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Peter Potamus is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
 and first broadcast on September 16, 1964 (Early promotional materials for the series carried the title Peter Potamus and his Magic Flying Balloon, but that title never appeared on screen).

eter Potamus was a syndicated series divided into three segments; one of Peter Potamus and So-So, one of Breezly and Sneezly
Breezly and Sneezly

Breezly and Sneezly is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon first broadcast on September 16, 1964 as part of Peter Potamus.23 episodes were produced....
, and one of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey
Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey

Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon which premiered September 16 1964. The show was presented as a segment of Peter Potamus, along with Breezly and Sneezly and Peter Potamus....
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Peter Potamus is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
 and first broadcast on September 16, 1964 (Early promotional materials for the series carried the title Peter Potamus and his Magic Flying Balloon, but that title never appeared on screen).

Premise

Peter Potamus was a syndicated series divided into three segments; one of Peter Potamus and So-So, one of Breezly and Sneezly
Breezly and Sneezly

Breezly and Sneezly is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon first broadcast on September 16, 1964 as part of Peter Potamus.23 episodes were produced....
, and one of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey
Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey

Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon which premiered September 16 1964. The show was presented as a segment of Peter Potamus, along with Breezly and Sneezly and Peter Potamus....
. Peter Potamus was a companion series to Magilla Gorilla, and both series premiered in first-run syndication before being picked up by ABC-TV in 1966. At that time, the Breezly and Sneezly
Breezly and Sneezly

Breezly and Sneezly is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon first broadcast on September 16, 1964 as part of Peter Potamus.23 episodes were produced....
 segment was swapped with Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long, a segment on the Magilla Gorilla show. After the ABC run, cartoons from the Magilla Gorilla
Magilla Gorilla

Magilla Gorilla is the main character from The Magilla Gorilla Show, an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera between January 14, 1964, and 1967....
 and Peter Potamus shows were syndicated together.

The original Peter Potamus series can occasionally be seen on the cable TV channel Boomerang
Boomerang (TV channel)

Boomerang is a 24-hour United States cable television television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System . The network debuted April 1, 2000....
. During the original run of the cartoon (1964), at the end of each episode, the closing song ended with the phrase: "And there he goes Peter Potamus, our ideal" (The Ideal toy company was the sponsor of the television series. A similarly subtle sponsor reference appeared in the Magilla Gorilla theme song lyrics: "He's really ideal").

Bio

It featured Peter Potamus the hippopotamus
Hippopotamus

The hippopotamus or hippo is a large, mostly herbivore African mammal, one of only two Extant taxon species in the scientific classification Hippopotamidae ....
 (voiced by Daws Butler
Daws Butler

Daws Butler was a voice actor born in Toledo, Ohio, Ohio. He originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, and Huckleberry Hound....
 impersonating Joe E. Brown
Joe E. Brown (comedian)

Joseph Evans Brown was an United States actor and comedian. In 1902 at the age of 10, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvellous Astons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits....
) and his sidekick, So-So the monkey
Monkey

A monkey is a nonhuman primate mammal with the exception usually of the lemurs and tarsiers. More specifically, the term monkey refers to a subset of monkeys: any of the smaller longer-tailed catarrhine or platyrrhine primates as contrasted with the apes....
 (voiced by Don Messick
Don Messick

Donald "Don" Messick was one of the most prolific voice actors of the second half of the 20th century.Messick, a native of Buffalo, New York, voiced several classic cartoon characters, including Scooby-Doo, Ranger Smith and Boo Boo , Muttley, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Astro , Zorak, Godzooky, Dr....
). Peter was big, purple, and friendly. Episodes generally consisted of Peter and So-So exploring the world in his time-traveling hot air balloon
Hot air balloon

The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first manned flight was made by Jean-Fran?ois Pil?tre de Rozier and Fran?ois Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers....
. When faced with a certain situation, Peter uses his Hippo Hurricane Holler technique to blow away his opponents.

