Ollie is the titular main protagonist of the 2022 Netflix miniseries Lost Ollie, based on the book written by William Joyce.
He is voiced by Jonathan Groff, who also voiced Kristoff from the Frozen franchise.
Appearance[]
He is a rag rabbit made with clothing fabric of different colors.
Personality[]
Ollie is sweet, lovely, sensitive, and kind. He likes to live with Billy and he is loyal to him. At first he is Zozo's friend but then he betrays him, then he is helped by Rosy who at first does not get along. He almost has very blurred memories that he solves with the magnet star. He does not like being with Flossie, Mike Apple or Buttons the dog. He is creative as it is shown that he created a map to go home. He is also very gentle with Billy's daughter.
History[]
Ollie is Lost[]
First he is awake in an antique shop, being found by an old woman named Flossie and put on a shelf. He meets a girl named Suzy. who denies her to go with him.He creates a map to search Billy.Then he escapes from the store and the dog Buttons with an old clown doll named Zozo, who tells him how he came to the thrift store. The clown tells the rabbit that he was looking for a ballerina doll named Nina for so long when they met in 1965 . They manage to escape and Ollie meets a pink teddy bear named Rosy, who knew Zozo. He goes on an adventure with his map and star.
The Quest[]
First they go to the Dark River in a boat and play pirates and jump into another boat. Then the trio go to the white tower on a motorcycle, which is the hospital where Billy and Momma who had a serious illness were, what have the wall of the story of sleeping beauty and the machine that got into the test of the Billy's mother, which is reminiscent of Ollie listening to the song "All I Have To Do Is Dream".
Then they go to the Mark Twain that he refers to as the train, and his friends get on the train and grab Rosie with one of his ears, that makes the relationship between the bunny and the teddy bear improve, and Rosie and Zozo sew Ollie up to a body part and they sing Jolene from Dolly Parton. Ollie sees a forest it was mysterious that the troll was afraid of him and his owner, but he realizes that it is a statue and sees a closed amusement park named "Dreamland" that is not on the map, and he and his friends goes to the amusement park "Dreamland", Zozo turns on the lights and he knows the park where his girlfriend Nina and he, but Ollie doesn't remember anything about the fair but remembers that Momma realizes that she has a terrible illness but doesn't have to leave her son Billy and her husband Jimmy. But Ollie realizes that Zozo the clown is ruthless, evil and cruel, which makes him kidnap Ollie. Afterwards, Zozo asks Ollie where Nina is and throws a rock at the bunny but to Ollie's bad luck, Zozo has to unstitch him.
Bali Hai[]
Later Rosy distracts Zozo and saves Ollie and tells him about her story and when she used to be friends with Zozo, which shows that Rosie is really good. Ollie realizes that he saw a sign similar to the one he and Billy saw when they go to school and that the black dot on the map is Billy's school. Then he goes in the swan of the tunnel of love and is attacked by Zozo, which causes him to jump into the water .
Home[]
And Them he goes to Billy's school. He also remembers at school that Billy feels sad about the death of his mother, and he introduces him to his classmates and shows them their adventures. Then Billy's bully, Mike Apple, takes Ollie from Billy and throws him outside, but Billy abandons the bunny so he could mature and stop playing with toys due to the strong words of his father Jimmy. Ollie realizes that he abandoned him and throws his star. Then remenber when Momma is in the hospital in her last death moments , then he picks up his star for his loyalty to Billy and runs to Billy's home, but when he arrives he realizes that Billy and his father are no longer there and that he was late, and he sees that the boy tried to look for him and saw the photo of Momma when she was a child with Nina. He remembers Billy's mom telling him that Ollie was created out of her and her husband's old clothes, and as her doll fell apart with time pass she left behind the bell which she used as Ollie's heart.
Then Zozo arrived, who thought that the rabbit stole her girlfriend and that he thought he and Billy destroyed it for fun. The two leave Billy's house, and run, later the evil clown hits the bunny, then Ollie tells Zozo that Nina fell apart and that the bell that he has in his heart remains, which makes Zozo cry as they hug, but Zozo ripped Ollie's heart out, but the evil clown is defeated by Rosy with one of her swords and Rosy shares her last moment with the bunny. Then a heavy rain appeared, which this causes Zozo and Rosy to be swept away and carried away by the water, while Ollie is in a puddle and his bell gets stuck by a twig like in the first chapter, and he reminds the best moments with Billy.
The next morning, a man picks up, washes and repairs Ollie, which turns out to be an adult Billy, and the girl who met Ollie in the antique store is Billy's adopted daughter. He shows her to Ollie that he was looked for him for so long, but the girl knows Ollie, and the girl, Suzy, shows Ollie her favorite places and later she sings "All I Have To Do Is Dream", until Ollie told the girl a message from Billy's late mother for her son who told his father what says: "That you can be sad, but not distressed. You may be angry, but not at each other. And losing someone doesn't mean they no longer exist." And later Billy connects the star with Ollie's star, and the two happily reunite. In the end Billy and his daughter play with Ollie and remember the good moments about what he has had with Ollie, and Ollie has a new home that he lives very happily with his new owner.
Trivia[]
- In the book that inspired the miniseries, Ollie's Odyssey, Ollie has prick ears with stripes, a hoodie, and a scarf, this first Zozo references that in the first episode.
- Ollie could possibly be based on the velveteen rabbit.
- Ollie's behavior being subdued by Zozo is similar to his owner Billy's behavior being subdued by Mike Apple.
- Ollie is almost named after Olie from Rolie Polie Olie, a show that William Joyce has worked on, but with two l's instead of one.