tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post682870676606351547..comments2024-03-18T09:49:52.436-07:00Comments on Yowp: Yogi Bear — The Runaway BearYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-50179379203977311152011-05-24T18:03:06.902-07:002011-05-24T18:03:06.902-07:00Oddly, the first Yogi Bear comic book story was ab...Oddly, the first Yogi Bear comic book story was about hunting. It appeared in DELL FOUR COLOR COMICS # 990 HUCKLEBERRY HOUND May/July, 1959. The first Huck Hound comic book. <br /><br />More oddly, the book led off with adaptations of “Huckleberry Hound Meets Wee Willie”, “Lion Hearted Huck”, and Pixie and Dixie’s “Cousin Tex”. The latter with a different ending gag. <br /><br />Then, there was an original Yogi, and the book closed with an original Huck – that was built on the oft-used premise of “If you need me, just whistle!” – with Huck helping a little bird by pounding on a fox, like the later Yakky, Chopper, and Fibber. <br /><br />Here’s what I wrote about that Yogi story, back in 2001:<br /><br />“Yogi Bear and the Awful It” 8 pg. Story by Vic Lockman art by the great Harvey Eisenberg. <br /><br /> In the issue’s first original story, Yogi and Boo Boo are awakened by a parade of forest animals wanting to hide in their cave from a strange creature they call “The It”. The bears investigate to find “The It” to have the mask of a raccoon, head of a moose, tail of a rabbit, webbed feet of a duck, a bearskin body… and the rifle of a human hunter. Which – predating Scooby-Doo by over a decade – it turns out to be. <br /><br />“Yay! It works every time! I get the animals curious and confused… and have time to take a shot at ‘em! ”<br /><br />And a bad shot he is. Yogi and Boo Boo have to feign being hit just to stop the wild spray of bullets. Remorseful over his first “score” the hunter proceeds to kill the bears with kindness at his cabin, and then decides to incessantly shoot home movies of them instead. Yogi finally finds peace by hiding himself in the “It” suit, which, now retired, has now become a cozy rug in front of the fireplace. <br /><br />“You can say what you want about this awful ‘It’ suit…but I say it makes an awfully nice hibernating quarters! ZZZZZZ!”<br /><br /> There may be those who are wondering why the first Yogi Bear comic book story would have been about hunting, when we all know that Yogi and Boo Boo reside in Jellystone National Park – where hunting is an even bigger no-no than feeding the bears. <br /><br /> In actual fact, many of the the earliest Yogi Bear cartoons did not take place in a national park. Yogi (…with, or without, Boo Boo ) was depicted as a bear in the woods, a circus bear, etc. The cartoon “Tally-Ho-Ho-Ho” (1958) also saw Yogi receiving hospitality from a reluctant and gullible hunter. So, given the time during which this story would have been prepared, the “bears in the wild” approach to Yogi and Boo Boo is far more accurate than it appears at first glance.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-87586500725760472632011-05-24T17:47:31.069-07:002011-05-24T17:47:31.069-07:00It's a slogan Gem Blades used in the '40s....It's a slogan Gem Blades used in the '40s.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-5377063723698029192011-05-23T22:57:03.507-07:002011-05-23T22:57:03.507-07:00"It's later than you think" was a 19..."It's later than you think" was a 1950 hit for both Guy Lombardo and Doris Day. That also could be the original of the expression.<br /><br /><br />SJCS,Carrasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-87674484829360942282011-05-23T04:40:07.617-07:002011-05-23T04:40:07.617-07:00Not a great cartoon, but compared to later Hanna-B...Not a great cartoon, but compared to later Hanna-Barbera efforts, one of the nice things about this and other Season 1-2 shorts is that, like the continuing characters in the theatrical cartoons, you can actually watch the designs and personalities develop, as the staff tries out various story lines to see what works and what doesn't. <br /><br />In that way, "The Runaway Bear" is like a 1930s cartoon from Warners or MGM -- there are lots of flaws, but they're more forgivable than the weaker cartoons that would come later because the H-B crew is learning on the fly how best to do the cartoons, and you can watch the education process on-screen (the difference being that once they figured out the best formula in Season 2, they stuck to it like glue for Yogi and every other series, to the point that predictability and repetition would undermine even the best formulas).J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-57677759816990979882011-05-22T11:09:31.991-07:002011-05-22T11:09:31.991-07:00Yogi Bear - The World's Greatest Skating Bear
...Yogi Bear - The World's Greatest Skating Bear<br /><br />Yogi (for the audiences): "They're talking about me!"rodineisilveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751345474415214163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-36440086976734724252011-05-22T04:58:03.862-07:002011-05-22T04:58:03.862-07:00For a long time I thought this was the pilot for t...For a long time I thought this was the pilot for the Yogi series, not only for the dramatic difference in premise but for the extremely primitive appearances of both him and the incidental characters.Howard Feinnoreply@blogger.com