Character
Nick Birch
Nick Birch in Big Mouth (2017), played by Nick Kroll.
Nick is the smallest, least physically developed kid in his middle school class, watching puberty transform everyone around him while his own body stubbornly refuses to catch up. Anxious, eager to please, and desperate for any sign he's normal, he tags along after his best friend Andrew, comparing notes on every humiliating bodily development with a mix of dread and fascination.
Kroll voices his own alter ego with a squeaky, overeager energy that makes Nick's insecurity funny rather than pitiful — he's the straight man to the show's grotesque hormone monsters, but his panic about being left behind developmentally gives the raunch an emotional spine. He's the audience surrogate for anyone who felt like puberty skipped them.
Nicholas "Nick" Arsenio Birch is one of the three main protagonists (alongside Andrew Glouberman and Jessi Glaser) of Big Mouth. At the beginning of the show, he was a prepubescent 12-year-old late bloomer, who lives in Westchester, New York and attended Bridgeton Middle School until the end of Season 7, and then briefly attended Cobblestones Academy before moving to Bridgeton High School.
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Big Mouth2017