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* EyePop: In "The Prospecting Bear", Barney's eyes grow big as grapefruits at the sight of a cave full of gold.


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* NonFatalExplosions: Taken to ridiculous extremes in "The Prospecting Bear", where Barney and Benny survive various explosions at close range, [[spoiler:including one at the end that obliterates the mountain they're on!]] Not to mention that Benny eats a whole crate's worth of dynamite, which causes small pops around him when he sneezes, but is somehow still alive and intact by the end.
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* Preston Blair/Micheal Lah shorts:

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* EarlyBirdCameo: [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Jellystone Park]] appears for the first time in "Barney's Hungry Cousin". Coincidentally, one of the staff on Barney Bear, Micheal Lah, would go on to work on that show.

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* EarlyBirdCameo: [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Jellystone Park]] appears for the first time in "Barney's Hungry Cousin". Coincidentally, one of the staff on Barney Bear, Micheal Michael Lah, would go on to work on that show.

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Barney would also make a comeback via appearances in Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheTomAndJerryComedyShow'' in 1980. His most recent appearance was a "blink and you'll miss it" moment as one of the Tiger Queen's mooks in "WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryBackToOz''

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Barney would also make a comeback via appearances in Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheTomAndJerryComedyShow'' in 1980. His most recent appearance was a "blink and you'll miss it" moment as one of the Tiger Queen's mooks in "WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryBackToOz''
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* WormSign: In "Heir Bear" when Barney chases the gopher underground, the gopher's sign being followed by Barney's larger one.

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* WormSign: In "Heir Bear" when Barney chases the gopher underground, the gopher's sign being followed by Barney's larger one.one.
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Not to be confused with [[LiveActionTV/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]].

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Not to be confused with [[LiveActionTV/BarneyAndFriends [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]].
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Not to be confused with [[LiveActionTV/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]].
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* RakeTake: In "Barney Bear's Victory Garden", Barney steps on a garden hoe, then backs up into a rake, which makes him step on the hoe again.
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* BerserkBoardBarricade: In "The Bear That Couldn't Sleep", Barney can't keep his windows locked, so he nails it shut with every stray piece of wood in the house. This backfires when he's locked out of his cave and tries to go in through the window, only to slam into the barricade.


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* CountingSheep: Barney tries it in "The Bear That Couldn't Sleep". By the time he finally falls asleep, he's past the one million mark.


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* DrippingDisturbance: In "The Beat That Couldn't Sleep", Barney is woken up by water dripping on his face from a root over his bed. He ties the root in a knot, but that just causes the water to build up until it bursts, soaking him.


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* RumpRoast: Barney gets hot embers from his fireplace dropped into his pants in "The Bear That Couldn't Sleep". He has to run outside to put it out in the snow, and gets locked out.
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* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: In "The Bear and the Bean", Barney tries to get rid of a Mexican jumping bean by putting it in a box of dynamite and lighting it, but the bean, box, dynamite and all, just bounces back home. Barney first barricades the front door, but just as he's about to do the same with the back door, the box bounces through it and becomes part of the barricade. Barney doesn't notice until moments before it explodes.


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* ABloodyMess: In "The Bear and the Bean", Barney's shotgun goes off and hits a bottle of ketchup on a shelf, which spills ketchup all over Barney, making him think he's been shot.


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* CartoonThrobbing: In "The Bean and the Bear", Barney's toes are crushed and swell up so much they pop right out of his boot.
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* SentientVehicle: Barney's plane in "The Flying Bear".


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* TorchesAndPitchforks: The beavers in "Barney and the Beavers" form a mob to get back their wood. One is even shown holding a ''noose''.
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Barney has appeared in several Tom and Jerry movies since Sherlock Holmes.


Barney would also make a comeback via appearances in Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheTomAndJerryComedyShow'' 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".

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Barney would also make a comeback via appearances in Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheTomAndJerryComedyShow'' in 1980. His most recent appearance was a "blink and you'll miss it" moment as one of Moriarity's the Tiger Queen's mooks in "Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes".
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* EitherOrTitle: "Wild Honey" has the subtitle "or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book" (referring to wartime food rationing).



