Nickelodeon's Most Wanted: Yogi Bear - Nick Knacks Episode

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We take a look at the one and only time Hanna-Barbera touched down on Nickelodeon. This is the story of Yogi Bear, the men who created him, and the cartoon network that bought him.
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[@gatorboymike]

Yogi might not have escaped 90s radicalization, but he did escape the 2000s gritty reboot trend. "Some bears just want to watch Jellystone burn!"

[@Tirgo69]

14:53 For some reason this scene had me say "How charming was that?!" As a longtime Cartoon Network fan, this whole episode is a trip. Great stuff.

[@Nick-ty9us]

People say that in the 1970s he met huckleberry hound Yogi Bear they do not know that Yogi bear premiered on the Huckleberry hound show in 1958

[@Feelthefelt]

2 thoughts: 1. We need more Lebron Jay content. 2 Why do so many animation syndication contracts end on September 11? I noticed this on the Looney Tunes episode too.

[@nicklundy9965]

That's insane it ended on the exact day and year I was born. Man I feel old

[@pronkb000]

I guess they're lined up with the premieres of the fall season, which is usually the week after Labor Day?

[@kootunesscrewy]

Idk. But I'm glad it's not as common anymore.

[@snowpeck]

Nick's deal to air Yogi was supposed to include The Jetsons and some other cartoons as well, but the start of Cartoon Network ended that. Viacom sued Turner and they settled out of court. Interesting to think what would have happened if all those shows had ended up on Nick instead.

[@pronkb000]

Yeah, Hanna-Barbera on Nick seems like such a weird historical footnote. I just don't associate those two franchises as being together at all, though I do remember Yogi on Nick. H-B is something I very much associate with USA first.

[@somedudevista]

maybe that’s why they were making fun of cn in like 1993

[@benmalsky9834]

The neck ware thing for Hanna-Barbara’s characters I find so fascinating. For most modern fans and children today, they would never have realized that it was a workaround for an animation limitation, to them it’s just how they are designed. Take the Scooby-Doo characters for instance, it’s impossible to imagine Scoob without his collar, Daphne without her scarf, Fred without his ascot and Velma without her sweater. Even with more advanced animation allowing proper neck movements, they are design elements that are too iconic to ever really change.

[@FunnyLilGuy_]

Much like your Looney Tunes and Cartoon Kablooey episodes you've done a tremendous job of covering and condensing the history of a classic animation studio. Really great crash course on H-B (and the early years of Cartoon Network).

[@23567678]

Calling Hanna-Barbera a "classic" studio is like calling Filmation a "classic" studio. Just because something is old doesn't make it good.

[@FunnyLilGuy_]

@@23567678 I'd argue the first decade of H-B was good for television animation at the time. I grew up with late 90's Cartoon Network so the nonstop reruns of Scooby Doo helped me grow to appreciate H-B. Nearly everything after the 60's is at best a watchably weird guilty pleasure.

[@PeterGriffin11]

@@23567678 Their definitely not perfect but they deserve their spot in animation history for creating iconic cartoons like The Jetsons, Flintstones, Tom & Jerry, & Scooby-Doo which are still recognizable today not to mention how their cartoons would go on to inspire other iconic cartoons like The Simpsons & Family Guy or how Hanna-Barbera studios would produce many other Cartoon Network shows like Dexter's Lab which would help jumpstart the career of other people including Butch Hartman who would go onto make Fairly OddParents HB helped pave the way for a bunch of people.

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@23567678 For what kids cartoons were at the time when they blew up, HB was a godsend. They helped figure out a better but still cheaper way to animate cartoons. Animation as a whole suffered in the late 60s and 70s though.

[@chrismulwee4911]

@@FunnyLilGuy_ I like early HB stuff ( like Huck, Yogi etc.)from when they were co producing with Screen Gems. Once they broke free from the Columbia Pictures TV division, they went downhill fast.

[@darioshame]

Oh my freaking Lord. Wake rattle and roll is the show I have literally been trying to remember for the last 25 years. Thank you sir.

[@vgtrp]

I always like it when you go into the history of animation and the studios behind them like you did here. Yogi seemed like a character that almost forgotten in recent years, due to the fact nothing has been done with him until recently. I do like the old Hanna Barbara cartoons, though I haven't watched them in years, animation limitations and all.

[@BokBarber]

Yay! We're finally starting to get into things I clearly remember. Watching Yogi at grandma's house is one of my earliest memories of television. It came on at about the time that mom would come to pick me up, and I would beg (probably pitch a fit) to finish watching the show.

[@deeconstruction8163]

Wake, Rattle and Roll wasn't made for Disney Channel. It was a syndicated show for broadcast that got bought by Disney to rerun on the Disney channel after the syndicated run ended in 1990.

[@chrismulwee4911]

On the Disney Channel, the title was changed to JUMP, Rattle, and Roll, as it was now being shown in the afternoon. The theme song was rerecorded with new lyrics.

