Ranger Smith

Ranger Smith
Ranger Smith in "Disguise and Gals."
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Yogi Bear Boo Boo Bear Cindy Bear Yogi's Treasure Hunters
First appearance	YB: "Yogi Bear's Big Break" (1958)
Played by	Don Messick (1958-1994) Greg Burson (1991) Corey Burton (1999) Tom Cavanagh (2010) Jeff Bergman (2021)
Yo, Yogi!
Yogi Bear
Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
Wacky Races
Jellystone!

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

In the prequel series, Yo, Yogi!, he is reinvisioned as a young mall officer at Jellystone Mall. This time he is voiced by Greg Burson.

In the Jellystone! reboot, Ranger Smith is president of the Jellystone Hospital.

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 to boot. Although these details have stayed with the character, Smith's exact design had been wildly inconsistent in his appearances in the original Yogi Bear segments. In many episodes, the ranger would look drastically different due to them being handled by different artists and animators.

In the first season of The Huckleberry Hound Show, there were other park rangers who appeared with different looks; none of whom are named "Smith." 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 familiar look; but wore a beige suit instead of a green one. Episodes moving forward now have the ranger wearing his all-familiar color scheme, but strangely continued to be clashing in design from various animators working on the segments. When Ranger Smith became a fully-fledged character in The Yogi Bear Show, he stuck closer to a model sheet at the time the show was made, especially in the last few episodes.

Appearances

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!
  • 1.4A "Must Be Jelly"
  • 1.10A "A Town Video: Welcome to Jellystone" (no lines)
  • 1.25 "The Box Thief"

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

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"
• Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
  • #35 "Bear-ly Scared"
• Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
  • #1A "Jellystone Dark"

Video games

• Hanna-Barbera's Turbo Toons

Biography

I Am Cameo

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

Everyone's Back in Jellystone!

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

Wacky Races (2017) Cameo

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

Gallery

Main article: Ranger Smith/Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Main article: Ranger Smith/Toys

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.

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  Stimpy & Muddy do Yogi & Ranger Smith.