Breezly Bruin (Howard Morris) schemes to get into the Camp Frostbite theatre to see a movie. Of course, while Sneezly (Mel Blanc) stands idly by, Colonel Fuzzby (John Stephenson) has his hands full with the mooching bear in "No Place Like Nome":
Maybe Breezly shouldn't have bothered with the parachute.....
Rating: B-.
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Breezly & Sneezly was basically Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo in the arctic. One criticism that I have with Hanna-Barbera studios is that whatever was a successful formula would be repeated several times over. Yeah, go with a formula that you know works. I understand that, but many of the H-B characters from this era were pretty much interchangeable. Just slight variations on the same idea.
Would Lippy & Hardy be another Yogi & Boo-Boo ripoff, then? Or Hokey Wolf?
Hokey Wolf was kind of a Yogi Bear ripoff, but it was also one of H-B's attempts at an animated Phil Silvers Show but with anthropomorphic animals. The other one of course being Top Cat. Hokey's voice and mannerisms were clearly patterned after those of Phil Silvers.
While Yogi's voice was modeled after Ed Wynn. You might say that 1971's Hair Bear fell closer to Hokey/TC than to Yogi.
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