Episodes

  • Fee Fi Fo Fun / No Place Like Nome / The Volunteers
  • Lion Around / All Riot on the Northern Front / Black Bart
  • Cleo Trio / Missile Fizzle / Double Dragon
  • No Rest for a Pest / Mass Masquerade / Outlaw in-Law
  • Wagon Train Strain / Furry Furlough / Horse Shoo Fly
  • Monotony on the Bounty / Bruin Ruin / Wild Child
  • The Good Hood / Freezing Fleas / Witch is Which
  • Stars on Mars / Stars and Gripes / Wise Quacking
  • Kooky Spook / Armoured Amour / Nautical Nitwits
  • The Island Fling / As the Snow Flies / Job Robbed
  • Courtin Trouble / Snow Biz / Unicorn on the Cob
  • Big Red Riding Hood / Unseen Trouble / Mouse Rout
  • Hurricane Hippo / Nervous in the Service / Handy Dandy Lion
  • What a Knight / Birthday Bonanza / Sappy Birthday
  • Mask Task / Bad Guys Are Good Guys / King of the Roadhogs
  • Pre-Hysterical Pete / Itchy Finger Gunslinger / Palace Pal Picnic
  • Trite Flite / Clunko Buncko / Sleepy Time King
  • Marriage Peter Potamus Style / Slick Quick Gun / Pie Pie Blackbird
  • Calaboose Caboose / Mostly Ghostly
  • Eager Ogre / Will O' the Whip
  • The Reform of Plankenstein / Cactus Ruckus
  • Dept and Taxes / Rapid Romance
  • Wrong Time No See / El Loco, Loco, Loco Diablo
  • America or Bust / Big Town Show Down
  • Rebel Rumble / Space Sheriff
  • Pilgrims Regress / Red Riding Ricochet
  • The Crossbow Incident / Jail Break-In


Other Appearances

  • Peter Potamus and So So appeared in Yogi's Ark Lark
    Yogi's Ark Lark

    Yogi?s Ark Lark is an animated Hanna-Barbera television movie, intended to raise ecological awareness; broadcast in 1972, it was part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie and the television pilot for Yogi's Gang....
     and it's spin-off series Yogi's Gang
    Yogi's Gang

    Yogi's Gang is a 30-minute animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired 16 half-hour episodes on American Broadcasting Company from September 8, 1973, to August 30, 1975....
    .


  • Peter Potamus guest starred in some episodes of Yogi's Treasure Hunt
    Yogi's Treasure Hunt

    Yogi's Treasure Hunt was a segment on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera and later as a separate full series produced by Hanna-Barbera....
    .


  • Peter Potamus appeared in teenager form in the early 1990s series Yo Yogi
    Yo Yogi!

    Yo Yogi! is an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera that aired on NBC on Saturday mornings during the 1991 in television-1992 in television season....
    , where he was voiced by Frank Welker
    Frank Welker

    Franklin W. Welker is a veteran United States voice acting. He is responsible for a broad spectrum of character voices, and other vocal effects that have appeared over the last 40 years in American television and motion pictures....
    . He and So-So were shown to own a plant store at Jellystone Mall called Peter Potamus' Plant Palace. In "Tricky Dickie's Dirty Trickies," he is shown to be allergic to goldenrods.


  • Peter Potamus later became a recurring character on the parody show Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
    Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

    Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is a United States animated television series comedy created by Williams Street that aired on Cartoon Network during its Adult Swim late night programming block....
    , where he is voiced in a Brooklyn
    Brooklyn

    Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
     accent by Joe Alaskey
    Joe Alaskey

    Joe Alaskey is an American actor, comedian, and voice artist, credited as one of the successors of Mel Blanc in impersonating the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other characters from Warner Bros....
     and later voiced by Chris Edgerly
    Chris Edgerly

    Chris Edgerly is an American voice actor.He currently provides the voice of Peter Potamus on the Adult Swim animated series, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, in addition to several guest voices on the TV series Drawn Together....
    . In it, he is a sexually charged hippo working in the firm with Harvey Birdman. He has the trademark phrase, "Did you get that thing I sent you?"


  • Peter Potamus was the mascot of the fictional restaurant "Pizza Potamus" in two episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force

    Aqua Teen Hunger Force is an United States animated television series shown on Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim late-night Block programming, as well as Teletoon in Canada....
    . In both episodes, the restaurant was destroyed by explosion.


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