We celebrate World Bear Day by bestowing upon the ursines similar attention to that which we have directed toward dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, mules, birds, ducks, lions, tigers, elephants, chimps, and octopuses: a little survey of the creature’s representation in show business and pop culture by way of Travalanche posts. (To a less expansive degree, we have also touched on pigs, snakes, alligators, dolphins, gorillas, and mountain lions.)
Just follow the links for further animalistic enjoyment.
Classic comedy: moments in Buster Keaton’s The Balloonatic (1923), Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925) and Three Stooges comedies like Idiot’s Deluxe (1945). There are countless scenes like these in comedies, but most are just Guys in Bear Suits, which someday may just rate a post more along the lines of this one.
Smokey Bear (Go here for our section on catastrophic fires)
Sugar Bear: The Super Sugar Crisp cartoon mascot debuted in the ’60s; above is how he looked during my own peak Sugar Crisp period of consumption a decade later. As depicted in commercials by voice-over actor Gerry Matthews, Sugar Bear had a sort of a funky, easy-going “jazz” quality reminiscent of crooners like Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, and Perry Como. As a kid I associated him mentally with Snoopy’s “Joe Cool” persona; his speech patterns also reminded me of Soupy Sales.
Baloo, The Jungle Book (Phil Harris)
I know there are others, and I may add some of those in due course, as it is fairly evident that this list has bearly scratched the surface.
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