50 Fun Facts About Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear's voice began as an impression of which actor, who played Ed Norton on The Honeymooners?

Art Carney's sewer worker Ed Norton gave Yogi his sound; the bear's voice mannerisms broadly mimic the character. Carney's co-star Jackie Gleason played bus driver Ralph Kramden.

Yogi Rock, a boulder named after Yogi Bear because it looked like a bear's head, sits on which world?

Mars is home to Yogi Rock, found by the Pathfinder mission in 1997. The Sojourner rover drove up to the boulder and analysed what it was made of.

Which Ottawa-raised comedian voiced the title bear in the 2010 film Yogi Bear?

Dan Aykroyd said he grew up watching Yogi on dark winter afternoons in Ottawa. For the film he tried to evoke the old Catskills comedy rhythms behind the original voice.

Which singer voiced Boo-Boo in the 2010 film Yogi Bear, turning up with the voice already prepared?

Justin Timberlake had been imitating cartoon characters since he was a boy learning to sing. His Boo-Boo is Yogi's best friend and, at times, the voice of reason.

For over ten years, Yogi Bear was California's mascot for an April campaign on preparing for what?

Earthquakes were Yogi's cause each April as the face of California's Earthquake Preparedness Month. The campaign handed out instructional comics and toured a Quakey Shakey Van exhibit.

Yogi Bear lent his name in 1968 to a restaurant chain built around which fast food?

Fried chicken with a honey-flavoured recipe was the draw at Yogi Bear's Honey Fried Chicken, a bid to rival Kentucky Fried Chicken. The chain faded in the 1970s, though one branch in South Carolina long outlived it.

The series on which Yogi Bear debuted in 1958 became the first animated program to win which award?

An Emmy went to Yogi's first home in 1960, a first for any animated program. His segment proved so popular that he was given a series of his own the following year.

Which item of Yogi Bear's outfit let animators keep his body still and redraw only his head?

His collar was a Hanna-Barbera cost-cutting device shared by several of the studio's characters. Shortcuts like it cut a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 drawings to around 2,000.

Jellystone Park's forests in the 2010 film Yogi Bear were actually filmed in which country?

New Zealand stood in for Jellystone, with filming at the Lake Whakamaru Reserve in Waikato. Shooting in the Southern Hemisphere's summer spared the production a six-month wait.

Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts opened their first campground in 1969 in which US state?

Wisconsin got the first one, at Sturgeon Bay, after founder Doug Haag overheard his children watching Yogi cartoons. The chain grew to more than 75 franchised campgrounds.

Which voice actor played Yogi Bear from 1958 until 1988, and also voiced Quick Draw McGraw?

Daws Butler originated Yogi and stayed with him for three decades, bowing out with a 1988 TV movie. He personally taught his successor how to perform the bear.

Which actor voiced both Boo-Boo and Ranger Smith opposite Yogi Bear, and later Scooby-Doo?

Don Messick gave the ranger something close to his own speaking voice and was still playing both parts in the 1990s. His other roles ranged from Papa Smurf to Muttley.

Yogi Bear first appeared in 1958 as a supporting segment on the show of which Hanna-Barbera star?

Huckleberry Hound was the billed star, but Yogi soon outshone him and left for a series of his own in 1961. The Hound's show also featured the mice Pixie and Dixie and the cat Mr. Jinks.

Which parasol-carrying bear with a Southern accent is Yogi Bear's on-again, off-again girlfriend?

Cindy usually chases Yogi while he dodges her advances, though he is just as often shown returning her affection. She rarely joins in his raids on campers' lunches.

Which pink mountain lion with a love of the theatre had his own segment on The Yogi Bear Show?

Snagglepuss announces his own exits like stage directions and narrates his troubles to the audience. His voice was modelled on Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion of The Wizard of Oz.

Which duckling, guarded by a dog named Chopper, starred in his own segment of The Yogi Bear Show?

Yakky Doodle keeps wandering into danger, usually in the shape of Fibber Fox or Alfy Gator. He was voiced by Jimmy Weldon, a former children's television host and ventriloquist.

Which cereal maker sponsored The Yogi Bear Show in 1961, as it had the series where Yogi began?

