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“ | I've put in the work and I've reaped the rewards... and now I have the full power and resources of the Wholesome Foods corporation to finally... run the Greens out of Big City! | „ |
~ Chip, now in power, explains his new goal. |
“ | One of these days, Cricket Green, I'm gonna run your family out of this town! Mark my words! Big City is no place for the Greens! | „ |
~ Chip vows to stop at nothing but to get Cricket and his family out of Big City. |
“ | The Greens. It was the Greens. And their troubles... are just beginning. | „ |
~ Chip at the end of Season 3, revealing himself to still be alive. |
Chip Whistler is the main antagonist of the Disney Channel animated series Big City Greens.
He is the former manager-turned-CEO of Wholesome Foods who carries a deeply spiteful grudge against the Greens and seeks to run them out of Big City as revenge for chipping his tooth. This makes him the archenemy of Cricket Green and the Green family as a whole.
He is voiced by Paul Scheer.
Appearance[]
Chip is a tall and slender man with blond hair that has dark brown on sides shaven off. He has orange-colored skin. His most prominent physical feature is one of his teeth, which is missing as a result of being "chipped" every time Chip fails to defeat the Greens, he continually replaces this tooth with dentures until finally replacing it with one made of titanium. though eventually it too breaks, leaving Chip still without his tooth.
Chip first wore a light teal green shirt and khaki pants, with dark brown sandals and an anklet on the left calf of his leg, a single wireless earbud in his left ear, and sunglasses on the top of his head.
After becoming CEO, he first wore a grey suit with light green accents, and later a black suit with a dark blue inner shirt and a golden tie.
During his exile from Big City, Chip now wears a brown hoodie while still using his black CEO suit, although it became dark blue due to its wasting.
Personality[]
Chip is a cruel, malicious, egotistical and arrogant man whose only concern seems to be making money. However, he is also petty and takes everything personally and won't stop until he childishly one-ups anyone who has done him wrong like in "Feud Fight" where he sets up a Wholesome Foods stands at the food market just to get back at the Green family for ruining his teeth despite Cricket giving him a fair warning.
Chip is also shown to be immoral and he doesn't acknowledge the wrongness of his actions like in that same episode where when Cricket offered peace and cooperation, Chip hit him with tomatoes instead, which not only made him look bad but also costed him potential customers and half of his employees for harming Cricket, a child, when they realized what a jerk he was, despite Cricket giving up. However, he still blames the Greens, mostly Cricket, for his actions and continues acting immaturely while still suffering the ramifications of his actions.
Chip’s behavior eventually leads to his own downfall when he attempts to get rid of the Green family by destroying their house, which resulted in him being opposed by every other resident from the city and then him being banned from the city by the Mayor.
After being banned, it seems that Chip has descended into some sort of madness due to his obsession as he tries to murder the entire Green family using his helicopter while sadistically smiling and laughing, and months later after that he is still determined to plot against the Greens.
Biography[]
Background[]
Nothing is known about Chip's past except that when he was little, he was more kind and gentle according to his father, but with all the privileges he had, he turned himself into an erect little narcissist that only mattered for himself.
At one point he became the store manager of the local Wholesome Foods from Big City.
Season 1[]
In "Supermarket Scandal", Chip approaches Bill Green of Green family farms. While Bill turns down his offer, which is to supply Chip's supermarket chain Wholesome Foods with new produce, Cricket decides to agree with the offer. He and Tilly make "produce" (actually inedible objects disguised as produce) and use them to make through on the offer.
The "produce" is stocked at Wholesome Foods, to Cricket's chagrin, so he and his family decide to buy them all out. While losing the money he made from the deal, Cricket decides to resell the "produce", one of them which Chip decides to taste. Cricket tries to warn him it's fake, but he ignores him and takes a bite, chipping his tooth, so his name now fits his mouth. He then swears vengeance against the Greens.
In "Feud Fight", Chip sets up a Wholesome Foods stand at the farmers' market for the sole purpose of ruining the Greens' business. Throughout the episode, Chip tries different marketing tactics that failed (ie. recruiting Tomato-san), though his "Protocol C" - giving coupons out to everyone - tactic worked, to Chip's delight. This causes Cricket and his farmer allies to declare a tomato war on Wholesome Foods, which ended when he himself surrendered.
