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[[File:HairBear_3220.jpg|frame|"Let's split!"]]
Formally called '''Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!,''' this [[Hanna
The bears were Hair Bear, so called because of his big orange afro; Bubi Bear, who speaks in gibberish quite often, and Square Bear, a clumsy lumberer with a big appetite, and the strange ability to ride a non-existant motorcycle.
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The show was chided as being rather moronic, and even Joseph Barbera commented that he [[Creator Backlash|wasn't even aware his studio made it.]] It was developed as "The Yo-Yo Bears" and was renamed some two months before it hit the air on [[CBS]] September 11, 1971. It ran one year, was shelved, then returned in replays in September 1973. It ran Sunday mornings then was moved to Saturdays in February 1974 after CBS revamped its Saturday line-up. It was canceled that fall and remained dormant until 1984 when [[USA Network]] ran it on its Cartoon Express block. [[Cartoon Network]] and its sister channel, Boomerang, have also run the series.
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* [[Art Shift]]: In preliminary models, Hair Bear was given a jutting chin, similar to [[Scooby Doo]]. It was later refined, but this preliminary version was briefly seen in the debut episode "Keep Your Keeper" as well as throughout its comic book adaptation "Zoo's Who" (Gold Key #1, February 1972).
* [[Balloon Belly]]: Square Bear in "The Diet Caper".
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* [[Cold Opening]]: On the CBS run, only the debut episode had a cold open--the 15 other episodes had the regular theme song opening and the pre-episode title teaser. Upon returning in 1984 to USA (and later CN and Boomerang), all the 15 other episodes were reformatted with cold opens.
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: Nine issues from [[Gold Key Comics]] (February 1972–February 1974) and an appearance in issue #13 of ''Hanna-Barbera Fun-In'' (August 1974). All stories were drawn by H-B layout artist Jack Manning. Issues #1 through 4 and the first story of issue #5 were either truncated or very loose adaptations of TV episodes.
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: In "Closed Circuit TV", the bears, putting on a show as Three Bear Night, get Mr. Peevly to do impressions and goad him into impersonating the zoo superintendent. He does so, unaware that the superintendent is watching in the office on Peevly's closed circuit monitor.
* [[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:
{{quote| '''Peevly:''' My birthday isn't for six months!!<br />
'''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.
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* [[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".
* [[Hey
* [[I'm a Doctor Not A Placeholder]]: Done in "Love Bug Bungle." The bears are out of control on an air-filled inflatable toy horse (using jet-propulsion to go). Whe Square asks how to control it, Hair says, "I'm a bear, not a cowboy!" Then in "I'll Zoo You Later," the bears make a getaway on a helium tank using the same jet-propulsion principle.
{{quote| '''Square:''' Hey, Hair...can't you steer this thing?<br />
'''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.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: In "The Diet Caper", the bears find themselves in what appears to be a haunted house (actually the haunted house of an amusement park). Background music from ''[[Scooby Doo (Animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' is used.
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