| Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Joseph Barbera William Hanna |
| Written by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera Jakey Benjamin-Claymar |
| Directed by | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| No. of episodes | 23 |
| Original release | |
| Release | September 16, 1964 – October 23, 1966 |
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.[1]
Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey are dogs who serve the King 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 Three Musketeers.[2] The King doesn't like calling them, 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. Irving Berlin wrote a stage show while in the Army during World War I entitled "Yip Yip Yaphank" at Camp Yaphank from which names were taken for this cartoon.[citation needed] Yahooey spoke very much like Jerry Lewis.
The show had 23 episodes of 6 minutes each.
| # | Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Volunteers | Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey are trained by Sergeant to become soldiers, but their clumsiness becomes too much for the Sergeant and eventually makes the King mad. |
| 2 | Black Bart | Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey get fired by the King for overuse of his money on things like sword polish. But they get their jobs back when they unwittingly keep him away from the notorious highwayman Black Bart, who is mistaken by the King for Yahooey. |
| 3 | Double Dragon | |
| 4 | Outlaw In-Law | |
| 5 | Horse Shoo Fly | |
| 6 | Wild Child | |
| 7 | Witch is Which? | |
| 8 | Wise Quacking | |
| 9 | Nautical Nitwits | |
| 10 | Job Robbed | |
| 11 | Unicorn on the Cob | The King hires Yippie, Yappee, and Yahooey to help him catch a unicorn. |
| 12 | Mouse Rout | |
| 13 | Handy Dandy Lion | |
| 14 | Sappy Birthday | |
| 15 | King of the Roadhogs | |
| 16 | Palace Pal Panic | |
| 17 | Sleepy Time King | |
| 18 | Pie Pie Blackbird | |
| 19 | What the Hex Going On? | |
| 20 | Eviction Capers | |
| 21 | Hero Sandwiched | |
| 22 | Throne for a Loss | |
| 23 | Royal Rhubarb |
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.
In the later animated TV series Animaniacs, 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!, with Yippee played by Jim Conroy, Yappee by Grace Helbig, and Yahooey by C. H. Greenblatt. Yappee is female in the show.[3][4]