| “ | I think I thought I was, like, a big dick boy, but I think I was just a big dick. | ” |
—Nick Birch in Super Mouth
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Nicholas "Nick" Arsenio Birch is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Andrew Glouberman) of Big Mouth. At the beginning of the show, he is 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 has since attended Cobblestones Academy. He is voiced by Nick Kroll.
Nick is the youngest child of Elliot and Diane, who treat him like a toddler through hugs and affection, which Nick dislikes.
Biography[]
Birth[]
Nick Birch was born to Diane and Elliot Birch, as the family's third born and youngest child after the oldest brother, Judd, and sole sister, Leah. Nick's parents raised him to have a kind, loving, and caring childhood using their overemotional and overly protective parenting skills. Nick's childhood was a luxury that was not given to his two older siblings, who underwent poor and mildly abusive childhoods, as their parents were still untrained in the field of parenting at the time they were being raised. Nick and his family lived in a suburban house in Bridgeton, Westchester, New York.
Infancy[]
In a flashback from "The Planned Parenthood Show", Nick was seen in his diaper telling jokes into a microphone that his parents got him as a gift, as they looked on in happiness, with both of them smiling and holding hands with each other.
Childhood[]
At the start of the series, Nick Birch appears as a 12-year-old boy, going to Bridgeton Middle School. His best friends are Andrew Glouberman, Jessi Glaser, and Jay Bilzerian. Nick had not yet hit puberty at the start of the show, while his best friend, Andrew, however, has already ventured far down the hormonal road of change.
During the summer, Nick went to Camp Mohegan Sun every year, where he had a whole different set of friends, Seth Goldberg, Gabe, and the loser they always picked on, Milk. As great as these friends were, the only friend who he really ever got in touch with and saw outside of camp was a girl named Roland, who he had his first kiss with.
Teenage years[]
Nick is a late bloomer and his development throughout the show is very slow. Despite this, he has had various love interests, most of which never progressed to relationships or only lasted for a short period of time. He briefly has a relationship with Jessi after the two kiss in "Ejaculation;" Jessi dumps him in "Am I Gay?" but wishes to stay friends. Nick, not knowing that she has dumped him, initially accepts this, but after realising that he was dumped, he does not want to admit it and publicly lies about dumping her. She gets angry at him for this, leading to the end of their friendship, but Nick apologises at the end of the episode and the two become friends again.
In "Pillow Talk," Nick and Andrew sneak out to New York City so that Nick can meet with his camp fling Roland in New York City. However, when Andrew is unable to fly in a helicopter with Roland, Nick and Andrew are forced to try and make their way to the beach themselves, until Andrew loses his hat and the two get lost, and end up having to go home.
Nick has a brief fling with Tallulah Levine in "The Head Push."
In "PornScape," Nick, after expressing a wish to start puberty and get a hormone monster, is given Rick as a hormone monster, who is incompetent and fails to help Nick develop.
In "What Is It About Boobs?," he befriends Gina Alvarez, the first girl in his grade to develop breasts, and soon crushes on her. However, he is disappointed to find that she has already started dating Devon Furtive-Oldman. In the following episode, "The Shame Wizard," he concludes that he does not have a chance with Gina and sends her a text confessing his feelings for her and stating that he does not feel the two can be friends if she does not feel the same way, a text to which Gina never responds despite reading it.
In "Steve the Virgin," Nick goes out with Devin on National Pantsing Week as a double-date with Andrew and Lola Skumpy. Nick and Devin run into Devon and Gina at the miniature golf course, and Nick ends up getting pantsed by Lola, exposing his penis. Devon, Devin, and Lola make fun of him, but Gina tells them to stop. Nick's parents then appear and his father exposes himself and is then arrested, while Nick's mother takes him home. At the end of episode, Rick retires, ending his time as Nick's hormone monster.
