Ranger Smith

Ranger Smith, also known as John, or Francis, is a park ranger and Yogi Bear's main antagonist in the Yogi Bear animated franchise. His voice was originated by Don Messick.

He is a stern authority figure who watches over Jellystone Park, in contrast to his carefree rival Yogi. He disapproves the bear for stealing picnic baskets from the guests.

Character description
The physical appearance of Ranger Smith is of a 30-something year old man with fair skin and dark hair. He is seen wearing a green park ranger's outfit, with a color-matching campaign hat and a badge.

Smith works as a national park ranger in Jellystone Park. He is a voice of authority who wants nothing more than to stop Yogi Bear from breaking the park rules, especially when he steals picnic baskets from the park's guests. He is hardworking, strait-laced, and mild-mannered. In spite of his fustration with handling Yogi's eccentric schemes, Smith does not have complete grudge of him at all, though he would sometimes threaten to get rid of Yogi when he is up to mischief. He is often supportive of Yogi, however, particularly when he does not breaking the park rules or in need of serious help.

Smith also has a genuine sympathy for Boo Boo because he, unlike Yogi, is as a bear who follows closely to the rules at Jellystone Park.

TV series

 * Yogi Bear
 * Yogi's Gang
 * Laff-A-Lympics
 * 1.16 "Quebec and Baghdad"
 * Yogi's Treasure Hunt
 * A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
 * 1.11 "The Story Stick"
 * Yo, Yogi!
 * I Am Weasel
 * 2.7 "I Am My Lifetime" (no lines)
 * Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
 * 1.4 "Death by Chocolate" (picture)
 * 2.11 "Guitar Control" (photo)
 * 3.3 "X Gets the Crest" (pictures in deleted scene)
 * 3.11 "Identity Theft" (no lines)
 * Wacky Races
 * 2.11 "The Wacky Always Races Twice" (no lines)
 * Jellystone!
 * 1.7 "Must Be Jelly"
 * 1.20 "A Town Video: Welcome to Jellystone" (no lines)
 * 1.35 "The Box Thief"
 * 1.36 "Jailcation" (no lines)

Movies

 * Hey There, It's Yogi Bear
 * Yogi's Ark Lark
 * Yogi's First Christmas
 * Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
 * Yogi's Great Escape
 * Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose
 * The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound
 * Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears
 * Yogi Bear

Specials

 * Yogi, the Easter Bear

Shorts

 * D.A.R.E. Bear Yogi
 * "Everyone" (no lines)

Comics

 * Yogi Bear (Dell Comics)
 * Yogi Bear (Gold Key Comics)
 * Yogi Bear (Charlton Comics)
 * Yogi Bear (Marvel Comics)
 * The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
 * #3 "The Man Who Stole Thursday"
 * Yogi Bear D.A.R.E. (no lines)
 * Yogi Bear (Harvey Comics)
 * Cartoon Network Presents
 * #3A "The Twiddle Method"
 * #18A "The Murgatroid Asteroid"
 * #18B "Oil's Well That Ends Well"
 * #22B "Brain Food"
 * Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
 * #35 "Bear-ly Scared"
 * Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
 * #1A "Jellystone Dark"

Video games

 * Hanna-Barbera's Turbo Toons

Yo, Yogi!
In Yo, Yogi!, he is reinvisioned as a young mall officer at Jellystone Mall and is known by the title of "Officer Smith".

I Am Cameo
An elderly Ranger Smith has retired and now lives at the Old Cartoon Villains Asylum.

Everyone's Back in Jellystone!
In the HBO Max series Jellystone!, Ranger Smith is president of the Jellystone Hospital. Not much has been known about Smith other than his position.

In "Must Be Jelly," Smith promptly asks Cindy if she could run a bake sale/car wash as the hospital has run out of money.

Wacky Reboot
In the episode "The Wacky Always Races Twice," he played the role of one of the "Low Lives" that Penelope Pitstop had to avoid.

Development
In the first season of The Huckleberry Hound Show, there were other, unnamed park rangers who appeared; with each looking different from the last. From the second season onward, a character formally by the name of "Ranger Smith" came to be in the episode "Lullabye-Bye Bear." The short (animated by George Nicholas) featured Smith in a design closely resembling his final look; but wore a beige suit instead of a green one.

Various original Yogi Bear episodes have the ranger wearing an all-familiar, green color scheme, but his character design strangely varied from various animators working on the segments. When Ranger Smith became a main character in The Yogi Bear Show, the design stuck closer to his model sheet at the time the show was being made, especially in the last batch of episodes.

In popular culture

 * In The Partridge Family episode "I Left My Heart in Cincinnati," the Partridge Family visits King's Island, where a picture of Ranger Smith can be seen in the background at the end of the episode.
 * In The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "The Big Shot!," Stimpy becomes the co-star of Muddy Mudskipper, where they reenact one of the many chase sequences between Yogi and Ranger Smith, respectively, with Muddy wearing a ranger hat and telling him to get his hand out of the picnic basket.
 * In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode "72 Hours," when Will warns Carton against going to MacArthur Park, but Carlton assures him that he'll inform the park rangers if something happens, to which Will replies, "It's not that kind of park, Boo Boo!"
 * In the Family Guy episode "Hell Comes to Quahog," Peter tells Meg he did a park ranger (likely Ranger Smith) a favor by fatally stabbing Yogi with a hunter's knife and then suffocating him to get the job done faster, while Boo Boo watches helplessly. After Peter is done, he callously orders Boo Boo to tell the other bears what he just saw.