- Hooble-doop, 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 Hoobopaedia.
Here they come!
("The Hoobs Opening Theme")
♪ You know who the Hoobs are ♪
- Iver!
- Groove!
- And Tula!
- We're Hoobs!
♪ And they're ready to go ♪
- Hey!
♪ Now the wheels are turning
we can all get learning ♪
♪ All the things
we want to know ♪
- Hey!
♪ 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 ♪
- Oh, here we come!
- Hey!
- Ah!
♪ The Hoobs are here
so what do you say ♪
♪ Hoobs ♪
(happy music)
- One for Tula, one for Iver,
and one for me. (laughs)
Oh, ah ah ah ah ah.
Iver, Tula, hurry up!
The Tiddlypeeps baked
these buns to eat!
Not to look at.
- Coming!
- Coming!
- I thought they said
they were coming.
(scoffs) Coming means
you're on your way.
Oh, I can't wait any longer.
I'll just eat mine.
- [Iver] Don't you eat any of
those buns without us, Groove.
- [Groove] Oh, I mustn't
eat the others, I mustn't.
No, must not eat the other buns.
I must not eat the other buns.
Oh, maybe just a
little, no, no, no, no!
I must not eat the other buns.
- Well I think
that's everything.
- Tula, hurry up, please!
- I am just getting
some napkins.
- Oh, why?
♪ Why ♪
♪ Oh why ♪
♪ Why ♪
- To catch the
crumbs, that's why.
- To catch the-- (groans)
(scoffing)
Do you have any idea
how difficult it is
to sit and stare at
Tiddlypeep buns, hm?
- Yes, I'm sure it is, Groove.
- Well, I just couldn't
manage it, I had to have one.
- I've got the napkins
for the-- (gasps)
Crumbs!
- Crumbs!
Oh, Groove, how could you?
- What?
It wasn't me, I only
ate the... (groans)
- You were saying?
- Oh, I've got this terrible
itch and it seems to--
- Before the itch.
- You only ate how many?
- One.
- So, Groove, if
you didn't eat them,
what has happened to
the Tiddlypeep buns?
(echoing voices)
- That's Hubba Hubba!
We've hit the question.
- Oh, the question, yes.
Quick, downstairs.
Careful.
- Crumbs.
- What has happened to
the Tiddlypeep buns?
Hooble-dooble-duper
question, Iver.
- Groove insists
he didn't eat them,
but they couldn't have
vanished all on their own,
buns don't walk.
- Maybe something
carried them away.
- Ah, yes, Groove.
- Something like what?
Your Hooby paw, perhaps?
- What?
- Or something
like this, perhaps.
Take a look at what
I found on Hoobnet.
(electrical noises)
Now you see, the wind carries
things away, Hoobs. (exclaims)
Look, the lady Peep's
hat got blown off.
It's carrying away
that plastic bag.
Blowing the balloon around,
and the leaf off the tree.
Blowing the plants and flowers,
and look, it's lifting
up all those feathers.
You see, the wind lifts things
up and carries them off,
just like that lady
Peep's hat. (laughs)
Ooh, and she's lost her
balloon as well. (laughs)
The mischievous wind.
- I don't think it was the wind.
- Oh?
- And why not?
- Well, I didn't feel
any wind up there.
The only thing I
felt was this itch.
- Hmm, well I think
only a very strong wind
could've carried the buns away.
- Well, there's only one
possible answer, then.
Someone must've eaten them.
- (groans) Well it wasn't me.
Honest!
- Then who?
- Then who?
♪ Who who who ♪
♪ Who who ♪
♪ Who who who who who ♪
♪ Who who who who ♪
♪ Who who who ♪
- I might know who.
- Oh really, Hubba Hubba?
- Yes, I found this
story on Hoobnet
and I think it'll
give us a clue.
Oh, Groove, you've
got me at it now.
