YooHoo & Friends (found English dub of Korean animated TV series; 2012)

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Father Time standing next to the YooHoo & Friends logo.

Status: Found

Date found: Nov 2016

Found by: Shaggy 4457

YooHoo & Friends is a 2012 English dub of the Korean animated TV series of the same name, created by David Feiss (known for creating Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel). The series is produced by Toonzone Studios, and written by Thomas Krajewski.

Plot

YooHoo & Friends is about five executives who destroyed the Earth for money. Mother Nature notices this and tells her husband Father Time, voiced by Flavor Flav, to fix the mess. He turns these five into cute, fluffy animals, and their quest is to save the planet from eco-disasters and find gems that Father Time leaves them so that they can make their wish to become human again. The plot, episodes, and animation were changed from the original Korean counterpart to appeal more to western audiences.

Availability

YooHoo & Friends debuted on Cartoon Network in Venezuelan Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese on January 8th, 2012, on the block Movimiento/Movimento Cartoon, as well as Boomerang.[1][2] In its original English version, it aired on ABC3 (now ABC Me) in Australia on February 15th, 2012, and on Pop in the United Kingdom in the same year.

Information about the dub is removed from Toonzone's website, but it is available on an archive of the site.[3] The YouTube clips linked on the page, that are also seen commonly on forums talking about the show, are now removed. However, they can still be found online via YouTuber YooHooWorldwide's videos. In addition, the series had their own website as well, which is now no longer available.[4]

Findings

All YooHoo & Friends episodes were available on the ABC3 website, but they expired. Episodes were also available on POP's website for a while. Some clips are still online, but most, excluding officially released clips, are in low quality. Animation Smears, The Big Cartoon Wiki (originally The Fudge Yeah Cartoon Fatness Wiki), and Maxtaro's Rubbish Blog have some screenshots of the show too, notably from ABC3, and one of the links contains a screenshot taken from YouTube, which may imply that at one point TV rips from ABC3 had surfaced by at least May 2014. TV Tropes had a lot of information about the show while it was running, as its page was created on July 29th, 2013, though no footage on this site could be provided at the time.

On an unknown date, it was discovered that all of the episodes were recorded (in 360p quality) from ABC3 and uploaded to Kametsu by Shaggy 4457, but the links soon went down (and as of writing the site does not allow pirated content to be posted anymore). When approached, ex-Twitter user BovineBonita had asked Shaggy if they could re-upload their recordings of the show,[5] and Shaggy still had them. On November 3rd, 2016, the entire English dub was uploaded onto YouTube by them. Shaggy's account was terminated shortly afterwards, and any attempt to re-upload these episodes to YouTube failed.

Eventually, Kisscartoon had archived these rips and posted them to their site, adding a watermark of their own site. Some episodes also came with a glitch, which was that in the near middle of the episode the footage would pause for a bit, and then the audio (which then plays on the right ear only) would be desynced with the video. Specifically, "King Frowny Face", "Groilla My Dreams", "The Pelican Grief", "Happy Loves Martha", "Ring Ring the Panda", "Dr. Platypus and the Flying Squirrels", and "Mach Picchu Macho Taco" were all affected by this problem. These Kisscartoon copies would be mirrored and posted onto various sites, while Shaggy's original files remained lost for a while. Some of these rips were re-uploaded by a YouTube channel in 2016, and have not been striked yet. On April 26th, 2019, Eratyx mirrored each of the Kisscartoon rips on MEGA.[6]

On April 12th, 2021, BovineBonita noticed that she had 51 episodes from Shaggy's original recordings, watermarkless and glitchless saved on her Google Photos. She released these rips on MEGA.[7] The only missing episode from her collection is "The Return of Dr. Platypus", though thankfully the Kisscartoon version of the rip does not contain any glitches, so it was also included in her MEGA link. Eventually, all the rips were removed from the folder, with the exception of the first episode.

On July 21st, 2022, Internet Archive user Komanyan has uploaded all the episodes of the dub to the site.[8] The updated link includes not only the episodes in 576p quality for the first time, but also the episode "The Return of Dr. Platypus", which was not available without a watermark before.

At the time of writing, no episodes of the show in any quality further than 576p have surfaced, though it should be noted that a 1080p alternative version of the intro was uploaded to YouTube in 2015 by CheolHan Jang, an animator who worked on the show.[9] In addition, another 720p clip from the episode "Gone Wishin'" was uploaded to Vimeo in 2012 by WECREATIVE.[10]

Episodes

# Episode Title Status
1 The YooHoos Meet Father Time Found
2 Hydro Pain Found
3 Rookie Monster Found
4 Water You Talkin' About Found
5 Sugar Babies Found
6 Mane Wreck Found
7 Gone Wishin' Found
8 Scare Play Found
9 King Frowny Face Found
10 Salt Lick City Found
11 Hairy Water Found
12 Fruit of the Doom Found
13 Gorilla My Dreams Found
14 The Pelican Grief Found
15 Happy Loves Martha Found
16 Mummy Dearest Found
17 Radioactive Bird Jewelry! Found
18 Handsome Is My Maiden Name Found
19 Let's Talk Turkey Found
20 Loonee Sings the Blues Found
21 The Secret of Stonehenge Found
22 Ring Ring the Panda Found
23 The Plastic Grapes of Wrath Found
24 The Missing Lynx Found
25 Mole Berries Found
26 Say Freeze Found
27 Squirrel of My Dreams Found
28 Cry Me a River Found
29 The Tree of Wife Found
30 Eau de Toilet Found
31 Dr. Platypus and the Flying Squirrels Found
32 Worms of Endearment Found
33 The Nasty Book Found
34 Nasty Rhinoplasty Found
35 The Return of Dr Platypus Found
36 Bloodthirsty the Penguin Found
37 The Venus Man-Trap Found
38 Shaolin Monkey Found
39 Cactus Makes Perfect Found
40 Nasty Ads Found
41 Stoney Island Found
42 Mach Picchu Macho Taco Found
43 Bearly News Found
44 Peanut Butter and Jellyfish Found
45 Boring Stone People Found
46 Buffalo Blow Found
47 Mustache Sauce Found
48 The Bland Canyon Found
49 Beaver Dang Found
50 Frozen Air in a Can Found
51 Pi Hole Found
52 The Wish Found

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