- Hooble doop tiddly peeps
I'm Hubba Hubba talking
to you from Hoob Land,
and I'm about to send
four of my favorite hoobs
down to Earth to find
out all about you
for my great Hoobapedia.
Here they come!
♪ You know who the Hoobs are ♪
♪ Iver, Groove and Tula ♪
♪ We're Hoobs and
they're ready to go ♪
♪ Now the wheels are turning ♪
♪ We can all get learning ♪
♪ All the things
we want to know ♪
♪ Hubba Hubba's in Hoob Land ♪
♪ And Roma's
somewhere far away ♪
♪ Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! ♪
♪ The Motorettes are singing ♪
♪ We keep the engine spinning ♪
♪ Hoob hoob horray ♪
♪ The Hoobmobile is
coming your way ♪
♪ Oh here we come ♪
♪ The hoobs are here
so what do you say? ♪
♪ Hoobs ♪
- Hooby ga-looby.
Tula!
- Yeah?
- I was just sorting
through my collection
of things from long ago
- Yeah
- And look what I found.
It's Hubba Hubba,
with an old hooby
twizzle tiff style.
- Twizzle frizz
- Yeah twizzle frizz.
Do you know I never had
a twizzle frizz myself
but I did have
twizzle stick ups.
Hey, I had a hooby groovy idea.
- This is the most hoobly,
groobly twizzle frizz
I have ever seen!
- Hooble doop hoobs.
Groove, you've got
twizzle stick ups.
- Yeah, are they
hooby groovy or what?
- I bet you used to have twizzle
stick ups didn't you Iver?
- Oh no,
no I wasn't a twizzle
stick up kind of hoob.
I had a,
- [Tula & Groove] Yes?
- Well actually I
had a twizzle frizz.
- A twizzle frizz,
well that's just
like Hubba Hubba.
- Well Hubba Hubba
taught me how to do it.
- Isn't the photo
hoobly groobly.
- It is hoobly groobly,
but you must put it down,
we wouldn't want
Hubba Hubba to see it.
- Why?
♪ Why, why, why ♪
♪ Why ♪
- Because we're laughing
at it that's why.
We don't want Hubba Hubba
to see that we're laughing.
It might hurt his feelings.
(phone ringing)
Hooble doop, Iver Hoob speaking.
- [Telephone] Hello
- It's Hubba Hubba.
- What?
I'll hide it, I'll hide it.
- He's in the phone Groove,
he can't see the photo.
- Oh yeah.
- Wait a minute.
Why is he on the phone,
why isn't he on the
hooby computer screen?
- We'll get it fixed
right away Hubba Hubba.
Our hooby computer's
broken down,
that's why Hubba Hubba
was using the hoobo phone.
- That sounds like a job for me.
- Just as well we have
the hooba phone Iver.
- Oh abso-hooby-lutely Tula,
without the hoobo phone,
Hubba Hubba wouldn't
have managed
to get a message to us at all.
- No.
- Oh I've stuck Hubba
Hubba's picture up
so we don't miss him while
the computer's not working.
- I do hope you get it
to work soon Groove.
We need a question
for Hoob News.
- Peeps have phones
too don't they?
- Yes Tula, yes.
- I bet they haven't
always had phones though.
- No, no I'm sure they haven't.
- So how did peeps send
messages before telephones?
(phone ringing)
- Hooble doob?
It's Hubba Hubba.
- What's he saying?
- He said how did peeps send
messages before telephones?
- Oh what a hooble
dooble duper question
for today's Hoob News.
(laughing)
- Groove.
But if the hooby computer's
broken Hubba Hubba,
you won't be able to show
us anything from hoobnet
to start us off.
He says why don't we do
what hoobs used to to do
in the days before hoobo phones,
pay a visit.
- [Tula & Groove] Pay a visit?
- A visit to the tiddly peeps.
Will you email Roma Hubba Hubba?
- [Telephone] Of
course I'd be delighted
- Thank you.
- [Telephone] See you soon
- All right.
- [Telephone] Hooble toodle doo
- Hooble toodle doo.
- I'll go and see
the tiddly peeps.
