Cindy Bear

**Cynthia "Cindy" Bear** is an anthropomorphic bear, Yogi's love interest and one of the main fictional characters of the *Yogi Bear* franchise.

## Development

Cindy Bear was originally designed by Ed Benedict. One early sketch saw her clad in a bonnet, a frilly scarf and an apron with an elongated, pointed muzzle. A second sketch dropped all accessories save the frill scarf and shortened her muzzle.

Cindy made her debut in the 1961 series, *The Yogi Bear Show* as a semi-recurring character in three episodes, including "*Acrobatty Yogi*", "*A Wooin' Bruin*" and "*Yogi's Birthday Party*". Her finalized animation design featured blue/grey fur, a hat, a white frill scarf, a yellow skirt and a necklace.

Cindy appeared prominently in the 1964 animated feature film, *Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!* in which she was kidnapped by the Chizzling Brothers and their hench-dog, Mugger, spurring Yogi and Boo-Boo to come to her rescue. She was redesigned by art director Iwao Takamoto for the film into the more familiar modern version with light brown fur, a yellow scarf and a blue tutu.

Cindy has received a few slightly different, one-off redesigns. In *Yogi's First Christmas*, she was given dark brown fur and white hair, as well as a number of different outfits which she wore throughout the film. For the Spümcø short, *Boo Boo Runs Wild*, she retained her modern character design, but with the blue/grey fur of her original design.

## Background

She is a resident of Jellystone Park, and Yogi's love-interest and she speaks with a pronounced Southern accent and in *Jellystone!* she is a doctor, and she doesn't speak with a Southern accent.

### **Personality**

Cindy is a kind, sweet and optimistic bear with the spirit of a Southern belle. She rarely engages in the same antics as Yogi and Boo Boo and does not share the same antagonistic relationship with Ranger Smith. Her romance with Yogi is typically portrayed as on-again/off-again, with her pursuing him, while he avoids and evades her advances. Just as often, however, Yogi is shown to return her affections.

### **Physical Appearance**

Cindy is a big and tall anthropomorphic bear with taupe fur, thin black eyebrows, black eyes, a tan muzzle, a normal-sized black nose, pink fur on her ears and some tufts of hair on top of her. She has a white flower on the top of her hair and wears a blue tutu, a yellow scarf and carries a blue parasol.

In the series, *Laff-a-Lympics*, as part of the Yogi Yahooeys, she wears a red-orange T-shirt with a white "Y" on it.

When she was a pre-teenager in the short-lived 1990's spin-off, *Yo Yogi!*, she wore a modern outfit that consisted of a white skirt/top, purple jacket, purple shorts, white boots and a ponytail.

## History

### **Early life**

When she was still a cub, her mother set up an arranged marriage for her and Baron Von Bearwick III (who later turned out to be a con artist named Bert).

## Appearances

### **Television series**

* *The Yogi Bear Show*
	+ "*Acrobatty Yogi*" (first appearance)
	+ "*A Wooin' Bruin*"
	+ "*Yogi's Birthday Party*"
* *Yogi's Gang*
	+ "*The Gossipy Witch*"
	+ "*Mr. Hothead*"
* *Laff-a-Lympics*
* *Yogi's Treasure Hunt*
	+ 202. "*To Bee or Not to Bee*"
	+ 307. "*Yogi and the Beanstalk*"
	+ 309. "*Secret Agent Bear*"
* *The New Yogi Bear Show*
	+ 118. "*La Bamba Bear*"
	+ 123. "*Biker Bear*"
	+ 124. "*Bearly Buddies*"
	+ 127. "*Yogi the Cave Bear*"
	+ 130. "*The Hopeful Diamond*"
	+ 131. "*Real Bears Don't Eat Quiche*"
	+ 135. "*The Big Bear Ballet*"
	+ 138. "*Bringing Up Yogi*"
	+ 140. "*Banjo Bear*" (no lines and her arm only shown)
	+ 141. "*Boxcar Pop*"
	+ 142. "*Yogi Meets the Mummy*"
* *Yo Yogi!*
* *Jellystone!*

### **Films and Specials**

* *Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!*
* *Yogi's First Christmas*
* *Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears*
* *Boo Boo Runs Wild*

## Portrayals

### **Television shows, films and specials**

* **Julie Bennett** (1961-1988)
	+ *The Yogi Bear Show* (1961-1962)
		- "*Acrobatty Yogi*"
		- "*A Wooin' Bruin*"
		- "*Yogi's Birthday Party*"
	+ *Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!* (1964)
	+ *Yogi's Gang* (1973)
		- "*The Gossipy Witch*"
		- "*Mr. Hothead*"
	+ *Laff-a-Lympics* (1977)
	+ *Yogi's First Christmas* (1980)
	+ *Yogi's Treasure Hunt* (1985-1988)
		- "*Yogi and the Beanstalk*"
		- "*Secret Agent Bear*"
	+ *The New Yogi Bear Show* (1988)
	+ *Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears* (1988)

### **Other**

* Cecil Roy
	+ *Casanova Yogi Bear and Cutie Cindy Bear: Songs of the Cave Set* (1960)
	+ *Songs of Yogi Bear and His Pals* (1961)
	+ *A Hap-Hap-Happy Christmas from Yogi Bear* (1961)
	+ *Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!* (1964)
* Dottie Evans - *How to Be a Better-Than-the Average Child Without Really Trying!* (1962)
* Jackie Ward (singing voice in *Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!*)
* Janet Waldo - *Yogi's First Christmas* and "*To Bee or Not to Bee*" from *Yogi's Treasure Hunt*
* Linda Harmon (singing voice in *Yogi Bear and the Invasion of the Space Bears*)
* Kath Soucie -*Yo Yogi!*
* Mary Ellen Thomas - *Boo Boo Runs Wild*
* Grace Helbig - *Jellystone!* (2021–present)
* Debi Derryberry - *The VeggieTales Show* (2024-present)

## Notes/Trivia

* In *The New Yogi Bear Show*, Cindy's mother, Mrs. Bear is introduced, along with Cindy's niece, Bebe the Biker. Cindy comes from a rich Southern family of bears.
* In *Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!*, Cindy imagines the future which has them married, and they also have several kids. In the episode "*The Gossipy Witch*" of *Yogi's Gang*, the witch starts a rumor about Yogi being engaged to Cindy. For promotional use, they made an image of Yogi and Cindy at their wedding.
* According to the concept art by Nick Pugh, she would have appeared in the 2010 live-action film, but she did not make it into the final film.