hippity hops

Factual Questions
1

OK - here’s my question of worldwide import - you know that kids toy which is a large inflatable ball with a handle on top, which the child sits upon and rides - is it called a Hippity Hop or Hoppity Hop? My wife swears it is the latter, while I am quite sure it is the former - I even remember the commercials in the 70’s for “Hippity Hop and Hippity Horse.”

Friends are evenly divided. An internet search shows numerous hits on both names, but I could find no definitive answer.

I am now beginning to suspect that both existed - kind of like those tasty and similar sounding snack cakes Ring Dings and Ding Dongs.

2

I have always remembered it as “Hippety Hop.” I think I saw one in a store not too long ago, and I’m fairly sure that was it too.

But then, I searched, and I came upon this:
http://www.robinsweb.com/interesting/I_S_O.html

Which just happens to prove me and you wrong. There’s a picture on there with “Hoppety Hop” clearly embossed on the toy. So, there’s your answer

3

Also…this site has “Toys of the 70s” and explains it as “Hoppety Hop” as well.

http://www.inthe70s.com/generated/toys.shtml

4

I remember these as Hippety Hops. When they were fashionable we lived on the west coast. Maybe they were Hippety Hops west of the Rockies and Hoppety Hops east of the Rockies, like Best Foods and Hellmann’s mayonnaise.

:wink:

5

Hippety Hop! Hoppety Hop just sounds stoopid.

Evidence? We don’t need no steenkin’ evidence!

6

They are also called Space Hoppers.

7

I was raised in ny, and I called them “Hoppety Hops”

8

Since this has been discusses so recently, I’ll close this thread and direct any remaining comment to the earlier thread, linked to above by Nostradamus.

bibliophage
moderator GQ