Hey There, It's Yogi Bear

***Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!*** is an animated movie starring Daws Butler, Don Messick, Julie Bennett, Mel Blanc and J. Pat O'Malley. It is based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon show, _The Yogi Bear Show_. Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and was released by Columbia Pictures on June 3, 1964.

## Plot

Boo-Boo Bear wakes up from winter hibernation, excited about the new Spring. Then Yogi Bear wakes up, only interested in finding some food to eat. Cindy Bear unsuccessfully tries to woo Yogi. After Ranger Smith thwarts Yogi's latest attempts to grab some food, Yogi gets angry and convinces the Ranger to transfer him out of Jellystone National Park. Smith prepares Yogi to be sent over to the San Diego Zoo along with an identification tag. Yogi first says goodbye to everything, but tricks another bear named Corn Pone into going to California instead of him and Boo-Boo and Cindy remain unaware of this, thinking Yogi has departed for good.

Soon, Yogi is stealing food from all over the park under the alter ego "The Brown Phantom". Smith believes "The Brown Phantom" is a mysterious bear-like vigilante whom the Park Commissioner hired to replace Yogi, and scares away all of the Jellystone goers and gobbles their food up shortly after stealing it. He threatens whoever it is to be sent to the zoo and comes up with a clever plan to stop "The Brown Phantom" and save the park, not knowing it is actually Yogi.

Cindy, wishing to be with Yogi at the zoo, angers Smith into mistakenly sending her away. However, she gets sent to the St. Louis Zoo by train instead, as the San Diego Zoo does not need any more bears. When she realizes her true destination, she gets very sad, crying since she knows she would be far from Yogi now. Late that night, Cindy falls out of the train and becomes lost. A traveling circus, run by the Chizzling Brothers, is looking for a great act to raise their ratings, when suddenly, their dog Mugger runs off and scares Cindy into walking on the telephone wires, the perfect act to save their circus.

Yogi has recently missed Boo-Boo and, above all, Cindy. On his way back to talk to Ranger Smith, Yogi finds that Cindy had gone missing on the way to the St. Louis zoo. Ranger Smith, wanting to send Yogi back to the San Diego zoo, is locked in a closet while Yogi and Boo-Boo escape from Jellystone to find Cindy. After an extensive travel, Yogi and Boo-Boo locate Cindy, who is being kept a prisoner, forced to perform her high-wire act for the Chizzling Brother's circus. As Yogi confronts the manager, Grifter Chizzing, he is tricked into joining Cindy in her cage, where Grifter tells him he's now in "show biz." Boo-Boo releases Yogi and Cindy and they make their exit.

Meanwhile, Ranger Smith decides to let them find their way home to avoid trouble with the Park Commissioner. As Yogi, Cindy, and Boo-Boo make their way home, they crash a barnyard party, somehow escaping afloat a river with the barn's door. Then, while Cindy & Yogi dream about a honeymoon in Venice, they find themselves suddenly being chased and hunted by the police, as they somehow became fugitives, but make their escape.

They hitch a ride in a moving van, but find themselves in the middle of a busy city (later revealed to be New York City) and make a run from the police to the top of a hotel and across to a high rise under construction. The next morning, Ranger Smith sees the three bears on television and decides to rescue them in a helicopter. With all the commotion having made great publicity for Jellystone, Ranger Smith gets promoted to Chief Ranger by the Park Commissioner in gratitude while bringing all three bears back to Jellystone, where they promise to be "good bears" from now on.

## Characters

- Yogi Bear (Daws Butler)
- Boo-Boo Bear (Don Messick)
- Ranger Smith (Don Messick)
- Cindy Bear (Juile Bennett)
- Grifter (Mel Blanc)
- Snively (J. Pat O'Malley)
- Mugger (Don Messick)
- Ranger Jones (Don Messick)