Yogi makes a Boo-Boo / “Super Tibetan Racer”


It’s a rainy day Day-After-Thanksgiving, with little to do. How ’bout an animated Dharma-Burger, or two?

(Sorry for the Yogi Bear-style rhyme, but it’s infectious.) Fact is, this one’s more an Asia-Burger. Yogi’s Treasure Hunt: Beswitched, Buddha’d, and Bewildered comes complete with mildly “Asian” music, geisha and sumo stereotypes, and a reference to “the mysterious Orient” (when was this written, anyway?). Also notable: the way the cartoon seems to encourage the thieving of priceless religious relics, and the two strange, seemingly sexual innuendos included. It’s also woefully unfunny. As Top Cat himself says in this cartoon, “The Buddha you found ain’t the real McCoy.”

On the other side of the spectrum is Super Tibetan Racer. This sweet little animated short may ring true with anyone who’s ever sat meditation and thought, I’m getting there!, only to crash and burn. Enjoy.

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    When was Yogi Bear ever funny? :)

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    Actually, I hear ya, GF, but he actually could be pretty funny, at times, back in the day. And then, a few years back, John Kricfalusi (of “Ren and Stimpy” fame) was hired to do an update of Yogi, and the episodes he did were kind of weirdly dark and self-referential in a surprising way. A sort of “Meta-Yogi.”

    (As opposed to a “metta yogi,” I guess…)

    And they were funny, too…

    Rock that fez!

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