Yogi Bear's Big Break - Plot Synopsis

Plot Synopsis

Yogi wants to get as far away from Jellystone Park and its patronizing tourists as he can (in later episodes, he would become a notorious tourist stalker and food thief). He devises a series of elaborate but futile escape plans, several of which are foiled by a sharp-eyed park ranger (an early prototype of Ranger Smith).

• Yogi's first attempt is crawling underneath the ranger's eyes, but unfortunately, a few tourists in a car saw Yogi and said "Look at the bear! Look at the bear!", the ranger than sees Yogi and then the bear crawls back.

• Yogi's second attempt is to ride on the back of a car, but the ranger saw him and Yogi walked back into the park.

• Yogi then attempts to escape by riding in a trailer disguised as a woman. When the ranger asks if "she" enjoyed the park, Yogi says it's the "craziest". The ranger finally realizes that the woman is actually Yogi, foiling the escape.

• Next, he plays dead on a departing car, as if the driver had shot him. The ranger tells the driver that bear hunting is not allowed. The confused driver responds: "Bear hunting? Who's bear hunting?" The ranger then realizes the trick and tells the driver that if Yogi has really been shot, he can be taken out of the park. Pretending to verify that the bear is really dead, the ranger sticks a pin into him, exposing the ruse. Yogi runs back into the park yowling in pain.

• Yogi then attempts to escape by pole vaulting over the wall and out of the park. However, he accidentally sticks the pole into a gopher hole where it sinks to its full height. Yogi then comments "That is one big gopher hole."

• Next, he attempts to dig a tunnel under the ranger station and out of the park. Instead, Yogi emerges in the ranger station.

• Yogi's next attempt is to use a pine tree as a catapult and a parachute to float out of the park. However when the rope is released, Yogi falls flat on the ground.

• Yogi tries a second attempt to catapult out of the park. He finally lets go, but crashes onto another tree.

• Yogi makes one more attempt to catapult out of the park, which is almost successful; however, he floats down into a park maintenance truck that returns to the park.

• Yogi's final attempt to get out of the park is by blasting himself out of a cannon. But before the cannon fires, the ranger comes and asks Boo-Boo Bear where Yogi is. Boo-Boo pretends he hasn't seen Yogi. The ranger then says that it's bear hunting season. The cannon then blasts Yogi out of the park, which leads to Yogi being chased by hunters. As the short closes, he tells the audience "I've only been out two minutes and I'm homesick for the park already".