12 Underappreciated Hanna Barbera Character Gems That Will Take On A Nostalgic Trip Down Memory Lane

12 Underappreciated Hanna Barbera Character Gems That Will Take On A Nostalgic Trip Down Memory Lane

[@user-rc1qq9pn7k]

Now Saturday mornings are boring without cartoons

[@OM19_MO79]

Did you know? Your TV has this little connectors on the back in which you can connect all series of devices in which you can watch cartoons, whenever, wherever, “likeever“ you can, even for free. It’s 2024, in case you didn’t know either.

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

Hanna-Barbera came up with enough characters in its time to populate a small city.

[@OM19_MO79]

Yes. it’s called Jellystone! Apparently the clickbaiter who did this doesn’t know about it either.

[@shangri-laj9578]

I loved Shazzan! Saturday morning cartoons in the late 60s and 70s were the BEST!

[@user-be7tc2bd6e]

I also LOVED Space-Ghost,Bird-Man,the Herculoids,etc,etc,..

[@user-be7tc2bd6e]

@@kennyboggs3676 I've also seen all these other cartoons too. At one time i wanted to go to an animation school and make cartoons,but,couldn't afford it,so I went into the military instead.

[@TheDunc1]

@@user-be7tc2bd6e Now you can make a cartoon about the military. Joking apart I feel for you. I wanted to study film making but the course was too academic. I have not done half the things I want to do, but I think we have all done alright.

[@TheDunc1]

I don't think we got that in the U.K.

[@kennyboggs3676]

I watched Space Ghost, Birdman, Scooby Doo, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, Droopy, The Super Friends and The Pirates of Dark Water in reruns on Cartoon Network when I was a kid (I also watched The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and it's spin-off Cartoon Planet.)

[@AH-is5yg]

Top Cat, Yogi Bear, and Huckleberry Hound are iconic characters and they even got their own movies.

[@jarodhankey4551]

Seriously dude you need to do your homework more.

[@AH-is5yg]

@@jarodhankey4551 leave me alone and who cares. No one likes you. You bully.

[@AH-is5yg]

@@jarodhankey4551 so. Who cares

[@jarodhankey4551]

I guess no one in the grand scheme of things.

[@theamericanshepherd5378]

Yogi even made a live movie.

[@justinshaw7826]

Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound were my favorite Hanna Barbera cartoons growing up as a kid.

[@jabbarmuhammad]

I grew up watching these cartoons they were always my favorites

[@josephcooter5763]

Yogi Beer is not an under apprieciated character. In fact, he's very well know. I have even seen parodies of the live action movie where Boo Boo, turns on Yogi and he ends up as a rug in a cabin in Jellystone Park

[@AngelOneiros]

A ton of these characters turned up on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. They were given free rein to do almost anything they wanted with the huge library of Hanna Barbera cartoons. I loved that show.

[@jamesanthony8438]

As soon as Peter Potomus popped onto the screen, I heard "Did you get that thing I sent ya'?" in my head. Thanks for that, Adult Swim. =)

[@Shadowslave604]

you did Quick Draw but not his alter ego El Kabong lol

[@jeffgorham8819]

Don't remind me about El Kabong, that character got me in trouble when, as a small child, I got a small toy guitar and promptly "El Kabong"-ed my kid sister!

[@michaelrice384]

Laff-a-lympics showed just how extensive the Hanna Barbara catalog really was

[@nicholase82]

The Laff a lympics is now on Tubi. Honestly I would love to see a reboot.

[@dreamguardian8320]

That was a great show. I liked the Scooby Doobies the most.

[@dreamguardian8320]

@@nicholase82 Maybe with new added teams, like the Flintstones, the Jetsons, and/or the Smurfs. Just some ideas.

[@dreamguardian8320]

@@nicholase82 Maybe even the Banana Splits as cartoons.

