The Hoober-Bloob Highway

The Hoober-Bloob Highway is an animated musical special written by Dr. Seuss and produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises for CBS in 1975. The special is a musical and features songs written by Dr. Seuss and composed by Dean Elliott, which is the last special to feature music, and is the first DFE Dr. Seuss special not to have been based on any of Geisel's books. This special would be the last time to be aired on CBS and produced by A Cat in the Hat Productions like the other five Dr. Seuss animated shorts. Bob Holt voices Mr. Hoober-Bloob while Hal Smith does the Additional voices are the only cast in the Dr. Seuss special.

Mr. Hoober-Bloob, a dispatcher of newborn children from some location in space, is preparing to send a new child down his highway to Earth, but first, he gives a child, who he refers to as Bub, a chance to decide for himself whether he wants the life of a human. Mr. Hoober-Bloob shows him the realistic problems and pleasures that people face in life. The story suggests that while things may be pretty bad, but there's always something to be thankful for. With the help of a lute with arms and legs that often breaks into fast-paced solos, which annoys Mr. Hoober-Bloob, his explanations are often accompanied by musical vignettes of the baby, depicted as a pre-adolescent boy in an unusual situation that accompanies the song. Eventually after the "Answer Yes or No", the baby makes its decisions, and Mr. Hoober-Bloob excitedly pushes it down the Hoober-Bloob Highway at last.