YooHoo & Friends

YooHoo & Friends is a Cuboxian-American-Korean show loosely based on the toyline of the same name. Created by David Feiss, more well known for Cow and Chicken, the show is a retooled version of the original Korean show, with changes being made to "relate to Western audiences more". The series premiered on January 8,2012 in Latin America on Cartoon Network, before eventually airing on CTN Kids in Cuboxia one month later on February 17, and ended on August 10,2012. The show has aired in syndicated reruns in Cuboxia ever since it ended.
== Plot ==
Five executives who work for the corporation Nasty Corp slowly destroy the world with pollution, which angers Mother Nature, so she forces her husband Father Time to do something about it or else he's forced to sleep on the couch, so Father Time turns the executives into cute fluffy animals, and they have to fix everything they did as humans, while also collecting gems that, once they find enough of, they'll be granted one wish for anything.
Each episode starts with a scene of Father Time doing something funny in the past, before telling YooHoo and friends what their task is for the day.
== Characters ==
* Father Time is the narrator of the series, introducing each episode with a scene of him doing something funny in a random time period. He gives the yoohoo friendlies tasks to do to fix the damage they did to the world. He is voiced by rapper Flavor Flav.
* YooHoo is a bush baby and the leader of the group.
* Roodee is a capuchin monkey and the inventor.
* Lemmee is a lemur and the Squidward.
* Chewoo is a squirrel and the scrunkliest one.
* Pammee is a fennec fox and shes just there.
* Mother Nature is Father Time's wife. She was angered by Nasty Corp's environmental destruction and ordered Father Time to stop them immediately.
== 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.
Kwak once saw YooHoo & Friends plushies 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 we planned to repurpose the episodes to broaden the market." The team had prepared the adaptation for a 6-12-year-old demographic.
On October 14, 2010, CTN Kids announced that they bought the show and were gonna air it sometime in 2011 or 2012, and Flavor Flav narrated a sneak peek of the series that was uploaded by Toonzone and CuboxAnimation to YouTube, but by 2013, both versions of the video were privated. Many people on a forum misheard something in the announcement and thought that he had actually said that the show would air on Nick Jr, much to everyone's confusion, not because of the show itself as the original was a preschool show, but because they thought Flavor Flav was starring in a Nick Jr show.
== Episodes ==
# "The YooHoos Meet Father Time/Hydro Pain" (February 17,2012)
# "Rookie Monster/Water You Talkin' About" (February 24,2012)
# "Sugar Rabies/Mane Wreck" (March 2,2012)
# "Gone Wishin/Scare Play" (March 9,2012)
# "King Frowny Face/Salt Lick City" (March 16,2012)
# "Hairy Water/Fruit of the Doom" (March 23,2012)
# "Gorilla My Dreams/The Pelican Grief" (March 30,2012)
# "Happy Loves Martha/Mummy Dearest" (April 6,2012)
# "Radioactive Bird Jewelry/Handsome is My Maiden Name" (April 13,2012)
# "Let's Talk Turkey/Loonee Sings the Blues" (April 20,2012)
# "The Secret of Stonehenge/Ring Ring the Panda" (April 27,2012)
# "The Plastic Grapes of Wrath/The Missing Lynx" (May 4,2012)
# "Mole Berries/Say Freeze" (May 11,2012)
# "Squirrel of My Dreams/Cry Me a River" (May 18,2012)
# "The Tree of Wife/Eau de Toilet" (May 25,2012)
# "Dr. Platypus and the Flying Squirrels/Worms of Endearment" (June 1,2012)
# "The Nasty Book/Nasty Rhinoplasty" (June 8,2012)
# "The Return of Dr. Platypus/Bloodthirsty the Penguin" (June 15,2012)
# "The Venus Man-Trap/Shaolin Monkey" (June 22,2012)
# "Cactus Makes Perfect/Nasty Ads" (June 29,2012)
# "Stoney Island/Machu Picchu Macho Taco" (July 6,2012)
# "Bearly News/Peanut Butter and Jellyfish" (July 13,2012)
# "Boring Stone People/Buffalo Blow" (July 20,2012)
# "Mustache Sauce/The Bland Canyon" (July 27,2012)
# "Beaver Dang/Frozen Air in a Can" (August 3,2012)
# "Pi Hole/The Wish" (August 10,2012)
== Reception ==
The show initially got mixed reviews, with some saying its a hideous defilement of the absolute masterpiece that is the original show, while others call it a necessary revamping of what was a bland generic cutesy cartoon, and there are also some who think both versions are good in their own ways. Critics usually seemed to agree with the former.
However, not long after it ended, the show became a pretty big meme, with people praising the show ironically, and sometimes unironically, simply for how absurd it all is. Father Time is seen in most memes, due to him having the most funny moments out of everybody.
== Broadcast ==
Country 	Channel 	Language 	Premiere 	Notes
Latin America 	Cartoon Network	Spanish 	January 8,2012-September 2015 	look below
Brazil 	Cartoon Network	Portuguese	January 8,2012-September 2015 	look below
Australia 	ABC3 	English 	February 15,2012-August 20,2012	
Cuboxia 	CTN Kids 	English 	February 17,2012-August 10,2012	
Canada 	Toon-a-Vision 	English 	2020-present 	
France 	Canal+ Family 	French 	Unknown 	
Poland 	Teletoon+ 	Polish 	Unknown 	
United Kingdom	Pop 	English 	Unknown 	
It was also aired on Boomerang in Latin America and Brazil, and was available to stream on Netflix in the United States and ABC IView in Australia at one point.
== Merchandise ==
A game for the series called "Fling the Furry 5" was released on the CTN Kids website and the now defunct YooHooWorldWide website, and the show was released on DVD in Cuboxia on June 27,2015. A new line of plush toys, playsets, and light up dolls for the series were also planned to release, but, this never happened.
== Trivia ==
* In the Latin American and Brazilian broadcasts, the original show's second season was aired as part of this show, despite the second season never being dubbed into this show, making everything about this show and Father Time completely unmentioned and forgotten about.
* The series' international distributor, Moonscoop US, originally said the show was gonna air in German, but this never happened. Despite this, the original series did have a German broadcast.
== See also ==
* YooHoo & Friends, the original toyline the show is based on
* YooHoo & Friends (2009), the original show
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