Kellogg's first backed Yogi after Joseph Barbera pitched his debut series to its executives in Chicago. Barbera recalled facing a room of forty-five people for the first sales pitch of his career.

Which con-artist character took over Yogi Bear's old slot when Yogi left for his own series in 1961?

Hokey Wolf, a schemer voiced as an impression of Phil Silvers, filled the gap with his bowler-hatted sidekick Ding-A-Ling. He was created because Yogi's popularity had earned the bear a promotion.

Baseball's Yogi Berra, whose nickname Yogi Bear's name echoes, played all but one season for which team?

New York Yankees catcher Berra objected to the cartoon's name, but Hanna-Barbera insisted the likeness was a coincidence. Few in the animation business believed it.

In the 1963 episode The Swedish Visitors, Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo steal a picnic basket from which family?

The Flintstones lose their lunch to the bears in a crossover cameo, with Fred and Wilma as the victims. Both cartoons came from the same studio, Hanna-Barbera.

In the 1964 film Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, to which zoo does Ranger Smith arrange to ship Yogi?

San Diego Zoo never receives him: Yogi tricks a bear named Corn Pone into travelling to California in his place. He then stays behind to raid the park in secret.

In Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, what must Yogi's girlfriend perform for the Chizzling Brothers' circus?

A high-wire act is born when the circus dog Mugger frightens her onto some telephone wires. Yogi and Boo-Boo slip out of Jellystone to rescue her.

In Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, under what alias does Yogi secretly steal food all over Jellystone Park?

The Brown Phantom fools Ranger Smith, who takes him for a bear-like vigilante hired to replace Yogi. Everyone else believes Yogi has left the park for good.

Which pop singer supplied Yogi's singing voice for one song in the 1964 film Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!?

James Darren sang Ven-e, Ven-o, Ven-a for Yogi, while Bill Lee handled the bear's other three songs. The speaking part stayed with Yogi's regular television voice.

In the 2010 film Yogi Bear, Mayor Brown plans to raise money by opening Jellystone Park to what?

Logging would rescue the mayor's bankrupt Franklin City and bankroll his run for governor. Yogi, Boo-Boo and Ranger Smith join forces to stop him.

In the 2010 film Yogi Bear, which rare pet of Boo-Boo's gives Jellystone Park legal protection?

A turtle of the endangered frog-mouthed kind lives in the park, so the law protects its home. It ends the film as Jellystone's main attraction.

Which actor plays the live-action Ranger Smith opposite the animated bears in the 2010 film Yogi Bear?

Tom Cavanagh plays the head ranger, who falls for a visiting documentary maker while fighting to keep the park open.

Who plays Rachel, the documentary maker who wins Ranger Smith's heart in the 2010 film Yogi Bear?

Anna Faris plays the filmmaker, whose hidden camera, worn by Boo-Boo, records the mayor's confession. The footage is shown on a giant screen at his own press conference.

In the 2010 film Yogi Bear, which stunt by the bears wrecks Jellystone Park's centennial festival?

Water skiing goes wrong when Yogi's cape catches fire and sends fireworks into the crowd. The fiasco gets the park shut and its head ranger demoted to a polluted city park.

What had Yogi Bear always been doing at Christmas time before the 1980 special Yogi's First Christmas?

Hibernating is cut short when music from Jellystone Lodge wakes Yogi and Boo-Boo. Yogi ends up working there as a bellhop and is later promoted to chief of security.

Which contest does Yogi Bear clumsily win at Jellystone Lodge in the special Yogi's First Christmas?

Figure skating was meant to humiliate him: the lodge owner's spoiled nephew, Snively, tricks Yogi into entering. Yogi stumbles his way to the judges' highest marks.

In Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper, Yogi hides in a department store dressed as whom?

Santa Claus is his cover after escaping Jellystone, with Boo-Boo posing as an elf. A tycoon's lonely daughter takes the disguise for the real thing and asks for time with her father.

In Yogi's Great Escape, who phones Yogi Bear in mid-air to say Jellystone Park will stay open?

The President makes the call after Yogi's hot air balloon snags on a skyscraper's antenna. Yogi had fled in a home-made Supercar when the park's closure meant he would be sent to a zoo.

In Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears, what do aliens make of Yogi to take over Jellystone?