[@CartoonDystopia]

00:57 - Shazzan (1967) 03:13 - Top Cat (1961) 04:36 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids (1973) 06:12 - Peter Potamus (1964) 07:57 - Snagglepuss (1961) 09:05 - The Roman Holidays (1972) 10:55 - Snorks (1984) 12:23 - Huckleberry Hound (1958) 13:57 - Yogi Bear (1961) 15:34 - Quickdraw McGraw (1959) 16:58 - Wally Gator (1962) 18:21 - Paw Rugg (The Hillbilly Bears, 1965)

[@ronsorage78]

I know several characters on the list and some like Snagglepuss are iconic. I watched the heck out of the Snorks.

[@BruceMusto]

Top Cat, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Wally Gator, and Magilla Gorilla are the ones I remember from childhood.

[@mham1330]

Captain Caveman, Hong Kong Phooey should be mentioned.

[@whiterabbit75]

The Herculoids and Thundarr The Barbarian were my favorite HB cartoons, after Scooby Doo.

[@kirkindog]

I wholeheartedly agree that “The Roman Holidays" & “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kids” were underrated! I was a big fan of both as a kid & just recently bought both series on Amazon Prime along with “Josey & The Pussy Cats.” Saturday mornings in the 70s as a kid were AWESOME! Btw, I also LUVED the opening theme songs to all three.

[@csnide6702]

Top Cat- cool theme song , Wally Gator - biggest alligator in the swamp , Snagglepuss - exit , stage right . Huckleberry Hound - oh my darlin' Clementine, Quick Draw and Baba Louie(along with El Kabong), Yogi Bear and the pick-a- nick baskets were all great childhood memories.... !

[@leewuepper9159]

I always loved Scooby Doo and miss watching this ❤️ thanks for the memory of these cartoons 👏

[@user-zh4rb3sl1j]

Hello! Amazing! My favorite Hanna-Barbera cartoons are: The Herculoids, Valley of the Dinosaurs, Thundarr the Barbarian and Mighty Mightor. Thanks! Amazing video!

[@theamericanshepherd5378]

Thundarr wasn't from Hanna Barbera.

[@port2483]

For years I had a vague recollection of a cartoon which I had thought of as a futuristic version of Scooby Doo with a computer that was allergic to dogs. But whenever I looked it up or asked about it I could not remember anything else about the show. Thank for solving a 50 year mystery.

[@josephcooter5763]

I can remember watching Top Cat as a kid back in the seventies. And this was well over a decade after it aired on television.

[@mham1330]

Hong Kong Phooey is another cartoon that doesn't get much talk about.

[@rosariocannistraro3561]

I'm 53 this year and they were still showing them all extensively into the early to mid eighties depending on where you lived .

[@stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii]

I loved watching all these shows during the early days of Cartoon Network when it was basically the Hanna Barbera Network.

[@gregorykizer5538]

Pixie and Dixie along with the Hair Bears have always been favorites of mine.

[@Peterjr1961]

Remember all of them, as I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s.

[@jamesbodnarchuk3322]

Oh my darling Clementine!

[@zombiejlt1]

Was hoping you were going to discuss Fangface, one of my absolute favorites next to Scooby. He has definitely been forgotten about and deserves some attention.

[@tiborfarkas1011]

This was the Golden Age of cartoons

[@jeffgorham8819]

The successor of H-B, Warner Brothers, had a little fun with the Shazaan and Shazam (Billy Batson) name similarities on an episode of "The Brave and the Bold." Shazam was paired with B'wana Beast, who could create some unique animal mashups, so he created a winged camel like Kaboobi that he rode on in one sequence with Shazam following.

[@allenlovell1604]

How could you forget " Magilla Gorilla, Ojie, Mr. Pebbles, Richochet Rabbit,. Droop-Along ; Squiddlly Diddly; The Goofy 💂‍♂️ s? " and so many others from the early 1960s! I remember seeing these shows when I was very young. I'm almost 70 years old, and I still love watching cartoons! Still, you did a decent retrospective look back in time.

[@mham1330]

Roger Ramjet and Speedracer are a couple of others.

