Yogi Bear (character)

This article is about the character. For other uses, see Yogi Bear.

Yogi Bear
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Species	Bear (bruin)
Gender	Male
Member of	Yogi's Gang Yogi Yahooeys Galaxy Guardians Yogi's Treasure Hunters L.A.F. Squad
Affiliation	Boo Boo Bear Ranger Smith Cindy Bear Deathstroke
Goals	To steal picnic baskets Running away from Ranger Smith
Father	Pop Bear
Uncle(s)	Bruno Bear
Marital status	Single
Son(s)	Little Yogi Bear
First appearance	YB: "Yogi Bear's Big Break" (1958)
Played by	Daws Butler (1958-1988) Greg Burson (1988-1999) Maurice LaMarche (2001-04) Dave Fouquette (2004) Dan Aykroyd (2010) Jeff Bergman (since 2021)
Yo, Yogi!
Yogi Bear
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
Jellystone!

Yogi Bear is a talking anthropomorphic brown bear and the main title protagonist in the Yogi Bear animated franchise. His voice was originated by Daws Butler, using an impression of actor Art Carney as the basis.

Debuting in shorts of The Huckleberry Hound Show, he would later go on to have his own series with his spot on the previous series being taken by Hokey Wolf. He has since been the leading star of several spin-offs and movies produced by both Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros.

Character description

Yogi is a walking, talking brown bear with a tan snout (although, it is originally colored orange in his early appearances). His normal attire consists of a white collar, a green tie, and a green pork pie hat. Yogi's pupils are generally depicted as simple black dots, though in the 2011 live-action film, they are an amber brown in color.

He is generally characterized as a mischevious trickster with a carefree and upbeat personality. One of his most defining traits is his love of eating food — namely treats from picnic baskets (or "pic-a-nic baskets", as he calls them) — which he mainly obesses over to a gluttonous degree. Yogi presents himself as being incredibly clever, although his intelligence tends to overestimate him in most of his antics. He is also shown to have generocity towards others, especially when it comes to lending help to his friends.

He lives in Jellystone National Park, where he resides inside a cave with his friend Boo Boo Bear. He is a fun-loving and free spirited bear who doesn't like to be abided by strictness, especially when it comes to the park's rules. Boo Boo often follows his lead, but cautiously tries to dissuade him on the risks he takes. Yogi's main foil is Ranger Smith, who more often has the displeasure of him breaking the rules at Jellystone. Both Smith and the bear share a rivalry with one another in a game of wits, but sometimes, the ranger has shown to have sympathy with Yogi; albeit in several occasions.

Yogi speaks in a pronounced New York accent and has a deep, baritone voice with an overall lively tone. He is notable for spurting a large number of amusing catchphrases, which include his gleeful greeting ("Hey, hey, hey!"), his naming of picnic baskets as "pic-a-nic baskets", and his self-promotion, "I'm smarter than the av-er-age bear!" He sometimes speaks in rhyme and would also use puns in his speech. He also has the habit of pronouncing long words with a long vocal flourish.

