Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey


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 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. 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. Yahooey spoke very much like Jerry Lewis.

Episode list

The show had 23 episodes of 6 minutes each.
#TitleSummary
1The VolunteersYippee, 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.
2Black BartYippee, 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.
3Double Dragon
4Outlaw In-Law
5Horse Shoo Fly
6Wild Child
7Witch is Which?
8Wise Quacking
9Nautical Nitwits
10Job Robbed
11Unicorn on the CobThe King hires Yippie, Yappee, and Yahooey to help him catch a unicorn.
12Mouse Rout
13Handy Dandy Lion
14Sappy Birthday
15King of the Roadhogs
16Palace Pal Panic
17Sleepy Time King
18Pie Pie Blackbird
19What the Hex Going On?
20Eviction Capers
21Hero Sandwiched
22Throne for a Loss
23Royal Rhubarb

Voice cast

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 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.

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