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{{character infobox
|type=s
|name=Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate
|image=[[File:Ethan Bubblegum Tate.png|225px]]
|image text=Bubblegum during the [[Battle for Earth, 3007|Battle for Earth]], in [[3007]]. {{er|BBS}}
|species=[[Humans|Human]]
|origin=[[Globetrotter Homeworld]]
|job=Various
|first appear={{e|3ACV14}}
|voiced by=Phil LaMarr
}}

'''Dr. Ethan Tate''' (also known as '''Bubblegum''') is a male [[Humans|Human]] from the [[Globetrotter Homeworld]]. In addition to being Captain of the [[Globetrotters]]' basketball team, {{er|3ACV14}} he is Senior Lecturer in Physics at [[Globetrotter University]], {{er|3ACV14}} the Downtown Professor of Applied Physics at [[Mars University (place)|Mars University]], {{er|6ACV08}} and the author of the ''[[The Mathketball Diaries]]''. {{er|6ACV13}}

== Biography ==
Along with his team, Bubblegum joined forces with [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]] and the [[Planet Express]] crew on numerous occasions. The Globetrotters helped the Professor figure out how to stop time skips {{er|3ACV14}} and better understand the time travel pradoxicality equation, {{er|BBS}} having fought for [[Earth]] in the [[Battle for Earth, 3007|battle]] with the [[Scammer Aliens]], {{er|BBS}} solved a math problem that would allow him and his employees to return to their original bodies, {{er|6ACV10}} and helped [[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]] restart the Earth's rotation after the [[Thubanians]] had stopped it. {{er|6ACV08}}

Additionally, Ethan Tate was a judge on the [[Television|TV]] show ''[[Iron Cook]]'', {{er|3ACV22}} witnessed the robbing of the [[Quantum Gemerald]] from the [[Museum of Natural History]] by the [[New Justice Team]], {{er|4ACV04}} went out on a [[Date scene|date]] with [[Yivo]], a planet-sized alien, {{er|TBwaBB}} attended the [[implosion of the violet dwarf star]] ceremony, {{er|ItWGY}} as well as the [[100th Delivery Party]], {{er|6ACV12}} and celebrated a non-[[canon]]ical [[Kwanzaa 3010]] with the [[Conrad family]] in [[Conrad apartment|their apartment]]. {{er|6ACV13}}

== Additional Info ==
=== Trivia === 
*Bubblegum is, like the other Globetrotters on [[Futurama|the show]], not named after one of the  {{w|Harlem Globetrotters}}.
*Despite having made the remainder of the [[Planet Express|PE]] crew members honorary Globetrotters, he refused to let [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] in the team.
*In the commentary of ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'', [[Phil LaMarr]] revealed he almost forgot how to do the Bubblegum voice when production resumed.

=== Quotes ===
[[File:Date Scene 64.png|thumb|225px|Among [[Yivo]]'s 64 dates {{er|TBwaBB}} (third picture on the fifth line).]]

{{q|
<poem>'''Bubblegum''': Even in these formal shorts I feel like a failure.</poem>
<poem>'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|The Professor]]''': You're ''that'' Bubblegum Tate?
'''Bubblegum''': Well, I sure ain't his Grandma.</poem>
<poem>'''Bubblegum''': Uh-oh. Time to boogie on down to the sauna!</poem>
<poem>'''Bubblegum''': Hello, lawsuit.</poem>
<poem>'''Bubblegum''': Most uncool.</poem>
<poem>'''Bubblegum''': You better bird-dog fast, my brother!
'''[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]''': That's the way I bird-dog best!</poem>
<poem>'''Bubblegum''': You gotta tell [[LaBarbara Conrad|that sweet thing]] that your [[Time paradox duplicate|time duplicate]] body is doomed!
'''Hermes''': Tomorrow morning... after the festivities!
'''Bubblegum''': ''[Spins basketball on finger.]'' Yow, Baby!</poem>
<poem>'''Bubblegum''': [seriously] Gentlemen... [provocatively] ladies... [seriously] let's get this globe trottin'!</poem>
}}

=== Appearances ===
{{appear-begin}}
*{{e|3ACV14}}
*{{e|3ACV22}}
*{{e|4ACV04}}
*{{f|1}}
*{{f|2}} {{cameo|[[date scene]]}}
*{{f|4}} {{cameo|link=no|[[audience scene]]}}
*{{e|6ACV08}}
*{{e|6ACV10}}
*{{e|6ACV12}} {{cameo|link=no|[[100th-delivery party]]}}
*{{e|6ACV13}}{{disputed canon}}
*{{e|6ACV26}} {{cameo|link=no}}{{disputed canon}}
*{{e|7ACV14}} {{cameo|link=no|[[Forty Percent Leadbelly#Characters at the funeral|funeral]]}}
*{{e|7ACV19}}
*{{e|7ACV26}}
*{{e|9ACV02}}
*{{e|9ACV04}}
*{{e|9ACV06}}
*{{clink|US#046|Follow the Reader}}
*[[Radiorama]]
{{appear-end}}

[[Category:Captains]]
[[Category:Globetrotters]]
[[Category:Humans]]
[[Category:Scientists]]