YooHoo & Friends (2012 TV series)
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 The main characters from left to right: Father Time and YooHoo (on the top), Leemee, Pammee, Chewoo, and Roodee (on the bottom). | |
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| Created by | David Feiss |
| Based on | YooHoo & Friends by Aurora World |
| Directed by | David Feiss |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (52 segments) (list of episodes) |
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| Producer | Christine Danzo |
| Editor | Kevin Yi |
| Running time | 22 minutes[2] |
| Production company | Toonzone Studios |
| Distributor | Moonscoop US[3] |
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| Original network | Cartoon Network (Latin America) ABC3 (Australia) Nickelodeon Pop |
| Picture format | HDTV 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| First shown in | Latin America |
| Original release | January 8 – August 20, 2012 |
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YooHoo & Friends is an American animated children's television adaptation of the 2009 Korean TV series of the same name, created by David Feiss. It is the second TV series based on the YooHoo & Friends franchise. Changes to the original series were made to better fit western television,[4] such as the series' premise, a story about a group of humans who are turned into animals by Father Time. The series debuted on Cartoon Network in Latin America on January 8, 2012.[5]
Plot[]
YooHoo & Friends is about five executives who work for Nasty Corp. When Mother Nature notices they've been slowly destroying the world, she pressures Father Time to stop them from polluting the Earth by turning them into five cuddly baby animals. Together, Lemmee the sourpuss, Roodee the inventor, Pammee the princess, Chewoo the optimist, and YooHoo the leader save the world from all the environmental disasters they caused as their human-selves, in return for the gemstones Father Time planted in the locations they visit. When all of the gems are found, the Furry 5 can make a wish to become human again.
Each episode includes a narration from Father Time as he goes back to certain past time periods and adjusts them.
Characters[]
Main[]
- Father Time (voiced by Flavor Flav) controls time and acts as the narrator of the series, introducing each episode. He gives the Furry 5 the task to fix all the environmental destruction they caused as executives and find gemstones along the way that will allow them to make a wish and become human again.
- Mother Nature (voiced by Mara Kay) is Father Time's wife. She was hurt and angered by Nasty Corporation's environmental destruction and ordered Father Time to stop it immediately. She loves her husband and always tries to keep him on track with the Furry 5 and their task to find the gemstones.
- YooHoo (voiced by Cedric Themole) is a bush baby and the leader of the Furry 5 who guides the others in search for gemstones. He has cream and grey fur, blue eyes and a blue and grey striped tail.
- Lemmee (voiced by Mark Mathison) is a ring-tailed lemur and the sourpuss. He constantly tries to convince the others that he should be the leader instead of YooHoo. He has grey and black fur, yellow eyes and a grey and white striped tail.
- Roodee (voiced by Jan Bos) is a capuchin monkey and the inventor. He has brown fur and yellow eyes.
- Pammee (voiced by Michelle Brezinski) is a fennec fox and the princess. She has a connection to nature and can understand when an animal is hurt or a tree is thirsty. She has white fur, pink eyes and a pink and white striped tail.
- Chewoo (voiced by Mara Kay) is a red squirrel and the cheerleader. She is always excited and happy, even in the most dangerous of situations. She has red and white fur and pink eyes.
Recurring[]
- Pookee 1, 2 and 16 (voiced by Mark Mathison, Jesse Innocalla and Cedric Themole respectively) are a trio of meerkats who try to steal the Furry 5's gems to make their wish. They have brown fur, green eyes and purple, pink and yellow eye markings and tail tips.
- Santa Claus (voiced by David Feiss) is Father Time's next door neighbor and has a friend-enemy relationship with him.
- The Easter Bunny is another friend to Father Time.
- Leper is a leprechaun who's also friends with Father Time.
- Happy (voiced by Jesse Inocalla) is a red panda and a frequent guest companion of YooHoo & Friends. He's married to a sea cow named Martha.
- Loonee (voiced by Jesse Inocalla) is a delusional snowy owl who wants to be a pop star and constantly sings, despite being tone deaf.
