Yogi Bear

This article is about the character. For the 2010 film of this name, see Yogi Bear (film). For the original show and all other works featuring the character, see Yogi Bear (disambiguation).
"Jellystone" redirects here. For the animated HBO Max series of the same name, see Jellystone!
Not to be confused with Yogi Berra.

Yogi Bear
The Yogi Bear Show character
First appearance"Yogi Bear's Big Break" (The Huckleberry Hound Show, 1958)
Created byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Designed byEd Benedict[1]
Kali Fontecchio (Jellystone!)[2]
Portrayed byDick DeBartolo (To Tell the Truth)[3][4]
Voiced by
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In-universe information
SpeciesBrown bear
GenderMale
Significant others

Yogi Bear is an anthropomorphic animal character who has appeared in numerous comic books, animated television shows, and films. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show.

Yogi Bear is the first breakout character in animated television[citation needed]; he was created by Hanna-Barbera and was eventually more popular than ostensible star Huckleberry Hound.[18] In January 1961, he was given his own show, The Yogi Bear Show, sponsored by Kellogg's, which included the segments Snagglepuss and Yakky Doodle.[19] Hokey Wolf replaced his segment on The Huckleberry Hound Show.[20] A musical animated feature film, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!, was released in 1964.

Yogi was one of the several Hanna-Barbera characters to have a collar. This allowed animators to keep his body relatively static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke – one of the ways Hanna-Barbera cut costs, reducing the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000.[21]

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  18. ^ Mallory, Michael. Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1998. ISBN 0-88363-108-3. p. 44.
  19. ^ Sennett, Ted. The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. ISBN 0-670-82978-1. pp. 63–64.
  20. ^ Sennett, p. 52.
  21. ^ "Hanna Barbera's golden age of animation", BBC, December 19, 2006