List of fictional bears

Table of contents

1 Bears in books 2 Bears in plays 3 Animated bears 4 Bears in film 5 Puppet bears 6 Bears in advertising 7 Bears in poetry 8 Bears on Television 9 Miscellaneous 10 See also

Bears in books

• Baloo from The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• the Berenstain Bears
• Brer Bear, from the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris.
• Paddington Bear
• the Three Bears
• Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
• Little Bear by Maurice Sendak
• Crow of the Bear Clan, barbarian comic book bear
• Shardik, the ursine protaganist of Richard Adams' novel of the same name
• Iorek Byrnison, the armoured bear in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials

Bears in plays

• The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare famously includes the stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear".

Animated bears

• Bear, from Franklin
• Blubber, Luke's racing partner in Wacky Races: Hanna-Barbera
• the Care Bears
• Eddy and the Bear
• the Gummi Bears
• Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch: Hanna-Barbera
• Two polar bears accompanying Mr. Freeze in Batman: The Animated Series
• Little Bear
• The Three Bears, Looney Tunes characters
• Yogi Bear and his pal Boo Boo: Hanna-Barbera

Bears in film

• Archie in Dr. Dolittle 2

Puppet bears

• Baby Bear in Sesame Street
• Basil the Bear on Sesame Park
• Bear, Ojo, and Ursa from Bear in the Big Blue House
• Fozzie Bear from The Muppet Show
• Humphrey B. Bear
• Sooty, Cousin Scampy and Soo (a panda bear)

Bears in advertising

• Cool, stylish bear in British Hofmeister Beer commercials of the 1970s. "For great lager, follow the bear".
• the Hamm's Beer bear
• Talking polar bear from British Fox's Glacier Mint commercials

• Talking polar bear from British Cresta soft drink commercials of the 1970s
• Polar bears from international Coca-Cola commercials
• the Labatt's Blue bear
• Grizzly bear in ad for Charmin toilet paper
• "There's a bear in the woods. . ." Presumably representing the Soviet Union, this bear appeared in Ronald Reagan's campaign advertising.
• Sugar Bear, mascot for General Foods Corporation's Post Sugar Crisp cereal.

Bears in poetry

• Fuzzy wuzzy

was a bear

Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair

So Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he.

• Bulgy

Algy saw the bear.

The bear saw Algy.

The bear was bulgy.

The bulge was Algy.

Bears on Television

• Gentle Ben
• Grizzly Bear companion to television's "Grizzly Adams"

Miscellaneous

• Smokey the Bear, mascot of the U.S. Forest Service, who insist that his correct name is Smokey Bear. No the. "Remember, only YOU can prevent forest fires." (He is also only semi-fictional, as he was based on a "real" Smokey Bear.)
• Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear, a mondegreen created from the misheard lyrics of a hymn (Gladly, the Cross I'd bear. . .). Used as the name of Baby Grumpling's teddy bear in British comic strip The Perishers.

See also

• List of fictional animals