Yogi the Easter Bear is a 1994 Easter Special by Hanna-Barbera starring Yogi Bear.
After eating all of the Easter candy intended for Jellystone's Easter Jamboree, Yogi is tasked with finding the Easter Bunny to fix everything and redeem himself. On his journey, he finds that the Easter Bunny has been kidnapped by Paulie, a plastic-obsessed businessman who schemes to destroy the Easter Bunny's supply of Easter eggs and replace them with his brand of plastic eggs.
Followed by Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights later that year, which featured Yogi & Boo-Boo in a large segment. As a lead character, this was Yogi's swan song (shorts and commercials aside) until the 2010 live action movie.
Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: The Grand Grizzly gets Yogi and Boo-Boo's names wrong.
- Big Bad: The main villain is Paulie, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who kidnaps the Easter Bunny as part of his scheme to make a profit by replacing Easter eggs with plastic eggs.
- Childhood Brain Damage: Paulie at one point asks his dim-witted lackey Ernest if his mother dropped him when he was a child.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Paulie is the owner of a plastics factory who plans to replace Easter eggs with plastic eggs for profit.
- Dartboard of Hate: Paulie's first scene has him throw a dart at a picture of the Easter Bunny.
- Easter Bunny: Yogi sets out to find him to make up for ruining the Easter Jamboree by eating all the candy.
- Easter Special: This is an Easter special starring Yogi Bear.
- Evil Plan: Paulie's scheme is to kidnap the Easter Bunny, destroy his supply of Easter eggs and then make a profit by selling plastic eggs.
- False Teeth Tomfoolery: During his rant on how much he loves plastic, Paulie reveals that he has plastic false teeth.
- Fantastic Plastic: Paulie is shown to be obsessed with plastic because he delights in how it can apparently be used to make virtually anything. He ends up revealing that he wears clothes, a toupee and a set of dentures that are all made of plastic.
- Flag Drop: One drops behind the Commissioner with a heavy *thud* while he gave a speech to the kids of the Jamboree on how much he enjoys camping.
- Hollywood Healing: After arriving in Jellystone, the Easter Bunny is quite literally able to shake off the injuries he attained during the journey with no explanation why, although it could be because he's magical in nature.
- Hypocritical Humor: Yogi and Boo-Boo consult the Grand Grizzly to find out where they can find the Easter Bunny, with some difficulty in communication arising from the Grand Grizzly being hard of hearing. After he finally tells them what he knows and before ordering them to leave, the Grand Grizzly asks "What are ya, deaf?"
- Number Two for Brains: Paulie's lackey Ernest is a total moron.
- Top-Heavy Guy: Supreme Commissioner Clarence is a huge, strong man with very tiny legs.
- Scary Stinging Swarm: Paulie and Ernest's ultimate fate is to be chased and stung by bees.