[@Clay3613]

The rights to all these cartoon libraries and brands makes my head spin. Warner Bros. who owns Looney Tunes briefly owned Six Flags before selling, but kept a strong synergy. Then you had Universal/Taft-Paramount having Hanna Barbera and Nickelodeon attractions at their parks despite being in clear competition with each other. Now Warner Discovery has Looney Tunes, classic MGM shorts and Hanna Barbera under one umbrella.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Yes but technically the copyright are split depending on what's the material. Turner with the MGM shorts, Hanna Barbera with their shows. DC with their characters and Warner with their characters. Yes they have the same parent company but the copyright didn't transfer to the parent company. Just distribution for television, streaming, home video, ect. Sometimes the copyright does get transferred but so far they haven't done so to my knowledge yet regarding those properties.

[@goodwinter85]

I feel like I start watching almost every new Nick Knacks episode thinking, "This can't be an interesting show to explore" and I'm always wrong

[@christopherb501]

Wonder when you'll finally be right. A Nickcom, maybe?

[@cheerijessie]

The "Yo Yogi!" show might not have been on long, but it had its own Capri Sun tie-in flavor, and that's something There was an old Nick at Nite special from about '89 or '90 called Cartoons Lost and Found that, in retrospect, feels like a pilot for a Nick attempt at a classic cartoon channel before CN happened

[@ExtremeWreck]

@Will N Yeah CN was more or less made with that in mind before stuff like Space Ghost & What A Cartoon! became a thing.

[@JohnPannozzi]

Yo Yogi also had a tie in with Kellogg's.

[@meyerj75]

Yo Yogi! did have potential. What happened?

[@Saintnick90]

I mostly watched Cartoon Network as a kid, so this was a nostalgia trip for me. I was watching when Hanna Barbara cartoons made up the majority of the lineup, and I like the fact that the channel was basically a crash course on the history of animation. It allowed me to understand references to things I might not have been able to otherwise, and while a lot of it was stuff I only watched because it happened to be on, I did enjoy the Flintstones, the Jetsons, Scooby Doo and Jonny Quest. Yogi Bear is one where I remember the characters and their catchphrases more than any particular episodes or plots, which seems par for the course for most HB cartoons.

[@sailoritaly]

Can’t wait for you to do the Beetlejuice cartoon. Yes, it did air on Nick at one point. (Although it’s super hard to find evidence that it aired, there are bumpers showing it did air in the 90s)

[@thezenitsufan1249]

It's showtime!

[@zubz451]

110% I remember this. Not even time stuff, too. So it should be here eventually?

[@Dinobolt1]

I'm looking forward to that Nick Knacks episode too, but unfortunately he won't get around to it for quite a while as that didn't air on Nick until 1994. We're still in 1990 and we have 18 episodes in 1991 alone. One bumper I found shows one of the oddest things I remember about Nick's airing of it, how at one point they would play it BEFORE Muppet Babies. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2OZepJ4nZqdsKc Even as a kid who loved both shows that struck me as weird, I would have thought that it would be the other way around. Looking back on them as adults while I can say that all my favorite Beetlejuice episodes hold up very well, Muppet Babies is to me a "just for kids" show. I can't believe that it aired on regular Nickelodeon as well as Nick Jr. Rupert deserved that honor 10 times over.

[@meyerj75]

I saw the movie once and only once. I just didn't get it. The movie plot was all over the place so it would made sense to animate a cartoon based on the character as there were no limits to what he would be up to.

[@DirtiestDMusic]

The Hava Nagila commercial is one of my most vivid memories of early 90s Nick. Glad it was included.

[@jdenoe69]

I've been looking forward to Greg talking about Hanna Barbera cartoons.

[@chelmrtz]

I laughed so hard at Lebron Jay I choked, so thank you for this

[@dmancluster2631]

Did not expect a piece of Nickelodeon history to be so related to Cartoon Network. That’s awesome

[@TheBronyBraeburn]

Before Cartoon Network, I was fortunate to find a lot of Hanna Barbara cartoons on local channels, usually on early Saturday and Sunday mornings. They all disappeared when Cartoon Network was founded, and unfortunately my cable company didn't get CN until 1996.

[@mariolover2222]

I remember another instance of Nick putting their branding into other studios' cartoon openings. Animanics had a whole extra scene cut into the intro. Dot saying "Nick-a-lani" dressed as the fortune teller with a crystal ball proudly displaying the nickelodeon logo. It's still the de facto intro in my head

[@daniexists6]

This was an amazing video on Yogi and his brief time at nick. Good work.

