# hippity hops **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 26, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippity-hops/89696 "2001-10-26T02:32:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![whwaldo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3d9bf3/32.png) [@whwaldo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whwaldo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippity-hops/89696/1 "2001-10-26T02:32:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippity-hops/89696/2 "2001-10-26T02:38:54Z")
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](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 ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippity-hops/89696/3 "2001-10-26T02:40:32Z")
Also…this site has “Toys of the 70s” and explains it as “Hoppety Hop” as well. [http://www.inthe70s.com/generated/toys.shtml](http://www.inthe70s.com/generated/toys.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippity-hops/89696/4 "2001-10-26T02:44:27Z")
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. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippity-hops/89696/5 "2001-10-26T03:36:25Z")
Hippety Hop! Hoppety Hop just sounds stoopid. Evidence? We don’t need no steenkin’ evidence! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippity-hops/89696/6 "2001-10-26T03:47:44Z")
They are also called [Space Hoppers.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=84012) ---
**Author:** ![JRT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@JRT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRT)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippity-hops/89696/7 "2001-10-26T04:08:42Z")
I was raised in ny, and I called them “Hoppety Hops” ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippity-hops/89696/8 "2001-10-26T06:43:16Z")
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