Production[]
David Feiss stated in an interview that he was contacted by Konnie Kwak, the president of Toonzone Studios, to make the original YooHoo & Friends series into something he could sell to western television. He then approached it similarly to Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily?, where "a foreign language film is re-dubbed in English with an entirely different story, it could be funny." He rewrote dialogue and created 4 minutes of new animation per episode. Feiss has also said that he moved to a house across from Flavor Flav, the voice of Father Time and he agreed to be on the show.[4]
Kwak once saw YooHoo & Friends stuffed toys and thought "they looked pretty cute. The toys had already inspired a 52-episode animated series for younger kids, which aired in South Korea and had received many prestigious awards in that country. But like many Korean properties, it doesn't translate well overseas. So [they planned] to repurpose the episodes to broaden the market." The team had prepared the adaptation for a six to 12-year-old demographic.[6]
On October 14, 2010, Flav narrated a sneak peek of the series for MIPJunior that was uploaded by Toonzone to YouTube.[7] By 2013, the video was privated.
Eventually, the opportunity to fully develop another season for the series was postponed, causing Toonzone Studios to take legal action against Aurora World over the contractual copyrights of the series,[8] that caused Aurora World to end up breaking the deal with Toonzone and licensing its franchise to Lawless Entertainment in June 2014.[9]
Episodes[]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboards by | Original air date[citation needed] | Australian air date [10] | |
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| 1 | "The YooHoos Meet Father Time" "Hydro Pain" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski and David Feiss Tom Krajewski | David Feiss Jurgen Gross | January 8, 2012 | February 15, 2012 February 16, 2012 | |
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"The YooHoos Meet Father Time": When Mr. YooHoo and the other executives of Nasty Corporation are turned into animals by Father Time, they have to reunite Baby Bird with her mother. "Hydro Pain": The Furry 5 must free the rainbows that were stuffed to a waterfall. | |||||||
| 2 | "Rookie Monster" "Water You Talkin' About" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Jurgen Gross | January 9, 2012 | February 17, 2012 February 20, 2012 | |
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"Rookie Monster": Yoohoo and his pals must rebuild a store in the African savannah but they must deal with a scary monster at first who turns out to be less scary than they initially thought. "Water You Talkin' About": Yoohoo and his team must restore the water in the desert which is gone thanks to a Sponge Hotel that they created when they were evil corporate executives. | |||||||
| 3 | "Sugar Rabies" "Mane Wreck" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | David Feiss | January 10, 2012 | February 21, 2012 February 22, 2012 | |
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"Sugar Rabies": Father Time instructs Yoohoo and friends to fix a forest they watered with sugar water when they were evil causing candy fruits to grow which caused a variety of unexpected and unwanted side effects when consumed. "Mane Wreck": The Yoohoos must fix the mane of a lion which has turned blue from a tree that dropped a berry containing toxic waste on his head. | |||||||
| 4 | "Gone Wishin'" "Scare Play" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Bob Camp | January 11, 2012 | February 23, 2012 February 24, 2012 | |
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"Gone Wishin'": The Yoohoos must return a wishing star they shot down back into the sky and help Happy the Red Panda find his wife. "Scare Play": The Yoohoos have to deal with a scary creature that scared all the creatures away from the forest, but it turns out that only Chewoo was scared of it and only because this entity sold a food that she hated. | |||||||
| 5 | "King Frowny Face" "Salt Lick City" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Jurgen Gross | January 12, 2012 | February 27, 2012 February 28, 2012 | |
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"King Frowny Face": The Yoohoos meet the king of the meerkats who is the boss of the Pookees, a trio of meerkats who want to steal Yoohoos gems in order to become human. Father Time appears and shows them what they'd look like if they were human and they insist they'd rather remain meerkats. They may have bad memories as they try to steal the gems in future episodes for the same reason. "Salt Lick City": When the Yoohoo team were human they sold ice lollies made of salt, in doing so they displaced all the ocean's salt causing it to grow into a large salt pillar. Happy the Red Panda shows up in this episode because his wife needs salt water to live in. She is a seacow. | |||||||
| 6 | "Hairy Water" "Fruit of the Doom" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | David Feiss Jurgen Gross | January 13, 2012 | February 29, 2012 March 1, 2012 | |
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"Hairy Water": After clogging up a natural spring located in lemur territory the furry five must work together to unclog it and allow the water to flow once more. "Fruit of the Doom": While they were evil executives the Yoohoo team caused acid rain to fall onto a forest making the fruit contaminated and unsafe to eat. The task for them to complete is to gather up all of the fruit and wash it in fresh water to make it safe to eat again. | |||||||
