Trivia / Yo Yogi!

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• Bury Your Art: Of the 100+ shows that Hanna-Barbera produced, plenty are considered just as bad as Yo Yogi!, but this is the only one that Boomerang, which has shown almost every Yogi Bear series to date, outright refuses to re-run (at least in the United States — it apparently showed up on one of the foreign Boomerang networks a couple of years back). At least until 2019, when the Boomerang streaming service finally included the show. And as of October 30th, 2023, it airs on the Boomerang channel proper. It's very telling that Warner Bros. hates this show so much, that they banned the show from being canon to Jellystone!
• Creator Backlash: In an interview with USA Today, William Hanna stated his disgust with the show, especially the redesigns.
  William Hanna: They screwed it up by redesigning [Yogi]. They made him look like a whoremonger. If you have something that works, don't screw it up!
• Dueling Shows: This series shared the same time slot as Bobby's World did on Fox Kids. Bobby won this duel, as it lasted seven seasons, whereas Yo Yogi! only lasted one. Not helping Yo Yogi's case was that it aired on the lowest-rated Saturday Morning cartoon block at the time, which NBC abandoned in September of 1992 thanks to the combined failures of this show, ProStars, Space Cats and Wish Kid.
• Franchise Killer: While Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights was the inglorious end for Yogi's Hanna-Barbera productions, this was the last TV series to star him and his friends—ending a fairly consistent streak of various shows and relegating the characters to one-off specials or guest appearances. It would not be until Jellystone! (first announced in 2019) that they'd get their own show again.
• Kids' Meal Toy: McDonald's released a set of four racing toys in Canada in 1992; Yogi on a jet ski, Boo-Boo on a skateboard, Cindy on a motor scooter, and Huckleberry Hound in a drag racer.
• Role Reprise:
  • Don Messick returns as Boo Boo, Muttley, Atom Ant, Pixie, and Squiddly Diddly (the last being a reprise from Yogi's Gang). For whatever reason, he does not reprise Ranger Smith, who is instead voiced by Greg Burson.
  • Allan Melvin reprises Magilla Gorilla for his appearance as "Magilla Ice".
  • John Stephenson once again voices Doggie Daddy, which he had been doing since Yogi's Ark Lark in 1972.

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