(fun music)
- [Narrator] Long ago, when
the hippopotamus was skinny,
the tiger was friendly,
and the elephant had
a short, stubby trunk
that made a funny
parping sound like this:
(squeaking)
- Heh, parp!
- [Narrator] The animals
lived together as friends
and the jungle
was a happy place.
There was one problem,
and that was the delicious
smell of baking buns
that would drift out
of the village homes.
- Oh, how I'd love to taste
those delicious-smelling buns.
- Well, I'm the largest
animal in the jungle,
why don't I reach up through
the window and get some?
- [Narrator] So the
elephant stood by a window
and stretched his
short, stubby trunk,
straining to reach
a basket of buns.
- Stretch!
- [Narrator] And elephant
stretched his trunk
a little longer.
- Stretch!
- [Narrator] And elephant
stretched his trunk
until it was so long it
reached the basket of buns.
(cheering)
The tiger and the hippopotamus
took a mouthful of bun and went:
- Ew!
- Ew!
- [Narrator] But the elephant
took a mouthful of bun
and cried:
- Yum, yum, yum!
- [Narrator] Then he
raised his trunk high
and what should come out?
Not the little noise
that went: (squeaks)
- Parp.
- [Narrator] But a great big
trumpeting sound, like this.
(trumpeting)
And that is why, to this day,
elephants have very long trunks
and love
delicious-smelling buns.
- It was an elephant that
ate the Tiddlypeep buns!
Ah, Hooby groovy! (laughs)
An elephant on the roof
garden, maybe he's still there.
Maybe he's hiding!
I'm gonna go and have a look.
- But, Groove, Groove!
Oh.
- Oh.
I wish he'd just admit
that he ate the buns.
- Oh, me too.
- Hello, mister elephant,
where are you? (laughs)
Oh, tooby blow, he's gone.
I wish I'd seen him.
Just think, we've had
an elephant up here
on the Hooby roof garden,
thumping about, swaying
his trunk. (laughs)
And eating our Tiddlypeep buns.
(fun music)
♪ Have you seen an elephant ♪
♪ Walking about with
a thud and a thunk ♪
♪ Has there been an elephant ♪
♪ Waving their
tickly wiggly trunk ♪
♪ Could there be an elephant
wandering under the sun ♪
♪ And if there is an
elephant, watch out ♪
♪ He might grab your
Tiddlypeep bun ♪
♪ Watch out, he might
grab your Tiddlypeep bun ♪
♪ I'd like to feel like
an elephant feels ♪
♪ When he uses his trunk
to gobble his meals ♪
♪ Hold it high as
he gazes around ♪
♪ And makes a lofty,
trumpety sound ♪
♪ If I meet him in
our garden, I'd say ♪
♪ Mister Phant, I
beg your pardon ♪
♪ I know that we
all make mistakes ♪
♪ But please don't eat
our Tiddlypeep cakes ♪
♪ Have you seen an elephant ♪
♪ Walking about with
a thud and a thunk ♪
♪ Has there been an elephant ♪
♪ Waving a tickly wiggly trunk ♪
♪ Could there be an elephant
wandering under the sun ♪
♪ And if there is an
elephant, watch out ♪
♪ He might grab your
Tiddlypeep bun ♪
♪ Watch out, he might
grab your Tiddlypeep bun ♪
♪ But Groove, if we heard
you from downstairs ♪
♪ With all your
banging and bumping ♪
♪ Don't you think
we would've heard ♪
♪ A great big
elephant stomping? ♪
♪ So you can't have
seen an elephant ♪
♪ Walking about with
a thud and a thunk ♪
♪ There can't have
been an elephant ♪
♪ Waving a tickly wiggly trunk ♪
♪ If there had
been an elephant ♪
♪ We would have known
it from the sound ♪
♪ Of great big heavy elephant
jumping and bumping around ♪
♪ Thinking our roof
was the ground ♪
♪ Making a trumpety sound ♪
♪ We'd hear him ♪
♪ We'd hear him walking around ♪
- Wait, I've just had a thought!
