Yo Yogi!
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Yo Yogi! was an animated series from Hanna-Barbera Productions that aired on NBC Saturday Mornings during the 1991-92 season, and was the last television series to feature or star Yogi Bear.
It featured a teenage version of Yogi Bear and the other popular Hanna-Barbera characters of his era, including Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Yogi's own sidekick, Boo-Boo and Yogi's admirer, Cindy Bear. The characters hung out at Jellystone Mall, owned by Doggie Daddy, where Ranger Smith worked as a security guard, Hokey Wolf works as a mayor and Snooper and Blabber working as detectives. Ranger Smith is now Officer Smith.
Yogi and the gang ran an agency called LAF: Lost and Found, where they act as detectives trying to solve mysteries. Dick Dastardly and his side kick Muttley would cause trouble for Yogi and his gang. Magilla Gorilla, Atom Ant, Top Cat, Quick Draw McGraw and his sidekick Baba Looey, Pixie and Dixie, Secret Squirrel and his buddy Morocco Mole, Peter Potamus and his friend So So and Wally Gator were also featured as teenagers. But the other teenagers who were causing trouble with Dick Dastardly were grouchy Mr. Jinks and Roxie Bear.
Not entirely unlike the original Yogi Bear, the teenage incarnation liked to eat at Jellystone Mall.
Yo Yogi! featured episodes, or parts of episodes, in 3D, with Kellogg's Rice Krispies offering 3D glasses. Generally, the 3D scenes were chase scenes of the variety made famous by Hanna-Barbera in the Scooby-Doo series. At the beginning of these 3D sequences, Yogi would spin his hat atop his head, as a cue to viewers to don their 3D glasses.
The show did not do well in ratings, and was cancelled in the spring of 1992 in order for NBC to reformat its Saturday Morning schedule to teenage audiences and to launch the Saturday edition of The Today Show. It last aired in syndication as part The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera.
