Yogi the Easter Bear is an animated television special starring Yogi Bear, produced by Hanna-Barbera and animated by Fil-Cartoons, Inc.. It was broadcast in syndication on April 3, 1994. This special marks the final episode of the spin-off The New Yogi Bear Show.
Premise[]
After Yogi accidentally ruins the big Easter Jamboree at Jellystone Park just before the arrival of hundreds of kids, he has to find the Easter Bunny to keep his home and the park itself from closing down.
Synopsis[]
This special is part of the canon timeline, taking place a few months after the events of Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears. Cindy Bear has moved out of Jellystone Park to live with the Circus forever, leaving her boyfriend Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo-Boo Bear to stay in the park. Chief Ranger Smith's boss, the Supreme Commissioner, is attending Jellystone Park's Easter Jamboree. Concerned about making sure the event goes off perfectly, Smith picks out an Easter Bunny suit and orders a truckload of candy for the celebration, ordering his guard, Mortimer, to watch over the candy truck and keep Yogi away from eating any of the candy. Mortimer, however, is legally blind and Yogi steals the Easter Bunny outfit, tricks Mortimer into thinking he is the real Easter Bunny, and eats all the candy in the truck.
Smith is furious and threatens to ship Yogi off to the Siberian Circus, but Boo-Boo offers to find the real Easter Bunny to fix things. Smith states that he stopped believing in the Easter Bunny after he didn't get a double-decker raspberry-filled dark chocolate egg from him; he nonetheless accepts Boo-Boo's offer. Yogi and Boo-Boo seek out the Grand Grizzly in the mountains to see if he knows anything about the Easter Bunny's whereabouts. The Grand Grizzly instructs Yogi and Boo-Boo to seek the big ears in the sky (a grassy hillside in the shape of a rabbit's head). They climb the mountain only to find that the Easter Bunny has been kidnapped.
Behind the kidnapping is a diminutive and deranged corporate executive named Paulie, hellbent on replacing all of the world's Easter eggs with plastic ones, and a massive but dim-witted sidekick named Ernest, who Paulie hired as a spokesperson and is always seen in a yellow bunny suit. Yogi and Boo-Boo follow a trail of jelly beans to the factory, where the Easter Bunny is being held captive above a vat of molten plastic. Posing as health inspectors, Yogi and Boo-Boo successfully free the Easter Bunny, only to find that Mildred the Easter Chicken, is the one responsible for laying the Easter eggs. Yogi and Boo-Boo go to the henhouse to meet Mildred. However, the chicken's tough-as-nails guard dog refuses to let anyone near her domicile, except for Ernest, who the dog mistakes for the real Easter Bunny. Yogi and Boo-Boo, after using a giant slingshot to crash through the henhouse's roof, escape with the chicken before Ernest can get to her and head for Jellystone Park. A madcap chase after the chicken begins, with the Easter Bunny getting injured (usually by falling off a cliff) at least three times.
Meanwhile, back at Jellystone Park, Smith is trying in vain to impress the children and the Commissioner at the Easter Jamboree. The stunts he tries either are ridiculously lame or fail spectacularly, and the Commissioner's grandchildren show no response, except a few sarcastic claps and a stern look. The boss is on the verge of firing Ranger Smith when the Easter Bunny, Mildred, Yogi, and Boo-Boo conveniently fall in to save the day. The Commissioner changes his mind and instead promotes Ranger Smith; to thank Ranger Smith for believing, the Easter Bunny gives him what he asked for all these years: a double-decker raspberry-filled dark chocolate egg.
Characters[]
Main
Villians
- Paulie and Ernest (only appearance)
Other
- Ranger Mortimer (only appearance)
- Grand Grizzly (only appearance)
- Supreme Commissioner (only appearance)
- Supreme Commissioner's grandkids (only appearance)
- Guard Dog (only appearance)
- Ranger Jackson (only mentioned)
- Jellystone Balloon Ride owner (only appearance)
- Pilots (only appearance)
- Hangglider pilot (only appearance)
Holiday Figures
- Easter Bunny (only appearance)
- Mildred the Easter Chicken (only appearance)
- Santa Claus (mentioned)
Locations[]
Jellystone Park[]
- Yogi's Cave
- Ranger Station
- Dangerous Lumber Company Saw Mill (only appearance)
- Paulie's Plastic Factory (only appearance)
- Grand Grizzly's Cave (only appearance)
- Old Geezer (only appearance, misspelt as Geeyzer)
- Easter Bunny's Home (only appearance)
- Jellystone Balloon Rides (only appearance)
Other[]
- Siberia
Objects[]
- Easter baskets (only appearance)
- Easter Bunny suit (only appearance)
- Mortimer's rifle (only appearance)
- Darts
- Ribbons
- Yogi's binoculars
- Picnic baskets (mentioned)
- Plastic eggs (only appearance)
- Tennis ball
- Sword
- Bowling ball
- Chainsaws
- Plastic explosives (only appearance)
- Plastic grass (only appearance)
- Plates
- Band set
- Trampoline
- Chairs
- Beehives
- Cannon
- Ladder
- Lighter
Food
- Easter candy (only appearance)
- Jelly beans (only appearance)
- Double-decker raspberry-filled dark chocolate egg (only appearance)
- Sandwich
- Cake
- Easter eggs (only appearance)
- Punch cup
Animals[]
- Bears
- Bees
- Rabbit
- Chicken
- Butterflies
- Cardinal
- Fish
- Bats
- Rats
- Turtle
Vehicles[]
- Buses
- Ma's Candies candy truck (only appearance)
- Boats and canoes
- Commissioner's limousine (only appearance)
- Hot air balloon
- Wheelbarrow
- Plane
- Paulie and Ernest's monster truck (only appearance, destroyed)
- Hangglider
Cast[]
Quotes[]
Notes/Trivia[]
- This was one of Don Messick's last voice-over roles; he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1996 and died in 1997.
- It would also be the last official Yogi Bear media for 16 years until the release of the live-action Yogi Bear film, which serves as the canon franchise's grand finale.
Errors[]
- When this movie premiered in 1994, it was made in 1993 according to the credits.