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The North American house hippo — the legendary creature that stole the hearts of Canadians in the '90s — seems to have resurfaced in the form of a potato. That's according to one Canadian X user, whose observations about an oddly-shaped potato have struck a chord with fellow Canucks who remember the fake infomercial about the tiny house.


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The North American house hippo. A favourite Canadian commercial from 1999. Life in Canada 968 subscribers Subscribe Subscribed 20K views 11 months ago The house hippo is the subject of a.


Hippos Usually Live In The Water, But This One Is Different And Her

20 years ago, the idea of a tiny hippo that could actually be living in our homes got a lot of Canadians talking about how easily we can be fooled by what we.


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The premise was an educational video about a "house hippo" which was a tiny hippo that lives in houses and fed on crumbs and such after humans went to sleep. For the time, it looked very legit. At the end, a message popped up that said not to believe everything you see on TV.


Novi's Pastry House Hippo reopens its doors

The North American House Hippo is the topic of a particularly memorable Canadian PSA from the early 2000s. We now present to you the chance to step inside that world of unreasonably small and sleepy house hippos as they quest to find their favourite snack: the crumbs from peanut butter toast. Enjoy a GMless game for you and a few friends as you.


House Hippo classified as critically endangered by WWF The Modern Spirit

The house hippo is a fictitious species of hippopotamus, and the subject of a Canadian television public service announcement produced by Concerned Children's Advertisers in May 1999 and reintroduced by MediaSmarts in 2019.


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House Hippo Commercial - Don't believe what you see on television.


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Canadian House Hippo — True North Dreamin One can never say that Canadians don't have a unique sense of humor. Read on to hear about the elusive North American House Hippo.


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Original (1999) Description: The camera pans over a kitchen at nighttime with a cat sitting down on the floor. All of a sudden, we see a silhouette of a House Hippo running across the floor. The House Hippo sniffs the ground as we see a map of the northern part of North America appear with house hippo symbols appearing all over the US and Canada.


Vacation Home Hippo House, Knysna, South Africa

A house hippo can be any hippo you bring into your home. It can be ceramic, stone, or, as one lucky recent poster shared, uranium glass. (Uranium glass glows under a black light, and is extremely collectible) You can even purchase a House Hippo art print. https://shop.midnight-oil.ca/products/house-hippo-art-print


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The house hippo has inspired TikToks. It's inspired t-shirts, the name of a band and even an urban dictionary page. Most recently, the house hippo was revived in a 2019 ad by Ontari0-based MediaSmarts that warns modern audiences about the dangers of misinformation on the internet.


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The House Hippo, found throughout Canada and the eastern United States, survived on a diet of crumbs of peanut butter toast in kitchen. Hippos frequently collected dropped mittens and socks, which they would pile and use to craft their nests. These nests were located typically in dark and warm locations, like a nice closet or a club after-hours.


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For those unfamiliar, the television ad depicted "The North American House Hippo" as a tiny hippopotamus which dwelled in Canadian households, feeding on chips, raisins and bits of peanut butter on toast, as well as making their nests in the back of bedroom closets, using bits of string. House Hippo Watch on


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The North American house hippo is back — and ready to tackle fake news 'We think the house hippo is more important than ever,' says MediaSmarts executive director Kathryn Ann Hill CBC Radio.


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The hippos are back to remind us that in today's digital world, critical thinking is more important than ever. Visit www.BreaktheFake.ca for resources to hel.


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The house hippo who stole our hearts in a public service announcement in 1999 has come back to Break the Fake in a new campaign from MediaSmarts, Canada's centre for digital and media literacy. The original campaign was created to teach kids to think critically about what they see on TV, and the tiny hippo became a beloved Canadian symbol..