Throwaway Inter-series Referencing in H-B Cartoons

[Howard Fein]

Until 1972's YOGI'S ARK LARK and subsequent revival/reunions, there weren't many instances H-B characters from different series interacting much- unlike the WB:bugs1: :daffy: :coyote: or Disney theatricals, which regularly mixed and matched stars in their classic shorts. OK, the 'new' (1961) YOGI BEAR SHOW had some bumpers between shorts or leading into commercials in which the different characters interacted with each other. These are extremely rare today, having been stricken from most syndicated and cable prints to make room for more commercials.:mad:

But if you listen carefully, there are many quick gag references inserted into the dialogue in which one character mentions another. This was especially the case in the early-to-mid sixties when there was more of a need to 'plug' the various shows. What I remember off the top of my head:

When the tourist season is over, Yogi looks forward to going into a tourist cabin so he can watch THE HUCKLEBERRY HOUND SHOW.

Wilma and Betty are watching THE YOGI CAVEBEAR SHOW, which is not shown or heard. But at the end, a 'human' host intones in a dignified manner "Thank you, Yogi Cavebear," as though it were a news or variety program.

Kenny Countdown, delinquent classmate of Elroy Jetson, is watching the "three-thousandth rerun" of THE FLINTSTONES on his wrist TV. A few seconds of footage of Fred and Barney in a swimming hole made especially for the episode (by the same animator as the ambient JETSON action, Carlo Vinci- so don't go crazy watching FLINTSTONE episodes looking for it:p ) are visible.

Magilla, costumed as the Purple Mask, does the old stop-a-speeding-bullet gag ("I learned this trick from Sheriff Bing-Bing-Bi-i-i-ing Ricochet Rabbit.") with the expected 1960s comedy cartoon results.

An outlaw's reaction to Droopalong's typically impotent bullet: "If I want laughs, I'll watch THE MAGILLA GORILLA SHOW."

After taking 'pep pills' (yes, that's how they were referred to in the 1965 episode), Mushmouse discovers he can dig out just like Yippie, Yappie and Ya-HOOO-ey- with a snatch of their theme heard in the background. (This episode was actually withheld from the MAGILLA/POTAMUS syndication package for many years due to its obvious performance-enhancing drug theme!)

Breezely and Sneezely's defective TV causes them to miss THE PETER POTAMUS SHOW.

While Secret and Morocco wait for the police to pick up Yellow Pinkie, they watch THE ATOM ANT SHOW.

In a BANANA SPLIT sketch, one of them throws a baseball offscreen. It hits a 1968-animated Fred Flintstone.

PENELOPE PITSTOP's narrator: "Why- it's the Hooded Claw!"
CLAW: "Who were you expecting? Dick Dastardly?"

Alexandra, after being pummeled due to being mistaken for the bad guy: "Who were you expecting? Scooby-Doo?"

As for on-screen, Yogi made cameos in no less than three times by 1963: in shorts starring Augie Doggie and Snagglepuss, and a FLINTSTONES episode.

Of course, after ARK LARK, all bets were off. All the early 1958-62 H-B crew freely co-starred and cameoed with one another through YOGI'S GANG, LAFF-A-LYMPICS (combined with many old and newly established 1970s characters, and with 'guest commentator' appearances by Fred and Barney- hence totally destroying any timeline continuity!), SPACE RACE, TREASURE HUNT, FENDER BENDER 500, OY! YOGI, and several syndicated TV movies. The notion that the Hanna-Barbera universe is a cohesive unit has continued in HARVEY BIRDMAN: ATTORNEY AT LAW.

The SCOOBY-DOO franchise started indulging in cross-pollination with the one-hour movies in 1972-73. Obviously lacking enough mainstream actors for guest stars, there were three episodes with the Harlem Globetrotters and one each (all in the second abbreviated season of originals) with the casts of JOSIE, SPEED BUGGY and JEANNIE- the latter two having just bowed elsewhere on CBS' Saturday AM schedule. (Plug, plug!:rolleyes: ) A case could also be made for Laurel and Hardy, who had a syndicated H-B series six years earlier and were still presumably under contract- Larry Harmon and Jim McGeorge reprised their roles. (That L&H were long dead by 1972 doesn't seem to faze the gang in the least- but then they're used to ghosts!:p )

On-screen cameos and cross-references became somewhat more frequent beginning in the late seventies:

At the end of a DYNOMUTT episode (the first several of which gave as much screen time to the Meddling Kids as B.F. and Dog Blunder), ABC Satuday AM neighbor Mumbly appears.

