Saturday, 9 May 2015

A Phi Beta Katta

Here’s a storyboard for one of those great cartoons-between-the-cartoons on the “Huckleberry Hound Show.” If I had to guess, I’d say this is the work of Dan Gordon, just judging by the No. 10 drawing of Mr. Jinks, although the gag and thumbnail of scene 13A may have been added by Joe Barbera.

I’m sure you can hear Hoyt Curtin’s brassy Huck theme in the background when you read the captions. I believe you can click to enlarge it.



To the best of my knowledge, the finished cartoon didn’t make it onto the Huckleberry Hound DVD released a number of years ago.

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Mom, I Won a Trip to Teheran

All across the U.S., in the first half of 1964, I would be willing to wager there were receptionists at TV stations going home from work, mumbling to themselves about how they got nothing done because their day was interrupted by kids staring at a large glass jar and their mothers either making small talk or asking silly questions.

The jars were supplied by the folks at Screen Gems, pushing a cartoon character that was already in permanent reruns—Yogi Bear.

Here’s Broadcasting magazine from January 13, 1964.

Kids to bare talents at bean guessing
130 STATIONS TAKING PART IN SCREEN GEMS PROMOTION
Screen Gems Inc. reported last week that 130 of 150 TV stations carrying the Yogi Bear cartoon series have agreed to participate in “Yogi Bear’s Jellybean Sweepstakes,” in which 10 youngsters under 12 and their parents will win an all-expenses paid trip abroad next summer.
The contest opened officially last Saturday (Jan. 11) and will continue through March 7. Stations have been supplied with jars and jellybeans. Each station puts a certain number of jellybeans in the jars and the children are asked to send in postcards guessing the number. The first postcard with the winning number in each city will be eligible for the grand contest. In turn, names of the winners will be eligible for a second drawing, at which time 10 names will be selected for the overseas trip.
The grand prize winners and their parents will be flown to Tokyo, Rome, London, Moscow, Sydney, Singapore and other cities to be chosen. Each child also will be given a live bear cub to be presented to a zoo in the city he visits on behalf of the children of America. Consolation prizes of Yogi Bear games, toys, books and records and dolls will be awarded to local winners. Screen Gems has supplied stations with an extensive array of promotional and merchandising materials.
We can only imagine the reaction of parents who won a trip to the Soviet Union.

What prompted this unusual contest? Well, the year was 1964. That was the year Hanna-Barbera came out with Hey, There, It’s Yogi Bear. Counting jellybeans (they kind of look like jelly stones, don’t they?) was all part of the hype, as an edition of Film Bulletin explained in a story:

There’s a bear of a campaign to herald that great new Hollywood movie star, Yogi Bear, in Hanna-Barbera’s first feature-length animated film. The 20-point merchandising program includes a Kellogg’s premium offer via the backs of 45 million Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies boxes which will be promoted via a one-minute commercial on Kellogg sponsored TV shows and targeting on the youth market.
A tremendous variety of “Yogi Bear” character merchandise is available from more than 50 manufacturers.
Yogi’s Sunday comic page, appearing in 190 major markets, will carry for six weeks his Hollywood adventures while making “Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear.” Colpix is issuing a “Yogi Bear” soundtrack album and a single featuring the theme music.
Also: P.A. tours of Yogi-Bear and Boo-Boo costumes, a book promotion including three Golden Book story books, a comic book, Whitman Publishing Co. games, a national tie-in with the Yogi Bear Jelly Bean Sweepstakes, Yogi...
Well, you get the idea. The Film Daily, on May 8, 1964, went even further in its description of the push, saying Screen Gems even engaged in a “Special mailing to clergy, educators, opinion makers and parents stressing the film’s family entertainment.” You think Disney did the same thing for “Lady and the Tramp”?

But back to jellybeans. Having read about this contest, you might wonder who won it. The Lodi News-Sentinel of March 13, 1964 revealed one of the preliminary winners who had appeared at the reception desk of Channel 13.