| 7 | "Gorilla My Dreams" "The Pelican Grief" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | David Feiss Jurgen Gross | January 15, 2012 | March 2, 2012 March 5, 2012 | |
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"Gorilla My Dreams": During their flight over the jungle as evil executives they got food stuck in their teeth and removed the food with porcupine quills which they then discarded out of the plane window, only for the sharp objects to end up embedded into the feet of a gorilla. "The Pelican Grief": While they were evil executives the Yoohoo and friends team sold bottled water containing pucker powder which made the drinker even thirstier than they were already. A pelican happened to drink some of this water and their bill shrivelled up to a tiny size thus preventing them from catching large fish. | |||||||
| 8 | "Happy Loves Martha" "Mummy Dearest" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Jurgen Gross | January 16, 2012 | March 6, 2012 March 7, 2012 | |
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"Happy Loves Martha": When they ran Nasty Corp the Yoohoo and friends drained a desert oasis to make instant water. They need to return the water and Happy has a map showing the location of the oasis. When they arrive it is completely dried up but thanks to the meerkat brothers digging into buried explosives accidentally they end up freeing the water. It initially tastes foul but Roodee manages to construct a water filtration device. His wife returns to him after the water supply is restored. "Mummy Dearest": Back when they ran Nasty Corp the furry five sold radioactive waste as glow in the dark toothpaste which made people's teeth fall out after brushing with it. After the failed product bombed they dumped it into an Egyptian pyramid while evicting the resident mummies and locking them inside a metal safe. They all end up in the central chamber and they each have to solve a puzzle to reveal the exit. Unlocking the exit also freed the mummies who angrily chased them after Yoohoo apologised for locking them up in the first place. | |||||||
| 9 | "Radioactive Bird Jewelry!" "Handsome Is My Maiden Name" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Bob Camp | January 17, 2012 | March 8, 2012 March 9, 2012 | |
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"Radioactive Bird Jewelry": As evil executives, Yoohoo and friends ended up with solid radioactive waste that looked like shiny gemstones. They sold them to birds under the guise of jewels but they were too heavy for the birds to wear so they all dumped them into a lake. It's now up to the furry five to find and remove all of those dangerous stones, while also seeking Father Time's gem. "Handsome Is My Maiden Name": Father Time gives another mission to the five which is to return animal skins that were removed from animals while they were alive with the help of a charismatic lynx called Libby. He charms both Pammee and Chewoo much to the ire of Roodee, Lemmee and Yoohoo. The girls get mad when they find out that he's already taken by someone else. | |||||||
| 10 | "Let's Talk Turkey" "Loonee Sings the Blues" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Bob Camp | January 18, 2012 | March 12, 2012 March 13, 2012 | |
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"Let's Talk Turkey": The five must travel to Turkey to recover the fairy chimneys that they shot at the moon, thinking it was made of cheese but it wasn't. The fairies try to make it harder for Yoohoo and his pals to reach their home, not realising that they are trying to help. They retrieve the fairy chimneys from the moon and two fairies get married. "Loonee Sings the Blues": Loonee is an endangered snow owl who was captured by the five when they ran Nasty Corp. They forced Loonee to sing but didn't realise that he was completely tone-deaf and as such sang awfully. After their music failed to sell they left Loonee trapped in the cave where they used to record him singing. All the time he has been alone had caused him to lose his marbles a bit. He assumed he was always singing to a huge live audience even when there was no one there. | |||||||
| 11 | "The Secret of Stonehenge" "Ring Ring the Panda" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Bob Camp | January 19, 2012 | March 14, 2012 March 15, 2012 | |
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"The Secret of Stonehenge": Yoohoo and his pals must locate and retrieve a rainbow stone that they found a long time ago as it belongs to a group of red squirrels that reside in Stonehenge. The stone gives the red squirrels an amazing ability, British accents. "Ring Ring the Panda": Father Time points out to Yoohoo and Friends that after removing all the pandas from the salt shaker they were trapped inside, they ended up stuck on a large-scale fly paper which was intended to catch chicken but caught firework rockets instead. Towards the end, Ring Ring becomes smitten for Pammee, the other female in Yoohoo's team. Chewoo is understandably a bit upset about this. | |||||||
| 12 | "The Plastic Grapes of Wrath" "The Missing Lynx" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Rufus Leeking Bob Camp | January 22, 2012 | March 16, 2012 March 19, 2012 | |
