HOP. POP. We like to hop. We like to hop on top of Pop.
Hop on Pop is a children's book by Dr. Seuss.
It follows random, nonsensical happenings, often with two rhyming words introduced, followed by a sentence containing the words (e.g. "Fight, night, we fight all night".)
Tropes featured in Hop on Pop include:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Pat wears only gloves.
- Artistic License – Biology: The bees are shown with their stingers on their noses instead of their behinds.
- Bee Afraid: The three bees chase after the two doglike creatures, and one of them stings the smaller one.
- Cactus Cushion: Defied when Pat is about to sit on a cactus, but someone says, "No, Pat, no! Don't sit on that!".
- Cartoon Creature: The majority of the characters are vaguely-defined humanoids.
- A Dog Named "Dog": The first character is a puppy named Pup.
- No Name Given: Most characters aren't named.
- Pain to the Ass:
- One of the yellow creatures gets stung by a bee on its butt.
- Defied when the little yellow creature tells Pat not to sit on a cactus.
- Random Events Plot: The book doesn't have a clear storyline, and is just a bunch of silly scenarios blended together.
- Rhyming Title: "Hop on Pop".
- Slapstick: The people who play ball on the wall then all fall off.
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Pop's daughter wears a bow on her head.
- Trampoline Tummy: The little boy and girl fuzzy creatures like bouncing on their father's tummy.
- You No Take Candle: Some of the sentences are primitive, like "Pat sat on cat".