[@TigerNightmare]

Oh no, we do not slander Tom Cavanagh. He carried the show Ed as the titular lead that earned him nominations for a Golden Globe and TV Guide Breakout Star of the Year, and won the TV Guide Actor of the Year in a New Series. He played JD's troubled other brother on Scrubs and the tragic father on Eli Stone. On The Flash, he played several different versions of the same character, being anything from menacing to inspiring to vulnerable to charming. He's one of the most underrated actors that elevates everything he's in. If playing the straight man in a CGI Yogi Bear movie did not showcase his talents, it's the fault of the material, the direction, or both.

[@amwfan88]

When you were talking about Nickelodeon's branding of cartoons that weren't theirs, my first thought was, "Pinky & the Brain," so I'm glad you mentioned that (2000 was around the time I aged out of Nickelodeon - I turned 12 that year) and I remember hating that opening so much. As for Yogi Bear, I've only ever seen one piece of media from him; a tape my dad rented from a video store in the early '90s. I barely remember the episode(s) featured. Definitely want to check it out again, though.

[@misterzygarde6431]

This might be cliche but as someone who grew up on Boomerang, having Hanna Barbera shows on Nick along with anything owned by WB is surreal. The closest thing we have now is the inverse where Clone High (A show owned by Paramount CBS who own Nick) is going to have a revival on HBO Max which was spared being canned.

[@Troggle84]

I seem to remember Yogi's Gang (the 1973 follow-up to Yogi's Ark Lark) and Yogi's Space Race from 1978 also airing on Nickelodeon's Most Wanted: Yogi Bear. It still seems strange thinking back now, but I did watch fairly regularly at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays back in the early 1990s. I guess it aired weekends as well. As for Ninja Raccoon, I think he showed up 3 times. The last appearance also had Ninja Raccoon's mother on there.

[@cheerijessie]

Yogi's Gang, Space Race, and Galaxy Goof-ups all did. I don't think I saw those anywhere else

[@300zxbear2]

I wonder if Nickelodeon aired the Yogi's Gang episode "The Envy Brothers"

[@TheEman590]

@@OM19_MO79 Oh I definitely remember Yogi's Gang, Yogi's Space Race and Galaxy Goof Ups on Nickelodeon. I didn't see them anywhere else (I didn't get Cartoon Network until late '90s)

[@beipiaosaurus]

@@TheEman590 Could it have been on the USA network in their Cartoon Express block? I remember Space Race airing on that...

[@TheEman590]

@@beipiaosaurus It's possible. Though, when I watched Cartoon Express, it was Smurfs, Scooby-Doo, G.I. Joe and The Real Ghostbusters with Ninja Turtles added later. I know in the 1980s they were more the cable home for Hanna-Barbera shows.

[@darktetsuya]

the animation trick with the heads though.... honestly never would've thought anything of it those guys were onto something!! what a great look back at yogi bear.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I'm sure I'm not the first to say it, but those my age recall these cartoons being mainstays on USA Network during their "Cartoon Express" blocks in the late 80's.

[@COMPFUNK2]

Yo Yogi was another example of an animated series where they had child version of cartoon characters. Now, it was fine when they had the usual suspects like Yogi, Cindy, Huck and Doggie Daddy (Lord knows what his real name was back then); but when I saw Augie Doggie and Boo-Boo, I was like… OK, in the original series, I _guess_ it can be argued that Boo-Boo was a little person rather than a kid; but Augie was definitely a kid, so how was he even alive for this series?

[@aveuch]

My first pets were named Cindy and Booboo thanks to Yogi on Nick.

[@meyerj75]

*)Nickelodeon wasn't the first network to air Yogi Bear on cable. That honor goes to the USA network which aired it as part of their Cartoon Express package from September 1985 to 1-1-1987 (which was replaced by the Flintstones). Despite the heavy promotion, it seldom caught on. Adding Galaxy Goof Ups and Space Race, Yogi Bear spinoffs from 1978 on NBC, did little to nothing or worst to solicit status quo on the USA Network, so after 15 months, he was dropped. The other cartoons that teamed up with Yogi Bear: Huckleberry Hound, Pixie & Dixie, Snagglepuss, Yakky Doodle,& Hokey Wolf remained. In addition, other old school cartoon shorts of Loopey Loop, Quick draw McGraw (Busta Rhymes favorite cartoon character), Magilla Gorilla, & Wally Gator were added on to leaving Yogi Bear just a forgotten footnote on the network. Unlike Nick's treatment of Yogi Bear jamming 4 episodes in a single 30 minute program, USA only aired 3 shorts, one in which was Yogi Bear with its opening and closing segments intact compared to Nick's sole episode title card which was all you ever need, I guess.

[@apbuitron]

Wonderful history , I always learn something from this show

[@PeterGriffin11]

22:12 Hanna-Barbera are legends but they definitely had a quantity over quality mindset I think that's why so many of their shows outside of a few like Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Tom & Jerry, Yogi Bear & Huckleberry Hound aren't very remembered or revered and only lasted a season or two.

