YO YOGI - Fiction Addiction

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

MAGILLA ICE! OKAY...this cartoon is suddenly worth it!

[@Shamandigi62091]

Snagglepuss the original gay best friend

[@wiibrockster]

Jack Sullivan Apparently he's canonically Gay.

[@magnetoonproductions9541]

Aside from never existing before, Roxie Bear looks like a Yogi Bear OC stolen from DeviantArt.

[@CooperGal24]

In my personal opinion, this is a great show to watch if you're a big fan of the Hanna-Barbera classic cartoons, or just want to watch something light hearted and "Slice of Life" genre. Trust me, after seeing plenty of cartoons with dark elements in it, I think we can all agree some cartoons are worth watching, no matter how goofy, lame or even outlandish can be. Heck, I grew up on Hanna-Barbera cartoons when Cartoon Network first aired on tv in the 90's, alongside Nickelodeon, and I can tell you that watching the classic cartoons from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's were plenty good for a ten year old. Besides, Yo Yogi wasn't the FIRST cartoon to be a "Adult characters turned into young kids and/or teens" series, and it won't be the last. A Pup Name Scooby Doo, Pink Panther from the 2010's in teen form, Baby Looney Tunes...Just to name a few. They were made as a way to draw in the younger viewers, who probably have no idea what said characters were. Also, this was the 90's, fashions back then WERE nothing but bright colors, retro patterns, baggy materials and what not. I'm PRETTY sure that if shows like Steven Universe, Pokémon, Ed Edd and Eddy or The PowerPuff Girls were seen 30 years later, some KZbinr other commentators would point out how "Weird" the clothes we wore now looked! Yes, some stories may not be everybody's cup of tea in this show, but it was pretty well written for it's time back then, basically like how the Sonic Boom series was written. Mainly due to Fourth Wall breaks. (Despite how much the games didn't work out to some people.)But look at the Wacky Races 2017! This is a really good example that a cartoon series from Hanna-Barbera CAN be great if written properly and with the fans in mind. More importantly, I'd like to think that the writers would have that "How would William Hanna and Joe Barbera approach *Cartoon Series* to have the factors of shows like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Mickey Mouse and other fan favorites? Taking consideration of this, I think the best factors of the Hanna-Barbera series would be fourth wall breaks, stories that great humor, adventure, characters with traits and personalities and plots. I can also imagine the writers writing episodes where a couple stories would have characters facing problems or situations that we can relate to. For example, Yogi and Huck meets a rabbit character with Vitiligo, a genetic condition that effects the skin color, who gets bullied for their appearance. Something that's been shown in children shows, like Sesame Street, which started introducing characters with different situations. Julia as an example, who has Autism, and is by far one of the most beloved and favorite SS characters. I'm not saying one series should be changed to be "Cool or Radical", I'm saying that with the right ideas, a bit of imagination and some knowledge from watching the original shows, cartoons like Hanna-Barbera would make a great show and have as much popularity as some other shows like Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and even My Little Pony. Heck! My Little Pony originated from the late 80's, but if it wasn't for Lauren Faust, the Friendship is Magic series wouldn't be what it was today: 9 years of comedy, adventure, creatures based on mythical creatures, well written story plots (Sometimes) and the overall theme of friendship. And fans who've watched that series are thankful of how much it changed them in a good way. Final thoughts: Even though the cartoons from the 90's WERE weird and strange in it's own way, imagine this...Had channels like Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon NOT existed, there wouldn't be the cartoons that people have grown to love today, and it's those cartoons that gives inspirations to future animators of today. On a side note though, Animaniacs WILL return on Hulu in a brand new series this 2020. No official date yet, but this PROVES that cartoons from the 90's CAN be that good and worth the watch. Anyways, even if the stories of certain cartoon series are bad with puns, punchlines and such, other factors like music, voice acting and animation will more than likely make up for the lack of story. At least Yo Yogi didn't have the Limited Animation thing like it did years ago, when Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound cartoon series first began. The animation HAS gotten better during the years, and I personally hope that Warner Brothers will consider making a DVD movie of those characters and their friends....WITHOUT the whole WWF or Wrestle Mania gimmicks and such! Guest appearances, yes, but we've already had enough Wrestle Mania movies from Warner Brothers...I counted like four or five, including the Surfs Up Wrestle/Wave Mania. I think I get what Warner Animations were doing, but... What's the point? At least the Tom and Jerry movies with beloved stories like Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka were a bit more creative. But I think that's just my opinion though.