Robonic Stooge Curly plasters Moe to the wall with Woofer and Wimper wallpaper.

In a POUND PUPPIES spoof of James Bond and Hitchcock is 'Mount Muttmore', whose four heads were Huck, Augie, Muttley and Scooby-Doo. (The latter comes to life to say "Gesundheit" and emit trademark laugh.)

Yogi and young Freddie Flintstone briefly appear on TV sets in different PUP NAMED SCOOBY episodes.

Many CN originals throw in both cameos and guest appearances by the classic characters: the Meddling Kids in a JOHNNY BRAVO; Dynomutt and Blue Falcon in :dexter: ; George Jetson in :bubbles: :blossom: :bcup: ; Yogi in a BILLY & MANDY. A :dexter: episode set in a pizza party joint had dozens of the old characters as those obnoxious life-size animatronic singing puppets.

As for other studios:

There was some limited Lantz crossovers. Two 1940s shorts, MUSICAL MOMENTS FROM CHOPIN and BANQUET BUSTERS co-starred :woody: and :andy: . Interestingly, Woody was 'spun off' from Andy, having guested in one short. To say :woody: eclipsed :andy: in popularity is quite the understatement. Regular :chilly: foil Smedley appeared in two 1962 :woody: shorts, ROOM AND BORED and CARELESS CARETAKER. :woody: cameoed in at least one later :chilly: short, and in one Inspector Willoughby (as a jack-in-the-box!). This may be more a revival than a cross-pollination, but :woody: 's early foil Wally Walrus reappeared (extremely redesigned and with different voice if not personality) in the 1961 :chilly: short CLASH AND CARRY.

Not much crossover in Terrytoons, DFE, Famous or MGM. There may have been a Casper and/or a Herman & Katnip short in which Baby Huey, Little Audrey and Tommy Tortoise were visible on comic book pages or animation layout sheets. The made-for-video :tomcat:& :jerry: AND THE MAGIC RING threw in what few regular MGM characters (who remained completely segregated throughout their theatrical days) there were::droopy: , Spike, Tyke and one-short Cousin Muscles.

The Jay Ward crew never seemed to interact, but for once. A SUPER CHICKEN episode concerning the Easter Bunny opens with florid Paul Frees narration "Of all the beloved characters in history-" and a still shot of the entire stable of characters (except Captain Crunch, of course!;) ), including the long-forgotten Uncle Waldo, Hippety Hopper and Fillmore. (The GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE bumpers did have some interaction between the three starring components. GEORGE: "Stay tune for more of GEORGE OF [THE] BUNGLE." TOM SLICK: "Don't you mean 'jungle', George?" SUPER CHICKEN: "He was right the first time." Cue standard Ward rim shot of ascending bass guitar note.:D )

Hands down the most awkward character crossovers had to be Filmation's syndicated repackaging of several 1970s Saturday AM series under the GROOVIE GHOULIES & FRIENDS umbrella. Leading in and out of commercials were newly-animated bumpers mixing the Ghoulies with characters from the shows being rerun: MY FAVORITE MARTIANS, LASSIE'S RESCUE RANGERS, NEW GILLIGAN, WALDO KITTY and the three animated UNCLE CROC segments M*U*S*H, FRAIDY CAT and WACKY & PACKY. The bumpers were not only extremely lame (Wolfie 'mailing' a howl to Gilligan; Waldo trying to teach Frankie his various hero manuevers), but awkward as all get out. The insertion of a laugh track reinforced this notion.

Best recent H-B crossover: In a SEALAB 2021, the TV crew doing a day-in-the-life film are none other than heavily 1970s-clad Butch Cassidy and Wally- although there's no mention or acknowledgment of their Saturday AM identies!

[Brainatra]

Yogi's prehistoric version also was mentioned in the 1990's Tv-movie "Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby"---while in Hollyrock, a tour bus guide mentions "Hanna-Barberian Productions, the home of Yogi the Cave Bear".