[@allenlovell1604]

Back at cha with " Dastardly & Muttley ; the Perils of Penelope Pitstop; and The Wacky Races "! We could ping -pong names of obscure cartoons all day long , it's nice to find a true toon-aphile friend! And one who could probably 🏆 ✌️ 💪 on " Jeopardy Old Cartoons Category," showing either brief video clips; still images, or theme music snippets , perhaps?

[@lewkaplanski7616]

Thanks for the wonderful memories, and a plethora of wonderful and fun personalities. 👍

[@GregInHouston2]

Shazzam is my favorite. What I found most interesting is when my future wife and I were shopping for engagement rings; we tried them on the clinked them together like on Shazzam. Now, we met in college and she was a Chinese woman from Taiwan.

[@user-fc3ki3gb7u]

Shazzan

[@DisillusionedMillennial]

I always loved the Snorks more than the smurfs 😂I would watch them on cartoon network back when it was nothing but re-runs. P.S. I can't remember if it's Hanna-Barbera but I loved Heathcliff too.❤

[@AdamYJ]

Why were Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear on this list? They're not underappreciated. Heck. Yogi was the comoany mascot, spawned two theatrical films, a fried chicken restaurant and a franchise of camping resorts.

[@markgarin6355]

Kaaaaaabooobie. 30 TC episodes? Then I've seen them all

[@howardbeatman2820]

Shazzan was so powerful that he almost always responded to danger by laughing as though he had been told a good joke... and it was...

[@hawleygriffon9290]

I liked the one where he defeats the Master of Magic's attempts to kill him with a very sarcastic "is that the extent of your magical powers!". Great line!

[@robgau2501]

I even went to Hanna Barbera Land.

[@theamericanshepherd5378]

Where's that?

[@davidmitchell6873]

I loved all of these except I don't remember Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kids.

[@cabbitkisser2620]

it's been a long time since i heard of the holiday family & the snorks. i use to watch them back when i was a kid in the 80's

[@blattman13]

Max has brought all the Hannah Barbara to one show called jellystone. Its strange but really fun

[@helenbailey8419]

Huckle Berry Hound..the theme tune never forgotten😊😊😊

[@G1Grimlock94]

Scooby Doo is my favourite

[@thepeternetwork]

I wonder if it's sad that nowadays people are going to know Peter Potamus as that guy from Harvey Birdman whose new catchphrase is "Did you get that thing I sent ya?"

[@user-ci3so6vu4i]

Thank you for the memories loved Wally Gator !

[@johnpulaski6725]

Top Cat was my sister's favorite!

[@michaelallenross4191]

Yogi Bear was popular and not what you'd call under appreciated

[@alm5266]

"Heyyyy - it's the King!"

[@shareofmoney]

This video brings back great memories. I am a fan of most of the characters in this video.

[@RussianJackal]

“He-hey! Did’ja get the thing I sent you?”

[@whiterabbit75]

When I was a kid, Dairy Queen used to have a little child-sized coi-operated covered booth, where you could put in a quarter, and watch a couple of Hanna-Barbara cartoons. I miss that booth.

[@sarahmcmann5253]

I love Top Cat

[@cocoaorange1]

I guess many of these were cancelled, since I don't recall them as a 70's kiddie! However, I recall Huckleberry Hound, Yogi, and Snagglepuss. I saw Top cat reruns in the 90's. My late cousin loved Top Cat in the 60's. I recall Quick Draw too. His donkey sidekick was so cute.

[@nitoduzit]

Year released/ended would be helpful for people that didn’t grow up on HB content.

[@wolfrodger8998]

The only one I didn't know was "Roman Holiday". These were all favorites at 5 am on Cartoon Network.

[@rathraven1313]

Roman Holiday was shown on USA Cartoon Express during 80's.

[@wolfrodger8998]

@@rathraven1313 I remember cartoon express... Just barely. It's not a cartoon I remember

[@davidstrawn9272]

I love Scooby-Doo and the Smurfs. But, Wally Gator is my favorite!

