The amazing Emmy-nominated cartoon The Hoober-Bloob Highway basically shows the Demiurge, named Mr. Hoobler-Bloob and called The Dispatcher, on an island floating somewhere out in space. Notice the ringed planet that is shown above in the second cover for the VHS tape. Perhaps an allusion to Saturn? His job is warning a soul and telling them its other options before it decides to come to Earth. **

Mr. Hoobler-Bloob is in charge of the Hoober-Bloob Highway which is a long, twisting golden ribbon of light that transports souls to Earth to be born. The opening song says the highway "starts way up above and ends way down below. It starts far beyond where the astronauts go and far, far beyond where the Grew-Grasters grow. The Hoober-Bloob highway gets steeper than steep where the Mini-Moons sleep and the Bloop-Bleepers bleep. Then far, far above if you see what I mean. Far above the beneath and betwixt the between. That's where Hoober-Bloob works at the job that he's got. I'm really not sure if he likes it or not." [In other words, he is just doing the job or role he was told or programmed to do as the Gnostics said the Demiurge is "without spirit", which could mean he is just AI.] Grew-Grasters are amorphous creatures that float in outer space. They kind of look like pink ghosts. They are called Grew-Gusters in some storyboards. Gust originally meant flavor or taste and to gust meant to taste or eat. Bloop-Bleepers are horn-snouted creatures that live inside moons (though, to me, it sounds like Bloob-Bleepers in the song).

You can watch the cartoon here (It's about 25 minutes in duration): The Hoober-Bloob Highway

He introduces himself and explains the birth process. "I am Mr. Hoober-Bloob, the Dispatcher. This is the place we dispatch them from. Down there is the place we dispatch them to. And this is how we go about it." He tells his assistant, a three-stringed Lyre: "Adjust the Katipulator". The Katipulator/Gatipulator is a magical box or cube-like machine that produces a variety of contraptions for Mr. Hoober-Bloob. "First the carriage. Then the 'Occupant'." The Katipulator produces a carriage. Then a baby boy referred to as 'Bub' is produced from the machine and placed into the carriage. Notice the soul is taken out from being held inside of the cubed box or machine and shown as a blob, a white egg-shaped sphere or orb and not as a human baby. This is fairly accurate to what the soul looks like according to NDE reports.

"I hope you're comfortable. Now, we don't send them down unprepared like we used to. In these modern days we brief them scientifically. The big telescope, please." The machine produces a telescope which is aimed at Earth and is placed up against the baby. "Now, before we ship you down to Earth in your very special cart, we're going to be quite honest and you'll listen, if you're smart. I hope you can see clearly. A hole, please." The machine creates a hole (moon crater?) which will "ship" the occupant to Earth via the highway.

The Dispatcher says, "There are so many places to send you that it's really only fair to give you some idea as to what goes on down there and wherever you go I want you to know that you're going to find some problems." He gives a few examples of places to live, but they are infested with predatory tigers, walruses that need milked and the flu. "And that's the way it is, Bub. You're apt to get stuck and the place that you live in is, quite frankly, a matter of luck. The Hometown-Selection Contraption, please." The machine produces a wheel which is spun to determine the place to go. They congratulate him and tell him he has hit the jackpot and will be born in the town of Whatcha-Ka-Tella. "Congratulations. This is the Future-Viewing Contraption." The machine produces a viewing screen and places it in front of the soul. "Now, before we actually send you down, we must show you what is going to happen to you down there in that town. And, Bub, if you don't like it -- if you have the slightest doubt and you don't want to go, just tell us so and your trip will be canceled out. It's a deal?" The baby giggles.

"Roll the wheel. THIS IS YOUR LIFE in West Watcha-Ka-Tella. You've got your work cut out, young fella, in as much as you've got to learn to do things such as..." The young man is shown struggling to learn a long list of many things that will need to be learned. "Such an awkward little man. I warned you, Bub. Things move pretty fast down there and also sometimes things move very slowly... And that's just the beginning, Bub. Your head will be spinning, Bub, when you take up the 'ology'. Biology, Geology, Theology, Moonology, Psychology, Ideology, Pruneology, Pharmacology, Splatology, Thisology, Thatology, and jumping jolly, oh, my golly, gee. Oh, oh, oh, the things you have to know. History, history. You have to know your history. Emperors, kings and presidents. You'll have to remember which one is who. His birthday and the size of his shoe.... " He turns off the Viewer. "You really want go down there?" He looks at the Lyre and asks, "How do you bet?" The Lyre shrugs. "Have you come to any decision as yet? You'd like to see a little more maybe? Huh? Huh? Huh? " He brings the Viewer back. "I know the way you feel, Bub, but cheer up -- We made a deal, Bub."