Appearances

TV series

• Yogi Bear
  • 1.1 "Yogi Bear's Big Break"
  • 1.2 "Slumber Party Smarty"
  • 1.3 "Pie-Pirates"
  • 1.4 "Big Bad Bully"
  • 1.5 "Foxy Hound-Dog"
  • 1.6 "The Brave Little Brave"
  • 1.7 "Tally Ho Ho Ho"
  • 1.8 "Baffled Bear"
  • 1.9 "High Fly Guy"
  • 1.10 "Big Brave Bear"
  • 1.11 "The Stout Trout"
  • 1.12 "The Buzzin' Bear"
  • 1.13 "The Runaway Bear"
  • 1.14 "Be My Guest Pest"
  • 1.15 "Duck in Luck"
  • 1.16 "Bear on a Picnic"
  • 1.17 "Prize Fight Fright"
  • 1.18 "Brainy Bear"
  • 1.19 "Robin Hood Yogi"
  • 1.20 "Daffy Daddy"
  • 1.21 "Scooter Looter"
  • 1.22 "Hide and Go Peek"
  • 2.1 "Show Biz Bear"
  • 2.2 "Lullabye-Bye Bear"
  • 2.3 "Bare Face Bear"
  • 2.4 "Papa Yogi"
  • 2.5 "Stranger Ranger"
  • 2.6 "Rah Rah Bear"
  • 2.7 "Bear for Punishment"
  • 2.8 "Nowhere Bear"
  • 2.9 "Wound-Up Bear"
  • 2.10 "Bewitched Bear"
  • 2.11 "Hoodwinked Bear"
  • 2.12 "Snow White Bear"
  • 2.13 "Space Bear"
  • 3.1 "Oinks and Boinks"
  • 3.2 "Booby Trapped Bear"
  • 3.3 "Gleesome Threesome"
  • 3.4 "A Bear Pair"
  • 3.5 "Spy Guy"
  • 3.6 "Do or Diet"
  • 3.7 "Bears and Bees"
  • 3.8 "Biggest Show Off on Earth"
  • 3.9 "Genial Genie"
  • 3.10 "Cub Scout Boo Boo"
  • 3.11 "Home-Sweet Jellystone"
  • 3.12 "Love-Bugged Bear"
  • 3.13 "Bearface Disguise"
  • 3.14 "Slap Happy Birthday"
  • 3.15 "A Bear Living"
  • 3.16 "Disguise and Gals"
  • 4.1 "Touch and Go-Go-Go"
  • 4.2 "Acrobatty Yogi"
  • 4.3 "Ring-a-Ding Picnic Basket"
  • 4.4 "Iron Hand Jones"
  • 4.5 "Yogi's Pest Guest"
  • 4.6 "Missile Bound Yogi"
  • 4.7 "Loco Locomotive"
  • 4.8 "Missile-Bound Bear"
  • 4.9 "A Wooin' Bruin"
  • 4.10 "Yogi in the City"
  • 4.11 "Queen Bee for a Day"
  • 4.12 "Batty Bear"
  • 4.13 "Droop-a-Long Yogi"
  • 4.14 "Threadbare Bear"
  • 4.15 "Ice Box Raider"
  • 4.16 "Bear Foot Soldiers"
  • 4.17 "Yogi's Birthday Party"
  • 5.1 "Kahuna Yogi"
  • 5.2 "Grin & Bear It"
  • 5.3 "Board Silly"
  • 5.4 "Shine on Silver Screen"
  • 5.5 "Buffalo'd Bear"
  • 5.6 "The Yolk's on Yogi"
  • 5.7 "Yogi De Beargerac"
  • 5.8 "Bearly Sick"
  • 5.9 "Bear Exchange"
  • 5.10 "To Bear Is Human"
  • 5.11 "Slim & Bear It"
  • 5.12 "Old Biter"
  • 5.13 "Pokey, the Bear"
  • 5.14 "Shadrak Yogi"
  • 5.15 "Bruise Cruise"
  • 5.16 "Bear Obedience"
  • 5.17 "Come Back, Little Boo Boo"
  • 5.18 "La Bamba Bear"
  • 5.19 "Clucking Crazy"
  • 5.20 "Misguided Missile"
  • 5.21 "Double Trouble"
  • 5.22 "Attack of the Ninja Raccoon"
  • 5.23 "Biker Bear"
  • 5.24 "Bearly Buddies"
  • 5.25 "Predaterminator"
  • 5.26 "Little Lord Boo Boo"
  • 5.27 "Yogi, the Cave Bear"
  • 5.28 "Little Big Foot"
  • 5.29 "Top Gun Yogi"
  • 5.30 "The Hopeful Diamond"
  • 5.31 "Real Bears Don't Eat Quiche"
  • 5.32 "Slippery Smith"
  • 5.33 "In Search of the Ninja Raccoon"
  • 5.34 "Balloonatics"
  • 5.35 "The Big Bear Ballet"
  • 5.36 "Blast Off Bears"
  • 5.37 "Battle of the Bears"
  • 5.38 "Bringing Up Yogi"
  • 5.39 "Unbearable"
  • 5.40 "Banjo Bear"
  • 5.41 "Boxcar Pop"
  • 5.42 "Yogi Meets the Mummy"
  • 5.43 "Ninja Raccoon, The Final Shogun"
  • 5.44 "The Not So Great Escape"
  • 5.45 "My Buddy Blubber"
• Hokey Wolf
  • 1.13 "Too Much to Bear" (mentioned; picture)
  • 1.17 "The Glass Sneaker" (mentioned)
• The Jetsons
  • 1.20 "Miss Solar System" (mentioned)
• The Flintstones
  • 3.26 "Swedish Visitors"
• Wally Gator
  • 2.16 "Marshal Wally (mentioned)
• Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt
  • 1.12B "Mad Mad Movies" (mentioned)
