Recap / Jellystone S 1 E 1 Yogis Tummy Trouble Gorilla In Our Midst

HBO Max release date: 7/29/2021

Cartoon Network air date: 9/4/2021

Yogi's Tummy Trouble

• Apologetic Attacker: Yogi is just as horrified as everyone else when he realizes that his new nuclear stomach is increasing his appetite and making him eat everything and everyone around him, apologizing profusely to everyone as he chases them down.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Doggie Daddy is insulted that Yogi refuses to eat his little girl Augie, after he's eaten everyone else in town.
• Big Eater: It says a lot that the very first episode is about Yogi's appetite.
• Black-Hole Belly: Cindy gives Yogi a nuclear powered stomach that is an endless void inside, so he wouldn't have to pick which meal not to eat at lunch. Unfortunately, Yogi's total lack of self control leads him to ravenously devour everything and everyone in town.
• Brown Note: Augie's horrible singing causes Granny Sweet to flatline.
• Buffy Speak: "Everyone stand back! We're doctors, and we're about to do doctor-type things!"
• The Cameo:
  • Yogi is shown eating The Hair Bear Bunch.
  • The Biskitts are barbecue sauce mascots.
• Can't Take Criticism: Implied with Cindy. She gets called a "crazy voodoo witch" when Yogi finds out what she did to him and knocks him out with a frying pan. When he wakes up again she's still holding it as a warning against doing it again. Her Never My Fault tendencies would definitely support this.
• Cargo Ship: invoked Winsome Witch cries that she was going to marry her broom next month.
• Character’s Most Hated Song: The episode sees Yogi being given a nuclear-powered stomach and going crazy from his constant hunger, eventually eating the whole town... except for Augie, whose "Kitten Around" song causes him to have indigestion. The town singing it from within the Pocket Dimension in Yogi's stomach forces him to vomit up the population of Jellystone.
• Chekhov's Gag: Augie's singing is an early joke in the episode with how it causes pain to anyone who hears it, and returns when the whole town sings it in order to get free from Yogi's stomach.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: Augie's singing is very noisy.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Bobbie Looey is the head of the Small Business Better Business Bureau of Business.
• The Ditherer: What kicks off the plot of the episode is Yogi's indecisiveness on what to eat for lunch.
• Ear Worm: "Kitten Around", the sickeningly sweet song Augie sings throughout the episode, ends up stuck in Boo Boo's head after he's accidentally left floating in the void of Yogi's stomach, much to his irritation.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Yogi asks if his ever-increasing appetite will be a problem, Cindy replies "Only if you had no self-control whatsoever" before realizing.
• Frying Pan of Doom: When Yogi starts freaking out, Cindy uses a frying pan as a "sedative".
• Furry Reminder: Huckleberry mentions he sometimes hears ghosts, before quickly turning his head as if he heard someone say something, like how a dog would.
• Horror Hunger: Yogi initially just uses his new nuclear stomach to eat large quantities of food. And then he suddenly eats Boo Boo. Cindy then realizes that maybe giving someone with very little self-control a bottomless stomach and a slowly increasing appetite is a bad idea. Things go downhill from there.
• I Am a Monster: Said word-for-word by Yogi.
• Mood Whiplash: Yogi performs a joyful rap about how he can eat and never be full...and then devours Boo-Boo.
• Mundane Utility: Yogi doesn't know what to eat for lunch. His nuclear stomach is the solution to this mundane problem, so he can eat all he wants and never be full.
• Mythology Gag: When Yogi first wakes up from his surgery, he mentions that he had a weird dream about racing space cars across the galaxy.
• Never My Fault: Cindy refuses to take responsibility for creating Yogi's nuclear stomach.
• Nothing Personal: Yogi tells this his friends before proceeding to eat them.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Yogi gets crazy red eyes when he eats the citizens covered in BBQ sauce.
• Running Gag: Doggie Daddy shoving Augie and her "Kitten Around" song in everyone's face.
• Shout-Out:
  • The portion of the episode has Yogi chasing the residents of Jellystone in a Pac-Man sequence.
  • Top Cat tries to con the townspeople by drawing a circle around himself as protection from Yogi, similar to the Anti-Seabear Circle from SpongeBob SquarePants "The Camping Episode".
• Take That!: An easy to miss jab at American healthcare: for the simple procedure of removing a singing Augie from the room, Boo-Boo charges Granny Sweet $10,000.
• Toilet Humor: To deflect any further questions about her involvement in Yogi's nuclear stomach, Cindy gives the alibi that she was "in the bathroom" at the time. "Pooping. A big poop."