Lodi Youth Yogi Bear TV Winner
A 12-year-old Lodi youth yesterday learned that he had correctly guessed the number of jelly beans in Yogi Bear’s jar.
Mark Olsen, 339 Maple St., is the winner of $100 in prizes and games in the Channel 13 contest, having out-guessed some 6,000 entrants in the area-wide contest. He correctly estimated that the jar contained 427 jelly beans.
In addition to his prizes, which will be presented on the Yogi Bear program sometime next week, Mark will received a year’s free pass to Yellowstone National Park, and will be made an honorary ranger.
Biggest prize of all, however, is the opportunity to compete in a national drawing among the 115 area winners for ten all-expense paid, round-the-world trips for the winner and his family.
If Mark’s name comes out of the hat in the national drawing, he and his parents will be guests of British Overseas Airwaves on one of its 707 jets on a tour of Rome, London, Moscow, Paris, Frankfurt, Teheran, New Delhi, Bangkok, Sydney and Tokyo.
Each of the ten winners will take with him an official Yogi Bear cub, furnished through the courtesy of the Duluth, Minn. zoo, to be presented to one of the cities along the travel route.
“Wait a minute,” you’re wondering. “Did I read twice about a kid taking along a real, live bear, Yowp?”

Yes, loyal reader, you did. Thus spake Variety on June 10, 1964:

KDAL Loaded for Bear
Duluth, June 9.
They’re hunting for bear in the woods around this northland town.
The search, at the behest of the local zoo and KDAL-TV hopes to produce 10 foundling bear cubs for donation to cities aboard this summer. They’ll be chaperoned by youngsters who were regional winners in the Yogi Bear jellybean sweeps contest staged by Screen Gems for its off-network cartooner.
You can, no doubt, picture the smiling faces of Iranians as a P.R. flack from Screen Gems says “Here’s your bear, Teheran.” And you thought you saw a Hanna-Barbera international incident when Yogi Bear demanded ketchup on his filett mignonnies in that restaurant in Paris.

Anyway, there are several pictures on the internet of one young man, clutching a Yogi doll and a BOAC travel bag, who must have won one of the grand prizes. But each has a huge, ugly watermark across it. So the best we can do is reprint this picture-less story from Boxoffice magazine of June 8, 1964:

Jacksonville Girls Wins In Yogi Bear Contest
JACKSONVILLE—Seven-year-old Katherine Edwards, the daughter of a Duval County police patrolman, became the winner of one of ten national first prizes awarded in the Yogi Bear Jelly Beans Sweepstakes conducted by Columbia Pictures in the advance promotion for “Hey, There, It’s Yogi Bear,” the new feature cartoon picture starring Yogi Bear, a character loved by millions of American youngsters through television and comic strip outlets.
Katherine’s prize is an all-expense trip to Zurich, Switzerland, with her mother and father accompanying her. She will present to the mayor of Zurich a bear cub donated by the Duluth, Minn., zoo and she will present letters of introduction from Florida’s governor and U.S. senators.
She was treated to a preview shooting of “Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear,” at the local Studio Theatre, as the guest of Art Castner, manager of the Edgewood Theatre, where the movie will have its north Florida premiere.
Ed McLaughlin, Columbia manager here, revealed that 750,000 children in 127 American cities and towns competed for the ten top prizes in the sweepstakes. Katherine also received a treasure chest filled with Yogi Bear novelty toys. Her trip overseas and back will be made in Rolls Royce jetliners of BOAC. Local TV station WJXT, Channel 4, cooperated in conducting the sweepstakes here with the assistance of Ranger Hal, child favorite.
Katherine, if you’re reading, let us know how the trip went.

Monday, 4 May 2015

Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, May 1965



Our source for full, three-row Yogi Bear Sunday newspaper comics dried up a month ago. At that time, we suggested you could see the full-colour, two-row versions for April 1965 on Mark Kausler’s web site, from his own personal collection. Once again, we direct you to visit Mark at THIS LINK to see the comics from 50 years ago this month.

However, we have updated this post since originally uploading it with three-row Yogis we surprisingly found. Before we get there, a few random musings...

The newspaper version of Jellystone Park is an odd place, though I suppose it’s less odd than having military manoeuvres and a missile launching site like on the TV show. Native Indians seem to live in the park. And above, you see a couple of seniors in the May 30, 1965 comic. Perhaps it’s a case of Yogi wandering off the grounds of Jellystone and into nearby reserves and wooded residential areas. Yes, I know he couldn’t escape from the park in “Yogi Bear’s Big Break,” but there weren’t internet continuity freaks in those days. So let’s assume Yogi made strolls outside the park boundaries on occasion.