• The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
  • 1.3 "Episode 3" (Bingo as Yogi)
• Around the World in 79 Days
  • 1.9 "The Argentiney Meany" (mentioned)
• The New Scooby-Doo Movies
  • 1.7 "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde" (mentioned)
  • 1.15 "The Caped Crusader Caper" (balloon float)
• Yogi's Gang
  • 1.1 "Dr. Bigot"
  • 1.2 "The Greedy Genie"
  • 1.3 "Mr. Prankster"
  • 1.4 "Mr. Fibber"
  • 1.5 "The Gossipy Witch"
  • 1.6 "Mr. Sloppy"
  • 1.7 "Mr. Cheater"
  • 1.8 "Mr. Waste"
  • 1.9 "Mr. Vandal"
  • 1.10 "The Sheik of Selfishness"
  • 1.11 "Mr. Smog"
  • 1.12 "Lotta Litter"
  • 1.13 "The Envy Brothers"
  • 1.14 "Captain Swipe"
  • 1.15 "Mr. Hothead"
  • 1.16 "Yogi's Ark Lark Part 1"
  • 1.17 "Yogi's Ark Lark Part 2"
• To Tell the Truth
  • "Bill Hanna"
• Laff-a-Lympics
  • 1.1 "The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan"
  • 1.2 "Acapulco and England"
  • 1.3 "Florida and China"
  • 1.4 "The Sahara Desert and Scotland"
  • 1.5 "France and Australia"
  • 1.6 "Athens, Greece and the Ozarks"
  • 1.7 "Italy and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina"
  • 1.8 "Egypt and Sherwood Forest"
  • 1.9 "Spain and the Himalayas"
  • 1.10 "India and Israel"
  • 1.11 "Africa and San Francisco"
  • 1.12 "The Grand Canyon and Ireland"
  • 1.13 "Hawaii and Norway"
  • 1.14 "North Pole and Tahiti"
  • 1.15 "Arizona and Holland"
  • 1.16 "Quebec and Baghdad"
  • 2.1 "Russia and the Caribbean"
  • 2.2 "New York and Turkey" (no lines)
  • 2.3 "South America and Transylvania"
  • 2.4 "French Riviera and New Zealand"
  • 2.5 "New Orleans and Atlantis"
  • 2.6 "Morocco and Washington D.C." (no lines)
  • 2.7 "Canada and Warsaw, Poland" (no lines)
  • 2.8 "Siam and the Moon"
• Yogi's Space Race
  • 1.1 "The Saturn 500"
  • 1.2 "The Neptune 9000"
  • 1.3 "The Pongo Tongo Classic"
  • 1.4 "Nebuloc-The Prehistoric Planet"
  • 1.5 "The Spartikan Spectacular"
  • 1.6 "The Mizar Marathon"
  • 1.7 "The Lost Planet of Atlantis"
  • 1.8 "Race Through Oz"
  • 1.9 "Race Through Wet Galoshes"
  • 1.10 "The Borealis Triangle"
  • 1.11 "Race to the Center of the Universe"
  • 1.12 "Race Through the Planet of the Monsters"
  • 1.13 "Franzia"
• Galaxy Goof-Ups
  • 1.1 "The Purloined Princess"
  • 1.2 "Defective Protectives"
  • 1.3 "Whose Zoo?"
  • 1.4 "The Space Pirates"
  • 1.5 "The Clone Ranger"
  • 1.6 "The Dopey Defenders"
  • 1.7 "Tacky Cat Strikes Again"
  • 1.8 "Space Station USA"
  • 1.9 "Hail, King Yogi!"
  • 1.10 "Dyno-Mite"
  • 1.11 "Vampire of Space"
  • 1.12 "The Treasure of Congo-Bongo"
  • 1.13 "Captain Snerdley Goes Bananas"
• Yogi's Treasure Hunt
  • 1.1 "Riddle in the Middle of the Earth"
  • 1.2 "Bungle in the Jungle"
  • 1.3 "Countdown Drac"
  • 1.4 "The Return of El Kabong"
  • 1.5 "Ole, the Red-Nosed Viking"
  • 1.6 "The Curse of the Tutti-Frutti"
  • 1.7 "Yogi and the Unicorn"
  • 1.8 "The Case of the Hopeless Diamond"
  • 1.9 "Merlin's Lost Book of Magic"
  • 1.10 "Beverly Hills Flop"
  • 2.1 "Follow the Yellow Brick Gold"
  • 2.2 "To Bee or Not to Bee"
  • 2.3 "Heavens to Planetoid"
  • 2.4 "Beswitched, Buddha'd and Bewildered"
  • 2.5 "There's No Place Like Nome"
  • 2.6 "The Great American Treasure"
  • 2.7 "Huckle Hero"
  • 2.8 "The Moaning Liza"
  • 3.1 "Snow White & the 7 Treasure Hunters"
  • 3.2 "Yogi's Heroes"
  • 3.3 "The Attack of Dr. Mars"
  • 3.4 "20,000 Leaks Under the Sea"
  • 3.5 "Goodbye, Mr. Chump"
