YooHoo & Friends (found English dub of Korean animated TV series; 2012)
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 Fudge Yeah Cartoon Fatness Wiki, and Maxtaro's Rubbish Blog have some screenshots of the show too. TV Tropes had a lot of information from the show while it was running, as its page was created on July 29th, 2013.
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 were down (and as of writing the site does not allow pirated content to be posted anymore). When approached, an anonymous person had asked Shaggy if they could re-upload their recordings of the show, 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 were also glitched, and Shaggy's original files remained lost for a while. Though the Kisscartoon copies would be mirrored and posted onto various sites. Some of these rips were re-uploaded by a YouTube channel in 2016, and were not taken down yet. On April 26th, 2019, Eratyx mirrored each of the Kisscartoon rips on MEGA.[5]
On April 12th, 2021, the anonymous person who had originally asked Shaggy for his recordings noticed that she had 51 episodes, watermarkless and glitchless saved on her Google Photos. She said that she would release them as soon as possible. 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.
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 |
Gallery
External Links
- YooHooWorldwide's YouTube channel. Retrieved 03 Oct '16
- The Wikipedia page on David Feiss. Retrieved 03 Oct '16
References
- ↑ An Animation Magazine article on YooHoo & Friends debut on CN Latin America. Retrieved 03 Oct '16
- ↑ An archive site that talkes about the Movimento Cartoon block. Retrieved 03 Oct '16
- ↑ An archive of the ToonZone website that has information about the English dub. Retrieved 03 Oct '16
- ↑ An archive of the YoohooWorldwide website. Retrieved 03 Oct '16
- ↑ The MEGA file for all 52 episodes. Retrieved 27 Apr '19