bubble" (G.E.M. song), 2012
  • "Bubble" (STAYC song), 2023
  • "Bubble" (Takagi & Ketra song), 2022
  • "Bubbles" (song), by Biffy Clyro, 2009
  • "Bubble", a song by Imagine Dragons from the super deluxe edition of Night Visions
  • "Bubbles", a version of the song "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" adapted as the anthem of the West Ham United football club
  • "Bubble", by Aespa from Rich Man, 2025
  • "Bubbles", by Aldous Harding from Warm Chris, 2022
  • "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
  • "Bubble", by Red Velvet from Cosmic, 2024
  • "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!, 2002
  • "The Bubble", by Status Quo from The Party Ain't Over Yet, 2005

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • Bubbles (painting), by Sir John Everett Millais, 1886, also used to market Pears soap
  • Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology, a work by Peter Sloterdijk
  • Bubble Comics, a Russian comic book publisher
  • Bubble (podcast), a scripted science fiction podcast

People

  • Bubbles Anderson (Theodore M. Anderson, 1904–1943), American baseball player in the Negro leagues
  • Bubbles Hargrave (Eugene Franklin Hargrave, 1892–1969), American baseball player
  • Bubbles Paraiso (Pilar Angela D. Paraiso, born 1984), Filipina actress
  • Barney Bubbles (Colin Fulcher, 1942–1983), English graphic artist
  • John W. Bubbles (John William Sublett, 1902–1986), American entertainer
  • Patricia Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere (1933–1992), English socialite and actress
  • William James (Royal Navy officer, born 1881) (1881–1974), British admiral, politician and author
  • Bubbles (painting)
  • Billy Myers (Canadian football) (1923–2019)
  • Mary Nolan (1902–1948), American actress, singer and dancer
  • John O'Dwyer (born 1991), Irish hurler
  • 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

  • Bubble chamber, a particle detector in physics
  • Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635, in space
  • Bubble Nebula (NGC 6822), in space
  • Bubble (computing), a delay in a pipeline
  • Bubble (programming language), developed by Bubble Group
  • Bubble memory, a type computer memory
  • Bubble, a negation logic gate symbol

Sports

  • Bio-secure bubble, an isolation zone used for hosting sporting events
  • 2020 NBA Bubble
  • Bubble, a term used in poker tournaments
  • Bubble, in the NCAA basketball tournament selection process

Other uses

  • 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
  • Filter bubble, a state of intellectual isolation
  • Bubble, a style of Hi-Riser automobile

See also

  • Babel, a biblical historic city in Ur-Kasdim
  • Bubble Act, a 1720 Act of the Parliament of Great Britain
  • Bubble and squeak, a British vegetable dish
  • Bubble Boy (disambiguation)
  • Bubble tea, a tea-based drink
  • Bubble Gang, a Philippine television sketch comedy show
  • Bubblegum
  • Bubble wrap, a packaging material
  • Bulla (disambiguation) (Latin, 'bubble')
  • Champagne, a French sparkling wine
  • "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles", a popular American song written in 1918
  • Microbubble, a very small bubble
  • Speech balloon, or speech bubble, a graphic convention
  • Support bubble (disambiguation)