Olaf Nijlpaard

Olaf Nijlpaard
Character
"Olaf Nijlpaard"
Olaf in Episode 1
Species	Hippopotamus
Birthplace	Unknown
First appearance	Episode 1
Character Model Sheet number	12/1 (sheet 11)
Character Model Sheet name	O. Nijlpaard (Direkteur van Sprookjeswereld)
Name in different languages
Dutch name	Olaf Nijlpaard
Japanese name	ヒポポタマス (Hipopotamasu) Hippopotamus
German name	Hippo Nilpferd
English name	Hippopotamus

Olaf Nijlpaard is a fictional character from the animated show and several books and comics. He is the financial advisor to Alfons Rokodil and later his son Kaspar Rokodil. Like his business partners Alfons and Kaspar he is regularly confused by audiences and production staff with his inventor son Hannibal Nijlpaard.

Olaf Nijlpaard is one of the characters that has a negative influence on Alfred's life starting with being responsible for choosing his birthplace in the Plaspoelpolder in Breed Rietland as the place for Groot Speelgoedland displacing many animals including Alfred's family and eventually driving the car that struck Alfred's biological family. He is seen at the start of the series and appears several times all the way through the penultimate episode where he is arrested for colluding with Kaspar Rokodil and Dolf de Kraai to steal documents from Professor Paljas van Pinguïn. Until the end of the series his design never changes.

Appearance

Olaf Nijlpaard is a yellowish hippopotamus. He is large-bodied with brown hair, sideburns and a curly moustache. His ears are usually perked up and he's almost always depicted with slightly heavier eyelids and slight bags under the eyes.

He wears small round glasses, without end pieces, and is alway swell-dressed. He wears a three-piece business suit comprised of an unbuttoned single-breasted maroon jacket, with lighter maroon peaked lapels and golden buttons. Under that he wears a pink waistcoat with lighter pink lapels and 4 golden buttons. He also wears a Moroccan blue shawl, with French navy polka dots, that covers his white dress shirt. In the character designs he wears cobalt blue suit trousers with vertical turquoise stripes, but these are simplified to just cobalt suit trousers in the animated series. His trousers are held up by two golden buttons. He also wears brown dress shoes with four darker brown buttons.

Personality

TBD

Storyline

TBD

Family Tree

Template:Nijlpaard family tree

Voice actors

Japanese	¦	神山 卓三 (Takuzō Kamiyama)	¦	ヒポポタマス (Hipopotamasu)
Dutch	¦	Kees Schilperoort	¦	Olaf Nijlpaard
German	¦	Wolfgang Völz	¦	Hippo NilpferdJohann Kwak
English	¦	???	¦	Hippopotamus

Appearances

TV Series

• 
  Alfred J. Kwak Episode 1
• Alfred J. Kwak Episode 2
  Alfred J. Kwak Episode 2
• Alfred J. Kwak Episode 26
  Alfred J. Kwak Episode 26
• Alfred J. Kwak Episode 51
  Alfred J. Kwak Episode 51

Books

• 
  De wonderlijke avonturen van de eend Alfred Jodocus Kwak: Goedemorgen (1989) (Dutch)
• 
  De wonderlijke avonturen van Alfred J. Kwak: De zeven eieren (1989) (Dutch)
• 
  De wonderlijke avonturen van Alfred J. Kwak: Omnibus 1 (1989) (Dutch)
• De wonderlijke avonturen van Alfred J. Kwak: Achter tralies (1989) (Dutch)
  De wonderlijke avonturen van Alfred J. Kwak: Achter tralies (1989) (Dutch)
• 
  De wonderlijke avonturen van Alfred J. Kwak: De zeven eieren (mini) (1990) (Dutch)
• 
  De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak (1991) (Dutch)
• 
  Alfred J. Kwak Filmstripboek Deel 1 (2006) (Dutch)
• 
  De wonderlijke avonturen van Alfred J. Kwak: het grote voorleesboek (2010) (Dutch)

Production background

Olaf Nijlpaard appears on sheet 11 of the Character- and Color-Designs for Alfred J. Kwak book, which was made in March of 1988. As per the outline Herman van Veen wrote for Episode 1, the character was referred to O. Nijlpaard, just like the Character Design page. The character receives his full name in the book De wonderlijke avonturen van de eend Alfred Jodocus Kwak: Goedemorgen, and is explicitely named in De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak as well.

Unfortunately, Olaf is regularly confused with the character of Hannibal Nijlpaard, who is Olaf's son. Olaf is the businessman that Alfons Rokodil and later -- more frequently -- Kaspar Rokodil work with, while Hannibal is the inventor.