We Bare Bears
Hilarious in Hindsight in this series.- "Every day is your birthday when you're wearing your birthday suit"
. Seems like it got picked up after all. - The premise of the show starring three bears (a grizzly bear, panda bear, and polar bear) brings to mind Shirokuma Cafe, which also had the same three species as the main characters. Fans have already taken notice.
- The anime is eventually referenced in "Coffee Cave".
Grizz: How about "Polar Bear Cafe?"
Panda: Nah, I think that name's already taken. - Inside Out, a film released about a month before this show, contains the line "There are no bears in San Francisco" said by Disgust to Fear, after which Anger butts in saying that he saw "a hairy guy [that] looked like a bear". Pixar probably wasn't counting on Cartoon Network to make a show all about bears in San Francisco. Not only that, creator Daniel Chong was a story artist on the film, and both works feature Bobby Moynihan.
- Even more coincidental is during E3 2015, The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes was revealed, and one of the main gameplay elements is that three Links can stand on top of each other and form a stack of three, just like the "#bearstack"!
- A year before the webcomic began, the children's book "Panda and Polar Bear" told the story of a panda cub and a polar cub meeting and becoming friends like how Panda and Ice Bear met as cubs.
- And way back in 2007, the short "Poles Apart" featured a panda bear fitting into a city of polar bears and Pang Pang's appearance and Adorkable Butt-Monkey character is very similar to Panda's. (And he looked exactly like Ice Bear when he got covered in snow.)
- As usual for fandoms, various "dirty confession blogs" were created on Tumblr. One person on such a blog suggested that Panda has an anime body pillow. The episode "Hibernation" reveals that Panda has a Dakimakura he calls Miki-chan.
- In one episode, the bears are playing an obvious parody of the Wii. Then, a couple of commercials with the bears for Nintendo Switch were released. Clearly, these bears are Nintendo fans.
- In Tropic Thunder, Tugg Speedman regretfully killed a panda. When he called his manager with his mobile phone about what happened, his manager heard wrong and thought that Tugg "killed Amanda" and he wore the Panda's head as a hat. In "Summer Love", Panda returned a phone to a girl named Amanda, who wears a lot of panda-themed accessories including a hat, and she noted how their names sound alike.
- In "Grizzly: The Movie", there's a mo-cap actor named "Andy" performing Grizzly's stunts, as an obvious reference to Andy Serkis. In the 2018 film Mowgli, Serkis plays a bear, Baloo, via motion capture.
- One of the Season One episodes is named Primal. This would later be the name of a completely unrelated mini-series that would also be produced by Cartoon Network for its late-night programming block [adult swim].
- Chloe and Ice Bear: An Asian and Nerdy Child Prodigy wearing a dark blue hoodie and brown pants, befriending a big, round, white character in a San Francisco inspired setting. Why does that sound familiar?
