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* RaisedByGrandparents: Emily from Season 2 onward. When she's first introduced in Season 1, visiting the forest on vacation, she lives with her parents, but later she moves to the forest with her Granny.

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Changed from "Plot Mandated Friendship Failure" to "Feud Episode" because Little Bear and Emily never decide to stop being friends in that episode, they just bicker.


* FeudEpisode: In "Play Ball", Little Bear is grumpy with Emily after she took his favourite ball without asking him if it was okay. The two go on to spend a good chunk of the episode taking shots at each other until Emily compliments Little Bear for catching the ball.



* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: In "Play Ball", Little Bear is grumpy with Emily after she took his favourite ball without asking him if it was okay. The two go on to spend a good chunk of the episode taking shots at each other until Emily compliments Little Bear for catching the ball.
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** In "The Blueberry Picnic," the characters perform a play similar to ''Literature/TheThreeBillyGoatsGruff'', where Hen, Duck, Cat and Emily are each threatened by a troll (played by Little Bear) when they cross his bridge. In the audience, No-Feet worries each time one of his friends steps onto the bridge, but Owl reassures him that it's only a play... [[NotSoAboveItAll only to panic himself]] when Emily's turn comes.

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** In "The Blueberry Picnic," the characters perform a play similar to ''Literature/TheThreeBillyGoatsGruff'', ''Literature/ThreeBillyGoatsGruff'', where Hen, Duck, Cat and Emily are each threatened by a troll (played by Little Bear) when they cross his bridge. In the audience, No-Feet worries each time one of his friends steps onto the bridge, but Owl reassures him that it's only a play... [[NotSoAboveItAll only to panic himself]] when Emily's turn comes.
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** Seeing Emily in her old-fashioned baseball uniform, Owl compliments her, saying she's "truly [[Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn a league of her own."]]

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* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: In "Play Ball", Little Bear is grumpy with Emily after she took his favourite ball without asking him if it was okay. The two go on to spend a good chunk of the episode taking shots at each other until Emily compliments Little Bear for catching the ball.



* RealAfterAll: in "Where Lucy Went", Little Bear and friends spend the entire episode looking for Lucy, and playfully speculating that goblins took her and made her their queen, before finding her in the hole the audience saw her fall into at the beginning. After everyone leaves, goblins climb out of the hole holding a doll-sized crown.

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* RealAfterAll: in In "Where Lucy Went", Little Bear and friends spend the entire episode looking for Lucy, and playfully speculating that goblins took her and made her their queen, before finding her in the hole the audience saw her fall into at the beginning. After everyone leaves, goblins climb out of the hole holding a doll-sized crown.
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* SweetTooth: The basis of an episode in the third season. Little Bear resolves to taste every single dessert at the Harvest Day party rather than pick just one or two, which causes him to get a stomach ache by the end.

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* SweetTooth: The basis of an episode in for the third season.season episode "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Little Bear's Sweet Tooth]]". Little Bear resolves to taste every single dessert at the Harvest Day party rather than pick just one or two, which causes him to get a stomach ache by the end.
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* GenderEqualEnsemble: Once Emily joins the cast, Little Bear and his core group of friends consist of three males (Little Bear, Owl and Cat) and three females (Emily, Duck and Hen). The later additions of Mitzi (female) and No-Feet (male) keep the balance equal.

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* GenderEqualEnsemble: Once Emily joins the cast, Little Bear and his core group of friends consist of three males (Little Bear, Owl and Cat) and three females (Emily, Duck and Hen). The later additions addition of Mitzi (female) and tips the balance, though recurring minor friend characters like No-Feet (male) keep the balance equal.or Frog tend to be male, which evens it out again.
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* GenderEqualEnsemble: Once Emily joins the cast, Little Bear and his core group of friends consist of three males (Little Bear, Owl and Cat) and three females (Emily, Duck and Hen).

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* GenderEqualEnsemble: Once Emily joins the cast, Little Bear and his core group of friends consist of three males (Little Bear, Owl and Cat) and three females (Emily, Duck and Hen). The later additions of Mitzi (female) and No-Feet (male) keep the balance equal.
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* StockAnimalDiet: While Little Bear and his family eat anything humans eat, they do particularly like fish, honey and berries.
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* GenderEqualEnsemble: Once Emily joins the cast, Little Bear and his core group of friends consist of three males (Little Bear, Owl and Cat) and three females (Emily, Duck and Hen).
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* FurryReminder: Little Bear and his family mostly act like humans, but every now and then they show bear-like mannerisms. For example, in "Hiccups," Father Bear growls in annoyance when Little Bear's friends disturb his paper-reading with their arguing (which startles Little Bear so much that his hiccups go away), and in "The Wedding," when Little Bear gets sprayed by Miss Skunk, he rolls around on the grass to try to get rid of the stink, as an animal would typically do.
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* GossipEvolution: In the episode "Maracas," Mother Bear lets Little Bear play with a set of maracas that Father Bear brought back to her from a long-ago voyage abroad. She tells him that they're sentimental, which means they're a "treasure." Little Bear repeats this to Duck, and as the story spreads from Duck, to Hen, to Owl, to Cat, it grows and distorts until they all believe that Father Bear fought off a hundred Moroccan pirates to bring their stolen treasure home.

