History WesternAnimation / HiHiPuffyAmiYumi

''Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi'' is a Creator/CartoonNetwork original series based on the RealLife J-Pop group [[Music/PuffyAmiYumi PUFFY]].[[note]](called ''[=Puffy AmiYumi=]'' in the States to avoid offending [[Music/PuffDaddy a certain trigger-happy rapper]])[[/note]] Airing from November 2004 to June 2006, the show catalogues the often bizarre adventures of the titular best friends/[[TheRockstar musicians]] and their manager Kaz as they travel around on a world tour. These can range from dealing with a deranged fan, to being possessed by the ghost of a dead drummer, to being dragged into forced labor in a third-world country, to time-traveling to the 1970s to become disco stars.

* ComicBookAdaptation: There were 3 regular comic issues and the characters were also featured six times in ''Cartoon Network Block Party'', all published under Creator/DCComics.

** Read again the first part of the OurFounder entry above. [[Film/BillAndTed Does that ring a bell?]]

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''Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi'' is a Creator/CartoonNetwork original series based on the RealLife J-Pop group [[Music/PuffyAmiYumi PUFFY]].[[note]](called ''[=Puffy AmiYumi=]'' in the States to avoid offending [[Music/PuffDaddy a certain trigger-happy rapper]])[[/note]] Airing from November 2004 to June 2006, the show is very much a WidgetSeries, cataloguing the often bizarre adventures of the titular best friends/[[TheRockstar musicians]] and their manager Kaz as they travel around on a world tour. These can range from dealing with a deranged fan, to being possessed by the ghost of a dead drummer, to being dragged into forced labor in a third-world country, to time-traveling to the 1970s to become disco stars.

* CreatorProvincialism: ''Hi Hi...'' is a show about a Japanese pop duo. Or so we're led to believe. The characters themselves say and do things easily identifiable with American Culture as all the writers and animators are from North America. They attempt to remind that Ami and Yumi are from Japan by having them speak in GratuitousJapanese, use chopsticks to eat, obsess over sushi, and spend yen (even though there doesn't seem to be any rate of conversion).

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTqcwK0GGOQ&NR=1 "These guys rock!"]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Creator/NathanCarlson has voiced nearly 100 male characters throughout the series.

* AgeLift: Ami and Yumi are made into teenagers when their real selves were in their late 20's/early 30's. Also, Ami appeared to be the younger one--when in real life, she's a bit older than Yumi.

%%* OneMillionBC: "Puffy BC" takes place in the prehistoric times, along with sequel episode, "B.C. Road Trip".

* CreatorProvincialism: ''Hi Hi...'' is a show about a Japanese pop duo. Or so we're led to believe. The characters themselves say and do things easily identifiable with American Culture as all the writers and animators are from North America. They attempt to remind Ami and Yumi are from Japan by having them speak in GratuitousJapanese, use chopsticks to eat, obsess over sushi, and spend yen (even though there doesn't seem to be any rate of conversion...) but, after all, WeAllLiveInAmerica.

* PerkyGoth: Yumi.

* TrainingMontage: Spoofed in "Ninjcompoop" were Yumi's skill do not improve with training. Set to one of the band's songs ironically enough.

* WalkingTheEarth: Or rather, ''touring'' the Earth.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: These aren't infrequent.

* InNameOnly: The title of the show is really the only thing that has anything to do with the band.

* MushroomSamba: Complete with an AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle ending.

* OneHourWorkWeek: In one episode, Kaz tells Ami and Yumi he's got enough time to coach a football team because their shows only last half an hour per weel.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The titular characters are on the receiving end of a lot of physical abuse.

* TheyFightCrime: They did in one episode and quit this occupation, after their fellow heroes kept letting the bad guys go free.

* PetcontestEpisode: In "Kitty Kontest", Kaz enters Ami and Yumi's cats in a contest but turns out the cat contest isn't for a few months, so Kaz decides to enter the cats in a dog contest by pretending that they're dogs.