[@Lars_E_Mou]

I have to say. I can't help by laughing at the theme song. It's the only people to manage to mix Hip Hop with 50's Rock and Roll. XD

[@averymerrick]

Old Shame: Of the 100+ shows that Hanna-Barbera produced, plenty are considered just as bad as Yo Yogi!, but this is the only one that Boomerang outright refuses to re-run (at least in the United States- it apparently showed up on one of the foreign Boomerang nets a couple of years back). At least until 2019, when the Boomerang streaming service finally included the show.

[@jack_stone]

It's kinda weird the backlash on this show was bad as it was by networks and the studio. It wasn't notable but it wasn't *that* bad. Like I could see myself putting this on and laughing at it with my husband while there's shows around it's time or after I couldn't stand.

[@josephd9749]

OH GOD! Eat em and beat em was also the name of an Atari porn game from back in the day! I wonder if the guys working on yo yogi knew this?? ;)

[@wiibrockster]

Joseph Francis Well If I had to work on that crap I'd sneak in a dirty joke or two

[@DoctorPretorious616]

Great video, you even managed to breathe new life into the tired Nicholas Cage "Not the bees!!!" scene by presenting it as a silent movie! Ye gods, "Yo! Yogi" looks awful, I'm glad I never saw it first run. The Magilla Ice gag was the one joke they thought of that legitimately made me laugh, even if it does date the whole thing even more.

[@xcmet]

I'll say this as i've said in other videos. Rewatching a cartoon from my childhood days as an adult, it seems obviously apparent that the premise of this kids show was to make yogi bear more relatable to the pop culture of 90s genre by separating its elements from the classic series, which is understandable since it was outdated. I still dont understand why the show got so much resentment from older fans of the yogi bear classic era. The intended audience of the show were kids of the 90s that were more connected to 90 genre pop culture. Looking back at the tv series, the idea of the plot was way more grounded than other cartoon teen mystery solving shows, such as a Pup named scooby doo. For example, the main cast of yo yogi series only solved crime mysteries since they were working a part-time job (Lost and Found Agency) and spent most of their time at the mall because it was a common trend for teens in the 90s. Since Mall theft is a common thing and teens usually work and shop there, having the yo yogi cast be associated to mall mystery solving activities via working a part-time after school job (Lost and Found)' just seemed very practical and a reasonable storytelling concept for the show to incorporate story plots that were tied to crime solving mysteries. At best, the show did show enough respect to the classic yogi bear cast by having their teen counterparts retain most of their adult persona quirks. If some of the die-hard fans of classic yogi bear cartoons didn't like the concept of this show, then I felt it could have been best if they introduced all the characters in the yo-yogi series as children of the classic yogi bear cartoon era. I felt the titled character "yo-yogi" could have easily passed as the son of Yogi Bear; Yogi bear jr.

[@thegayghost872]

I just realized that Roxy is wearing a bear trap as a necklace

[@chrishansen4418]

You deserve more than four thousand subscribers

[@erainmartinez8175]

Nice title for this character 3:11

[@OtakunoM]

7:40 I can't believe you resisted making a ""fake news" joke

[@FictionAddiction]

I have SOME standards and already used my "too easy" quota on Wicker Man.

[@masedaace5473]

Not gonna lie, Dick Dastardly having a suped-up bike that looks like the Mean Machine is kinda fitting to me.

[@job489]

I haven't thought about this show in years. Nice review.

[@susanfit47]

A group of teenagers Yogi Bear (Greg Burson), Boo-Boo Bear (Don Messick), Huckleberry Hound (Greg Berg), Snagglepuss (Greg Burson), and Cindy Bear (Kathie Soucie) solve various crimes, capers, and mysterious within and around the Jellystone Mall as the mall's Lost and Found or L. A. F. (pronounced "laff") Squad under the direction of security officer Smith (Greg Burson). Yo Yogi is a 1991 Saturday Morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera produced for NBC during the network's final year of Saturday morning content aimed at children before NBC scrapped their Saturday morning line-up and rebranded the programming block as a teen block with TNBC and building it around the one show that survived the shakeup, Saved by the Bell. The series would be later syndicated in repeats on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera weekend programming block on Saturday and Sunday mornings on local stations, depending on the affiliate. Yo Yogi would be the final Yogi Bear TV show produced (not counting some one off guest appearances and TV specials) until 2021's Jellystone nearly 20 years later. Yo Yogi was not well received upon initial release with the series feeling very played out and labored especially with the advent of the 90s giving way to series such as Tiny Toons Adventures that had more ambition in the writing and animation. Yo Yogi! was a non-canon update of Yogi Bear and friends, this time as teenage detectives in the local mall.

