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1* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2** The title theme (specifically the one from seasons 1 to 3) is one hell of a catchy, sing-along bebop/jazz tune.
3** "The Goodbye Song" is fondly remembered by kids of the late 90s and early-to-mid 2000s as pure SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel, with Bear and Luna singing about how their day coming to an end doesn't negate the fact that the viewer will get to see them very soon.
4** "Come on In" was introduced as an introductory theme towards the end of the final season and only used a total of three times, yet is so fitting it feels like it could have been there from the beginning. It's a lovely, lively song in which Bear sings about how he has "a long list and a full day ahead", but the viewer is nevertheless welcome to come inside the Big Blue House.
5--->'''Bear:''' ''The door is always open, so just come on in. / The Big Blue House is your house when you come on in! Yeah!''
6* BrokenBase: The show's {{Retool}} in Season 4, in which we get to see more locations and characters. Either it was a good way to expand the world beyond the Big Blue House or it took away the charm of the show's BottleEpisode nature. One thing people can agree on was that they didn’t like the new intro or Ray's redesign. At least the titular house didn't become TheArtifact.
7* FriendlyFandoms: Many fans of this show also love ''Series/DonkeyHodie'', which also involves puppetry and shares a few cast members with this show.
8* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This series was huge in the United Kingdom. It consistently topped preschooler television polls when it aired and continued receiving DVD releases long after the show ended. It even got a [[TheKiddieRide kiddie ride]] made by [=Fun2Learn=].
9* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct:
10** Creator/LynneThigpen as Luna can really sing. It's especially poignant if you knew her best as [[Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego The]] [[Series/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego Chief]], who never sang (though The Chief was a performer before joining ACME, and clips of Thigpen's performances were occasionally used).
11** Noel [=MacNeal=] deserves a ''lot'' of credit for his performance as Bear. While it's impressive enough that he's operating a highly sophisticated full-bodied puppet, he still has to do so as a nuanced physical performance that's gentle, inviting and, most importantly, sincere, all simultaneous to an equally nuanced vocal performance, and no amount of technology could make up for that. To say he accomplishes both without fault on a regular basis would be an understatement.
12* HilariousInHindsight:
13** This wouldn't be [[Series/TheBookOfPooh the only Playhouse Disney program]] created by Mitchell Kriegman and produced by his company, Creator/ShadowProjects, to star [[Literature/WinnieThePooh a bear]]. Funny enough, both ''The Book of Pooh'' and the final season of ''Bear'' aired on the same channel during the same time period.
14** In the episode "Water, Water Everywhere", Bear poses the question "What is [[Film/TheShapeOfWater the shape of water]]?"
15** In "Oops, My Mistake", Pop makes a sandwich that consists of bologna on the outside and bread in the middle. In 2022, [[WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}} Pixar would revisit this idea]].
16* HoYay: Take Tutter's quote "Thank you, Beaaaar!" out of context and you'll likely get this.
17* MemeticMutation:
18** The now seemingly [[MissingEpisode lost]] ''Bear in The Big Brown Poop'' ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as it's name suggests, it's a]] YouTubePoop), has a purposely done {{mondegreen}} from the OnceAnEpisode closing song: ''Tomorrow just died today...'' (granted, though, many of the fans felt this way when the show ended)
19** [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maiep988JM1rfo60zo1_500.gif Bear's dancing]]. There's just something strangely hypnotic about Bear when he does the cha-cha and the suit jiggles as shown.
20** The insanity of [[http://prozdvoices.tumblr.com/post/118450764005/anonymous-said-i-cant-read-this-post-without Bear With A Dfuck House]]. WebVideo/ProZD's voice-acting helps add to the weirdness.
21** [[https://twitter.com/marioboy261/status/1573241626285441024?s=61&t=z11DBekbBQhRag0EDrjJrw This never-before-seen outtake]] of Ojo and Tutter cussing at each other caught on in October 2022, if simply because of the ''audacity'' of the whole thing.
22** [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/crisp-rat Crisp Rat]][[note]]not to be confused with Creator/ChrisPratt[[/note]], a kid-unfriendly parody of Tutter, has become an online celebrity for making skits and parody videos based off of pop culture and internet memes.
23* {{Moe}}:
24** Ojo is just plain adorable. As is Treelo.
25** Flashbacks and photographs show that Treelo was quite adorable as a baby.