- You can't go with
twizzle stick ups Groove,
what ever would the
tiddly peeps think?
- Oh all right.
- I'll go.
- And I'll drive.
- I think the tiddly
peeps would think that
my twizzle stick ups
were really hooby groovy.
- Seatbelt
- [Tula & Iver] We're off
to see the tiddly peeps
♪ We're off to see
the tiddly peeps ♪
♪ Down the road we go ♪
♪ We're off to see
the tiddly peeps ♪
♪ They're smart,
they're fun, they know ♪
♪ The tiddly peeps,
the tiddly peeps ♪
♪ If we need to know ♪
♪ Who, what, where,
why, when and how ♪
♪ We'll ask them off we go ♪
♪ We're off to see
the tiddly peeps ♪
♪ Down the road we go ♪
♪ We're off to see
the tiddly peeps ♪
♪ They're smart,
they're fun, they know ♪
(b*ating drums)
- Hooble doop tiddly peeps
(b*ating drums)
- Hooble doop tiddly peeps
- No need to shout Iver.
- Sorry um, do you want
to do a hooby hello.
- [Kids] Yes
- [All] Hooble doop, hooble
doop, whoop, whoop, whoop
- So while you've stopped
playing for a minute,
can you help me with
a bit of peep history.
- Of course Iver.
- We're trying to find out
how peeps sent messages
before telephones?
- Well a long time ago they
did it by banging drums,
like us.
- Someone will
bang out a rhythm,
that meant a certain thing.
(banging drums)
- And somebody else would reply
(banging drums)
- And then you can have
a whole conversation
(banging drums)
- Oh thanks tiddly peeps.
That was lots of help, you can
get back to your playing now.
- Okay Iver, thanks.
- Hooble toodle doo
(banging drums)
Oh nevermind.
I can't wait to try
out drum outs Tula.
- Well now's our chance, ta da!
- Hoobacious.
Now who's good at
making a lot of noise?
(banging)
- Sounds like
another job for me.
Lucky I've just finished
fixing the hooby computer.
- Well done Groove.
- Okay, here it goes.
(banging drum)
- No, no, no, no
stop, stop, stop.
- What's wrong?
- The beats of the drum
have got to mean something.
I know, let's start
with a hooble doop.
This is, hooble doop, hooble
doop, whoop, whoop, whoop.
- Hey that's hooby groovy.
- Yeah and this is,
hooble toodle doo.
(tapping)
- Well this is,
please will you send me
a big cheese sandwich
(banging drum)
- Oh yeah, right groove,
now we've learnt
banging language,
you go up to the roof garden
and send us a message.
- Okay.
- So um we have to work out
what Groove is trying to say
to us in banging language?
Right.
(banging drum)
- Well what was that?
The hooble doop?
- I'm not sure,
might have been a hooble toodle
doo, or it might have been
please could you send me
a big cheese sandwich.
- How hooby groovy was that hey?
- We couldn't hear it properly.
- You were too far away Groove.
- Oh I was only on
top of the hoobmobile,
what did peeps do
in the olden days
when they wanted
to send a message
to someone in the next village?
- [Hubba Hubba] Hubba, Hubba
- Oh it's Hubba Hubba.
Oh no the photo!
Groove!
- The photo?
Oh!
- Hooble doop hoobs,
oh Groove you've got
twizzle stick ups.
You won't believe this you know,
but I used to have
a twizzle frizz.
(laughing)
Well now then, here's
an interesting thing,
did you know that
hoobs in the olden days
used to send messages
by flying pie.
- Flying pie?
- Yes, ancient hoobs
would bake a pie you see,
put the message in
pastry on the top
and then use an enormous
catapult just like this,
to whizz it across to
their hooby friends.
- That is the best
idea I have ever heard.
(banging drum)
- Oh what does that mean Groove?
- It means forget the
big cheese sandwich,
I'd like a flying pie.
(laughing)
- Now I'm glad you fixed
the hooby computer,
because I found the most hooble
dooble duper story for you,
here it is.
- [Narrator] A long time ago,
in a time before telephones,
there lived a man called Ken.