It could have been an elephant!
- Really?
- Yes!
Elephants have long trunks.
- I could do with a long trunk
myself to reach this itch.
- So, he could've
been down there
and simply stretched
its trunk up here
and gulp, no more buns.
- Well, that's your answer.
Hoob Hoob hooray.
Told you it wasn't me.
- Hm?
Oh wait, wait wait wait!
I've just realized something!
- So, go on then, what is
it you've realized, Iver?
- Well, it couldn't possibly
have been an elephant.
- Why not?
- Elephants live on the open
plains of Africa and India,
and are we on the open
plains of Africa or India?
(scoffs) No.
- Well then it must've
been someone else
who likes Tiddlypeep buns.
- And who could
that be, I wonder?
(echoing voices)
- Why is it that once you start
scratching, you can't stop?
- Oh, I wish I had a
Hooby backscratcher.
- Oh, you know what I
think you should do next?
Go and visit the Tiddlypeeps.
- That's a Hoobacious
idea, Hubba Hubba.
- Let's get those
Motorettes singing.
- Oh, Iver, before you go,
could you scratch my back again?
Just down in the middle, a bit?
- Oh, dear.
- That's it, up a bit.
Yeah, to the right a bit.
Underneath the shoulder
blade, yeah, that's it.
Bit harder.
Come on Iver, a bit
harder, come on.
Yeah, and down a bit more.
Down a bit more, that's it.
- Seatbelt?
- Seatbelt.
- We're off to see
the Tiddlypeeps.
(enchanting music)
♪ 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 help
us find things out ♪
♪ They give us clues,
they tell us news ♪
♪ That's what
they're all about ♪
♪ It's what they're all
a, what they're all a ♪
♪ What they're all about ♪
♪ 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 ♪
- Hooble-doop, Tiddlypeeps!
- Hooble-doop, Iver!
- Hooble-doop, Iver!
- Want to do a Hooby hello?
- Yes!
- [All] Hooble-doop,
Hooble-doop, whoop,
whoop, whoop!
- Oh, it looks like you're
having a nice picnic.
- We are, thanks, Iver.
- Would you like a sandwich?
- Oh, yes, thank you
very, very much. (laughs)
Why are you putting
bits of your picnic
onto that little table?
- We're feeding it to the birds.
- We put lots of different
things on our bird table,
and the birds come
and take it away.
- They even eat the crumbs
that we drop on the ground.
- So, birds fly down
and eat up all the food?
- That's right.
- Did you hear
that, Tula, Groove?
- Yes.
- Birds eat food
the Tiddlypeeps leave
out in the garden!
- Yes!
- Do you think birds would
like Tiddlypeep buns?
- Probably, Iver.
- Well, that's it, then.
- What?
- Groove left some
Tiddlypeep buns
on a plate in the roof garden.
When he came back,
they were gone!
It must've been the
birds that took them.
- You see?
- Thank you so
much, Tiddlypeeps.
This is Hoobalicious,
but I must get back now.
You can feed the rest
to the birds. (laughs)
Hooble-toodle-doo!
- Hooble-toodle-doo!
- Hooble-toodle-doo!
- Just as well there was
some more Tiddlypeep buns
in the fridge.
- Ah, Hooby groovy.
- Groove, you have
already eaten three.
- No, I haven't, I've eaten one!
I never ate the other
two, honest I didn't!
- Oh, well you say
that, but the point--
- Well why don't you two, right.
What's the plan, Tula?
- Ah, well, we leave the
plate out, and then we hide
and wait to see if
a bird takes one.
- We'll have to keep
very still and quiet.
- I'll try, but it's not
gonna be easy, I've got,
something's itching me.
But what?
♪ Oh what, oh what, oh what ♪
♪ Oh what ♪
♪ Oh what, oh what, oh what ♪
♪ What what what ♪
- I don't know what, but
one thing's for certain,
there isn't a bird in sight.
