Jellystone Park

This article is about the park. For other uses, see Jellystone.

Jellystone Park
Please drive carefully and don't feed the bears.
Planet	Earth
Continent	North America
Country	United States
First appearance	YB: "Yogi Bear's Big Break" (1958)
Yogi Bear

Jellystone Park, and occasionally known as Jellystone National Park, is the main location in the Yogi Bear animated franchise.

The park is protected by park rangers led by Ranger Smith. Bears are the most prominent animals to be seen at the park, which include Yogi, Boo Boo, and Cindy.

It's in the general direction of the Rocky Mountains.

Appearances

TV series

• Yogi Bear
• Hokey Wolf
  • 1.17 "The Glass Sneaker" (mentioned)
• The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
  • 1.3 "Episode 3" (mentioned)
• 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"
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
  • 1.4 "Death by Chocolate"

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
• Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (poster)
• Scoob! (billboard)

Specials

• Yogi, the Easter Bear

Shorts

• American Cancer Society commercial
• D.A.R.E. Bear Yogi
• American Melanoma Foundation commercial
• Rocket Mortgage commercial
• Geico commercial

Comics

• Yogi Bear (Dell Comics)
• Yogi Bear (Gold Key Comics)
• Yogi Bear (Charlton Comics)
• Yogi Bear (Marvel Comics)
• Laff-a-Lympics
• Yogi Bear (Harvey Comics)
• Cartoon Network Presents
  • Issue #2B: "Hermit Helper"
  • Issue #3A: "The Twiddle Method"
• Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
  • Issue #35: "Bear-ly Scared"
• Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
  • Issue #1A: "Jellystone Dark"

Video games

• Yogi's Great Escape
• Yogi Bear

Development

In the early Yogi Bear segments, Jellystone Park wasn't established as the focal point of Yogi's misadventures, so he would occasionally venture out into the woods that didn't seem to be in Jellystone Park.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hanna-Barbera retconned the park as being part of a town called Jellystone.

Behind the scenes

• Jellystone is inspired by Yellowstone National Park in the Western United States.
• "Jellystone National Park" was first mentioned in the 1953 Barney Bear short Barney's Hungry Cousin.
• According to Hanna-Barbera's 1982 calendar:
  • February 10th is the anniversary of Jellystone Park's dedication.
  • The first Monday of December is the opening of the park's ski season.
• Although not mentioned by name in the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo episode "The Story Stick," both Yogi and Ranger Smith had a cameo.

In popular culture

Main article: List of pop culture references to Yogi Bear

• In the Duckman: Private Duck/Family Man episode "I, Duckman," a home movie reel depicts a young Duckman and his father in the same apparel as Boo Boo and Yogi, respectively, while visiting Jellyroll Park for one last camping trip together before Duckman goes to college, which makes Mr. Duckman (voiced by Joe Alaskey doing an impression of Yogi) very proud of his son in being "better than the average duck." This is when he finds out his son has no intention to attend college, which Mr. Duckman tell him that would be a "big boo boo," and chases him in one continuous loop with frantic music in the same manner Ranger Smith would chase Yogi. Ranger Smith is also parodied with a dog dressed like park ranger, who Mr. Duckman affectionately refers to as Mr. Ranger when he asks him where they can put their pic-a-nic basket.
• In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode "72 Hours," when Will warns Carlton against going to MacArthur Park, 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 "Episode Two" (series two) of the Dead Ringers radio sketch program, Nick Russ presents Cartoon Crimewatch that reports the theft of a picnic basket on Easter Sunday, providing a reenactment of the crime with Yogi ordering Boo Boo to provide a distraction so Yogi can steal the picnic basket, but his plan is foiled by the appearance of Ranger Smith. Russ ponders if Boo Boo is a friend or accomplice, and notes that Yogi is distinguished by a "trilby hat." He asks viewers to call if they have any knowledge.

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