(monitor whirs)
- Hoobledoop, tiddly peeps.
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.
(futuristic music)
♪ 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 Hoobland ♪
♪ And Roma's
somewhere far away ♪
♪ Ooo, ooo, ooo ♪
♪ The Motorettes are singing ♪
♪ We keep the engines spinning ♪
♪ Hoob-Hoob-Hooray ♪
♪ The Hoobmobile is
coming your way ♪
♪ Here we come ♪
♪ The Hoobs are here
so what do you say? ♪
♪ Hoobs ♪
(chilled music)
- Aren't clouds hoobacious?
- Hmm, yes Ivor, especially
when they're animals.
- What do you mean
when they're animals?
- Well, look.
That cloud up there
looks like a pig.
- Does it?
- Hmm.
- Looks like a cloud to me.
- Hey, look what I've got.
A tiddly peep gave me
this hooby, groovy book
with lots of animals in it.
- That's nice Groove.
D'you know, I'd rather look
at real pictures of animals
than tryna see
animals in the clouds.
- Yeah.
And I've found the most
hooby groovy animal ever.
Look Ivor, the tiddly peeps
told me that they're
called camels.
And the most hooby
groovy thing about them
is that they have these
humps on their backs, look.
- I can see one,
up in the clouds.
Look, it's got two humps.
- Ah?
Oh yes, thank you Tula.
- Now, some of
them have one hump
and some of them have two.
The ones with one hump
are called dromedaries.
Hooby groovy name, eh?
Dromedaries.
- Oh yes, Groove, yes.
- And they live in
the desert you see
and they walk all the
way across the sand...
- D'you know that's
very interesting Groove
but we haven't got
time for camels now.
We need a question
for Hoob News.
- I wonder what camels
use their hump for?
- Yes Groove,
they must use them for
something, but what?
♪ What ♪
♪ Oh what ♪
♪ What ♪
♪ Oh what, oh what ♪
- It doesn't matter what.
We're meant to be
thinking up a question,
not going on about why
do camels have humps.
- [Hubba Hubba] Hubba Hubba.
(mumbles)
- That is the question.
(yells)
(laughs)
- Now we've got to
find out about camels,
whether you like it or not.
Come on Tula.
- Why do camels have humps?
What a fantabihooby
question for Hoob News.
I am certain no Hoob in Hoobland
will have ever seen anything
like a camel before,
so it will be perfect
for my Hoobapedia.
I'll email Roma right away
and see if she can
find out about camels.
- Oh, especially the
hooby groovy humps.
- Oh yes, the humps.
Very, very, important.
And in the meantime, here's
a story a tiddly peep sent me
about some little aliens
on the planet Zarg.
(groans)
No idea what it has to
do with humps, Hoobs,
but see what you make of it.
(monitor whirs)
- [Narrator] Long ago,
if you had visited
the planet Zarg
you would have met
the caterpaliens.
They were long, thin creatures
with six little legs;
two at the front,
two in the middle
and two at the back of their
caterpillar-like bodies.
A big black cloud loomed
above the planet Zarg,
making it a dreary place to
live, even for caterpaliens.
They would spend the days
eating jiggly berries
off the jiggly creeper
that spread itself across
the dry Zargian ground.
But one day, the big
black cloud burst.
It rained and rained.
The planet Zarg got
greener and greener,
and the jiggly creeper
turned into a jiggly vine.
Up and up and up it grew.
The caterpaliens then realized
that they had a problem.
"How are we going to
get jiggly berries
now that they're
growing so high up?"
But Julian, the
chief, had an idea.
Very carefully he
raised himself up.
First, as high as he
could on six legs,
then on four legs, and
finally he stood right up
on his two back legs.
"I can reach."
And he reached for a berry
with one of his front legs.
From that day on,
the caterpaliens
learned to get about
on their two back legs.
And they used their
other legs as arms
to reach out for jiggly berries.