  • 3.6 "Yogi Bear on the Air"
  • 3.7 "Yogi & the Beanstalk"
  • 3.8 "The Greed Monster"
  • 3.9 "Secret Agent Bear"
• The Flintstone Kids
  • 2.1 Captain Caveman and Son: "Captain Knaveman" (doll)
• A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
  • 1.11 "The Story Stick"
• Fender Bender 500
• Yo, Yogi!
  • 1.1 "Yo, Yogi!"
  • 1.2A "Huck's Doggone Day"
  • 1.2B "Grindhog Day"
  • 1.3 "Jellystone Jam"
  • 1.4 "Mall Alone"
  • 1.5 "Tricky Dickie's Dirty Trickies"
  • 1.6 "Super Duper Snag"
  • 1.7A "Mellow Fellow"
  • 1.7B "Hats Off to Yogi"
  • 1.8 "Polly Want a Safecracker"
  • 1.9A "Mall or Nothing"
  • 1.9B "There's No Business Like Snow Business"
  • 1.10A "It's All Relative"
  • 1.10B "Bearly Working"
  • 1.11A "Yippee-Yo, Yogi"
  • 1.11B "Of Meeces and Men"
  • 1.12A "Fashion Smashin!"
  • 1.12B "To Tell the Truth, Forsooth"
  • 1.13 "The Big Snoop"
• Super Secret Secret Squirrel
  • 1.9 "Scirocco Mole" (no lines)
• 2 Stupid Dogs
  • 1.10A "Family Values" (mentioned)
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers
  • 6.2 "Whoo Gives a Hoot" (mentioned)
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
  • 7.5 "Sweet for Brak" (Satan as Yogi)
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
  • 1.4 "Death by Chocolate"
  • 2.11 "Guitar Control" (photo)
• The Powerpuff Girls
  • 5.3B "Shotgun Wedding" (photo)
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
  • 2.7B "Here Thar Be Dwarves!"
  • 4.2B "Irwin Gets a Clue" (no lines)
  • 5.2 "Keeper of the Reaper" (no lines)
• Duck Dodgers
  • 2.3B "K9 Quarry" (taxidermized)
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
  • 1.10 "Howl of the Fright Hound" (no lines)
• Animaniacs
  • 1.2C "Suffragate City" (no lines)
• Jellystone!
  • 1.1 "Yogi's Tummy Trouble"
  • 1.2 "Gorilla in Our Midst"
  • 1.3 "Boo Boots"
  • 1.4 "My Doggie Dave"
  • 1.5 "A Coconut to Remember"
  • 1.6 "Grocery Store" (no lines)
  • 1.7 "Must Be Jelly"
  • 1.9 "VIP Baby You Know Me" (no lines)
  • 1.10 "El Kabong's Kabong is Gone"
  • 1.11 "Mr. Flabby Dabby Wabby Jabby" (no lines)
  • 1.12 "Ice Ice Daddy"
  • 1.13 "DNA, A-OK!"
  • 1.14 "Face of the Town!"
  • 1.15 "Catanooga Cheese Explosion"
  • 1.16 "Squish or Miss"
  • 1.18 "Jelly Wrestle Rumble!"
  • 1.19 "A Fish Sticky Situation"
  • 1.20 "A Town Video: Welcome to Jellystone"
  • 1.21 "Spell Book"
  • 1.22 "Lady Danjjer: Is It Wrong to Long for Kabong?"
  • 1.23 "Baby Shenanigans"
  • 1.24 "Bleep!"
  • 1.25 "Yogi's Mid-Life Crisis"
  • 1.26 "Jellystone Moon Platoon"
  • 1.27 "The Sea Monster of Jellystone Cove"
  • 1.29 "Pants!"
  • 1.30 "Uh Oh! It's a Burglar!" (no lines)
  • 1.31 "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Rat Race"
  • 1.32 "The Brave Little Daddy"
  • 1.33 "The Big Stink" (no lines)
  • 1.34 "Boo Boo and Benny: Little Buddy Trouble"
  • 1.35 "The Box Thief"
  • 1.36 "Jailcation" (no lines)
  • 1.38 "Augie's Baby" (no lines)
  • 1.39 "Heroes and Capes"
  • 1.40 "Sweet Dreams"
  • 2.1 "Meet the Jetsons"
  • 2.2 "Disco Fever"
  • 2.3 "Cindy vs. Noodle Arms" (no lines)
  • 2.4 "Hot Guys, Cold Turkey"
  • 2.5 "Lotions 11" (no lines)
  • 2.6 "LAFF Games"
  • 2.7 "Frankenhooky"
  • 2.8 "Girl, You My Friend!"
  • 2.10 "Vote Raspberry"
  • 2.12 "Mummy Knows Best"
  • 2.13 "Augie-mented Reality"
  • 2.14 "Space Con"
  • 2.15 "Sha-zogi"
  • 2.16 "Lil' Honk Honks!"
• Teen Titans Go!
  • 8.24 "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary"
  • 8.25 "Wishbone"

