Lippy was, as the name implies, a lion, and his sidekick Hardy was a dour-faced, non-laughing hyena. The two often found themselves in a sticky predicament due to some hair-brained scheme Lippy would come up with; but it usually the pessimistic Hardy who suffered most from whatever consequences befell them. Then pair frequently operated in an urban setting despite the fact that the opening sequence of their segment, which involved swinging on vines and escaping from crocodiles, implied something radically different.