[@doryna_sira]

Hanna-Barbara very much had a "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" mentality. Or they'd just take successful formats and tweak them to see if they could strike gold again. "Hey, this show about teens and a talking dog solving crimes was a hit! What if we do again, but the teens from the FUTURE? And they're in a band? And the dog is a SHARK? And the shark sounds like Curly from the Three Stooges for no explained reason?"

[@PeterGriffin11]

@@doryna_sira Goober & The Ghost Chasers is the most egregious example of HB at their laziest.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Though technically Tom and Jerry (other then the 1975 series and season 1 of Tom and Jerry Kids) was with MGM before the Turner and Hanna Barbera merger. Yes they created them as well but they never used them for television prior to the merger. Other then the 1975 series and season 1 of Tom and Jerry Kids but Turner did co produce that series.

[@vintagetvandexciting]

Can't wait to see the story of Underdog and Total Television Inc

[@stephenholloway6893]

Yes but Total Television was like Rankin Bass Which most or every project had outsourced animation. Hanna Barbera didn't always outsource their animation.

[@superleviathan]

The first Ren and Stimpy episode has an spoof of Yogi, with Stimpy as Yogi and Muddy Mudskipper as Ranger Mouse. For more than two years, you could see the R&S spoof on the same network as the original Yogi cartoons. Nickelodeon's contract with H-B included Yogi's Gang, Yogi's space Race and Galaxy Goof-Ups, but not Yogi's Treasure Hunt. Turner used that show to give Yogi a day-one presence on Cartoon Network, something they couldn't do with Scooby Doo or Smurfs (which were tied up with USA Network's Cartoon Express).

[@meyerj75]

Yogi's Treasure Hunt was still airing on USA at the time.

[@EmperorSeth]

Let me throw in my support for Jellystone! as well. I was very pleasantly surprised by it. The way they reinvented Cindy Bear in particular was brilliant. Highly recommend it, especially if you also enjoyed Chowder.

[@stephanierushing6566]

You should've done this in seven parts: 1. The evolution of Hanna-Barbera (starting as part of MGM before going independent) 2. The Taft Years (highlighting Taft Broadcasting's ownership of H-B) 3. All aboard the Express (A retrospective of the USA Cartoon Express with its Kids Club and In a Minute segments and the impact on cable television and children's media) 4. The Robertson invasion (A remembrance of 1989 when Pat Robertson went to war with Nickelodeon thanks to the Family Channel and the retaliatory launch of Fun Town) 5. Your takes over Nickelodeon (The premiere of Nickelodeon's Most Wanted: Yogi Bear in 1990) 6. Murdoch vs the Mouse (The debuts of FOX Kids and The Disney Afternoon) 7. The coming of Cartoon Network (The beginning of Cartoon Network in 1992)

[@daelen.cclark]

Yogi thankfully came back in C.H Greenblat’s Jellystone to wash out the Yo-Yogi schlock.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Love the Hoyt Curtin Hanna Barbera music score used in the background by the way.

[@meyerj75]

And those familiar female voiced singers!

[@COMPFUNK2]

10:16-10:33 - My mother told me that she grew up watching Ruff and Reddy; and to this day I don’t understand why the _cat_ was named Ruff.

[@JohnPannozzi]

I remember that Nick also aired at least some episodes of Yogi's Space Race as part of Most Wanted. I remember seeing that back in the day and being thrown for a bit of a loop. Also, odd that this video overlooked the handful of Yogi cartoons that John Kricfalusi and Spumco made back in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

[@FdupTV]

Boo Boo Runs Wild is just disturbing lmao kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJDTmZWgeM-tsKc

[@mitchfletcher2386]

Not quite odd, but rather, maybe intentional.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Imagine in a alternate universe that either MCA (the parent company of Universal at the time) or if Hallmark bought the studio instead. Sure Warner still had parts of Hanna Barbera along with Turner via Tom and Jerry but if the majority of Hanna Barbera went to either studio how they handled the studio?

[@LikaLaruku]

Definitely watched this. Yogi was The Shit & I couldn't get enough of him. Even the really weird ones John Kricfalusi made. & that Spruce Goose movie. I loved Wake Rattle & Roll. Fender Bender 500 & Wacky Races.

[@jpsimmons5100]

The Cartoon Network was the frenemy to the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.

[@samwill7259]

Pic-a-nic Basket. I love the way he says that.

[@jamesmoss3424]

I like Yogi Bear he is still a classic cartoon character today. 😀👍🐻

[@channel_shi]

great video, but inconsequential gripe - iirc, wake rattle and roll started out in syndication for a brief run, and only moved to disney channel under the name "jump rattle and roll" (since it no longer aired exclusively in the morning) when it ended

[@DigiRangerScott]

Trick or treating bags? Nah man it’s picnic baskets!

