(laser sh**ting)
- Hooble-doo, Tiddlypeeps.
I'm Hubba Hubba, talking
to you from Hoobland,
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!
(laser sh**ting)
(machine beeping)
(upbeat music)
♪ You know who the Hoobs are ♪
- Iver!
- Groove!
- And Tula!
- [All] 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 ♪
- Yay!
♪ Hubba Hubba's in Hoobland ♪
♪ And Roma's
somewhere far away ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ The Motorettes are singing ♪
♪ We keep the engine spinning ♪
♪ Hoob Hoob Hooray! ♪
♪ The Hoobmobile is
coming your way ♪
(laughs)
- Whoa, hey
- Oh!
♪ The Hoobs are here,
so what do you say ♪
♪ Hoobs! ♪
(upbeat instrumental music)
- Oh, the Hoobmobile
has never looked so,
Hoobily groobily, look at it!
It is sparkling.
- (breathes out) Yeah, and
so's my hooby groovy apple.
How green and shiny is that?
- [Tula] It almost looks
too good to eat! (laughs)
- Hey, Tula, you've
given me an idea!
- What?
- I won't eat it!
I'll start a collection
of green and shiny things.
- Oh Groove!
Did you say, green
and shiny things?
- Yes I did say green
and shiny things.
- Well I have just seen
the most hoobacious,
green, shiny thing jumping
into our pond on the
Hooby roof garden.
- Was it an apple?
- No!
It was a frog!
A green, shiny frog!
- A green and shiny frog?
That's great, I can put
him in my collection
of green and shiny things.
- Oh, no Groove, frogs
need to be in ponds,
not collections!
- Oh.
- Anyway, he jumped so high.
Oh frogs are
hooble-dooble-duper jumpers!
- I wonder why that is.
- Yes, why are frogs
so good at jumping?
- [Machine] Hubba, hubba.
Hubba, hubba,
hubba, hubba, hubba
- Why are frogs so
good at jumping?
That's an
hooble-dooble-duper question
for today's Hoob News.
- Hoob News!
Oh, Hubba Hubba, I'm so sorry,
I nearly forgot about Hoob News.
I was so impressed
with that frog.
- I'm sure Hoobs everywhere
would be impressed
with that frog, Iver.
Especially if you can find out
why he's so good at jumping!
It's fantabyhooby information
for my Hoobipedia!
Now, let me see if I can
find anything on HoobNet
to get you started.
(machine chimes)
Now, frogs.
Ah!
Ah, here you go!
(machine whirs)
(lighthearted music)
Oh look!
It's a tiny stripey one,
look at that.
Oh, it's a great big one,
(frog croaks)
blowing out his cheeks!
He's off!
Ooh, tiny little orange one.
Oh, little one on a leaf!
(frog croaks)
Oh, hooble-doop!
He's watching and waiting.
There's another one
between some rocks!
Ooh, he's jumped.
Ooh, look there's one
watching from underwater.
Oh, he's eaten a fly!
Oh, oh now he's jumping!
Oh, (laughs).
(machine whirs)
- I never knew there were
so many kinds of frogs!
- And they certainly are
hoobily groobily jumpers!
- Mm, the question
still is though, why?
♪ Why why why why ♪
♪ Why why why ♪
Ah, I just had an idea.
- Mhm?
- One of those frogs
we saw, ate a fly.
- Yeah, frogs obviously eat
flies for their dinner, blegh.
- So?
- Well maybe that's why
frogs are so good at jumping!
- Yeah!
(laughs)
- I don't understand!
- Neither do I.
- I'll explain, I think
we should do a test.
- How can we do a
test without a frog?
- We don't need a frog.
Tula, you pretend to be a fly.
(imitates fly buzzing)
(laughs)
Now, Groove,
- Yes?
- You have to
pretend to be a frog!
- Okay!
Boing, boing,
(Tula laughs)
boing, boing, boing!
Boing, boing, boing,
boing, boing, boing.
- No, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait stop!
- What?
Not a whole frog!
Just a frog's tummy.
- Let me get this straight,
you want me to pretend
to be a frog's tummy?
- Yeah, simple!
Hold your arms out like this!
Now that space there
is the frog's tummy.
- Oh, I see.
- Tula, get in.
Good, good.
We now have a fly inside a frog.
All you have to do now,
Tula, is buzz about.
(laughs)
(imitates fly buzzing)
- I can't move.
There isn't enough room in
here for me to buzz about!
