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When [[The Smurfs]] invaded America in the early 1980s, or even way back when they were created in Belgium in the late 1950s, they spawned a grand tradition of cute creatures with silly names who hang out in groups and get into all manner of misadventures, then get out of them again through [[The Power of Friendship]].

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== Anime ==

* ''[[Monchichis]]''. Originally a toy line.

 

== Film ==

* The Ewoks from ''[[Star Wars|Return of the Jedi]]'', who later got two (made-for-TV) movies and an animated series of their own.

 

* The Fraggles of ''[[Fraggle Rock]]''

* ''[[The Wombles]]'', a British example. Remade as an animated show decades later.

 

== Toys ==

* The Astrosniks, a German toy set.

 

 

* ''[[Achewood]]'' parodies and subverts this one ''hard''. The cast consists of anthropomorphic cats and talking stuffed animals; but one of the stuffed animals is an elderly disaffected teddy bear, one is a psychopathically alcoholic stuffed lion, one is a milquetoast bear with the occasional delusion of grandeur, and one is a five-year-old otter who only exists to be scarred psychologically. Of the three cats, one is a [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]], one is a severely depressed coder, and one is a nutjob holier-than-thou pseudo-activist who only finds meaning in putting down everyone around him.

* ''[[Bear Nuts]]'' is another webcomic subversion of this. An [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Care Bears]]'', except with characters like Prozac and Evil bear.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Care Bears]]''

* ''[[The Get Along Gang]]''

* Dummi Bears from ''[[Rugrats]]''.

* The Buddy Bears from ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' are a vicious parody of this trope.

* The Gigglepies from ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''.

* The Woodland Critters from ''[[South Park]]''.

 

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