In "Drug Buddies," Nick reconciles his friendship with Gina. In "Guy Town," after getting a new hormone monster, Tyler, Nick and Gina go out and briefly have a fling, which leads to Gina letting him touch her breast in "Dark Side of the Boob." However, after Nick tells his friends, which leads to Jessi telling Devin and Gina getting slut-shamed, Gina angrily ends their fling. In "Smooch or Share," Nick attempts to hook up with a girl by inventing a game to trick people into hooking up, though he only ends up kissing Missy before he and Andrew get into an argument. At the start of "The Department of Puberty," Tyler is revealed to have been fired for working with the Shame Wizard, and he stops being Nick's hormone monster. At the end of the episode, Connie becomes Nick's hormone monstress.
In "Rankings," Nick lists the top three most attractive girls in the school. Gina is initially at the top of the list, though after Ali is introduced as a new student at the school who is pansexual, Nick puts Ali over Gina. After the girls write their lists, Gina lists Nick as the third most attractive boy, but puts Charles Lu and DeVon above him, the former with whom she wishes to start a relationship. Nick expresses that he wishes to reconcile with Gina, but she is disinterested and replaces him with Matthew MacDell on her list. At the end of the episode, Nick is left alone.
In "Disclosure: The Movie: The Musical!," Nick and Missy are cast as the lead characters in the school play. The two slowly develop feelings for each other, and although the play ends up being cancelled, the two end up doing their scene and kiss, which Andrew sees and feels betrayed. In the following episode, "Super Mouth," Nick gets into an argument with Andrew because he kissed Missy, which eventually spreads throughout the entire class. Andrew eventually gives Nick his blessing, but Nick decides that he does not want to be with Missy, resulting in him and Missy breaking up and Andrew getting into an argument with him. Nick tried to apologise; however, Andrew, while initially accepting his apology, told him that he was a "piece of shit" and that he did not want to be friends with him anymore.
Adulthood[]
In the future, Nick will change his name to "Nick Starr" and become famous as the host of a game show called Countdown to Money with Nick Starr. When he becomes famous, he's going to cut off all contact with his friends and family and live alone in a big mansion, with his only companion being a robotic version of his former friend, called the Andrew 3000.
The episode "Nick Starr" gives an in-depth exploration of Nick's future, in the year 2052.
Appearance[]
Nick has an unusually big forehead, which is continuously doted on throughout certain times in the series. Apart from being the shortest of his friends, he also has bright blue eyes and a hook-ish nose over his upper lip. He has full lips with his front teeth being on constant display whenever he's not smiling or showing his teeth in general, which could possibly be the actual result of a dental deficiency (though not confirmed). Like Andrew, he has a pudgy physique that's visible at times. He wears a dark blue shirt with an unbuttoned formal shirt over it, with purple pants and dark purple shoes. His appearance change is scarcely seen, with rare times of seeing him in his pajamas.
Personality[]
Nick is a rational, sensible, responsible young man whose confidence can take devastating effects when confronting girls. Despite Nick being sexually knowledgeable he is not comfortable in talking or being sexual around girls, and is often critical of his best friend Andrew for being a gullible, sexually perverted and naive weirdo, which is shown in his confrontation with him at a sleepover. Throughout the series Nick's penis was publicly displayed both willingly (drunk in front of ghosts) and unwillingly (when his pants were pulled down by Lola) which made his small genitalia an extreme source of insecurity and embarrassment for him and he is often aggressive towards those who mention it. Nick himself is interested in girls; his inability to properly take initiative often leads to shortcomings and ridiculous attempts to get a girlfriend or impress Jessi.
Relationships[]
Friends[]
- Andrew Glouberman - Nick and Andrew have been best friends since childhood. Andrew has been to Nick's house so much, he is considered to be part of the family. In "Ejaculation", Nick became jealous of Andrew's superior penis size, which made their friendship really awkward. In "Am I Gay?", Nick and Andrew shared a kiss, which helped the latter realize he was not gay. In "Sleepover: A Harrowing Ordeal of Emotional Brutality", the two were pitted against each other in a fight club style fight. In "Pillow Talk", Nick and Andrew went to New York City together so that Nick could get together with Roland. Andrew wanted to wear his hat to New York City but Nick made fun of him for it. In "Disclosure the Movie: The Musical!", Nick made out with Missy, which made Andrew hate him. In "Super Mouth", Andrew dumped Nick as a friend after how unkind he was to him. They parted ways but the two were still forced to spend time together because at this time, they were sent to the same summer camp. Thankfully, their friendship was repaired at the end of the camp after Andrew realized he needed Nick.
