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rodineisilveira
07-31-2006, 08:24 PM
São Paulo - SP, Brazil, July 31, 2006.

Hello, friends from Toon Zone, Yesterdaylanders, Memory Laners, Retrolanders and HB-fans from the whole world!

Does anyone remember of the two Yogi Bear shorts which John Kricfalusi (who created Ren & Stimpy) directed in 1998, and which were aired by Cartoon Network in the USA (http://www.cartoonnetwork.com) in September 1999; and on the Latin America - including Brazil (http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.br or http://www.cartoonnetworkla.com/english) - in August 2000, titled A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith and Boo Boo Runs Wild?
Very well. I found these shorts in YouTube (http://youtube.com). And here are the links to these shorts, which are the following:

- A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith is on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DFSiMYXmsU.
- Boo Boo Runs Wild is on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH07q3ymqHY&NR (clip 1). There are more 4 clips of this same short, which are included on YouTube.

In A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith, we see Mr. Ranger imposing absurd rules on the nature; while in Boo Boo Runs Wild, the Yogi's unseparable friend (who's also his guardian angel) feels sick with the Jellystone Park's rules and ends tearing his bowtie, which takes him to act in a savage way, drooling and barfing. Yogi gets despaired with the weird behavior of his friend. These videos were recorded from the American [adult swim] block (http://www.adultswim.com) from Cartoon Network (USA).
I could notice some details on the short A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith. Among them, we found two Hanna-Barbera memorabilias, at the moment in which Mr. Ranger is eating his corn flakes with milk: a Yogi Bear mug (from the 60s) and a Huckleberry Hound cereal bowl. These two items are avaliable on eBay (http://www.ebay.com) (http://www.ebay.com%29). Here's a scene in which these memorabilias appear:

http://img.youtube.com/vi/9DFSiMYXmsU/1.jpg

Another scene which called my atention, it's at moment in which Ranger Smith goes out from the ranger station to walk around the Jellystone Park. And Mr. Ranger is shown through of a variation of designs. Among them, great part of Mr. Ranger's designs are from the episodes from the Yogi Bear classical period (the original from Hanna-Barbera, produced between 1958 and 1962, which comprehend the episodes from the two first seasons of The Huckleberry Hound Show [the 1958-60 period] and the ones from the classical Yogi Bear Show [1960-62]) and four designs made by the own Johnny K.
From the classical Yogi Bear (the original from Hanna-Barbera), the designs are the following:

- the Tony Rivera's design, from the early 60s;
- the Walter Clinton's design, seen in the episode Space Bear;
- the Dick Bickenbach's design, seen in the episode Bear on a Picnic (where Mr. Ranger looked like a military);
- and the Ed Benedict's design, which appears in the episodes Robin Hood Yogi and Daffy Daddy. Alias, Ed Benedict made the layouts for A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith. And here are some snapshots where we see Ranger Smith designed by the legendary Ed Benedict:
http://img.youtube.com/vi/iszAifLDJWc/2.jpg http://www.videobomb.com/thumbnails/046ae3dc56a0b4b503b8b022af0ccd60.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/iszAifLDJWc/3.jpg http://img.youtube.com/vi/9DFSiMYXmsU/3.jpg

Among the four designs which Johnny K. made for Ranger Smith, include: a tiny-sized Ranger Smith, a Genndy Tartakovsky-esque Ranger Smith, and a design where Mr. Ranger looks like an elf.
It only missed the Ranger Smith's updated design, initially seen on the animated full-lenghted movie Hey There, it's Yogi Bear (1964).
Well, that's it!
Ciao!

Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,

Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
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"Here's Ranger Smith. Welcome to Jellystone Park! I hope that you enjoy the visit in our park!" http://image.com.com/tv/images/user_icons/yogi_bear/02.gif

HANNA-BARBERA - SPACE GHOST - 40 YEARS

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http://www.campjellystone.com/images/ranger_desk.gif Shhhhhh! Don't disturb Mr. Ranger... He's on his relaxing moment.

Attention, HB-fans! Enjoy to visit the Hanna-Barbera's official site (http://hanna-barbera.com) and have some fun!

LONG LIFE FOR WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA!

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JCorey3rd
07-31-2006, 08:45 PM
you missed the weeks that Adult swim reran BooBoo Runs Wild....

