Skipper Roberts is a supporting character in Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures. She is voiced by Kirsten Day. Skipper is one of Barbie's younger sisters and they live in a Dreamhouse with their family and their pets.
Story[]
Pre-Dreamhouse Adventures[]
In "Welcome to the Dreamhouse!", it is mentioned that Skipper and her family moved to Malibu, California almost 10 years ago. They became neighbors with Ken.
In "The Roof Fairy", it is mentioned that when Skipper was 6, she believed in an imaginary friend that looked like a bear with wings. Skipper believed her imaginary friend could make her dreams come true.
In "Balancing Act", it is mentioned that Skipper's father-daughter tradition with George is going to a technology expo called the Gee Whiz Expo every spring.
In "Room Swap", it is mentioned that when Stacie dunked a basketball for the first time, she was sitting on Skipper's shoulders.
Season 1[]
In "Welcome to the Dreamhouse!", Skipper and her family move into the Dreamhouse. Barbie asks Chelsea if she likes their room, but Chelsea misses their old house. The Dreamhouse starts to malfunction and the Reardons have the Roberts' moving van towed. Skipper thinks the house is malfunctioning because Chelsea is pranking them, or maybe the Reardons hacked the Dreamhouse. It turns out that a squirrel chewed the wires in the house's access panel. Margaret fixes it and the family gets settled in the new Dreamhouse.
In "Clubhouse (Remix)", it is Chelsea's birthday. As a present, Skipper and her sisters want to redecorate Chelsea's clubhouse, with help from Barbie's friends. They leave the clubhouse by the curb while they look for decorations, so a garbage truck takes the clubhouse. Skipper helps to distract Chelsea while Barbie and her friends finds the clubhouse. They take the clubhouse home and redecorate it, and Chelsea says it's the best present ever.
In "Nobody's Cupcake", Barbie competes in an extreme baking show called Bake 'til You Ache. Her rival is Tammy Bounceway, a rising social media lifestyle influencer. Tammy cheats during the show, so Skipper tells Barbie to quit. This just makes Barbie more determined to succeed, and Barbie wins the show. The show's producer, Greg, asks if Barbie will compete again. Barbie declines, and Skipper says winning isn't everything.
In "The Great Pioneer Adventure", the Roberts spend the weekend living like American pioneers in the 1840. They forgo phones, cars and electronics and camp in their backyard. Skipper struggles the most living without technology. Margaret has a crisis at work and has to deliver something to her office, but due to a traffic jam, Margaret won't be able to get there in time. Barbie and Skipper ride a horse named Misty to get Margaret's delivery to work in time.
In "Baby Sister Babysitter", Barbie is supposed to be babysitting but she wants to go see a movie with her friends. George suggests that Skipper babysit instead and she could put the money towards a new guitar. Skipper is excited, but Barbie is overprotective and worried about how Skipper will handle the responsibility. Barbie goes out with her friends, but comes back to spy on Skipper. When Barbie gets caught, Barbie admits that she didn't trust Skipper, and that she should've given Skipper more credit for being a responsible and capable babysitter. Skipper designs an app for a business named Babysitters Inc.
In "Road Trip", Barbie is having a pool party with Skipper, Chelsea and her friends. Daisy is the DJ, but she stops playing music suddenly when she checks her phone. The abrupt stop to the music makes Nikki spit out her drink onto DJ, who runs away and knocks Skipper into the pool. Daisy announces that she has the opportunity to DJ at a music festival in a desert. She feels nervous at performing to a huge crowd, but goes on a road trip with her friends in Barbie's camper. Skipper, Stacie and Chelsea see them off. They return shortly later when they notice Daisy left her turntable at the Dreamhouse, due to her trying to delay going to the festival because of her nerves. Skipper gives Daisy the turntable and they set off again.
In "Picture Perfect Cake", Barbie enters a robotics competition at Robot Con. It takes place the same weekend as her parents' 20th anniversary, so Skipper plans their anniversary party instead of Barbie. Barbie has made a surprise cake for the party. She goes to Robot Con and has trouble with her robot. At the Dreamhouse, Skipper ruins Barbie's cake while trying to take a picture with it. Skipper tries to replace the cake but her cake doesn't come out well. Barbie helps Skipper to make a new cake and Skipper helps Barbie with her robot.
