tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post2962460980695422233..comments2024-03-27T01:21:03.543-07:00Comments on Yowp: Yogi Bear — Yogi’s Pest GuestYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-84526066394679939802014-05-29T01:12:59.688-07:002014-05-29T01:12:59.688-07:00Well, the Honeymooners was a short sketch at first...Well, the Honeymooners was a short sketch at first and then became a half-hour show. Why not Yogi?<br />I think the Yogi birthday party cartoon proved it could be done. It doesn't feel padded. And Foster wrote a pile of Flintstones half hours so he could work in that format. But for whatever reason the studio felt a prime time sitcom had to borrow from other prime time sitcoms and use prime time sitcom writers.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-10411269552492867162014-05-26T14:47:24.898-07:002014-05-26T14:47:24.898-07:00This is another of those “late-in-the-run” Yogi ca...This is another of those “late-in-the-run” Yogi cartoons that I feel could have been drawn-out into a half-hour show – had H-B decided to go that way with the Bear. <br /><br />Everything about Yo-Yo’s arrival and initial attempts at acclimation could have been expanded upon, not to mention his conflicts with Yogi (where Ranger Smith would take Yo-Yo’s side, even if Yogi were a semi-innocent victim). Yo-Yo’s “reign of basket terror” could also have been extended, along with a few unsuccessful efforts toward his capture. <br /><br />Other such cartoons I’ve mentioned in the past, that could have become half-hour episodes, were “A Bear Pair” (trip to Paris), “Gleesome Threesome” (Ranger Smith’s Florida vacation), and “Slap-Happy Birthday (Ranger Smith’s birthday). Even “Queen-Bee for a Day” would have been a good candidate, with far more humor to be milked out of the “Bee-Panic”. <br /><br />I sometimes wonder if a half-hour, prime-time Yogi Bear show (given his great and established popularity, at the time) would have been more successful than was Top Cat. <br />Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-31093267114211899262014-05-25T21:57:22.218-07:002014-05-25T21:57:22.218-07:00Hoyt Curtin’s “specialty Japanese-sounding music” ...Hoyt Curtin’s “specialty Japanese-sounding music” was from the Flintstones episode <i>“The Prowler”</i>, played over the scenes featuring Betty’s stereotypical Judo Instructor. Who, in turn was preceded by Pixie and Dixie’s Judo Instructor, <i>“Judo Jack”</i>. Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-67865545572740164862014-05-24T08:10:37.353-07:002014-05-24T08:10:37.353-07:00William Keil didn't animate this. The credits ...William Keil didn't animate this. The credits are from another Yogi short: "Iron Hands Jones." Don Williams did the animation in this one. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com