Yogi Bear

Who is always on the spot? Who is Yogi Bear?

Who keeps cool when things are hot? Who does

Yogi Bear? Hello and welcome to the 41st episode

of Tooncast brought to you by the GeekCast Radio

Network. I'm your host TFG1Mike and I am joined

once again by Kevin, Professor Boss K -Dog Thompson.

Hello. Hello. How are you? I am doing pretty

good. Yes. Today we are going to be continuing

to the Hanabara Spotlight with Yogi Bear. So

what have you been up to recently? I've got a

few odd men's projects around the house that

I've been working on. I had a little problem

with my garage door and a couple other doors,

so I was fixing them and making sure they all

open and close and lock and do all kinds of normal

stuff that you'd like doors to do. Other than

that, like I mentioned in one of the other episodes,

I've become obsessed with Top Ten lists. The

latest ones I've been working on is stuff like

Top Ten. Like cartoon dogs. Top 10 cartoon cats.

And stuff like that. So, I don't know. It's a

fun little hobby I got going on, I guess. So

the top 10 cartoon cats would consist of Lino,

Tigra, Chitara, Panthro, Snarf, Snarfer. Not

lions and tigers. Cats. But they're still cats

though. They're cat -like. It would consist of

things like Heath Clever and Garfield and Sylvester

and stuff like that. You know you want to put

Chitara on one of those lists, don't lot. I wanted

to put Lionel on it, but I... Yeah, no, I've

just been doing the regular podcasting stuff.

Found some old robot heroes at Big Lots. We're

recording this one actually a little bit early.

We're actually recording this February 21st.

It probably won't air until March sometime, but

Yeah, we decided to go to Big Lots when they

had one of those stupid four -hour events friends

and family event or door buster event and oh

my god What a friggin nightmare I was going there

to get two more of the DVD shelves that I already

have in the bedroom, because I'm going to put

them out here in the living room, on the two

nightstands that I have out here in the living

room, which is what those are for. They're for

the DVD shelves. Well, they had it for display,

but they didn't have any actually in stock. Bastards.

So I just gandered over at the toy aisle, because

for some odd reason, Transformers robot heroes

show up everywhere in big lots. So I got a whole

bunch of ones that I didn't have so far. So I've

been doing that. I recorded episode four of the

Beast on Leash podcast. That's going fairly well.

Not much else is really going on. I saw a Facebook

post about Nerd News. Yeah, I'm now an official

podcasting co -host of the This Week in Geek

crew and their news show is called the Nerd News

Network. I've been doing that. Yeah. Yes, yes,

yes. You also saw and commented on a Facebook

post where I was on FX or TBS or one of them

damn stations. It was Armageddon, which in my

own personal opinion is one of, but not included

to any of the other great Bruce Willis films,

but it is one of his best films, I think. And

you're like then you're like, oh what about bandits

who the fuck gives a crap about fucking bandits

you listed the bandits a bunch of a bunch of

other films I think it was a fuck about bandits

bandits was one of the Underrated film needs

to stay underrated do I'm saying what I was saying

was not just generally just a Bruce Willis film.

I think it's Honestly, it's probably the only

Michael Bay film that I can actually watch over

and over and over again and not get tired of

it Well, like every time I see it on TV. I'm

like, oh, yeah And I'll stop and I'll watch it

all the way through from whatever point I catch

it from anyway And somebody replied to me on

Twitter about that Oh deep impact was better.

No deep impact was it? Deep Impact was a friggin

copycat of Armageddon, what are they just, what

are they using that, an asteroid or a meteorite

or something or other? I can't get on board with

that one. No, no, Deep Impact sucked. Don't get

me wrong, Morgan Freeman's a great actor, that

movie though, nah, it sucked. I've actually been

finding some very interesting audio clips for

these next couple of episodes for Tooncast. Yeah,

um, I don't know, I don't know if you watch or

you used to, when it used to play on Cartoon

Network and on Boomerang, I don't know if you

ever watched Yogi on the actual TV channel, but

Cartoon Network does these things called Cartoon

Groovies. And they'll take some cover band or

whatever type band and they'll make a song out

of the cartoon show or the cartoon character.

Or they'll have them in like little skits like

there's a little mini episode of Quick Draw called

City Escape So yeah, I'm going to include those

probably as outros Because honestly there really

isn't any Differentiating outro music between

the intro of some of the handle over our cartoons

in the outro right for a lot of it, so We actually

for this episode we are going to take a break

you were going to hear that cartoon grooving

and we will be back with the history lesson The

Yogi Bear is smarter than the Average Bear The

Yogi Bear is always in the Rangers' hair Have

him quickly fast and you won't find him here

Stab him down more buddies than the Average Bear

You can't show them what he's worth I'll prove

to them that he's worth more than what he's worth

You can't show them what he's worth I'll prove

to them that he's worth more than what he's worth

I'll prove to them that he's worth more than

what he's worth I'll prove to them that he's

worth more than what he's worth I'll prove to

them that he's worth more than what he's worth

I'll prove to them that he's worth more than

what he's worth I'll prove to them that he's

worth more than what he's worth I'll prove to

them that he's worth more than what he's worth

I'll prove to them that he's worth more than

what he's worth I'll prove to them that he's

worth more than what he's worth I'll prove to

them that he's worth more than what Yogi, it's

that cousin's dog! Those baskets mean two pairs!

