YooHoo & Friends

***YooHoo & Friends*** (Korean: ***유후와 친구들***) is a Korean animated children's television series produced by Aurora World. The series is based on the toyline of the same name. The series focuses on a group of animals that accidentally get sent to Earth, and must find the missing magical seeds of the Tree of Life to get back to their home.

The series initially debuted on KBS2 on July 2, 2009 for one season. Two more seasons of the show would then air, starting from October 21, 2013 to April 9, 2015 on KBS1. The show was not renewed for a fourth season.

In 2012, an official English gag dub of the same name based on the first season of the series was released, created by David Feiss and produced by Toonzone Studios. It was made for Western audiences to relate to the series more, but it didn't do well and it never got a second season.

## יוהו וחברים

### Year(s)

2011

Sometime in 2011, a Hebrew dub of the first season of *YooHoo & Friends* was aired by Hop! Channel in Israel, known as "יוהו וחברים". Besides the cast and crew information, provided by Ishim here, the dub itself is completely lost. However, the second season has more found content that is officially available on YouTube.

## YooHoo & Friends

The poster of the official abridged series, featuring the five main characters, and Father Time, a new character added for the dub.

### Found by

Shaggy 4457

*See more on The Lost Media Wiki*
David Feiss, who created *Cow and Chicken* and *I Am Weasel*, was once contacted by Konnie Kwak, the president of Toonzone Studios, to make the original Korean *YooHoo & Friends* series into something he could sell to western television. He had decided to approach 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.

This re-dub/adaptation premiered on ABC Me in Australia on February 15, 2012, and on Pop in the United Kingdom in the same year. It was produced by Toonzone Studios in the US, recorded in GGRP Sound in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada and written by Tom Krajewski (with Feiss helping with writing the first episode).

The dub in particular is a "gag dub", making a lot of fourth-wall breaks and adding its own jokes, as well as heavily rewriting the show to the point where it is considered a different show entirely. However, besides the new animation and Father Time segments, it is still a re-dub of the original. This dub was incredibly scarce at one point, as it was never officially released anywhere, and only some clips and screenshots remained.

Eventually, on November 3rd, 2016, the entire English dub was uploaded onto YouTube by Shaggy 4457 (who had previously recorded and released their rips before, but they were soon taken down). Shaggy's account was terminated shortly afterwards, but many mirrors have since resurfaced, unfortunately only leaving a watermark and a lot of glitches. The original files uploaded by Shaggy have resurfaced on April 12, 2021, save for one episode ("The Return of Dr. Platypus") that thankfully doesn't have any glitches in watermarked rips. While the English dub of this series was fortunately found in full, the same cannot be said for the only two dubs that were produced for it.

## YooHoo y sus amigos

### Year(s)

2012

*YooHoo y sus amigos* is one of two dubs produced for the 2012 *YooHoo & Friends* series, that premiered on January 8, 2012 on Cartoon Network's Movimiento Cartoon block in Latin America; it was also the worldwide premiere of the show, along with Brazilian Portuguese on the same day. The dub was later seen on Boomerang.

The intro to the dub was the first thing that resurfaced online, as it was uploaded to YouTube on February 19, 2012 by CN Tandas 1. However, it is in abysmally low quality, with very loud music and very poor visuals. So far, not even the theme song has managed to be found in a decent quality.

On an unknown date, the Gem Sequence song from this dub was uploaded in decent quality by an unknown user, however it got taken down years later.

on May 25, 2020, the user "13" uploaded the episode "Noticias Osunas" in a decent quality, the user claims that the episode was uploaded on dailymotion but would be deleted on an unknown date

Only 10 episodes of this dub have been uploaded online in March 2015 by a YouTube user called J & L, however they were all cam recorded from when the series started to air on Boomerang. Other than that, any other episodes have not been found.

## YooHoo - Amigos da Natureza

### Year(s)

2012

The Brazilian Portuguese dub of the series, "YooHoo - Amigos da Natureza" (YooHoo - Friends of Nature) shares a similar history with the Latin American Spanish dub, being originally broadcast on Cartoon Network's Movimento Cartoon block in Brazil before later moving to Boomerang. However, this dub is even more lost, with no full episodes being found.

On October 21, 2012, YouTube user kayllasanthome had cam-recorded the Gem Sequence song and posted it to YouTube. After being lost for a long time, the theme song had suddenly been uploaded by El Capo Johnny on April 6, 2019, though the video has since been deleted due to the user being terminated. It is currently unknown how they retrieved this.

A notable mention is that on October 13, 2014, an Up Next bumper from when the show aired on Cartoon Network Brazil was uploaded by Cartooners.

Surprisingly on Feb 10, 2023, the user "MisterMiracle95" uploaded the episode "A moras pintas" in a decent quality and it is the only complete episode that can be found in portuguese

1. ↑ https://www.ishim.co.il/m.php?s=%D7%99%D7%95%D7%94%D7%95+%D7%95%D7%97%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D%232011
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frMK6\_U2pFs
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLycXoFy75QCAoJlIHw-k-ZUANa3ykC9fC
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yi-xGrB\_m0
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aESK5UvsUxQ
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMMqVsLeRU
7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj0RgCQ2glc

## External links

* *유후와 친구들* on the Dubbing Database
* *YooHoo & Friends* on the English Dubbing Wiki
* *YooHoo & Friends (2012)* on the Lost Media Wiki