“ | Hey, I'm a teacher too! I teach all kinds of things. Safe cracking, burglary, getaway driving... | „ |
~ Dorsal Dan |
Dorsal Dan is a villain from the Nickelodeon animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants, first appearing in the episode "The Getaway." He is a criminal who works as the getaway driver of Stickyfins Whiting. He was also Mrs. Puff's temporary boyfriend until he got arrested.
He is voiced by Steve Buscemi, who also portrayed Nucky Thompson in Boardwalk Empire, Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs, Garland Greene in Con Air, Tony Blundetto in The Sopranos, Dwight Diddlehopper in The Simpsons, Gordon Pratt in Homicide: Life on the Street, Randall Boggs in Monsters, Inc., Francis E. Francis in The Boss Baby, and Mr. Wesley in Home on the Range. In later episodes, he is voiced by Clancy Brown, who also portrayed Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, The Kurgan in Highlander, Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Universe, Viking Lofgren in Bad Boys, Dr. Neo Cortex and Uka Uka in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise, Savage Opress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Gunmar in Tales of Arcadia, Kurt Caldwell in Dexter: New Blood, Kojak in Recess: School's Out, Parallax in The Green Lantern, Undertow in The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea, Silas in Transformers Prime, Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok, Mr. Freeze in the animated series The Batman, the Evil Entity in the Scooby-Doo franchise, and Mr. Krabs in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise.
Biography[]
In "The Getaway," Dorsal Dan pulls up to the prison during the escape to take away Stickyfins Whiting. However, by the time he gets there, it's too late, as Stickyfins already left with SpongeBob. Mrs. Puff demands that he drive her after them to stop SpongeBob from causing any more destruction with a wanted criminal. Dorsal Dan refuses to associate with her at first, but when Mrs. Puff gives him a scare, he complies with her orders and starts the wild goose chase. During this chase, Mrs. Puff and Dorsal San start to get along and even fall in love. In the end, Dorsal Dan gets arrested, along with Stickyfins and Mrs. Puff, still in love with him, who says that she'll wait for him to be released and later begs to be arrested too.
In "Captain Pipsqueak," Dorsal Dan is among the villains auditioning to join Every Villain Is Lemons.
In "Ain't That the Tooth," Dorsal Dan breaks into Patrick's house to try and rob his wallet but Patrick sleep punches him and it accidently cosplays him as the Tooth Fairy.
Appearance[]
Dorsal Dan is a light orange fish with dark orange lips and slightly crooked teeth that protrude from his lips. There's a similarly dark orange fin extending from the back of his head. He has a unique mustache which encompasses two sections of black hair on either side of his lips. Dan has light blue eyes and wears a charcoal gray turtleneck and dark pants.