Who's getting them, son? Ranger Smith, he tries

to keep our boys in line! Never takes a break,

because he can't buy the time! Sheriff's job

is tough, but you won't hear him whine! I'm fighting

back! We are back and it is time for the history

lesson take it away All right for today's history

lesson. We're getting in a time machine and going

back almost 50 years 61 for the second show in

our spotlight on Hanna -Barbera Although Huckleberry

Hound was Hanna -Barbera's first made for TV

cartoon show Yogi Bear definitely stole the show

Starting out as one of the three segments on

Huckleberry Hound Yogi soon earned its own show

and became arguably one of the most popular Hanna

-Barbera shows in history The show lasted only

a total of two seasons and contained 35 episodes,

but it would resurface in various, various, many

multiple incarnations for the remainder of the

century. Alright, that's it for the quick history

lesson. What do you remember about Yogi Bear?

You know, again, going back to the whole, you

know, I remember watching these in syndication

in the 80s thing. I actually remember a lot of

Yogi's appearances more than the actual show

and I remember a lot of his made for TV or made

for cartoon movies like Yogi Baron the Spruce

Goose or the Yogi Yahuys team from Scooby -Doo's

Laugh Olympics. You know, stuff like that. You

know, I did watch a couple episodes on YouTube.

Just to refresh my memory, I wish I could have

gotten the complete series DVD set in time for

this episode. That just didn't happen. But yeah,

overall a really great cartoon. You know, it's

pretty much the same plot every episode. Of course,

we'll get to that once we get down to the plot

of the show, but... I can't find anything wrong

with it, I don't think. Thinking back, I mentioned

in last week's episode on Huckleberry Hound how

I had an older brother and sister, so I got exposed

to a lot of cartoons early on in the 80s through

them. But out of all the old shows like this,

other than Scooby -Doo, I probably have more

memories or a better recollection of Yogi Bear

than any other cartoon that was from the 60s

or 70s. Well, I should say other than Flintstones

and Scooby -Doo. I remember Yogi Bear a lot.

I don't remember if it was the special or if

it was the actual cartoon. I want to say it was

usually the actual cartoon that I must have been

watching. Because I remember them being pretty

short segments and stuff like that. It was one

of the first cartoons I saw that had these short,

six, seven, eight minute clips. But I love this

show. Actually watching a few episodes, like

you said, on YouTube this week to refresh my

memory, I may like it more now than I did then.

Which really says something to how well it's

held up. and why it's been around for, you know,

half a century. But actually watching a few episodes

on YouTube and refreshing my memory has probably

inspired me to actually go out and find and get

the DVD set at some point because this show before,

you know, I think a lot of people mistakenly

think that it was the 90s and the 2000s where

cartoons really started to try to appeal to both

kids and adults. But no. I mean I realize that

most of the 80s cartoons might have just been

trying to appeal to kids and you didn't have

a lot of references to try to bring the adults

in like you had later on with Animaniacs or you

know stuff like that or you know obviously some

of the more primetime cartoon shows but these

Hanna Barbera shows especially Yogi Bear have

a lot of dialogue in it that appeals to adults

maybe even more so than kids and I don't know

I just think it really holds up and like you

said I can't seem to find anything bad to say.

I mean, maybe once I watch all the cartoons on

a complete DVD set, I'll find some things that

I can nitpick about, but watching a few episodes

on YouTube, I can't find anything wrong with

you over there. Yeah, you know, the thing about

these old cartoons is it's not like, say, Superman

the Animated Series or Justice League or even

Transformers. or G .I. Joe, or Thundercats, or

whatever. You know, these older cartoons, like

we said, are basically seven -minute segments

with, you know, with each cartoon being seven

minutes. There really was no continuity type.

They weren't setting out to set up a story of,

hey, here's Yogi Bear, here's his introduction,

and we're gonna go on this journey of him trying

to escape. Jellystone park now granted that would

that was for the majority in the beginning because

I did find the very very first episode of Yogi

on YouTube and Surprisingly enough Ranger Smith

was not in the first episode. It was just a generic

park ranger, right? You know and it was one of

those things where You know, it's well In the

first episode, while the premise was Yogi to

escape the park, the outcome comes to be that

the show is 50 years old, so there's no reason

to say spoilers. Turns out that hunting season

just started so he ends up getting out and he

ends up finally escaping and he ends up getting

shot in the ass at the end. But there isn't like

an overall continuity between episodes and it

was more of episodic television or episodic cartooning

back then than it was setting up a whole storyline.

Now granted you have the later specials and movies.

Like I said, the Spruce Goose and a whole bunch

of other stuff. No, it wasn't the Spruce Goose.

It was Jogie Baron the Spruce Moose. That's what

it was. Because Spruce Goose was the actual term

of the airplane. But they made theirs the Spruce

Moose. That's what it was. It's all coming back

to you now. Yeah. In a clean beyond voice. No.