* ScaryStingingSwarm: In "Wild Honey", Barney tries to get honey from a wild hive, but is quickly confronted by hundreds of bees. After luring them away with a wind-up female bee decoy, Barney raids the hive, but then the bees wise up and descend ''en masse'' on the poor bruin, chasing him into a pond and leaving him full of welts.



* SweetSeal: A seal pup is Barney's foil in "Goggle Fishing Bear"

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* SweetSeal: A seal pup is Barney's foil in "Goggle Fishing Bear"Bear".
* SynchronizedSwarming: The bee swarm in "Wild Honey" first form a "Bee-19" bomber that drops bee bombs on Barney, then a bow and arrow.



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

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* WartimeCartoon: "Bear Raid Warden", "The Flying Bear", and "Barney Bear's Victory Garden". "Wild Honey" has brief references to wartime food rationing.
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* TotemPoleTrench: "Cobs and Robbers" has two crows disguise themselves as a scarecrow this way.

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* TotemPoleTrench: "Cobs and Robbers" has two crows disguise themselves [[FullBodyDisguise full-body]] as a scarecrow this way.
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* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: "Wee-Willie Wildcat" opens with Barney overhearing his neighbor William Wildcat spanking his son Willie and intervenes against him, not realizing that Willie has been disobedient. Barney tries to get along with Willie using child psychology, courtesy of a handy book on such, but to no avail, as every attempt results in something bad happening to Barney. The final rule in the child psychology book is: "If all else fails, BOTTOMS UP!" So Barney tries to spank Willie himself -- only for William to intervene against him, declaring ''he'' will spank his son. Barney decides to join William in spanking the bratty child, only to hurt their hands. It turns out that Willie had hidden the child psychology book under his pants for protection.
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** [[WesternAnimation/BarneysHungryCousin Barney's Hungry Cousin]] (1953)

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** [[WesternAnimation/BarneysHungryCousin Barney's Hungry Cousin]] WesternAnimation/BarneysHungryCousin (1953)
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** Barney's Hungry Cousin (1953)

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** [[WesternAnimation/BarneysHungryCousin Barney's Hungry Cousin Cousin]] (1953)




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* BuriedTreasure: "Heir Bear" is about Barney digging for pirate treasure in his backyard. Unfortunately, a gopher is using the chest as a bed, and is not giving it up without a fight.

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* InflatingBodyGag: In "Heir Bear", the gopher blows up his hand to punch Barney with it.



* TaxmanTakesTheWinnings: At the end of the cartoon "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.



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

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* WartimeCartoon: "Bear Raid Warden", "The Flying Bear", and "Barney Bear's Victory Garden".Garden".
* WormSign: In "Heir Bear" when Barney chases the gopher underground, the gopher's sign being followed by Barney's larger one.
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* CanonImmigrant: Benny Burro is generally considered to be the same donkey seen in the WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoon "Little Gravel Voice", since they both share identical designs.

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* CanonImmigrant: Benny Burro is generally considered to be the same donkey seen in the WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoon "Little Gravel Voice", since they both share identical designs. Supporting this are the MGM comic books, where Benny was a much more prominent character and originally reprised his shtick from the earlier short before being paired with Barney.
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* CleverCrows: The crows trying to get Barney's corn in "Cobs and Robbers". Two of them even disguise themselves as a scarecrow who offers to help Barney get rid of the other crows so they can then get the corn all to themselves.


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* TotemPoleTrench: "Cobs and Robbers" has two crows disguise themselves as a scarecrow this way.

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* ShoutOut: "The Unwelcome Guest" features a nod to "WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood", via a book Barney is reading.

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"The Unwelcome Guest" features a nod to "WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood", via a book Barney is reading.



* SuperNotDrowningSkills: The endings of both "Bah Wilderness" and "Busybody Bear", where the whole forest and valley are flooded, with a disgruntled Barney laying underwater.

