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* ''Series/MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure'': Mimmi offhandedly mentions that the Arctic marshmallow she's preparing (a dessert that requires mermaid magic to make) attracts polar bears with its scent. Evidently, a polar bear wouldn't complain about finding a mermaid in an ice hole.
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* ''Alone'' is a British survival show from 2023 in which the participants are dumped in the wilds of Canada, and the one who lasts longest gets a cash prize. The producers are keen to hype up the threat of bears.
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->''"I do fear bears. They're giant, marauding, godless killing machines."''
-->-- '''Creator/StephenColbert''', ''Series/TheColbertReport''
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* ''Series/OddSquad'': In "The Jackies", a bear manages to break into Oprah's dojo. Her instructor wisely makes a break for it. She decides to battle it head-on, and wins in under a minute with no signs of injury.
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* Zig-zagged in ''Series/JourneyToTheWest1996'' with the second seasons' arc with the Black Bear Demon and the Holy Monk Jin-Chi. The Demon is introduced assaulting villages and civilians until Jin-Chi interrupts and defeats the Demon with his Holy Buddhist powers, but it turns out the Bear Demon is Jin-Chi's disciple; their EngineeredHeroics act is for the Monk to extort prayer offerings and alms from the civilians. The Bear Demon turns out to be neutral, if somewhat misguided.
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* ''Series/KeepBreathing'': One shows up in the second episode and devours the last of Liv's rations. It also shits on the beach, to rub it in.
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* ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'': In the second pilot film "[[Recap/TheIncredibleHulk1977DeathInTheFamily Death in the Family]]", David Banner, along with disabled heiress Julie Griffith and hobo Michael, are attacked by a bear as they try to cross through a river to avoid Julie's WickedStepmother and her goons. The bear ends up mostly trying to maul David, until the latter [[HulkingOut Hulks out]] and proceeds to fight off the bear. The fight ends with the Hulk lifting up the bear and ''throwing'' it far away from the group.
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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': Played for laughs in a Season 1 episode, where Simmons (a biochemist who's usually fearless to the point of recklessness around dangerous animals) gets alarmed at the mere possibility that there might be bears ''anywhere'' within the reach of the long-range scanner during a hike through the Canadian wilderness.
* ''Series/AllThat'': One skit has the crew smothering an unlucky ButtMonkey reporter freezing in the tundra with honey to attract a nearby polar bear.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': "[[Recap/AngelS05E10SoulPurpose Soul Purpose]]" is largely [[spoiler: a series of nightmares experienced by Angel, who's being fed upon by a parasite]]. This includes a {{Squick}}-filled dissection scene involving, amongst other things, a completely random bear.
* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': As part of an EscalatingWar, one group of the main characters superglue the other main characters to their classroom seats, dowse them in honey and set a bear loose in the classroom. Given that the source of the bear is never explained, nor do they get in trouble for it, this one goes directly under RuleOfFunny.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E8Pangs Pangs]]", an angry Native American spirit is locked in combat against Buffy, upon which he transforms into a large grizzly. [[Funny/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike promptly blames Buffy and starts freaking out.]]
* ''Series/TheColbertReport'': Stephen Colbert is famous for his fear and hatred of bears or "godless killing machines" (one once killed everything he loved), so naturally the featured film clip for his interview with ''The National Parks'' director Ken Burns features a river filled with ''almost a dozen grizzlies''.
-->'''Colbert:''' That is the scariest film I've ever seen.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': One episode is famous for its use of the line "The bear could be considered a lethal weapon."
* ''Series/DestinationTruth'': In one episode, while in Hokkaido, Josh and his team were dismayed to find out that besides being reputedly haunted the abandoned town they were visiting was certifiably full of bears. And unlike the last time they dealt with bears in Alaska they didn't have any guns with them, which led to a humorous scene where they go to a mega-mart and try to find improvised anti-bear weapons (eventually settling on a [[BatterUp baseball bat]]). Luckily the only bear they encountered was a stuffed one in a school.