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"The Plastic Grapes of Wrath": When they were still human Yoohoo and his cohort had an intense dislike of insects to the point that they replaced an entire vineyard with plastic grapes. A fox lives there and needs to eat so she demands that they replace all the fake grapes with real ones. The Pookees are there too and want the gem bag which the fox picked up after it fell out of Yoohoo's armpit. "The Missing Lynx": Libby is looking for his fellow lynxs which are all missing. This time Yoohoo and friends aren't responsible, instead their distant cavemen ancestors were the ones who did this. Their ancestors built an underground town for the Lynxs to live in. Despite all the centuries that have passed, these cave people are still alive. They don't seem to care about the Lynxs being liberated. | |||||||
| 13 | "Mole Berries" "Say Freeze" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Bob Camp | January 23, 2012 | March 20, 2012 March 21, 2012 | |
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"Mole Berries": As yet another evil product idea the Nasty Corp ex-employees used the juice of a berry to create a pill-based medicine that gave people beauty moles. Unfortunately, it was too effective and covered their entire face with moles. Not to mention, it also gave those who consumed it a very bad case of the runs. The Pookees consume them without knowing what they are and are briefly rendered incapacitated. The berries are given to a spotted dog reading society as they want the moles and get a great opportunity to read newspapers when an urgent need to go to the toilet comes up. "Say Freeze": Another dumb idea fails when the former Nasty Corp employees try to sell icy poles in the tropics. Due to the extreme heat, the products melts too fast so they decide to bring a giant iceberg to the tropics while having a huge fan blow air from behind it. The tropics quickly became a sub-zero wasteland where it was too cold to eat anything frozen anyway. One of them passes out from the cold and is revived by what appears to be a snow leopard. It explains that it used to be an attractive hairless cat but had to grow a thick coat when it became too cold. After the five switch off the fan, the animal requests to be completely shaved which they quickly do. Father Time briefly turns Yoohoo and Friends hairless but changes them back practically immediately when they shriek in horror. After being returned to normal they are very angry with Father Time for what he did to them. | |||||||
| 14 | "Squirrel of My Dreams" "Cry Me a River" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Jim Smith Bob Camp | January 24, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
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"Squirrel of My Dreams": A lone panda wanders the bamboo forests and spots Yoohoo as well as the others. Their mission is to release all the pandas they had trapped inside a huge glass salt shaker after another idiotic product idea. Ring Ring becomes smitten for Chewoo and vows to protect her as well as her friends. He does this by fending off the Pookees who are trying to interfere with Yoohoo and his crew. "Cry Me a River": When they ran Nasty Corp Yoohoo and his friends extracted tears from an actual weeping willow that cries 24/7 to make tissues that increased the amount of crying the person did. Unfortunately, Mr Roodee's tear collecting machine malfunctioned and blew up subsequently flooding the whole area. Their mission isn't to drain the flooded area but to make the native animals happy who have been crying ever since. Roodee fills up the machine with sunflower pollen and it explodes again sending sunflower pollen everywhere and making the animals happy again. The tree is permanently sad though. The Pookees show up briefly to pretend to befriend Roodee after he abandons his real friends thinking they don't care about him. They double-cross him and steal his book to make a glider to escape with. Roodee gets his revenge by knocking them out of the sky with a catapult loaded with massive boulders. | |||||||
| 15 | "The Tree of Wife" "Eau de Toilet" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Jim Smith Bob Camp | January 25, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
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"The Tree of Wife": When they were corporate executives, Yoohoo and his friends chopped down the largest tree in the world to make burgers out of the wood. Mother Nature was very fond of that tree so she instructs Father Time to tell them to fix it. While walking in a forest Pammee falls alsleep on the stump of the tree and when Chewoo accidentally spills water onto the tree it wakes up and instructs the five to plant the seeds of its fruit to make new trees. They grow immediately and Father Time tells them that Elephants used to live in these and as soon as he finishes the sentence elephants start rushing up the trees. It then starts to rain but what is pouring down is not actually rain. The newly grown tree also gets the moon stuck in its upper branches due to its immense height. "Eau de Toilet": As former evil executives Yoohoo and friends had a stinker of a product idea which was to sell perfume made from skunk musk which they obtained by sucking it out of a skunk called Sparkee. Their mission is to return the stink to Sparkee as he isn't a real skunk without it. He explains that he resorted to meditation to keep him from going crazy without it. The Pookees try to interfere yet again but are thwarted. After restoring Sparkee to his stinky self he promptly knocks all of them unconscious except for Chewoo who doesn't seem to mind the noxious fumes he released. After asking him to teach her how to do that he hooks her up to the "stink milking machine" and she demonstrates her new ability in front of Father Time and the other four. They get sent flying out of the cave from the force and are about to scold Chewoo but pass out from the stench as Chewoo walks out of the cave holding Sparkee's hand, sniffs the air to admire her handiwork and says to him that this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. | |||||||
