Chapi Chapo


Chapi Chapo is a French short stop-motion series. Created by Italo Bettiol and Stephano Lonati for the production company Belokapi, with music by François de Roubaix, it premiered in 1974 on R(T)F Television and ran for 60 5-minute episodes.
The show aired on American television in the 1980s as part of Nickelodeon's Pinwheel.
"Chapi Chapo" is a play-on-words with the French word, chapeaux, which means "hats". Both of the main characters wore oversized hats that matched their clothing. The one in red is Chapi and the one in blue is Chapo. Each episode ends with a little dance.
An announcement was made in 2015 that a new Chapi Chapo series is in development. It will be in CGI, and produced by Moving Puppet Studio.

Episodes

Babelfish translation in parentheses
  1. La Tapisserie
  2. Le Rangement
  3. Les Fleurs
  4. Le Ver à soie
  5. La Cage
  6. Les Bateaux
  7. Le Jet d'eau
  8. Le Potager
  9. L'Étoile
  10. Le Cube espiègle
  11. Le Bonhomme de neige
  12. Do ré mi
  13. La Course d'autos
  14. Le Diablotin
  15. La Fée
  16. La Balance
  17. Le Cube magique
  18. La Corrida
  19. Le Mouton
  20. Le Saut en hauteur
  21. Le Pantin
  22. Le Nuage
  23. L'Hippopotame
  24. La Balançoire
  25. La Lecture
  26. Le Phoque
  27. La Baguette magique
  28. Les Patins à roulettes
  29. Le Gâteau ; features a cow, Miel
  30. Le Lapin
  31. La Gymnastique
  32. Le Martien
  33. La Perruque
  34. Cache-cache
  35. Le Nid
  36. Le Cerf-volant
  37. Jeu de cubes
  38. La Danse des cubes
  39. L'Épouvantail
  40. La Tortue et l'Escargot
  41. Le Trésor
  42. La Multiplication
  43. Jeu de Martien
  44. Le Puzzle
  45. Le Repas
  46. La Pyramide
  47. Le Lion
  48. Le Chien
  49. La Promenade du chien
  50. Jeu de phoques
  51. La Peau de lion
  52. Les Œufs
  53. Les Cris d'animaux
  54. L'Arbre
  55. Le Dompteur
  56. Le Théâtre
  57. Le Robot
  58. Le Funambule
  59. L'Avion
  60. Le Train

Music

The lyrics are a combination of nonsense words.