"You don't have to be a human, not at all, not at all. I agree with you, Bub. It's a rough decision to make. Maybe you don't want to go down to earth as a child." (walk-in?) "You have innumerable choices. There are unlimited possibilities. Just tell me what you wish you were, Bub. Tell me the shape that you prefer, Bub. It's no trouble to make you what you want. No trouble, Bub, at all." He shows him a bunch of weird looking creatures. "Something like him. Or her. Or those. Or them. Or a Tizzle-Top Tufted Salubrian Snipe. You can be one of them, if you were to care for that type. However, on the other hand..." He names many other weird sounding and looking creatures that he could choose to be. "There are more ways to go. You could be anything, Bub. "Tough, isn't it, making up your mind?"

"You still considering maybe going to Earth as a human? Then let's take another look at what would happen if you went there." He brings back the Viewer. "It won't be ALL bad. Some nice things happen down there." A song is played. "It's fun to be human when the Sun is shining bright. It's fun to be a human when the fish begin to bite. It's fun to be human when you're zippin' and you're zoomin'." He's shown images of him with his dog, fishing and riding rollercoasters, but he gets sick on the ride. "I regret to have to inform you that human beings are apt to get sick. It's good to be a human when the trees are gettin' green. It's fun to be a-breathin' when the air is fresh and clean. It's fun to be a human when sweet daffodils are bloomin'. F-U-N, fun. Fun to be a human." But he crashes his bike and loses a tooth. "I regret to have to inform you, you will lose an occasional tooth." "It's fun to be a human when you're showing off your dive and when you're on vacation it's so great to be alive. I also regret to have to inform you your vacation has just ended. "

"You have now reached a point in your education when it's time to think about your future. What do you want to be when you grow up? A soldier? A sailor? A politician? A tailor? Maybe you're cut out to be a musician? Let's see if you have any talent." He doesn't. "Oh, good heavens. You're impossible. Let's see if he has any mechanical ability." He's not mechanically inclined either. He's not suited to be a Tweetle Beetle statistician either.

The Dispatcher yells, "Stop it! Stop it! I can't stand it! That world is a vastly, cruddy, bloody bore. You're much too nice a fella. I'm not going to send you there." [The Lyre says something to him -- musically, of course.] "Now what are you trying to say? Hmmm. I guess you're right. I sorta broke a rule. I am supposed to be neutral. My apologies, Bub, but I must perform the job for which I'm paid. You'll just have to see the rest of the picture I'm afraid."

"Oh, dear. Oh, dear. We've got a pretty hopeless case here. Maybe it would help if we asked him a few very simple questions. A few simple questions, just check them as they go. All you have to do, young man, is answer yes or no. Do you believe in hydroponics? Answer yes or no. Are you any good at Microgonics? Answer yes or no. Are you religious? Do you ever stumble? Do you have bad dreams? Does your belly ever rumble? If you hope to win, keep up your chin and answer yes or no... Oh, you are so slow. Would you marry a Quicker-Quack?... How do you feel about war?" The questions are coming faster and faster and getter harder and harder. "If you want to succeed, speed up your speed and answer yes or no. Are you? Are you? Will you? Won't you? Answer yes or no! Will you? Won't you? Do you? Don't you? Answer yes or no!... And millions more questions you'll have to try to answer in the biggest question mark Factory in the universe. Well, that's the situation downstairs on the Earth and it's time for you to vote, Bub. Do you or don't you want to go there? Answer yes or no. Come on! Cooperate! You're holding up the entire production line. Do you or don't you? Do you or don't you want to go there?" The baby giggles enthusiastically. "He votes in the affirmative." The Dispatcher shakes hands with the Lyre. "Look out below! Here comes a good one!" (This implies there are bad ones as well and a balance to maintain.) He shoves the carriage down the golden Highway to Earth. "You just joined the membership. Let's give the kid a cheer! Happy Birthday! God bless you! You're a human. Have a dizzy, busy fascinating time!"

Seuss is likely a wordplay on Zeus. Notice the lyre in the cartoon which may be symbolic for Hermes, the son of Zeus, who invented the lyre. Dr. Seuss has a book called Wacky Wednesday with Mercury's winged foot/shoe on the cover. Wednesday is Woden's Day, named after Mercury. Mercury was known as a trickster and the transporter of souls.