Clones of Yogi and Boo-Boo are sent to overrun the park while the real pair are held on Planet Daxson. A baffled Ranger Smith locks up one pair, then spots three more.

Where does Ranger Smith threaten to send Yogi Bear in both a 1988 TV movie and Yogi the Easter Bear?

Siberia is the ranger's ultimate threat: in the Easter special he means the Siberian Circus. He fears his own boss will banish him there too if the park's Easter Jamboree flops.

The 1972 TV movie Yogi's Ark Lark, which led to Yogi's Gang, was made to raise awareness of what?

The environment is in such a state that Yogi and friends set off in a flying ark to find an unspoiled home. They end up heading back to clean up their own.

Which Hanna-Barbera character sends Yogi Bear and friends on their missions in Yogi's Treasure Hunt?

Top Cat assigns the hunts, while Ranger Smith acts as field commander and makes sure Yogi does his share. It was the last series in which Yogi's original voice actor played him.

Which villain and his dog Muttley try to beat Yogi Bear to the loot in Yogi's Treasure Hunt?

Dick Dastardly sails a rival ship, the Dirty Tricks, and lives up to its name at every turn. The riddle-solving series ran for 27 episodes from 1985.

What is the name of the ship Yogi Bear and his friends sail in the series Yogi's Treasure Hunt?

S.S. Jelly Roger carries the crew around the world, solving riddles that point the way to each treasure. The series was first shown in 1985 within The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera.

Which newcomer takes Boo-Boo's place as Yogi's partner in Yogi's Space Race and Galaxy Goof-Ups?

Scare Bear, a small, fuzzy bear who is afraid of almost everything, was voiced by Joe Besser. The two 1978 series are the only Yogi shows in which Boo-Boo never appears.

Which team of cheats competes against the Yogi Yahooeys and the Scooby Doobies in Laff-A-Lympics?

The Really Rottens usually threw away a lead with a last-minute blunder, though their cheating twice won them the day. Yogi's all-animal team took seven victories.

Yo Yogi!, the 1991 NBC series, reimagined Yogi Bear and his friends as crime fighters of what age?

Teenagers was the pitch: Yogi's gang work together as junior detectives solving mysteries. NBC dropped the show when it scrapped its Saturday cartoons in favour of live-action programmes.

In the 1991 series Yo Yogi!, where do Yogi Bear and his friends hang out and run a detective agency?

A shopping mall, Jellystone Mall, houses their Lost and Found agency, L.A.F. for short. Its security guard, Officer Smith, supervises their cases.

Which actor, trained by Yogi's original performer, took over the role in The New Yogi Bear Show?

Greg Burson inherited the bear in 1988, months after his mentor's death, and based his version on the early cartoons he had watched as a child. He also took over Mr. Magoo.

Which streaming service launched Jellystone!, the 2021 series that reimagines Yogi Bear as a surgeon?

HBO Max released the series, which gathers Hanna-Barbera's characters into one town where each has a job. It ran for three seasons and 77 episodes.

Which creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show directed the 1999 Yogi Bear parody Boo Boo Runs Wild?

John Kricfalusi made it at his studio Spümcø for Cartoon Network, where it aired beside a companion short about Ranger Smith. In it the mild sidekick rebels against the ranger's rules and turns wild.

A 1987 TV movie sends Yogi Bear flying in the Spruce Goose, a giant plane built by which billionaire?

Howard Hughes built the real aircraft, the H-4 Hercules, which was kept on show in a dome at Long Beach. In the cartoon, Yogi's tour group gets locked inside and the plane magically takes off.

Which group reached the Billboard top ten in 1960 with a novelty song named after Yogi Bear?

The Ivy Three took Yogi to number 8 on the Hot 100, singing in a voice that mimicked the bear. The hit arrived a year before Yogi had a show of his own.

What is the only item of clothing worn by Boo-Boo, the small bear who acts as Yogi Bear's conscience?

A bow tie is all Boo-Boo wears as he warns that the ranger will not approve of Yogi's schemes. He is Yogi's constant companion, not his son, as people sometimes assume.

Which publisher released the first Yogi Bear comic books, starting in 1959 in its Four Color line?

Dell Comics began with a Four Color issue in 1959 and later sent Yogi to college, the Marines and the United Nations. Gold Key took over the title in 1962.