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Contrary to the credit on the comic strip, this version of Yogi was not actually created by Hanna or Barbera. This kind of thing often happens with derivative features such as this. In the case of Yogi, Gene Hazelton was the original creator on the strip, and many other ghost artists contributed to it over the years.

The implication in this strip is that Yogi and Santa Claus have some kind of relationship, and a close enough one that Santa would think to call Yogi to bail him out of jail. I'm interested to find out how this relationship began, and whether or not it's persisted in the Hanna-Barberaverse or not. Of course, more interesting than the fact that Yogi personally knows Santa is that the desk sergeant apparently doesn't even recognize Santa at all. This suggests that Christmas isn't a very widely celebrated holiday in the H-BU, and also that the reason why you may not get any presents in this world isn't because you've been bad, but because Santa's been detained.