Now I've Seen Everything: Goldilocks & the Three Yetis

Now I've Seen Everything: Goldilocks & the Three Yetis

Now I've Seen Everything: Yeti as Jesus

Now I've Seen Everything: Yeti as Jesus

Now I've Seen Everything: Floating translucent yeti with a parasol

Now I've Seen Everything: A floating translucent yeti with a parasol

Now I've Seen Everything: Yeti as flying Gandalf Monk Mentor to Hercules, Mulan, Ulysses & animals/dinos (aka Kids Cartoon: Super Little Fanta Heroes)

The kids cartoon "Super Little Fanta Heroes" (1997) has this description:

Gifted with their ancestors’ virtues, the heroes featured in these adventures are the following characters: Hercules and his friendly dog Cerberus, Hua Mulan and the friendly eagle Tylli, the Ninja Turtle Dragon, Ulysses – assisted by a Ram and Bear, King David and the cheetah Betsy, the Thief of Baghdad – aided and abetted by his cave lion Yubba, Jerome and the friendly cave cougar Bloody Knife with the buffalo Wapi, the protective Blue Yeti and two little dinosaurs named Knock and Hit.

Yep, a knock-off ninja turtle teams up with a motley crew of mythic characters and a bunch of random animals.  I'm going to come out and say it: This is the craziest cartoon of all time.

Great Yeti is sort of this Gandalf Monk to the heroes. He flies everyone on the back of a big blue bird but can also fly himself with his retinue of monks. Also, he has a magic sword that he can summon.  Oh man.... Great Yeti is amazing.

Now I've Seen Everything: Yeti as flying Gandalf Monk Mentor to Hercules, Mulan, Ulysses & animals/dinos

Now I've Seen Everything: Doom Patrol vs. Yeti

From the comic Doom Patrol, # 121 (December 1967)

Several surprises here...

First of all, it's 1967 and the yeti has horns.  This may be the first known recorded instance of a yeti depicted with horns.

And this may also be the first recorded instance of someone making the "Abdominal Snowman" joke.

Third of all, the yeti says "ARQQRRGH!"

Yep, with 2 Q's.

Then he says "UNGAAAAAAAA!"

And finally and most importantly, the yeti attack is interrupted by Beast Boy who gives him a pin depicting Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman.  He convinces the yeti that this is a mirror and he's looking at himself.

The yeti thinks he looks like Alfred E. Neuman.

WHA?

Now I've Seen Everything: Doom Patrol vs. Yeti. and all that entails.

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Note to self: Add "ARQQRRGH!", "UNGAAAAAAAA!", and "UNGA-UNGA-UNGA-UNGA!" to Everything Yeti Has Ever Said page, and then let's just close that thing down. We're done.

Now I've Seen Everything: Yeti Boop

Now I've Seen Everything: Yeti Boop  

Now I've Seen Everything: A McDonalds' Video Game (Yeti Arcade: Global Gladiators)

Global Gladiators (1992):

You the player must collect a certain number of Golden Arches to advance.

You are guided in your quest by Ronald McDonald.

You are armed with a Super Soaker-type gun that shoots gooey projectiles.

Now I've Seen Everything: A McDonalds' Video Game.

Now I've Seen Everything: Yeti vs. Laser Skeletons

Now I've Seen Everything: Yeti vs. Laser Skeletons

Now I've Seen Everything: Yetis Playing Poker

Now I've Seen Everything: Yetis Playing Poker

Giants

GIANTS.

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GIANT (digital background download for sale on Etsy)

GIANT

GIANT

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Yashima: Legend of the Icy Peaks (2015) was a board game expansion that enabled you as a player to super-power yourself by joining forces with a giant yeti.

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It Stands in the Snow (Source) - comic from 1956 has a surprise twist ending... a panel that is actually on its side. Here it is right-side up:

Happy Father's Day to the Silver Surfer, the Father of Yeti

Today I want to wish the Silver Surfer a Happy Father's Day. Here's why...

The Defenders were a Marvel superhero team consisting of Doctor Strange, Hulk, Namor (Submariner), the Silver Surfer, and Valkyrie.

In the second issue of the series (October 1972, The Defenders, Vol 1 #2 - "The Search for the Silver Surfer!"), Silver Surfer hadn't yet joined the group and was suspected of being a villain. In the first issue, he seemed to be acting as accomplice to an evil necromancer.

As part of their adventure, the team (sans Surfer) stumble into a Himalayan valley filled with yetis (of the brown variety). And a fight ensues. 

(Thanks to blogger Patrick D Gaertner for posting about this issue and sharing these images.)

During the fight, the Silver Surfer suddenly appears to defend the "harmless" yetis, proclaiming them his children.

Namor bull-rushes the Silver Surfer as he wishes him a Happy Father's Day - the ultimate retort.

The Incredible Hulk fights and insults the yeti, as he is wont to do (see here, here, here, and here (wish list # 6, please)), when he's not dressing up as one.

I'll let Gaertner comment:

"Words cannot describe how much I love this scene. It just gets better and better. Silver Surfer appearing and claiming that the crazy yetis that Hulk has been beating up are his children is good enough. But then Namor just immediately socks him in the face and yells “Well Happy Father’s Day.” It’s just beautiful."

Namor and Silver Surfer do stop fighting long enough to have a conversation.  Namor asks him what's up with his whole "being in league with an evil necromancer" thing. Surfer claims innocence. Turns out he has been devoting his life for many years to fostering and teaching this tribe of simple-minded yetis.

That's right, folks. The Silver Surfer is a dedicated father of a flurry of yetis.

Wait - could these be the same yetis that Surfer encountered in Issue # 1 of Silver Surfer (1968)?  They were white-furred then, and Surfer vowed to leave that "place of madness",  so I'm not sure what happened in 4 years. Did he go back? Plus, weren't they supposed to be living in another dimension, not the Himalayas?

It's a mystery.

Anyway, here's the craziest part of the Defenders' story: the Silver Surfer's children (i.e. the yetis) suddenly reveal themselves to be evil warlocks in disguise.  This whole time they had been pretending to be his yeti kids so they could gain his trust and control his mind. They got him to mess with Namor for an evil necromancer's plot. Their leader's name is Calizuma and his minions are called the "Warrior Wizards".

The Defenders be all like "nuh uh" and, now united with a vengeful Silver Surfer, team up to soundly beat the warlocks. And thus the Silver Surfer is recruited into the Defenders.

And that's the end of that.

So I second Namor's sentiment to the Silver Surfer, and this time without sarcasm.  If you did indeed devote your life to being the father of a tribe of yetis, teaching them and fostering them, only to be horrifically betrayed by them as they unveiled themselves to be your mind-controlling warrior wizard masters in yeti disguises all along... then I salute you on this day.

I want to wish you a most:

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, SILVER SURFER.


You deserve it.

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