Also mentioned in the same movie:
-a film starring Capt. Caveman is playing at "Granite's" Chinese Theater (Grauman's Chinese Theater...get it?).
- At the Hollyrock Clay Museum (Hollywood Wax Museum), there's statues of Michael Jackstone (who appeared/was mentioned in a Flintstones Kids episode)---in his "Thriller"-era garb---and Mr. Frankenstone (of the Frankenstones sketches in "The Flintstone Comedy Show"). Mentioned but not shown in the film was Michael's sister "Janet Jackstone"---Barney thinks Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm should name their kid after her if it was a girl.

-B.
Heh... "Hanna-Barberian"... it's funny because it's primitive-sounding...

[rodineisilveira]

São Paulo - SP, Brazil, June 18, 2005 (We're next of the Brazilian winter!).

Hello, HB-fanatics Howie Fein and Brainatra!

When you were remarking about the Yogi Bear's pre-historic version, I reminded of an episode from The New Yogi Bear Show (1988), titled Yogi The Cave Bear, where Yogi and Boo Boo were forced by Ranger Smith to stay in a early hibernation into their cave, when an earthquake shakes the cave and opens up a pre-historic park, which ends taking Yogi and Boo Boo to the past. There, they meet the pre-historic versions of Ranger Smith, Cindy and Yogi (of course!).
Well, this was what I've had to report here.
Ciao!

Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,

Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
Meet me on my e-mails: mailto:rodinei@starmedia.com (rodinei@starmedia.com), mailto:rodineic@excite.com (rodineic@excite.com), mailto:rodineisilveira@bol.com.br (rodineisilveira@bol.com.br) or mailto:rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com (rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com). You're always wellcome.

HEY-HEY-HEEEEEEEEEEY!

HANNA-BARBERA - FLINTSTONES - 45 YEARS

http://www.toonarific.com/pics_root/00002615/newyogishowlogo.jpg
http://www.animationconnection.com/images/tw1049l.jpg

Attention, HB-fans! The Hanna-Barbera building is saved from the demolition! Let's continue to preserve this wonderful building!

LONG LIFE FOR WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA!

:cool:

[STARTOUNZ]

Yogi and young Freddie Flintstone briefly appear on TV sets in different PUP NAMED SCOOBY episodes.Also in that same series, Yogi himself made a cameo right in the foreground in the episode "The Story Stick". Also in the Super Secret Secret Squirrel segments of 2 Stupid Dogs, he and Boo Boo (and the stupid dogs themselves) had non-speaking cameos in "Sirocco Mole". And if you ever saw "Agent Penny", they had a bar where several H-B animal crimefighters hung out. Among the cameos in that episode were Hong Kong Phooey, Undercover Elephant, as well as Snooper and Blabber who spoke to (and escaped from) Secret. Also notice the bar had portraits of other stars like Atom Ant, Dynomutt, and a few others. There was also the episode "Queen Bea" where the titled villainess dupes Penny by saying Fred Flintstone is nearby as she got the jump on her. :p


Many CN originals throw in both cameos and guest appearances by the classic characters: the Meddling Kids in a JOHNNY BRAVO; Dynomutt and Blue Falcon in :dexter: ; George Jetson in :bubbles: :blossom: :bcup: ; Yogi in a BILLY & MANDY. A :dexter: episode set in a pizza party joint had dozens of the old characters as those obnoxious life-size animatronic singing puppets.Also in Dexter's Lab, Fred and George cameoed in "Beard to be Feared", and there was a PPG ep where a kid was playing with a remote-control Speed Buggy toy car.

[Merilee]

Alexandra, after being pummeled due to being mistaken for the bad guy: "Who were you expecting? Scooby-Doo?"
One of my personal favorite in-jokes!


The notion that the Hanna-Barbera universe is a cohesive unit has continued in HARVEY BIRDMAN: ATTORNEY AT LAW.

Yeah..in insulting, disgusting, and degrading ways! Any Hanna Barbara fan wuld be disgusted just looking at ONE ep! (Scuse me, Mark and Debbie were not involved, Boo-Boo and Yogi were not gay..and I am SICK of saying this..SHAGGY IS NOT A POTHEAD!!!

