Today I was writing an article about the Top 10 Fictional Bears of all-time. I briefly touched on a subject that has always bothered me about a certain fictional bear. I’ve never talked about it before because nobody has ever mentioned it before but finally I must address it here.
What the heck is up with Yogi Bear’s attire?
Okay, so dress attire has never been a strong suit (get it? dress attire, suit? Ha!) in cartoons. Mickey Mouse has pants but no shirt. Donald Duck has a shirt but no pants. Bugs Bunny doesn’t wear clothes when he’s himself, but wears clothes when he wants to be a woman (which is another whole topic.) But Yogi Bear has the most ridiculous outfit of all.
Yogi Bear wears a tie. That’s cool, i can respect that. But apparently Yogi doesn’t want to wear a shirt. Now Yogi could just tie the tie around his neck and no problem. But instead Yogi has the collar of a shirt so that he can tie his tie around his neck. However, he doesn’t wear the rest of the shirt! Just the collar. What? Why? This makes no sense!
Wearing a collar without a shirt would be like wearing shoe laces without shoes or wearing belts without pants. How ridiculous would that look? So please Yogi Bear, put on a shirt or take off the tie!
On a sidenote, my top 10 fictional bears list made me reminisce about one of my favorite bears, Paddington Bear. I used to love Paddington Bear but haven’t seen the show in probably 20 years. So of course I looked him up on YouTube and sure enough I found several episodes, including the episode where Paddington Bear takes a “dry bath” because it’s “safer than using water and much less messy.”