| 16 | "Dr. Platypus and the Flying Squirrels" "Worms of Endearment" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Rufus Leeking | January 26, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
| 17 | "The Nasty Book" "Nasty Rhinoplasty" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Will Finn Bob Camp | October 13, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
| 18 | "The Return of Dr. Platypus" "Bloodthirsty the Penguin" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Will Finn Rufus Leeking | October 20, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
| 19 | "The Venus Man-Trap" "Shaolin Monkey" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Will Finn | October 27, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
| 20 | "Cactus Makes Perfect" "Nasty Ads" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Bob Camp | November 3, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
| 21 | "Stoney Island" "Mach Picchu Macho Taco" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Bob Camp Jurgen Gross | November 10, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
| 22 | "Bearly News" "Peanut Butter and Jellyfish" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Jurgen Gross | November 17, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
| 23 | "Boring Stone People" "Buffalo Blow" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Rufus Leeking Bob Camp | November 24, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
| 24 | "Mustache Sauce" "The Bland Canyon" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Bob Camp | December 1, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
| 25 | "Beaver Dang" "Frozen Air in a Can" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Jurgen Gross | December 8, 2012 | TBA TBA | |
| 26 | "Pi Hole" "The Wish" | David Feiss | Tom Krajewski | Jurgen Gross Bob Camp | December 15, 2012 | August 17, 2012 August 20, 2012 | |
| "The Wish": The Furry Five, having collected all the jewels by doing good deeds, finally get their chance to make a wish. | |||||||
Broadcast[]
YooHoo & Friends debuted on Cartoon Network's Movimiento/Movimento Cartoon block in Latin America on January 8, 2012,[5] and later on Boomerang.[when?] The second season of the original series also premiered on Boomerang on March 1, 2015,[11] advertised as if it were the same series. The series also premiered on ABC Me in Australia on February 15, 2012,[10] and on Pop in the United Kingdom in the same year.[12][when?]
The series' distributor, Moonscoop US, originally planned for the show to air on French and German-speaking territories across Europe, "with hopes to reach televisions in next summer,"[3] but this never happened.
Media information[]
A game for the series called "Fling the Furry 5" was released on the now defunct YooHooWorldWide website. Toonzone Studios also planned to release a new line of plush toys, playsets, and light up dolls for the series[13] that never happened.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Sound Design". Bravermania. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
- ^ "The YooHoos Meet Father Time". ABC Me. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b ToonBarn Rob (October 4, 2011). "Moonscoop and Toonzone team to animate Action Dad and YooHoo & Friends". ToonBarn. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b John Pannozzi. "Platypus Comix Interviews Dave Feiss". Platypus Comix. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Tom McLean (July 1, 2011). "Toonzone's 'Yoohoo & Friends' to Air on CN Latin America". Animation Magazine. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
- ^ Ramin Zahed (April 23, 2010). "The Plush Life". Animation Magazine. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
- ^ yoohoo & friends - 2010 mipjunior sneak peek at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 February 2011)
- ^ Ramin Zahed (October 14, 2013). "Toonzone Takes Legal Action Against Aurora". Animation Magazine. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
- ^ "Lawless to Rep YooHoo & Friends". License! Global. June 6, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "The YooHoos Meet Father Time". ABC. February 15, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
- ^ https://www.taringa.net/+noticias/marzo-en-boomerang-nuevos-episodios-de-yoohoo-y-sus-amigos_h2h25
- ^ Ramin Zahed (May 25, 2011). "Toonzone's 'YooHoo & Friends' to Debut on POP". Animation Magazine. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
- ^ ToonBarn Rob (February 18, 2012). "YooHoo and Friends Toys Arrive This Fall". ToonBarn. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
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