Movies

• Hey There, It's Yogi Bear
• Yogi's Ark Lark
• The Gathering (doll)
• Casper's First Christmas
• 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! WrestleMania Mystery (mentioned)
• Space Jam: A New Legacy

Specials

• The Hanna-Barbera Hall of Fame: Yabba Dabba Doo II
• Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration
• Yogi, the Easter Bear
• The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo (no lines)

Shorts

• Loopy De Loop
  • 1.35 "Not in Nottingham" (mentioned)
• American Cancer Society commercial
• D.A.R.E. Bear Yogi
• American Melanoma Foundation commercial
• Rocket Mortgage commercial
• Geico - "Bear Country"
• Cartoon Network Shorties
  • "When Animals Nap"

Comics

• Yogi Bear (Dell Comics)
• Yogi Bear (Gold Key Comics)
• Bear Facts for Bike Drivers
• Yogi Bear (Charlton Comics)
• Yogi Bear (Marvel Comics)
• Laff-a-Lympics
• Yogi Bear D.A.R.E.
• Yogi Bear (Harvey Comics)
• Cartoon Network Presents
  • Issue #2B: "Hermit Helper"
  • Issue #3A: "The Twiddle Method"
  • Issue #3C: "Fifteen Minutes of Fame" (t-shirt)
  • Issue #18A: "The Murgatroid Asteroid"
  • Issue 18B: "Oil's Well That Ends Well"
  • Issue #22B: "Brain Food"
• Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
  • Issue #35: "Bear-ly Scared"
• Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
  • Issue #1A: "Jellystone Dark"

Books

• Hokey Wolf and Ding-a-Ling featuring Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound
• Playtime in Jellystone Park

Video games

• Adventures of Yogi Bear
• Yogi's Great Escape
• Hanna-Barbera's Turbo Toons
• Yogi Bear (Wii)
• Yogi Bear (DS)

Biography

Debut Series

In the Yogi Bear shorts of The Huckleberry Hound Show — and later, The Yogi Bear Show — he is the titular star of the series. Yogi is first established as a dweller of Jellystone Park alongside his friend, Boo Boo; although in the first handful of his cartoons, it was assumed that he appeared in the woods outside the park, since Jellystone wasn't established as the focal point of Yogi's misadventures.

Despite Yogi's jolly, larger-than-life personality, he generally tends to suffer from boredom, hunger, and sometimes hunters within the Jellystone area. A lot of his escapades vary by many episodes, but Yogi would often make use of his intellect to get away from abiding by the park rules, namely stealing picnic baskets from Jellystone's unsuspecting tourists. In spite of Boo Boo's best intentions to warn him, Yogi's overestimation of himself causes him to fail in a lot of their schemes. In several of his earlier cartoons, for instance, he is also seen either dealing with small, younger animals (such as a little duckling in a few episodes) or trying to get through a variety of other deeds like trying to catch a trout in "The Stout Trout". He has also moved away from Jellystone Park on several occasions, mostly intentionally, such as in his debut episode, "Yogi Bear's Big Break", in which he tried to escape due to being too sick of having to be patronized; though there are a few times where he left the park with no intent like in "Biggest Show Off on Earth", where an escaped circus bear trades places with Yogi.

