I recorded nearly a dozen episodes of this show off Cartoon Network over the years. I had thought it was a childhood favorite of mine as well, and I remembered the very effective (tho obviously just as PC) Saturday Superstar Movie that this came from, same scenario, Yogi and his friends in a flying ark, looking for the perfect place. The song was in that show as well.
And yes, now I watch it and it is eyebrow-furrowing to watch. The once brilliant zinging one-liners of Yogi, Snag, Magilla and Hokey Wolf reduced to this.
The flaws are obvious. Yogi and Quickdraw and Booboo are now pristine in their way of thinking. All they need is a soapbox to do their preaching from.
"Don't litter. Be Nice. Don't Be Greedy." I would like to say that there was at least some compensation in the usually better developed characters of the bad guys, but that don't apply here either.
Gossipy Witch says "Atom Ant is a musclehead. Yogi Bear has left the EArth, never to return" straining to make non-chalant gossip.
Interesting about her episode, most of her gossip involved characters sleeping. "Magilla sleeps with a bunch of bananas, Squiddly Diddly sleeps in water, Doggy Daddy sleeps with a clothespin on his nose to prevent snoring, Peter Potamus sleeps with a teddy bear" and so on.
One rather intriguing episode was Mr. Bigot. That the show even sought to touch on this subject was interesting. Alas, Yogi getting mad and discriminating against humans and dogs and hippos soon lost any promise.
Yet we do get Rose Marie of "The Dick Van Dyke" show as Lotta Litter, and she doesn't disappoint. She loved her trash.
Paul Winchell was the Sultan of Selfishness and the character seemed to display the life Winchell brought to his voices, with sudden jumps for joy.
Jesse White I do recall did Mr. Cheater.
Nevertheless it is the PC that causes the migraines.
Quickdraw to Gossipy Witch, "I don't mean to be rude, Gossipy, but I have work to do." Instead of blaming Lotta Litter, Booboo Bear points out that they are responsible for not picking up the trash.
Yogi and Huck have definitely undergone a lot of strange transformations since they first appeared; Yogi's Gang, Laff-A-Lympics, Yogi's Space Race, Yo Yogi.
Ranger Smith as a blonde like he was here in the '72 show was definitely one of the strangest.
And yes, now I watch it and it is eyebrow-furrowing to watch. The once brilliant zinging one-liners of Yogi, Snag, Magilla and Hokey Wolf reduced to this.
The flaws are obvious. Yogi and Quickdraw and Booboo are now pristine in their way of thinking. All they need is a soapbox to do their preaching from.
"Don't litter. Be Nice. Don't Be Greedy." I would like to say that there was at least some compensation in the usually better developed characters of the bad guys, but that don't apply here either.
Gossipy Witch says "Atom Ant is a musclehead. Yogi Bear has left the EArth, never to return" straining to make non-chalant gossip.
Interesting about her episode, most of her gossip involved characters sleeping. "Magilla sleeps with a bunch of bananas, Squiddly Diddly sleeps in water, Doggy Daddy sleeps with a clothespin on his nose to prevent snoring, Peter Potamus sleeps with a teddy bear" and so on.
One rather intriguing episode was Mr. Bigot. That the show even sought to touch on this subject was interesting. Alas, Yogi getting mad and discriminating against humans and dogs and hippos soon lost any promise.
Yet we do get Rose Marie of "The Dick Van Dyke" show as Lotta Litter, and she doesn't disappoint. She loved her trash.
Paul Winchell was the Sultan of Selfishness and the character seemed to display the life Winchell brought to his voices, with sudden jumps for joy.
Jesse White I do recall did Mr. Cheater.
Nevertheless it is the PC that causes the migraines.
Quickdraw to Gossipy Witch, "I don't mean to be rude, Gossipy, but I have work to do." Instead of blaming Lotta Litter, Booboo Bear points out that they are responsible for not picking up the trash.
Yogi and Huck have definitely undergone a lot of strange transformations since they first appeared; Yogi's Gang, Laff-A-Lympics, Yogi's Space Race, Yo Yogi.
Ranger Smith as a blonde like he was here in the '72 show was definitely one of the strangest.