Popples (1986 TV series)

September 13, 1986 – July 18, 1987

Popples is an animated television series, based on the Popples toys, created by Marie Cisterino, Janet Jones, Fran Kariotakis, Janet Redding, and Susan Trentel, that aired in syndication in the United States from 1986 to 1987. The cartoon was produced by DIC Enterprises and LBS Communications in association with The Maltese Companies.

Like the toys which they are based on, the Popples resemble colorful teddy bears/rabbits with long, pompom-tipped tails, and they have pouches on their backs that allow them to curl into a fuzzy ball. All the Popples stutter when they say words with the letter "P" in them. 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 could not 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 make the kids activities go out of hand, but with beneficial results by the end. The plot revolved around the children's efforts to hide the existence of the Popples from the adults around them, although their existence is found out by the Wagner parents in the pilot and not in the cartoons.

The Popples also had a comic book series from Star Comics (an imprint of Marvel Comics).

A new Netflix series based on the characters premiered in October 2015.

Although it was mainly produced by DiC's studios in the USA, Canada and its origin country of France, the series utilizes a Japanese anime-esque aesthetic in both its animation and its sound effects. The reason for this is because that Japanese companies such as Nippon Animation and Fizz Sound Creation contributed greatly to the production of the series, as they did with other DiC-produced series at the time like Inspector Gadget, The Care Bears, and Rainbow Brite.

For Season 2, the Post Production Sound Services was provided by Animation City Editorial Services, Inc., Michael J. Cowan serves as an sound engineer, and also an sound transferred. Richard Bruce Elliot serves as an supervisor sound editor.

Also See

• Popples (2015 TV Series)

Sound Effects Used

This classic 80s cartoon show uses anime sound effects, along with Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros., Cartoon Trax Volume 1, Turner Entertainment Co., Series 1000, and a few Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends sound effects.

• Anime Big Pop Sound
• Anime Body Fall Sound 19
• Anime Bonk Sound (various pitches)
• Anime Bounce Sound 2
• Anime Deep Hit Sound
• Anime Pop Sound 1
• Anime Pop Sound 11
• Anime Pop Sound 18 (Heard in the 2nd season.)
• Anime Squeak Sound 7
• Anime Sputter Down Sound
• Anime Tap Sound
• Anime Twitch Sound 4
• Cartoon Suction Sound (reverse)
• Cartoon Whoosh 13
• Cartoon Woozy Sound
• Elektra Records, Car Skid And Crash/Sound Ideas, CRASH, AUTO - AUTO APPROACH, SKID AND CRASH, CARTOON/Sound Ideas, AUTO, CRASH - SKIDS AND CRASHES 03
• Famous Studios Cartoon Fall Sound (Heard once in "Tree House Capers", and "Museum Peace".)
• H-B BING, CARTOON - VOCAL BING
• H-B BOING, CARTOON - LITTLE BOING
• H-B SLIDE, CARTOON - QUICK SLIDE UP
• H-B ZIP, CARTOON - QUICK WHISTLE STREAK ZIP IN (Heard once in a higher-pitched in "Tree House Capers".)
• H-B ZIP, CARTOON - VERY QUICK ZIP
• Hollywoodedge, Bass String Pluck CRT047102/H-B HIT, CARTOON - SMALL BONK 01
• Hollywoodedge, Boing Box Bing CRT2010806
• Hollywoodedge, Bounce Jews Harp CRT015806/Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - FLAT BONK
• Hollywoodedge, Bulb Horn Honk PE940706/H-B HIT, CARTOON - HORN BONK
• Hollywoodedge, Cork Pop Reverb PE941604
• Hollywoodedge, Quick Whistle Zip By CRT057504 (Heard once in a higher-pitched and reverse edit in "Tree House Capers".)
• Hollywoodedge, School Bell Long Ring PE193201 (Debut, used as an alarm machine; heard once near the end in "Funhouse Folly".)
• Hollywoodedge, Snap Sudden Cartoon PE941605
• Hollywoodedge, Wheezy Honk Cymbal PE941302/Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - SINGLE TIMP DOING/HIT, CARTOON - DRUM RISE/HIT, CARTOON - HEAVY RISING HIT
• Hollywoodedge, Wubble Wobble Spring PE940704
• Joel Valentine Huge Crash Sound
• Miscellaneous Anime Sound 5
• Miscellaneous Anime Sound 156
• Miscellaneous Anime Sound 157
• R-B BOING, CARTOON - SMALL BOING 02
• Sound Ideas, AUTO, SKID - TIRE SKID 01 (Heard once in "Poppin' Wheelies".)
• Sound Ideas, BELL, FIRE - ELECTRIC FIRE BELL RINGS
• Sound Ideas, BLOOP, CARTOON - LITTLE BLOOP
• Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - BOINK AND WIGGLE
• Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - HOYT'S BOING
• Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - SMALL BOING
• Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - SPROING 01
• Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - BOINK 01
• Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - DOINK 03/HIT, CARTOON - PAT'S BILP
• Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - LITTLE BOINK
• Sound Ideas, BORK, CARTOON - LOUD ZORK
• Sound Ideas, CARTOON, ACCENT - CARTOON, CARTOON, 20 VERSIONS, DIGIFFECTS
• Sound Ideas, CARTOON, AIRPLANE - JET: PASS BY
• Sound Ideas, CARTOON, BOING - VIBRATING WOODEN SPRONG
• Sound Ideas, CARTOON, POP - BIG CORK POP
• Sound Ideas, CARTOON, SQUEAK - SHORT WOOD SQUEAK
• Sound Ideas, COMEDY, ACCENT - SPROINGS
• Sound Ideas, COMEDY - HOLLOW BONK (Heaviest used of this sound effect in most episodes in various pitches; used often for whenever the Popples are shown popping up.)
• Sound Ideas, CRASH, CARTOON - TONY'S BASS, DRUM AND CYMBAL CRASH, MUSIC, PERCUSSION
• Sound Ideas, DOOR, WOOD - SKIP'S HANDLE OPEN
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RICOCHET - SHORT THIN RICOCHET, BULLET 02 (Season 2 only.)
• Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BASEBALL HIT (Heard often in "Popple Cheer".)
• Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BIG HEAD BONK
• Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - BILP
• Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - FLAT PEEONG 01
• Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - KABLAM
• Sound Ideas, PICK, CARTOON - FIDDLE PICK AND RISE, MEDIUM 01
• Sound Ideas, PICK, CARTOON - FIDDLE PICK AND RISE, MEDIUM 02
• Sound Ideas, PLINK, CARTOON - SOUR PLINK (Normal and distorted edits.)
• Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 01 (Season 2 only.)
• Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - WIND WHISTLE SCAT
• Sound Ideas, SKID, CARTOON - BROKEN SKID
• Sound Ideas, SLIDE, CARTOON - FAST SLIDE UP AND DOWN 02
• Sound Ideas, SQUISH, CARTOON - LITTLE SQUISH
• Sound Ideas, SQUISH, CARTOON - SOFT SQUISH
• Sound Ideas, SWISH, CARTOON - FAST TWIRLING SWISH, LONG
• Sound Ideas, SWISH, CARTOON - SINGLE SWISH
• Sound Ideas, TAKE, CARTOON - WHISTLE TAKE
• Sound Ideas, THUD, CARTOON - DULL THUD, SINGLE, RUN 01
• Sound Ideas, THUD, CARTOON - DULL THUD, SINGLE, RUN 02
• Sound Ideas, THUD, CARTOON - DULL THUD, SINGLE, RUN 03
• Sound Ideas, THUMP, CARTOON - TUBE THUNK 01
• Sound Ideas, TWANG, CARTOON - BOWANG
• Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, STEAM - FACTORY WHISTLE, LARGE FACTORY/Elektra Records, Factory Whistle
• Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - BIG WHISTLE ZING OUT
• Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - CRAZY UP 01
• Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - QUICK WHISTLE ZIP IN
• Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - QUICK WHISTLE ZIP OUT
• Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - QUICK WHISTLE ZIP OUT, HIGH
• Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - RICCO ZIP IN 01 (R & B)/H-B ZIP, CARTOON - QUICK WHISTLE ZIP IN, HIGH
• Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - SHARP ZIP
• TECHNICOLOR GLASS SHATTER 01 (Heard once near the end in "No Bizness Like Popple Bizness".)
• WB CARTOON, HEAD SHAKE - TROMBONE GOBBLE

Image Gallery

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