In "The Roof Fairy", Chelsea tells Barbie about a the Roof Fairy. Barbie says she isn't real, and then feels guilty, so she tries to bring the Roof Fairy to life for Chelsea. Barbie, Skipper and Stacie dress Ken up as the Roof Fairy, and tell him to go on the roof. Ken doesn't make it onto the roof in time before they bring Chelsea outside. They see the real Roof Fairy on the roof and then Chelsea goes to bed, happy that the Roof Fairy exists.
Season 2[]
In "Balancing Act", Ken is training to be a lifeguard. To help him train, Skipper and Stacie use shark hand-puppets to attempt "shark attacks" on Ken. He agrees to clean their room if they can successfully do a shark attack. Barbie gives up her father-daughter tradition of spending the equinox with her dad so that Chelsea can do it instead. Barbie feels sad, so her friends cheer her up by having a pool party. At the party, Skipper and Stacie do a successful shark attack on Ken, so he has to clean their room the next day.
In "Trey Is for Horses", Chelsea wants to raise funds start a school that will teach puppies how to read. Skipper helps Chelsea to make a video about it, and Skipper posts it online. Only Skipper and George donate. Chelsea wants to get donations quickly, so she does a garage sale. Chelsea asks people for items she can sell. Skipper gives her an autographed photo of a cartoon character. George gives Chelsea his wooden carvings of ducks. At the garage sale, George buys the autographed photo and Skipper wants the wooden ducks. Chelsea thanks everyone who bought things.
In "A Dreamhouse Puppy Tale", Chelsea tells her family a story about how the vacuum and an alligator toy want to take over the Dreamhouse while the Roberts are asleep. They steal items from around the house to make a slingshot to launch the puppies into the sea. The puppies stop the alligator and vacuum with help from Mew-Mew. In reality, the items went missing because Chelsea made a sculpture as a surprise for Margaret's birthday. The sculpture is of the Roberts sisters and Margaret on an island, since Margaret wants to go on vacation to Hawaii in the following year. Chelsea used Skipper's scrunchies as part of the sculpture.
In "Putts for Pups", Chelsea wants to teach puppies how to read, but she doesn't have money to buy them books. Chelsea decides to hold a mini golf charity event to get book donations to start the first ever puppy library. Barbie and Ken set up the mini golf course. They want to put one of the holes on the Reardons' front yard, but Poppy and Whittaker don't want to join in. Skipper and Stacie bake a cake for George, but Barbie uses it to persuade Trey to convince his parents to join in. Trey asks Barbie to get him cookies. Skipper and Stacie bake a cookie for George, but Barbie gives it to Trey. Trey doesn't help, so Barbie figures out how Chelsea can complete the tournament without stepping on the Reardons' front yard. Chelsea completes the tournament and everyone donates books. Skipper and Stacie bake dog treats to celebrate, and George eats one by accident. Chelsea opens her puppy library in front of the Dreamhouse.
In "Pied Pupper", Barbie attaches Skipper's mini camera to Honey's collar so Chelsea can film a "Day in the Life of a Dog" video for school. Additionally, Barbie helps Ken rehearse for a talent show, and she also bakes health bars for Nikki's bistro scooter business. Barbie struggles to multitask but she doesn't want to admit she needs help from Skipper and Stacie. Skipper and Stacie go to a music festival together. Honey sneaks into a box of Nikki's health bars and gets lost at the festival. Barbie finds Honey and they get stuck in a tree, so Barbie has to ask for help.
In "A Day at the Beach", Chelsea films Stacie trying to break the world record for number of pogo stick bounces. Skipper asks them to be quiet because she is babysitting Bonnie. She has tried everything to get Bonnie to sleep, but nothing has worked. Skipper, Stacie and Chelsea relax Bonnie by blowing a feather to make it float in the air until Bonnie falls asleep. They set the world record for "longest time keeping a feather in the air without touching it."