Brainatra
07-31-2006, 08:54 PM
I saw one of John K.'s Yogi Bear shorts, and didn't like it at all---thought it was ugly-looking, badly voiced (Boo Boo sounded way off to me), and with a fairly lame plot. (Shrug)

Uncle_Lina
08-01-2006, 05:23 PM
I saw the two you mentioned AND another flash cartoon about Boo-boo on the Adult Swim website, I must say that it should have been made into a full blown show and could have been as popular as Ren and Stimpy was... Untill John K get's fired from CN and they make crappy episodes.. like Yogi and Boo-Boo finding a picnic basket inside the statue. :sweat:

Steve Carras
08-01-2006, 08:48 PM
I saw that one in its ORIGINAL run.....YouTube had a somewhat poor (read: getting stuck, but SOMEWHAT..still played pretty good in parts), link to the whole 20 minute shebang...

I ALSO saw, tio correct myself, "Boo Boo Runs Wild"
It used the "Capital" cues (George Hormel, Bill Loose & (obstinsibly) John Seely), and also Langlois "Cinemusic" (one of SEVERAL companies with that name!) (Jack Shaindlin), but none, I guess, from the other regular "Capital?Seely" guy, Spencer Moore (Mr.Basson effects....think Gopher Broke, 1958, Warner Bros. when that dog sees the pig and freaks out, for instance...) (Quick Draw trilogo, made of Quick Draw, Snoop and Blabbermouse and Augie and Doggie, used in part yet anotbher major libraryof the day - the "EMI Photoplay Library" (Philip Green) and more from Shaindlin (Langlois later since 1968 Cinemusic) and in Augie and Doggie's case, some "Hi Q" stuff from a team known partly as Harry Williams and Carl Chandler other times as Harry Bluestone and Emil Cadkin respectively.That special also used music from a library that shared space witgh the others on Art Clokey productions and those six 1958 and a few more Warner Bros.cartoons with John Seeley's name on them--the Sam Fox Library,one of the oldest ones aroundf,established in Ohio in 1913! It';s when Cindy Bear goes feral after seeing Boob, it's in the 1957 Gumby "In a Fix' at the end and is called "The Neutral 2/4 foxtrot to curtain" or something or other.)


For "Runs Wile":
Some of those cues in the Yogi special were, when Boob turns into a feral creature, "Passing Ghost' (Loose, probaly from another library given the use of a specific title but another of his and Seely's stuff from Capitol is called ":Dreamy Ghost'!(),
then when Boo Boo calls those animals out in the clearing,
"Fast Movement' "written by" George Hormel (4-ZR-48;From Capital Hi-Q METROPOLITAN MOVMENT), but originally written (seemingly!) by Loose and Seely for England's Synro-Sam Fox library,as "Water Skis!" In a different arranagement like World War 2 "mush" bandleader Sammy Kaye but in a commercially": jazzy uptempoi style like Glen Miller's, but redone in this "Mantovani Sttrings' style and much used in Pixie and Dixie,Huck,Ruff and Reddy<Gumby and Yogi shorts (and in a 1994 Saturn car commercial show-lighting different backgrounds with a group of people with "their Saturn" ..common in each!)..

When Boo Boo is in atree, Jack Shaindlin's classic "Reluctant Elephant" aka "Grotesque" is heard in the accompanying real short, 1959's "Home sweet Jellystone" (written by Warren Foster and/or Michael Maltese) when the replacemnt ranger discusses Yogi during the latters' "hunger strike"!)

Then when Yogi is beggging the Ranger, Geo.Hormel's Light Movement 7-ZR-51 (Seely-Loose had all these different ID plate #s..) is used,heard in Pixie and DIixie cartoons like their Zorro thingy, "Mark of the mouse' at the end, and at the open of their 'Jiggers its Jinks' and it opens the real Yogi short "Baffled Bear" and also "Be my Guest Pest"...and it's in two Gumby's:
"Too Loo" when Gumby captures the villianous music note with some uh..shall we say musical camoflage:p then in
"The Magic Show", a later, 1956, one, at the open under Pokey saying "Gumby..Gumby'(it's a cousin to the "Magic Wand", oen of those edit=ups of Gumby's,those were 16 muinutes aorund, then edited up...)

