* Alvin " Bubba " Bixby, the bully in Wendelin Van Draanen's Shredderman series.

* Sandman, a character on Bubba the Love Sponge's radio show

Alan Autry who played the character of Captain Bubba Skinner was seen as a regular around Conyers during the filming.

He feuded with Big Van Vader for most of 1994, but as 1995 came around Traylor grew frustrated and turned heel, returning to his Big Bubba Rogers character that he had not used in years.

Bubba became a fan favorite again by reuniting with Spike Dudley while D-Von, who was still a villain, went on to become the corrupt preacher character " Reverend D-Von " and gained a protege with Deacon Batista.

The earliest series of TV commercials for Hubba Bubba that aired in the United States were set in a Wild West town and featured a character known as the Gumfighter, played by actor Don Collier.

* Bubba " Leatherface " Sawyer, a fictional character in the horror movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The dialogue spoken by the giant mutant Stan was inspired by a mentally handicapped character in the MTV show How's Your News ?, which Parker and Stone produced ; according to Parker and Stone, the character could only say phrases like " Bubba chop, bubba chewy chomp ", and both men took turns voicing mutant Stan to sound the same way.

* Bubba Bexley, a recurring character in the situation comedy Sanford and Son

* Bubba Skinner, a leading character from the television series In the Heat of the Night

* Bubba the Chimp, a character on Quigley's Village

* Bubba Kelly, a character in Carson McCullers ' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

* Bubba is a character in the Southern Vampire Series by Charlaine Harris and is a " codename " for Elvis who is now a vampire in this series

He also has occasionally appeared with the " Original Comets " at the Bubba Mac Shack in Somers Point, New Jersey from 2004-2011, and at the Twin Bar re-dedication ceremony in Gloucester City, New Jersey, in 2007.

However, Ginny's two older brothers, Joe and Jake — who are meant to resemble Br ' er Fox and Br ' er Bear " a big Bubba " from Uncle Remus's stories, for one is slick and fast-talking, while the other is big and a little slow — are not friendly at all ; they constantly bully Ginny and Johnny.

Other episode plots in this season included: a prominent citizen being murdered due to sexual abuse in his family ; Virgil ’ s ex-partner and Althea ’ s ex-lover coming back to Sparta and being exposed as a murderer ; Chief Gillespie having to confront the legacy of his own bigoted past when he's duty-bound to arrest a close, lifelong friend — who is also the sheriff of the neighboring county — for committing a racially-motivated murder in his jail ; Bubba getting caught up in a love triangle ; Althea ’ s niece visiting from Philadelphia ; Virgil and Althea going to an all-White church ; Joanne being stalked by a murderous ex-con, which eventually exposes that she had been a prostitute out of necessity in a different city, long ago ; the arrest of councilwoman White ’ s son ; Chief Gillespie witnessing, and being deeply affected by, an execution ; a plant strike that leads to murder ; Bubba being accused of rape ; and, a manhunt for a drunk driver who killed three of Sparta's most popular high school cheerleaders, and crippled a fourth.

Notable episodes this season include " A Depraved Heart " about the daughter of a friend of Bubba ’ s contracting AIDS from someone who knowingly gave it to her, and " Singin ' The Blues " involving Luanne, which includes her singing at a blues club and helping take care of an abandoned baby — with whom she comes to love as her own.

Other episodes include Parker being accused of police brutality, Bubba trying to help his nephew deal with recovering from drugs, a deeper look at Lonnie ’ s life off the police force which is controlled by his cantankerous Aunt Cora, and Harriet DeLong taking a bigger part in the story lines.

* Bubba Sparxxx mentions Opelika in his song " Nowhere " from the album Deliverance.

Piedmont is home to a number of notable individuals in the political, business, sports, and academic communities, including: ex-Major League Baseball player Dave McCarty ; ex-National Football League player Bubba Paris, San Francisco 49ers ; ex-National Football League player Bill Romanowski ; Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich ; Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Up and co-writer of WALL-E ; Billie Joe Armstrong of the rock band Green Day ; Eric Whitaker, GC of Tesla Motors ; Thomas Horn, actor ; and Dr. George Rutherford, State Health Officer. Also Dipper and Mabel Pines from the Disney Channel show " Gravity Falls " was born here.

* Bubba Watson – professional golfer who was born in nearby Bagdad, Florida, graduated from Milton High in 1997

* Charles " Bubba " Chaney, state representative from Rayville

* Ernest " Bubba " Bean, graduated from Kirbyville High School in 1971 and was a standout running back at Texas A & M University as well as with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.

Ricky Smith and his nephew Clinton " Bubba " Smith from Storage Wars: Texas.

Notable examples include Field Mob, natives of Albany, Georgia, Bubba Sparxxx, from LaGrange, Georgia, and Nappy Roots, from Bowling Green, Kentucky.

During the second season, Bubba, a caveduck from the past, and an accountant, Fenton Crackshell, who had the dual identity of Gizmoduck, were added to the cast.

Following the 1998 NBA Draft, Nash was traded from the Suns to the Mavericks in exchange for Martin Müürsepp, Bubba Wells, the draft rights to Pat Garrity and a first-round draft pick ( who later turned out to be future Phoenix team-mate Shawn Marion ).

* Bubba — If you release him from the ice in the Himalayas, he will reward Scrooge with an extra energy slot.

The secondary rivalry heading into the event from the Raw brand was between Evolution ( Ric Flair and Batista ) and Dudley Boyz ( Bubba Ray and D-Von ) over the World Tag Team Championship.

The ever controversial Bubba was in trouble with WGRD almost from the start due to the sexual content of his show.

Today, Bubba agrees that the segment was distasteful but continues to state today that nothing criminal occured from his actions that February morning.

On January 16, 2010, Bubba made remarks on his Twitter account that were disparaging of Haiti's struggle to recover from the January 12 earthquake.

On August 15, 2011 WHTQ in Orlando ( now WDBO-FM ) and WFYV-FM in Jacksonville dropped Bubba the Love Sponge from their morning lineup — in WHTQ's case, it was due to a format change in which the station began a simulcast with WDBO.

To fill the void, Allan Kayser was cast as Thelma's delinquent teenaged grandson, Bubba Higgins ( Ed and Eunice's often mentioned, but never seen, young son from The Family sketches on The Carol Burnett Show ), who was ordered to stay with the Harpers after being released from juvenile hall and placed on probation.

The nickname " Bulls " was taken from team owner Fred " Bubba " Bullard, a Jacksonville businessman, although there was a ' name the team ' promotion with a write-in campaign for publicity purposes.

" On April 23, 2007, Quivers called in to the Bubba the Love Sponge Show on Howard 101, announcing their separation .< ref >

It hosted the 2004 PGA Championship won by Vijay Singh in a playoff over Chris DiMarco and Justin Leonard, the 2007 U. S. Senior Open won by Brad Bryant, and the 2010 PGA Championship won by Martin Kaymer in a playoff over Bubba Watson.

In early 2007, actor Steve Schirripa appeared alongside Bubba Ray ( renamed " Brother Ray ") and D-Von ( renamed " Brother Devon ") in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he was depicted as a distant relative of the Dudley family.

* 2007: Bubba Sparxxx-Survive Til Ya Thrive Mixtape

* The Rick and Bubba Code: The Two Sexiest Fat Men Alive Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe, ( ISBN 0-8499-1877-4, June 2007

In 2007, Rick and Bubba were cast in an episode of the Christian video series Bibleman: PowerSource called " Crushing the Conspiracy of the Cheater.