(groaning)
- Do you know I'm
itching all over now.
Oh Tula, you do this
side for me, will you?
And Iver, you do
'round the back.
- All right.
- Well.
- Maybe the birds aren't hungry.
- Yeah, that's the spot.
Well they wouldn't
be, would they,
if they've already eaten
two Tiddlypeep buns.
- Yes, if.
Right, that's your lot, Groove.
We've got to get
back to the question.
It's nearly time for Hoob News,
you know, and what we've--
- Hooby galooby!
- Look, they've gone!
- Well, it isn't
the birds, then.
- Well if it wasn't the
birds, then who was it?
(echoing voices)
- Roma!
- It can't have been Roma.
- No no no, I didn't
mean it's Roma, I meant,
oh look, she might have an idea.
Come on.
- Hooble-doop, Hoobs.
- Hooble-doop, Roma.
- (groans) Scratch please, Iver.
- Now Hoobs, I
found some creatures
who absolutely love buns.
- Oh, Roma, really?
- Yes, Tula, really!
In fact, they'll eat
just about anything,
especially sweet things.
- Hey, those Tiddlypeep
buns were sweet.
Well, the one I ate was, anyway.
- Sounds like this
could very well be
your answer then, Hoobs.
These creatures live in this
fantabby Hooby hill
thing behind me.
- It's not very big
for a hill, Roma.
- It would seem
rather big if you were
the size of the creatures
I'm talking about, Tula.
- Why, Roma?
Who lives in that hill?
- Ants, Tula!
This is an anthill.
- An anthill?
- That's right, Iver.
If you're an ant, you
head out from your anthill
in the morning, find yourself
something sweet and tasty,
and then bring it back
here for your tea.
- How many ants live
in that anthill, Roma?
- Oh, hundreds, Tula.
Ants are absolutely tiny, so
there's room for lots of them.
- So, an ant's not as
big as a bun, then?
- Oh no, Iver,
not nearly as big.
They're teeny-weeny.
Anyway, talking of
things sweet and tasty,
these ants have invited
me over for tea,
so I'd better get going.
This is Roma Hoob,
off to have something
sticky with some ants.
Hooble-toodle-doo.
- Hooble-toodle-doo!
- So, it was ants, of
course it was ants.
Hoob Hoob hooray!
- Wait, wait, wait!
- Now what?
- It can't have been ants,
ants are really tiny,
they're only about this big.
I've got a picture of one in
my insect book, I'll show you.
- Iver's right, a tiny
ant couldn't have eaten
those Tiddlypeep
buns so quickly.
- Maybe the ant carried the buns
back to his friends
to eat later.
- Look, how could a tiny ant
carry two whole Tiddlypeep buns?
- I see what you mean.
- We just don't know enough
about ants, that's the problem.
(echoing voice)
- Well, Hoobs, ants
live in Peep gardens
and Tiddlypeeps spend
hours in their gardens,
so surely they'll
know all about ants.
- Yes, we'll ask
the Tiddlypeeps.
(laughing)
- Groove?
Oh dear me.
(enchanting music)
♪ 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 help
us find things out ♪
♪ They give us clues,
they tell us news ♪
♪ That's what
they're all about ♪
♪ 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 ♪
- (pants) Hooble-doop,
Tiddlypeeps!
- Hooble-doop, Tula!
- Hooble-doop, Tula!
- What are you doing?
- We're playing
Follow My Leader.
- Like an army of marching ants.
- Ants?
Whoa whoa, whoa whoa whoa!
Ants, we thought it
might've been ants
that carried off our Tiddlypeep
buns, but they're too small!
- Ants are very
strong though, Tula.
- Even though
they're very small.
- Really?
- Oh, yes.
An ant can carry something
much bigger than itself.
- Do you hear this, Iver?
- Like me carrying an elephant.
- Ants all work together.
