We Bare Bears
American animated series
We Bare Bears is an American animated sitcom created by Daniel Chong for Cartoon Network. The show follows three bear brothers, named Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear, and their awkward attempts at integrating with the human world in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The series was based on Chong's webcomic The Three Bare Bears, and the pilot episode made its world premiere at the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, where it won in the Young Amsterdam Audience category.
The show premiered on July 27, 2015, and ended on May 27, 2019, running for four seasons and a total of 140 episodes and 15 short.
A film adaptation, We Bare Bears: The Movie, was released digitally on June 30, 2020, and later aired on Cartoon Network on September 7; it served as a conclusion to the narrative of the series. A spin-off prequel series titled We Baby Bears, focusing on the Three Bears when they were cubs, premiered on January 1, 2022.
Plot
We Bare Bears follows three anthropomorphic adoptive brother Bears: boisterous and adventurous Grizzly (Eric Edelstein), insecure and nervous Panda (Bobby Moynihan), and monotonous and stoic Ice Bear (Demetri Martin). 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. In the end, however, they figure out that they have each other for support.
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