[@angelthingjenny]

I am thankful for this episode because for the longest time I was like. 100% convinced I dreamed that Pinky and the Brain opening that was covered from head-to-toe in Nickelodeon logos, because it just seemed _too_ absurd to have really aired.

[@jaggerguth4391]

The Huckleberry Hound show did have some recurring villains like Powerful Pierre who is essentially Hanna Barbara take on Blacque Jacque Shellacque, Leroy The Lion who is the King of the Lions, Crazy Coyote who is a Native American trying to eat huckleberry and the Wild West Bandits The Dalton Brothers.

[@daelen.cclark]

Is this why Animanics had the Nickelodeon logo in every frame?

[@COMPFUNK2]

I was _so_ glad when they changed Cindy’s color from blue to brown.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Looney Tunes and Yogi Bear wouldn't be the only two times that a future Cartoon Network cartoon would cross paths with Nickelodeon... In 2007, Pendleton Ward pitched a few Adventure Time shorts to Nickelodeon's Random! Cartoons, but when Pendleton Ward pitched the Adventure Time cartoon series to Nickelodeon, they rejected the cartoon for being 'too weird' for Nickelodeon's tastes. The show was later pitched to Cartoon Network, who green-lit the cartoon series for a few seasons, the show became a hit with teens and pre-teens everywhere. Nickelodeon must've realized their mistake when letting this cartoon get away...in hindsight, I think Nickelodeon would've played it too safe with Adventure Time's material, unlike with how Cartoon Network approached things for this cartoon show.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

The opposite happened with The Smurfs just recently, a cartoon of Belgian origin, whose Hanna-Barbera cartoon adaptation aired on Cartoon Network in its early years before moving to their sister network, Boomerang...now, as of 2021, Paramount and Nickelodeon are the exclusive rights holders of a new Smurfs movie and cartoon adaptation...

[@meyerj75]

Here's a few lesser known facts on Yogi Bear: *) Yogi Bear was based on an African American from the Southern States during the Jim Crow period in which he was so fed up with being unwelcomed to society, that he starts breaking and entering Caucasian owned stores and stealing food and material goods in retaliation sending a message that these slaves laws must end soon or this will continue. Yogi Bear fits in this profile. He steals picnic baskets but later on while a pawn on the Huckleberry Hound show. In early episodes, he tries to leave the park, helps out on occasion such as a bird struggling to fly, and yes he steals but not yet picnic baskets. Try a pie on a window sill or, gulp, a helicopter. Once he started stealing baskets, the routine caught on above all the rest and so that became his trademark for now on.

[@Lynn17]

Ah, Yogi, one of the many cartoons I was introduced to via Nickelodeon. I'd completely forgotten about the "Hava Nagila" Yogi promo until just now.

[@ZemeckisTEN]

Don’t forget that Don Messick also voiced Scrappy Doo, the most overhated cartoon character in the fucking multiverse. Yes, I love Scrappy Doo. FIGHT ME!

[@TheEman590]

It's okay. I don't hate Scrappy-Doo either. Mostly in those 3 telefilms (Boo Brothers, Reluctant Werewolf, Ghoul School)

[@jaggerguth4391]

Scrappy-Doo saves the Scooby franchise. and that whole "he really weak" thing was not true since he is capable of pulling off some awesome stunts with his strength.

[@ZemeckisTEN]

@Will N Really disgusting that WB forced Sheridan to put in painfully unfunny take that towards Scrappy Doo number 1,000,000,000 instead of, you know, PUTTING HIM IN THE DAMN FILM. Yet this same company would shove Teen Titans Go down our throats for almost a fucking decade. Really let that sink in. WB respects Teen Titans Go, a heinous abomination to all of life, more than something as amazing as Scrappy Doo. But then again, they also respect transphobic bitch J.K. Rowling more than the beautiful as hell comic book company that is DC, so I’m not surprised about any shitty thing about WB anymore.

[@mightyfilm]

Yo Yogi, even though it had its moments, was embarrassing. I feel there's a weird disconnect where you can't tell if they're trying to be witty and ironic with their references or trying to be the unhip 50 year old that barely understands anything trying to talk to kids and failing at it. It doesn't work as a pop culture parody, it doesn't work as a sincere attempt to get kids to like these characters. While "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" never takes itself seriously and works as a parody version of the older Scooby cartoons, and even Flintstone Kids managed to get it right, even with that prequel paradox where characters who were adults in the 60's had things from the 80's as kids. Had Yo Yogi premiered a couple years later, no doubt it would have been called Extreme Yogi. And the sad thing is, they DID manage to keep the characters hip with Yogi's Treasure Hunt, having the kind of pop culture wit that Yo Yogi would lack severely. Jellystone, by all means, was a much better attempt at keeping the characters relevant, even making woefully unfunny characters like Jabberjaw and Grape Ape pretty funny. As for the movie, "it's fine" is the problem I have with it. I hate when these kids of movies get everything they can wrong (Underdog, Dragonball Evolution, Inspector Gadget). This one got everything right, just with a BAD script. And plotwise it IS exactly what I'd expect from a Yogi movie, but the execution was just plain clumsy. The Ranger Smith love interest subplot is just there to introduce a camera for the bad guy to confess into. Not an actual woman character, a lame prop for a lame trope.