John, I have all the actual specials in front

of me. I'm just going to run down a list just

so you're all aware of what the names of them

are. But we had Yogi and the Invasion of the

Space Bears. Actually, this one says Yogi and

the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose. That's

what it was. And then it has Yogi Bear's All

Star Comedy Christmas Caper, Yogi's Ark Lark,

Yogi's First Christmas, Yogi's Great Escape,

Yogi the Easter Bear are the ones that were made

for TV specials. Right, yep. And those were airing

basically 1988, 1988, 1982, 1972, 1980, and 1987,

and then the last one was 1994. So that kind

of is another testament to how, even though it

was only on 1961 and 62, 63 seasons basically,

those two seasons, I mean, It's been showing

up in the 70s, 80s, 90s. It just keeps getting

reinvented and, you know, redone or reintroduced

to future generation after future generation.

Right. There's, you know, there's a couple, and

I think that's one thing that's in my mind when

I, you know, with some of the general memories,

when I try to think back to old cartoons, you

know, there's, even though there were a ton of

old cartoons and there's a ton of good ones like

all the ones we'll be talking about here in the

Hannah Barbera style, Yogi Bear is the thing,

and it really comes to mind before any result.

You know, it stands out compared to even the

other Hannah Barbera cartoons. When you think

old cartoons, you think of Yogi Bear, you think

of Scooby -Doo, you think of Jetsons, you think

of Flintstones. You know, those are the, in my

mind, those are some of the main ones that come

to my mind, you know, not getting into obviously

Looney Tunes and all their variety of things,

but Yogi Bear is just, it's an iconic, character.

More so than Huckleberry Hound, even more so

than the ones we'll be talking about. Everybody

knows who Yogi Bear is, I hope. Yeah, everybody

should. The thing about all these characters,

they eventually team them all up. Like I said,

in Scooby Doo, Laugh Olympics, in the Spruce

Goose. So I really remember a lot of the Hanna

-Barbera characters as being all together in

like one or two of those specials. In Spruce

Boots, I mean, just taking that one for example,

you had Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snaggle

Puss, Huckleberry Hound, Augie Doggie, How to

See Boo Boo, Mumbly, you had a whole lot of them.

It's not Mumbly, it's Muttly. Well, Mumbly was

in there too. Oh, okay, yeah, that was the alternate

version of Muttly. You also had, I think, Augie

Daddy was in there too, wasn't he? Yeah, Augie

Daddy and Augie Doggy. Yeah, Augie Doggy. That's

what it was. I always liked those two. Those

two were kind of cool. Yeah, and that was kind

of a standard for most of the specials, like

his all -star comedy Christmas caper. You had

all those guys. You had Hokey Wolf, Snooper Blabber,

Mr. Jinx, Wally Gator, Pixie Dixie. I mean, you

had a ton of people on that one. So, you know,

it was kind of good every once in a while. Especially,

Hanna Barbera did it more than any other company

where they just put all of their, you know, their

all -star cast together. And it's something that's

kind of cool to see. I would actually be interested

in looking up some of these TV specials and even,

like you said, Laf Olympics or Wacky Races or

I think there was a couple called Hanna Barbera's

The Fantastic World of Hanna Barbera or something

like that just to see some of these guys, you

know, interact together again. Yeah, I could

have sworn Laugh Olympics was on DVD. If it isn't,

if it isn't already, it's coming. I know it is.

I could have sworn I saw a list before it. That's

one thing that's good about the Scooby -Doo ones

is they're so popular that every Scooby -Doo

thing has almost come out on DVD. Yeah. Uh, what

else do we want to say about it? I think that's,

you know, I just remember it more than I remember

most old shows as far as Hanna -Barbera goes,

like I said with the exception of Punch -Stone

Scooby -Doo. It just stands out and I just, you

know, he had great catchphrases, great lines,

which we'll get into a little bit when we get

into his character, but, you know, there was

so much stuff about You'll Be There that just

made it a little bit more memorable than, you

know, if you could only watch one old, one of

the shows that we have in our spotlight, and

Judge Hannibal Barrett on it, it would have to

be Yogi Bear, in my opinion. I mean, it's just

one of the best, it's the best out of the spotlight

shows that we're talking about, in my opinion.

Right, oh yeah, no, I mean, you're right. Let's

see, I'm actually looking, what'd you say? We

gotta stop this right now, I'm tired of agreeing

with you. Shut up. I'm actually trying to find,

one of the reasons why I've been a little bit

quiet is because I'm trying to find information

on the Laff Olympics. You keep doing that. While

you're doing that, do you mind if I go in to

talk about some of the characters? That's fine.

Okay, well, he's looking up that information

because I'm actually interested in that information.

I'll give you a rundown. Obviously, it's easy

in these Anna Barberis shows to talk about characters,

but there's not really a lot of them. and most

of the characters are just one -time shots or

you never see them again. But there's basically

four main recurring characters in the Yogi Bear

cartoon. There's obviously Yogi Bear, who if

you don't know is a fictional grizzly bear. We'll

get more into his specifics in a little bit.