The May 2, 1965 comic with a blond woman and one of those cutsy, maybe-Hazelton-designed kids named Kevin. Their identities aren’t revealed, but I’ll assume they’re Ranger Smith’s wife and kid, since he had such in earlier newspaper adventures. Their look varied. No continuity, remember.


In 1964, prime-time television was graced with “The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo,” where his character would portray historical or literary characters. Well, here we are on May 9, 1965 where Yogi portrays historical characters in ancestral form. Hey, why is Ranger Smith chopping down a tree? The comic has a neat twist ending (Dale Hale, is this one of yours?). And Great Shades of Charlie Shows! This may be the first Yogi comic where he doesn’t rhyme. Isn’t that a crime? Hey, hey, hey!


You’d think a teenaged girl would be listening to the Beatles or some parody name version of them. Nope. This chick’s groovin’ on...Andy Williams?! Well, parts of the animated cartoon world were never friendly to rock music. Until I found the top row of the May 16th comic, I figured Yogi appeared for a second time without rhyming. I should have known better. The birds are nicely rendered; there are pretty good drawings of birds in a few of the other Yogi comics. Perhaps they’re like Humboldt in that Augie Doggie cartoon and they’re humming “Swanee River.”


Speaking of Augie, here he is in the first panel of the May 23rd comic, making a cameo appearance with his dear old dad and Huck, Quick Draw and Baba Looey. Then they vanish. We get Indian stereotypes instead. A shame that first row is poorly scanned; I like the composition.


Mark has the May 30th comic with all three rows in colour. “Mom, who’s Tom Dewey?” I can hear the young newspaper readers of America asking when they first saw this comic.

Join us next month for more three-row Yogis from our new source. But check out Mark’s blog, too, to see part or all of them in full colour.

Saturday, 2 May 2015

Hit the Road, Huck

A 20-inch screen wasn’t enough to contain Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw and sidekicks. Hanna-Barbera’s characters appeared on and off the screen. The characters were available for public events, sometimes involving TV stations which broadcast their shows. Eventually, an act was worked by featuring Eddie Alberian, who had played Clarabell the clown on the Howdy Doody show after Bob Keeshan.

Trade publications gave some publicity to the characters’ whistlestops. Here’s what Broadcasting magazine wrote in its issue of January 9, 1961.

