Bears! Polar bears, grizzly bears, brown bears, black bears, panda bears and yes, we even talk about poohs! You’ll hear about bears eating faces, butchering families, and guarding marijuana grow-ops. So they’re not all bad.
Music: “When yuba plays the rhumba on the tuba” – Spike Jones
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Polar Bear Zoo Attack
Not afraid of bears are you? Well how about after seeing this!
http://imgur.com/dk0iY.jpg
Soon they’ll be able to use machine guns.
The new Disney Winny The Pooh movie is probably good because Pixar took over Disney’s animation department and is already making changes for the better (no more direct to DVD disney films for example).
Another related bear story that you might find interesting is the last wild bear to enter Germany was shot and killed in 2006. Germans may love Hasselhoff but they sure hate bears!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/26/AR2006062600130.html
Also, there kind of is already a horror movie based on a bear called “Grizzly”. My babysitter let me watch it when I was a kid and it scared the beejeezus out of me.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074593/
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You guys do know that the “polar bear” attack is a panda bear, right?
Oh… Never mind… make links more easy-to-tell-that-it’s-a-link-esque. Gosh.
Don’t make me angry.
I’ma haf to get all culture on yer asses;
War and Peace (which I read in school)
Leo Tolstoy
“They are regular brigands, especially Dolokhov,” replied the visitor. “He is a son of Marya Ivanovna Dolokhova, such a worthy woman, but there, just fancy! Those three got hold of a bear somewhere, put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka Canal. And there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his back!”
It’s the only thing I can remember from the book, for obvious reasons. I a massive book like that, when someone ties a bear to a policeman and tosses them in the river, it sticks with you.
Also, in comics, you forgot Snowbird, who’s a Northern spirit/Godess, who can turn herself into a polar bear. She’s in Alpha Flight. Shame on you guys…
If I remember correctly, that cuddly bear from my childhood 45 years ago was also called “Winnie ther Pooh”. From chapter one of Winnie the Pooh:
When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say,
“But I thought he was a boy?”
“So did I,” said Christopher Robin.
“Then you can’t call him Winnie?”
“I don’t.”
“But you said–”
“He’s Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don’t you know what ‘ther’ means?”
“Ah, yes, now I do,” I said quickly;
and I hope you [referring now to readers of this book] do too,
because it is all the explanation you are going to get.
Here’s a nice little riposte to what I’m sure will be the awfulness of the Yogi Bear movie (oh Dan Akoyd, how could you?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6w0r-ScEG4&feature=player_embedded
Haven’t got all the way through the ep yet, but my favourite pop culture reference to bears is the Tundra episode of the Mighty Boosh – a comedy show (a duo with hangers on, really) from England. Absolutely hilarious discussion of how well disguised the polar bear is in the Arctic.
Here’s a sample: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ch0r1
Just listened to the Bears podcast and noticed you left out one very dangerous bear. The Australian Drop Bear. Please read the following important public announcement, it could save your life!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23678785@N07/6327913670/
Cheers
I’m sorry, did i just listen to an entire pod cast about bears, cartoon bears, and super hero bears… but not one mention of husky, hairy gay men?
Yup.
There’s nothing funny or weird or gross about that kind of bear so they don’t fit as a Caustic Soda topic.
I disagree with 2 of those statements, but we still left it out.
I’ll give you ‘not weird or gross’ because they’re no more weird or gross than most other subcultures –ever been in a room with a bunch of people who play WOW and you don’t? how can so many people say so little that makes sense in an hour?
but not funny? oh bear god, now i have to go to the Bear Elders and tell them we are not funny anymore, and if we ain’t funny we ain’t relevant and then Kevin Smith and Richard Karn will turn in their Honourary Bear memberships!
I think even Joe can agree that all sex is funny and gross, no matter the subclassification.
Toren, you’re doing it wrong if it’s funny and gross. You should do some more research.
Bears are adorable. I don’t find them funny even though I can see how others might. When I see those glamour shots of two bears obviously into each other I just go “dawwwww” instead of “ha ha”.
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