* One of the early episodes of ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' had the title character getting trapped inside of a cabin due to a rabid grizzly.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Locke's idea of entertainment is to throw Brienne into a bear pit with a wooden sword and no armour and see how long she lasts.
** Season 7 one-ups this with a ''[[RaisingTheSteaks bear wight]]'' menacing the characters.
* ''Series/GhostsUS'': Flower was killed when a bear mauled her whilst tripping on hallucinogens at a music festival.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' featured a type of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Wesen]] called Jägerbar (BlindIdiotTranslation of "hunter-bear"). They are notable for being the most animal-like in their "[[GameFace woge]]" form, especially females, who look like ordinary bears. Traditionally, Jägerbar love to hunt, especially [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame humans]]. Modern Jägerbar, though, have mostly abandoned this custom. Naturally, the episode features those who still follow it.
* The ''Series/{{Haven}}'' episode "Fur" featured hunting trophy animals coming to life and attacking people, including a bear.
* In the ''Series/HereComeTheBrides'' episode "The Soldier," Captain Clancey is mauled by a grizzly bear while drunkenly stumbling home from his birthday party.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Highlander}}'', Duncan [=McLeod=] is helping a fugitive Native American woman [[spoiler:who has stolen the child of a white mine owner to replace her own child that died of poisoning from polluted water from the mine]]. During the night, a bear wanders into the log cabin in which they're sheltering.
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Marshall is worried about being uninsured while looking for work and keeps coming up with worst-case scenarios about every situation, [[FromBadToWorse all of which include]] being attacked by a bear (well, a guy in a bad bear costume). The bad bear suit heightens the RuleOfFunny, as does Marshall melodramatically screaming "NOT LIKE THIS" every time.
* ''Series/IShouldntBeAlive'':
** In "Trapped Under the Ice", the father and son duo, after surviving their canoe capsizing in ice water, have to face a forest full of bears, and it's as terrifying as it sounds, as they were practically defenseless.
** This happens in "Trapped On the Mountain" where the elk hunter gets mauled by a grizzly.
* ''Series/TheJeffCorwinExperience'':
** In a rather comical example, Jeff Corwin discovered that Asiatic black bears have ''really'' bad gas after eating a big meal.
** During an episode in Alaska, Jeff pointed out that if a grizzly bear felt threatened, there was no way he could outrun or out-climb it. He'd just become its dinner.
* Inverted with Creator/DavidLetterman, who loves bears and was positively thrilled when JackHanna let him hold a pair of day-old cubs. In a more recent show, Hanna was recounting how he, his wife, and a family of hikers had a close encounter with a MamaBear and her pair of two-year-old cubs (ironically just after shooting a PSA for the National Parks) and Letterman felt it would've been a shame if Hannah was attacked because it would have meant the possible death of the bear.
* On ''Series/{{Longmire}}'', one VictimOfTheWeek was tied down in the forest, drugged and had meat tied to his body in order to attract a bear. The man was ripped apart by the bear and the seasoned cops and hunters who examined the scene considered it the most gruesome death they ever saw.
* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', the castaways are attacked by polar bears (in a tropical IslandOfMystery; [[MindScrew it's that kind of show]]) on a couple of occasions.
* In the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode, "Bearly Men", Al and Bud go hunting with Peggy's father to prove their manliness. Al and Bud run into a bear (they hit it with a car). Thinking it dead, they take the bear home... only for it to wake up and escape into Chicago. Al, Bud, and Peggy's father then have to go after it.
* One of the terrors of the horrible MirrorUniverse in ''Series/TheMiddleman''.
-->'''Ivan Avi:''' I was born into an evil world. Skies choked with ammonia, seas full of benzine, baby farms! Random suffocations... ''bears''...
* One episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'' had a bear show up... twice. Both times were plot-relevant.
