Week 101: Yogi Bear 1964 GMC Panel

Photo courtesy of Phil Pekarcik.

I've put the photo credit at the beginning, because I've become lost in voices, and by the end I suspect you will be, too, so I want to give props to Phil in case you never reach the end.

Here's my story:

Doing research for this GMC with Yogi Bear on the side, I Googled Hanna-Barbera, the company responsible for that Honeymooners-style bear and his  sidekick BooBoo. Oh man -- there's a place to get lost in hotlink heaven.

Clicking on Daws Butler, voice of Yogi, I was immediately  pulled into other voices Butler did (oh yeah, I remember that! Oh, right!! I remember that one!). The list was prolific - Huckleberry Hound, Elroy Jetson, Bingo of the Banana Splits, breakfast cereal characters Capt'n Crunch and Quisp, and Scooby-Dum of Scooby-Doo.

Hmm -- Scooby-Dum. I don't remember him, but look, Scooby-Dum is hotlinked. Click.

And it began. I was clicking on who did the voice of this character or that character, and the more I clicked the more it seemed cartoon voices were more connected to everything than even Kevin Bacon. At one point I ended up on a page about Paul Frees, the voice of  the Pillsbury Doughboy and the Burgermeister Meisterberger in Santa Claus is Coming to Town, who also sang "Darktown Strutter's Ball" for one of my favorite horror camp movies The Abominable Dr. Phibes, with Vincent Price, which of course brought me right back to Scooby-Doo, as Price did the voice of Vincent Van Ghoul in The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.

The web pages were filled with links to click, different colored text daring me to enter, and like eating a bag of Fritos late at night (Frito Bandito was voiced by Mel Blanc), I just kept gobbling down one more click, one more crunchy bit of trivia.

That was five days ago. I haven't slept, showered or had anything to eat since I began, but it's worth it.

Okay, I'm kidding, but it is addictive and fascinating.

Yes, I know I was supposed to blog about the kids and family and tie it all into Yogi Bear -- umm, yeah, I've been watching cartoons with my kids lately.

The end.

Now back to clicking.

No way! The voice of Big Dog in 2 Stupid Dogs is that guy from Everyone Loves Ramond?
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Think you can resist? Okay, Boo Boo, let's see what you got. I dare you.

Click here and become lost