tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post1704762691949072050..comments2024-03-28T16:36:44.544-07:00Comments on Yowp: Yogi Bear — Rah Rah BearYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-70978371461832023182010-09-13T17:40:41.479-07:002010-09-13T17:40:41.479-07:00This is another Yogi Bear episode which's anth...This is another <i>Yogi Bear</i> episode which's anthologic, which involves two major teams from the NFL (Chicago Bears and New York Giants). <br />Alias, we're nowadays on the NFL season in the USA.rodineisilveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751345474415214163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-65545389208539915882010-09-13T08:47:14.302-07:002010-09-13T08:47:14.302-07:00Howard, that portion of the storyboard was/is on-l...Howard, that portion of the storyboard was/is on-line. I ran into it after I wrote this post some weeks ago. It's a great gag (pretty typical Foster) and I figured they had just cut it for time. <br />I don't know whether it's in Jerry Beck's HB book because I've never seen the book.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-36443435262399520552010-09-13T07:19:52.361-07:002010-09-13T07:19:52.361-07:00Some animation book or museum exhibit has a storyb...Some animation book or museum exhibit has a storyboard for this cartoon with a gag that was thrown out. At the opening, the narrator tells us that after the tourist season there are still signs of their presence. We then 'see' a shot of two badly burned rangers sitting amidst a fire-damaged landscape. One says "We had a good season this year." The other responds "Yeah- they're learning how to put out forest fires."<br /><br />That would have been a nice narrator/character incongruity that the Jay Ward cartoons did so well. But apparently someone at the studio, or a censor, thought a gag about forest fires would have been in bad taste.Howard Feinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-31871928275677111242010-09-11T18:20:39.440-07:002010-09-11T18:20:39.440-07:00Television (and arguably the merger between the AF...Television (and arguably the merger between the AFL and NFL) popularised pro football in the '60s so the lack of old cartoons about it (and basketball, for that matter) isn't surprising. Baseball was still America's pasttime.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-32029277906010525272010-09-11T17:52:05.884-07:002010-09-11T17:52:05.884-07:00This has always been one of my favorite Yogi Bear ...This has always been one of my favorite Yogi Bear cartoons. Everything about it makes me smile: the funny readings by Daws Butler (especially "I-oh-way!), the great use of classic musical cuts such as "Fun on Ice", Yogi's insulting comments about the coach ("What nincompoop is in charge of the Bears?!"), the growling football players, the sight of Yogi chained to the bench, the sounds of him eating at the ranger station refrigerator, etc. It all makes for a memorable cartoon and one of Yogi's best, outside of the standard Jellystone Park adventures.Dan Bradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02118939034032765664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-11322599416965629532010-09-11T15:24:19.421-07:002010-09-11T15:24:19.421-07:00The next shot shows Yogi on the bench with a ball ...<i>The next shot shows Yogi on the bench with a ball and chain around his leg (all football stadiums come equipped with them).</i><br /><br />Well, Philadelphia, anyway...<br /><br />Pro football really wasn't used much for gags during the Golden Age of Hollywood -- what set-ups there were usually involved college football games. But this cartoon came out the fall following the 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Giants and Colts which was the first ever overtime game, and is considered the event that really sent the NFL on its way to being the No. 1 U.S. pro sport. So Foster's story line may have spun out of the publicity from the championship game of the previous season (though Warren may just have been a longtime NFL fan -- he used the Detroit Lions for a wall-poster gag in "Roman Legion-Hare" three years earlier).J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.com