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Yo-Yos have been around in worldwide culture for over a century so are often seen in the media. This covers yoyoing shown used, displayed or mentioned in various CGI, hand drawn and other non-live-action video platforms, such as

  • Animation
  • Anime (Manga is on our print page.)
  • Cartoons

If the show is animated or aided with CGI in tandem with live, it will be mentioned here. If show was first made as a movie it will be in the movies page. Other forms of televised yo-yo media appearances and other yo-yos in the media can be seen via our media page.

Animation[]

Futurama(source?)[]

  • Episode Quest for Deliverance(source?), Part 1: In the town of Spielburg, Fry walked up to the Sheriff sitting on a chair outside a building. Next to him, an ogre-like goon played with a yo-yo. The goon (named Otto) was doing a trick on his yo-yo. Fry recognized it as "Walking the Dog".

Sabrina: The Animated Series(source?)[]

(Sabrina the Teenage witch) Released 1999; Harvey Dwight Kinkle is seen yo-yoing as he and Sabrina are walking though school.

Rick and Morty (2021-)[]

Family Guy (2009)[]

  • Season 8, Episode 8 (Nov 29, 2009) "Dog Gone": The Griffins hire Consuela to be their maid, she brings her nephew to the house with her. The nephew is holding a box of toys at the front door and says to Peter "You want to buy light up yo-yo?"

Lil' Bush (2007)[]

Tripping the Rift (2005)[]

  • Season 2, Episode 4 (Aug 10, 2005) "Ghost Ship": In this sci-fi comedy series, Chode(Stephen Root), a three-eyed, purple alien with green spots, plays the lead role as the captain of the smuggling spaceship. In this episode, Chode and his crew board a ghost ship. While waiting for a gold coin to fall down a shaft, Chode is seen playing with a yo-yo to pass the time.

Home Movies (2002)[]

South Park (1998)[]

King of the Hill (1997)[]

ReBoot (1994)[]

The Simpsons (1992-)[]

A number of yo-yo terms were named after words or phrases from Simpsons episodes, such as 'Kwyjibo' and 'Purple Monkey Dishwasher'. During the very beginning of the show in 1990, there was even a wooden Bart Simpson Skateboard YoYo being produced. Then in 2000, they merchandized a plastic Simpsons Light Up Yo-Yo With Action Noise (Copyright RINCO Item #SI-SIMYO).

  • Season 13, Episode 09 (Jan 27, 2002) "Jaws Wired Shut": Bart tells Homer he's going to make a "human yo-yo," and that Homer should say something if he doesn't want him to. Homer can't talk. Then we see Milhouse in an outfit with goggles ready to go.

Anime (Yo-yo Central Plot)[]

Blazing Team: Masters of Yo Kwon Do (2015-17)[]

  • An animated series produced by Guangdong Alpha Animation & Culture and Hasbro Studios. The show is a re-imagining of Alpha's Blazing Teens yo-yo property aimed at western audiences. Having 42 episodes, (Season 1: 26, Season 2: 16) with 24 minute run times. Audley would also be producing this line of yoyos that the show promoted too.

Blazing Teens (2006-)[]

  • A Chinese television live-action and animated series broadcast in several Asian countries created by Alpha Group Co., Ltd. and Auldey Toys in 2006. It is the television adaptation of Auldey's yo-yo line of the same name.

Chousoku Spinner/Super Yo-Yo (1998-99)[]

  • Super Yo-Yo was a serialized Japanese Anime series that was adapted from its corresponding manga. It ran for 1 season with 22 half-hour episodes. The series follows a young man named Shunichi Domoto, who takes up yo-yoing and eventually participates in a major tournament event the Japan National Carnival, all in a bid to defeat the 3 time reigning champion Seito Hojoin. The show would animate real yo-yo tricks in the way they are done in real life and in accordance to the spinner level card system also executed in real life, with a more minimal use of cartoon physics. Shunichi's yoyo of choice was the Hyper Dragon corresponding to Bandai's real life design.

Featuring in Anime[]

Hunter X Hunter (1999, 2011)[]

  • One of the main characters Killua Zaoldyeck used two yo-yos as weapons frequently. He also uses them in the Manga series as well. Also a note that instead of attaching the yo-yo to the finger the string loop is animated on his bicep. This is a setup capable in real life called the tourniquet style of yoyoing, a small substyle of 1A promoted mostly by 2010 1A World Champion Jensen Kimmitt but the substyle didn't gain too much traction.

Cartoons[]

Kim Possible (2007)[]

Powerpuff Girls Z (Japanese version 2006-07)[]

  • Blossom's weapon is a yo-yo. She got her powers from Chemical Z when it was accidentally released into the town. All the Powerpuff Girls jumped in from of the chemical before it could hit the children it was going toward. The child Blossom saved was playing with a yo-yo, which is why Blossom's weapon is a yo-yo.

Xiaolin Showdown (2005)[]

Detention (1999-00)[]

  • Duncan Bubble, named after Duncan Yoyos, is one of the main characters who frequently ends up in Detention, never lets his yo-yo out of sight. His Imperial-shaped yo-yo is used to aid the escape from detention in several instances. He never speaks, instead using his yo-yo to spell out messages, accompanied by an electronic voice (voiced by creator Bob Doucette).

Ed, Edd N Eddy (1999)[]

Recess (1998)[]

  • Season 2, Episode 8 (Oct 31, 1998) "Gretchen and the Secret of Yo": Gretchen Grundler(Ashley Johnson) seeks out the help of Tommy Tate(Brian Doyle-Murray) A.K.A. the "Tickler" a yo-yo professional from the old days who was a 7-time national champion, and holds the secret to the long-lost trick The Invisible Man, which consists of using two yo-yos to knock a pair of empty shoes making them walk along the floor to create the illusion of an invisible man walking. She becomes obsessed and trains heavily having finally found the sport she was looking for, states to her friends this is more important than any chess tournament or science fair project she has done before. Once completing her training for the Yappy Yo-Yo Pro Expo, Gretchen is given the Tickler's favorite golden yo-yo he used to win his competitions. Gretchen enters the contest with her friends watching, she makes it to the final round in a heads up battle with arrogant Yappy yo-yo Champion Alex Lorall(Warren Sroka) having to need make up for a one point difference to win. In the final round Alex performs a two yoyo routine and receives 9.5s from all four judges. Gretchen finishes with an amazing routine using up to four-yo-yos. Part of her routine she performs the Invisible Man, she scores perfect 10s from all four judges to bring her two points above in the final and win the overall competition by 1 point. Upon her acceptance speech she announces her retirement from yo-yo saying she proved that she is good at a sport and wants to prioritize school and friends again.
    • This episode introduced the infamous trick The Invisible Man which yo-yoers are often asked to perform but is actually impossible as the spin of the yoyos on that kind of throw shown would force the shoes into the floor and stick rather than bounce them up in the air.
    • Gretchen earlier in the episode calls a trick Splitting the Atom. While the trick doesn't have the implausible cartoon physics to look like a model of an atom, its namesake is a bone-fide yo-yo trick.

Tale Spin (1990)[]

Challenge of the Super Friends (1978)[]

Battle of the Planets (1978)[]

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