[@mightyfilm]

@@OM19_MO79 80's Hanna Barbera was a wild ride. Scooby-Doo cartoons were becoming self aware since at least 13 Ghosts, Yogi's Treasure Hunt was proof there was improvement in cartoon writing on the horizon, and just so many weird little quirky shows we all unfortunately forgot. Yo Yogi was kind of painful, but I don't think HB is entirely to blame. NBC was just producing a terrible Saturday Morning Line Up at the time, and I wouldn't be surprised if they made them make a "hip" version of the series. This was firmly in the Pro-Stars, Chip and Pepper Cartoon Madness, cheaper 11 minute version of Captain N era.

[@mightyfilm]

@Will N Pup was my introduction to the Scooby-Doo franchise, and it left an impression on me. But with Yogi, I did manage to see some of the original and new adventures episodes, as well as one of the Christmas specials, so I had more of a feeling of that show going in. I remember liking Yo Yogi when I was a kid, but in an "it's on and it's okay" sort of way. I was a little young to glean anything cynical about it then, but I rewatched it years and years ago, back when you could just upload TV shows to YT and you wouldn't get caught. I'll admit there are some decent things about it, but "bog standard" is a phrase that would come up multiple times anytime I'd mention a positive for a full review. Though, I do like that they were trying to be tongue in cheek with Roxie, and I dig Sally Strothers's foced Valley Girl punk voice. Still, Treasure Hunt just blows it away. Same way I feel about Loonatics. Duck Dodgers was quintessentially an early 2000's show, with sharp humor and that kind of Gen-Xer, older Millennial type pop culture awareness. It was plenty hip enough as a show they didn't need to go something so forced.

[@meyerj75]

In Yo Yogi!, Ranger Smith sounded like it was voiced by Arte Johnson.

[@TDOTCRFH4]

ooh, the maya the bee episode is gonna be spicy

[@fabbygarza9863]

kinda want a ringtone thats just "wanted, large brown bear"

[@saturdaymorningfan3123]

Kind of surprised you didn't bring up the 1986 theatre rerelease of hey there its yogi bear-one of the few movies based on shows to get a wide rerelease back in theatres or that yogi was on the usa cartoon express for over a decade and did cartoon express did so well in ratings (at one point the highest rated cable show!) it hurt early 90s nick to the point they released an ad making fun of cartoon express and if you watched cartoon express you were old fashioned while nick was new and cool. Ironic words from a channel that was airing mr ed and lassie and would get yogi soon right after that ad from usa!

[@pronkb000]

This commercial is my new Internet white whale. Someone link this, please! I watched Nick obsessively and have no memory of this.

[@saturdaymorningfan3123]

Don't know if it's on youtube. It had clips of the nick shows with the narrator saying every kid knows nick is the best or something like that than says "one kid is still not cool" or something like that and kid by a real train station tracks says "I'm waiting for an express, a cartoon express. It should have been here by now!" and shrugs his arms. They then pretty much say nick is cool but express isn't more or less. It played in the early nicktoons era or right before it. Remember I hated the ad back than as i loved cartoon express. Lol.

[@meyerj75]

*) Yogi Bear wasn't treated fairly on NBC based on its one season wonder status quo it was given. I assume one of the representatives on NBC programming had this to say, "Yogi Bear had been given three chances. They been in and out of Saturday Morning programs, cancelled three times before their seasonal obligation was over. Yogi's Space Race, Galaxy Goof Ups, Yo! Yogi!, he is not carrying its load as other cartoons like Garfield and Friends are doing. And if Yogi Bear was to do another cartoon spinoff, then, well, he's not going to come to us as he's never going to work for NBC ever again." He was pretty much dated when Nickelodeon dropped him in 1993. It is a cartoon you'll never do again, too racy, too much of a "past was a mistake" conception. Our only hope is for this nation to rethink of how was see others around regardless of race, creed, and color and their birth of origin. The Flintstons and Scooby Doo will never see such dated animation but as for Yogi Bear, his time has come and gone. Just put another record on.

[@seanfulldark]

I do find it still sad with what's going on with what's going on with Warner discovery. But considering the possible future I am looking forward to it being having a collection back on Nickelodeon and Netflix. Especially if my theory turns out to be right granted my backup theory is also terrifying insane although it would be nice to have a Yogi Bear video game.

[@pronkb000]

Of course, this wasn't the first time a company tried to leech off the name of a legendary New York Yankee while actively denying it. The Baby Ruth candy bar debuted in 1921, the year after Babe Ruth set a new American League home run record. But apparently it was named after Baby Ruth Cleveland, who had died...in 1904. Yeah.