* In ''Series/NorthernExposure'', Holling Vincouer was once mauled by a bear (whom he named Jesse) while hunting. While recovering, he claimed to have a nightmare where he was pursued by all the animals he had hunted in the past. The experience changed Holling; while he had sworn vengeance against Jesse (to the point where Jesse had become his personal Literature/MobyDick), he vowed never to hunt any animal other than Jesse except with a camera.
* Dwight from ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' wisely fears bears. He once went to see a movie about bear attacks, but mistakenly walked into ''Film/WeddingCrashers'', he stayed, because "bears attack when you least expect it."
* ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' had this trope in effect in episode 2, with protagonist Nigel Marvin chased by a cave bear (he had stumbled into its cave). He even lampshades that this should not be happening, as he was under the belief that said bear was extinct at the time he was in.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Reaper}}'' had Sam trying to get someone to sell their soul, and being chased out of the guy's property by a polar bear. Which had been delivered to the {{jerkass}} by the Devil. Andi in particular was amused. Sam was not.
* In the ''Series/RippingYarns'' pilot episode "Tomkinson's Schooldays," all new students at [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Graybridge School]] must undergo a hand-to-hand fight with a grizzly bear.
* An episode of the ''Creator/AnimalPlanet'' series ''Series/RiverMonsters'' filmed in Alaska had a run-in with a grizzly where it stole a salmon the host had hooked right off his line, then came back ''again''. Only when the guide accompanying him fired a warning shot from the [[HandCannon huge]] {{revolver|sAreJustBetter}} he was carrying did the bear finally leave.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
** A sketch had an ursinologist[[note]]someone who studies bears[[/note]]. He decided to kill his wife by releasing the bear he was studying, who then proceeded to...pick up a gun from a table and shoot her. (Which the scientist blamed on "too much TV", but the bear was revealed to be the ursinologist's brother in disguise.)
** One sketch featured a world in which bears killed everyone and took on the role of humans.
* According to ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', while unwanted pregnancy or [=STDs=] are not fun, "Losing a baseball scholarship because a bear ate your arm is a much worse consequence of sex." Probably true. This line immediately follows a flashback in which Elliott, having parked in the woods with her high school boyfriend, starts drizzling honey on him as part of foreplay when a ravenous bear comes and breaches the car, eating the poor guy's arm.
* In an episode of ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'', Starsky gets kidnapped by a psycho {{cult}}. Things go about as expected, and at one point whilst trying to escape he turns a corner and comes face to face with a bear. A very large bear. That he is supposed to fight. With a rock. Yeah.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' have mentioned a similar creature on Vulcan called a ''seh'lat''. The big ones are definitely bad news, as Archer and T'Pol learn when they have to evade one in the desert. Smaller ones can be kept as pets, but they have to be properly cared for, as {{discussed|Trope}} by Archer and T'Pol.
--> '''T'Pol:''' You have Porthos.\\
'''Archer:''' Porthos doesn't try to eat me when I'm late with his dinner.\\
'''T'Pol:''' Vulcan children are never late with their ''seh'lat''s' dinner.\\
'''Archer:''' I can believe that.
* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' introduces a creature that's described as a macroscopic version of a tardigrade -- which is also known as the "water bear", and this creature is as large, powerful, and dangerous as a bear.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and its adaptation ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' have many mecha and MonstersOfTheWeek being based on bears. A few notable are:
** In ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''/''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' Season 3 the Yellow Ranger has the bear as their animal motif, having three mecha with the theme (two anthropomorphic, one not).
** ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger''/''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' has the Rangers gain a pair of bear zords: a black bear and a polar bear, able to shoot beams of fire and ice respectively. The Bear Brothers turn out to be too powerful for the main megazord to use reliably, forcing the Rangers to find a stronger zord that could handle the bears' strength.
** ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'' is a show about two competing schools of martial arts [[AnimalMotifs styled after animals]]. The evil school has Maku, one of the most ridiculously overpowered villains in the series. Even the other villains fear him. Guess what his power animal is? This character is adapted in ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' as Grizzaka, without any real changes.
