tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post5286417140510690654..comments2024-03-28T21:16:57.556-07:00Comments on Yowp: Yogi Bear — Spy GuyYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-46785162879477293432012-10-26T00:37:16.257-07:002012-10-26T00:37:16.257-07:00Thanks for reviewing the 1960-61 season of HB cart...Thanks for reviewing the 1960-61 season of HB cartoons. Even though overall they may lack (though to me in the smallest fashion) some of the primal charm of the 1958-59 cartoons, they are still light years beyond what was produced by HB by 1963, and especially 1965 (Good Lord, "Squiggly Wiggly" and "Precious Pup" ; YARGHH!!), and they still hold up well today, and are just darn funny to boot! I wish that WB would issue the 2nd, 3rd and 4th seasons of Huckleberry Hound on DVD, as well as all 3 seasons of Quick Draw McGraw. spotts60noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-39587146754861377982012-10-07T19:39:21.778-07:002012-10-07T19:39:21.778-07:00“About the only difference from cartoon to cartoon...“About the only difference from cartoon to cartoon was sometimes Yogi came out on top and sometimes he didn’t. That was a wise decision. It kept the viewer wondering what would happen as a Yogi cartoon unfolded which, of course, kept him/her tuned in.”<br /><br />That’s a great point! The “outcome-undecided-until-the-end” also applied to Huck and even Pixie, Dixie, and Mister Jinks. …And that’s one huge reason I loved the early H-B cartoons. <br /><br />The characters were just as likely to lose (or be left in a terrible fix – think “Tough Little Termite”, “Piccadilly Dilly”, or “Yogi Bear’s Big Break”) as come out on top. <br />Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-61993274893739057952012-10-06T17:41:47.087-07:002012-10-06T17:41:47.087-07:00I love this third season Yogi Bear and co.cartoon....I love this third season Yogi Bear and co.cartoon. The scene that J.Lee mentions is on e of the best, with the mob of picnickers, and it was a neat idea to bring backthe earlier season Bill Loose and John Seely's "TC-221A Heavy Agitato". It was used un der Edward Everettt Horton's dry narration a few years later aftere HB ditched the library in the cult indie school bike saftely flick "One Got Fat" near the tunnell scene. Too bad Warner Bros.never used that cue in any of those six Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons made in 1958 due to a musicians strike (it woulkd wok real well with Roadrunner shorts.)<br /><br />The concisense idea was, of course, already becoiming used with Boo Boo (see an earlier post from this wekk, the comics one). <br /><br />Here the ranger takes it up to be the mysterrrious connnnnscine (sic-trying to illustrate an "Inner Sanctum" like disemboidied voice there!). Two things I'd wished when I was in my teens watching these iconic Yogis was Yogi getting clobbered and his personality changing for five minutes,not stealing picnic baskets and getting a bit TOO nice, or either thru the clobbering olr sleeping for the night or napping Yogi having a nightmare where he is forced to pay for his Jellystone crimes. <br /><br />Those would be fun popclture newslatter fanfics like the type written about other shows or a new cartoon short or even a comic book or something.<br /><br />Back to the cartoon for a final note, final scene., That ranger, to paraphrase both bears, is one of the trickiest ones-trickier than the average ranger if the closing gag was any proof if it!Steve C<br /><br />Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-6021476156085543742012-10-06T09:10:06.040-07:002012-10-06T09:10:06.040-07:00Yogi's walk is a little reminiscent of the wal...Yogi's walk is a little reminiscent of the walk the escaped circus bear (complete with Ed Norton hat) did in "Down-Beat Bear" a few years earlier.<br /><br />While this cartoon was part of the now-standard Yogi-vs.-Ranger Smith formula, we're still early enough in the game here so that the you-know-what's-coming-before-it-arrives scenes and dialogue aren't quiet in place yet (i.e. -- opening up with a shot of the Ranger on the closed circuit TV saying “Lynching me won’t get your picnic baskets back.” It's a funny line, but one that never have had made the Standards & Practices cut for H-B cartoons released just a few years later, when everything in the cartoons had to be certified as 'child friendly").J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.com