What could Hoober-Bloob possibly mean? In the Dr. Seuss book The Hoobub and the Grinch, a hoobub is a creature who personifies the gullible consumer. Notice the word 'hoobub' seems to be a contraction of the words 'hoob' and 'bub'. So it's not a stretch to deduct that 'hoob' pertains to consumption and gullibility. So perhaps a hoober is someone who takes advantage of a gullbile consumer. Incidentally, Hoober, Inc. has been a farm machinery dealer in Intercourse, Pennsylvania since 1941. According to the Urban Dictionary, Hoober is "a nickname given to a very funny, goofy, loving guy. They always find a way to bring a smile to peoples faces, usually by stupid shitty jokes". These descriptions seem to fit the bill as had a goofy sense of humor. Plus he was shipping or farming souls down to Earth as a product. Hoober may also be a variant of the word 'hobber' who is an operator of a machine that hobs, that is cuts or forms with a pattern used as a mould or die. A hob is a shelf next to a fireplace that keeps food warm. The origin of the word hob is hub which was a "central part of a wheel" or a "center around which other things revolve or from which they radiate; a focus of activity, authority, commerce, transportation, etc." A hob is also a mischievous spirit, a clown, a prankster like a hobgoblin.

Bloob is not a word, but bloob could be a play on the word blob which is what the soul is before it decides what form to take. Bloob and bloop may be interchangeable as newspaper articles claim the Bloop-Bleepers are on Hoober-Bloob's staff, as are the Grew-Grasters/Gusters and Mini-Moons. Bloop as a verb is to ruin or botch and a bloop is a high-pitched sound produced by interference in a signal. A bleep is also a high pitched noise.

So the name Hoober-Bloob may cryptically refer to a mischievous spirit that is the center of authority, commerce, or transportation and takes advantage of gullible consumers by farming and operating a cutting or moulding machine that produces a high-pitched sound in order to hack or cause interference in the signal or waves coming to Earth. Lest this sounds far-fetched to you, check out my review and analysis of the Dr. Seuss cartoon The Grinch Grinches The Cat in the Hat. The entire plot is exactly that. The Grinch invents a machine that can manipulate soundwaves and control what everybody hears. Not only that, he invents a darkhouse machine that can produce darkness or any color of light he wants to and beam it at anyone he likes at great distances. He wreaks great havoc with his wave interference patterns.

The Hoober-Bloob Highway was never a book, although Dr. Seuss did indeed write and produce the teleplay and borrowed characters from some of his books. The image of The Dispatcher was based on the Doorman in the book, I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew. The main character in that book was happy, young and carefree, but then stubs his toe and falls. Then he encounters one trouble after another in his life and wants to leave the chaos and go to the "wonderful city" of Solla Sollew, "where they never have troubles! At least, very few." After a few diversions he finally finds "an old pipe that said 'Vent Number Five' " so he entered the hole in the vent. The vent was a funnel that led him "down into a frightful black tunnel." After three days in the tunnel he found a "tiny trap door". He sees The Doorman, a friendly chap at a "doorway that shimmered and shined". The Doorman tells him they only have one trouble there: a Key-Slapping Slippard (a green colored creature that looks like the Grinch) who moved into his door, and now he can't open the door any more. He says he's leaving to go to the city of Boola Boo Ball "where they never have troubles! No troubles at all!" The main character thinks it over, but decides to go back.

I sent the link to the cartoon to my friend who actually met the Demiurge in his NDE. He wrote back, "Interesting in every way... including the box... machine... He knew and hid it in a children’s story." You can read the interview I conducted with him here: Interview with a man who met a Demiurge in his NDE

In summary, The Hoober-Bloob Highway was obviously very revealing. All in all, even though the memory swipe is not mentioned nor the serious degree of strife and suffering endured while on Earth, I think the cartoon is fairly accurate to a degree. It reveals that Earth is part of a factory's production line and we are the product. It may even be insinuating that it is a farm. It shows that there is indeed a "deal" made, but that our consent is necessary. It implies The Dispatcher is just doing his job. He claims he is being fair by showing the "occupant" what life down on Earth will be like. However, the nickname The Dispatcher is a bit callous and cold as to dispatch of can mean to get rid of or kill. And the labels 'occupant' and 'Bub' show disrespect for the soul. Technology of a cube-like machine is involved and at one point in the cartoon, the Earth is shown as grid lines, perhaps alluding to the hacking of a signal. The spinning wheel indicates there is a strong aspect of luck or probability involved in the selection process. He makes it abundantly clear there will be all kinds of problems on Earth and learning many tasks specific to Earth (ones that are of no use in the astral realms) will be difficult and challenging. Dr. Seuss is letting us know that we have many other options besides coming to Earth and being a human. The Dispatcher admits life on Earth is cruddy and boring and even breaks character by suggesting the soul shouldn't choose Earth, but then apologizes and tries to remain impartial. In the end, for some reason the soul decides to go to Earth so there is still a degree of programming in the show. I don't know why any soul would choose to come to this planet to alleviate boredom when there are so many better options where there is very little suffering or none at all. Although it is not explicitly mentioned in the cartoon, one does not even have to take a form at all. When the soul is shipped down to Earth at the end of the cartoon, the Dispatcher yells, "Here comes a good one" which implies there are bad ones as well and a type of balance to be maintained. **