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LB CHARACTER PROFILE  By Josh Isaacson, Teddy Ruxpin Online Webmaster

LB is the long suffering personal assistant and companion of Jack W. Tweeg. The most intelligent of the Bounder species of Grundo,  LB and his counterparts (including his love interest, Buffy) do the dirty work and the errands while Tweeg is the brains (or lack thereof) of the situation. LB constantly complains of the lack of a paycheck, but continues to render services to his boss.  One of the more humorous of those services is returning the misfired cannonballs Tweeg sends towards Gimmick's house (all labeled with "Return to Tweeg")

Ken Forsse said it best. "LB is of course much brighter than Tweeg, without the determination and single-mindedness of his boss."  LB's success is usually accidental or coincidental. He briefly becomes the Supreme Oppressor of MAVO (During the aptly named 'Musical Oppressors episode of the TV Show) His term at the helm of the Monsters and Villains Organization is punctuated by his release of Teddy Ruxpin from the MAVO dungeon. Sometime earlier, Teddy had saved him from downing, and LB repaid the favor. As he got a thank you from Teddy, LB literally told Teddy "Don't Mention It".

Even though he is under appreciated (If appreciated at all) by Tweeg, LB is unquestionably loyal to Tweeg as well, returning to his boss twice when he could have went off and explored new avenues. LB was instrumental in returning Tweeg's memory after it was destroyed by the Black Box, gathering Eleanor and searching for Tweeg after he was sold to the Ying Zoo, and always allowing himself to take a back seat to his boss even when he was the one who deserved the credit. Tweeg had a way of taking LB's advice and turning the idea into his own when it seemed to be a successful idea, and blaming LB for the things that went wrong that were none or little of the bounder's doing, but LB always took it in stride.

LB was to me, however, most valuable in the show for his dry sense of humor. The laughs were almost always at the expense of Tweeg, and his constant (and probably deliberate) mispronouncing of Tweeg's name was a hallmark of the story. Tweeg himself would send some attempted zingers LB's way as well.  At one point, while begging LB to return to work for him, Tweeg hilariously states "I didn't mean a word of those insults, you idiot."  

Tweeg and LB is a classic love-hate relationship, and they find it hard to live without one another, although neither would ever admit it and in fact usually imply the opposite.  Together they provided a  wonderful and humorous if severely inept villain counterparts to Teddy, Grubby and Gimmick.

 

   

 

                  

                 Robert Bockstael (above)
                   was the voice of LB in the 
                               TV series  

 

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