The SCOOBY-DOO franchise started indulging in cross-pollination with the one-hour movies in 1972-73. Obviously lacking enough mainstream actors for guest stars, there were three episodes with the Harlem Globetrotters and one each (all in the second abbreviated season of originals) with the casts of JOSIE, SPEED BUGGY and JEANNIE- the latter two having just bowed elsewhere on CBS' Saturday AM schedule. (Plug, plug!:rolleyes: ) A case could also be made for Laurel and Hardy, who had a syndicated H-B series six years earlier and were still presumably under contract- Larry Harmon and Jim McGeorge reprised their roles. (That L&H were long dead by 1972 doesn't seem to faze the gang in the least- but then they're used to ghosts!:p )!
THAT was the best cross-pollination eps, I think! Thank you!


Best recent H-B crossover: In a SEALAB 2021, the TV crew doing a day-in-the-life film are none other than heavily 1970s-clad Butch Cassidy and Wally- although there's no mention or acknowledgment of their Saturday AM identies!
Uh, excuse me, must I point out my avatar? How is that the best?! Sealab is disgusting, stupid, degrading, and the way they portrayed these wonderful charatcers (you forgot hillbilly Steffy) is absolutely terrible! I ask, how is THAT the best? At least with the New Scooby Movies they treated the guest stars with respect.
Merilee
:cool:

[Steve Carras]

She's right...as soemone who's actually seen SL2020.

Okay, I'll add my two cents..a MAGILLA GORILLA epsidoe had Magilla on a toy sacuer (i beleive) going 9into a dept.store elevator and someone saying something about Yogi Bear, who in a FLINTSTONES Fred tells Wilma he'll call on if (sarcastically, of course) he wants laughs.

NO ONE seems to have mentioned it --but the "little fellerYakky Doodle,the little duckling with a high Donald Duck voice, turns up (voiced NOT by Jimmy Weldon, his audio portrayer, but by a guy named Red Coffee, and holding over as voiced by him from the then-recenent cat and mouse MGM theatricals. Appeared on YOGI, a PIXIE/DIXIE and a LOOPY DeLOOP with screen Credit 9as all other did..bakc then studios definitely didn't really give a sixpence about much onscreen voice credit so you'll saw Don Messick and Daws Butler on HUCKLEBERRY'sd 1960s syndication version and possibly on the credits of the original,certainly no one else even though Hal Smtih is the voice of the outlaws who Huckleberry tries sometimes to run in.).Yakky finally got a perrmanent voice artist, Jimmy Weldon (WESBTER WEBFOOT in LA), and his own segment in the 1961 YOGI BEAR show along with SNAGLLEPUSS and later HOKEY WOLF and both reruns of the old and debuts of the new for the smarter than average bruin...who HIIMSELF alongwith those lovable Meeces P&D and Jinks were backups to HUCK in 1958!


And like others I rememebr the 1962 JETSONS when Elroy's friend in shcool's goofing off by watching the FLINTSTONES! I wonder how,m bakjc then, they managed to pull that trickery off (something that Elroy and his friend didn't as well as they found out).

[rodineisilveira]

There was some limited Lantz crossovers. Two 1940s shorts, MUSICAL MOMENTS FROM CHOPIN and BANQUET BUSTERS co-starred :woody: and :andy: . Interestingly, Woody was 'spun off' from Andy, having guested in one short. To say :woody: eclipsed :andy: in popularity is quite the understatement. Regular :chilly: foil Smedley appeared in two 1962 :woody: shorts, ROOM AND BORED and CARELESS CARETAKER. :woody: cameoed in at least one later :chilly: short, and in one Inspector Willoughby (as a jack-in-the-box!). This may be more a revival than a cross-pollination, but :woody: 's early foil Wally Walrus reappeared (extremely redesigned and with different voice if not personality) in the 1961 :chilly: short CLASH AND CARRY.São Paulo - SP, Brazil, June 20, 2005 (Winter begins tomorrow here in Brazil and on the Southern Hemisphere!).

Hi, Howie Fein!