The second character is basically his sidekick,

which is Zubu Bear, which is an anthropomorphic

bear cub in a bow tie of uncertain relationship

to Yogi Bear and often acts as his conscience.

He tries, usually unsuccessfully, to keep Yogi

from doing things he should not do and also to

keep Yogi from getting into trouble with another

character that I'm going to talk about in a second.

Often he would say, but Yogi, Mr. Ranger isn't

going to like this or some variation. It is not

readily apparent whether Boo -Boo is a juvenile

bear with a precocious intellect or simply an

adult bear who is short of stature, but he is

basically Yogi's sidekick. Can anybody say Webster?

And then we have Cindy Bear, the third bear to

appear basically, and Cindy Bear is the girlfriend

of Yogi Bear. She speaks with her pronounced

southern accent, carries a parasol, and usually

is critical of things the Yogi is doing, like

most girlfriends are. And then the fourth main

character obviously is Ranger Smith. Ranger Smith,

a former U .S. Army soldier, he is the serious

and stern authority figure in Jellystone Park.

In contrast to the antics of the troublesome

Yogi, and he greatly disapproves of Yogi's picnic

basket fevery. I always think of the man in the

yellow hat when I think of Ranger Smith for some

reason from Curious George. But basically those

are the four main characters. Obviously you have

lots of different side characters that come and

go. And there's not really bad guys in Yogi Bear

per se. I mean there might be some. opposing

characters from time to time, but you wouldn't

necessarily leave them as bad in my opinion.

So those are the four main characters. Yogi Bear.

When I was a kid I liked Boo -Boo and Yogi. I

don't know which one I liked more. I think it

depended on the cartoon. Sometimes I liked Boo

-Boo better. Sometimes I liked Yogi better. I

think I liked Boo -Boo's name better. I liked

Boo -Boo's... Short stature, I liked his voice,

I liked, you know, he was usually the one that

you could side with as far as he was the one

that was doing the right thing, whereas Yogi

Bear kind of spoke to your rebellious side or

to your, you know, goof off jokester side that

everybody has inside of him. You know, and I

just kind of shifted back and forth between which

character I liked better. Did you have a preference

in one of those four characters? um It depended

really it depended on like I remember an episode

of Yogi where he's trying to get One up on the

Rangers far as reading the Rangers refrigerator

and Ranger Smith would get him back by doing

the exact same thing did to Yogi and of course

they always made it look like oh Well, that's

that's no fun. Mr. Rangers sir. So, you know,

I like all the characters honestly I don't...

There were a couple of them in later episodes.

There were a couple of these side rangers that

I really didn't care about. But yeah, before

we go any further, I did find Scooby's All Star

Laugh Olympics Volume 1 DVD. It's a one disc

set. It came out on the 19th of January. Yes,

it's on Amazon for $9 .99. I was going to say,

that isn't it. No, I know, I know, I know. I

know, I know, I know. Oops, that's the wrong

thing. Damn it. Yeah, what surprises me though

about Laugh Olympics is it doesn't, on the Wikipedia

article for it, It doesn't say anything about...

It just says in 96, four VHS editions of the

show were released. The first four episodes were

released on DVD... Oh, it does. The first four

episodes were released on DVD on January 19,

2010 in Scooby's All -Star Live for the next

volume. Target released an exclusive second volume

with the next four episodes on the same day.

If only it has four episodes per disc, it's almost

not even worth it. Yeah, well it's only $9 .99,

no? True. That's not too bad. Nope. No, I really

didn't have a problem with a lot of the characters

in Yogi whatsoever. Yeah, I mean, I like Boo

Boo and at times Yogi the best, but I didn't

really dip like any of the characters. Even Ranger

Smith I didn't dip like. Just going into, since

there's no really bad characters, the voice cast.

I'll just talk about Cindy Bear and I'll let

you talk about the other two. Cindy Bear was

actually done by Julie Bennett, who's actually,

the reason I want to talk about her is she actually

is in my top ten female voice actors of the olden

days here. She also did a character that we'll

talk about in next week's episode. She was in

Mr. Magoo, she was in Cat and He was a Cat, she

was actually in Huckleberry, a cartoon called

Huckleberry Finn, she was in Rocking Bullwinkle,

Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Ghostbusters, Orgut. A couple

that you might appreciate, she was Aunt May Parker

in one of the older versions of Spider -Man.

I don't remember what year that was, 1960s or

something like that. That was probably the 1967

Spider -Man cartoon. The one that had Darren

Gildazan as Spider -Man. Yeah, I think that sounded

familiar to me. And she was also in... Shoot,

I can't find it right now, but she was also in

Superman. Who did she play in Superman? Okay,

here it is. She was Lois Lane in Superman in

1967. Oh, she was Anne Mae Parker actually in

Spider -Man in 1987 or 1997. I have no idea actually.

It's kind of interesting that she's appeared

in both Spider -Man and Superman much later on,

but she also appeared in Hustle Street. Her most

popular character though is probably this one,

Cindy Bear, as far as her most famous voice that

she's done. But she's also Popeye and Orobots

and Ghostbusters. So she's been in a lot of stuff.

