# What Cartoon Superhero This?: Zip Zam Zowee Am \[Something\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-superhero-this-zip-zam-zowee-am-something/739034 "2015-11-30T16:47:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-superhero-this-zip-zam-zowee-am-something/739034/1 "2015-11-30T16:47:35Z")
Don’t know from what back crevice of my mind this fragment came, or what triggered it, but I saw or read a cartoon superhero as a kid who had this going-into-action phrase: Zip! Zam! Zowee Am! Kerspoosh! (or something like that). I tried Googling it and got a couple hits but not useful ones; they all lead to [this article](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/10/28/film-pbwoman-of-the-yearb-early/) which makes unreferenced unexplained use of it as a way of saying one of Ken Kesey’s books was comic-bookesque. Ring any bells for anyone? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-superhero-this-zip-zam-zowee-am-something/739034/2 "2015-11-30T16:52:29Z")
Don’t know which one you’re thinking of. but the sound effects remind me of the Hanna-Barnbera characters who were sort-of-Three Musketeers-like dogs, named Yippee, Yappee, and Yahooey. This was also their cry going into battle: > **[Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippee,_Yappee_and_Yahooey)** > > Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey is a Hanna-Barbera animated television series that premiered September 16, 1964. It was presented as a segment of The Peter Potamus Show, along with Breezly and Sneezly and Peter Potamus. > Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey are dogs who serve the King as his Royal Guards. They are usually called the goofy guards by the king. They must always protect, serve and obey the King. They are loosely based on the Three Musketeers. The King doesn't like calling them, because due to their... > **[Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey](http://toonopedia.com/yipyapya.htm)** > > Hypertext encyclopedia of comics and animation ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-superhero-this-zip-zam-zowee-am-something/739034/3 "2015-11-30T16:53:13Z")
Super Bwoing, of the Super 6. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-superhero-this-zip-zam-zowee-am-something/739034/4 "2015-11-30T17:09:55Z")
[Here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch1T8-hDy5I) a clip of him doing it. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cartoon-superhero-this-zip-zam-zowee-am-something/739034/5 "2015-11-30T17:13:55Z")
Wow. Yeah, I have dusty memories of the cartoon itself now, after seeing that, but even less notion of what caused it to suddenly come to mind from out of nowhere yesterday.