Popples (1986)

Popples

Popples was a Saturday morning cartoon, based on the Popples toys, that aired in the United States from 1986 to 1987. The pilot was a live-action Shelley Duvall special, in which they were puppets and marionettes; after this was well-received, it was decided to make a cartoon series with the same characters. The cartoon was produced by DIC Entertainment and LBS Communications in association with The Maltese Companies. Like the toys they're based on, the Popples resemble colorful teddy bears or rabbits with long, pompom-tipped tails, and they have pouches on their backs that can be everted so they resemble fuzzy balls. The name "Popple" is a reference to the popping sound they make when unfolding themselves from such a ball, or pulling objects from their pouches. In the cartoon Popples commonly pull large items from their pouches that couldn't possibly fit inside, which come from hammerspace; in "Popples Alley", one of the Popples' human friends looks inside one of their pouches and sees numerous objects floating in a void. Nine of the Popples live with a human brother and sister, Billy and Bonnie Wagner. Billy and Bonnie think they are the only kids who have Popples until a neighbor family moves in and they have their own Popples — the Rock Stars, Pufflings, and Babies. The Popples tend to come around and mess up whatever the kids are trying to do; e.g., if the kids are trying to brush their teeth, the Popples end up spilling water, toothpaste and soap all over the bathroom. If the kids are trying to clean their rooms, the Popples come along, mess up the room even worse and then help them get everything back to normal just in the nick of time. The plot revolved around the children's efforts to hide the existence of the Popples from the adults around them.

Popples

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 0

  • 0x1

    Cuckoo choo choo

  • 0x2

    The popple fashion parade

  • 0x3

    Popples alley

  • 0x4

    Poppin' at the zoo

  • 0x5

    Popples: the movie

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Popples panic at the library

  • 1x2

    Cookin up a storm

  • 1x3

    Molars and biscuspids, and popples

  • 1x4

    Treasure of popple beach

  • 1x5

    Popping at the car wash

  • 1x6

    Springtime's a poppin

  • 1x7

    Popples play pee wee golf

  • 1x8

    Popples flood the fluff-n-fold

  • 1x9

    Clean sweep of things

  • 1x10

    Poppin' wheelies

  • 1x11

    Bonnie's popple part

  • 1x12

    Aisles of trouble

  • 1x13

    Popples paint party

  • 1x14

    Pop-paring for bed

  • 1x15

    Poppolympics

  • 1x16

    Sports shop pop

  • 1x17

    Taking out the trash

  • 1x18

    A hair-raising experience

  • 1x19

    Pop goes the radio

  • 1x20

    Poppin' pillow talk

  • 1x21

    Where the pop flies

  • 1x22

    Hurray for hollywood

  • 1x23

    Backyard bigtop

  • 1x24

    Backyard adventure

  • 1x25

    Poppin at the drive-in

  • 1x26

    Poppin' around the block

  • 1x27

    Moving day

  • 1x28

    Tree house capers

  • 1x29

    No bizness like popple bizness

  • 1x30

    Museum peace

  • 1x31

    Lemonade stand-off

  • 1x32

    Popple post office

  • 1x33

    Funhouse folly

  • 1x34

    Fixer-upper popples

  • 1x35

    Rock around the popples

  • 1x36

    The college of popple knowledge

  • 1x37

    Popple cheer

  • 1x38

    Barn hoopla

  • 1x39

    The jellybean jamboree

  • 1x40

    Private eye popples

  • 1x41

    The repair shop

  • 1x42

    Decatha-pop-a-lon popples

  • 1x43

    Cuckoo choo choo

  • 1x44

    The popple fashion parade

  • 1x45

    Poppin' at the zoo

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