She's been very famous back in the day and not

as famous as our two male voice actors in this

show though. I'm 2001 versus Frank Welker. These

guys, Dallas Butler and Don Messick, again, were

another one of voice acting's greats. And it's

a damn shame that they are no longer with us.

Dallas played Yogi until 1988. And then Greg

Burson took over as Yogi after 88. And Messick

played. Boo Boo and Ranger Smith. Just, you know

it's funny, I cannot tell a difference between

Boo Boo and Scooby Doo. Seriously, I cannot,

I mean, I shouldn't say I can't tell the difference,

but I don't see any similarities is what I'm

basically getting at. They are two completely

different voices that Messick did and it's like

holy crap yeah it's kinda well it kinda makes

me think you know like like I mean I've seen

some of Frank Walker's interviews and stuff so

I know what his what his his real voice is like

however if you just if you haven't seen any of

his interviews or anything like that and you've

just heard him do characters it's like holy crap

which one is closest to his actual voice Same

thing with Messick, holy crap, is Ranger Smith

more of how his real voice is or his boo -boo

or his scooby or whoever else he did? That's

what makes those two so good, Butler and Messick,

and that's why. In my opinion, they're two of

the three best voice actors from that era, with

Mel Blanc, obviously. But yeah, Messick and Butler,

and that's the thing, like when you were watching

those shows as a kid, when you were watching

Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear and Cliff Jar

McGraw and you know, whatever it was, Scooby

Doo, this or that, you didn't have a clue that

that was the same person doing all those voices.

Nobody did. Oh no! No kid can pick that out there.

Oh my gosh, it's not quite like... Okay, like

even as a kid, I knew Starscream and Cobra Commander

were the same damn person. There was no fooling

me even as a 6 or 10 year old kid. I knew that's

the same voice, that's the same guy. Same with

a lot of the characters like Casey Cason. I know

that, I recognize the voice. Even as a kid, since

I listened to some of the other stuff he did

when he was actually a real person. The radio

stuff countdown say by the bell or whatever it

was that he appeared in you know I knew all of

his voices, but down that's like dodgeball. They're

like no blonde you can't tell the different characters

that you know I could line up characters in front

of you and say which one of those three actors

did those characters and Unless you you know

knew beforehand you would be able to pick them

out Yeah, exactly But just a great voice cast

and you have three of the at the time three of

the greatest voice actors all in this show one

of the females and two of the males I mean you

couldn't go wrong and They make it better. They

actually had great lines to use those voices

for which we'll get into here in a little bit.

Yeah So getting into the behind the scenes segment

here when Hannah Barbera pitched their 1958 show

The Uncle Barry Ham show and included three segments

The first was Huckleberry Hound, the second was

Pixie and Dixie, and the third was simply referred

to as two Intenrant Bears, which was to be decided

on later. Previous ideas for names included Yo

-Yo Bear and Huckleberry Bear. The name they

finally decided on was obviously Yogi Bear, which

did land them in some legal troubles after the

great Yankee Yogi Bear went to his lawyers about

the name. I would like to just jump in here for

a second though because a lot of so -called know

-it -alls or cartoon historians and a lot of

websites out there have misinformation about

this. They did not name the show after Yogi Berra.

That's not where they came up with Yogi Berra.

I know it sounds almost identical and he was

a Yankee at the time, but they did not name the

show after him. And that's why he lost his case.

eventually didn't win anything out of it because

it wasn't named after him. But Yo -Yo Bear or

Huckleberry Bear, it's easy in retrospect to

say Yogi Bear was the right choice. I just think

it's interesting that originally when they pitched

that show, they didn't even really have a name

for this segment or they hadn't even thought

out this segment yet. They had Huckleberry on

and Pixie and Dixie and then it's just like,

oh, we're just going to have some other third

segment and I have some bears and that, whatever.

And I think that's why, in the very beginning,

that there was no specific ranger. There was

no ranger -smith. It was just some random park

ranger. Because they weren't sure what they were

going to do with it. Yeah. It's just funny that

the show that they weren't even considering,

that they put no time into, is eventually going

to be the most successful segment on the show

and the most popular. It's ironic. The show was

planned to debut in the fall of 1961, but when

UPA and Kellogg's split, Mr. Magoo went with

UPA, which left space for Yogi Berrier to debut

in January instead. And as far as the directors,

writers, stuff, of course you got Hannah and

Barbera all 33 episodes, Michael Maltese for

18, Warren Foster for 17, and Tony Benedict for

7. If you listened to last week's episode, I

believe it was Foster and what you would call

it were the guys that they basically took from

Warner Brothers and brought them along to help

out. Going into the actual show, since at the

time like we know, no 30 minute cartoons have

been established. Like the Huckleberry Hound

show, the Yogi Bear, when it became its own show,

consisted of three different seven minute cartoons.

