Gale Doppler

Gale Doppler is a meteorologist who appears as the main antagonist of the episode "Stormy Weather," and later reappears in the episodes "Say Awww!", "SpongeChovy," and "Smartificial Intelligence."

Description

Doppler is a slender orange fish with blond hair, a green suit and pants, a white shirt, a magenta necktie, white socks held up with sock garters and black shoes. He's often seen with a wall-eyed expression.

Role in series

"Stormy Weather"

Doppler is first seen at the start of the episode, forecasting sunny weather and proclaiming that he is never wrong. When SpongeBob checks the weather and finds rain, he grabs a picture of Doppler and reassures himself that Doppler is never wrong, before going outside to check out the rain.

Doppler is later seen sunbathing in the middle of Bikini Bottom, when Incidental 41 runs up to him claiming that it is raining snails and worms. Doppler restates his claim, saying that his broadcasts have been right for 35 years, but he then notices SpongeBob's pet cloud Drizzle causing mayhem by throwing snails and worms everywhere. Incidental 41 calls Doppler out for being wrong, so Doppler decides to capture Drizzle with a reef blower and "send him to cloud heaven" to save his reputation. SpongeBob tries to stop Doppler with a reef blower of his own, and he manages to get Drizzle back.

They almost get away from Doppler, but he recaptures Drizzle using a crane machine with a larger reef blower attachment. SpongeBob begs Doppler to let Drizzle go free, but Doppler instead tries to dump Drizzle into a gigantic dehumidifier which will dissolve Drizzle. This causes SpongeBob to cry hysterically. Drizzle absorbs SpongeBob's tears and becomes a gigantic storm cloud, and he forces himself into Doppler's body.

At first, Doppler is excited to actually be the weather, but his excitement vanishes after Drizzle takes control of Doppler's body and creates lightning storms and blizzards through Doppler's body, causing him much pain in the process. Then, Drizzle runs into his parents and exits Doppler's body. Drizzle's parents blow Doppler away, and he lands in his dehumidifier which explodes. Miraculously, Doppler survives the explosion.

"Say Awww!"

Doppler appears as one of the characters in the pyramid trying to escape from inside Q.T.-π.

"SpongeChovy"

Doppler reports on the invasion of faux-chovies. He then gets Rube to ask them some questions, but Rube gets swarmed and turns into a faux-chovy. Doppler then advises the residents to stay indoors, but gets attacked by his infographic of faux-chovies and turns into one himself.

"Smartificial Intelligence"

He is seen in Old Reporters' Row in a dazed state reporting the weather to no one in particular.

Trivia

• SpongeBob has an autographed photo of Gale Doppler in his house. However, SpongeBob's name is written as "SpongeBill," indicating that Doppler is not good with names.
  • This is further evidenced by the fact that Doppler only ever calls SpongeBob "SquareFace" throughout the episode.
• Both parts of his name are weather-related puns. His first name, Gale, is a term for very strong winds. His last name, Doppler, references the Doppler radar, a machine used in weather forecasting.
• He is shown to have an alien counterpart in The Patrick Star Show named Dale Goppler.
  • The two of them even share the same voice actor, Doug Lawrence.