Ranger Smith, who is a constant thorn in Yogi's back, is also established as having been his main foil; although there had been plenty of other unnamed park rangers with a similar role prior to "Lullabye-Bye Bear", in which is he formally introduced by his own name. In "Acrobatty Yogi", Cindy Bear was first introduced as Yogi's love interest.

The Early Cameos

In the Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy episode "Pop's Nature Pup," Augie brings in a bear who can drive, which happens to be Yogi.

Yogi, again, made a cameo appearance, alongside Quick Draw and Baba Looey in an acting book in the Snagglepuss episode "Paws for Applause." He and Boo Boo also made their appearances in the episode "Remember the Daze."

In the Hokey Wolf episode "Too Much to Bear," Yogi was mentioned as the cousin of the Three Bears. He was later seen on a picture frame in the Three Bears' house.

In The Flintstones, Yogi and Boo Boo briefly popped up at Jellyrock Park (a Stone Age counterpart of Jellystone) in the episode "Swedish Visitors."

Crossover Era

It's Yogi's Gang

In Yogi's Gang, Yogi served as the captain of a flying ark and is the leader of a gang consisting of his friends and other anthropomorphic animals. Together, he and his crew set out on numerous encounters where they settled on individual villains who personify many moral dilemmas, including Mr. Fibber, the Envy Brothers, the Gossipy Witch, Doctor Bigot, and Mr. Cheater among others.

Yogi's Treasure Hunt

In Yogi's Treasure Hunt, he becomes a leader of his own treasure hunting crew, consisting of his friends, and is the captain of the S.S. Jelly Roger. He is assigned to go on special missions by Top Cat to retrieve rare, sought-after items from around the world. It is during these adventures that he and his team also cross paths with Dick Dastardly and Muttley, who get in the way to steal the treasures themselves.

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo cameo

In the episode "The Story Stick," he conspicuously watched the kids from the background, as they entered the Indian reservation.

He later reappeared during a chase between the kids and the Totem Spirit, with the latter running into a cave, and then being chased back out by unwelcoming Yogi.

Yo, Yogi!

In Yo, Yogi!, Yogi is portrayed as a young, pre-teen sleuth who usually hangs out with his friends at Jellystone Mall, a shopping center located in Jellystone Town. Yogi and the gang work at a lost and found agency called the L.A.F. Squad (short for Lost and Found), where they act as detectives trying to solve mysteries under the supervision of the mall's security guard Officer Smith.

Help from Harvey Birdman

In the episode "Death by Chocolate," Yogi and Boo Boo were awakened by ATF agents who (accidentally) throw tear gas in their cave. Yogi was later seen during Boo Boo's trial — in which he was accused of being a terrorist known as the Unabooboo — as a witness, and clarified that both he and Boo Boo are illiterate.

Everyone's Back in Jellystone!

In the HBO Max web series Jellystone!, he works as a doctor at Jellystone Hospital, where he often messes up on surgeries.

In "A Town Video: Welcome to Jellystone," Yogi botches Wally Gator's surgery so bad, that he starts speaking French.

Yogi Sells Out

In The Powerpuff Girls episode "Shotgun Wedding," Professor Utonium looks over a poster featuring bears of the world, of which Yogi Bear in a quadrupedal stance is included.

In The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episode "Here There Be Dwarfs," he is portrayed as an implied drug addict trying to steal a picnic basket from Billy. In "Irwin Gets a Clue," he's one of several Hanna-Barbera characters run over by Hoss Delgado's truck. In "Keeper of the Reaper," Billy sings a lyric stating that Grim is "the pic-a-nic in [his] bear!", while Yogi is stuffing himself from Grim as a basket.

In the Duck Dodgers episode "K9 Quarry," stuffed trophies of Yogi, Wally Gator, Boo Boo, Hong Kong Phooey, and Top Cat, appear on an alien hunter's ship.

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Into the ServerVerse

In the Warner Bros. Serververse in Space Jam: A New Legacy, Yogi and Boo Boo arrive at the basketball game between the Tune Squad and the Goon Squad in the Mystery Machine. Like all the other IPs, they have no particular preference and just react to whatever is happening.

Development

Yogi Bear's characterization was a spoof of Art Carney, who was mainly notable for his role as Ed Norton in the 1950s television sitcom The Honeymooners. His personality largely came from similar traits to Carney's character, as the two share an identical hat, carefree attitude, and vocal inflection. Daws Butler had previously used his Art Carney impression a few years earlier in a series of three Looney Tunes shorts directed by Robert McKimson, which directly lampooned the then-popular show.

Before he was given officially christened "Yogi," he originally went by the working names of "Huckleberry," "Yucca," and "Yo-Yo." The name "Huckleberry" was later given to the character of Huckleberry Hound, after "Yogi" was decided.