[@riverbay6482]

OH HELL YEAH! I just caught up on Nick Knacks and was wondering when a new one was coming

[@meyerj75]

*) Nickelodeon never did air at least one Yogi Bear short. The episode in question was called "Yogi's Pest Guest" which featured a Japanese type character who meets Yogi first and adopts to his routine lifestyle by stealing picnic baskets getting Yogi framed. Once it finally caught up, the Japanese guest is seen tied up hands and feet against a mini log carried out by two park rangers but was allowed to go free once Yogi convinced Ranger Smith that he will never steal picnic baskets again. This was Nick's earliest examples of careful analysis of sensitive content that the network wishes to air or not. By the time Yogi Bear aired on Nickelodeon, the Persian Gulf War was active and traces of World War II and its Japanese involvement was still mellow in our minds and that at least one scene from "Yogi's Pest Guest" would be too intensive for the network to air as we question how we judge our fellow Asians, hence "the past was a mistake" conspiracy. Both USA, TNT, and the Cartoon Network has aired the episode short before, but it was banned on Nickelodeon and wouldn't be done again in this day and age.

[@jpsimmons5100]

Nowadays, the free-to-air Nickelodeon Germany will show some Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network shows, not most but some.

[@carmineknight9123]

Love your video as always, I have literally never had strong feelings about any H-B property but I still love to learn about the studio and behind the scenes stuff.

[@stephenholloway6893]

The Flintstones even before Hanna Barbera was bought by Turner was being shown on TBS. Most of the Hanna Barbera shows were on USA or The Family Channel (now called Freeform) before and after Turner bought the studio til Cartoon Network was launched.

[@47Cartoonguy]

Alot the old Hanna Barbera cartoons aired reruns on TBS and TNT (Dexter's Lab even debuted on TBS) until 1998 when they stopped airing kids and family Cartoons

[@stephenholloway6893]

While true I was mostly referring to the pre Cartoon Network era with Turner.

[@47Cartoonguy]

@@stephenholloway6893 oh my bad

[@Musicradio77Network]

“The Flintstones” was shown on WNEW-TV (channel 5) in NYC back in the 1970’s and 1980’s.

[@jpsimmons5100]

Nickelodeon's Most Wanted: Yogi Bear is for anyone who are familiar with the Cartoon Network.

[@gibsonassociates7896]

Hey Poparena, You think I can contribute to the Bullwinkle Moose-O-Rama episode? It's (the shorts) part of my upcoming show called "American Dream Cartoons" and I have a lot to cover about the moose and squirrel's solemn piece of time at Classic Media/DreamWorks. Love your Nick Knacks too.

[@Snakie747]

I have absolutely no memory of this being on Nickelodeon. Which is weird because I should remember everything from this era.

[@googamp32]

29:17 Well, that's ONE way to get people to watch your next episode.

[@Rhomega]

I had the movie Yogi's Great Escape on VHS as a kid. Looking back on it as an adult, the vehicle scenes are fun, but those three little bears are obnoxious and contribute nothing to the plot. Also, it's really a bunch of setpieces featuring crossovers with other HB animals.

[@sarahmcmann5253]

My dad loves Hanna-Barbera

[@Musicradio77Network]

Interesting fun fact: Since Yogi Bear was popular in 1958, a singing group called the Ivy Three did a song about “Yogi”, and it was their only hit in 1960. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKqzaISMr8lriJI

[@ivane5110]

It's funny, because before there was really anything other than the big 3 and PBS and local, all of the iconic Hanna-Barbera and WB cartoons were plentiful daily if you stayed home from school and weekly thanks to Sundays. And thats not counting comics, which good as they were, let's face it, were pale versions. At some point after my childhood apparently these shows became scarce and valued commodities. I can see the business sense on one hand, but every kid I knew could name every H-B and WB funny animal, even though many of the shows we knew them from hadn't been new since before we were born. It was just part of the ether. Once they disappeared behind a price gate, I wonder if the cross-cultural popularity went with them? I know now everything can be found on KZbin and the internet, but until that came about did that end the links in the chain? Did that ever start up again? Or will, except for small pockets of subscribers, most kids nowadays not know who these are?

[@thezenitsufan1249]

Can't wait till you get to the first three nicktoons

[@pronkb000]

I VAGUELY remember Hi Honey I'm Home airing during the day, but that could be a false memory.

[@bluebaron6858]

Great video! I can't wait for the anime Maya video!!

[@jkpstudios3456]

I hope that Stickin’ Around gets onto this show! I heard that on the internet Nickelodeon aired it back in 2000.

[@heavysystemsinc.]

