Yogi's First Christmas.

 

                                          Yogi's First Christmas.

I grew up on Yogi bear and Roger Ramjet plus a lot of other great 

movies and T.V. shows but I was into everything Christmas just as long 

as it was animated. This one I have watched so many times and it gets 

better every time I see it. Not only did Rankin/Bass make iconic movies 

but Hanna Barbara make some amazing T.V. shows and Christmas 

movies and this one ranks up there with the best of them. So, with that, 

lets get to the story shall we:

Yogi and his little pal, Boo Boo, are usually hibernating during 

the Christmas season, but this year they are awakened 

when Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Augie Doggie and Doggie 

Daddy come to Jellystone Lodge for the holiday. They are joined by 

Ranger Smith, hotel manager Mr. Dingwell, Otto the chef, and lodge 

owner Sophie Throckmorton and her spoiled brat of a nephew, Snively. 

The gang is obsessed with keeping Mrs. Throckmorton happy to keep her 

from closing down the lodge, which has become unpopular due to 

activity caused by Herman the Hermit, a grumpy Christmas-hating 

hermit who just wants to be left alone.

Yogi and Boo Boo are put to work as employees of the lodge. Yogi is first 

ordered to operate the snowplow, to which he saves Mrs. Throckmorton 

on the road from an avalanche caused by Herman. Later, Yogi is working 

as a bellboy, where he is tasked by Ranger Smith to stay on Mrs. 

Throckmorton's good side. Though Snively tries to embarrass Yogi with 

his pranks, Yogi comes out on top. In another attempt to degrade Yogi, 

Snively tricks him into entering a figure skating contest, which Snively is 

also a participant. Although Snively earns high marks, Mrs. 

Throckmorton covertly wishes Snively would lose in order to tame his 

poor attitude. Yogi, the last contestant, manages to impress the judges 

well enough to earn the highest marks and win. Snively is a sore loser 

and enraged that Yogi beat him at his own game, but his aunt Sophie 

says that Yogi won fair and square and losing is a lesson of life. Fed up 

with Snively's antics, Yogi gets revenge on him during an ice 

fishing contest, with Mrs. Throckmorton agreeing that he needed to be 

taught a lesson. Furious, Snively runs away and meets up with Herman, 

and the two team up to ruin Christmas.

However, Yogi manages to thwart them every time. Cindy Bear also 

awakens from her hibernation, to help Yogi out (due to her love and 

concern for him). Eventually, Herman and Snively are forgiven, invited to 

the Christmas celebrations and they have a profound change of heart at 

such generosity of spirit. Then in the midst of the festivities, Santa 

Claus plummets down the chimney bearing a picnic basket full of food 

for Yogi. Yogi, however, falls asleep, due to his natural instincts 

of hibernation. Santa then says that Yogi and Boo Boo can have the 

basket when they wake up in the spring. With that, the partiers return 

Yogi, Boo Boo and Cindy to their caves for the rest of their hibernation.