Rolie Polie Olie — Season 1, Episode 6: Where's Pappy? / Hopin' and a Hoppin' / Just Like Dad
Kids, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy • 22 min • 6 seasons, 78 episodes • ★ 6.7/10
Episode synopsis
While Olie and Zowie are baby-sitting Pappy, he tries to teach them a magic trick. The vanishing grandfather trick seems to work too well, though.; Olie's trying to hop through the entire house on one foot. Frustration rises as he keeps getting interrupted.; Olie decides that he wants to be just like dad. However, he learns that he might not have to change very much.
About Rolie Polie Olie
Rolie Polie Olie was a children's television series produced by Nelvana, distributed by Disney, and created by William Joyce, Maggie Swanson, and Anne Wood. The show centers on a little roly pollie who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI, and the first CGI animated preschool series.Rolie Polie Olie now airs in reruns on Disney Junior. Rolie Polie Olie won a Gemini Award in Canada for "Best Animated Program" in 1999. The show also won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program" in 2000 and 2005. William Joyce won a 1999 Daytime Emmy for Best Production Design for this series. The show has a vintage atmosphere reminiscent of the 1950s and early 1960s, with futuristic elements.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Little Sister, Big Brother / Through Trick and Thin / Bedlam
- E2Ciminin Toast / I Find Rock / Tooth on the Loose
- E3Nap for Spot / The Monster Movie Night / The Top Dog Fish
- E4The House Detectives / The Backyard Jungle / The Best Doggone Show in the World
- E5Mutiny on the Bouncy / Roll the Camera / Pappy's Boat
- E7Spot's Birthday / Sir Rolie Polie Oily / Universal Spot
- E8Squaresville / Zowie's Harmonica / Unruly Polie Olie
- E9Rolie Polie Pogo / 2 Not So Easy Pieces / Gotta Dance
- E10Pappy Days / Copy Cat and Mouse / The Bump
- E11Zowie Got Game / Hickety Ups / Chili's Cold
- E12Our 2 Dads / What to Be / The Magno-Man
- E13Scavenger Hunt / What's Up Jack? / Grown Ups and Kids