This time, though, the three segments consisted

of, obviously, Yogi Bear, and then Snaggle Push

was the second segment, and the third segment

was a character named Yaki Doodle. Many believe

Yogi Bear to contain the best animation and background

design ever for Hanna -Barbera outside of the

Fun Zone. As far as the feel of the show, they

decided to test out different styles in early

episodes. So if you watch in early episodes,

you might notice that a lot of different styles

are used. They were trying to see which one would

get the best audience reaction. This accounts

for the variety of different portrayals of Yogi

early on, including at one point he was portrayed

as a good Samaritan or a goofy little fumbler.

He had these different personas. But, like we

know, the persona that got the best response

was, of course, the picnic basket thief. And

the series was marked by its deadpan humor and

great dialogue. Yeah, I actually like Yakky.

Yakky always was really a cool character for

me. They basically took the...this is just me

just guesstimating, but... They basically took

the Yakky Doodle character out of Looney Tunes.

It might not have been Hannah Barbera or Warren

Rose. Yeah, it was MGM. There was a duck in a

couple of the Tom and Jerry cartoons. I believe

that was also Yakky, so I'm not really sure if

that duck actually had a name, but they took

that whole idea from that and then they created

Yakky Doodle. I did not know that. A lot of most

of Yogi's cartoons centered on his antics in

fictional Jolly Stone Park, a take -off of the

famous Yellowstone National Park. Yogi, accompanied

by his constant companion Boo Boo, would often

try to steal picnic baskets from campers in the

park, much to disclosure of Park Ranger Smith.

His well -friend Cindy Bear sometimes appeared

and usually disapproved of Yogi's antics. Besides

often speaking in rhyme, Yogi Bear is well known

for a variety of different catchphrases, including

his pet name for pick -a -neck baskets as pick

-a -neck baskets. In his favorite self -motion,

I'm smarter than the average bear. Although he

often overestimates his own cleverness, another

trademark of his is the deep and silly voice

that he uses, often greets the ranger with a

cordial, hello Mr. Ranger, sir. He also likes

to say hey there boo -boo as his preferred greeting

to his humble sidekick boo -boo. Hey there boo

-boo. Hey boo -boo. To me that's why this show

is so great. Number one, I love that he spoke

in rhyme. Sometimes when people do that it becomes

cheesy or hokey or whatever, but I really like

it. Yeah, I love how it was done in this one.

And his set phrase is, I mean, come on, tell

me someone who hasn't said, I'm smarter than

the average bear, or referenced that in some

way during their life. Oh, there's so many references

for this show, yeah. I mean, that's just, I mean,

you know, besides, like, that's all folks from,

you know, Bugs Bunny or Looney Tunes, and, you

know, a couple other ones. I'm smarter than the

average bear. It's got to be one of the most

classic lines. that came out of cartoons of this

era. And I just loved Yogi Bear's voice. I loved

the way he said, you know, it's either boo -boo

or, you know, when you're talking to Mr. Ranger

or, you know, just all, I don't know, his dialogue

they gave him. I don't think it's a mistake when,

you know, the reference said that this cartoon

is marked by its fantastic dialogue. It has great

Great dialogue. I was watching an episode just

a little bit ago. Are you alright there in the

background? Are you dying? Yeah, I'm not dying

yet. I was watching an episode and the episode

that comes to mind that I last watched was basically

there was a Boy Scout grouping or get -together

type thing where all the dads and their Boy Scouts

were coming. It was like a father and son Boy

Scout. whatever you want to call it. And Yogi

sees that all these fathers and their kids are

going to be there and of course they're all going

to have food and they're going to have picnic

baskets and what not. So his idea is for him

to be the father and for Bulu to be the son and

then to basically pose as Boy Scouts until the

right time where they could steal food and it

involves trying to do a sack race with Bulu in

the sack and all this other stuff. There's some

great dialogue, I don't know the specific lines,

but at one point it's talking about, it shows

all the fathers, and Yogi Bear makes some type

of comment about the fathers being miserable,

but the way he brings it across, it was like

perfect for the adult audience because it was

kind of like harkening to what life, how life

changes once you get married and have kids and

how like... Basically, you're miserable at times,

or you lose some of that freedom or that fun

carefree style of life. I just thought the way

that they delivered some of these lines was fantastic.

It's something that the kids wouldn't even have

noticed at the time. Right. Another part of that

episode, he got a lunch at one point that had

olives or vegetables on it. spit some out, or

he's like, what is this? And he's like, I don't

eat olives or something like that. I thought

that was great that it was a cartoon show that

was this non -healthier food and vegetables.

Well, yeah, that's the whole point of Yogi is

he wants all the goodies, all the junk food,

and all that stuff. You know, he even always

says, when Ranger said, well, bears aren't supposed

to eat. That stuff is supposed to eat nuts and

berries. He goes, nuts and berries? Yuck. And

that's what made the show so great, I think.

So are we done with this part? Yeah, I mean there's

just so many great episodes I don't have necessarily

one to recommend that you go watch but that's

one reason why I want to get the DVD set and

watch kind of all of them to see which ones really

stand out as some of the best Daily Day episodes

because I don't know, I'm excited to actually

watch more of this because every episode I saw

or watched in preparation for this was just excellent.