He shared his little
house with a mole,
a monkey,
and a pigeon.
One day Ken decided
that he'd like to invite
his brother Jim for tea.
Jim lived some way away.
So he wrote a message
and gave it to the mole.
Take this to Jim,
and the mole set off.
The mole burrowed underground
and in no time at all had
found his way to Jim's house,
but the message was too
muddy to understand.
So Jim never turned up for tea.
Jim can't have got my message,
oh well I'll try
using the monkey.
So he wrote another message
and gave it to the monkey.
The monkey swung
from tree to tree,
and in no time at all had
found his way to Jim's house.
But the message was too
tattered and torn to understand,
so Jim never turned up for tea.
Hmmm Jim can't have
got my message.
Oh well, I'll try
it using the pigeon.
So he wrote another message
and gave it to the pigeon.
The pigeon flew
high above the trees
with the message in his beak,
and when it reached Jim,
he could read it perfectly.
But as Ken waited for
Jim to arrive for tea,
he was quite surprised
to see the pigeon return
with a message from Jim
and this is what it said,
I don't like tea, can you
make me some coffee instead?
Ken smiled and wrote
back, of course.
And from then on the
brothers spoke by pigeon
every single day.
- Hooby ga-looby we
should definitely test out
the pigeon way of
sending messages.
- Oh yes, but how?
♪ How, how, how, ♪
♪ how, how, how ♪
♪ How, how, how, how, how ♪
♪ How ♪
- By putting you in a
pigeon costume, that's how.
- Now all you have to do
Groove is take messages from me
to Tula.
- Oh right.
♪ Well the ancient
hoobs used flying pies ♪
♪ With a note written
in the pastry ♪
♪ As the messenger the
pigeon is the best by far ♪
♪ But the note
won't be as tasty ♪
♪ When you've a
message to deliver ♪
♪ That must get through ♪
♪ Then a pigeon is the
method that will do for you ♪
♪ If it's really important ♪
♪ And you know that it
oughtn't to be left too late ♪
♪ It just can't wait ♪
♪ Well I don't know
if you've heard ♪
♪ There is this amazing bird ♪
♪ That does all of
the proceeding ♪
♪ And will send you
a message speeding ♪
♪ North, south, east or west ♪
♪ Word is this
bird is the best ♪
♪ Well the ancient
hoobs used flying pies ♪
♪ With a note written
in the pastry ♪
♪ As a messenger the
pigeon is the best by far ♪
♪ But the note
won't be as tasty ♪
♪ I don't know if
you have noticed ♪
♪ But this way of delivering
post is exhausting ♪
♪ For a hoob dressed
in this style ♪
♪ I have made my last delivery ♪
♪ My arms have
gone all quivery ♪
♪ Besides I feel absurd ♪
♪ So let's give
the bird the word ♪
♪ Well the ancient
hoobs used flying pies ♪
♪ With a note written
in the pastry ♪
♪ As a messenger the
pigeon is the best by far ♪
♪ But the note
won't be as tasty ♪
- Using pigeons is a hoobly
groobly way of sending messages
to your friends
who live far away.
- But not too far away,
I feel like it's too tiring,
those poor pigeons.
- You're right.
Pigeons can take a message
further than a drum can
but not very far.
Surely someone will know
if there's a way
of sending messages
to a friend a long way away.
- Yes,
but who?
♪ Who, who, who, who, who ♪
♪ Who ♪
- [Roma] Roma, Roma
- Roma that's who.
- Hooble doop hoobs.
- [All] Hooble doop Roma.
- Hubba Hubba tells me
you're trying to find out
how peeps send messages.
Well I've found out about a
hoobacious way they do it.
- What's that big red
thing next to you Roma?
- Just wait a minute Groove
and I'll get to that.
- Right, sorry.
- That's all right now,
do you know what this is hoobs.
- Is it something to
do with the big thing?
- Yes Groove it is.
It's called an envelope.
When peeps want to send
letters to each other,
they put them in an envelope,
and then post them.
- Post them?
- Yes Iver.
To post your letter,
all you have to do is write
your friend's name and address
on the envelope and stick
a stamp in the corner,
like this.
