Hoppity Hooper

I haven't seen this since I was a kid, probably close to 30 years ago. I remember this being a trippy, sarcastic, and very funny cartoon. Years later I found out it came from Jay Ward prior to Rocky & Bullwinkle and was not surprised.

There was one very trippy story arc which was supposed to be a spoof on the Twilight Zone. I can't remember the story line but I seem to recall that the resolution was that the entire cast wound up as vegetables in a garden, and that was how they escaped from this weird dimension in which they were trapped. I remember it being a riot, although I was probably eight the last time I saw it.

Maybe someone will bring it back to TV, perhaps as a Jay Ward retrospective. Wouldn't that be a great idea?

I really liked this series! It's really a shame that they made only one season of episodes. Never mind about what it says, that the show ran 1964 to 1967; only one year of those three years included NEW episodes.

Had they made two or three years of episodes, probably a lot more people would remember this show today. I, also, probably would have enjoyed watching the re-runs much more if there had been in excess of 25+ shows to choose from.

This was a nice lunchtime companion, for me, in the summers when school was out. The frog, the bear and the wolf (or whatever kind of furry character Uncle Waldo was) were cute and also very funny.

Uncle Waldo, voiced by the late, great Hans Conried (who also did Snidely Whiplash on Dudley Do-Right) was actually more than just cute. He was so much like that elderly great-uncle or grandfather, that everyone has.

I also liked Paul Frees as the narrator. Though never really famous, on-camera (he was a priest in A PLACE IN THE SUN--1951-- and a psychiatrist in Disney's THE SHAGGY DOG), I read up on him, over the internet, and learned that his nickname was "THE MAN OF A THOUSAND VOICES".

The bouncy, energetic theme song, was kind of neat, too, because you could see that it was deliberately designed that way to conjure up the image of its star, Hoppity Hooper, in action.

Maybe someday someone will revive this great cartoon series and create brand new episodes! I would much rather see that than a single two-hour movie (I have never thought that those cinematic endeavors ever do an original cartoon series justice).

Hopefully this cartoon, from the Golden Age era of animation, is not so outdated, by today's standards, that it could not be picked up, by some genius, to entertain the future children of America (and some adults too) with all new adventures (hopefully in the same episodic format)!!

Big fan of Bullwinkle. Hop pity Hooper used some of the other episodes from Bullwinkle. To this day I use a line - turn it off Fillmore - when something isn't working or is too loud. 17 episodes isn't a lot . But any show with Hans Conried .... And Walks Wigglesworth is so Groucho . Don't even know if it's on DVD . But warm and fuzzy memories. I haven't seen any or these since the 60s . So specifics.. I'm too lazy to watch a bunch of YT to review specific episodes , but just for the Sherman and Peabody and fractured fairy tales made it fun. And the BW universe had so many winking jokes for adults even as a 14'year old , it was good stuff. Turn it on Fillmore!

"Hoppity Hooper" is one of the cartoons I grew up with thanks to its appearance on the low-budget DVD sets made by Mill Creek Entertainment. As a kid, I liked it but didn't love it, and I feel the same now.

It's a lively and funny show, but suffers from two major issues. The first is one that became more common in children's animation in later decades: there is constant noise. Someone is always talking (usually yelling) or else there's a sound effect, without a moment of silence. This makes it a bit grating to watch more than a couple episodes at once. The other problem is that the episodes are only five minutes long with cliffhangers and recaps in each. That doesn't leave enough time to tell a story properly, even with the stories being spread over four episodes each, so the show always seems to be in a rush.

There are some great episodes though - the Twilight Zone parody "Traffic Zone" for one. The very first episode, "Ring-a-Ding Spring" is also a fun one. The show isn't bad at all, but it could have been better - and it might be better remembered today if it had been.

After the success of Rocky and Bullwinkle, along came a more child friendly but unfortunately lesser known show called Hoppity Hooper.

It's full of potential, imagination and wit that it's successor had. But many episodes fall flat or either feel like something is missing. None of them will be as bad as the Ghosts episode though.

There's some pretty good episodes, and some fun characters I wish we got to see more of. For example, that Mole they rescue in "Diamond Mine", and Susan Swivelhips! I also love Waldo, Hans did a wonderful job voicing him. Same can be said about Hoppity and Fillmore aswell, theyre very cute.

I havent dove deep into my research on the production history of this show, but from what I can tell is that it definitely feels way more restrictive than Rocky and Bullwinkle in terms of humor and tone. If it was handled a little better, and the studio was able to go wild, we may have had a cult hit like George of the Jungle.

Nowdays, this series has wound up in weird cartoon dvds and is mostly forgotten. But if you ever want to check it out, the whole thing is on Internet Archive.