Big Fat Baby

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Big Fat Baby
Big Fat Baby gets a whiff of his own scent.
First appearance	Regular on Histeria! since the series premiere.
Created by	Tom Ruegger
Voiced by	Luke Ruegger
Background Information
Aliases	BFB
Friends	Father Time, the Histeria! Kid Chorus (Loud Kiddington, Froggo, Charity Bazaar, Aka Pella, Lucky Bob, Cho-Cho, Toast, Pepper Mills, Pule Houser, and Susanna Susquahanna)

Big Fat Baby (often abbreviated by fans as BFB) is a fictional character created for the Warner Bros. animated series Histeria! He is an apparent sidekick to the central character Father Time, frequently accompanying him as he introduces the sketches. In this role, he is a parody of Baby New Year, as he is shown wearing a ribbon dictating the year in which the sketch takes place.

Big Fat Baby is known for the foul odor he carries, caused by his constant pooping in his diaper. As a result of this, usually in sketches where the show's Kid Chorus is shown annoying a historical figure, one of the kids asks the figure in question to change Big Fat Baby's diaper, pointing out that the last time he had a clean diaper was before something that happened a long time ago. For example:

Aka Pella: Big Fat Baby needs a change.

René Descartes: Ooowee! When was the last time this kid had a new diaper?

Aka: Remember when humans first discovered fire?

Descartes: Oui.

Aka: Before that.

(Quite possibly, given that the cast of Histeria! appears to be time-traveling, it is likely that the last time Big Fat Baby's diaper was changed wasn't quite so long ago for them.)

As a matter of fact, there is actually more than one Big Fat Baby. At times, several Big Fat Babies appear onscreen at once, usually to depict a certain time period such as the American Revolution. In fact, there have even been several Big Fat Baby Girls who diffriantiate from the males by way of their tanned skin and pink hair bows. In addition, various historical figures who appeared on Histeria!, such as Alexander the Great, King Henry VIII, and the semi-regular character Nostradamus, are always depicted as Big Fat Babies whenever they are shown in their infanthood.

The show had an occasional jingle, also used in commercials, where Big Fat Baby is shown zooming through a desert chased by Father Time in the style of the Road Runner cartoons. In fact, the song that plays in this jingle is a parody of the theme song to The Road Runner Show.

Big Fat Baby's gurgles were provided by Luke Ruegger, son of producer Tom.