[@culeroconnor1686]

I loved Shazam I rented all their series. When I was a kid in whatever was before blockbuster existed ❤

[@user-fc3ki3gb7u]

Shazzan

[@hawleygriffon9290]

Weren't all these on Boomerang channel? So, not so forgotten. As well, all released on DVD, so, definitely not forgotten. Also, you missed The New Adventures of Huck Finn, though that was a mix of animation and live action...

[@masonfaraday9020]

A lot of them are in C. H. Greenblatt’s Jellystone.

[@jpbernier4196]

Other underappreciated characters would be Squiddly Diddly, Jabberjaw.

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

Jana Of The Jungle I Used To Watch That Alot and our heroine was a sexy attractive take on Sheena The Jungle Queen where was her In Jellystone I'd love to see her again come on Warner Bros.

[@brianmurphy250]

You forgot to mention El Kabong, Senor! You know what I must do! ( as I grab my guitar) 🪕💥💫🎵

[@brianwilson6403]

I've got an orange tabby named Top Cat. Good friends get to call him T. C. provided that it's with dignity!!!

[@normanschenburn343]

In the Roman Holidays, the voice of Precocia, the daughter, was supplied by Pamelyn Ferdin who also did Lucy's voice in some Peanuts cartoons and was the daughter in Charlotte's Web.

[@hk43xx]

I always referred to Peter Potamus as Hurricane Hippo when I was a kid. Other HB shows I enjoyed were Breezly and Sneezly, Punkin Puss and Mushmouse, Yippe, Yappee, and Yahooey, and Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch.

[@futuramayeah]

i used to watch Quick Draw mcgraw, and i liked his deputy Babalouie? and on the Howard Stern Radio Show, they used to say , Baba Booey, and i didn't know what that meant, maybe they were trying to remember the name of Quick Draw's deputy and got it wrong one time and kept repeating the mistake on the show, because they would replay the same sound byte over and over again

[@theresecallahan8548]

None of these are forgotten by me.

[@pulsarstargrave256]

I can't believe Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear are "forgotten" , something else must be going on. Are they even shown on the HB channel or have they been buried among some of these weaker 'toons?

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

MeTV is starting a new cartoon only network that will show a bunch of these.

[@tiararowburn4507]

Top Cat ,Snagglepuss ,Huckleberry Hound,Quick Draw McGraw and Wally Gator I miss and would love to see again ,Paw Rugg I remember but didn't see a lot of so didn't recognize the name ,yogi bear had a movie not that long ago the rest I never heard of but then we only had 2-3 channels that we could watch cartoons on and we switched back and forth so we could watch ones we knew

[@alanroberson9749]

Excellent dudes!!🏅🥇🏅🥇

[@JodieWithanIEOfficial]

I guess I was lucky since I got to grow up with these reruns when Cartoon Network and then later Boomerang launched. My parents grew up on these cartoons and were always eager to share with me the memories they had as kids on Saturday mornings.

[@mikeburnette2190]

Nice video. Although, I personally would not have had Yogi or Huck on the list, because they were among the first of the HB characters, so their iconic. You guys did give props to one of the many Scooby clones with Butch Cassidy, but my choice is Clue Club. Clue Club because its more relatable, especially the characters. Dottie, the 13-year old prodigy is probably the one who stands out in the show, because she's smart, sassy, and spunky. Not to mention having the patience of a saint dealing with three older friends who employ an arsenal of depreciating nicknames...one of which is her own older sister, because they don't want her joining them in the field, because they made enemies, however they do it in a way that makes them look like jerks.

[@davidburke9596]

Wacky Races was great. Totally unpredictable. We used to bet to get out of morning chores if you picked the Winner. First one of our dogs I got to name was Mutley.

[@paulgreen6925]

Ricochet Rabbit Squiddly Diddly

[@user-fc3ki3gb7u]

Do not leave out Ruff & Reddy

[@charlesbard2331]

In 1973 Hanna-Barbera did a cartoon story of 20,000 leagues under the Sea this is a hard to Google cartoon sometimes it just does not want to come up but I thought it was a great story and they showed a rare glimpse of the sargassuo sea and the graveyard of ships not seen since Johnny quest in the mystery of the lizard man.....