I remember clearly from this Chilly Willy short, which counts with a special appearance of Woody Woodpecker on it.
It's titled Chilly Chums (directed by Paul J. Smith in 1967). On it, Chilly attempts to save his friend Max the Polar Bear of a hunter, named "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Clive.
The scene where we see the Woody's appearance, is when "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Clive throws a laughing gas bomb in the Max's direction, but the polar bear (who isn't so dumb) returns the bomb to the hunter's hands. Chilly enjoys to kick Clive, forcing him to swallow the gas bomb. The hunter feels the gas bomb's effect, and he begins to laugh, saying to the audiences:
"The laughing gas is making effect on me!" And he continues laughing, only that he begins to imitate the Woody's famous laughing. Woody appears seeing that pathetic scene, and irate, complains to Clive:
"Hey! This laugh is mine! It's a trade mark registered!"
And as a reaction, Woody picks the thin icy floor around Clive, sending him to the water.
And now, dear nostalgic friends, here are the memorable scenes from this short:

http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1960s/chillychums01.jpg
http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1960s/chillychums02.jpg
http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1960s/chillychums03.jpg
http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1960s/chillychums04.jpg "Hey, what's this? This laugh is mine! It's a trade mark registered!"
http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/1960s/chillychums05.jpg

Well, this was what I've had to report here.
Bye-bye!

Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,

Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
Meet me on my e-mails: mailto:rodinei@starmedia.com (rodinei@starmedia.com), mailto:rodineic@excite.com (rodineic@excite.com), mailto:rodineisilveira@bol.com.br (rodineisilveira@bol.com.br) or mailto:rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com (rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com). You're always wellcome!

LONG LIFE FOR WALTER LANTZ!

http://www.melaman2.com/cartoons/logos/chilly-logo.jpg

:cool:

[Mister Intensity]

The Spider Woman from Space Ghost appeared on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You in the Wax Phantom episode from the second season where she handed something to Shaggy and Scooby.

Didn't Ranger Smith or someone that looked like him appear on the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo episode that took place on the Native American Reservation?

Mister Intensity

[STARTOUNZ]

Didn't Ranger Smith or someone that looked like him appear on the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo episode that took place on the Native American Reservation?

Mister IntensityActually, it was Yogi, which I already said before, who was right in the foreground in the opening scene of that episode.

[rodineisilveira]

Okay, I'll add my two cents..a MAGILLA GORILLA epsidoe had Magilla on a toy sacuer (i beleive) going into a dept.store elevator and someone saying something about Yogi Bear, who in a FLINTSTONES Fred tells Wilma he'll call on if (sarcastically, of course) he wants laughs.São Paulo - SP, Brazil, June 21, 2005 (The Winter began today in Brazil [and with all that cold]).

My dear friend Steve Carras,

The Magilla Gorilla episode which you're refering to, in which Magilla appears aboard of a toy plane, is titled High Fly Guy, which was produced in 1965.
In the sequence which Magilla was flying inside a department store, there's a dialogue between the department store manager and a woman. The manager was soon talking to the lady:
"Sorry, madam. We don't sell gorillas aboard of a plane."
And when Magilla went outside the elevator, aboard of a toy plane, the woman makes a question to the manager, with a sarcastic tone:
"So, what was that? Peter Potamus on his flying balloon?"
Funny, isn't it?
Well, that's it!
Ciao!

Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,

Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
Meet me on my e-mails: mailto:rodinei@starmedia.com (rodinei@starmedia.com), mailto:rodineic@excite.com (rodineic@excite.com), mailto:rodineisilveira@bol.com.br (rodineisilveira@bol.com.br) or mailto:rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com (rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com). You're always wellcome!

"Gorilla, Magilla Gorilla for sale!"

HANNA-BARBERA - FLINTSTONES - 45 YEARS

http://www.wingnuttoons.com/magmad.jpg
http://www.animationartwork.com/images/sku5646.jpg

Attention, HB-fans! The Hanna-Barbera building is saved from the demolition! Let's continue to preserve this wonderful building!

LONG LIFE FOR WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA!

:cool:

[rodineisilveira]

Until 1972's YOGI'S ARK LARK and subsequent revival/reunions, there weren't many instances H-B characters from different series interacting much- unlike the WB:bugs1: :daffy: :coyote: or Disney theatricals, which regularly mixed and matched stars in their classic shorts. OK, the 'new' (1961) YOGI BEAR SHOW had some bumpers between shorts or leading into commercials in which the different characters interacted with each other. These are extremely rare today, having been stricken from most syndicated and cable prints to make room for more commercials.:mad:São Paulo - SP, Brazil, June 22, 2005.