Well, you can always do some voice comparisons

over at BehindTheVoiceActors .com. Actually,

once I get my computer back online and I'm back

online, I'm going to actually use most of the

shows we've done as my first project of getting

stuff done on there because the one thing that

our website lacks right now is some of the old

time stuff. I would really like to see it. There's

been more than a couple people that have voiced

Yogi Bear. I think it'd be interesting to get

somebody to show us a little more fresh on it.

Well, you know, according to the wiki information,

like I said before, Yogi obviously was voiced

by Dawes Butler, and then after he passed away,

Greg Burson did it. So, and that was in 1988.

I think there's been a couple one -time spots,

or somebody that's done it for a special, or

for this or that, maybe. I could be wrong. I

can't remember which character I was thinking

about. There's a couple of these old -time characters

that have been since they've been around for

so long and had done so many different things

where there's been quite a few different voice

actors and I think it would be interesting to

see some of them because obviously we just remember

the classic one right you know we Which everyone's

stuck in in our mind when we were a kid That's

who the voice is and and we might not even be

aware of what these other voices sounds like

so yeah That's one thing I'm looking forward

to tackling later on hopefully well, hopefully

sooner rather than later I don't really remember.

Going into the music segment, outside of the

intro -outro theme, I don't think a lot of the

Hanna -Berbera cartoons were based around music.

No, I think they had music sometimes playing

in the background, especially during chase scenes

or at least... Yeah, I think the only Hanna -Berbera

cartoon that had a lot of music even in the foreground

was Scooby. The rest of it At least for Yogi.

I mean, I don't remember a lot of music in Yogi's

cartoons. No, it's not quite as... The Hand above

the Head cartoons aren't marked with music as

you would think of when you think of like the

Looney Tunes, obviously the Mary Melodies and

stuff like that. You know, that's cartoons that

had music going basically non -stop. This one,

it was more like little notes here and there

or, you know, different like... It was music

for a purpose. It wasn't music as background,

like mood setting type stuff. It was more like

music that emphasized different actions during

the cartoon. That's what I can remember. Yeah,

that's really all I can remember either. So going

into the legacy segment, and I need to point

out there's one reference in here that I deleted

off my script because I am not giving that bastard

or his fucking show any kind of coverage. Exactly,

you bastard. You shouldn't have put it on here.

Anyways, the Yogi Bear show was simply the beginning

of a franchise that has endured for almost 50

years. It has a number of spinoffs including

Yogi's Gang, Yogi's Space Race, Yogi's Treasure

Hunt, Yo -Yogi, and a variety of different TV

specials. It also spawned the first ever Hanna

-Barbera theatrical cartoon feature entitled

Hey There, It's Yogi Bear in 1964. Do you want

to handle the next little piece? My friends over

at IGN, I hope they never hear this and get pissed

off, but actually I don't care. My friends over

at IGN, morons as they are, with their list of

the top 100 animated cartoons, yeah, Yogi Bear,

not on the list. Not on the list. Yogi Bear,

one of the most famous cartoon characters of

all time, did not make the list. Damn. Enough

said. Uh, yeah. Yeah, going into some of the

reference, where it's referenced in. It was referenced

in Bye Bye Birdie. There was a record visible

in a room of one of Kim's friends. It was referenced

in Saturday Night Live. Steve Martin Van Morrison

looks at books. Great Outdoors. Chet talked about

seeing Boo Boo up close. It was referenced in

The Fresh Prince of Bel -Air, Mystery Science

Theater 3000, Married with Children, Yogi Bear

and Jellystone National Park are mentioned, The

Simpsons, Day of the Violence died, the show

is mentioned by name, Freakazoid the Nanny, Everybody

Loves Raymond, Dr. Doolittle 2, Sesame Street,

Three Bears and a New Baby, what the hell? Oh,

Jesus Christ. Sylvester Stallone, kiss my ass.

It was referenced in Rocky Balboa. Rocky uses

the phrase, smarter than an average bear, but

can't remember where he heard it. And it was

Yogi's signature. Oh, God. You dumb. Fuck you,

Sly. Uh -hum. A Muppet's Christmas letters to

Santa, or Bobo, or Boo -Boo. I was gonna say,

wow, Bobo. Uh, it's, Boo -Boo refers to Fozzie

as Yogi. I'm not mentioning that other one. It

was featured in 100 Greatest Cartoons in 2005,

was spoofed in Family Guy, Hell Comes to Quahog,

Peter Do a Favor for a Park Ranger, Robot Chicken,

President Evil, Yogi Starts Acting Like Rambo,

oh god. I can't believe the next one here. I

don't even know if I can say it, but next up

for Yogi Bear, this is ridiculous, folks. I hope

it's not ridiculous, actually. I hope it's alright.

I can't even read it. I'll let you read it. Alvin

and the Chipmunks, it will start Dan Aykroyd...

Yeah... Uh... I... No. No. Just... Just no. It

will start Dan Aykroyd as the voice of Yogi.