(imitates fly buzzing)
(Tula laughs)
- Hmm, I see.
So there is not room
in a frog's tummy
for a fly to buzz.
- Which means,
that a buzzing fly can't be
the reason why frogs jump!
- Oh, hooby bother
and hooby blow!
- Um, Groove,
- Yeah?
- Can you let me out now?
- Oh sorry.
(imitates fly buzzing)
(laughs)
- Oh!
I've had a hoobacious idea.
- Another one?
You're full of hoobacious
ideas today, Iver.
Oh, do I have to be a fly again?
(imitates fly buzzing)
- No, Tula no, listen.
If a frog eats an enormous
fly for his dinner,
then maybe his enormous dinner
gives him lots of energy
and makes him jump!
- (laughs) Hoobygalooby,
that must be it, Iver!
- We need to test it out!
- Yes!
But how?
(upbeat music)
♪ How, how, how ♪
♪ How, how, how ♪
♪ How, how, how, how ♪
♪ How ♪
- I know how!
We eat an enormous
dinner like a frog,
and see if it makes
us want to jump.
- No, you won't catch
me eating a fly, Tula.
Blegh.
- No, Groove, we don't
eat a frog dinner,
we eat a Hoob dinner.
Hoob nips, Hoob nips,
and more Hoob nips.
- Oh, Tula,
that is the hooby grooviest
thing you've suggested all day!
(laughs)
(chews)
(upbeat music)
(munches)
(munches)
(burps)
(munches)
- Oh, who feels like jumping?
- Oh.
(snores)
- How 'bout you, Groove?
(snores)
Groove?
I think we can safely say
that eating a big dinner
doesn't make Hoobs want to jump.
- No, it makes
Hoobs want to sleep.
- [Machine] Hubba, hubba.
Hubba, hubba,
hubba, hubba, hubba
- Hooble doop, Hoobs!
- We still have no idea
why frogs are so good
at jumping, Hubba Hubba.
- Eh, well perhaps
Roma might know.
You keep thinking, and I'll
see if I can find her for you.
(machine whirs)
I'll be back soon!
(machine whirs)
- Now, I've been thinking
about those frogs
that sit on lily pads.
(whimsical music)
- Oh yes, I'm going
to make some lily pads
to decorate the Hoob
studio for Hoob News!
- Now wait, wait a minute Tula,
frogs sit on lily pads, right?
- Right.
- And how do they get
from lily pad to lily pad?
- (laughs) They jump!
- Exactly!
(laughs)
Well, that is why frogs
are so good at jumping!
It's the only way they can
get from lily pad to lily pad!
- Iver, you're right!
You just have to be right!
- (laughs) Oh, here's Roma!
Let's see if she
thinks I'm right.
(machine whirs)
- Hooble doo, Hoobs!
(frogs croak)
I've got an email from
Hubba Hubba earlier,
asking me to find
out about frogs.
Now, as you can see,
I'm standing by a pond.
There are hoob loads of
lily pads in this pond,
and hoob loads of frogs too.
- Yes, Roma, and don't tell me!
The frogs jump from one lily
pad to another lily pad!
- They certainly do, Iver!
But that's not the
only way they get
from lily pad to lily pad,
they are excellent jumpers,
but they're fantabyhooby
swimmers too!
- So you mean that they swim
from lily pad to
lily pad too, Roma?
- They most certainly do!
Look at them,
(Tula laughs)
just look at them go!
Hoobygalooby!
Oh, I'd love to
swim like a frog!
But swimming would
mean getting wet,
so perhaps I'll
just try to learn
to jump like a frog instead.
Boing, boing, boing.
Oh, yes, this is fantabyhooby!
This is Roma Hoob,
jumping like a frog!
Boing, boing,
(water splashes)
(machine whirs)
- Oh dear.
So much for my idea about frogs
being good at jumping so
they can jump from
lily pad to lily pad.
- Hm, they can swim as well.
- Do you know something Tula?
I'm not sure we're ever going
find the answer to this one.
- [Machine] Hubba, Hubba.
- Of course you'll
find the answer, Iver.
I've just been speaking to
the Hoobs on the planet With,
and guess what?
They're trying to grow
a ponglewiggle fruit!
They've got the pong parts,
now they're just looking
for the wiggle!
(Hoobs laugh)
Now listen, I have
a hooble duper idea!
- What?
- Start up the Hoob mobile,
and go and find
some Tiddlypeeps.
They're bound to know
everything there is
to know about frogs.
