Sunday, February 28, 2021

Loopy Language - Toonstalgia

Slang and Insults from Life with Loopy

Life with Loopy was a series of short cartoons featured on KaBlam! about the life of Larry Cooper with his sister Loopy. I love an interesting use of language. So here's a list of everything I mined from the series.



All definitions are my personal interpretations.

word or phrase - meaning, "Episode appeared"


clam up - be quiet, "Whale of a Time"

crabcake - complaining person, "Whale of a Time"

don't get your REMs in a wrinkle - don't get upset, "Sweet Dreams"

don't get your stuffing steamed up - calm down, "Kung Fu Loopy"

eat an avalanche - shut up, "Mother Nature Bowl-Off"

goober - loser, "Hi-Fi Frankenstein"

grouch bag - a grumpy person, "Trouble with Inflation"

jumping Jupiter - exclamation, "Bargain Hunters from Beyond the Stars"

land lovers - people who cannot fly, "Butterfly Loopy"

mellow out - a plea to a person to calm down, "Egghead"

moldy crabapple - the moon, "Lunar Loopy"

move your fins - run, "Goldfish Ghost"

Mrs. Blusterbuns - a braggard, "Mother Nature Bowl-Off"

Mrs. Windbag - a blustery, noisy person, "Mother Nature Bowl-Off"

muffinhead - silly person, "Egghead"

natureboy - forest ranger, "Back to Nature"

pain in the thorax - unnecessary aggravation, "Butterfly Loopy"

peabrain - small brained, "Goldfish Heaven"

pipsqueak - a child, "Mother Nature Bowl-Off"

put a rocket in a socket - exercise, "Secret Agent Mom"

roofrat - someone who walks on the ceiling, "Upside-Down Loopy"

shrimp - a child, "Loopy and the Lost Voice"

slumber bum - lazy person, "Sweet Dreams"

snot sausage - a person with the flu, "Loopy and the Flu Bug"

space cowboy - a person exploring the moon, "Lunar Loopy"

squirt - a younger person, "Butterfly Loopy"

stinky pits - a person in need of a bath, "Back to Nature"

turniphead - an annoying person, "Back to Nature"

unbutton your earflaps - listen to me, "Goldfish Ghost"

vomit launch variety - stomach flu, "Loopy and the Flu Bug"

What's the motivation for the acceleration? - Why are you going so fast?, "Send in the Clones"

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