* ''Series/SurvivingDisaster'', a non-fiction [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin surviving disaster]] show, has an episode on how to survive an avalanche -- ''with a bear attack''.
* A demonic-looking bear actually shows up in ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' along with [[CatsAreMean a similarly demonic-looking lion]]. The bear in the flying carousel, on the other hand, isn't scary at all.
* In ''Series/TheTerror'', a group of British sailors try to chart a path through the Northwest Passage and find themselves hunted by a monster that takes the form of a polar bear called the Tuunbaq. It looks like a normal bear from a distance (and the crew initially assumes it to ''be'' one), but then it gets closer and reveals [[UncannyValley disturbingly humanlike face and unnatural long neck]]. It’s sadistic, [[LightningBruiser uncannily fast]], not happy about explorers encroaching on its land, and ItCanThink.
* In one episode of ''Series/ThatsMyBush'', George W. Bush buys a bear for protection against the angry mob outside. This is a bad move, as the bear picks up a bolt-action rifle and hunts him down -- all so the show could end on a pun about [[spoiler: the right to arm bears]].
* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' featured bears a number of times, Episode 173 featuring a particularly scary one.
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* ''Series/AllThat'': One skit has the crew smothering an unlucky ButtMonkey reporter freezing in the tundra with honey to attract a nearby polar bear.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': "[[Recap/AngelS05E10SoulPurpose Soul Purpose]]" is largely [[spoiler: a series of nightmares experienced by Angel, who's being fed upon by a parasite]]. This includes a {{Squick}}-filled dissection scene involving, amongst other things, a completely random bear.
* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': As part of an EscalatingWar, one group of the main characters superglue the other main characters to their classroom seats, dowse them in honey and set a bear loose in the classroom. Given that the source of the bear is never explained, nor do they get in trouble for it, this one goes directly under RuleOfFunny.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E8Pangs Pangs]]", an angry Native American spirit is locked in combat against Buffy, upon which he transforms into a large grizzly. [[Funny/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Spike promptly blames Buffy and starts freaking out.]]
* ''Series/TheColbertReport'': Stephen Colbert is famous for his fear and hatred of bears or "godless killing machines" (one once killed everything he loved), so naturally the featured film clip for his interview with ''The National Parks'' director Ken Burns features a river filled with ''almost a dozen grizzlies''.
-->'''Colbert:''' That is the scariest film I've ever seen.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': One episode is famous for its use of the line "The bear could be considered a lethal weapon."
* ''Series/DestinationTruth'': In one episode, while in Hokkaido, Josh and his team were dismayed to find out that besides being reputedly haunted the abandoned town they were visiting was certifiably full of bears. And unlike the last time they dealt with bears in Alaska they didn't have any guns with them, which led to a humorous scene where they go to a mega-mart and try to find improvised anti-bear weapons (eventually settling on a [[BatterUp baseball bat]]). Luckily the only bear they encountered was a stuffed one in a school.
* One of the early episodes of ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' had the title character getting trapped inside of a cabin due to a rabid grizzly.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Locke's idea of entertainment is to throw Brienne into a bear pit with a wooden sword and no armour and see how long she lasts.
** Season 7 one-ups this with a ''[[RaisingTheSteaks bear wight]]'' menacing the characters.
* ''Series/GhostsUS'': Flower was killed when a bear mauled her whilst tripping on hallucinogens at a music festival.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' featured a type of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Wesen]] called Jägerbar (BlindIdiotTranslation of "hunter-bear"). They are notable for being the most animal-like in their "[[GameFace woge]]" form, especially females, who look like ordinary bears. Traditionally, Jägerbar love to hunt, especially [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame humans]]. Modern Jägerbar, though, have mostly abandoned this custom. Naturally, the episode features those who still follow it.
* The ''Series/{{Haven}}'' episode "Fur" featured hunting trophy animals coming to life and attacking people, including a bear.