* CorrupedContingency: In "Home Insecurity", Yumi installs a new security system in her room to prevent Ami from using her computer. Unfortunately, Yumi set the computer to attack anyone who enters her room which the system interprets to include Yumi.

* IdentityAmnesia: In "AmiAmi" Yumi gets amnesia and thinks she’s Ami after getting electrocuted by the microwave.

* ItsAWonderfulPlot: In "Yumi Goes Solo", Yumi wishes she never joined Puffy AmiYumi after having to do a bunch of work for it while Ami and Kaz go to a candy eating expo. She ends up dreaming of a world where she is a solo act, Kaz works for the cats, and Ami is a homeless StreetMusician. Seeing them in misery makes her wish she had her friends again.

** Evil Ami and Evil Yumi from "Evil AmiYumi" have beards, much like the evil versions of Stan, Kyle and Cartman from the season 2 episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' "Spooky Fish".

* ComicBookAdaptation: There were 3 regular comic issues and the characters were also featured six times in ''Cartoon Network Block Party'', all published under Creator/DCComics

* CharacterExaggeration: The titular duo are this. Ami makes more sense, though.

* DontTryThisAtHome: At the end of one of the episodes, the Flash-animated Ami and Yumi warns kids that too much sushi is hazardous to your health.
** Of course, this is TruthInTelevision if you happen to consume a lot of sushi made with tuna, mackerel, yellowtail, swordfish and/or seabass.

* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Played straight in "Yumi Goes Solo"

* NegativeContinuity[=/=]SeriesContinuityError: Generally speaking, when there's an episode where it needs a shot of the interior of the tour bus, it's always different on each of the episodes.
** In the first episode:
*** It's stated that Yumi has been petrified of squirrels since age 5. In season 2, not only can she fluently speak squirrel, but she was also president of the Squirrel Fan Club. As a whole there's not much, tying these episodes together.
*** It's also been stated that Yumi has a tiny birthmark of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln on her left foot--but when we do see her barefoot, it's absent.
** Kaz is shown to be a fan of watching paint dry in one episode, but in another episode, he rips the girls for doing the same thing.
** In the same case with Yumi's Abe Lincoln birthmark, Yumi stated that Ami also has a(n unseen) mark in the episode "Evil [=AmiYumi=]".

* SpiritualSuccessor: This show busts it's seams to capture the goofiness of celebrity cartoons that Sam Reigster is a fan of. Even down to having the live action Ami and Yumi bookend the segments akin to the format of pre-''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' era of cartoons with the format of three shorts framed by a live action segment. Also following in the footsteps of Creator/ChuckNorris and Creator/MrT who did live action segments for their own cartoons.

* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: the girls and Kaz find themselves in this situation (and have their brains probed by intelligent bananas from space) in the episode "Spaced Out!"

* UncattyResemblance: In Domo's debut episode of the same name, titular Domo looks just like Kaz [[PlayedForLaughs that everyone mistakes them for each other]].

* UnreadableDisclaimer: Kaz's contract is filled with lengthy subsections and loopholes that are a subject of many of the escapades the duo find themselves in, but the real kicker is a section hidden under a flap and written in Russian saying that he reserves the right to sell the band.

* RapunzelHair: Ami. Her long, wavy pink hair reaches all the way down to her bottom.

* DarthVaderClone: Ami and Yumi encounter a blatant Darth Vader pastiche in the episode "Puffynauts".

* SkirtOverSlacks: Yumi wears a skirt over her shorts.

* MirrorUniverse: "Evil [=AmiYumi=] featured a paralle universe full of {{evil twin}}s with [[BeardOfEvil evil beards]].

** In the same case with Yumi's Abe Lincoln birthmark, Yumi stated that Ami also has a(n unseen) mark in the episode "Evil AmiYumi".

%%* OneMillionBC: "Puffy BC"