History WesternAnimation / BarneyBear

* AscendedExtra: Barney's donkey from "The Prospecting Bear" (an Ising-era cartoon) would return in "Half-Pint Palomino" (a Lundy-era cartoon) and become a recurring friend of his in the comics.

* CutASliceTakeTheRest: At the end of "Heir Bear", the taxman comes to take "Uncle Sam's share" from the treasure Barney had just uncovered. He takes a coin... for Barney to keep while he collects the rest.

Barney would also make a comeback via appearances in Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''The WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Comedy Show'' in 1980. His most recent appearance was a "blink and you'll miss it" moment as one of Moriarity's mooks in "Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes".

* TheChewToy: Barney himself, of course.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Jellystone Park]] appears for the first time in "Barney's Hungry Cousin". Incidentally, Micheal Lah would go on to work on that show.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The earlier shorts, besides Barney's drastically different design, are very different in tone and slower paced than the later cartoons.

* KarmaHoudini: Barney's hungry cousin, from the short of the same name, who for ''no given reason'', gets Barney jailed in the end, via posting signs saying not to feed the bears and pointing to the police that Barney tried to feed him, ''even though the guy spent the whole short trying to steal food from Barney, and Barney offered him the sandwich in defeat''. He doesn't even give Barney the pleasure of having his lollipop!

* KarmaHoudini: Barney's hungry cousin, from the short of the same name, who for ''no given reason'', gets Barney jailed in the end, via posting signs saying not to feed the bears and pointing to the police that Barney tried to feed him, ''even though the guy spent the whole short trying to steal food from Barney, and Barney offered him the sandwich in defeat''. He dosen't even give Barney the pleasure of having his lollipop!

'''''Barney Bear''''' is a series of {{MGM}} cartoons that ran through [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1939 to 1954]], initially created and directed by Rudy Ising of the HarmanAndIsing duo, but direction duties were later given to animators George Gordon, Michael Lah and Preston Blair, and finally Dick Lundy.

The cartoons are centered around the eponymous bear, a grumpy, lazy being who is usually just trying to do his own thing, like going fishing or taking a nap, only to have the world get the better of him and cause him trouble, [[TheChewToy even if he did nothing to bring such a fate on himself]]. Essentially, he was MGM's answer to DonaldDuck.

While the earliest cartoons were fairly sluggish in pacing and focused more on lush production values than any genuine comedy, things picked up after Rudy Ising stopped directing and let others take over, streamlining the designs and pushing the series to become more influenced by TexAvery's [[ZanyCartoon fast paced style of comedy.]]

Compare WalterLantz's own cartoon bear AndyPanda, who co-incidentally debuted in 1939.

* WartimeCartoon: "Bear Raid Warden", "The Flying Bear", "The Rookie" and "Barney Bear's Victory Garden".

* AscendedExtra: Barney's donkey from "The Prospecting Bear" would return in "Half-Pint Palomino" and become a recurring friend of his in the comics.

* AscendedExtra: Barney's donkey from "The Prospecting Bear" and "Half-Pint Palomino" would become a recurring friend of his in the comics.

Barney would also make a comeback via appearances in {{Filmation}}'s ''The WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Comedy Show'' in 1980. His most recent appearance was a "blink and you'll miss it" moment as one of Moriarity's mooks in "Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes".

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Jellystone Park]] appears for the first time in "Barney's Hungry Cousin". Incidentally, Micheal Lah would go on to work on that show.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Almost all of the names of the shorts state the whole plot.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Averted with Barney himself save for his very bad luck, played fairly straight with his cousin.

* ArtEvolution: Barney went through a big redesign after the first several cartoons.

* KidsAreCruel: In "Wee-Willie Wildcat".

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: The ending of "Bah Wilderness", where the whole forest is flooded, with a disgruntled Barney laying underwater.

* AscendedExtra: Barney's donkey from "The Prospecting Bear" would become a recurring friend of him in the comics, as well as return in "Half-Pint Palomino".

While the cartoons were fairly good on their own terms, they were [[OvershadowedByAwesome generally overlooked]] in favor of the TomAndJerry and [[TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery cartoons]], which is probably why the series didn't have much output, only lasting 26 cartoons over a 14 year period.

Barney would also make a comeback via appearances in {{Filmation}}'s ''The TomAndJerry Comedy Show'' in 1980. His most recent appearance was a "blink and you'll miss it" moment as one of Moriarity's mooks in "Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes".

* AscendedExtra: Barney's donkey from "The Prospecting Bear" would become a recurring friend of him in the comics.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[YogiBear Jellystone Park]] appears for the first time in "Barney's Hungry Cousin". Incidentally, Micheal Lah would go on to work on that show.

* AscendedExtra: Barney's donkey from "The Prospecting Bear" would become a recurring friend of him in the comics.

On a side note, he recieved many comic books over the years, some of which were even made by comic legend CarlBarks. At some point in 2011, Craig Yoe Books is going to release a compilation of all of Barks' Barney Bear stories.