In "A Delicate Situation", Chelsea wants to play with Skipper and Stacie. They say they are too busy making an invention. They add wheels to socks and Skipper wants to call them "slide socks." Skipper and Stacie argue over the name. Renee stays over and thinks she will have to perform for her family when she sees them for Chinese New Year. She practices violin, singing and cooking, but is bad at all three. Skipper says Renee wasn't good at anything, and Renee overhears and gets upset. Barbie apologizes for what Renee overheard. Skipper and Stacie run out of socks eventually so they ask Chelsea to test the invention with her socks.
Season 3[]
In "Virtually Famous", Barbie gets "vlogger's block" and needs help thinking of vlog ideas. Her friends help her to film a vlog, and it goes viral. Teresa becomes obsessed with making more viral videos. Barbie finds it hard to be honest that she's not having fun chasing internet fame. Barbie eventually tells Teresa the truth, and they film a lip dub video with everyone, including Skipper.
In "All Dogs Go to the Beach", Poppy uses her connections to ban dogs from the beach. This will affect Nikki's new dog-walking business and Barbie won't be able to bring Taffy to the beach. Barbie and Nikki are unhappy about the dog ban, so Nikki runs for office with Barbie as her campaign manager. Skipper helps by using social media to promote Nikki's campaign. The Reardons sabotage Nikki's campaign, with Trey messing up the Roberts' wi-fi so Skipper can't make a website for Nikki. After a debate between Nikki and Poppy goes wrong, Skipper isn't confident that Nikki will win. Nikki loses by one vote, but Poppy is overheard insulting the voters. To avoid a recall election, Poppy pretends to love dogs and reverses the dog ban. Nikki's dog-walking business becomes more popular and she hires Skipper to help.
In "Room Swap", Skipper and Stacie argue about each other's bad habits. Barbie agrees to share their room with Skipper for the weekend while Stacie stays in Barbie's room. Barbie and Skipper find it awkward to compromise with each other, and Stacie doesn't like how the Dreamhouse is programmed in Barbie's room. The next day, none of them have slept well, so they swap rooms again. Skipper stays in Barbie's room, but she also dislikes how Barbie's room is programmed, and Barbie and Stacie also find it awkward to share a room. The Dreamhouse gets infested by ants, so the girls stay in the camper while the ants are removed. They realize Blissa is missing, so they search for her and then go back to their own rooms once the ants are gone.
In "Totally Spying", the Reardons get the Roberts' mail, including a notice that says if they don't file the Dreamhouse blueprints by the next day, they could be forced to move. Poppy tells Trey to steal the blueprints so they can make the Roberts move far away. Skipper uses a drone to film Stacie skateboarding. When they are done, Trey pretends to get injured by Stacie's skateboard. Skipper reluctantly helps her family to take care of Trey and keep up with his demands while he tries to discreetly steal the blueprints. The girls suspect Trey is lying about being injured, so they check the drone footage that Skipper recorded and see that he is lying. They agree to be so nice to him that he confesses. It works, and Trey also admits he liked spending time with the Roberts. He has Rookie secretly put the blueprints back, but on his way out, Trey really gets injured by Stacie's skateboard. Skipper and her sisters visit him in the hospital.
In "Barbie Roberts: Undercover Mermaid Part 1", Skipper goes to a tropical island with her family and Barbie's friends. On the island, Skipper's parents go to a documentary festival, and Barbie and her friends prepare for a fashion show at a mermaid convention. Margaret lets Nikki borrow a necklace for the fashion show. Skipper and her sisters try to prank Barbie by moving her and her friends' things to a different room. Skipper and her sisters avoid getting caught by the housekeeper, but a monkey sneaks into the cabin and steals Margaret's necklace. A hotel detective catches Skipper and the others taking things from the room, and he assumes they are stealing since there have been escalating thefts at the hotel.
In "Barbie Roberts: Undercover Mermaid Part 2", a hotel detective brings Barbie's sisters to her and says he's investigating a string of thefts at the resort that weekend. He suspects Barbie's sisters are involved after catching them taking things from Barbie's hotel room for the prank. The girls are unable to contact their parents because they are watching documentaries, so their phone is off. After Barbie sees the monkey stealing, she comes up with a plan to catch it and prove her sisters didn't steal anything. Skipper helps Barbie to get their mother's necklace back, and helps Barbie to prove the monkey was the one stealing things.