[@helenbailey8419]

Loved Quick Draw Magraw theme tune

[@futuramayeah]

i never watched Wally Gator, but at 16 58 is that Magilla Gorilla with him? i think i remember that character

[@josephcooter5763]

I remember Snagglepuss from the Laugh ALympic in the late seventies. Snagglepuss was one of the "host of the show' which divide the competition up between three teams. Yogi and his friends made up one, Scooby Doo the Flintsones and the like made up another team while all the villains like Dick Dastardly, Muttley and the rest made up the third team known as the Reallly Rottens.

[@futuramayeah]

i think i liked Snagglepuss, i think he said, Maybe Even , and exit Stage Right , and some other phrase, oh yeah Heavens to Mergatroid, maybe he meant Mercury? or he had a name for an asteroid in the space between Mars and Jupiter, which used to be a planet, Juno

[@daveyhouston]

Some of those cartoons were well known not forgotten at all!!!

[@BruceConner-zu2ow]

I grew up with these cartoons!!!!!!

[@annettemalaski1967]

I loved Shazzam!

[@user-fc3ki3gb7u]

Shazzan

[@user-yt4ex1ex7v]

Boy it's been a long time since I've seen some of those characters.

[@chichiboypumpi]

I like Shazzan more than the mighty Hercules and his annoying satyr. I missed the shows featured in this ep.

[@michaelleonardis1540]

Magilla gorilla, Mr. Peebles, rickoshae rabbit , droopalong, and what about the three turtles. Kinda like the three musketeers.

[@futuramayeah]

i think people think Shaq's genie movie is called Shazzam, but maybe they were thinking of this cartoon when they said that?

[@kennyboggs3676]

Obviously Hanna Barbera's cartoon library is a LOT bigger than I thought it was.

[@xcar0982]

Why are Yogi Huck, Snagglepuss Top Cat and Quickdraw in this list?, they are very well known characters, a betterfit would be Trollkins

[@bxcongero1]

I’m 52 years old and grew up with most of these toons but I don’t even remember Butch Cassidy

[@futuramayeah]

at 642 i never watched that cartoon about a Hippo on a ship that traveled through time, but did that character make an appearance on the tv show, Moon Knight , when he died and one of the Egyptian gods was taking him on a ship that traversed the veil of life and death?

[@grayclaw1391]

I remember Shazzan. I caught the end of this show when I was young.

[@magpieone9390]

What about Pixie and Dixie with Mr Jinx? Or Yacky Doodle,who you showed?

[@frankreynolds445]

Shazzan is one of the great cartoons of the 1960s. I wish they had a new version in which he fights evil force from beneath the Earth, From Earth and from Outer Space.

[@user-iu9fc5yb9k]

Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole, Snooper and Blabber, Breezly and Sneezly, Atom Ant, Ruff and Ready (which I believe was one of Hanna Barbera’s firsts

[@Filmation77]

A lot of these characters got a new life on Cartoon Networks "Harvey Birdman ,Attorney at Law " and Butch Cassidy got revieved on "SeaLab 2021"

[@maureencora1]

1964 Jonny Quest is the Best.

[@user-be7tc2bd6e]

I LOVED Jonny Quest !!! It was sooo GOOD.

[@maureencora1]

@@user-be7tc2bd6e Touche' (smile)

[@user-be7tc2bd6e]

@@maureencora1 Thank you.

[@robert9662]

Most people have the clips match what they are saying, like showing the hippo howl when you're talking about it or showing the character you're talking about

[@normanschenburn343]

Jean Vander Pyl and Henry Corden voiced MA and PA Rugg. They also voiced Wilma and Fred Flintstone. Betcha didn't know that one!?

[@Patrick-hm4eg]

The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was half animation and half live action

[@markgarin6355]

Anthropomorphic. Word for the drinking game...

[@noman6041]

No Touch'e Turtle or Young Samson? What about The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan?