Los popples

After watching the videocassette ("Funhouse Follies and Other Stories") of this series that I purchased for very cheap at a local video store, I realised why this was such a minor player in the annals of 80's toy cartoons. There's not much to it. Kids befriend kawii marsupials who get into mischief and eventually everything is sorted out before mom and dad notice. Simplicity itself. Aside from that it isn't very interesting. The video I happen to have, however, was well worth the $3.00 for the supplementary live action/puppetry prequal. It is the cheesiest thing in America. It's worth checking out if you can find it. The dialogue is classic. All I have to say is, quoting the dad, "We just traumatised the kids by giving away a box of their imaginary friends to Goodwill". Speaking of Goodwill, it gets mentioned a lot in the prequal, so I'm guessing that this was meant to be some way to get kids to give to their local thrift store. If that is so, the writers definately went the long way to get the message across. Odd.

These are the cutest videos! They're so much fun! Who cares if they're shallow and have no plot? THEY'RE FOR LITTLE KIDS! I loved them as a kid and I love them now! I think you should at least rent them, not necessarily buy them, but give them a try!

This show, which showed a bunch of cute little furballs popping out of balls, and getting into mischeif. It's been awhile since I last saw this, but just like most cartoons of the time, it was just simply cute. But what I found interesting, was there were no villans involved, but still held a resonable audience. Right up there, with, The Care Bears, and the Smurfs, ads the cutest cartoons of the 80's. There was also a live action Popples episode, as well as the cartoon series I fondly remember, featuring a live boonie and billy, and of course, those cute popples. I wish I had tapes of this show, if I did I would defintely let my children it. I'll always cherish shows such as these.

A classic 1980s cartoon with a lot of charm, I remember watching this cartoon when I was a kid, now I'm 36 and still like it, they don't make animation like this anymore, this was when cartoons were hand drawn.

If you want to see how cute a cartoon can get, this is it. For one, there's no evil villan whatsoever in this series, and it still was able to sell. All this show was was a bunch of furballs that only appeared to 2 kids (bonnie and Billy). All the Popples did was get into trouble, and looked cute while doing it. The cartoon was all right when I remembered it, and there was also, if I can remember correctly, a live action Popples too. I wish I had a tape of this show, if I did, I defintely would let my kids watch it. A wonderful, but very simple show.