Whether by choice or accident, the Cartoon Network one off short by John K lampooning the various iterations of Yogi Bear seems to not get mentioned. I say possibly by choice because then you might get side tracked into the infamous John K debacles both as an animator and as a person..that said, the 2 shorts were pretty friggin' funny and on YT. They are "Boo Boo Runs Wild", where Boo Boo gets tired of being a voice of reason to Yogi and goes full on 'natural bear', walking on all fours, eating bark and berries and making loud grunting noises, confusing Yogi and the second is "A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith", which is sort of like a mockumentary of what a park ranger does, with a minor cameo of Yogi and Boo Boo.

[@47Cartoonguy]

Great video Greg

[@mafeuk]

With all the cross-references between Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network this video had, I'm surprised you didn't mention the Yogi Bear shorts made by Spumco for Cartoon Network in the early 2000s

[@bullmonty764]

7:37 Believe me I’m glad Velma’s a canon lesbian now but what in God’s green Coolsville is that face

[@TheEman590]

Number 1. I have no idea what kind of face that is, but it got a laugh from me. Number 2. My friends and I feel in canon that Velma is Bi. Don't get me started on the bi erasure arguments I've stumbled upon to online, they got quite heated at times, unfortunately.

[@COMPFUNK2]

My brother always asked why Yogi Bear had a collar and a tie but no shirt.

[@SpongeyTheEditor]

So that's the deal with the Most Wanted branding. Still a odd choice on their part but alright. I think Maya the Bee will our first time getting to a show previously shown on Sample Platter so that'll be fun. The nazi part not so much lol

[@Nick-ty9us]

So Yogi bear was based on a future Oscar winning actor

[@lucasduberger-deret3550]

I'm really looking forward to how the hell next episode is gonna shake out.

[@samp.8099]

24:43 Just like Queen Elizabeth

[@liamhiggins7955]

21:43 Ahh it's Rocket's asian stereotype cousin

[@Nick-ty9us]

I find it ironic that Yogi bear out on Disney Channel concerned that most of the people who worked on the cartoons came from Disney including the guy who Animated the first Yogi Bear cartoon Kenneth Muse

[@michaelbuono4007]

3:26 still better then Yo Yogi

[@seanfulldark]

They were this(>) close to having a lifetime special of Yogi Bear and Cindy Bear. I mean when you talk about Hallmark my brain instantly looks up all those brainless romantic comedies aka the soft censored word stuff. There's no actual scenes but considering that they made their own version of Kentucky Fried Chicken the kernels romantic stories that create the spin-off fictional dating Sim of the colonel yeah I wouldn't be surprised lifetime is weird. Oh you friends just have to go to your favorite fan artist is if you want those unique pictures of Yogi and Cindy Bear.

[@Mister...H]

Yogi just Barney Ruble

[@r66fplaysgames]

You should also do one about Garfield and Friends on Nickelodeon as well.

[@Quartzer.]

He will cover Garfield and Friends once he gets to 1997 (as for how long that'll be idk)

[@dmasternotwo1113]

This retrospective going to include Yo Yogi?

[@sebastianmoreno5814]

My initial thought: "Ninja raccoon? I mean, I'd have thought burglar but I don't know, won't be so bad?" Thought after: *clip of raccoon speaking gibberish that is supposed to sound Chinese* "Oh fuck, I spoke too soon." That aside, not the biggest HB fan and I barely watched Yogi Bear. Just didn't seem interesting to me, even at a younger age. Like I've seen Animaniacs and remember it more, yeah Yogi Bear just fails there.

[@MissAshley42]

Huh, I never knew Nick ran Pink and the Brain for a bit.

[@brockpifer9929]

Yep and Nickelodeon also ran other 90s Warner Bros shows like Tiny Toons and Animaniacs for a few years as well

[@vanderfina2544]

there's a slight mistake when you say Time Warner merged with with Turner in "1966" instead of "1996". also a bit surprised you didn't cover when the H-B shows ran on USA Cartoon Express prior to the founding of Cartoon Network.

[@sammerz50]

This was made before Ted Turner’s Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera and eventually launched Cartoon Network.

[@beipiaosaurus]

Yeah, looking forward to Maya the Bee. I knew it was European, but looks like there will be plenty to learn in the next video...

[@pronkb000]

@@OM19_MO79 To me, that's a bit of a reach. I'm a wrestling fan and I know Greg was at one time...this exact same criticism can apply to "puroresu" and "lucha libre" for Japan and Mexico respectively. Now, "puroresu" is a bit of a pretentious term but to me, there's nothing wrong with referring to the Mexican style of wrestling (very different from the U.S. or Japan) as "lucha libre" or "lucha" and the wrestlers as "luchadores" even though the same thing applies--in Mexico, Hulk Hogan and Kazuchika Okada are luchadores who do lucha libre just as Mil Mascaras and El Santo are. But "lucha" gets the point across without being a mouthful like "Mexican wrestling." Same thing applies to anime to me.