Yogi Bear returned in the 1994 syndicated special, Yogi The Easter Bear.
It's typical Yogi nonsense with an Easter theme, and also the final time that Don Messick would voice Ranger Smith (Yogi & Boo Boo would return in Scooby's Arabian Nights five months later, for Messick's swan song).
Jellystone Park is holding an Easter jamboree, which brings the Supreme Commissioner (Gregg Berger), and as if Smith wasn't on edge before, worried about Yogi spoiling the party, he's got even more reason. Worse, he entrusts a legally blind ranger, Mortimer (Jonathan Winters) to guard the Easter candy. Uh-oh.......
Edit, 9/20/19: The video has been deleted by Dailymotion. If/when it returns, we'll bring it back.
If Hanna-Barbera was hoping to revive interest in Yogi after bombing with Yo, Yogi! three years earlier, well, I don't think it worked out. Some of the schtick is predictable, and the real villain, a crooked, greedy businessman (Charlie Adler), seemed to come out of the generic villain catalogue.
With Easter being next week, this can serve as an appetizer.
Rating: B-.
2 comments:
I recall renting this on VHS at my local library when I was younger.
I was watching this for the first time.
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