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In the 1980s, there was actually an idea being tossed about for a Yogi Bear cartoon which blended live action with animation. The short, called "Yogi Goes To College", would have had Yogi and Boo Boo arriving at Ball State University in Muncie when the truck headed from Jellystone to the Cleveland Zoo breaks down. The two bears suddenly find themselves on campus, watching a BSU basketball game with Purdue at the old Irving Gymnasium. Yogi starts uttering profanities at Boiler Pete, the Purdue mascot--which Ranger Smith catches while watching ESPN back at the Ranger Station. Consequently, Smith flies a helicopter to Muncie to pick up Yogi and Boo Boo and send them back to Jellystone, where they end up in jail. Boo Boo is, of course, given berries while Yogi has a bar of soap stuffed in his mouth. Thankfully this wretched cartoon was never made.

does anyone know the excate lyrics to "We're on our way to the perfect place?"

Screw all you people who only look at mechanics when they watch tv.This show was funny and enjoyable so who gives a rat's ***. They give you hours of free entertainment and all you do is criticize them over little things. All i'm saying is, this show was really good and you can't base it off mechanics. I hate you stupid technical critics.

The late 1950's-early 1960's "Yogi Bear"was the ORIGINAL "Yogi Bear"and the best.The late Daws Butler WAS "Yogi Bear",just as the late Don Messick WERE Roger Smith and Boo Boo.In the 1980"s,someone at Hanna-Barbera(no,not the Hanna-Barbera of the 1950's and 1960's)redid "Yogi Bear"in the 1980's.These NEW "Yogi Bear"cartoons were weak and very inferior when compared to the original gems.

I'm 47, educated, and can still sing the Yogi Bear theme song, which both amuses and frightens my wife (maybe because I have no singing ability). I'd wish "Boomerang" would show the closing credits of the show with Yogi in the chopper; not because it's that funny, but because it reminds me of when I used to see the show in the '60s; a lot of happy memories.

To a previous poster who commented on a blue horse playing a cowboy, do you mean Quick Draw McGraw? Man, I loved that character! "Look out Qweekst Draw-KABONGGGG!!! His faithful sidekick Babaloo. I grew up watching Hanna Barbera cartoons-I liked almost all of them. Y ogi Bear was probably my least favorite. I didn't like Cindy Bear at all, I recall.

This category should most definitely be done in two separate parts: From the “Yogi Bear” of the 60’s to that horrible PC mess in the early 70’s - “Yogi’s Gang”! (I’m glad other posters actually remembered the second one’s name – I blanked it out and never looked back!); beyond that I’ve never seen the newer junk others are complaining about! A few of the original HB shows like Yogi also had that trademark “HB marginal humor” with lots of the jokes getting hackneyed done over and over. Then along come the 1970’s, and someone must have said “let’s whip up a really ‘saccharine’ sequel, shall we”? Group Yogi up with all the other HB animal characters (even the really lame ones) and “homogenize” them for a totally unlikable new cartoon show – like “A new animated Christmas show that never should have been”! The characters all merrily sang that ludicrous theme song - “We’re on our way to a perfect place…a perfect PLAY-ACE….(here we GO!!!)!” Of course, other non-HB passengers on board they DIDN’T show you hiding out on that flying ark (because they were all already run out of their own toon-towns on a rail)? “Grape Ape” (and his sidekick dog), “The Hair Bear Bunch”; “The Muppet Babies”; Hong-Kong Phooey”; “Scrappy-do”; “Moptop, Ping, Pong & Marvin”; “Savoir-faire” etc. etc. Then Yogi picked up some human passengers along the way too (teenaged Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm) and passed through a time warp… soon P & B had the phenomenon of babysitting their own PARENTS - “The Flintstone Kids”!! Finally, you of course know what “Shark” they actually jumped over pretty soon (– or “flew” in the Magic Ark) don’t you??? “Mister Jaws”- yeegotcha!, who the Pink Panther threatened to harpoon if he didn’t get the Hell off his show (in his own new “voice”, no less!). Wouldn’t “Hopped on Yogi’s Ark?” be the JTS equivalent for horrible cartoons?