So if you were to
visit Zarg today,
you would meet the caterpaliens.
They are now tall,
thin creatures
with two little legs
and four long arms.
(monitor whirs)
- Oh, that was a
hoobacious story.
- Yes it was, but what's
it got to do with camels?
The caterpaliens were
on the planet Zarg,
nowhere near where camels live.
- But maybe that's the point.
- Eh?
- Maybe the story is something
to do with where camels live.
- Ah.
Well they live in the desert.
- So maybe a camel has a hump
because it has changed so
it can live in the desert.
- Oh, oh, like Julian changed
when the jiggly berries grew?
- Yes.
He changed from
walking on six legs
to walking on two when
he needed to be higher.
- So you think that
living in the desert
might have something to do with
why camels have grown humps?
- Yes.
- I can't think how.
- Hubba Hubba.
How are you getting on Hoobs?
- Well Tula thinks
that the humps
have something to
do with the camels
living in the desert,
but we're not sure what.
- Well as it happens, I've
been busy searching Hoobnet,
and I've come up with some
pictures of the desert.
Maybe they'll give
you a few clues.
(monitor whirs)
Now, it says here Hoobs,
that the deserts
are full of sand
but there's no water anywhere.
Ooh, they are rather
humpy though, aren't they?
A bit like the camels.
Perhaps the camels
live in the deserts
because the deserts are
humpy like the camels.
(chuckles)
- Yes I'm sure camels have humps
because they live in the desert.
- I'm sorry Tula,
but that idea makes
absohoobylutely no sense.
- You can't say
that, you don't know.
- Well I don't see
how hoobloads of sand
can possibly be connected
with big, hairy humps.
- But I bet it is.
- Hubba Hubba.
(monitor whirs)
Now now Hoobs, don't
have a hooby squabble.
Could I suggest that perhaps
a visit to the tiddly peeps
might be in order.
- Yes, Hubba Hubba.
We are rather in need of some
proper facts around here.
I'll go.
Come on Groove, you drive.
- Ivor.
(chuckles)
Bet I'm right.
You ask those tiddly peeps.
- Seat belts.
- [Both] We're off to
see the tiddly peeps.
(playful music)
♪ Yee haw ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ Help us find things out ♪
♪ They give us clues
they tell us news ♪
♪ That's what
they're all about ♪
(playful music)
♪ Yee hoo ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ Yoo hoo ♪
♪ 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 ♪
- Hoobledoop tiddly peeps.
- [Both] Hoobledoop Ivor.
- Do you want to
do a hooby hello?
- [Both] Yes please.
- [All] Hoobledoop,
hoobledoop, woop, woop, woop.
- Oh wow, that is a
hoobacious sandpit you've got.
And it's funny
because that's exactly
what I've come to ask you about.
- About sandpits?
- Well not sandpits
exactly, but sand.
And not only sand, camels too.
- What do you need
to know, Ivor?
- Well, we've been trying to
find out about them today.
So far we know that the
camels live in the desert,
and that the desert
is full of sand.
- Do you know about their feet?
- Their feet?
What about them?
- Camels feet are
a special shape
so that they can
walk on the sand.
Look, if I press a stick
on to the sand it sinks in.
- But this flat
thing stays on top.
Camels feet are flat like this.
- Oh, I see.
So because their feet are
flat, it makes it easier
for them to walk on the sand.
They don't sink in.
- That's right.
- And sometimes camels have
to walk a long, long way.
- But why's that?
- Because they are used
for carrying people and
things around in the desert.
- Hooby galooby, you know
so much about camels.
Well thanks for your
help tiddly peeps.
- That's okay, Ivor.
- Well I better be getting
back now, but thanks again.
Hooble-toodle-doo.
- [Both] Hooble-toodle-doo.
(laughs)
(playful music)
- Well I think I can say
I discovered some hoobacious
facts about camels there.
- Yes but didn't you forget
to ask about something, Ivor?
