The Hair Bear Bunch: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[Balloon Belly]]: Square Bear in "The Diet Caper".

* [[Beary Funny]]

* [[Edited for Syndication|Edited For TV]]: Scenes that were animated but not used on the first CBS run were used in the second run. Among the scenes were the bears getting busted for playing "Slap Jack" with Bananas (''Closed Circuit TV''), Peevly accosting a wild forest bear, mistaking it for the Bunch (''I'll Zoo You Later''), and Peevly verbally accepting Hair's proposal to stage a re-enactment of the story of Noah and the Ark (''Ark Lark''). These scenes have been noticeably absent from the show's play on USA, Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

** More recently, footage from "Keep Your Keeper" is missing. It's footage of the bears running into their cave plus the following dialogue after Hair's alibi that the party hat on his head is in celebration of Peevly's birthday:

'''Hair:''' Nothing like getting a head start, sir. }}

* [[Expository Theme Tune]]

* [[Expy]]: A loose expy of ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', except with a zoo instead of a German P.O.W. camp. Peevly is the show's Col. Klink and Botch its Sgt. Schultz.

* [[Forgotten Birthday]]: Zig-zagged at the end of "The Diet Caper." Hair's alibi for raiding Peevly's refrigerator is that the animals were celebrating Botch's birthday, which Peevly grudgingly buys. While left to clean up, Hair confesses he made up the alibi and that Botch couldn't blow the whistle because ''Botch himself'' doesn't remember when his birthday is, either.

* [[Hammerspace]]: The bears' cave. When the keepers aren't around, the bears' cave transforms into a luxury den with a fully stocked kitchen. Another part of the cave conceals Bubi's laboratory, which he employs to create a perfume for Arnie the lovesick gorilla in "Love Bug Bungle".

'''Hair:''' Look, I'm a bear, not an astronaut! }}

* [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman]]: At the beginning of "I'll Zoo You Later", the bears try to sneak back into the zoo with Hair dressed as a mother (Bubi and Square are in a baby carriage hidden under a blanket).

** Later in the series, Hair Bear is dressed up as Mama Bear when the bears try out for a revisionist movie of the [[Goldilocks]] story. Botch dresses up as Goldilocks at the conclusion.

** The aforementioned tweaked version of the "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" story. The actress playing Goldilocks, Twinkles Sunshine, is built up as a lovable sweetheart, but she turns out to be an [[Alpha Bitch]].

* [[Omniglot]]: Bubi. He's able to communicate to inhabitants of another planet ("No Space Like Home").

* [[Pro Wrestling Episode]]: "King Klong vs. the Masked Marvel". Bananas the Gorilla was King Klong and Botch was the Masked Marvel, but neither was aware of them being opponents.

* [[Scooby Snacks]]: Botch's promotion. Averted in that he never achieved it.

** Zig-zagged in the missing scenes from "I'll Zoo You Later": When Peevly accosts a wild bear and sees it's not the Bunch, he panicly runs for it and gets his belt loop caught in a tree branch.

'''Botch:''' (''actually pleased'') Gee, thanks! }}

* [[Standardized Leader]]: Hair Bear.

* [[Talking Animal]]: The bears. As well as all the other inhabitants of the zoo.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Botch's "Ooh! Ooh!," which was Joe E. Ross' verbal tic.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Hanna-Barbera planned to revive and update the Hair Bear Bunch and [[The Cattanooga Cats]] as revolving middle features of ''[[Two Stupid Dogs]]'' in its second season, but the plans were scrapped.

* [[Who Is Driving?]]: Square Bear is able to conjure up an invisible motorcycle when the situation calls for it. Hair Bear has [[Lampshade Hanging|commented]] on Square Bear's unusual ability, but generally accepts it as convenient.

 

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