Reasons you will hate me

I'm fairly sure Yogi's nephew was Boo-Boo.

I have a theory that the creators of these characters were all paedophiles.

Its just a theory.

But it's an interesting topic for dinner party conversation.

ohhh, so they were 'funny' uncles.



I had my suspicions.

Yogi's Nephew and faithful side-kick was Boo-Boo... Ms. Fits, I'd like to recommed a pass-time that I have found very satisfying over the years that is Yogi related.... Next time someone is looking baffled at some broken technology (car, computer, guitar amp...) wander up looking like you know what you talking about and tell them that the problematic part of the technology is the mattayogi as in, 'Yeah, I rekkon your mattayogi is shot...Gotta get the mattayogi fixed'.. When they inevitably ask 'Whats a mattayogi???' reply in your best Yogi bear voice***: 'Nothing, whats a matter with you Boo-boo!!' This is probably my favourite non-knock knock joke (along with the pie-cost, the Emdur and the newie Hokey Pokey Funeral). You may have heard this but if not I hope it gives you a laugh...

***Appropriate to note that the youger generations don't necessarily know who Yogi is... Then you look kinda weird but in a cool way doing the silly Yogi voice...

last night at dinner we had a similar conversation trying to remember the butler's name from 'fresh prince of bel air' ... how disappointing when i finally figured out it was "geoffrey" ... the waitress was similarly unimpressed

Why are all the cartoon fathers absent?

The name is definitely Boo-Boo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Bear

BUT wikipedia describes him as Yogi's reluctant best friend, rather than nephew.

And as to being funny, Yogi wears a hat, tie and collar but has NO PANTS. And if you look carefully his body actually appears to be a bear-suit - he appears to be wearing the skin of another bear.

of course yogi doesn't wear pants. they'd severely restrict his ability to shit in the woods.

Ms Fits, I think you may have answered your own question ...

... what would a PANTLESS animal use to fill his woman with seed and bring a healthy, squalling pig/duck/mouse/dog into the world?

Do you not think that if they had the necessary equiptment, they wouldn't be allowed to wander around sans pants?

I'm certain there is an adults-only Donald Duck comic somewhere (I can hear the puns already). If there isn't, I will pldge to walk around sans pants myself.

(ha, now it's up to you to prove that something doesn't exist)

Can I suggest, if you are of a strong constitution, that you google under images "donald daisy xxx" and see what treasures it returns.

There is no end to the boredom and depravity of some individuals*












*Don't even ask how I know this.

i'm almost positive that egghead jnr was the son of a saucy old hen that foghorn leghorn was trying to get to roost with him, rather than his nephew.

i'm also pretty sure this doesn't really matter, in the scheme of things. carry on.

Sylvester the Cat had a son.

Toontracker.com refers to Boo-Boo as Yogi's "diminutive friend". They also note that the Yogi Bear Show premiered on the Huckleberry Hound Show. I think Huck was another male cartoon star without a female companion or offspring..

goofy also had a son.
this son was called max and appeared when goofy got his own show in the 90's called the goof troop.
HOWEVER .. there is no mention anywhere of a mrs goofy. nor is there a mrs sylvester.
so it would seem they managed to reproduce without equipment or women.

Sylvester the cat, of course. At least one of the old queers was reproducing.


Nice to see you drop by, William Miller.

p.s. hopelesslybored, stillhopless, stillhopelesslydevoted - so many names. So much hopelessness. COINCIDENCE?

sometimes i'm anonymous too.

happy to be of service, ma'am

Where are their siblings as well? For example, where was Donald's brother?

Tinky Winky from the teletubbies apparently had three nephews: Bruce, Lance, and Julian.

BS Fairman, it may surprise you to know that sisters can bring forth nephews as well as brothers. Everybody knows Donalds brother's plane was shot down over the Crimea in 1942*, but Huey, Dewey and Louie were in fact Donald's sisters ducklings. Her name was "Della Thelma Duck". Donald adopted the three. Maybe Della drank.

* I made this up but it's plausible.

quite off the topic of creepy cartoon progeny, did anyone see neighbours tonight? yowzer! a russian mail-order bride for lou, an unwanted pregancy trap for janae to "hang on to" boyd, and dr. karl embroiled in the dirty factionalism of the liberal party of australia! has ramsay street entered the culture wars?

I reckon the plethora of nephews is so that there could be a sort-of father-son relationship going on in the comics that managed to avoid the tricky question of sex. That way cartoon uncles could be masculine without any inference that they were fucking around off screen. Having kid characters is also a good way of engaging younger viewers.

That said, I still find the whole scenario re Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson rampantly homoerotic!