Okay, that could be okay. I would have to hear

Mr. Aykroyd's rendition of it. Justin Timberlake

as the voice of Boo -Boo Bear. Kill me now. What

the fuck? Yeah, no. I actually liked, I'm not

afraid to admit this, even as a, I'm a 30 year

old guy. Oh shut up 30 year old guy, what the

hell ever, you got two years left you dumb bastard.

Oh not quite, a year and a half or so, but, but

uh, Meg the Therian, Ross Meg the Therian, he's

the famous voice of all the chipmunks. Yeah,

Alvin and the Chipmunks, I actually liked that

movie. I haven't seen the sequel to it. But I

actually saw it on TV at some point. I don't

remember why or what, but I got sucked into that.

And I actually watched the entire show. I don't

know if it's just because I love their voices,

but I actually liked how they did Alvin and the

Chipmunks. So maybe if they'll be there and done

in a similar fashion, maybe I'll like that too.

I don't know. But see, that would defeat the

purpose of what Ricky has listed as what the

film is supposed to be. Live action and animated

film. While the Chipmunks are their animatics,

it's more CGI than actual animation. I mean,

if you're gonna do a live -action animated film,

it would be more in line with Roger Rabbit than

it would be Alvin and the Chipmunks. But if you're

gonna do a CGI Yogi Bear film, then it would

be in line with Alvin and the Chipmunks. But

what I'm saying no to is this whole thing...

Well, again, I'm not gonna say anything against

Ackroyd, because until I hear... the voice you

know but jesus christ fucking justin god damn

timberlake what the hell maybe he'll do a good

job gotta give him a chance oh christ hell no

um hell i would much rather frank welker come

up with a voice than have and i'm not saying

anything against mr welker i'm just saying Please

give us somebody better than fucking goddamn

Justin Timberlake There are video games. There's

one two three four five six seven is like nine

video games based on Yogi Ranging from the Gameboy

Gameboy color Super NES the Amiga Commodore 64

and Intel Intellivision holy crap I have a Nintendo

television still, and a Commodore 64, so that's

awesome. You're so pathetic. I have a nice video

game platform. You are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

As far as licensing, Yogi Bear lends his name

to a chain of recreational vehicle and camping

parks, Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp Resorts,

with the first opening in 1969 in Sturgeon Bay,

Wisconsin, only in the Cheese State. As of 2008,

over 70 new locations, including Robert, Louisiana,

Van Buren, Missouri, and Gardner in New York

have hosted parks. There is also one remaining

restaurant from the chain -bearing yogi's name,

Yogi Bears Honey Fried Chicken. Oh, dear lord.

What the hell? In Hartsville, South Carolina,

in the 60s and 70s, these restaurant chains were

found mostly within the southeast United States

and were owned or franchised by Hardee's. Oh,

no wonder. That's why. There's only one left.

Fucking Hardee's. On November 15, 2005, Warner

Home Video released the complete series on DVD

in region 1. Yogi Bear showed the complete series.

33 episodes? Wait, wasn't there 35 episodes total?

I thought so. Well, maybe they're missing too,

I don't know. The additional features that include

are a collectible animation cell, original episodes

with bridges and bumpers, never -before -seen

animation sketches come to life, Yogi gets global,

one episode in a variety of languages, featured

on the art of Hanna -Robera of Sound. That's

pretty much it. Like I said, I think it's really

great that Yogi's on DVD. I wish that a lot of

the other stuff, like the Spruce Goose and all

that stuff, was on DVD. That would be kind of

cool. Agreed. You know, again, I think that they

could have done something like... I mean, I know

it's just the Yogi Bear show that it's the complete

series of, but if you're going to do a complete

Yogi set, you should at least include some of

the specials or something, even if you're going

to do it as a bonus disc or something like that.

Yeah. Maybe they'll do it again when it's, like,

up for whatever. Well, isn't next year its 50th

anniversary? Crap. Uh, 61, 2011, yeah, something

like that. Hell, I don't - You will see something

special come out next year for 50 years of Yogi.

I don't - I don't do math well. Math is evil

and it needs to die. So I guess we can go into

our final thoughts. My final thoughts on this

one are pretty simple. I mean, you - if you've

never seen a Yogi Bear episode, you need to go

to the nearest computer. at your earliest convenience

and watch an episode. It's worth it. It's something

that holds up. People that talk about old cartoons

always say that nothing stands up to the test

of time or they're all outdated or whatever.

But I enjoyed He'll Be There last week or this

week more than I did when I was a kid, I think.

You don't see dialogue in cartoons like this

anymore. You don't see writers that... take the

care and time to write stuff like it was written

back then because remember they couldn't rely

on the animation selling it. They had to rely

on the actual story, the lines, the voice acting

and all that stuff and it just doesn't get better

than you'll be there back then. I mean I'd probably

put it up in the top five cartoons that came

out before 1980. Yeah. It is what it is and that's

good. It's good, it's worth a watch. Yes, I agree.

You know, Yogi is... Yogi is one of those shows

where if an episode comes on or if I need to

watch something to make me laugh, Yogi is probably

what I would search out. More so rather than

the Snorks or the Smurfs or any of that stuff.

But yeah, so I guess we're going to close this

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