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* HiccupHijinks: An episode in the first season sees Little Bear get the hiccups.

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An episode in the first season season, appropriately titled "Hiccups," sees Little Bear get the hiccups.hiccups and his friends try to cure him.
** Little Bear briefly gets the hiccups while hiding in "Hide and Seek," which almost causes Duck to find him, but then Cat and Hen distract her before she can.
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* TalkingAnimal: Every character except for Emily, Granny and Tutu.

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* TalkingAnimal: Every character except for Emily, Granny and Tutu. The former two are humans, while Tutu is a dog who only barks – allegedly she ''can'' talk, but only speaks French.
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* Ill-Timed Sneeze:

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* BathsAreFun: "Family Bath Time," in which Little Bear and his parents all enjoy a warm bubble bath together in a metal washtub in the living room. It was originally just Father Bear's bath, but then Little Bear jumped in. Later, they both pulled in Mama Bear, still in her clothes.

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* BathsAreFun: "Family Bath Time," in which Little Bear and his parents all enjoy a warm bubble bath together in a metal washtub in the living room. It was originally just Father Bear's bath, but then Little Bear jumped in. Later, they both pulled in Mama Mother Bear, still in her clothes.
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* Ill-Timed Sneeze:
** In "Family Portrait," Little Bear is dressed in a suit for the family photo, but as he's taking pictures of his friends, Duck wants to try the camera too, and sits on Little Bear's head to reach it; her feathers tickle his nose and make him sneeze, which propels him backward into a puddle, ruining his suit.
** In "Little Bear's Bad Day," Little Bear helps Duck and Hen build a castle of sticks, but then the flower Hen gives him as a reward makes him sneeze, causing him to knock the castle over.
** In "Lucy Needs a Friend," Cat sneezes while gathering milkweed fluff to stuff the plush doll Little Bear is making, blowing the fluff all over and ending up with a "beard" of it on his face.
** In "The Dandelion Wish," Little Bear and Duck are about to make a wish on a dandelion puff balanced on Duck's beak, when Duck sneezes, blowing the puff away and forcing them to chase it.
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* BaffledByOwnBiology: In "Winter Moon", Duck wakes up from an IrritationNightmare about other, annoying ducks. She doesn't seem to realise that dreams aren't real and asks, "Are they gone?".
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* LudicrousGiftRequest: In the book story "Little Bear's Wish", Little Bear wishes for a cloud to ride on, a Viking boat, and a tunnel to China. Mother Bear tells him he can't have them, so he wishes for a story instead. In the cartoon episode based on said book story, he also wishes for a cloud to ride on and a Viking boat, but instead of wishing for a tunnel to China, he wishes to meet a princess who he imagines as ambiguously Chinese. Also, instead of telling him the wishes are impossible, they humour him but shoehorn bedtime-related things onto the wishes (like saying he could sleep on the cloud).

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* LudicrousGiftRequest: In the book story "Little Bear's Wish", Little Bear wishes for a cloud to ride on, a Viking boat, and a tunnel to China.China, and a big red car. Mother Bear tells him he can't have them, so he wishes for a story instead. In the cartoon episode based on said book story, he also wishes for a cloud to ride on and a Viking boat, but instead of wishing for a tunnel to China, he wishes to meet a princess who he imagines as ambiguously Chinese. Also, instead of telling him the wishes are impossible, they humour him but shoehorn bedtime-related things onto the wishes (like saying he could sleep on the cloud).
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* PowderGag: In one episode, Father Bear sniffs a flower and gets pollen all over his face.
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%%zce* TokenHuman: Emily

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%%zce* * TokenHuman: EmilyEmily and her grandmother are the only regular humans in a cast of animal characters.
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* MisplacedWildlife: Mitzi the monkey. There are no wild monkeys living in North America in real life. Oddly, Mitzi doesn't really resemble any kind of New World monkey, especially since she lacks a visible tail, as most New World monkeys have long prehensile tails.

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* MisplacedWildlife: Mitzi the monkey. There are no wild monkeys living in North America in real life. Oddly, Mitzi doesn't really resemble any kind of New World monkey, especially since she lacks a visible tail, as most New World monkeys have long prehensile tails.

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