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— U, various episodes |
U is a character in Alphablocks. He is voiced by David Holt.
Appearance
U is a striped cyan Alphablock who wears a cyan hat or cap, eyeglasses, and bright blue shoes.
Personality
Internally, U often feels like a doormat to the other Alphablocks, as bad things happen solely to him. He also might get fed up with Q but starts to stand her later. U is also a bit shy and doesn't like trying new things. His character design might be inspired by the fact that the /ʌ/ sound is like the "Uhhh..." line when someone feels timid.
Episodes
- Alphablocks A-Z (debut)
- Top
- Why
- Glow
- Sing
- Race
- Alphalympics
- UFO
- Fox
- Bus
- Quiet
- Zzzzz
- Magic
- Red
- Up
- Hen
- Fred
- Van
- Box
- Quick
- Rainbow (sound only)
- On
- ABC
- Wish
- Snowman
- Little Red N
- Dots
- Best
- Champ
- The End
- Fair
- Four
- Plusman (sound only)
- Alphabet (stays as digraph UR)
- Blue
- Outlaw
- Birthday Girl
- Cowboy
- Tween Scenes (as a toy)
- Band Together
- The Wonderful Wizard of Az
- Letters to Santa
- Making Friends
- Crossover (image only)
- The Case of the Missing Blocks
- How Many Sleeps 'til Christmas? (as a toy)
- An Alphablocks Adventure
- Castles
- R's Really Rare Rose
- No Fun Without U
- Cub
- Around Alphaland in a Day
- Farm
- Party Party
- Shop
- Bugs
- Signs
- I Am I! (latest appearance)
Total number of appearances: 55 (Physical)
Trivia
- The only episode in which U was a long vowel is Blue.
- He seems to be the unluckiest Alphablock.
- U is coloured similarly to the box in the episode Odd, but the box has a lighter colour than he does.
- U is the only bespectacled character to be seen without glasses, even if only for a split second.
- U, alongside F and N, cameo as a block toy in the Numberblocks episode Tween Scenes.
- He can play the piano.
- U resembles a stereotypical nerd.
- U shares a similar appearance to Two, as both wear glasses and shoes, they even wear their shoes and glasses to bed.
- Just like Two, he is one of the first characters to be disabled if his glasses are a prescription, which they most likely are given he cleaned them once.
- In Outlaw, it is revealed that he does not own pets.
- In Wish, a blue flower with glasses resembles him because of its look.
- His Cyrillic letter is Ү (ü) instead of У (u) so that it fits the Mongolian name of Alphablocks: "Үсгэн блок"
- He is the fourth or fifth Alphablock alphabetically to lack eyebrows.
- He's the only Alphablock with glasses, but the fourth Alphablock alphabetically with any kind of eyewear. The other 4 are X with his mask, T with his monocle, R with her eyepatch, and C with her goggles.
- U is the only vowel Alphablock to have footwear, wear a head accessory, and wear glasses.
- U is also the only vowel Alphablock to lack eyebrows.
- If tricky words are counted, U is currently the only vowel left to be a long vowel on his own.
- A was long in "Fox" (lazy), O was long in that episode (over) as well as in "Bus" (post), I was long in "Quiet" (uiet, quiet), and Y was long in "Why" (a lot of words here), "Party" (party), and "Letters to Santa" (jolly). Counting tricky words, I was also long in "I Am I!" and "Who Can Help?" (I), O was long in "Maze" (no, go, to), and E was long in "Who Can Help?" (he, she, we). E is left to be long in a full decodable word, though.