26* {{Narm}}: The ToiletTrainingPlot episode got a number of books made out of it, intended to potty train toddlers, and while they're by no means considered bad (in fact, several articles were written at the time praising how the show handled the subject), they're also highly popular targets of deliberate misuse among teens and adults who are fond of ToiletHumor, especially the sound module that plays the sound of a toilet flushing and the sticker of a medal proclaiming "I'm a Toileteer!". According to Noel [=MacNeal=], the cast and crew of the show were not above laughing at the subject matter, as they were encouraged to "[[{{Corpsing}} get all their giggles out]]" the day before they were set to film the episode in question so as not to be distracted.
27* OlderThanTheyThink: Treelo's VerbalTic of referring to bananas as "bananananas" was coined in a much earlier Jim Henson Company production, ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', by the Swedish Chef while trying to make a banana split.
28* PeripheryDemographic:
29** Not surprisingly, plenty of older Muppet aficionados love this show.
30** The show's quiet atmosphere and Bear's gentle demeanor also makes it very popular with people on the autism spectrum.
31* PopularWithFurries: The show's lead is a huge, fluffy, huggable bear who's technically also a fursuit character. What did you expect?
32* RetroactiveRecognition: Tutter and Pip are [[Series/BetweenTheLions Theo Lion]] and [[Series/ItsABigBigWorld Snook]], as well as [[Film/TheMuppets2011 Walter]] and the current voice of [[Series/SesameStreet Ernie]]. '''But''', you'll only find out if you Google the credits, since [[PigeonholedVoiceActor Pigeonholed Voice Acting]] was averted and their voices are at very different pitch levels. Ditto Treelo and Pop, who are [[Series/BetweenTheLions Dr. Nitwhite]] and [[Series/SesameStreet Louie]], as well as [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY Hawlucha]] and [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Incineroar]]. Additionally, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg was a guest as "The Great Bandini", but viewers might not have realized it if they didn't see the credits, as she spoke in a low, calm voice that may not have been immediately recognizable to some as her.
33* {{Squick}}:
34** From the "Brush Brush Bree" song with the characters' brushing their teeth, Pip's "Look, Pop, I found a clam!" Even the other characters other than Pop are grossed out.
35--->'''Pop:''' Cooool.\
36'''Bear''', '''Tutter''', '''Treelo''' and '''Ojo:''' Ew!
37** Several moments from "When You've Got to Go", including Ojo having a PottyFailure, having a club called the "Toileteers", mentioning animals pooping, and several moments from the "Potty Chair" song.
38* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: The show had a very easygoing and relaxing atmosphere to it and was calming and gentle. This was part of the reason why Bear had a major impact on many kids on the autism spectrum.
39* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
40** Most people weren't too fond of the Season Four intro.
41** Same can go for Ray's redesign in that season.
42* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: There were a number of regular guests that they probably could have developed more or even become regulars, but on the whole they generally stuck with focusing for the most part on the main cast.
43* ViewerGenderConfusion:
44** Ojo's a girl?! (This is especially confusing for most audiences, because the Ojo puppet was built with no "feminine" qualities, she's often seen participating in "masculine" activities, and her voice, provided by puppeteer Vicki Eibner, resembles a "cartoon young boy" voice at times.)
45** Treelo's a boy?! (His high, Elmo-esque voice, provided by Tyler Bunch, doesn't exactly help matters.)
46* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Par for the course of Creator/JimHenson Productions, the show features some amazingly sophisticated puppetry, ''especially'' Bear, with his highly expressive eyebrows and ability to move his arms independently from one another[[note]]Traditionally, full-bodied walkaround puppets only allow for one arm to be controlled at a time (notice how [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]]'s right arm is always resting on his belly) since the other is busy operating the head, save for shows like ''Series/FraggleRock'' and ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' which use remote-controlled heads operated off-camera by a second puppeteer.[[/note]] thanks to a counterweight mechanism in his suit. Occasionally, the show would even do simple in-camera optical effects to make Bear look as if he's holding something in one hand while moving the other independently[[note]]Bear would be filmed from an angle that would allow for another puppeteer's hand wearing a disembodied Bear arm to hold the object out of view, who would then disappear from view when the camera pulled back to sell the illusion that everything was being done by one puppeteer.[[/note]], which adds an incredibly subtle amount of believability to the performance. Combined with Noel [=MacNeal=]'s excellent performance, it's incredibly easy to forget that you're watching a puppet. Even more impressive, all of this carried over into live appearances that [=MacNeal=] made as Bear, which always used the same costume from the show (notably, Bear was the only Muppet to appear on ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'' who could step out of his square and take a bow before the show like the other celebrities).
47%%* TheWoobie: Ojo, at times, especially in the episodes "Lost Thing" and "Why Bears Can't Fly".

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