Any four-foot actors?
Four-foot-tall actors stand to pick up a little work around the country this year. In fact, there is a potential of more than 180 tv dates. That figure is approximately the station line-up for Kellogg’s Huckleberry Hound and other cartoons, and they all have been offered a new costume package for “personal appearances” by the cartoon characters.
The four-foot figure is a new member of the troupe, Baba Looie. The burro is sidekick to the star of Quick Draw McGraw, and the two are set to accompany Huck on one section of the promotional tour, the characters recreated at each date by local talent.
Costumes have been prepared in two packages by Ed Justin, merchandising director of Screen Gems, distributor of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons. The other package features Huck with Yogi Bear and his new girl friend, Cindy Bear. In the first few days after the costume acts were offered, 27 stations responded.
Each act employs tape for lip-sync dialog and new songs. One of them, “Yogi Bear, the Casanova of the Cave Set,” is a duet for two bears. The other is an equine duet, “Quick Draw’s A-Comin’ and Baba Looie Too.” Kits also contain suggested formats and production run-down.
Air dates are being coordinated with department store promotions which tie in cartoon merchandise with the tv shows. The distributor also is suggesting other angles, such as a sanitation department tie-in with Quick Draw declaring he’s “gonna clean up this here town.”
Baba Looie’s and Cindy Bear's outfits are new. Last year’s costumes covered more than 150 dates at department stores, football games, parades and other local events. In addition, Screen Gems has a professional Huck-Yogi act on the road each season.
Kellogg (through Leo Burnett Co.) has Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw on around 180 stations. The new Yogi Bear show starts this month for Kellogg on 130 stations replacing Woody Woodpecker.
Here are some other examples. You may recall the cartoon where Yogi Bear “helps” the Chicago Bears. A costumed Yogi actually appeared at a Bears game. But he was at other sporting events, too. From Broadcasting, November 6, 1961.
Bear (Yogi) helps cheer Gophers over Wolverines
Tv star Yogi Bear (who admits to being “better than the average football player”) and his cohorts Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw ambled over to the U. of Minnesota from WCCO-TV Minneapolis where each has a weekly show to stir up enthusiasm for the college's homecoming football game.
Yogi not only served as cheerleader and participant in half-time festivities but also “guaranteed” the Minnesota Gophers a win over the Michigan Wolverines. Indeed with the backing of the Prophet of Jellystone Park, the Gophers denned the Wolverines by a score of 23-20.
From August 28, 1961:
Youngsters visit zoo with Yogi and friends
More than 45,000 youngsters and their parents attended WTOL-TV's “Day at the Zoo” event, which spotlighted a live telecast of the day's proceedings on Aug. 15 (2:30-3 p.m.).
The Toledo Zoo was officially renamed Jellystone Park (home of Yogi Bear) for a day and youngsters were treated to free movies in the park's indoor theater. A tie-in was arranged with the Kellogg Co., sponsor of Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound cartoon series on WTOL -TV, including the setting up of Jellystone express trains and Jellystone Ranger stations.
The animal characters were in costume and paraded through the crowd. Special guests of WTOL -TV were Fred Wilson, sales and promotion field representative for the Leo Burnett Co., agency for Kellogg; Verne Heeren, Gene Malone, Prem Kapur and Art Berla of H-R Television, representative for the station. In addition to the “Day at the Zoo” project, which is in its second year, WTOL -TV works with the zoo management on a year –round basis to stimulate interest through public service announcements and coverage of the zoo's other special events.
And a couple of stories from Sponsor magazine, showing the power of Huck and Yogi as sales-characters. First, from January 30, 1960:
Capsule case history: Capwell's Department Store, one of the largest in Oakland, Calif. in connection with KTVU's (San Francisco) Huckleberry Hound, promoted a personal appearance at Capwells of Huck and Yogi, stars of the kid's show. Huckleberry Hound is seen Wednesdays from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Pete Watt, special events manager of Capwell's, reported that 350 children and parents were waiting for Huck and Yogi when they made their grand entrance onto the street level floor of the department store. And other people kept arriving as the half-hour event went on. Both during and after the appearance, Capwell's reported a multi-increase in general merchandise category. Another crowd was gathered in the store's basement toy department to greet the celebrities which also reflected in sales. “I feel that tv was responsible for the promotion's success, by getting the word out to the kids themselves—something a newspaper ad cannot do because kids don't read such ads,” said Watt.
And from January 1, 1962:
Capsule case history: When GEM Stores in the new state of Hawaii booked Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and Quick Graw McGraw for personal appearances to build store traffic and plug the stores' third anniversary promotion, an on-air schedule on KHVH-TV, Honolulu, was used to implement the program. Starting almost two months before the visit, a strong tv spot campaign was initiated to recruit numbers for the H. Hound fan club and plugging Huckleberry for President buttons. When Huck and his pals started at Honolulu International, about 10,000 of their loyal Hawaiian fans turned out to greet them-the largest crowd in the airport's history. At GEM, fans and customers, numbering 2,500, were on hand to welcome their heroes. Glenn Kya, general manager of GEM, reported that store sales were way up during their Honolulu junket. Results were especially record-breaking on their visits to other islands which are reached by KMVI-TV, Maui, and KHJK, Hilo.
Finally, let’s pass on this story from Broadcasting magazine, January 23, 1961. Unfortunately, a picture didn’t accompany the story.
Tv to get mechanical man to promote ‘Flintstones’
A newcomer to the Hanna-Barbera stable of cartoon talent distributed by Screen Gems is ready to hit the personal appearance trail. Fred Flintstone, who this season debuted with his wife in The Flintstones (ABC -TV, Fri., 8:30-9 p.m. EST), is ready to follow the promotional route pioneered by the syndicated Huckleberry Hound, followed by Yogi Bear, Baba Louie and others.
How to mount the Flintstone act posed some problems, though. Costumed people customarily portray the cartoon animals in local appearances, but it didn’t seem right to Ed Justin, merchandising manager of Screen Gems, to costume a real man to play a cartooned one. So he has come up with a mechanical man to do the Fred Flintstone bit around the country.
It is the cheapest act yet. A station has only to assign an announcer to ask questions, plug in Fred and let him talk. The other cartoon acts all require actors to fill animal suits. This one will be performed by an animated polyethylene statue executed by Silvestri Art Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, which has created similar representations of Screen Gems cartoon folk for department store displays. Recorded dialog for Fred Flintstone activates mechanical muscles, so the five-foot “personality” can do his own lip-sync act, including an original song to wind up the bit, “Abba Dabba Do,” based upon a favorite exclamation of the caveman character.
The act has been offered all ABC-TV affiliates. Thirty-five accepted immediately and the syndicator expects to hear from more. First stop on the national tour will be WBKB (TV) Chicago sometime next month when the “talent” is ready. Department-store bookings will follow later in the year after a new line of Flintstone toy merchandise debuts next March at the Toy Fair in New York.
How long Hanna-Barbera had guys sweating in huge costumes show up at supermarket ribbon-cuttings and department store Christmas toy displays, I don’t know. Newspapers and trade publications eventually stopped covering small potatoes events like that. The studio expanded and pretty soon it stepped up to the ice-show and theme park business. By 1977, Eddie Alberian had moved on to play “Dokey the Good Food Clown,” mixing messages for kids into the entertainment. Seems to me some H-B characters who once had been in costume went in that direction on TV, too.

Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Yowp Sightings

Hi, Yowp here. You know my story. I appeared in three Yogi Bear cartoons. Then Joe Barbera told me, “We’re going in a different direction. Yogi, Ranger Smith, Boo Boo and Jellystone Park. No room for you.”

Ah, there was a time stardom seemed in my grasp. Hanna-Barbera included me in their marketing. Here are a couple of examples I’ve spotted.



Dynamic Toy, 109 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn 11, N.Y., made a number of these vegetable ink tattoo kits in 1961. There was one with the Flintstones and another with Disney characters. And there was this one with various characters from the Huck and Yogi shows.


Here they are. And look! Second row to the far left, there I am. All the other characters are identified except me. “Yowp, you don’t need an introduction,” said Joe. Smooth talker, that Barbera.


Now, here’s an odd mixture of characters—the TV version of Felix the Cat, the 1950s Famous Studios version of Popeye with people in the Popeye newspaper strip, and the cast of “The Yogi Bear Show.” And yours truly is there, too. Same design as in the Cockamamies. Who made these rubber stamps? I have no idea.

But my days were already numbered. The studio introduced the Flintstones in 1960 and Top Cat in 1961. Touché Turtle, Lippy and Hardy, and Wally Gator were around the corner. The studio now had plenty of starring characters to sell. And it did. Secondary characters like me became a memory. But we won’t quite fade away altogether, so long as you can see the fun old cartoons we were in.

And since we mentioned the Flintstones Cockamamies, here they are, including Baby Puss.

Saturday, 25 April 2015

Yogi Bear — Bear Foot Soldiers

Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.
Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley, Layout – Iwao Takamoto, Backgrounds – Neenah Maxwell, Written by Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art Goble, Production Supervision – Howard Hanson.
Voice Cast: Yogi Bear, Blue Lieutenant, Bear Soldier, Man Picknicker, Charlie, Ranger Schultz, Orange-Hair Ranger – Daws Butler; Boo Boo, Ranger Smith, Blue General, Bear Sergeant, Woman Picnicker, Louie – Don Messick.
Music: Hoyt Curtin.
Episode: Production E-73 (last Yogi Bear cartoon made)
First Aired: 1961-62.
Plot: Yogi Bear unwittingly becomes part of a war game in Jellystone Park.

The U.S. military is kind of clueless. Warren Foster buried that message—but not too deep—inside a number of Hanna-Barbera cartoons that aired in the 1961-62 season. Three of them have “missile” in the title (“Meece Missiles,” “Missile-Bound Bear” and “Missile Bound Yogi”). Then there’s this one.