[@jameswhite153]

this was my first ever episode of fiction addiction. I came here from the nostalgia critics review of the yogi bear movie.

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

"Eat 'Em And Beat 'Em?" Well, as long as it's not the Atari game...

[@GWKTM]

Interestingly Yo Yogi was re-aired in Finnish television a couple of times. Once in 2004 and the second...almost a decade later or something

[@crcoghill]

Hate to say it: that TV box scene was kind of funny due to the "What What What!?" Effect it had on me. Too bad the show sucks 90's cheese.

[@deegenie]

Magilla Ice actually had me dying laughing bro😂

[@xcmet]

Its interesting how older fans of the early yogi bear cartoon era hate the yo-yogi series, while the fans that were the target audience of the new yogi bear cartoon series "yo-yogi" enjoyed the show. Then there are the bandwagoners that deliberately antagonize this cartoon because other critics hated it. To my knowledge, many kids of my age group enjoyed this show when it was introduced on television. We even thought the theme song was also catchy and fun. Based on rumors, it seems the idea of this show was setup to fail due to internal disagreements at the main studio. Guess, the executives of hanna barbera were not too fund of new ideas introduced in the yo-yogi series that didnt cater to their nostalgia. Going so far to mention teen yogi's design to be akin to a whoremonger, which was just an over the line satire. If the rumors were true.

[@ezrawyvern6795]

Hilariously enough, William Hanna was positively _acidic_ in his response to Yogi's redesign here, saying, in own words "They made him look like a whoremonger."

[@marieclaire6193]

Wow, Cindy has a rocking voice. But why is she Southern in this series?

[@FictionAddiction]

She was in the old cartoons too. This series just cranked it up to eleven with zero tact like it did with everything else.

[@supermariof0521]

@@FictionAddiction It does make me wonder. Which is a crappier concept for a Hannah Barbara property? "Yo-Yogi" basically representing everything wrong with the 90's, or a low budget "Five Nights At Freddy's" style bloody horror slasher starring "The Banana Splits"?

[@AndrewAmbrose]

What's incredibly ironic about this whole fiasco is that Yo Yogi premiered the same year that the Cartoon Network began on TV, and that channel introduced plenty of kids of the '90s and 2000s to Hanna-Barbera classics, creating a new generation of fans better than Yo Yogi ever could. In fact, this continues to happen now in the 2020s thanks to C.H. Greenblatt and his Jellystone TV series.

[@HKFMMXIX]

imagination... i mean! materialism...

[@GWKTM]

11:20 and forward 🤣 At least this show had SOMETHING to give even you some laughs

[@NaviDoodlez]

the silent movie wickerman scene killed me XD

[@FictionAddiction]

Screaminguy thanks! I was giggling the whole time while editing it.

[@xxMintoStarxx]

Snagglepuss is my spirit animal ❤️💜💛💚💙🏳️‍🌈

[@CartoonTriper]

14:23 this parody called himself "Mercury" , there's another gay joke with Snagglepuss

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

Take a shot everytime they make a gay joke about Snagglepuss

[@Insane-Howl-Cowl]

That intro sounds like a vitamin commercial for kids.

[@joanahkirk338]

If they wanted to revive one of their brands in a hip and trendy way, Josie would've worked fine. But she's a girl so bleh!

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

Bombastic Bobby is a collector's worst nightmare: *A scalper*

[@ImperatorZor]

Always remember: seduction is 90% attitude.

[@jescis]

As soon as you started laughing at the Mcgilla Ice concert poster and I actually got it, I too couldn't help but LMFAO 🤣🤣 I mean there's only one "good" Vanilla Ice solo song… and it's not 100% his! I'm referring to "Ice Ice Baby"!😂😂 The only other song that was better than that was the "Ninja Turtles Rap" 🤔🤔 Otherwise he was a mockery in the rap/Hip-Hop world! And only better people who were white in the genre was before Vanilla Ice… The Beastie Boys! 🤦🤦

[@Sillyforsprunkiz]

So ranger smith cousin is officer dibble? XD4:48

[@MarcMarioMaster]

Which episode in this show had Wally Gator in it?

