I grew up watching an hour of Yogi Bear cartoons Sunday mornings before church. When Christmas was on a Sunday, we didn't have church and lo and behold, two hours of Yogi Bear that morning.
This consisted of Yogi, Huck, Hokey, Yakkee, Snag and Jinx, who I was not aware were from two separate cartoon shows, Yogi and Huck.
Now there were two little Snooper and Blabber cartoons that also would air at times. No idea why this was.
It would be decades later before I would see there was the Yogi Bear show, the Huck Hound show and Quickdraw (tho I had read about them in comic books).
I'll just say Snooper and Blabber are one of the best around. You have to watch them, but they do get some edginess rolling that could outdo Yogi or Snag (unfortunately, these two geniuses cut the edge more).
Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy likewise get some dialogue flowing. The Yogi Bear cartoons et al, are pretty much like Bullwinkle and Rocky. They are more radio programs and could work simply with audio if need be.
But oh, there's Quickdraw. The proverbial one-trick-pony. I just sorted thru what all I have recorded to see how often Baba Looey cut loose with the gibberish masquerading as Spanish, but grew tired with all the tedious Hold On Thar, I'll Do The Thinnin' and Snuffles, as well as El Kabong, over and over again! As it is, I found three moments of Baba's bad mouth; in Shooting Room Only, after being hit by the guitar, it is out and out gibberish, but you hear 'tortilla' in there.
In Baba Bait, Baba must be mad at Quickdraw and you hear 'sombrero'.
But in Who Is El Kabong?, he totally cuts loose with total nonsense.
Political correctness and being offended aside, I guess what bothers me most of all about these moments is it should have been too easy to have found a young hispanic who could have very easily provided the dialogue needed and would have gone uncredited (not discrimination, this has always happened and still happens today).
But at least we would have had a better sounding cartoon without these distracting moments. The first time I heard Baba do this in one of these shows, I had not a clue what he was supposed to be doing, then realized it was supposed to be Spanish.
What made it so disappointing was Desi Arnaz had just finished an eight year run on I Love Lucy, speaking legitimate Spanish.
But the worst thing is to act like it isn't there. It's there. It's an old cartoon. Don't ban it. Don't act like it didn't happen. It's an old cartoon of animation, dialogue and voicework.
Not as breathtaking as Warner Bros. no, but don't act like it wasn't there or it is a Scarlet Letter on our history or something.
Nothing to be proud of either, but just don't act like it didn't happen.
This consisted of Yogi, Huck, Hokey, Yakkee, Snag and Jinx, who I was not aware were from two separate cartoon shows, Yogi and Huck.
Now there were two little Snooper and Blabber cartoons that also would air at times. No idea why this was.
It would be decades later before I would see there was the Yogi Bear show, the Huck Hound show and Quickdraw (tho I had read about them in comic books).
I'll just say Snooper and Blabber are one of the best around. You have to watch them, but they do get some edginess rolling that could outdo Yogi or Snag (unfortunately, these two geniuses cut the edge more).
Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy likewise get some dialogue flowing. The Yogi Bear cartoons et al, are pretty much like Bullwinkle and Rocky. They are more radio programs and could work simply with audio if need be.
But oh, there's Quickdraw. The proverbial one-trick-pony. I just sorted thru what all I have recorded to see how often Baba Looey cut loose with the gibberish masquerading as Spanish, but grew tired with all the tedious Hold On Thar, I'll Do The Thinnin' and Snuffles, as well as El Kabong, over and over again! As it is, I found three moments of Baba's bad mouth; in Shooting Room Only, after being hit by the guitar, it is out and out gibberish, but you hear 'tortilla' in there.
In Baba Bait, Baba must be mad at Quickdraw and you hear 'sombrero'.
But in Who Is El Kabong?, he totally cuts loose with total nonsense.
Political correctness and being offended aside, I guess what bothers me most of all about these moments is it should have been too easy to have found a young hispanic who could have very easily provided the dialogue needed and would have gone uncredited (not discrimination, this has always happened and still happens today).
But at least we would have had a better sounding cartoon without these distracting moments. The first time I heard Baba do this in one of these shows, I had not a clue what he was supposed to be doing, then realized it was supposed to be Spanish.
What made it so disappointing was Desi Arnaz had just finished an eight year run on I Love Lucy, speaking legitimate Spanish.
But the worst thing is to act like it isn't there. It's there. It's an old cartoon. Don't ban it. Don't act like it didn't happen. It's an old cartoon of animation, dialogue and voicework.
Not as breathtaking as Warner Bros. no, but don't act like it wasn't there or it is a Scarlet Letter on our history or something.
Nothing to be proud of either, but just don't act like it didn't happen.