In "A Dog's Day in Court", Skipper is sad because she has a pimple on her nose a few days before she has to DJ at a block party. She is too self-conscious to show her face. Nikki is at the Dreamhouse for help with her pet business (Watkins' Woofs, Walks and Washes). Some dogs run over to the Reardons and give Trey fleas. This inspires a plan by Poppy to make the Roberts move away. The Reardons release fleas in the neighborhood and cause a 3-mile wide flea infestation. While the houses are being fumigated, there is an official city order that no animals can on the premises. Poppy rents several animals and has them delivered to the Dreamhouse. Skipper and her sisters try to hide the animals, but an animal inspector checks the Dreamhouse, sees the animals, and says the Roberts have the right to appear before the city council and plead their case. If they lose, they will be evicted. Skipper and her family stall while Barbie finds a animal rental receipt and a witness (the person who delivered the animals) to prove that Poppy is to blame. Poppy resigns from the city council and the Roberts are saved from being evicted. Skipper stops feeling self-conscious about her pimple because people don't make a big deal when they see it, and she does a great job DJing at the block party.
Go Team Roberts! Season 1[]
In "Magical Mermaid Mystery: Part 1", Skipper and her family are going on vacation to Costa Rica so George can film a whale documentary. Barbie is disappointed to miss the vacation because she got a summer job. While the Roberts are away and Barbie is busy working, Trey plans to have a party at the Dreamhouse. Skipper thinks she will get to relax and be in charge of her younger sisters on vacation. On the plane to Costa Rica, a young mom sits next to Skipper. Skipper says she loves kids and is a babysitter, so the mom hands the baby over to Skipper for the 9-and-a-half hour flight. Skipper regrets saying anything. For the 4 hour car ride to the hotel, there is no wi-fi for Skipper to use, and when she tries to relax later, she falls off a hammock.
Go Team Roberts! Season 2[]
Physical Appearance[]
Skipper is a 14-year-old girl with long brunette hair, blue eyes and light skin. Her hair has a purple streak at the front, and the ends are also purple. Skipper usually wears a red and white plaid shirt with rolled-up sleeves, a white top, black skinny jeans and red slip-on shoes. She also has purple, red and brown hair ties around her left wrist.
In "The Great Pioneer Adventure", Skipper wears a purple, red, silver and black skateboarding helmet.
In "Road Trip" and "Balancing Act", Skipper wears a black swimsuit with purple flip flops. The front of the swimsuit has rainbow-colored sound waves on it.
Personality[]
Skipper is sarcastic, smart and tech-savvy. She likes taking photos and selfies. Skipper loves music and DJing, so she has a DJ booth in her room. She also named her puppy DJ. Skipper babysits for the first time to earn money for a new guitar. She assumes babysitting will be easy since she saw comedies about it on TV. When things start going wrong while she babysits, her family aren't around so she feels comfortable saying "What would Barbie do?" aloud. After the experience ends up going well, Skipper starts her own business named Babysitters Inc and designs an app for.
Skipper also assumes party planning for her parents' 20th anniversary will be easy. Skipper feels insecure compared to Barbie because she views Barbie as being perfect. Skipper's sisters reassure her that she has her own merits. Skipper hates to admit she can't do everything on her own, but she learns that a little help goes a long way. Skipper and her family have a strong bond; they call themselves Team Robert and they all support each other. Skipper finds it funny when people get pranked by Chelsea. Skipper dislikes bugs, peer pressure, and living without technology. She once had a nightmare about having her old 2G phone again. However, after camping in her backyard with no technology, she does grow to appreciate the outdoors and wants to go hiking with Barbie.
Trivia[]
- Skipper has a purple phone.
- In "Welcome to the Dreamhouse!", it is revealed that Skipper and Stacie share a room. They helped to design the room, so Skipper's side of the room has a DJ booth.
- possibly because they are both middle sisters
- In "The Great Pioneer Adventure", it is shown that Skipper can sew.
- In "Picture Perfect Cake", Skipper says she does music for birthdays and bar mitzvahs. She offers to give Poppy and Whittaker a business card for it.
- In "Trey Is for Horses", it is shown that Skipper meditates.
- In "Room Swap", Skipper likes Bruno the Bug Man's TV show.
- In "Totally Spying", it is shown that Skipper can fly a drone. It is also shown that Skipper can play volleyball.