Cartoon
The New Hanna-Barbera Show

Animal
Hyena

Outfit: boater / collar bowtie / most of Bob Newhart's face

Tagline: "Oh dear... oh my.... "

Plot summary: Along with Touché Turtle and Wally Gator, "The New Hanna-Barbera Show" used brand recognition and a scheming, heel general manager to debut Lippy the Lion, a cartoon about a lippy lion (natch) whose increasingly futile schemes for fame or fortune make his emo hyena sidekick more and more depressed. Despite being named "Hardy Har Har" and being a hyena, Hardy was always lowering his head, frowning, and going "oh no im bout to be eff'd in the a" before getting an anvil dropped on his face because Lippy wanted, I don't know, a sandwich, and couldn't think of a better way to get one. Imagine a broken Barney Rubble, addicted to painkillers and covered in body paint. Now throw him off the top of a 20 foot ladder. That's Hardy Har Har. I think. (more)

User Comments: The last Lippy Lion cartoon I watched on Boomerang was about Lippy in Ireland trying to get a pot of gold away from a leprechaun who kept shapeshifting, an episode revolving mostly around Hardy standing in one spot going OKAY LIPPY I'M DOIN WHAT YOU SAID before being heinously rused. Lippy just runs around going "I WANT THE GOAL, SHOW ME THE GOAL, I WANT THE GOAL, WHERE THE GOAL." If I remember correctly it ended with Hardy getting hit in the head with a shillelagh.

I don't know why Hardy was so bummed out, or why if he was so bummed out and always getting sand in his vagina why he kept hanging around with Lippy, but he was, and did. Maybe he lost his girlfriend, and mild, zoomorphic animal shenanigans were the sixties' internet. Maybe it was an "Ikiru" situation and Hardy followed Lippy around because Lippy was so alive and full of vitality, and Hardy needed something to cling to. No matter what, I'm convinced that Lippy has enough Snagglepuss in him to drop like a vest full of bricks if a hyena snapped and clawed him in the chest. .

User Rating: 6.9/10 (10,467 votes)