Something rather important?
- No I don't think so.
- Something lumpy and hairy,
something rather hooby groovy.
- What?
♪ What what what ♪
♪ What ♪
- [Both] The hump, that's what.
- Oh.
Oh, yes.
Oh, sorry.
But it was hoobaciously
interesting.
All that stuff about camels
carrying people and
things, and walking along.
- Ooh, hang on, hang on.
Maybe that's why
camels have humps.
They make it easier
to carry things.
- Of course.
Why don't we try it out.
- Yes, well that's what I had
in mind all along, of course.
- We could make Groove a hump
and then see if it
makes it easier.
- Me, why me?
- Because you're the one who
thinks humps are hooby groovy.
- It's not fair, it's always me.
- We could use this cushion.
- Yes, we could tie
it on to Groove.
- Okay, Tula.
But how?
♪ How ♪
♪ How how how ♪
♪ How ♪
♪ How how how ♪
♪ How how how how how ♪
- With the hooby
rope, that's how.
- It's not very comfy Tula.
- Well we'll start
with something little.
Bend over.
Ah, yes.
How's that?
- Oh that's fine.
That doesn't feel heavy at all.
- What about this bag then?
(chuckles)
- Hey, is that from
my things I can hang in my
closet cupboard collection?
- Well maybe you
should change it to
things I can hang on
my hump collection.
(chuckles)
- Right then.
(grunts)
Hey, you know I'm getting
to quite like this hump now.
It's hooby groovy, load away.
- Right Groove, you said it.
(grunts)
(yells)
- Now that is
really rather heavy.
I think I...
- Oh, Groove, are you all right?
- [Groove] Get off me.
- Sorry Groove, sorry.
- Nope, it's no good.
A hump doesn't help
you carry things,
it makes it worse.
Takes up all the
room on my back.
- [Roma] Roma.
- That's Roma.
I hope she's found
out something.
- Hoobledoop Hoobs.
- [All] Hoobledoop, Roma.
- Now Hoobs, as you see, I've
managed to get to the desert.
So far I've met
quite a few camels.
But I'm afraid they haven't
been all that friendly.
I've heard that if you
make a camel cross,
it'll actually spit at you.
- Ew.
- Ew, indeed Tula.
And to make it even worse,
the stuff they spit
at you is their cud.
That's all the chewed up
food they've been eating.
- Oh.
What do they eat, Roma?
- Well, funnily enough Ivor,
that's a rather fantabihooby
thing about a camel.
Their mouth and
lips are so tough
that they can eat
the twigs and leaves
from the sharpest, thorniest
bushes in the desert,
and it doesn't hurt.
Isn't that hoobaciously clever?
- It doesn't sound
like much fun though.
- No Groove, but it's
one reason why camels
are able to live here.
Sometimes camels have
to travel a long way
to find any bushes at all,
as usually they only grow
at a place called an oasis.
And these oases
are very far apart.
- Hooby galooby.
No wonder camels get cross.
I wouldn't like it if my hooby
bun was sharp and thorny,
and I had to travel
for miles to get it.
- Ah, hang on a moment Hoobs,
I think I may have
annoyed one of the camels.
I can see a rather cross
one heading this way.
- Oh on Roma, what
are you going to do?
- Well Tula, if I don't want
to get covered in green goo
I think I'd better be
saying hooble-toodle-doo.
So, hooble-toodle-doo.
- [All] Hooble-toodle-doo.
- Hooby galooby, green goo.
They spit green goo.
(draws spit)
- Groove, no spitting
in the Hoobmobile.
- I'm only joking Ivor.
D'you know camels get more
hooby groovy by the minute.
- Hmm, I'm not sure Roma
would agree with you Groove.
- They may be hooby groovy,
but we're still no
nearer the answer.
We still don't know
why camels have humps
and it's nearly
time for Hoob News.
- Hubba Hubba.
(monitor whirs)
Guess what Hoobs?