- So what's the big
red thing for Roma?
- Oh I'm getting to that Groove.
Special peeps called postmen,
take your letter and deliver it
to whoever you've written it to.
Isn't that fantaby hooby.
- Yeah, and the big red thing?
- Oh yes, I almost forgot.
This big red thing
is called a post box.
Once your letter's ready
and in it's envelope,
all you have to do is
pop it into one of these.
- Oh what for?
- So that the postman
will know where to find it
of course.
Your letter usually
gets where it's going
the very next day.
Well unless it's going
to the North Pole,
then it might take a bit longer,
but it will get there.
- Oh posting letters
sounds hooby groovy.
- It certainly is Groove.
And now I'm going to post mine.
This is Roma Hoob
sending a letter,
hooble toodle doo.
- [All] Hooble toodle doo
- Oh hooby bother,
I can't reach.
I say has anybody got a ladder?
- Wow,
letters are so
hoobly groobly
and they can travel right
across the peep planet.
- Who are you sending
your letter to Tula?
- Just to a special friend,
just to say how
much a I love them.
- Oh, that's hoobacious
- Finished,
and there is a post
box right outside.
- So,
letters were invented
before the telephone.
I wonder how peeps got the
idea for the telephone Groove.
- Oh I don't know.
But it's not as good an
idea as the flying pie.
- [Hubba Hubba] Hubba
Hubba, Hubba Hubba.
- Oh it's Hubba Hubba
- Hooble doop hoobs.
- Hubba Hubba
- Yes?
- Do you know how the peeps
got the idea for the telephone?
- No Iver.
But I bet those tiddly
peeps will know.
- Hoobacious idea!
- I'll go.
- Groove, Groove,
you're dressed as a pigeon.
Why don't you drive me there?
Oh come on.
♪ We're off to see
the tiddly peeps ♪
♪ On the road we go ♪
♪ We're off to see
the tiddly peeps ♪
♪ They're smart,
they're fun, they know ♪
♪ The tiddly peeps,
the tiddly peeps ♪
♪ If we need to know ♪
♪ Who, what, where,
why, when and how ♪
♪ We'll ask them off we go ♪
♪ We're off to see
the tiddly peeps ♪
♪ Down the road we go ♪
♪ We're off to see
the tiddly peeps ♪
♪ They're smart,
they're fun, they know ♪
- Hooble doop tiddly peeps.
Tiddly peeps?
I wonder where they are?
Oh what's this tin doing here?
- [Kids] Hooble doop Iver
- Hooby ga-looby
there you are, hooble doop,
that's really strange I
just heard you in this tin.
- That's cause we're talking
to you through this tin.
- Oh I see, these two
tins are joined together
with a long piece of string.
Can you see that
Groove and Tula?
- [Groove & Tula] Yes
- The sound of your voice
goes along the string
when you pull it tightly.
So if you speak into this tin.
- You can hear our
voices in that tin.
- That's hoobaciously clever.
Well it even looks a
bit like a telephone.
- Children have been playing
with tins like this for ages
even before the telephones.
- Oh so tins and string
came before the telephone?
- Yes.
- Do you want to have a go Iver.
- Oh yes please.
- Pull the string tightly
- [Kids] Hooble doop Iver.
- Hooble doop tiddly peeps.
Well then that is amazing.
- Would you like to
take them back with you?
- Could I?
- Of course, we can
always make some more.
- Thanks tiddly peeps.
- Oh yes.
- Hooble toodle doo
- [Kids] Hooble toodle doo
- Hooble doop can
you hear me Iver?
- Yes I can.
I can.
Hooble doop Groove.
Isn't this a hoobacious way of
sending each other messages.
- It's hooby glooby.
- Oh!
Groove.
- Hubba Hubba, Hubba Hubba.
Well hoobs I didn't get
a chance to start you off
with something from hoobnet.
So why don't I finish
you off with something.
Take a peep at the way peeps
send each other
messages nowadays.
- Oh
- Now the peeps send messages
so many different ways.
They use computers
like us hoobs.
There's a telephone you see.
That's a laptop tiny computer.
That's a fax machine
and another computer.
