We Bare Bears

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We Bare Bears
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Genre Animation
Comedy
Created by Daniel Chong
Based on The Three Bare Bears by Daniel Chong
Directed by Manny Hernandez
Voices of
Theme music composer Ivan Barias
Opening theme "We'll Be There", performed by Estelle
Composer(s) Brad Breeck
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 34 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Daniel Chong
Producer(s)
Running time 11 minutes
Production company(s) Cartoon Network Studios
Release
Original network Cartoon Network
Picture format HDTV 1080i
Audio format Stereo
Original release July 27, 2015 (2015-07-27) –
present

We Bare Bears is an American animated television series created by Daniel Chong. The show premiered on Cartoon Network and follows three bear siblings, Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear (respectively voiced by Eric Edelstein, Bobby Moynihan, and Demetri Martin), and their awkward attempts at integrating with the human world in the San Francisco Bay Area. Based on Chong's webcomic The Three Bare Bears, the pilot episode made its world premiere at the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, where it won in the "Young Amsterdam Audience" category. The series premiered on July 27, 2015.[1] This series is Cartoon Network's first original series based on a comic.

On August 12, 2015, Cartoon Network renewed the series for a second season.[2]

Plot

We Bare Bears follows three adoptive bear brothers: Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear. The bears attempt to integrate with human society, such as by purchasing food, making human companions or trying to become famous on the Internet, although these attempts see the bears struggle to do so due to the civilized nature of humans and their own animal instincts.[3] However, in the end, they soon figure out that they have each other for support.[4] One notable aspect of the show's humor is the bears' ability to form a "bear stack". As its name implies, the bears stack on top of each other, which serves as their unique way of transportation.[3]

Characters

Main

  • Grizzly "Grizz" (voiced by Eric Edelstein) is a grizzly bear, the oldest and the leader of the brothers. He is a fun-loving bear, who tends to get the others into random hijinks. Grizz is paradoxically highly-sociable yet socially inept. Despite this, he is constantly wanting to meet new people and tries to befriend everyone he comes across. As a baby, he was rescued by a team of firemen who prevented him from falling off a tree-top during a storm. It seems that he was younger than in the episode "The Road" and didn't know Ice Bear or Panda according to the flashback pictures in "Burrito".
  • Panda (voiced by Bobby Moynihan) is a giant panda. He is the second oldest of Grizzly and Ice Bear. He is tender-hearted and gets embarrassed easily. He is also good with technology, and uses that skill on online social media and dating sites. Panda has less self-confidence than his brothers. Panda is a vegetarian and has a severe allergy to peanuts.
  • Ice Bear (voiced by Demetri Martin) is a polar bear. He is the baby brother of Grizzly and Panda. Ice Bear is often stoic and rarely speaks. He is also a skilled chef, salsa dancer, a novice at robotics and a martial artist as well. He speaks in the third person and mostly says his name first before saying anything but is multilingual, having been shown to speak Korean and French fluently. Ice is the most composed of the brothers, always maintaining an "ice-cool attitude" in even the most awkward and embarrassing of situations. Ice Bear sleeps in the refrigerator.

Recurring

  • Chloe Park (voiced by Charlyne Yi) is a young Korean-American girl, and a child prodigy, who skipped grades and enrolled into college early. In "Chloe", she breaks into the Bears' cave to study them for a college presentation, and along the way, she befriends the bears.
  • Nom Nom (voiced by Patton Oswalt) is a koala. He is a famous internet star, although he doesn't talk in public. Grizzly imposes him enough to talk to him and admits that he liked his video, but Nom Nom is self-centered and more concerned with materialistic things. In "Viral Video", Nom Nom says that he does not want any friends because he finds them unimportant and too loud, and proves his point by kicking Grizz out of his limo.
  • Charlie (voiced by Jason Lee) is a bigfoot. He wanders alone around the San Francisco woods until he meets the Bears in "Charlie", where they agree to let him live in their cave for a little while via a website called CaveShare. It is revealed that, due to his life of solitude, he is socially inept and doesn't know how to be a good friend. This results in him unintentionally causing havoc for the Bears whenever he hangs out with them. He is also constantly harassed by the media trying to get pictures of him, which results in him being afraid of cameras.

Production

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Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear (pictured left) forming their "bear stack".[3]

The show was created by cartoonist Daniel Chong, who had previously worked as a story artist for Pixar and Illumination Entertainment. The show is based on his webcomic The Three Bare Bears, which also features the identifying characters. The comic was published from 2010 to 2011.[5] Billed as a comedy, the show is a production of Cartoon Network Studios, which developed the program with Chong as part of their shorts development program. It was announced during the network's 2014 upfront.[4]

Episodes

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Main article: List of We Bare Bears episodes
Season Episodes Originally aired
First aired Last aired
1 26 July 27, 2015 (2015-07-27) February 11, 2016 (2016-02-11)
2 26 February 25, 2016 (2016-02-25) TBA

Broadcast and reception

The pilot episode made its world premiere as part of two separate venues of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands: the "Animated Shorts 5",[6] and the "Animated Shorts for Kids" ages 9 to 12.[7] The short was screened alongside the Dutch premiere of Clarence, the Steven Universe episodes "Mirror Gem" and "Ocean Gem", and a live interview with the creator of the latter series, Rebecca Sugar. Described by the institute as "hilarious and endearing",[8] the pilot won in the "Young Amsterdam Audience" category.[9]

Critical response

We Bare Bears has received generally positive reviews from critics, with a 8.2/10 on IMDb.[10]

Kevin Johnson from The A.V. Club gave "Everyday Bears" a B. He thought the show was charming enough to enjoy, but not "must-watch". He praised the voice actors, but was disappointed that the show didn't thoroughly explore the discrimination humans have towards the bears and ended by calling it a "very good 'just okay' kind of show" until the discrimination is explored.[11]

International

We Bare Bears premiered on Cartoon Network in Canada on July 27, 2015[12] and on Cartoon Network in the United Kingdom and Ireland on September 7, 2015.[13][14] The series debuted on Cartoon Network channels in Australia and New Zealand and the Philippines on November 16.[15][16] It premiered on Cartoon Network in India on November 29.[17]

Other media

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See also: List of We Bare Bears episodes § Web shorts

Penguin Random House announced in 2014 that it will publish books based on various programs for Cartoon Network, including We Bare Bears. The books are produced out of the company's Cartoon Network Books imprint, a division of the Penguin Young Readers Group, and is based on a partnership with the network that started in 2013.[18]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2016 Annie Awards Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production Madeline Sharafian, Manny Hernandez, and Bert Youn (for "Burrito") Nominated

References

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