Then finally in the happy ending (YES...there is one..I will NOT give IT away), another classic of Shaindlin;s called "Fun on ice", similair to "Grotesque" 2 aka "The Reluctant Elephant" which closed Huckleberry Hound's 1960 short "Nutts over Mutts" and the 1958 "Meece' short "Flying carpet" .:D


(THOSE you can hear at http://www.apmmusic.com . Just go to Libraries & Cover art then Cinemusic,specifically Cine1/Lite(sic) activity and Cine6/comedy (the most familair ones) but a few in Cine2 & Cine3 specifically are also memorable,like Posse in the Dramatic one,I think that's Cine2 and Fire in Cine3,which I think is Newsreels.


The "Ranger smith" clips had so much trouble for me to watch due to playback. Adultswim.com though had a very good Boo Boo and the man,which is where it is from. That used, the Quick Draw trilogy cues of PhilipMGreen/EMI pohotplay most notably, with Hoyt Curtin.Maybe due to rights issues (the cues by Green were the only oens sued ten eyars ago from that library in geenral fro the famous Rhino CD with HB music, I have that as do millions of other folks)

rodineisilveira
01-10-2007, 06:10 PM
São Paulo - SP, Brazil, January 10, 2007.

Hello, Brainatra, Steve Carras and HB-fanatics from the whole world!

I have some fresh news 4 U!

Last Saturday, Cartoon Network Brazil (http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.br or http://www.cartoonnetworkla.com/english) aired on the [adult swim] block (http://adultswim.com.br), one of the two Yogi Bear shorts directed by John Kricfalusi in 1999: A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith. It was a surprise for me, which even I enjoyed to watch it. I haven't had luck to see the premiere of the short here in Brazil (via Cartoon Network) , in August 2000; but at this time, I've had luck on watch this short.
Enjoy to visit the Johnny K.'s blog, which address is the following: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com.
Well, that's it!
Ciao!

Cheers from this faithful friend who always writes 4 U,

Rodinei Campos da Silveira (from São Paulo, Brazil)
Meet 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 welcome!

http://www.campjellystone.com/images/ranger_1.gif "Here's Ranger Smith! Welcome to Jellystone Park! I hope that you enjoy the visit in our park!"

HANNA-BARBERA - 50 YEARS OF FUN AND ADVENTURES - 45 YEARS OF JETSONS AND WALLY GATOR

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Attention, HB-fans! Enjoy to visit the Hanna-Barbera official site (http://hanna-barbera.com) and have some fun!

IN MEMORIAN OF WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA

;)

John Pannozzi
01-10-2007, 07:15 PM
(Boo Boo sounded way off to me)

Yeah, John K.'s rendition of Boo-Boo's voice isn't that great. However, he did Boo-Boo's voice for me back in 2004, I remember it sounding pretty good. I remember hearing on John K.'s blog that AS was interested in a Yogi series...;)

rodineisilveira
04-02-2007, 07:39 PM
The (http://The) "Ranger smith" clips had so much trouble for me to watch due to playback. Adultswim.com though had a very good Boo Boo and the man,which is where it is from. That used, the Quick Draw trilogy cues of PhilipMGreen/EMI pohotplay most notably, with Hoyt Curtin.Maybe due to rights issues (the cues by Green were the only oens sued ten eyars ago from that library in geenral fro the famous Rhino CD with HB music, I have that as do millions of other folks)

São Paulo - SP, Brazil, April 2, 2007.

Hello, HB-fan Steve Carras!

I watched the short Boo Boo and The Man on YouTube (http://youtube.com). On it, the Yogi's mate ends being victim of the sadistic pranks from a bunch of evil, rebel, arrogant, insane and bully bears, who end treating him like a punch bag.
I could notice, on the playback music, the frequent use from the Hoyt Curtin's original soundtracks from the Hanna-Barbera classical cartoon series (which also include the incidental soundtracks from the Jonny Quest classical series [1964-65]).
This short is located on the following link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=AUl3hLPFBIE. Enjoy to watch it.
Well, that's it!
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 welcome!

HEY-HEY-HEEEEEEEEEEY!

HANNA-BARBERA - 50 YEARS OF FUN - 50 YEARS OF RUFF & REDDY

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http://jugueteslaweb.com/portal/images/stories/Hannabarberayogui2.jpgYogi, Boo Boo & Ranger Smith, by McFarlane Toys (http://spawn.com). On sale on the stores from the whole world.

Attention, HB-fans! Enjoy to visit the Hanna-Barbera official site (http://hanna-barbera.com), and have some fun!

IN MEMORIAN OF WILLIAM HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA

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