* In the ''Series/HereComeTheBrides'' episode "The Soldier," Captain Clancey is mauled by a grizzly bear while drunkenly stumbling home from his birthday party.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Highlander}}'', Duncan [=McLeod=] is helping a fugitive Native American woman [[spoiler:who has stolen the child of a white mine owner to replace her own child that died of poisoning from polluted water from the mine]]. During the night, a bear wanders into the log cabin in which they're sheltering.
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Marshall is worried about being uninsured while looking for work and keeps coming up with worst-case scenarios about every situation, [[FromBadToWorse all of which include]] being attacked by a bear (well, a guy in a bad bear costume). The bad bear suit heightens the RuleOfFunny, as does Marshall melodramatically screaming "NOT LIKE THIS" every time.
* ''Series/IShouldntBeAlive'':
** In "Trapped Under the Ice", the father and son duo, after surviving their canoe capsizing in ice water, have to face a forest full of bears, and it's as terrifying as it sounds, as they were practically defenseless.
** This happens in "Trapped On the Mountain" where the elk hunter gets mauled by a grizzly.
* ''Series/TheJeffCorwinExperience'':
** In a rather comical example, Jeff Corwin discovered that Asiatic black bears have ''really'' bad gas after eating a big meal.
** During an episode in Alaska, Jeff pointed out that if a grizzly bear felt threatened, there was no way he could outrun or out-climb it. He'd just become its dinner.
* Inverted with Creator/DavidLetterman, who loves bears and was positively thrilled when JackHanna let him hold a pair of day-old cubs. In a more recent show, Hanna was recounting how he, his wife, and a family of hikers had a close encounter with a MamaBear and her pair of two-year-old cubs (ironically just after shooting a PSA for the National Parks) and Letterman felt it would've been a shame if Hannah was attacked because it would have meant the possible death of the bear.
* On ''Series/{{Longmire}}'', one VictimOfTheWeek was tied down in the forest, drugged and had meat tied to his body in order to attract a bear. The man was ripped apart by the bear and the seasoned cops and hunters who examined the scene considered it the most gruesome death they ever saw.
* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', the castaways are attacked by polar bears (in a tropical IslandOfMystery; [[MindScrew it's that kind of show]]) on a couple of occasions.
* In the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode, "Bearly Men", Al and Bud go hunting with Peggy's father to prove their manliness. Al and Bud run into a bear (they hit it with a car). Thinking it dead, they take the bear home... only for it to wake up and escape into Chicago. Al, Bud, and Peggy's father then have to go after it.
* One of the terrors of the horrible MirrorUniverse in ''Series/TheMiddleman''.
-->'''Ivan Avi:''' I was born into an evil world. Skies choked with ammonia, seas full of benzine, baby farms! Random suffocations... ''bears''...
* One episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'' had a bear show up... twice. Both times were plot-relevant.
* In ''Series/NorthernExposure'', Holling Vincouer was once mauled by a bear (whom he named Jesse) while hunting. While recovering, he claimed to have a nightmare where he was pursued by all the animals he had hunted in the past. The experience changed Holling; while he had sworn vengeance against Jesse (to the point where Jesse had become his personal Literature/MobyDick), he vowed never to hunt any animal other than Jesse except with a camera.
* Dwight from ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' wisely fears bears. He once went to see a movie about bear attacks, but mistakenly walked into ''Film/WeddingCrashers'', he stayed, because "bears attack when you least expect it."
* ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' had this trope in effect in episode 2, with protagonist Nigel Marvin chased by a cave bear (he had stumbled into its cave). He even lampshades that this should not be happening, as he was under the belief that said bear was extinct at the time he was in.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Reaper}}'' had Sam trying to get someone to sell their soul, and being chased out of the guy's property by a polar bear. Which had been delivered to the {{jerkass}} by the Devil. Andi in particular was amused. Sam was not.
* In the ''Series/RippingYarns'' pilot episode "Tomkinson's Schooldays," all new students at [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Graybridge School]] must undergo a hand-to-hand fight with a grizzly bear.
