Bob

Bob is a lazy cat villager in the who has appeared in every game. His name may be derived from bobcat.

In, Bob has the play hobby and can run around with their arms extended at any time, rather than only outside Resident Services during a scripted activity with a group of villagers.

Appearance
Bob is a purple cat with darker purple polka dots, half-closed lazy yellow eyes, and light purple paws. The inside of his ears are pink, and his tail is purple with dark purple stripes.

Personality
As a lazy villager, Bob will be easy to get along with due to his laid-back lifestyle. Like all lazy villagers, he shares a love of food and relaxing, and will often bring it up in conversations with the player. In, he will mention his dream of diving in a pool of food. He will enjoy partaking in the usual hobbies, usually for relaxing reasons or for food, when fishing. He will get along well with other villagers, but may offend or confuse jock villagers, who have a conflicting lifestyle of exercise and fitness, compared to the lazy lifestyle of relaxing and food.

House
Bob's house in all games prior to features several items from the Kiddie Series. In, his house features the Colorful variants of items from the Wooden Block Series, which bear resemblance to the Kiddie Series.

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In, Bob's house features the same furniture layout as Broccolo's in.

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In, if Bob is one of the villagers who moved in during the main storyline after the villager house development quest, his house will have a combination of non-craftable furniture, plus items crafted by players during the island development storyline, primarily from the Log Series and applicable native fruit sets.

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Bob was added to on January 30, 2018. Prior to his addition, icons for Bob could be found unused in the game's code.

Trivia

 * In a character popularity poll for held by Nintendo in Japan, Bob ranked 8th with 1,280 votes, above Rosie and below Mitzi.