Howie Fein,

It wasn't only the classical Yogi Bear Show (1960-62) which featured the bumpers between shorts or the ones which follow into commercials.
The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-62) and The Quick Draw McGraw Show (1959-62) were the two other Hanna-Barbera classics which also employed this same formula of the bumpers, where the characters who compose these two respective series, interacted with each other.
For example, in The Quick Draw McGraw Show, I found on the Internet a reference of a bumper of this show, showing Quick Draw chating with Snooper & Blabber. Here's the snapshot:

http://www.toontracker.com/huck/quick%20draw-003.jpg

And here's the storyboards of a bumper which reunites the characters from this show (Quick Draw, Baba Looey, Augie, Doggie Daddy, Snooper and Blabber), appearing together. I saw these storyboards on the Cartoon Network (Australia) site (http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.au (http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.au/)). Here are they:

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.au/asp/scrapbook/QuickDrawMcGraw/images/storybrd/bridge_1.jpg http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.au/asp/scrapbook/QuickDrawMcGraw/images/storybrd/bridge_2.jpg http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.au/asp/scrapbook/QuickDrawMcGraw/images/storybrd/bridge_3.jpg

Brilliant, aren't they?
And here are the references of the bumpers from The Huckleberry Hound Show (both from the first season [1958-59]), where Huck appears accompained of Pixie & Dixie and Yogi Bear (the two other segments from the show, on that occasion):

http://www.toontracker.com/huck/huck-1.jpg Here are Huck and Yogi, training on the shooting gallery.

http://www.toontracker.com/huck/huck-2.jpg On this bumper, Huck appears as a cartoonist, drawing Pixie and Dixie on the drawing board.

There's another reference from The Huckleberry Hound Show bumpers which's included on a post from The Big Cartoon Forum (http://forum.bcdb.com (http://forum.bcdb.com/)). On it, we see Huck, Pixie, Dixie, Mr. Jinks and Hokey Wolf together, playing baseball (this bumper is from the show's final seasons, when Hokey Wolf replaced the space left by Yogi Bear). You can see this bumper on the following address: http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=31488;search_string=;#31488. It worths a while seeing this wonderful material!
Well, this was what I've had to report here.
Ciao!

Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,

Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
Meet me on my e-mails: mailto:rodinei@starmedia.com (rodinei@starmedia.com), mailto:rodineic@excite.com (rodineic@excite.com), mailto:rodineisilveira@bol.com.br (rodineisilveira@bol.com.br) or mailto:rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com (rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com). You're always wellcome!

"Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine..."

OLÉÉÉÉÉÉ...KABONG!

HANNA-BARBERA - FLINTSTONES - 45 YEARS

http://www.hbshows.com/images/huck1.jpg http://www.hbshows.com/images/qickdrawlogo.jpg

Attention, HB-fans! The Hanna-Barbera building is saved from the demolition! Let's continue to preserve this wonderful building!

LONG LIFE FOR WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA!

:cool:

[rodineisilveira]

São Paulo - SP, Brazil, June 23, 2005.

Hello, Howie Fein!

There's a Wally Gator episode, titled Marshal Wally, where the playboy reptile recieves the visit of his fairy godmother, and he wishes to become a Western lawman.
On the scene where he recieves the visit of the fairy godmother, Wally comments:
"I've thought it was Yogi Bear!", quoting the eternal Hanna-Barbera character, known as "smarter than the average bear".
Well, that's it!
Ciao!

Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,

Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
Meet me on my e-mails: mailto:rodinei@starmedia.com (rodinei@starmedia.com), mailto:rodineic@excite.com (rodineic@excite.com), mailto:rodineisilveira@bol.com.br (rodineisilveira@bol.com.br) or mailto:rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com (rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com). You're always wellcome!

"Shoobie-doobie-doo, shoobie-doobie-doo, shoobie-doobie-doo, shoobie-doobie-doo..."

HANNA-BARBERA - FLINTSTONES - 45 YEARS

http://www.melaman2.com/cartoons/logos/wally-logo.jpg

http://pensoeudeque.weblog.com.pt/seriestv/wallygator/wallyGator.jpg

Attention, HB-fans! The Hanna-Barbera building is saved from the demolition! Let's continue to preserve this wonderful building!

LONG LIFE FOR WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA!

:cool:

[Howard Fein]

Another extraenous Yogi Bear reference occurs in the JETSONS episode Miss Solar System. When George declares Mr. Spacely as "smaaarter than the average judge", series regular Daws Butler fills in for George O'Hanlon for that part of the sentence.

Winsome Witch observes that "it's time for THE SECRET SQUIRREL SHOW." Quite a trick, considering Winnie is a supporting segment of that very series.

