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Herbie Popnecker Examples:
Speech Patterns:
Bop You With This Here Lollipop

Created: 2004-10-16     Updated: 2012-05-18  
Stories: 25     Examples: 35     Links: 35  

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Herbie often bops his adversaries with special bopping lollipops, which makes bopping a power. But bopping led to his catchphrase rhetorical question "You want I should bop you with this here lollipop?" so maybe it's a gag speech pattern. Bopped bad guys would imitate Herbie's catchphrase, "He bopped me with this here lollipop!"

It's not clear whether bopping requires Herbie's strength -- it might just be technique, combined with the power of the lollipops themselves. Being so effective, there are several sound-effects associated with bopping.

Index terms: hit, lollipop, weapon, sucker punch, bop, bopping, bopped, lollibop, lollibopping, bop you with this here lollipop, catchphrase, Richard E. Hughes, Ogden Whitney

In Forbidden Worlds #110, Herbie first uses his most famous catchphrase. Note that he does not say "this here lollipop" as he talks to a lion.
Source: Forbidden Worlds #110 p.9 (1963-03)
Updated: 2004-11-02
In Forbidden Worlds #110 , Herbie first uses his most famous catchphrase.
Prime Example: Forbidden Worlds #116. Note that he does not say "this here lollipop" as he talks to a tiger.
Source: Forbidden Worlds #114 p.6 (1963-09)
Updated: 2004-10-16
Prime Example : Forbidden Worlds #116 .
Herbie #1a. Note that he does not say "this here lollipop" as he talks to a dragon. BLAM!
Source: Herbie #1a p.9 (1964-04)
Updated: 2004-10-16
Herbie #1a .
Herbie #2b. Not the whole catchphrase, but his first use of "this here lollipop". BAM!
Source: Herbie #2b p.6 (1964-06)
Updated: 2004-10-16
Herbie #2b .
On the cover of #3, Herbie says the entire catchphrase for the first time...
Source: Herbie #3 (1964-08)
Updated: 2004-11-12
On the cover of #3 , Herbie says the entire catchphrase for the first time...
but in the story, he does not say "this here lollipop".
Source: Herbie #3a p.10 (1964-08)
Updated: 2004-10-16
but in the story, he does not say "this here lollipop".
In #4a, the recipient of the bopping says "bopped me with this here lollipop". BOP!
Source: Herbie #4a p.3 (1964-09)
Updated: 2004-10-16
In #4a , the recipient of the bopping says "bopped me with this here lollipop".
Same deal in #4b. BLAM!
Source: Herbie #4b p.7 (1964-09)
Updated: 2004-10-16
Same deal in #4b .
Source: Herbie #5b p.6 (1964-10)
Updated: 2004-11-12
BLAM!
In #6b, the abbreviation "lolli-bop" is used.
Source: Herbie #6b p.8 (1964-12)
Updated: 2004-10-16
In #6b , the abbreviation "lolli-bop" is used.
Lollipops are powerful for bopping! BLAM!
Source: Herbie #7a p.9 (1965-02)
Updated: 2004-11-13
Lollipops are powerful for bopping!
Take note: Strawberry is loaded. WHAM!
Source: Herbie #7a p.11 (1965-02)
Updated: 2004-11-13
Take note: Strawberry is loaded.
In #7a, the classic expression as he threatens the reader at the end of the story. Herbie suggests that he might bop himself with this here lollipop, which actually happens in #21b.
Source: Herbie #7a p.13 (1965-02)
Updated: 2004-10-16
In #7a , the classic expression as he threatens the reader at the end of the story.
In #9a, one of Herbie's doubles sounds like a record that's stuck.
Source: Herbie #9a p.4 (1965-04)
Updated: 2004-10-16
In #9a , one of Herbie's doubles sounds like a record that's stuck.
Source: Herbie #9b p.9 (1965-04)
Updated: 2004-10-16
Herbie #9b9
In #11a, two in one blow. BAM! POW!
Source: Herbie #11a p.3 (1965-08)
Updated: 2004-11-11
In #11a , two in one blow.
In #12b, four in one blow. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
Source: Herbie #12b p.9 (1965-09)
Updated: 2004-10-16
In #12b , four in one blow.
In #13a, bopping actually sounds like "BOP!". Note the animation of Herbie's arm.
Source: Herbie #13a p.8 (1965-10)
Updated: 2004-10-16
In #13a , bopping actually sounds like " BOP!
Source: Herbie #14a (1965-12)
Updated: 2004-10-16
BLAM!
Source: Herbie #15a p.10 (1966-02)
Updated: 2004-10-16
BLAM!
Herbie threatens the reader at the end of the story.
Source: Herbie #15a p.17 (1966-02)
Updated: 2004-10-16
Herbie threatens the reader at the end of the story.
In #16a, out of eating lollipops, Herbie eats a special bopping lollipop.
Source: Herbie #16a p.14 (1966-03)
Updated: 2004-10-16
In #16a , out of eating lollipops, Herbie eats a special bopping lollipop.
Herbie threatens the reader at the end of the story.
Source: Herbie #16b p.9 (1966-03)
Updated: 2004-10-16
Herbie threatens the reader at the end of the story.
Source: Herbie #17a p.9 (1966-04)
Updated: 2004-10-16
KER-POW!
In #19b, Herbie retaliates after his shadow kicks him for going too slow. KER-POW!
Source: Herbie #19b p.3 (1966-08)
Updated: 2004-10-16
In #19b , Herbie retaliates after his shadow kicks him for going too slow.
Source: Herbie #19b p.5 (1966-08)
Updated: 2004-10-16
KER-BAM!
Six in one blow. KER-BLAM!
Source: Herbie #19b p.6 (1966-08)
Updated: 2004-10-16
Six in one blow.
Three in one blow with the super-bopper. WHAM!
Source: Herbie #20b p.6 (1966-09)
Updated: 2004-10-16
Three in one blow with the super-bopper.
Source: Herbie #20b p.10 (1966-09)
Updated: 2004-10-21
Herbie #20b10
Source: Herbie #21a p.8 (1966-10)
Updated: 2004-10-16
WHAM!
Source: Herbie #21a p.12 (1966-10)
Updated: 2004-10-16
Herbie #21a12
In #21b, Herbie makes a threat...
Source: Herbie #21b p.5 (1966-10)
Updated: 2004-10-16
In #21b , Herbie makes a threat...
...and backs it up with action, bopping himself WHAM!...
Source: Herbie #21b p.11 (1966-10)
Updated: 2004-10-16
...and backs it up with action, bopping himself WHAM!
...with some bopping of others in between. BONK! BIFF! SOK!
Source: Herbie #21b p.10 (1966-10)
Updated: 2005-09-21
...with some bopping of others in between.
The last bop - POW! CRASH! Teaches him to mess around with Herbie Popnecker.
Source: Herbie #23a p.7 (1967-02)
Updated: 2008-11-24
The last bop - POW!