- So if they're really strong
and there were lots of them,
then they could definitely
have carried off
a whole Tiddlypeep bun!
- Yes, Tula.
- Did you hear that, Hoobs?
- Oh, yes.
- Ants are very strong,
and they carry big
things away together.
Could they carry a Hoob away?
- No, but if they
crawled on you,
they'd make you very itchy.
- Groove, that's
it, you've got ants!
- Oh no!
- I knew you'd be
able to help us.
I'd better go and see if we do
have ants in our roof garden.
Hooble-toodle-doo!
- Hooble-toodle-doo!
(grunting)
- Oh, these ants are
driving me crazy.
How am I ever gonna
get rid of them?
- Don't worry, Groove,
I've had a Hoobacious idea.
- Well hurry up, Tula,
it's time for Hoob News!
- Oh yes.
- Come on!
b*at you there!
(laughing)
♪ Leave some crumbs
out in the garden ♪
♪ Leave some crumbs out in the
garden and the ants will come ♪
♪ The ants will come ♪
♪ The ants will come ♪
♪ The ants will come ♪
♪ Soon your heart to
ants will harden ♪
♪ When they pinch your bun ♪
♪ They pinch your bun ♪
♪ They pinch your bun ♪
♪ They pinch your bun ♪
♪ They pinch your bun,
they pinch your bun ♪
♪ Bun, bun, bun, bun, bun, bun ♪
♪ They pinch your bun ♪
(echoing voice)
- Well, Hoobs, I'm simply
itching to hear your news
for my great
Hoobopaedia. (laughs)
Are you ready with it?
- 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 on Hoob News,
we've been asking the question:
- What happened to
the Tiddlypeep buns?
- [Groove] First, we thought
the wind might've taken them.
- [Iver] But only
a very strong wind
could've lifted the buns.
- [Groove] Then, we saw a story
about an elephant who
loved to eat buns.
- But we would've heard an
elephant on the roof garden.
Besides, elephants live on
the open plains of Africa
and India, so we realized it
couldn't have been one of them.
- [Groove] The
Tiddlypeeps reminded us
that birds love to eat
food left in the garden.
- But the birds didn't take
the buns that we left out.
- [Groove] But something did.
Because when we looked again,
two more buns had disappeared.
- [Iver] Roma visited
a colony of ants
and found out that they
also love to eat food
that is left out in the garden.
- But we couldn't work
out how a tiny little ant
could shift a whole
Tiddlypeep bun.
- [Tula] So we visited
the Tiddlypeeps again,
and they told us all about ants.
- [Iver] How they work
together in an army.
- [Tula] How strong they are,
and how they can
carry things together.
- [Groove] And how
they make you itch.
- So now we know what happened
to the Tiddlypeep buns.
They were taken away by ants!
- Ants!
- Hooby galooby, how amazing!
But that doesn't explain
why I've been scratching.
- I think it was
just watching Groove
that made you
itchy, Hubba Hubba.
- Yes, you're probably right.
So it's thanks once again to
Iver, Tula, Groove, and Roma.
For giving Hoobs everywhere
a little peep into
the world of Peeps.
And remember, wherever
you are, hey, Groove,
you've stopped scratching!
- You're right, Hubba
Hubba, my itch is gone.
- Well, so is mine! (laughs)
Hooble-toodle-doo!
- Hooble-toodle-doo!
- So, Tula, how did you
get the ants to leave me?
- I will show you, excuse me.
- Oh.
- Excuse me.
There we go.
I hid a Tiddlypeep bun
right by you, Groove,
and a Tiddlypeep bun is
far more tempting to an ant
than you are.
(laughing)
They've gone off with it, see?
- Kind of them to leave us some
crumbs, though, eh? (laughs)
♪ 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 ♪
- Oh, here we come!
- Hey!
- Ah!
♪ The Hoobs are here
so what do you say ♪
♪ Hoobs ♪
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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.