However, Chip was not going to take the surrender, instead relentlessly pelting Cricket with tomatoes and declaring victory (only to himself, as everyone else didn't). This causes everyone, even his employees, to turn on him and leave. Despite this, Chip blames Cricket for everything. As Gramma confronts him to stop chewing tomatoes, Chip snatches the bag of her illegally hot peppers to eat all of them, causing him to once again lose his tooth and run away in defeat.
In "Coffee Quest", Chip is one of many people who rushed to the Big City Docks to obtain the last bag of coffee. However, Cricket and Gloria, workers of Big Coffee, thwart Chip's plan again with Cricket's speed and Gloria's cunning. Chip loudly threatens to run the Greens out of the city, though he is unheard (reinforced by Wholesome Greg).
Season 2[]
In "Reckoning Ball" it is shown that Wholesome Foods has been quickly losing business with people protesting outside the store, this happening after a video of Chip attacking Cricket with tomatoes (the events of Feud Fight) went viral online. All employees make fun of Chip, who is still upset about being humiliated by Cricket Green and his family, even though much of the conflict is his fault. He decides to "drive the Greens of the city, once and for all" by purchasing a wrecking ball in an attempt to destroy their house. Officer Keys just so happens to be walking along when he prevents Chip from harming them, but the ball swings back and knocks him out of the driver's seat; chipping his tooth once again. Chip meets with his father who reprimands his son for his violent behavior and threatens to kick him out of the company. He gives him a Forgiveness Contract that the Greens must sign to show that they have accepted his legitimate apology which then will make him reconsider his future in the company.
The Greens are hard at work rebuilding their roof, which was slightly damaged by the wrecking ball when Chip shows up. The Greens all begin to attack him, but he calms them down by revealing that he wants to apologize. While Bill and Tilly are willing to accept his attempt, Cricket and Gramma Alice are skeptical, especially when he gives a half-hearted apology to them. Bill then suggests that he apologize by helping out with fixing the roof. It quickly becomes apparent that Chip is incompetent at something as simple as hammering a nail, and he falls off the roof and ends up destroying the garden. Not being able to withstand the "harsh" conditions, Chip tries to mow down the yard, but Alice stops him and he knocks himself out cold.
Chip is nursed back to health by the Greens where he admits that he is unsure of what to think about them as they have been kind to him despite his behavior. They tell him that despite their bad relationship (which they admit is mostly Cricket's fault) they still want to treat him nicely as that is what they do. He gives a legitimate apology and the Greens sign his contract though he still wants to help with the yard. Later, Mr. Whistler finally retires and he hands the company over to his son.
As Chip steps in as CEO, he quickly has his hired hands refurbish his office and calls his dentist to fix his teeth with platinum, revealing that his amends from earlier were just an act. And now that Chip has full power and resources of the Wholesome Foods corporation in his control, nothing will stop him in order to accomplish his ultimate goal, drive the Greens out of Big City.
In "Friend Con", after Bill couldn't find a friend at Farm Con since he and his old friend, Good Ol' Joe, "lost touch" after moving to Big City, Tilly and Cricket suggested to have Chip become their father's friend and the two spend some time together.
Later, Cricket and Tilly overhear Chip saying that he was only pretending to be Bill's friend just so he can take over his speech in order to ruin his reputation. Before the siblings can go to warn Bill, Chip, along with his employees, throw and lock them outside in an alley to keep them from foiling his plans.
As Bill prepares for his speech, Chip gives him a big stack of saltline peanut butter sandwich, which causes him to have the inability to speak after eating it. When Chip takes over the speech, he pretends to be Bill to say nasty and insulting things to the people at Farm Con.
After finally getting back inside, Tilly and Cricket stop Chip, and Tilly explains to the people that Chip is not the real Bill. However, no one can tell the difference until one guy, who is revealed to be Good Ol' Joe, recognizes him.
When Bill confronts Chip and says that he is no longer his friend, Gramma lands on Chip with a big bag of stuff she stole, this results with him losing all of his teeth, except for the platinum one, and running once again in defeat.
In "Chipwrecked", when Cricket tricks his family into taking them to Big Coffee to do all his work for him, Chip spies on him and his family and uses an evidence board on the Green family. He is planning to drive Big Coffee out of business.