I've been having another look
on Hoobnet, and I've found out
that camels are often
called ships of the desert.
- Ships of the desert?
Why?
- Because they carry large loads
and have a rolling walk,
like this, you see.
(laughs)
So if you sit on top of a camel,
it feels like you're
on a ship, you see.
(chuckles)
Isn't that hoobledoobleduper.
- Yes it is, Hubba Hubba.
(laughs)
But it doesn't help
us with the answer.
- Well no Groove,
but it's a fantabihooby
fact, just the same.
- Oh yes, Hubba Hubba,
it certainly is.
(chuckles)
Oh, the ship of the desert.
(chuckles)
Hoobacious.
♪ They call him the
ship of the desert ♪
♪ 'Cos he rolls around
like a boat on the sea ♪
♪ This fascinating mammal
with a hump is a camel ♪
♪ But we don't know
what the hump can be ♪
♪ His feet go thump,
thump, thump in the sand ♪
♪ But why the hump ♪
♪ We don't understand ♪
♪ It doesn't help
him carry things ♪
♪ It's not really to ride on ♪
♪ The answer is
tricky to decide on ♪
♪ They call him the
ship of the desert ♪
♪ 'Cos he rolls around
like a boat on the sea ♪
♪ This fascinating mammal
with a hump is a camel ♪
♪ But we don't know
what the hump can be ♪
♪ You'll find him at an oasis ♪
♪ Eating some spiky
thorns in a clump ♪
♪ He has rubbery
lips and he spits ♪
♪ He spits and he gets
in quite a grump ♪
♪ And what is that hump ♪
♪ Hump humpity hump ♪
♪ Yes what's the
point of that hump ♪
♪ They call him the
ship of the desert ♪
♪ 'Cos he rolls around
like a boat on the sea ♪
♪ This fascinating mammal
with a hump is a camel ♪
♪ But we don't know
what the hump can be ♪
♪ No we don't know
what the hump can be ♪
♪ The hump can be ♪
Oh dear, this is proving
to be very difficult.
- Hubba Hubba.
Hump, hump, humpity, hump.
Oh, Hoobs I am enjoying this.
- Yeah, me too Hubba Hubba,
but we still don't know
what those humps are for.
- Well, as the tiddly peeps
knew all about camels feet
you could go and ask
them about the humps now.
- Yes Hubba Hubba,
hoobacious idea.
- And Ivor...
- Hmm.
- Try to remember this time.
- Yeah.
- Oh yes, of course I will, yes.
(chuckles)
Hump, hump, humpity, hump.
- I'll drive so I can
remind you all the way.
(laughs)
Hump, hump, humpity, hump.
- [All] Hump, hump,
humpity, hump.
Hump, hump, humpity, hump.
(playful music)
♪ Yee haw ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ Well ask them off we go ♪
♪ Yoo hoo ♪
♪ 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 ♪
- Hoobledoop, tiddly peeps.
- [Both] Hoobledoop, Ivor.
- Oh, you're packing your bags,
I'm sorry to interrupt you.
- It's okay Ivor,
how can we help you?
- Well we are trying to
find out about camels.
We know that they
live in the desert,
and we know what they eat,
and we know they have to
go a long way to find food,
but we just can't seem to
find out about their hump.
- Well the hump's got something
to do with all those things.
- Really?
- Yes.
You see, my mum made us
these packed lunches.
- A packed lunch.
Ah, now, that's a lunch you
can take with you, isn't it?
- Yes, and that's what's
in the camels hump.
- What, a packed lunch?
- Well, sort of.
- The camel has to carry some
food with it on long journeys.
- You mean a camel carries
its food in its hump?
- A kind of food.
It turns food and water into
fats, and keeps it in its hump.
- Hooby galooby.
So a camels hump helps
it to live in the desert?
- That's right.
- That means Groove
was right all along.
A camels hump is hooby groovy.
Thanks so much for
your help tiddly peeps.