Yogi Bear probably jumped when John K. of Ren & Stimpy infamy was picked to do a special Yogi cartoon involving Ranger Smith and Boo Boo. His special cartoon was so whacked out(think R&S 1st season),that a scene had to be edited/cut. This scene had Yogi and Ranger Smith in an all-out brawl. I've never seen the actual special,but anyone who grew up with Yogi Bear would be traumatized from seeing it.

I loved this cartoon when I was very young (watched in reruns during the 1980s and early 1990s). I'm 21 now, and it JTS for me when I tried watching an episode of it on digital cable's Boomerang On Demand station, and it was so bad, I was cringing. Mind you, I hadn't watched it in probably 10-13 years, but it was so bad, I was fast-forwarding through it to see how it ended and so I could watch "Snagglepuss." Whoah, the animation is so bad and dated compared to the other Hanna-Barbera cartoons of its time. Granted it was on for years, it must have been popular. But it probably fell to the Hanna Barbera "spinoffs are good" syndrome, which is guaranteed to churn out spin-offs with the frequency of dandelions popping up on grass. Unfortunately, the spinoffs are never good, and I can't say that I've ever seen the Yogi ones. I always loved Boo Boo, especially that voice. But I think Snagglepuss was funnier (the B-segment of "Yogi Bear"). I'm probably crushing about a million Gen X/Yers (myself a Yer) who loved this show, but I'm so sorry, this show doesn't hold up.

I'm voting "Never Jumped" to the original cartoon itself, which was funny and cute, but the Yogi franchise sailed right over the shark with _Yo, Yogi_, a dreadful idea to resuscitate Yogi for 80's kids. Actually, it probably did before that with that 70's eco-Yogi that was mentioned here, but mercifully I never saw that.

Just to correct a previous post, the yankees did not name their catcher after the cartoon character - it was the other way around! The cartoon character was named after Yogi Berra the baseball player who had that nickname since the 50's when he played. The cartoon started in the 60's.

Yogi Bear jumped with his '70s series "Yogi's Gang." Remember? This was the one where he was the captain of the flying ark, with all the other H-B characters like Wally Gator and Squiddly Diddly. But they didn't have fun adventures in different places; instead they battled heavy-handed "message" foes like Lotta Litter, the Greedy Genie, and Mr. Smog. One episode even featured the Sheikh of Sharing and the Sheikh of Selfishness. Who wants to see this on Saturday mornings? They remind me of those awful films we had to see in school. It was also irritating how they would "dance" up the gangplank all doing the same weird elbow motion at the same time. Geez. Give me Yogi and Booboo stealing pic-a-nic baskets any day.

Sexist tripe. I hate Yogi Bear and always did! There was only one female character and she was a nymphomaniac! Ew! Who wants to see cartoon bears acting like sluts? Yogi was so stupid you couldn't even root for him. He wasn't funny stupid, he was just STUPID. Boo-Boo was okay but nothing special. Man this show gives me bad memories. Besides Scooby Doo (who rocked) I really dislike most Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Dear Old Doggy Dad? That Pink Panther-ripoff who said "even" like a zillion times ("it's fantastic! Amazing! Spectacular, even!")? That blue horse who was a cowboy? Oh ugh, horrible.

I realized that Yogi Bear sounded just like Ed Norton. I love this cartoon and always thought it was great (the spinoffs, of course are another story). Although this cartoon was a classic, one thing I noticed was that Yogi sounded just like Ed Norton from "The Honeymooners". I still watched this show, but I always "Heyyyyyy, Ralphie boy!" when Yogi said "Heyyyyyyyy Boo-Boo!" Great cartoon asides.

Had to be when Daws Butler died. Even at the height of the crap-o-rama spin-offs, that familiar voice (kind of a deeper Art Carney) held the character together. Daws WAS Yogi. After his death, Yogi has been voiced by replacement actors like Greg Burson, but the gentle ease of Butler's voice is gone forever. Any remnants still hanging around jumped when Don Messick died, severing the ties permanently.