Later, Chip and his employees arrive at Big Coffee in a post-apocalyptic-style tank and orders his employees to spray coffee at various random citizens to get a drink from it in order to drive Big Coffee out of business. However, Cricket quickly doesn't think his plan will work and calls him a joke. Then a tow truck comes to take his truck because he parked in an illegal position, but Chip tries to stop it by using his feet to grab a fire hydrant. The water pressure of the hydrant goes high from the resisting, causing the hydrant to break and make Chip to go flying to a toothpaste ad billboard, then he falls into a hot dog cart and the billboard lands on him, causing one of titanium teeth to finally fall out.
Later that night, at the Wholesome Foods Headquarters, after the incident, Chip hits rock bottom and accepts Cricket being right about him being a joke. Then, he gets a call from his father, who heard about his son skipping his boarding duties, and Chip almost admits his vendetta but quickly covers it as "a work problem". Mr. Whistler encourages Chip to act like the CEO he should be because he now owns the company, which he agrees. Not realizing what he really meant, Chip decides to make things change with an aggressive approach, and he fires Greg and Rose.
The next day, Chip arrives once again at Big Coffee, this time with his new employees whom he forces to dismantle the cafe; Cricket tries to interfere, but he is instantly outmatched by one of the bouncers. Gloria confronts Chip and threatens to call the police, but he stops her. Chip explains to the Greens and Gloria that he now owns Big Coffee due to buying it from Mrs. Cho and he fires them. Cricket finally believes that Chip's plan is working, but nervously expected it to fail until Chip suggests that his cafe needs an extension to where the Green's house currently stands. After Chip leaves, the Greens are shocked that their lives are falling apart.
In "Chipocalypse Now", the Greens panic over Chip Whistler's plan to demolish their house after Big Coffee has been sold. They are further horrified to learn that the tenants in the apartment complex next door have been evicted. Big Coffee and the apartment are destroyed and a giant Wholesome Foods store is built, with the grocery store built to shade the Greens' house. When Cricket, Tilly, and Alice try to sabotage the store, Gloria, who now works there due to Big Coffee being closed, kicks them out. Chip also issues a destruction petition to replace the Greens house with a parking lot, and he seizes the family's land thanks to Mayor Hansock, and gives them until tomorrow to vacate. When Cricket, Tilly and Nancy confront the mayor, Chip reveals that he posted an online petition where apparently everyone in Big City signed, so there was nothing the mayor could do. Nancy then steals Chip's tablet, but Chip frames her for assault and makes the police arrest her, but not before she emails the request to Bill's phone. When Bill decides to just move out before things get worse, the kids receive the email Nancy sent and discover that it was signed by people they know, but Cricket soon learns the truth when he discovers Remy's signature on the petition and confronts him, who reveals that he never sighed or heard about it, which means it was fake.
Later that night, Chip shows up with a demolition team to tear the house down before the family leaves. As Bill is determined to leave before things get even worse, Cricket and Remy break into the store to find proof that the petition was a fake while Tilly and Alice, with the help of Remy's bodyguard Vasquez, hold off Chip's team. After convincing Gloria to help them, they find Chip's office and search in his computer. Meanwhile, a news crew arrives and broadcasts the battle to the entire city, and Tilly convinces Bill to join the fight. Chip is then informed by one of his employees that the children were in the building. At that moment, Remy discovers that the petition signatures come from the same IP address, proving that the petition was fake. Chip and his employees confront the kids as they print the test, but Remy distracts them while Cricket escapes. When Nancy and Officer Keys arrive with the mayor, Cricket appears on the roof of the store with the proof, but Chip shreds the papers with his new helicopter.
After the citizens arrive and tell Hansock that they want the Greens to stay in Big City, the outraged mayor decides to ban Chip from Big City instead, and have everything put back the way it was. Furious that his plan failed, Chip attempts to kill Cricket with the helicopter's blades, but Cricket jumps off the roof just in time, and Bill catches him; he then tries to kill all the Greens at once out of spite for exposing both his schemes and crimes, but Cricket immediately notices a fatal flaw - the helicopter's skids got caught in the power wires, causing his tooth to break once again. Cricket quips that Chip doesn't belong in Big City after all, causing Chip to angrily let go of the helicopter's controls and with one last triumphant "Bingo-bango", as payback for his torments and mistreatments towards him, his family and friends, Chip gets slingshot out of Big City to parts unknown, seemingly killed. It is later revealed that Chip faked his own death after the helicopter crash.