* An episode of the ''Creator/AnimalPlanet'' series ''Series/RiverMonsters'' filmed in Alaska had a run-in with a grizzly where it stole a salmon the host had hooked right off his line, then came back ''again''. Only when the guide accompanying him fired a warning shot from the [[HandCannon huge]] {{revolver|sAreJustBetter}} he was carrying did the bear finally leave.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
** A sketch had an ursinologist[[note]]someone who studies bears[[/note]]. He decided to kill his wife by releasing the bear he was studying, who then proceeded to...pick up a gun from a table and shoot her. (Which the scientist blamed on "too much TV", but the bear was revealed to be the ursinologist's brother in disguise.)
** One sketch featured a world in which bears killed everyone and took on the role of humans.
* According to ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', while unwanted pregnancy or [=STDs=] are not fun, "Losing a baseball scholarship because a bear ate your arm is a much worse consequence of sex." Probably true. This line immediately follows a flashback in which Elliott, having parked in the woods with her high school boyfriend, starts drizzling honey on him as part of foreplay when a ravenous bear comes and breaches the car, eating the poor guy's arm.
* In an episode of ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'', Starsky gets kidnapped by a psycho {{cult}}. Things go about as expected, and at one point whilst trying to escape he turns a corner and comes face to face with a bear. A very large bear. That he is supposed to fight. With a rock. Yeah.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' have mentioned a similar creature on Vulcan called a ''seh'lat''. The big ones are definitely bad news, as Archer and T'Pol learn when they have to evade one in the desert. Smaller ones can be kept as pets, but they have to be properly cared for, as {{discussed|Trope}} by Archer and T'Pol.
--> '''T'Pol:''' You have Porthos.\\
'''Archer:''' Porthos doesn't try to eat me when I'm late with his dinner.\\
'''T'Pol:''' Vulcan children are never late with their ''seh'lat''s' dinner.\\
'''Archer:''' I can believe that.
* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' introduces a creature that's described as a macroscopic version of a tardigrade -- which is also known as the "water bear", and this creature is as large, powerful, and dangerous as a bear.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and its adaptation ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' have many mecha and MonstersOfTheWeek being based on bears. A few notable are:
** In ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''/''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' Season 3 the Yellow Ranger has the bear as their animal motif, having three mecha with the theme (two anthropomorphic, one not).
** ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger''/''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' has the Rangers gain a pair of bear zords: a black bear and a polar bear, able to shoot beams of fire and ice respectively. The Bear Brothers turn out to be too powerful for the main megazord to use reliably, forcing the Rangers to find a stronger zord that could handle the bears' strength.
** ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'' is a show about two competing schools of martial arts [[AnimalMotifs styled after animals]]. The evil school has Maku, one of the most ridiculously overpowered villains in the series. Even the other villains fear him. Guess what his power animal is? This character is adapted in ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' as Grizzaka, without any real changes.
* ''Series/SurvivingDisaster'', a non-fiction [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin surviving disaster]] show, has an episode on how to survive an avalanche -- ''with a bear attack''.
* A demonic-looking bear actually shows up in ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' along with [[CatsAreMean a similarly demonic-looking lion]]. The bear in the flying carousel, on the other hand, isn't scary at all.
* In ''Series/TheTerror'', a group of British sailors try to chart a path through the Northwest Passage and find themselves hunted by a monster that takes the form of a polar bear called the Tuunbaq. It looks like a normal bear from a distance (and the crew initially assumes it to ''be'' one), but then it gets closer and reveals [[UncannyValley disturbingly humanlike face and unnatural long neck]]. It’s sadistic, [[LightningBruiser uncannily fast]], not happy about explorers encroaching on its land, and ItCanThink.
* In one episode of ''Series/ThatsMyBush'', George W. Bush buys a bear for protection against the angry mob outside. This is a bad move, as the bear picks up a bolt-action rifle and hunts him down -- all so the show could end on a pun about [[spoiler: the right to arm bears]].
* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' featured bears a number of times, Episode 173 featuring a particularly scary one.
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