I don't think there's anything "interesting" going on. What sort of girl would want one of these characters fathering their child.

I mean c'mon, they all wonder around the world getting involved in crazy (pantless) hi-jinks constantly. I'm sure none of them could keep a relationship going long enough to father a child.

Then again, Bugs Bunny did like to put on a skirt and play girl bunny sometimes...

Wake up Gabi!

"Then again, Bugs Bunny did like to put on a skirt and play girl bunny sometimes..."

sometimes! He cross-dressed in almost every 'toon.

And, Henery Chickenhawk had a dad.

In a parallel universe, some people are having the same conversation. I wish I had the drugs you people all evidently use.

Whoa - I go away for a few days and look what happens behind my back!

The mention Kermit and Robin got my heart racing. Did you know that Miss Piggy also had twin nephews in the shortlived 90s series Muppets Tonight, called Andy and Randy* Pig? Well, it's true. Absolutely (un)fascinating, isn't it! They were as dumb as doorposts.

* Dirty minds begone, please.

I was going to offer up the news that Sylvester and Goofy have both had sons, although others beat me to it. Until Goof Troop, and the movies spawned therefrom (A Goofy Movie and An Extremely Goofy Movie), Sylvester held a cartoon lore 'record' for being the only (mainstream) character to ever raise their own child rather than a niece or nephew.

And in both instances, the mothers were never seen (or referenced).

The reason for this is something along the lines of what I think Richard Watts was saying before; that traditionally, cartoonists didn't think it was appropriate for kids to have to wonder about what their charmingly pristine and sterile characters were doing offscreen in order to produce offspring. It was always deemed more appropriate that one of their siblings instead produced the offspring, and for this reason you never saw the parents of the children involved (because that would then make the kiddies' minds think of what the cartoonists were trying to avoid them thinking about in the first place).

Remember, this was back in the 50s and so on, when sex wasn't something young people thought about. :)

(Or more to the point, parents would have been outraged if cartoons had their children asking "Where do I come from?" before their time.)

Since then, it's become part of cartoon tradition to always make children characters a niece or nephew of the main character (this is just like the tradition of phone numbers starting with '555' in films and on TV).

The only exception to this rule was when the Flintstones had Pebbles and the Rubbles had Bamm-Bamm. But Bamm-Bamm was left on the Rubbles' doorstep, so Wilma was the first regular cartoon character who was shown to be pregnant. Ground-breaking stuff.

(The Flintstones was also the first primetime show on television to show a married couple sharing the same bed. Before that, it was matching single beds only. It truly was a big show for breaking down social taboos - and don't I know some useless trivia?!)

Dumbo the elephant was also delivered by stork in the movie of the same name.

Additionally, Fluffy was right when she said that Huey, Dewey and Louie were in fact Donald's sister's children. I'm not sure if this is part of what she thought she was making up (or if she only meant that she was making up the part about the character's unfortunate death), but it has been stated in Disney cannon a few times that the boys' mother was Donald's sister, Dumbella Duck. And no, we've never met her.

Just so you know (because I know you're wondering), Uncle Scrooge ended up looking after Huey, Dewey and Louie after Donald 'rejoined the navy'. Scrooge also had a niece, Webby (Webagail), who was presumably a niece from a different relative to Dumbella, because Webby was not Huey, Dewey and Louie's sister, but rather their (second- or third-) cousin.

Another obvious example of a cartoon nephew was Scooby-Doo's nephew Scrappy-Doo. Perhaps you were thinking of this pairing when you mistakenly attributed Boo-Boo to Yogi as his nephew.

I hope this has been educational for all. For further reading on the Disney characters listed above (including Goofy's son Max, Donald Duck's family tree and Mickey's twin nephews Morty and Ferdie), you can find more information here.

(So now who's the sad one?)

Foghorn Leghorn was not the uncle to the egghead rooster boy. The boy was the son of a hen that Foghorn was attempting to court in a Southern "take the boy under his wing" kinda of move.

Now I want to know if Boo-Boo was really Yogi's nephew. I always thought he was his little "buddy.

actually, goofy's wife and son both appeared in several of the theatrical short cartoons. Goofy's son was not originally "max" like on goof troop, but "George Geef Junior." Goofy's son was also originally a red-head. He must've dyed it black to be more like daddy.

Of course, Goofy and his wife slept in twin beds, which brings into question the legitimacy of Goof's claims to fatherhood- maybe it was the milkman, or artificial...well, you get the idea...

also, Pluto had 4 puppies with that cute fluffy pooch next door, in the 1937 cartoon Pluto's quin-tuplets, though maybe since he walks on all fours and doesn't talk, it was okay to imply that he "did the deed and sowed the seed."