Following Chip's defeat, Wholesome Foods presumably replaced Chip with someone else as the CEO, the new store is demolished and the buildings Chip purchased and destroyed are rebuilt, although Big Coffee remains closed down, and the Greens are now considered heroes. However, Gloria, much to her extreme chagrin, is forced to live with the Greens as she is now homeless and jobless.
Season 3[]
In the last scene of "Long Goodbye", at a cemetery outside Big City, a gravedigger passes by a gravestone belonging to Chip Whistler and tells his dog that he was "the biggest jerk who ever died". As he tries to recall the family that he used to mess with, a hooded figure, unseen by the gravedigger, appears and is revealed to be Whistler himself, still plotting his revenge on the Greens and promising their troubles are only beginning.
Season 4[]
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Relationships[]
Allies (all formerly)[]
- Wholesome Squad
- John Whistler (father)
- The Chairwoman of Wholesome Foods
- Mrs. Cho
- Greg
- Rose
- Mel Hansock
- Anyone else who works at Wholesome Foods except the ones that have quit or got fired by him
Enemies[]
- The Green Family (archenemies):
- Cricket Green
- Tilly Green
- Bill Green (former “close friend”)
- Nancy Green
- Alice Green
- Gloria Sato (briefly his employee)
- Remy Remington
- Vasquez
- Mel Hansock
- Officer Rigby Keys
- Greg (possibly)
- Rose (possibly)
- All of his former employees whom he fired or quit
- Everyone else in Big City who supports the Green Family
Quotes[]
Season 2[]
“ | Who's the joke now? | „ |
~ Chip to the Green Family after buying Big Coffee and shutting it down. |
“ | What?! You can't ban me! | „ |
~ Chip to Mayor Hansock after the latter bans him from Big City for his crimes against the Green Family. |
“ | Cricket Green! You've made a fool of me FOR THE LAST TIME! | „ |
~ Chip as he tries to murder Cricket with his helicopter when he is banned from Big City by the mayor, and his villainous breakdown. |
“ | Now... I can get rid of all the Greens AT ONCE!!! | „ |
~ Chip as he sadistically tries to kill the entire Green family. |
“ | Cricket Green: Well Chip, looks like you're the one who doesn't belong in Big City. Chip: Why You! Oh. |
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~ Cricket and Chip's final conversation before the latter is flung out of Big City. Also Chip's final words in Season 2. |
Trivia[]
- Chip is thought to be the show's main antagonist due to his rivalry towards the Green family and making plans to take them out of Big City. While he does become the primary antagonist of Season 2, he only has four appearances in it.
- However it is later revealed in Season 3 that he will return to wreck even more havoc against the Greens.
- Chip can be seen as a dark parallel to Cricket as they are both raised by their respective fathers who are farmers and are both careless and immature at times. However, Cricket cares for the well beings of other people, especially his friends and family while Chip on the other hand, is more selfish and absorbed and only cares for himself than other people, even his own father. Chip serves as an example of what Cricket might have become if he didn't have the love of his friends and family by his side to teach him what's right and wrong.
- Despite being an archenemy of the Greens, he doesn't interact with or meet Nancy Green until "Chipocalypse Now", although he was aware of her existence as seen in his Green conspiracy board.
- Although he is childish and somewhat incompetent, Chip is by far the most sadistic and dangerous villain in the entire series.
- As a running gag everytime he gets defeated, one of his teeth gets "chipped", and the back of his chipped tooth is broken, and while he talks while it's broken, part of the whistling is heard, hence his name.
- Though not intended when designing the character, Chip has major similarities to Donald Trump. Both are businessman who have unusual blonde hair and orange skin. This was even lamshaped by one of the show’s creators.
- In fact, both of them can be known to get pretty crazy when it comes to things like plans backfiring on them, like for Chip, trying to run the greens out of the city but ends up getting banned, for Donald Trump, saying that the 2020 election was stolen when Joe Biden ends up winning the election.
- And both his voice actor, and Donald Trump where born in New York State.
- Ironically, while Chip’s main goal was to make the Greens leave Big City forever and he faked signatures to make seem like every other resident hated the Greens, it was Chip who ended up being hated by everyone and who left Big City forever as he was banned from it.
External Links[]
- Chip Whistler on the Disney Wiki
- Chip Whistler on the Big City Greens Wiki