Here we find military commanders and soldiers who are so wrapped up in their war, they can’t tell the difference between bears and guys in bear costumes, or park rangers and “enemy” soldiers dressed as rangers. In fact, there were no soldiers dressed as rangers in the cartoon. It was a snap judgement by the general in this cartoon based on his own version of military logic, the same kind of logic that breeds the attitude of “shoot first and ask questions later.”

The plot starts out with the simple premise (the same one in “Missile Bound Yogi”) that the Army is, for whatever reason, holding war games in a national park. The lieutenant in charge of the “Bear Patrol” mistakes the lounging Yogi and Boo Boo for lazy soldiers and orders them to get with the other “bears.” The two civilian bears are immediately compliant to military demands and remain so throughout the cartoon; this isn’t the late ‘60s, after all.


Yogi: Uh, things must be pretty bad, Boo Boo, when they start draftin’ animals.
Boo Boo: I thought the next war was gonna be a push-button war.
Yogi: They must have run out of buttons, so they start pushin’ bears.

Yogi helpfully urges the hungry patrol to help themselves to picnic baskets. The armed outright thievery is heartily endorsed by the lieutenant. “Livin’ off the country is necessary sometimes,” he declares. Meanwhile, the bear patrol members fire their weapons at Ranger Smith, knowing full well he’s the park ranger, to “scare him off.”

All this does is result in a military escalation, with Smith and his armed rangers shooting at his country’s own soldiers. “But we scored first,” says the lieutenant, as if that were somehow important. The lieutenant orders Yogi and Boo Boo to get into a tank and chase the rangers. “An order’s an order,” says the unquestioning Yogi.

Suddenly, the military goes home.


Lieutenant (on phone): What’s that general? Call off the war game immediately? Uh, why sir? A new missile has made the Army obsolete? Yes, sir!”

And the lieutenant hangs up the phone as Hoyt Curtin’s soundtrack plays one bar in a minor key of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.”

But no one tells Yogi. Cut to him in an out-of-control tank, firing at the rangers, who take refuge in their cabin. Smith’s heroic speech:


Smith: We’ll make our last stand here, men. And let us conduct ourselves so Ranger Station Number 4 will go down in history with Custer’s Last Stand, and the Alamo...

At this point the tank that threatens to mow down the ranger station stops in front of the door. Yogi praises Boo Boo for, in essence, saving the rangers’ lives. Don Messick was a wonderful tone in his voice, emphasizing the fact Boo Boo didn’t do anything. “It ran out of gas, Yogi,” he deadpans. The military didn’t provide the necessary fuel to “do the job” and Foster leaves the audience to draw its own conclusion.

“Missile-Bound Bear” ends with the Army trying to cover up its failed mission through intimidation (yet another military “order” of civilians), followed by a bribe by Ranger Smith to Yogi (who realises what it is but gladly complies since it means lots of picnic baskets). This cartoon ends with the rangers conspiring to cover up their own mistake (shooting at bear-costumed soldiers that some tourists told them were real bears) and bribing Yogi and Boo Boo into silence with picnic baskets.



There’s nothing much about the artwork in this cartoon that stands out. It’s one of the first that Iwao Takamoto worked on at Hanna-Barbera. Everything looks shot like it’s on a stage. Incidental characters have the studio’s “look.” The lieutenant could be a jar-headed distant relative of George Jetson.



Iwao’s designs for the military vehicles are solid (note that the dust whipped up by the moving tank is animated).



There’s a cute bit of animation by journeyman Bob Bentley. When Ranger Smith cries that the bears are “armed to the teeth,” he shows his teeth.



I also like how the lieutenant is standing at attention while talking with the general—even when he’s on the phone.



And what would a Hanna-Barbera cartoon be without a running cycle? Here are the three rangers, running past the same tree forever. The cycle is four drawings on ones. It takes 24 frames for the background to start over again. It’s a little slower than in the actual cartoon.



Incidentally, you’ll notice the middle ranger is out of step with the others, for aesthetic reasons I imagine.



“Ours is not to reason why,” paraphrases Yogi from Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade, “ours is but to do or diet.” Thus ends the cartoon. It’s hard to go on after a pun like that so we conclude our final review of the seven-minute Yogi cartoons.

Late note: Howard Fein noticed one Yogi short wasn’t reviewed (no, I don’t mean the half-hour special). We’ll try to get to it.