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Our Boarding House is an American single-panel cartoon and comic strip created by Gene Ahern on October 3, 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association.Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs. Hoople, it drew humor from the interactions of her grandiose, tall-tale-telling husband, the self-styled Major Hoople, with the rooming-house denizens and his various friends and cronies.
Eugene Leslie Ahern (September 16, 1895 – March 6, 1960) was a cartoonist best known for his bombastic Major Hoople, a pompous character who appeared in the long-run syndicated gag panel Our Boarding House.
Major Hoople's Boarding House is a Canadian pop band from Galt, Ontario (now Cambridge, Ontario). They have released two albums and several singles, three of which appeared on national charts. They have released two albums and several singles, three of which appeared on national charts.
Freyse drew the daily and Sunday panels for Our Boarding House with Major Hoople from the 1930s through the 1960s. The strips were syndicated to hundreds of newspapers nationwide. He also created the cartoon version of The Lone Ranger and co-created The Green Hornet. Artistry was his life's work, but elephants intrigued him.
The dictionary I linked above, in the entry immediately preceding the one for "hoople head", has hoople dated 1928, which at least puts it at roughly the same period as Gene Ahern's Major Hoople (introduced 1922), which may have been a source. Perhaps Ahern just thought it a funny word to use as a name.
Major Bowes Amateur Hour; Major Hoople; Mama Bloom's Brood; Man About Harlem [1]: 101 A Man Called Jordan; The Man Called X; Man of Color [1]: 101–103 Mandrake the Magician; Manhattan Merry-Go-Round; Marie the Little French Princess; Mark Trail; The Marriage; The Martin and Lewis Show; Martin Kane, Private Eye; Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter ...
The strip Colonel Gilfeather and/or its title character were described by Alexander Theroux as "a rather pale and derivative imitation of Major Hoople" (actually a reference to "Our Boarding House"; like many others today, Theroux mistook Major Amos B. Hoople's name for the feature's title). [37] [38]
Major Hoople; Meet Me at Parky's; The Mel Blanc Show; The Milton Berle Show/Three Ring Time/Let Yourself Go; The Morey Amsterdam Show; My Favorite Husband; My Friend Irma; The National Lampoon Radio Hour; Nutmeg Junction [2] Our Miss Brooks; People Are Funny; The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show; The Raleigh Cigarette Program/The Red Skelton Show ...