- Jay Bilzerian - Jay is Nick's second best friend, after Andrew. Nick seems to be perfectly okay with Jay's inappropriate and misogynistic behavior, actually being able to look past it and consider him to be a friend on the same level as Andrew and Jessi. In "Sleepover: A Harrowing Ordeal of Emotional Brutality", Nick and Andrew went to Jay's house for a sleepover and ended up being tortured by all of the horrible things in their house. The duo barely escaped alive. In "Florida", Jay moved into Nick's house and although Nick was initially unhappy with it, he eventually came around to having Jay as his housemate in "How To Have An Orgasm".
- Jessi Glaser - Nick and Jessi used to just be friends but in "Ejaculation", they went to the dance together and Jessi kissed him on the lips. Since then, they've been teased as a couple by Matthew, who spread the news about their togetherness throughout the entire school. In "Everybody Bleeds", Nick and Jessi announced that they were officially a couple, simply because Matthew and the other students were pressuring them to do so. Deep down, Nick and Jessi didn't actually want to date. They just wanted to be friends so this was really awkward for them. In "Am I Gay?", Jessi kindly dumped Nick. The next day at school, Nick told everyone that he dumped Jessi, which got her really pissed off at him. He later realizes he is in love with Jessi, earning him Walter as his love bug. However, he tries to win her over in song which fails and when he tries bringing her a RBG collectable he discovers she stole his brother's shirt, causing him to lose interest in her and become outraged.
- Missy Foreman-Greenwald - Nick and Missy started off as just casual acquaintances but when Missy and Andrew started dating, she became more of a friend to him. In "Disclosure the Movie: The Musical!", they were the leading actors of the play and their characters were supposed to kiss. When they kissed on the night of the performance, they actually developed feelings for each other. This was well after Missy dumped Andrew but Andrew was still jealous of Nick because of this. Andrew gave Nick shit for this for a while but he eventually got over it. In "Super Mouth", Jessi made Nick tell the truth about not liking Missy, it pissed off both of them and turned them both against him.
Enemies[]
- Lola Skumpy - Nick finds Lola to be rather annoying and unattractive. In "Rankings", Andrew pointed out that he was very high on Lola's list and he completely ignored this.
- Devin - Nick despises Devin because of her hateful personality but does still think she's hot. The two of them aren't outright enemies as they've never really "opposed" each other, but it's clear they don't hold each other in very high regard. In "Everybody Bleeds", Devin befriended Nick, along with Jessi, as soon as they became a couple. In "What Is It About Boobs?", Devin started dating Nick not because she actually liked him but because she was trying to get back at DeVon for dumping her for Gina. Nick seized this opportunity to kiss and make out with Devin as much as possible, really cherishing the moment.
- Shame Wizard - The Shame Wizard started harassing Nick in "The Dark Side of the Boob" when he told people about how he touched Gina's boob. In "Smooch or Share", Nick, along with all the other people The Shame Wizard was tormenting stood up to him and took him down.
Love Interests[]
- Olivia - In "Ejaculation", Nick had a crush on Olivia for being a much older 8th grade girl and asked her to the prom. She accepted only to show up with another guy when she got there.
- Jessi Glaser - Nick and Jessi are long time friends that became boyfriend and girlfriend in "Ejaculation", following Nick getting dumped by Olivia. They shared their first kiss together and although it was awkward, they were really liked each other. The duo confirmed their togetherness in "Everybody Bleeds" but after their first real date in "Am I Gay?", Jessi dumped him lightly, saying that it's better that they just be friends. Nick announced to the school that it was him who dumped her, which really pissed Jessi off but despite this, they still managed to maintain a consistent friendship. Despite their relationship being long gone, in "A Very Special 9/11 Episode", Nick still exhibited love for her, when he was low-key jealous, when she got a new boyfriend. In "Nick Starr", Nick had a dream about the future year of 2052 and his future self meeting up with a future Jessi and getting back together again, knowing deep down that they were always meant to be. When the apocalypse happened, Nick was one of the lucky ones picked to escape on the ship to survival and allowed one plus one, he picked Jessi. The two got ready to have sex on the escaping spaceship, only for Jessi to betray him, revealing that she only got on the ship because she was a terrorist who wanted to destroy all the upper class privileged people as an act of revenge. In "The Funeral", Nick inappropriately kissed Jessi, while she was mourning at a funeral, thinking she would react the same way she did in his dream but this, of course, only pissed her off.
