''Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey'' is a

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animated television series that premiered September 16, 1964. It was presented as a segment of ''

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'', along with ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Plot

Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey are

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s who serve the

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as his Royal Guards. They are usually called the goofy guards by the king. They must always protect, serve and obey the King. They are loosely based on the

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. The King doesn't like calling them, because due to their incompetence the King ends up being accidentally hurt, bruised, squashed, and involved in various disasters in each episode. At times, the three heroes find themselves fighting a fire-breathing

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and other villains. A common mistake in nearly every short is that Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey's voices tend to get mixed up with one another. Irving Berlin wrote a stage show while in the

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during

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entitled "Yip Yip Yaphank" at Camp Yaphank from which names were taken for this cartoon. Yahooey spoke very much like

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Episode list

The show had 23 episodes of 6 minutes each.

Voice cast

* Doug Young - Yippee * Hal Smith - Yappee, The King * Daws Butler - Yahooey

DVD release

The episode "The Volunteers" is available on the DVD ''Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's vol. 1''. The episode "Black Bart" is available on the DVD ''Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's vol. 2''.

Pop culture

In the later animated TV series '' Animaniacs'', the character

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claims

Yakko, Wakko and Dot This is a list of characters in the 1993 animated series, ''Animaniacs'', and its 2020 revival. The Warner Siblings (Animaniacs) The Warner Siblings (also known as "the Animaniacs" by fans and the media) are small, silly, mischievous, anthro ...

remind her of a young Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey. The Warners look puzzled, and Dot said she does not know who they are, or what she meant by that statement. Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey appear in '' Jellystone!'', with Yippee played by

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, Yappee by Grace Helbig, and Yahooey by

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. Yappee is female in the show.

''Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey'' in other languages

* Spanish: ''Viva, Bravo y Hurra'' * Italian: ''Tippete, Tappete, Toppete'' * Brazilian: ''Mosquete, Mosquito e Moscato''

References

External links

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