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7 unusual facts about Yosemite Sam


Canberra Cavalry

The Canberra Cavalry team mascot is a Yosemite Sam-type character named 'Sarge', with an Australian slouch hat, Cavalry-orange shirt, Auscam pants and brown Army boots.

Fair Harvard

The music also makes an appearance in the 1951 Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies animated cartoon Ballot Box Bunny featuring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, as well as in the opening bars of the 1982-83 #1 pop hit Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners.

Phil Garner

His icon at the time was the scrappy, similarly-mustachioed cartoon hero Yosemite Sam.

Taz: Wanted

Suddenly, the two see a large shadow in the sky, and the two are captured by Yosemite Sam, held captive in Sam's Zoo, otherwise known as Yosemite Zoo.

Yosemite Sam - The secondary antagonist of the game, a bad-tempered and dishonest billionaire, Sam aims to capture Taz for his recently opened Taz Land theme park.

Waverley, Nova Scotia

The mascot of Gold Rush Days is a cartoon character resembling Yosemite Sam called Gold Rush Gus.

Wolf Devil Woman

The English-dubbed version of the film is notable for its bizarre vocal performances, particularly the vocal performance for the film's antagonist, "The Devil", who speaks like American cartoon character Yosemite Sam.


14 Carrot Rabbit

The basic plot of 14 Carrot Rabbit takes place during the gold rush in The Klondike, Yukon, and centers on Yosemite Sam (here as Chilkoot Sam) whose attempts are to steal other people's gold.

Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies

Daffy Duck is in Hollywood producing a movie about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, starring himself; also appearing in the film are Porky Pig, Petunia Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Charlie Dog.

Dare Devil Dive

That name was inspired by a Bugs Bunny cartoon, High Diving Hare, in which Yosemite Sam attempts to coerce Bugs Bunny into performing a high-diving act when the show's star, Fearless Freep, is unavailable.

Greg Burson

He also voiced several other Looney Tunes characters including Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Pepé Le Pew and Foghorn Leghorn on the hit Warner Bros. animated television series Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries and Taz-Mania.

Hare-Abian Nights

Bugs also recounts his encounter with Yosemite Sam in the Sahara Desert in 1955's Sahara Hare, referring to Sam as "the stupidest character of them all", while recounting Sam's unsuccessful attempts to enter a desert fort.

Punk in Drublic

Track 17 contains a hidden track starting at 5:29; guitarist El Hefe performs impressions of cartoon characters, such as Yosemite Sam and Popeye.

This Is a Life?

Meanwhile, Bugs reminisces with Elmer and Yosemite Sam about their previous encounters (reviewed via footage from past Bugs Bunny cartoons A Hare Grows in Manhattan, Buccaneer Bunny, and Hare Do).


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Along Came Daffy

Along Came Daffy is one of only two Warner Bros. shorts (the other being Honey's Money) in which Yosemite Sam is not paired with Bugs Bunny (although at one point Daffy does ask, "What's cookin', Doc?", a variant of Bugs's "What's up, Doc?" catchphrase along with the famous "eh" and the imitated 'carrot chewing').

Hare-Abian Nights

At this point, while Bugs is chuckling at Yosemite Sam's misfortunes in Sahara Hare, the sultan, who turns out to be none other than Yosemite Sam himself, tries to press the button to drop Bugs, only to find that Bugs has shut off the master switch, frustrating Sam.