There's a mobile phone you see,
and you can send
messages like that,
or you can use the
drums Groove just.
- Hooby ga-looby, peeps
have come such a long way
in such a short time.
- Yeah well that's
all very nice,
but nothing beats the
flying pie if you ask me.
- Forget the flying pie Groove,
it's time for Hoob News.
Come on quickly, into
the hooby studio.
- I'll be there soon.
There's just something
I need to do.
♪ I sent a letter to my love ♪
♪ And on the way I dropped it ♪
♪ One of you has picked it up ♪
♪ And put it in your pocket ♪
♪ Was it you, was it you ♪
♪ It was you ♪
♪ Your go Tootle ♪
♪ I sent a letter to my love ♪
♪ And on the way I dropped it ♪
♪ One of you has picked it up ♪
♪ And put it in your pocket ♪
♪ Was it you, was it you ♪
♪ It was you ♪
♪ Your go Twang ♪
♪ I sent a letter to my love ♪
♪ In case I went
and dropped it ♪
♪ And none of you
could pick it up ♪
♪ And put it in your pocket ♪
♪ Not you, not you ♪
♪ Not you ♪
- So you don't send
letters to your love?
- No
- What do you do then?
- I pick up the phone my dear,
I pick up the phone.
- We don't have a phone.
- [Hubba Hubba] Hubba
Hubba, Hubba Hubba
well hoobs, are you ready
to give me your Hoob News
for my great hoobapedia.
- We're ready Hubba Hubba.
- Then take it away.
- Hooble doop whoop to
all you hoobs out there.
Welcome to Hoob News,
the news show for
hoobs everywhere.
I'm Iver.
- I'm Tula
- And I'm Groove.
- And today we've been
asking the question,
- How did peeps send
messages before telephones?
- [Iver] First of
all some tiddly peeps
told us about how ancient peeps
sent messages by banging drums.
- [Tula] But then we saw
a story about a pigeon
who took messages from
one brother to another.
- [Iver] Then Roma told
us all about letters,
and how they can be sent
all over the peep planet.
- [Tula] So I tested this
out by sending a letter
to a special hoob friend.
- [Groove] Then the tiddly
peeps showed us two tins,
joined together by
a piece of string,
that looked like the early
idea for the telephone.
- [Tula] And Hubba
Hubba showed us
all the hooble dooble duper ways
that peeps send messages now.
- So a perfect peep,
into peep history.
- [All] Hoob, hoob, hooray.
- So it's thanks once again
to Iver, Tula, Groove and Roma.
For finding out about
how peeps send messages
and for giving us a
little peep into the world
of peeps.
And remember wherever you are,
have a nice day and
hooble, toodle doo!
- [All] Hooble, toodle doo!
- Well drums, and pigeons,
and phones and letters
are all very well,
but I don't think any
of them b*at the flying,
pie!
Hooby ga-looby,
and there's a
message on the top.
Eat me.
Ah, now that's what
I call a message.
- I made it myself
especially for you Groove.
- Oh thanks Tula.
- Um it looks hoobalicious.
You're very lucky Groove.
- Oh Iver don't be sad,
you're goona get a hoobly,
groobly treat tomorrow morning.
- Am I?
- Oh yes,
you're the special friend
I've posted the letter to.
- Saying how much you love me?
Oh,
Tula.
♪ Hubba Hubba's in Hoob Land ♪
♪ And Roma's
somewhere far away ♪
♪ Ooh! Ooh! Ooh ♪
♪ The Motorettes are singing ♪
♪ We keep the engine spinning ♪
♪ Hoob hoob horray ♪
♪ The Hoobmobile is
coming your way ♪
♪ Oh here we come ♪
♪ The hoobs are here
so what do you say ♪
♪ Hoobs ♪
03x17 - Messages
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It stars five creatures called Hoobs (Hubba Hubba, Iver, Groove, Tula, and Roma) from the fictional Hoobland, and their interactions with Earth and the human race.
It stars five creatures called Hoobs (Hubba Hubba, Iver, Groove, Tula, and Roma) from the fictional Hoobland, and their interactions with Earth and the human race.