In the second NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIE guest-starring the Caped Crusader, the crime scene in a balloon factory. If you look carefully, you can see life-size balloons of Yogi Bear and possibly Fred Flintstone in the background.

From other studios:

In the BEATLES episode Tell Me What You See, among the many exotic creatures Ringo is turned into by a special-effects machine is none other than KFS co-worker Swee-Pea!

There were many crossover references in the title and U.S. Acres segments of GARFIELD & FRIENDS. Orson is shown wearing a nightshirt with Garfield's face on it; Booker thinks he's caught the worm but it turns out to be Odie; the classic Garfield Mistake Will Happen episode slips Orson and Wade in the background. T-shirts or nightclothes picturing characters from both segments may have popped up in BOBBY'S WORLD. (Big brother Derrick is shown wearing a pajama top with a picture of a frog character from the concurrent Film Roman production ZAZOO U that's so obscure and short-lived it's not even listed in the otherwise exhaustive Big Cartoon Database!)

Likewise, the two earliest DIC series made for syndication had a certain synergy. Some mice in a HEATHCLIFF episode watch Inspector Gadget ice-skating on TV (with the GADGET theme playing in the 'background'). Likewise, a TV set in a GADGET episode is turned off just as an apparent HEATHCLIFF cartoon is ending: all we see is an iris-out over a shrugging Riff-Raff.

[John Pannozzi]

From http://www.animationshow.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=8&t=1907&hl=

Stephen W. "bigshot" Worth shares a story from John K.'s work on the 80's Jetsons revival:

One shot to look for that I believe is still in there, iis the scene where George is riding in an elevator, and he passes a floor where a "Ranger Smith Look-Alike" party is going on. The suits were outraged that a character from one H-B show would make a cameo in a different one. They went on and on about how it "violated the world of the show". A short time later, they were doing Flintstones meet the Jetsons and limited edition cels with Top Cat shaking hands with Scooby Doo, so their outrage must not have lasted long.

[Nftnat]

In the Wossamotta U storyline from Rocky & Bullwinkle, the first game the team plays after moose & squirrel join is against Watchmaker's Institute. This turns out to be Super Chicken's alma mater.

There was a bit of discontinuity in what little Harvey Birdman I've seen. In that one where Fred Flintstone's a mobster HB wakes up with Quick-Draw McGraw's head in his bed. (an obvious ref to The Godfather) Then in the episode that was the only thing that aired on AS on election day, QD was very much alive and enforcing the law a la Dirty Harry. Poor Baba Louie, though.

The Hard Luck Duck shorts from the What a Cartoon show were blatant retreads of Yakky Doodle, done by Bill Hanna himself yet. Or was that the Dino eps.

[Brainatra]

Re: the John K "Jetsons" complaint:

From what I can tell, the Flintstones and Jetsons' world *does* include Yogi Bear---the Flintstones enjoy watching "Yogi the Cave Bear" (done by "Hanna-Barberian Productions"). (Yogi does show up as a cameo in one "Flintstones" episode though; perhaps it's his "Yogi the Cave Bear" ancestor [or a more civilized one related to the one in the 80's Yogi Bear short where Yogi and Boo Boo go back in time to visit "Rockystone National Park" and meet a "Yogi the Cave Bear" that's rather primitive/savage). Given that animals (or prehistoric ones anyway) are capable of talking in the Flintstones' world, Yogi isn't too much of a stretch...

Perhaps the Jetsons have "Yogi the Space Bear" TV show or something (with "Space-Ranger Smith") as a futuristic counterpart... ;-)

-B.

[rodineisilveira]

São Paulo - SP, Brazil, October 21, 2005.

Hello, Howie Fein and HB-fans from the whole world!

