Yogi Bear is up against it this time.
His BFF and cave-mate, Boo-Boo, has reached the edges of his tolerance for rules, and decides to return to the wilds of the forest. The second of two satirical Yogi Bear specials (carded as a Ranger Smith cartoon) from maverick animator John Kricfalusi (Ren & Stimpy) bowed in 1999 on Cartoon Network, and has aired periodically on [adult swim] since that time.
Kricfalusi himself voices Boo Boo, while Stephen Worth nails a perfect mimic of Daws Butler's characterization of Yogi. Unfortunately, aside from a promising script, this has all the usual Spumco hallmarks.
The biggest problem is that Boo-Boo was miscolored. He's usually a brown bear, just like Yogi, not grey.
Two years later, Kricfalusi brought his failed Fox series, The Ripping Friends, to [adult swim], but, as documented previously, it flopped after dark, too. Undaunted, Kricfalusi brought Ren & Stimpy back two years after that, only for that to fail also.
Rating: C.
4 comments:
Speaking of Ren & Stimpy, Ren & Stimpy is going to turn 25 on August 11, 2016, along with Rugrats and Doug.
Eh, I didn't care for this short, myself. John Kkricfalusi at least got the look of the H-B characters down, but the humor was very much "Ren & Stimpy-fied". The short making fun of how Ranger Smith's look in the original shorts was constantly changing was the only thing that I laughed at while watching those.
In better hands, it probably comes across better. Team Spumco's handling of the Jetsons and Yogi might've turned off enough people, such that when [adult swim] decided to abuse other H-B properties, they did it themselves......
Am I the only one who thinks John does a lousy Boo-Boo? Sounds way too much like Ren...
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