I'd better be getting back now.
Hooble-toodle-doo.
- [Both] Hooble-toodle-doo.
(chuckles)
(playful music)
- I just knew that the hump
had something to do with
the place camels live.
- You're a hooby
groovy Hoob, Tula.
- Humpity hump, hoobacious.
Everything is sorted.
- Although if you
hadn't forgotten
to ask the tiddly
peeps about humps
in the first place, Ivor,
we'd have found the
answer much, much, sooner.
- Yes, yes, I know.
Sorry.
You're right, Tula.
Silly me.
- Oh, I'm glad you
forgot, Ivor, or otherwise
we wouldn't have learned all
the other hooby groovy things
about camels, like the spitting.
- No, Groove, no, don't
even thing about it.
Come on then, it's
time for Hoob News.
- [All] Hump, hump,
humpity, hump.
Hump, hump, humpity, hump.
(exotic music)
♪ Who can live in
a desert land ♪
♪ The desert land
all covered in sand ♪
♪ Who can live in
a desert land ♪
♪ The camel can ♪
♪ Who can walk in
the desert land ♪
♪ The desert land
all covered in sand ♪
♪ Who can walk in
the desert land ♪
♪ The camel can ♪
♪ Yes the camel can ♪
♪ Who stays cool in
the desert land ♪
♪ The desert land
all covered in sand ♪
♪ Who stays cool in
the desert land ♪
♪ The camel can ♪
♪ Yes the camel can ♪
♪ The camel can ♪
- 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.
- Hoobledoop, woo, to
all you Hoobs out there.
Welcome to Hoob News, the news
show for Hoobs everywhere.
I'm Ivor.
- I'm Tula.
- And I'm Groove.
- And today we've been
asking the question...
- Why do camels have humps?
- [Ivor] Hubba Hubba sent
us a hoobacious story
about a little caterpalien.
He lived on the planet Zarg.
He had to change when
all about him changed.
- [Tula] And I started wondering
whether camels' humps
were something to do
with where they lived.
- [Ivor] Of course,
camels live in the desert.
The tiddly peeps told me
all about the camel's
amazing flat feet
that don't sink into the sand.
- We also discovered
that camels are used
for carrying people and things
long distances
across the desert.
- [Ivor] So we
made Groove a hump
to see if it made
the job easier.
- [Groove] But it didn't.
- [Ivor] Then Roma told us
that camels have
thick rubbery lips
so that they can eat
the dry, thorny bushes
that grow in the desert.
- [Tula] And sometimes,
camels have to travel
miles to find them.
- [Groove] She also told us
about the hooby groovy green
goo that camels spit at you.
- [Ivor] Then I went
back to the tiddly peeps
and they told me all about
why camels have humps.
- [Tula] And the answer is...
- To store fat in
so that the camel last all
the way across the desert.
- How extraordinary.
You store fat in your
tummy, don't you Groove?
- Yeah.
If I were a camel then I would
have the biggest hump of all.
(laughing)
- I bet you would too.
So it's thanks once again
to Ivor, Tula, Groove
and Roma, for giving
Hoobs everywhere
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.
- Oh, I wonder if that
hoobly groobly camel cloud
is still up in the sky?
- Oh well let's go and see.
Are you coming, Ivor?
- Yes, I think I will.
I deserve a bit of a lie down.
- Come on then.
Hump, hump, humpity, hump.
- [All] Hump, hump,
humpity, hump.
♪ Hubba Hubba's in Hoobland ♪
♪ And Roma's
somewhere far away ♪
♪ Ooo ooo ooo ♪
♪ The Motorettes are singing ♪
♪ We keep the engine spinning ♪
♪ Hoob-Hoob-Hooray ♪
♪ The Hoobmobile is
coming your way ♪
♪ Here we come ♪
♪ The Hoobs are here
so what do you say ♪
♪ Hoobs ♪
03x56 - Camel
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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.