Hoppy

Hoppy
Information
Gender	Male
Hair color	Three black hair strands
Occupation	The Rubbles' family pet
Production Details
First appearance	"Hop Happy"
Voiced by	Don Messick Eric Bauza (The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!)

Hoppy is the Rubbles' family pet Hopparoo and a fictional character of the fifth and sixth seasons of the original series, The Flintstones.

Background

Hoppy debuts in the fifth season episode "Hop Happy", where Barney and Betty Rubble acquire him as a new house pet for Bamm-Bamm. He babysits the kids as he takes them around in his pouch.

Personality

Hoppy is very playful and friendly and he seems to be very good at boxing, which Fred Flintstone found out the hard way. At first, Fred regards Hoppy as an overgrown, obnoxious nuisance until the day came when the Flintstones and Rubbles are endangered while out on a picnic and Hoppy goes for help. Hoppy becomes good friends with Dino and often helps with babysitting the children.

Physical Appearance

Hoppy is a Hopparoo with green skin, three black hairs on his head, five black spots on the top of his knees, yellow-tan muzzle on his face, with six light green spikes on his back. Also, he wears a pink or red collar and has a pouch of which he carries Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, and numerous of other things inside. He gets around by hopping on his hind legs.

Appearances

• The Flintstones (1964-1966)
  • "Hop Happy"
  • "Dr. Sinister"
  • "Shinrock A Go-Go"
  • "Fred's Second Car"
  • "The Most Beautiful Baby in Bedrock"
  • "Indianrockolis 500"
  • "Circus Business"
  • "Deep in the Heart of Texarock"
  • "Surfin' Fred"
  • "Itty Bitty Fred"
  • "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes"
  • "Fred's Flying Lesson"
  • "The Masquerade Party"
  • "The Return of Stony Curtis"
  • "The Gravelberry Pie King"
  • "Fred Meets Hercurock"
  • "Disorder in the Court"
  • "A Haunted House is Not a Home"
  • "Adobe Dick"
  • "Sheriff for a Day"
  • "Christmas Flintstone"
  • "Moonlight and Maintenance"
  • "The Long, Long, Long Weekend"
  • "Fred Goes Ape"
  • "Bedrock Rodeo Round-Up"
  • "Fred's Island"
  • "Monster Fred"
  • "Superstone"
  • "Curtain Call at Bedrock"
  • "Two Men on a Dinosaur"
  • "Cinderellastone"
  • "Dino and Juliet"
• The Man Called Flintstone (1966)
• The New Fred and Barney Show (only appeared in the intro)
• The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy (1991)
• The Rubbles (2002)
• The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015)
• The Flintstones: Bring Back Bedrock

Production

Scriptwriter Warren Foster harked back to his days with the Warner Bros. cartoon unit in the scene where Fred and Dino mistook Hoppy for a giant mouse. Hoppy appeared sporadically through the end of the series and is featured in various Flintstones merchandise.

Notes/Trivia

• A CG-animated hopparoo makes a small appearance in the second live-action film The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas and while not meant to be Hoppy it was a clear reference to the character.
• Outside of commercials, shorts, and merchandise, Hoppy was absent from the franchise after the show ended. He didn’t make a real appearance until 2015's The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!.