Do you remember of an episode from The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (1972), titled To Catch a Pitcher, where the Charlie Chan's kids make an attempt to rescue the baseball pitcher Bloo Blew, who was kidnapped by two ape-faced thugs?
Very well. There's a scene of this episode, where Henry and Stanley (two of the Charlie Chan's sons) were in a warehouse, seeking for the baseball player Bloo Blew, who was being mantained as hostage by two thugs. During the dialogue between the two brothers about the plans to rescue Bloo Blew from the bandits' clutches, Stanley said:
"I've had an idea! And if I disguised in a TV star?" (at this meantime, Stanley appears costumed of Yogi Bear!)
Henry called the Stanley's attention about his disguise:
"Stanley, do you wanna make a favor to undress this ridiculous disguise?"
Stanley reacted, imitating Yogi:
"Hey, are you smarter than the average bear?"
Funny, isn't it?
And there's another scene, in which Charlie Chan was dialoguing with the Bloo's coach about the Bloo's disappearing, and at the moment in which Chan made a phone call, he talked for the person who was in the other side of the phone:
"Is there from the Charles Jones' residence? No? Thank you very much."
The Bloo's coach asked to Chan:
"Does Charles Jones have something to do with Blew, Chan?"
Charlie Chan replied, joking: "Charles Jones is just product from my imagination." And the coach:
"Oh, I understand."
Now I'm curious. When Charlie Chan mentioned the Charles Jones' name, does this "Charles Jones" have something to do with the animation legend Chuck Jones?
Please, answer me. I'm dying of curiosity!
Well, that's it!
Ciao!

Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,

Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
Meet me on my e-mails: mailto:rodinei@starmedia.com (rodinei@starmedia.com), mailto:rodineic@excite.com (rodineic@excite.com), mailto:rodineisilveira@bol.com.br (rodineisilveira@bol.com.br) or mailto:rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com (rcsbrasil@mort.zzn.com). You're always wellcome!

HANNA-BARBERA - FLINTSTONES - 45 YEARS

http://epguides.com/AmazingChanandtheChanClan/logo.jpg http://img53.exs.cx/img53/3846/mcd1_charliechan.jpg

Attention, HB-fans! The Hanna-Barbera building is saved from the demolition! Let's continue to preserve this wonderful building!

LONG LIFE FOR WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA!

:cool:

[JVipond]

This is my first post here, and I'd like to start with a correction to something Howard said. In the Perils of Penelope Pitstop episode "Jungle Jeopardy", it was Penelope herself, not the narrator, who recognized the Hooded Claw after she fell into his open cage, prompting the Claw's response, "Who did you expect? Dick Dastardly?"

I recall, in no particular order, some other HB series that referenced others:

On Space Stars, Space Ghost, the Herculoids and other heroes routinely crossed over to one another's segments.
Fred Flintstone could be seen on a TV set in an episode of Trollkins.
The Kwicky Koala Show had Crazy Claws, Dirty Dawg and even Kwicky himself visit the Bungle Brothers.
Scooby-Doo was mentioned, but not seen, in a Richie Rich cartoon.
Yogi's Space Race had Jabberjaw and Buford as race partners, as well as cameos by Quick Draw McGraw and Jana of the Jungle.


Weren't there supposed to be crossovers among Pac-Man, the Little Rascals and Richie Rich? It seems that they interacted only in the two pre-commercial bumpers in the 90-minute program.

[ToonFanForever]

One of the most recent examples was a cameo, on one of this season's episodes of THE SIMPSONS, by Commander McBragg (of THE UNDERDOG SHOW).

[Eric B]

Everyone forgot the first Magilla episode, "Big Game", when he returns to the shop, and tells Mr Peebles "who did you expect; Yogi Bear?"

[ToonFanForever]

Damsel in distress (to Touche Turtle): "If I wanted a comedian, I'd have sent
for Yogi Bear!"

[rodineisilveira]

São Paulo - SP (city which lived a terror atmosphere on these last days), Brazil, May 20, 2006 (FIFA World Cup is getting next! And it will be held in Germany).

Hello, Howard Fein and HB-fans from Latin America and the rest of the world!

Today at the morning, Cartoon Network Brazil (http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.br or http://www.cartoonnetworkla.com/english) broadcasted an episode from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, which had an appearance of Fred Flintstone, who appears as a frozen caveman which Billy found, when he was digging on his house's yard. And Fred ends making a lot of craziness on the current days.
Well, this was what I've had to report here.
Ciao!

Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes here,

Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
You're always welcome!

;)

[Lord Pumpkin]

The Simpsons had lots of cartoon cameos during it's run like, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, Geroge Jetson, Archie, Popeye, South Park, Fat Albert, the Bill from Schoolhouse Rock, Heckle and Jeckle, Hank Hill, Lancelot Link, and Ren and Stimpy.

South Park had a spoof of a Charle Brown Christmas, and kids out of a Rankin/Bass special.