- Of course!
The Tiddlypeeps!
Oh yes, thank you, Hubba Hubba!
I'll go and see the Tiddlypeeps.
- And I'll drive
the Hoob mobile!
- I'll finish off my lily pads!
(whimsical music)
- Seatbelts!
(seatbelt clicks)
- We're off to see
the Tiddlypeeps!
(bell chimes)
(upbeat music)
- Yee-haw!
♪ We're off to see
the Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ On the road we go ♪
♪ We're off to see
the Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ They're smart ♪
♪ They're fun ♪
They know
♪ The Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ Help us find things out ♪
♪ They give us clues ♪
♪ They tell us news ♪
♪ That's what
they're all about ♪
(laughs)
- Yee-haw!
♪ The Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ If we need to know ♪
♪ Who, what, where,
when, and how ♪
♪ We'll ask them ♪
♪ Off we go ♪
(boing)
- Yee-haw!
♪ We're off to see
the Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ On the road we go ♪
♪ We're off to see
the Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ They're smart,
they're fun, they know ♪
♪ And how they know, whoo ♪
(bubble pops)
- Hooble doop, everyone!
- It's Iver!
Hello Iver!
- Want to do a Hooby hello?
- Yes!
- Hooble doop, hooble
doop, whoo, whoo, whoo!
Oh, it's hoobacious
to see you all!
I want to ask you about frogs.
- They're green!
- Some are little
and some are big!
- They swim and they jump!
- Yes, thank you, thank you.
But what I really
want to know is,
- Ribbit!
- Oh!
- Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.
- What was that?
- That's the noise
that frogs make.
- That noise made
me jump! (laughs)
Maybe that's what
makes a frog jump!
His ribbit. (laughs)
Of course!
That's the answer!
Oh, thank you very much!
Thank you!
Uh, hooble toodle-doo!
- Hooble toodle-doo!
(laughs)
(upbeat music)
- How hooby groovy was that?
- Very hooby groovy
indeed, Groove.
- Ribbit, ribbit.
- Did you hear that croak?
- Yeah!
- Ribbit, ribbit!
(laughs)
I nearly jumped out of my fur!
We have found the
answer at last!
Frogs jump because
they go ribbit!
- And their ribbit
makes them jump.
- Boing.
(upbeat music)
♪ Oh, green and spotty frog ♪
♪ We love to see you jump ♪
♪ From lily pad to lily pad ♪
♪ Landing with a bump ♪
♪ Why do you do it ♪
♪ If only we knew it ♪
♪ Why does a little frog ♪
♪ Go jump, jump, jump ♪
♪ We thought he jumped so high ♪
♪ After swallowing a fly ♪
♪ That wiggled and jiggled ♪
♪ In your tum tum tum ♪
♪ But that's not right at all ♪
♪ Inside the frog's too small ♪
♪ For a little fly to have any ♪
♪ Fun, fun, fun ♪
♪ But now we know why ♪
♪ You can jump so high ♪
♪ And land on the
lily with a thump ♪
♪ It isn't a joke ♪
♪ Ribbit, ribbit ♪
♪ It's because of your croak ♪
♪ Ribbit, ribbit ♪
♪ It's the croak of a frog that
makes him jump, jump, jump ♪
♪ Ribbit ♪
♪ Croak, jump ♪
♪ Croak, ribbit, croak, ribbit ♪
♪ Croak, jump, croak, jump ♪
♪ Jump, jump, jump ♪
♪ Ribbit, jump ♪
(laughs)
- Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Something's wrong here.
- What do you mean?
- You say that when
a frog goes ribbit,
he gives himself a shock.
And that makes him jump.
- Exactly!
- Let me try it and
see if makes me jump.
Ready?
- Yep.
- Ribbit, ooh, I
didn't jump, did I?
- But we did.
- Yes.
- Yes, but I did the ribbit.
If you make the ribbit yourself,
it doesn't make you jump.
- Ooh, I tell you
what, let me try.
Let me try.
(sniffs) I'm going
to make a big noise,
see if it works with that.
Boo!
- Oh!
(laughs)
- See, if you make
the noise yourself,
whatever noise it is, it
doesn't make you jump.
So a frog's ribbit
does not make him jump,
because he makes
the noise himself.
- Someone must know why a
frog is so good at jumping.
But who?
(dramatic music)
♪ Who, who, who ♪
♪ Who, who, who ♪
♪ Who, who, who, who, who ♪
♪ Who, who ♪
- Look no further, Hoobs!