Gorilla In Our Midst

• Anuscape Plan: Yogi and Boo Boo find their way inside Grape Ape's stomach. Boo Boo is later shown rolling an inflated Yogi coming from the opposite side of where Grape Ape's mouth is, and he gets quite uncomfortable when asked about it.
  Cindy Bear: Wait, Boo Boo? Yogi? You're alive! Wait... How did you guys escape?
  Boo Boo: Oh, we got out... a... different way.
  Cindy Bear: What do you mean, "different"?
  Boo Boo: [Beat] We're not answering any more questions.
• The Apunkalypse: The episode shows Snagglepuss, Benny the Ball, Squiddly Diddly, and Shag Rugg dressed in post-apocalyptic punk attire and turning over Jonny and Hadji's car as a result of Grape Ape's destruction.
• Bat Signal: In order to call Yogi, Cindy and Boo-Boo for help, Huckleberry shoots up a firework of him saying "help".
• Caligula's Horse: Non-animal example. Although Yogi, Boo-Boo, and Cindy are the ones to wake Grape Ape from his food coma, mayor Huckleberry instead presents a medal to the easel on which Touché Turtle and his compatriots used to brainstorm solutions on.
• The Cameo: Atom Ant appears under a rock Doggie Daddy flips over looking for Augie.
• Cool Shades: Cindy briefly puts on sunglasses to show that she's a cool doctor.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The episode has Doggie Daddy frantically searching for Augie after a catastrophe that devastates town square^note  Grape Ape suffering a food coma.
• The Face of the Sun: One that screams when Cindy takes a pinch of it for the wake up juice.
• "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Boo Boo and then Yogi go inside Grape Ape's stomach to remove a giant meatball causing his food coma.
• Food Coma: Grape Ape falls asleep in the middle of the city from eating too much spaghetti and meatballs, causing huge destruction in the process. Yogi, Boo Boo, and Cindy work to try and wake him up by removing a giant meatball in his stomach and concocting "wake up juice" before Jellystone starts devolving into more panic and chaos.
• Kaiju: Grape Ape is shown in this fashion.
• Overly Long Gag: The characters saying "Food coma" with dramatic zooms on their face.
• Police Are Useless: Touche Turtle and the Goofy Guards brainstorm a bunch of ineffective ideas on how to wake up Grape Ape and try none of them.
• Quicksand Sucks: Parodied. While crossing over Grape Ape's body, Doggy Daddy gets trapped in "quickhair", which is "like quicksand, but hair."
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Yogi says "wee woo, wee woo" while in the ambulance.
• Shout-Out:
  • The episode has a very obscure one: at one point Cindy gets in a spaceship and grabs a pinch of the sun, the plot of "The Golden Apples of the Sun" by Ray Bradbury.
  • Augie Doggie refusing to move from her position at her father's insistence even after he gets swept up in the chaos and disappears may be an oblique reference to the famous poem ''Casabianca" ("The boy stood on the burning deck...") about a similar real-life incident.
  • After waking up from his food coma, Grape Ape simply walks away from the ruined town and into the sea while everyone cheers.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: "I am freaking out."
• Toilet Humor: Near the end of the episode, Boo Boo reveals to Cindy that he and Yogi escaped Grape Ape's stomach a... different way.
  Cindy: What do you mean...different?
  (Beat)
  Boo Boo: We're not answering any more questions.
• Tranquil Fury: Huckleberry Hound apologizes for yelling at Cindy...but his tone never rises above a serious calm.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Grape Ape's food coma from a giant meatball led to him collapsing in the town square, causing heavy destruction and mass panic until the hospital staff cured him.