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The endings of both "Bah Wilderness" and "Busybody Bear", where the whole forest and valley are flooded, with a disgruntled Barney laying underwater.underwater.
** Barney spends much of "Goggle Fishing Bear" underwater without a snorkel or scuba gear.
* SweetSeal: A seal pup is Barney's foil in "Goggle Fishing Bear"


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* ThreateningShark: "Google Fishing Bear" has Barney being chased by a shark, until he is rescued by the seal that had been bothering him earlier.
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* TheChewToy: Barney himself, practically reaching CosmicPlaything territory. The outcomes of his shorts ''never'' end positively for him, especially in shorts like "Barney's Hungry Cousin".

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* TheChewToy: Barney himself, practically reaching CosmicPlaything territory. The outcomes of his shorts ''never'' end almost never ends positively for him, especially in shorts like "Barney's Hungry Cousin".
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* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Exaggerated in "Bear Raid Warden", where an owl's eyes are so bright they light up the outdoors; Barney has to put shades on the owl to make it dark again.


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* VandalismBackfire: In "Bear Raid Warden", Barney is an air raid warden, tasked with making sure people's lights are out in case of an air raid. In the end, he sees a house with all its lights on and goes inside and tears everything apart putting out the lights. It's only at the end when he realizes the house he just ransacked was ''his''.
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* KarmaHoudini: Barney's hungry cousin, from the short of the same name, who for ''no given reason'', gets Barney jailed in the end, via [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass by putting the signs saying not to feed the bears he took down back up, summoning the police, and telling them that Barney tried to feed him]], ''even though the guy spent the whole short stealing Barney's food, and Barney offered him his last sandwich in defeat''. [[YankTheDogsChain He doesn't even give Barney the pleasure of having his stashed lollipop as he's dragged off!]]

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* KarmaHoudini: Barney's hungry cousin, from the short [[WesternAnimation/BarneysHungryCousin cartoon of the same name, name,]] who for ''no given reason'', gets Barney jailed in the end, via [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass by putting the signs saying not to feed the bears he took down back up, summoning the police, and telling them that Barney tried to feed him]], ''even though the guy spent the whole short stealing Barney's food, and Barney offered him his last sandwich in defeat''. [[YankTheDogsChain He doesn't even give Barney the pleasure of having his stashed lollipop as he's dragged off!]]
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* BearyFriendly: He's a very nice bear.
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Compare Creator/WalterLantz's own cartoon bear WesternAnimation/AndyPanda, who co-incidentally debuted in 1939.

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Compare Creator/WalterLantz's own cartoon bear WesternAnimation/AndyPanda, who co-incidentally debuted in 1939.
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* BittersweetEnding: The cartoon "The Impossible Possum" ends with Barney accidentally destroying his cabin, but at least he had the said possum over for dinner.

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** The Rookie Bear (1941)

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!!Tropes Related to the Series:
* AllJustADream: The ending of "The Rookie Bear", until he really drafted.

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!!''Barney Bear'' cartoons with their own pages:

* "WesternAnimation/TheRookieBear"

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!!Tropes Related to the Series:
* AllJustADream: The ending of "The Rookie Bear", until he really drafted.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The short "The Rookie Bear", Barney Bear gets a telegram from the Army, misreading it for a free vacation. After realizing that he's been drafted, he pantomimes "Screw this" and begins to leave the base, only to be forced back to be inducted.



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

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* WartimeCartoon: "Bear Raid Warden", "The Flying Bear", "The Rookie Bear" and "Barney Bear's Victory Garden".
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* FunnyXRay: In "Wee Willie Wildcat", after Barney tries to kick a football with a rock inside it, a cross-section of his body shows his entire skeleton shattering to pieces.

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* FunnyXRay: In "Wee Willie "Wee-Willie Wildcat", after Barney tries to kick a football with a rock inside it, a cross-section of his body shows his entire skeleton shattering to pieces.
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* FunnyXRay: In "Wee Willie Wildcat", after Barney tries to kick a football with a rock inside it, a cross-section of his body shows his entire skeleton shattering to pieces.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The short "The Rookie Bear", Barney Bear gets a telegram from the Army, misreading it for a free vacation. After realizing that he's been drafted, he pantomimes "Screw this" and begins to leave the base, only to be forced back to be inducted.

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