Gallery

Main article: Yogi Bear (character)/Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Main article: Yogi Bear (character)/Toys

Behind the scenes

• According to Hanna-Barbera's 1982 calendar, he was born on September 9th.
• He goes into hibernation on December 22nd and ends his hibernation on March 22nd.
• June 10 is the anniversary of Yogi's first picnic basket.
• Yogi was one of several Hanna-Barbera characters to have a collar, which allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke. This reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000.
• Yogi Bear's name shares similarities, although unofficially, to that of Yankees baseball player Yogi Berra. Berra sued Hanna-Barbera for defamation over Yogi's name sounding too similar, but withdrew it when Hanna-Barbera stated that it was a coincidence. According to Joseph Barbera, he claimed that the name did not have an intended reference, but asserted that "the sound of the name was awash in our collective unconscious at a time when Yogi Berra was a very popular figure." Berra, however, addressed the similarities of the name in a 1963 interview, stating "Television is big enough for both me and Yogi Bear. I was going to sue the Yogi Bear program for using my name, until somebody reminded me Yogi isn’t my real name — it’s Lawrence."
  • As part of a tie-in storyline for the film Hey There, It's Yogi Bear, a Yogi Bear comic strip from August 16, 1964, made a reference to this connection, with a night club host nervously shaking hands with both Yogi Bear and the baseball legend.
  • Ironically when Berra died on September 22, 2015, his obituary by the press accidentally referred to him as Yogi Bear.
• His least favorite foods are nuts and berries, which are part of the natural bear diet.
• In the letters page of DC Comics' Cartoon Network Presents #2, Yogi's height and weight are given as seven feet tall and a thousand pounds, respectively.

In popular culture

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Main article: List of pop culture references to Yogi Bear

• In The Brady Bunch episode "The Cincinnati Kids," Mike takes the family on a free trip to Kings Island in exchange for presenting plans for a new ride to the board there. When arriving, we see a Kings Island Inn bus with Yogi on it. Later, Jan buys a Yogi poster for a kid she babysits and puts it in one of Mike's canisters for safekeeping, which Mike accidentally takes to his meeting, which the executives get a good laugh out of for thinking he is joking.
• In the British sitcom Mind Your Language, there was an episode called "No Flowers by Request," in which Mr. Brown mentioned (John) Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor of the television, but Ali thought he meant Yogi, who he watched the previous night, along with Yogi's friend Boo Boo.
• In the August 27, 1982 edition of The Muppets comic strip, a Whatnot asks for Fozzie's autograph, but when he walks away, she calls him Yogi when thanking Fozzie.
• In the Family Ties episode "Read It and Weep Part 1," a student called Martin does his book report on Yogi Berra, with his concluding comment asking the class if he was related to Yogi Bear, and if so, how?
• In the film The Great Outdoors, when Chet gets two bears on top of his car, he says "Yogi and Boo Boo in the flesh. I wish the hell Ranger Smith would get out here and get us home."
• For the "It's All Relatives" segment in the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Pledge Week," Babs acts and dresses like Yogi (with an authentic background to match) in the hopes that this impression is what her grandmother wants to see.
• In the Step by Step episode "Into the Woods," Frank allows J.T. and Dana to escape a bear by telling them he would take on Yogi.
• In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode "Here Comes the Judge," when Will would prefer to watch an Eagles game than Underdog with Jazz, Jazz is resentful and comments, "Well, excuse me, but you once preferred the whimsy of a Yogi and a Boo Boo."
• In The Nanny episode "Maggie the Model," when Maggie asks Fran for advice about yoga, she responds, "The bear? Oh, that's Yogi."
• 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 a 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 Muppets Tonight episode "Billy Crystal," Sal calls Bobo the bear "Yogi the Butthead," after he doesn't find Johnny Fiama's name on the list.
• In the Moesha episode "(Grand)Poppa Don't Take No Mess," Myles has a print of Yogi on his t-shirt.
• In the Animaniacs segment "Back in Style," the Warner siblings were loaned off to other cartoon studios, including one run by Phil and Schmoe (parodies of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera). One of the cartoon characters that the Warners met is a spoof of Yogi Bear, named Who Who Hooey, where they mock its superficial dialogue and flat backgrounds. The Warner siblings interfere in the lunchbox stealing escapades of Calhourn Capybara and his impressionable young sidekick, Lew Lew, parodies of Yogi and Boo Boo.
• In Chris Rice's song "Cartoons," Rice questions if Yogi is religious and would say "Hey, Boo-Boo-loo-ya" in place of "Hallelujah."
• In the Gilmore Girls episode "Red Light on the Wedding Night," Lorelei mentions Yogi Berra to Snookie, but Snookie is so hungover she thinks Lorelei said Yogi Bear.
• In the film Snow Dogs, Ted runs into a bear, whom he unsuccessfully tries to appeal to by saying he likes Yogi.
• In January 14, 2004 episode of Hollywood Squares, Tom Bergeron asks Bear (from Bear in the Big Blue House) what was the fastest growing type of food service in America in the past year that wasn't fine dining or family restaurants, with Bear trying to be smart by responding with a Yogi impression, saying "It was stealing picnic baskets."
• In The Fairly OddParents/Jimmy Neutron crossover TV movie The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour, Jimmy tells everyone that he's not Timmy, to which Sanjay mocks him by saying "I'm not Sanjay, I'm Yogi Bear, and I am smarter than the average bear."
• In the Family Guy episode "Hell Comes to Quahog," Meg berates Peter for getting her tank confiscated, but he tells her it's not as worse as the time 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. Seth MacFarlane voices Yogi.
• In the film Bee Movie, Vanderhayden bemoans Barry for using an image of a bear on his honey jar, but Barry says they're lovable creatures, using Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, and Build-a-Bear as examples.
• In the Futurama DTV movie The Beast of a Billion Backs (syndicated as part 2 of the TV series, when asked by Calculon if he's worthy of being in the League of Robots, Bender says in a Yogi-like voice, "Worthier than the average robot."
• In the TV film A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa, Bobo calls Fozzie Yogi after bringing him back after tackling him at the airport.
• There is an episode of According to Jim called "The Yoga Bear."
• In The Cleveland Show episode "Birth of a Salesman," Terry says he'll buy Tim the bear a whole steak if he shows him his "bear penis." Cleveland then mocks him by imitating Yogi's voice when he asks, "Is it bigger than the average bear's?"
• In the movie Just Go with It, Devlin and Ian get romantic on their date with Katherine and Daniel, using Yogi/Yogi Bear and Boo Boo as pet names for each other, respectively. Ian even does Yogi's voice.
• In the Mad episode "Ko-Bee Movie/Law & Ogre," during the "Law & Ogre" segment, a mysterious caller tells Shrek he prosecuted the wrong bear and they'll never find the real killer. The caller and killer turns out to be Yogi, who accidentally gave himself away when he says, "You'll never catch me, I'm smarter than the average bear."
• In "Episode 18" (series 7) of the UK BBC One Pointless game show, the first round of questions that fell into the "Cartoon" category is Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, with host Alexander Armstrong showing an image of several of them together. The contestants have to be able to pick out all the obscure characters that 100 anonymous public people had been able to guess. None of the contestants chose Yogi, as that was one of the least obscure being known by 83 of the anonymous public that saw the image. The contestant Rhian mentioned she knew Yogi Bear as a popular one, and once the round was over, she mentioned how he was one of the ones she loved watching when she was younger.
• In the Muppets Character Encyclopedia book, Bobo is referred to as being "less smart than the average bear."
• In the Transformers: Robots in Disguise episode "The Trouble with Fixit," after fighting a bear, Sideswipe tells Jetstorm and Slipstream they should get out of the woods before "Yogi" shows up again.
• In the British movie Adult Life Skills, the main character Anna says Yogi was a moral nihilist for stealing picnics.
• In the Teen Titans Go! episode "Who's Laughing Now," Beast Boy learns to live like a bear which involves stealing picnic baskets, and he believes picnic basket is pronounced "pick-a-nick" basket and gets into an argument with the rest of the Teen Titans in how it's pronounced.
• In the Comic Book Men episode "Wurst Episode Ever," Walt asks the staff what their official animal watchdog would be for the Stash, with Ming's reply being Yogi, which Walt thinks is a terrible idea because all he does is steal picnic baskets.
• In the July 15, 2019 episode of the UK game show The 100K Drop, the duo contestants Oli and Cat choose the topic of "Fictional bears" over "Hikes," with the question being "Which of these fictional bears is usually depicted wearing nothing at all?" Oli and Cat then had to choose Yogi, Fozzie (from Muppets), Bungle (from Rainbow), and Rupert (from Rubert Bear). Cat knew that it wasn't Yogi.
  • In the same week, this scene was watched in "Episode 6" (series 1) of Celebrity Gogglebox. Shaun Ryder pointed out that it can't be Yogi because he wears a hat.
• In the 31st Treehouse of Horror segment "Into the Homer-verse" of The Simpsons, one of the many Homers features a homer named Homer-Barbera, who changes into a parody of Yogi Bear and goes "Hey Boo Boo, let's go steal a pic a nic meal!"
• In the Disney+ film Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Yogi has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• In The Jackbox Party Pack 8 game "Wheel of Enormous Proportions", a question you can get is "Pick all characters from Hanna-Barbera" where Yogi is listed as one of the options.
• In the Bargain Hunt episode "Christmas Special - Malvern 27," fiberglass rubbish bin lids shaped like Yogi, Huckleberry, and Boo Boo were found at a car boot sale by the red team who bought the Yogi one for £110, which they sold at auction for £80. The loss of this particular item resulted in them losing to the blue team.
• In the Hailey's On It! episode "The Umpire Strikes Back," Scott first makes a reference to Yogi Berra by saying "It ain't over till it's over", and then says that he stole "pic a nic" baskets, which is a direct reference to Yogi Bear.

