''Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey'' is a Hanna-Barbera animated television series that premiered September 16, 1964. It was presented as a segment of '' The Peter Potamus Show'', along with '' Breezly and Sneezly'' and '' Peter Potamus''.

Plot

Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey are

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s who serve the

King King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...

as his

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s. 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 dragon 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.

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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 Jerry Lewis.

Episode list

The show had 23 episodes of 6 minutes each.

Voice cast

* Doug Young - Yippee * Hal Smith - Yappee, The King *

Daws Butler Charles Dawson Butler (November 16, 1916May 18, 1988) was an American voice actor. He worked mostly for the Hanna-Barbera animation production company where he originated the voices of many familiar characters, including Yogi Bear, Huckleberry H ...

- 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 ''Animaniacs'' is an American animated comedy musical television series created by Tom Ruegger for Fox Broadcasting Company's Fox Kids block in 1993, before moving to The WB in 1995, as part of its Kids' WB afternoon programming block, until ...

'', the character Slappy Squirrel claims Yakko, Wakko and Dot 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! ''Jellystone!'' is an American animated streaming television comedy series developed by C. H. Greenblatt for HBO Max. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Animation and features reimagined versions of various characters by Hanna-Barbera. It pr ...

'', with Yippee played by

Jim Conroy Jim Conroy (born September 17, 1970) is an American actor and television writer known for appearing on television shows and movies, such as ''The Cuphead Show!'', ''Jellystone!'', ''Kenny the Shark'' and '' Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman'', as well a ...

, Yappee by

Grace Helbig Grace Anne Helbig is an American comedian, actress, and internet personality. She is the co-creator and co-host of the podcast ''This Might Get Weird'' (2018–present) alongside frequent collaborator Mamrie Hart and is the voice of Cindy Bear ...

, and Yahooey by C. H. Greenblatt. Yappee is female in the show.

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

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...

: ''Viva, Bravo y Hurra'' *

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

: ''Tippete, Tappete, Toppete'' * Brazilian: ''Mosquete, Mosquito e Moscato''

References

External links

Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey
at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Archived
from the original on September 11, 2015.

at Wingnuttoons 1960s American animated television series 1964 American television series debuts 1966 American television series endings American children's animated comedy television series Animated television series about dogs English-language television shows Television series by Hanna-Barbera Hanna-Barbera characters {{HannaBarbera-stub