A Tiddlypeep has sent
in a story to HoobNet,
which I think might help
you find your answer.
(machine whirs)
It's all about legs.
(machine whirs)
(upbeat music)
- [Kid] Gerald the giraffe
had the most beautiful,
long, strong neck.
And the most beautiful,
long, strong legs.
He could reach things
that the other animals could
only dream of reaching.
When Gloria gazelle's
ribbon blew off her horns
and landed on a high branch,
Gerald got it back for her.
When Roger rhino's bowtie
was stolen by Molly monkey,
and hid it in a nest,
Gerald reached up,
and gave it back to Roger.
Gerald didn't have
a bow tie or ribbon,
in fact, he didn't have anything
to wear to make him feel
more handsome and gorgeous.
Then, one day, a beautiful
purple feather floated down
from the sky, and landed
on the topmost branch
of Gerald's favorite tree.
- [Girl] That would be
the most perfect thing
to wear behind my left ear.
- [Kid] Said Gerald, he
reached up to get it,
but it was too high up.
Too high up, even for Gerald!
(dramatic piano)
Jump Gerald!
Cried Gloria the gazelle.
Yes, go on Gerald, jump!
Shouted Roger the rhino.
Gerald tried to jump,
but although his legs
were long and strong,
he just couldn't do it.
At that moment, Wilma the
weaver bird poked her head
out of her nest.
I may only be little,
but even a little bird
can help a big giraffe
with long strong legs!
And without another word,
she flew up to the
top of the tree,
picked up the purple
feather in her beak,
and handed it to Gerald.
Gerald was so happy.
He put it behind his
left ear and chuckled.
- [Girl] These legs
may be long and strong,
but they just weren't
made for jumping.
(machine whirs)
- Gerald the giraffe's legs
weren't made for jumping,
but a frog's legs are.
- Yeah, so what's so
special about a frog's legs?
- Well, they're long!
- But Gerald's legs were long.
- Yeah, and Gerald
couldn't jump.
- All right then,
they're strong.
- But Gerald's legs were strong!
- Yeah, and Gerald
- couldn't jump.
- I've got it!
Listen, a frog's legs
right, are long and strong.
And slippery and shiny.
But a giraffe's legs
are long and strong,
but rough and hairy. (laughs)
- I don't think that just
because they're slippery
and shiny means that
they're good for jumping.
Oh, hooby bother.
- [Machine] Hubba, Hubba.
- Cheer up, Hoobs.
Why don't you go and ask
some more Tiddlypeeps,
they knew about a frog's ribbit.
They're sure to know
what's so special
about a frog's legs.
- I'd forgotten about the
ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.
- You're right, Hubba Hubba!
- I'll go and see
the Tiddlypeeps.
- And I'll drive!
Get ready to wake up and
sing, little Motorettes!
- Let's get this Hoob
mobile on the road!
(laughs)
(upbeat music)
- Yeah, and I'll stay right here
and practice my
ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.
Ribbit, ribbit.
(bell chimes)
(upbeat music)
- Yee-haw
♪ We're off to see
the Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ On the road we go ♪
♪ We're off to see
the Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ They're smart,
they're fun, they know ♪
♪ The Tiddlypeeps,
the Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ 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 Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ On the road we go ♪
♪ We're off to see
the Tiddlypeeps ♪
♪ They're smart,
they're fun, they know ♪
(bubble pops)
- Hooble doop, everyone!
- Hooble doop, Tula!
- Now, I hope very
much you can help me.
I need to know what
kind of legs you need
to jump like a frog.
- Long legs!
- Yes.
- Bendy legs!
Really, really bendy legs!
- What do you mean,
really really bendy legs?
- Bendy legs, like a kangaroo!
- Bendy legs like a rabbit.
- Bendy legs.
Really really bendy
legs like ours.
- So, let me get this straight,
kangaroos, jump like a frog?
- [Children] Yes!
- Do rabbits jump like a frog?
- [Children] Yes!
- So frogs are really
good at jumping
because they've got
really, really bendy legs!
- [Children] Yes!
(upbeat music)
(feet stomping)
- Hoobygalooby!
Groove, Iver, did you see that?
- Yes.
- We certainly have
the answer now.
Thank you so much!
Hooble toodle doo!
- Hooble toodle doo!
(upbeat music)
- Bendy legs!
That's what's so special
about our frog's legs.
- Yeah.
That's what makes him
such a hoobacious jumper!