[@u121386]

Thank god I was born at the begging of the 21st century and not in the 90’s

[@revolverocelot-qn4gs]

Yep

[@supernickdoeverything3728]

Even though I hate yo- Yogi I preferred the regular Yogi Bear better

[@NathanielCanty-wp7fp]

Yogi’s treasure hunt is one of the best shows

[@raymondyee2008]

I see that Warner Brothers is trying to act like this cartoon never existed.

[@mezykin]

I come to 11:15 every morning to get a quick wake-up laugh

[@mrnobody2018]

He's supposed to bear footed literally and without a shirt

[@Krupallaman]

At 15:12 you don’t know how accurate that statement is actually

[@smaug7958]

Who is the green female bear @ 7:23

[@antibishonen]

11:15 This part will break you...

[@dannypalin9583]

Cindy was on her period in this show.

[@luckyluke-ni9ml]

I heard people said that Hanna baraba is the general motors of animation and even general motors had ok ideas every once in a while but Hanna baraba can't even make a good idea since the 60s.

[@wiibrockster]

I just realised that I'm the Snagglepuss of my freind group....And I'm 100% fine with that fact.

[@At0mic0la48]

Sorry when is first saw your thumbnail I thought you were

[@TheSsbcandidates]

The show was quite underated.

[@mrnobody2018]

This is the proper Hanna Barbera I imagined nor the plot

[@Sillyforsprunkiz]

I love snagglepuss :3

[@mrnobody2018]

But not midget

[@blakegrant6181]

I may love a pup named Scooby Doo,Flintstones Kids and Tom and Jerry Kids but I do not have fillings for this show

[@averymerrick]

Genre-Killer: While Yo Yogi! may not have single-handedly killed the popularity of Saturday Morning Cartoon fare, its failure almost certainly made its long, painful road to decline irreversible. NBC (the show's network) was the first to ditch Saturday morning cartoons after the failure of this series, with the other networks slowly following their lead for the next two decades.

[@jaybuzzton453]

11:35 The closest to black Vanilla Ice will ever be

[@deegenie]

Thats racist b and not even funny tbh

[@revolverocelot-qn4gs]

Dicky is lucky that magilla isn't Paul newman.

[@dwiyaniwasetya5682]

Dickie d was very very very annoying

[@At0mic0la48]

What is your accent

[@chrishansen4418]

This person seems to have been inspired by the Nostalgia Critic

[@FictionAddiction]

Like many others, I was! But if you mean this episode specifically, I actually released it a few days before his Yogi Bear movie review with no idea it was coming.

[@chrishansen4418]

Fiction Addiction I meant your overall pacing, reactions, and just the way you speak. It’s a lot like Nostalgia Critic

[@keshiaanders6452]

A date with Magilla Gorilla???? Don't expect anything exciting during 4th base if he was your boyfriend. Let's just say the size of the basement matches the size of the attic (which is a true/disgusting/sad fact about male gorillas)....

[@FictionAddiction]

Part of me wants to ask why you know so much about gorilla genitalia, the other part is laughing too hard to care.

[@keshiaanders6452]

I heard about that information from a Todd of the Shadows' review of a Bruno Mars song. Coincidentally, titled 'Gorilla'.

[@pokemontrainerspencer6090]

I think this show is cool.

[@josethebeast8709]

i feel shame for being born this being born this decade now

[@jakeystarsuper]

Why? Because of this cartoon seriously?

[@dwiyaniwasetya5682]

4:41

[@supergeoff]

Bad Hanna-Barbera show but with so good animation show

[@mackobalt2630]

There's a jojoke in there somewhere I can almost taste it yoyoke

[@NathanielCanty-wp7fp]

I have to say this straight up that Rugrats is the only baby show that works because it was an original thing plus All grown up made the worst out of them except for Dil

[@NathanielCanty-wp7fp]

Bro I’d rather watch a pup named Scooby Doo and Tom and Jerry kids any day over Yo Yogi

[@OxBigly2010]

If you think this is bad I've got 4 wprds for you: Hey Vern It's Ernest

[@DoctorPretorious616]

I actually liked that show, it was at least ten times funnier than the crappiness of "Yo! Yogi"! R.I.P. Jim Varney.

[@OxBigly2010]

DoctorPretorious616 I got the complete series on DVD and watched the 1st ep. Thought it was almost over and only 10 minuets past. IMO it was too repetitive.

[@ryanhagelberg4824]

First

[@wingedyoshi]

2:46 Is that the intro music from Sonic 1?

[@FictionAddiction]

Zool the WingedYoshi it does sound very similar, doesn't it?

[@wingedyoshi]

It was hip in the 90s, so why not rip it off lol.