- Roland - Nick has a long-distance relationship with Roland, as she lives in the urbanhood and doesn't go to the same school as him. They are still really good friends and occasionally get to see each other during weekends, when there's no school tomorrow.
- Gina Alvarez - Nick started dating Gina in "What Is It About Boobs?", being the only person in school with the courage to actually talk to her. In "Dark Side of the Boob", Nick touched Gina's boob for the first time, while making out with her and his hormone monster went wild. In "Smooch or Share", Nick told everyone that he touched Gina's boob, against her wishes, and the gossip spread like wildfire and embarrassed Gina and caused her to break up with him.
- Missy Foreman-Greenwald - In "Disclosure the Movie: The Musical!", Nick and Missy got the roles of the romantic leads in the school play and they got a little too into it and started kissing and making out in real life, which made Andrew jealous. In "Super Mouth", Andrew found it in him to forgive Nick for kissing his ex and let him date Missy only for Jessi to use her truth powers on Nick moments later and force him to admit that he didn't really love her, making Missy cry and break up with him at graduation. Enough time had passed over the summer break for Missy to forgive Nick and become friends with him again when they entered 8th grade.
Family[]
- Diane Birch - Mother
- Elliot Birch - Father
- Leah Birch - Older sister
- Judd Birch - Older brother
Hormone Monsters[]
Trivia[]
- Nick is based on, named after, and voiced by the show creator, Nick Kroll.
- "Twenty Two and You" reveals that Nick has Scottish ancestry.
- It's been explicitly mentioned many times in the series that Nick has an unreasonably small penis, which he is very self-conscious about. This was first mentioned in "Ejaculation" when he accidentally saw Andrew's much larger and hairier penis and became self-conscious about it.
- In "Steve the Virgin", it was revealed that his tiny penis was genetically passed down to him by his father, making this an unfortunate hereditary trait.
- https://anime-musicaluniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Cartoon_Characters:_Big_Mouth
- In "Ejaculation", it was revealed that Nick's grandmother gave him a black kit-kat clock, which he has hung up on the wall of his room.
- The first pornographic film that Nick watched was The Italian Stallion, a videotape he watched with Andrew in "The Pornscape".
- According to Elliot's flashback in "The Planned Parenthood Show", Nick used to be interested in comedy, when he was a baby, as he was seen doing an imitation of Jerry Seinfeld. However, due to the massive amount of fabrications in this story, it is unknown if this is true to the real Nick or not.
- In "Drug Buddies", Nick and Jessi did weed for the first time.
- Nick constantly refers to himself as the nickname "Big Dick Boy", a term he coined in the episode "Drug Buddies", while he was high on weed.
- In "Dark Side of the Boob", Nick had touched a breast for the first time, when he touched one of Gina's breasts under her bra while making out with her in his room.
- In one scene of My Furry Valentine, Nick was seen wearing glasses. This may have been a mistake by the animators, as he had never been shown to need them. However, within the same episode, Maury was struggling with having recently been prescribed glasses which looked similar to the ones Nick was wearing.
- Along with Andrew, Jay, and Judd, Nick wears a belt that is covered by his shirt.
Nick (possibly by mistake) wearing glasses.
Notes[]
- ↑ Although his age is not stated in later seasons, he is said to be almost 13 in the first season, and it is likely set at the start of the year, thus Nick's 13th birthday was likely at the start of the year. Since over a year has passed since then, Nick would be at least 13, if not 14.
- ↑ Lola, who befriended Gina at the end of the second season, expressed dislike for Nick in "Smooch or Share" and "My Furry Valentine" due to his friendship with Andrew as well as her and Gina's belief that they were both used by Andrew and Nick respectively. However, she does not seem to hold any grudges after this.