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• "Episode Two" (series 2): On Cartoon Crimewatch, Nick Russ reports the theft of a picnic basket on Easter Sunday. In a reenactment, Yogi orders Boo Boo to provide a distraction for him, so that he 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.
• "Episode Seven" (series 2): On The Jerry Springer Show, Jerry Springer has Yogi and his nephew (yes, nephew) Boo Boo on the show as Yogi wants to confess that he has been having an affair with Ranger Smith (and I thought the nephew relation was bad enough). Boo Boo doesn't like this and is concerned for Yogi's girlfriend, Cindy. But Yogi feels powerless against Ranger Smith's "picnic basket," and calls Cindy a "trailer trash hoe." Boo Boo can't hear anymore and responds with, "Talk to the paw, cos the face ain't listening!" As Yogi and Boo Boo bicker, Jerry closes the show with his "Final Thoughts," that if you go into the woods be careful because you'll be in for a big surprise.
• "Episode Four" (series 9): Politician Iain Duncan Smith wants cartoon characters to stop sneaking into the UK through "the channel" of Nickelodeon. Smith shows a scene that has Yogi telling Boo Boo he has an idea to steal a picnic basket, which according to Smith will lead to cartoon bears the running of prostitutes and hiring a vicious crack empire on the streets of London.

Full House

• "The Return of Grandma," it is a Saturday morning and Stephanie wants to watch Bugs Bunny, but Joey who would prefer to watch Yogi Bear, says Bugs Bunny is kid's stuff and that every episode is the same, but Stephanie argues that it is the same thing with Yogi always stealing picnic baskets. When Danny wants to talk to Joey in the kitchen, he makes sure Stephanie tells him what he has missed, even though Joey has it all recorded anyway, but he likes to watch it live. Joey then spends the rest of the morning watching Yogi. It also distracts the rest of the family from cleaning up.
• "Sisterly Love:" After learning she doesn't have to read out loud the directions for her upcoming cereal commercial, Stephanie wonders if Yogi Bear has this much trouble acting.
• "Fraternity Reunion:" Jesse says he hid in a swamp from a horde of bees from what he saw in a Yogi Bear cartoon, but Yogi was wrong.
• "Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Girl Gone?:" When Jesse wants Joey to stop bothering while he is working in his studio, Joey says he will watch Yogi Bear.
• "The Devil Made Me Do It:" Michelle plays out her own fictional talk show with her toy cassette and microphone, adding Yogi as one of her guests, who she does an impression of when she says, "I'm smarter than the average bear."

The Ren & Stimpy Show

Main article: The Ren & Stimpy Show

• "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 Stimpy wearing a collar and necktie ala Yogi.
• "Ren's Retirement:" The worm who eats both Ren and Stimpy in the end wears an outfit similar to early Hanna-Barbera funny animal characters, namely Yogi, while his voice and mannerisms are clearly a parody of Fred Flintstone.
• "Stupid Sidekick Union:" Ren sets up an audition casting call from the Scab Sidekick Union to replace Stimpy after he walks out, which includes a merger between Boo Boo and Yogi, Squiddly Diddly lookalike, and a merger between Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone.

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Saturday Night Live

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• "Robert Klein/Bonnie Raitt:" Klein imitates the general idea of a friendly cartoon bear in his monologue, and apparently chooses Yogi because he says, "Hi, Boo Boo."
• "Rob Lowe/Eminem:" In a skit about a fictional Crime TV program called Pros & Cons, the participants talk about the ethics of Mystery Inc. taking the law into their own hands (which includes Scooby and Shaggy themselves), with the next episode's topic planning to "examine the concept of victims' rights in the theft of pic-a-nic baskets."

Sesame Street

• "Episode 2129:" Preparing for Miles's first trip to the park, Gordon and Susan pack everything he should need in his stroller, including a Yogi plush doll.
• "Episode 3908:" After Baby Bear suggests that Telly can find another computer at Hooper's Store, Telly says he's brilliant, which Baby is all too happy to agree with him by and responding, "Well, I'm smarter than the average bear."
• "Episode 4055:" After the birth of Papa and Mama Bear's second child, Gordon asks if they she has a name, with Papa looking back into The Best Book of Bear Names Ever for suggestions, coming back with Yogi Bear, which Mama turns down, and then Boo Boo, which everyone turns down.

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The Simpsons

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• "The Day the Violence Died:" Roger Myers, Jr. tries to defend himself in court by explaining that most animation plagiarizes existing properties or people; in Yogi's case it is Art Carney and possibly Yogi Berra.
• "Much Apu About Nothing:" When an angry mob goes to the mayor after the town is overrun with an infestation of bears, Moe adds, "And these ones are smarter than the average bear. They stole my 'pic-a-nic' basket."
• "When You Dish Upon a Star:" Homer dreams he's Yogi/Homie, with Bart as Boo-Boo/Bart-Bart. Homie is enthusiastic about swiping another "pic-a-nic" basket, when Ranger Smith/Ranger Ned pops up and asks him to stay away, which angers Homie into mauling him. Bart-Bart warns him off, but backs off when Homie asks Bart-Bart if he wants some too.
• "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington:" To get Krusty back on track when he runs for congressman, Homer tells Krusty he lent down the sacred document, which in reality is a kid's menu with an activity on the back where the goal is to help Yogi find the Washington Monument.
• "Don't Fear the Roofer:" After Dr. Hibbert gives Homer electric shock therapy when Homer is the only one to see Ray Romano, he asks Homer who he sees in the room, which Homer jokingly says that he can see Dr. Hibbert, Marge, and Yogi Bear.
• "Treehouse of Horror XXXI:" In the "Into the Homer-verse" segment (a parody of the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), Homer accidentally releases Homer-Barbera, who was in the middle of getting Boo Boo to steal a "pic-a-nic meal" with him. Upon introducing himself to Homer, he says he's "smarter than the average Homer." Homer tells him he sounds like Art Carney, something Homer-Barbera doesn't want his estate to know about. After meeting Disney Princess Homer, a crow steals his crown, causing Homer-Barbera to shapeshift into a parody of Snagglepuss.
• "Treehouse of Horror XXI:" In the "Tweenlight" segment, Edmund takes Lisa up into a tree in the forest, where down below, Yogi happily walks along with Ranger Smith's head in a basket.
• "Marge the Meanie:" At the Comic Book Guy's shop, there is a poster of Booboo Fett, a parody of Disney+ series The Book of Boba, with Boo Boo as the title character, co-starring Yogi as a Darth Vader-type and Ranger Smith.

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Whose Line Is It Anyway? (US)

• November 21, 2001: A game of "Press Conference" had Colin Mochrie as Yogi announcing he killed Boo Boo. The host, Drew Carrey, points out that the audience may not like Boo Boo, as they cheered at the fact he was killed.
• January 31, 2002: A game of "Questionable Impersonations" had Brad Sherwood asking Boo Boo when Mr. Ed's wife was due, with Ryan Stiles as Mr. Ed believing that Yogi was the doctor.