Hopla

Hopla is a Belgian animated educational preschool television series created by Bert Smets and produced by Bert Smets Productions based on Ostend, Belgium. Similar to its spiritual predecessor Tik Tak, the series is aimed at babies and toddlers and has no dialogue (the only dialogue is the series' name). The series is animated with Strata 3D.^[1]

Hopla
Genre	Educational Preschool
Creative director	Bert Smets
Opening theme	"Hopla"
Ending theme	"Hopla" reprise
Country of origin	Belgium
Original language	Dutch (no dialogue in the series)
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	198 (list of episodes)
Production
Production locations	Ostend, Belgium
Running time	5 minutes
Production company	Bert Smets Productions
Original release
Network	Ketnet
Release	2 April 2000 (2000-04-02) – 3 September 2008 (2008-09-03)
Related
Tik Tak Timbalo

The series first aired on Ketnet, a Flemish television channel on 2 April 2000, and became popular soon afterward. Hopla's home entertainment titles have sold over 300,000 copies and their book-related merchandise has garnered sales close to 700,000. The series revolves eight seasons and 198 episodes are aired until 3 September 2008. On 25 June 2025, the series brought Bert Smets to Timbalo.

Plot

Every five-minute episode contains a daily routine of the white anthropomorphic bunny Hopla to start his day stimulates young minds with comforting situations, simple, sweet, bright, familiar objects and a colorful world of fun. He emphasives of looking, learning and loving each other their best friends: the pig Onki, the bear Nina, and a kitten Lola.

Episodes

Main article: List of Hopla episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	32		2 April 2000 (2000-04-02)	3 May 2000 (2000-05-03)
2	32		2 August 2002 (2002-08-02)	2 September 2002 (2002-09-02)
3	32		5 August 2005 (2005-08-05)	5 September 2005 (2005-09-05)
4	32		3 August 2008 (2008-08-03)	3 September 2008 (2008-09-03)
5	10		1 August 2011 (2011-08-01)	TBA

Development and broadcast

In 1999, the series created by the 3D animator designed by Pixar Animation Studios and during the spinoff adventure series of Toy Story, but Smets created a new rabbit character (but the eyes look black peeled as tiny-sized dots in it) because it is the first youth programming in Belgium through Musti (unlikely related). Hopla first aired on Ketnet in Belgium on 2 April 2000. Hopla has been aired in 31 countries (including Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Spain, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States). In Portugal, the show aired on public channel RTP2, with some dialogue added to briefly describe each scene's contents. It also airs on BabyFirst in the United States through 3 December 2007 to 31 December 2010, due to an exclusive multi-year distribution deal between Bert Smets Productions and NCircle Entertainment, a subsidiary of Alliance Entertainment, signed on 16 October 2007 until the cease on 20 May 2008 due to three DVDs are published.