Yeah.
- There you are!
The Tiddlypeeps had the answer!
- They did, Tula, but I think
we should test this out.
Let's try jumping
without bending our legs.
- Oh yeah.
- Ow!
(Groove coughs)
- Impossible.
- Yeah, doesn't work.
- All right, all right,
let's try bending
our legs and jumping.
- Yeah.
Oh, hey!
Yes!
- Hoob hoob hooray!
- Time for Hoob News, come on!
Into the Hoobie studio!
(laughs)
(upbeat music)
♪ A frog he would a wooing go ♪
♪ Hey who's the groly? ♪
♪ A frog he would a woo and go ♪
♪ Whether his lover
would let him or no ♪
♪ With a rolly polly ♪
♪ Gamon and spinach and ho ♪
♪ Say that and he rolly ♪
- Hey, shall we
do it another way?
- Oh yes, I'm all for
doing it another way.
- Mm, me too!
♪ A frog he would a jumper be ♪
♪ Hey ho sings toodle ♪
♪ A frog he would a jumper be ♪
♪ He did it by bending
his shiny green knee ♪
♪ With a jumpity hoppity
gamon and spinach ♪
♪ Hey ho, sing jumpity toodle ♪
(kiss smacks)
- [Machine] Hubba,
Hubba, Hubba, Hubba.
- Well Hoobs, are you
ready to give me your news
for my Hoobipedia?
- We are!
- Ready Hubba.
- Well, take it away!
(upbeat music)
- Hooble doop!
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 a question.
- Why are frogs so
good at jumping?
(frog croaks)
- [Iver] Hubba Hubba
found us some pictures
of frogs on HoobNet, and we
saw one of them eating a fly!
So we thought that maybe
it was the fly wriggling
inside the frog's tummy
that made him jump.
- [Groove] So I pretended
to be a frog's tummy.
- [Tula] And I
pretended to be a fly.
I can't move.
But there wasn't any
room for wriggling.
So we realized that
that couldn't be what
made a frog jump.
- [Iver] So then we thought
that perhaps the frog's dinner
had given him so much energy
that he just had to jump.
(munching)
- [Tula] So we ate an
enormous Hoob dinner
to test this out!
(burps)
- [Groove] But an enormous
dinner didn't make us want
to jump at all.
- [Iver] Then I had
a hoobacious idea.
Maybe frogs are such
good jumpers because
they have to jump
from lily pad to lily pad.
Roma told us that this
was certainly true.
- [Groove] Then Iver went
to see the Tiddlypeeps
to find out if they
knew about frogs.
- [Tula] And the Tiddlypeeps
gave Iver quite a fright.
- Ribbit!
(screams)
- [Tula] So then we decided
that it was the frog's croak
that made him jump.
And we sang about it.
♪ Jump, jump, jump ♪
♪ Ribbit ♪
♪ Jump ♪
- But then I thought,
we should test out
making a loud ribbit
to see if it made me jump,
it didn't.
- [Iver] Just when
we were giving up,
Hubba Hubba found us a
Tiddlypeep story on HoobNet
about legs, we found out
that giraffes have long,
strong legs, but...
- [Kid] These legs may
be long and strong,
but they just weren't
made for jumping.
- [Tula] The story made us think
that there must be
something really special
about a frog's legs.
- [Groove] So, Tula went
to see the Tiddlypeeps.
- I need to know what
kind of legs you need
to jump like frog.
- Bendy legs!
- So yet again, the
Tiddlypeeps gave us the answer.
Frogs are good at jumping
because they have...
- Bendy legs!
- Boing.
(laughs)
- As always thanks once
again to Iver, Tula, Groove,
and Roma, for giving
us all a little peep
into the world of Peeps.
And remember, wherever
you are, have a nice day
and hooble toodle doo!
- Hooble toodle doo!
- Boing, boing,
boing, boing! (laughs)
- Now then, what did
I do with that apple?
- Ribbit!
- (screams) Oh!
(laughs)
- Ribbit, ribbit.
♪ Hubba hubba ♪
♪ In Hoobland ♪
♪ And Roma's
somewhere far away ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ The Motorettes are singing ♪
♪ We keep the engine spinning ♪
♪ Hoob hoob hooray ♪
(upbeat music)
♪ The Hoobmobile is
coming your way ♪
- Hey, hey!
- Oh!
♪ The Hoobs are here
so what do you say ♪
♪ Hoobs! ♪
01x12 - Frogs
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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.