Sometime between 1999 and 2000, Ren & Stimpy creator, John Kricfalusi made three shorts based on Hanna-Barbera's Yogi Bear franchise. Two were made-for-TV specials, and the other was a Flash animation.
A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith takes a look at... Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
Boo Boo Runs Wild has Boo Boo become a feral beast after getting fed up with Ranger Smith's rules.
Boo Boo and the Man has Boo Boo getting tormented by a group of bully bears for hanging out with Yogi.
The shorts in general contains examples of:
- Creator Cameo: John K. voices Boo Boo in all shorts.
- He also voices a tree in one of the shorts.
- Darker and Edgier: We did mention the shorts were made by the creator of Ren & Stimpy, right?
- A Day in the Limelight: Two of the shorts have Ranger Smith as the star.
- Deranged Park Ranger: Downplayed. Ranger Smith is depicted as a Lawful Stupid law enforcer forcing animals to follow human rules, like preventing Yogi and Boo Boo from going outside naked.
- Mind Screw: Let's just say the shorts make far less sense than anything from the original Yogi Bear.
- Stock Scream: Used from the Hanna-Barbera sound effect library.
"A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith" contains examples of:
- Art Shift: One scene has Ranger Smith changing his appearance every time he passes a tree.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin
- Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras: At one point, this sound effect was used for the forest (which is in a national park, mind you).
- Silly Animal Sound: At one point, Ranger Smith talks to an offscreen moose that makes chimpanzee sounds.
- Take Our Word for It: How Ranger Smith feeds the owls is "not for civilian eyes".
"Boo Boo Runs Wild" contains examples of:
- Actually Pretty Funny: At the ending, after Boo Boo instinctively tears Ranger Smith's shorts (exposing his boxers) as if he was tearing bark off a tree, the ranger looks at him with discipline. He doesn't take kindly to Yogi slapping his butt after that, either. But after Boo Boo slaps his butt while his back's turned, the ranger noticably starts cracking up, and even he ends up slapping both their asses.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Upon seeing Boo Boo having turned feral, Cindy doesn't hesitate to cheat on Yogi.
- And This Is for...:Yogi: No hard feelings, [Ranger Smith], but this is for Boo Boo!
- Angrish: Yogi and Boo Boo grumble like this twice in the same scene when they get annoyed by Ranger Smith's unfair rules.
- Aside Glance: Boo Boo gives the audience a rather annoyed one when Ranger Smith scolds him for leaving his cave without any attire on.
- Bears Are Bad News: Boo Boo plays this trope straight when he becomes feral.
- Cranial Eruption: Ranger Smith after Yogi bashes a lamp over his head to keep him from killing Boo Boo.
- Crossdressing Voice: In the scene where Boo Boo rips the bark off the trees, one of the trees appears to be female, but has a male voice. However, she does have a female scream.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Done by Yogi, Boo Boo, and Ranger Smith.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin
- Eye Twitch: Boo Boo before his Freak Out.
- Freak Out: Boo Boo when he gets fed up with the ranger's rules.
- Gasp!: Boo Boo when he snaps out of his feral state as he sees Yogi and Ranger Smith fighting.
- Going Native: Boo Boo gets so fed up enough with the ranger's rules, he enters a feral state. Cindy Bear even joins him.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: This goes to show how close Yogi and Boo Boo are, in its own way. Namely, Yogi does all he can to save Boo Boo when Ranger Smith attempts to kill him, including a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Likewise, after some slight deliberation, he calls Cindy a Homewrecker after he finds Boo Boo and Cindy sharing a romantic hive of honey.
- Mercy Kill: Ranger Smith gets forced to do this to Boo Boo. Luckily, Yogi is able to stop him.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Yogi delivers this to Ranger Smith to keep him from killing Boo Boo.
- Overly-Long Tongue: Boo Boo has this in his feral state.
- Shout-Out: At the beginning of the special, there is a moose that speaks with a Bullwinkle-sounding voice.
- Water Wake-up: Ranger Smith does this to Boo Boo to wake him up from his coma after getting knocked out by him fighting with Yogi.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: One scene has Cindy Bear turning into a feral beast like Boo Boo. Boo Boo gets cured by the end, but we don't see what became of Cindy.
- When Trees Attack: One scene has Yogi running through a forest filled with trees with menacing-looking faces.
- You Should Have Died Instead: A non-past tense example when Ranger Smith gets upset over being forced to Mercy Kill Boo Boo:Ranger Smith: Why wasn't it you, Yogi? Why didn't you go wild? It'd be easy then!
"Boo Boo and the Man" contains examples of:
- Bee Afraid: The bully bears torment Boo Boo by shoving a bee through his ear and into his brain."Bee in my brain!!! Bee in my brain!!!"
- Big Ball of Violence: Happens when the bully bears beat Boo Boo.
- Eye Scream: The bee stings Boo Boo on the inside of his eye.
- Malicious Misnaming: The lead bully bear refers to Boo Boo as "Booby" and "Bobo".
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The bully bears give this to Boo Boo, but are immediately stopped by Ranger Smith.
- Oh, Crap!: The bully bears when they hear Ranger Smith arriving.
- Precision F-Strike: "Hell" is used at one point.
- Stock Audio Clip: Boo Boo's screaming from his Freak Out in "Boo Boo Runs Wild" is used when the bee stings the inside of his eye.
