Pops

Pops Maellard is a rich, thin humanoid lollipop whose father owns the park as well as the house, which Pops shares with Mordecai and Rigby. According to the Cartoon Network website, he is a billionaire that was locked up and protected for all or most of his childhood, which is why he takes such child like delight in everything he sees and does. He made his unofficial debut in J.G. Quintel's 2005 short film "The Naive Man from Lolliland" as an unnamed immigrant from Lolliland. Later, he made a small cameo in the next short "2 in the AM PM." He then made an official appearance in the Pilot.

Appearance
Pops is a very thin lollipop-like man with a large, round skin colored head (apparently supposed to resemble a lollipop). He dresses as a proper gentleman would, wearing a vest on top of a white buttoned up shirt, a pair of nice gray slacks, and a black top hat. He also has a well groomed white/blond mustache.

Pops has no hair on his head. In "Brain Eraser", he is seen wearing a shower cap when he is naked. However, in Really Real Wrestling Pops is seen in a photo of himself back in his "schooling days" without his hat and has no hair (but still had a mustache). That same day, he was a wrestler who was wresting with Mordecai and Rigby.

Pops has a second hat, as seen in "Free Cake". It appears to be a tan pith helmet.

Cartoon Network Character Page Description
"Pops might look human, but is actually a lollipop from Lolliland. He's been filthy rich and ridiculously sheltered his whole life, so he takes a childlike delight in virtually everything."

Personality
Pops is almost always in a jolly mood, laughing more often than not, and appears to be very easily fascinated. He's actually the the boss of the groundskeepers, but relies more on Benson because he knows nothing about taking care of the park. Pops is apparently very sensitive and tends to be a little "odd", according to other characters such as Mordecai. His name is derived from the fact that he vaguely seems to look like a huge lollipop, as well as that he believes lollipops to be currency. Examples of this belief are seen in the episode "The Power" when he gives Mordecai and Rigby a "raise" of one lollipop each and in "Don" where he tried to pay the parks taxes with lollipops. Another example was in "Ello Gov'nor" when he paid the video store employee with a lollipop before being dragged away by Mordecai and Rigby. Also in "The Naive Man from Lolliland" trys to pay his bill and a generous tip of 25% in lollipops.

He is apparently very light, as seen in the episode "Just Set Up The Chairs" when, upon being rejected, he floats away carried by approximately 24 helium balloons. This is supported by the episode "Death Punchies" in which Rigby punches Pops so hard that he plummets into the air, disappearing in the light of the sun. Later in the episode, it was discovered that Pops had suffered an injury from the punch, a broken arm. Also in the episode "Really Real Wrestling" we learn that Pops likes to wrestle. Pops used to wrestle back in his "schooling days", but it wasn't fake-- it was "just like the Greco and the Romans." Since he wasnt pretending, Pops uses his wrestling moves to wrestle Mordecai and was hurting him until being stopped by Rigby. In "Prank Callers", when he gave Mordecai and Rigby cell phones from the 80's, he said they cause brain tumors. But the Cartoon Network website states that Pops is a lollipop that looks human, which means that Pops' big head is an appropriate size and shape. In that same episode when they are all sent back in time, Pops from the 1980's is normal until Mordecai and Rigby run him over with a golf cart.

Quotes

 * See Pops/Quotes

Trivia

 * It's possible lollipops like Pops are able to live forever, but these are his Near Death Experiences:
 * The Pilot and "First Day": Almost got sucked in by the Rochambeau Monster.
 * "The Power": Almost got crushed by the Moon Monster.
 * "Meat Your Maker": Almost marinated and eaten by evil hot dogs.
 * "Grilled Cheese Deluxe": almost died in an explosion by an unstable anti-nucleus matter radiation at the astronauts' compound in the same town he lives in, and according to astronauts, thousands of lives were at risk.
 * Ello Gov'nor: He almost got killed by the British taxi.
 * Dizzy: Almost got killed by Iacedrom and Ybgir because he accidently gave a speech, which is against the law in Dizzyland.
 * Prank Callers: Young Pops got run over but survived. If Mordecai had driven faster, he may have killed past Pops with the golf cart.
 * Benson Be Gone: Almost got crushed by a building by Giant Susan as punishment for not working.
 * Really Real Wrestling: He nearly gets crushed by wrestlers and set on fire.In the episode Prank Callers, it is implied that he might have a brain tumor and could be mentally challenged. However, later in the episode when Mordecai and Rigby are stuck in the 1980s, we are shown a seemingly normal and sane Pops. He is later accidentally run over by Mordecai and Rigby in the golf cart, potentially indicating brain damage as an explanation for his odd behavior.
 * Pops owns 3 cars, his Checker Taxi cab from Ello Gov'nor, and his flying Mini Cooper from Really Real Wrestling, and Carmenita from Cruisin.
 * He also made an appearance in 2 in the AM PM when the two clerks are fighting, the proto-Mordecai becomes proto-Pops.
 * Pops looks alot like a human which has caused confusion amung many fans.
 * An explanation for Pops to use lollipops instead of money is that he is from Lolliland, where it is possible that lollipops were used as a form of currency. (For instance, a butterscotch ripple equates to $100.) However, his father does not seem to share this confusion, so it may just be due to his brain problems and sheltered life, although his father probably knows that lollipops are only used as money in Lolliland.
 * Pops' favorite thing to read is Mustache Monthly.
 * Pops is seen naked three times.
 * In Dizzy, his last name is revealed to be "Maellard".
 * In This Is My Jam it revealed that he can dance because he said that he is not going to use his "best dance moves" and he can play the keyboard.
 * He can also play the piano in "This Is My Jam".
 * In Jinx it's shown that he likes to look at his reflection in the water fountain.
 * Along with Mordecai and Rigby, Pops appears in all of the season one episodes (if one counts the painting of him in Grilled Cheese Deluxe).
 * In "Prank Callers", Pops has no mustache in the 1980's, but he has one while he was in high school as shown in "Really Real Wrestling".
 * Pops is the only park worker to not do anything antagonistic.

Gallery


The gallery for Pops can be viewed here.