History WesternAnimation / CareBears1980s

* MakeMeWannaShout: In the TV series, Shreeky's, well, shrieks, can be heard from a mile away and injure people. In one instance, a Care Bear slid down a stair rail while recording Shreeky's shriek. The force of her shriek caused the bear to slide backwards, ''up'' the rail.

The show began with two TV specials,''[[WesternAnimation/CareBearsInTheLandWithoutFeelings The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings]]'' (1983) and ''The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine'' (1984). There are four regular seasons, from 1985 to 1988. During the [[TheNineties 1990s]], the Disney Channel (in the USA) sometimes aired reruns of ''Care Bears'' alongside ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears Gummi Bears]]''. The Nelvana episodes aired in Canada on the Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork (ATV (now CTV Atlantic) and ASN (now CTV Two Atlantic) in Atlantic Canada, due to no affiliate of Global Television existing in that part of the country when the show debuted). After the toy relaunch in 2002, some plush bears included VHS (and later DVD) episodes from this show.

** In "Caring for Spring", Simple Simon (Beastly) lost his other pies before he can eat them. He throws his last pie at Wicked Witch of Winter (Shreeky) after she demands him to built him a new castle.

** In "Caring for Spring", Simple Simon (Beastly) lost his other pies before he can eat them. He throws his last pie at Wicked Witch of Winter (Shreeky). "It was my last pie, but it was worth it."

* WidelySpacedJailBars: In "Under the Bigtop," Wally is [[HeightAngst bothered by his small size]], thinking it means he can't do anything in the circus and teased by the other kids. Brave Heart Lion and Grumpy Bear come down to Earth to help them, but are targeted by Beastly and Shreeky. They trap them in a cage, but don't reckon on the fact that while the cage can trap Brave Heart and Grumpy, the bars are too widely spaced to hold Wally. He just walks right through them and this is used as AnAesop that sometimes being small has its advantages.

* AnAesop: Many episodes deliver a moral at the end. See the list of morals on the trope page.

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* EmotionBomb: Sour Sam's Crabby Apple Pies cause those who eat them to become irritable and cranky. Once he's reformed, he starts selling Happy Apple Pies, which [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul hopefully don't do this anymore]].

* EmotionBomb: Sour Sam's Crabby Apple Pies cause those who eat them to become irritable and cranky. Once he's reformed, he starts selling Happy Apple Pies, which [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul hopefully work differently]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Shreeky likes to [[MakeMeWannaShout shriek]], so fans spell her name as "Shrieky". The show almost never spells her name, because the credits just [[NowWhichOneWasThatVoice list all the voice actors without their characters.]] The official spelling does appear in the name of the second-season episode "The Wrath of Shreeky", as it appears on the title card.

* CaretakingIsFeminine: In the episode "The Turnabout", Champ Bear attempts to invoke this trope, asking Cheer Bear and Treat Heart to babysit Hugs and Tugs while he and Bright Heart go fix the lighthouse to repel No Heart?s fog, claiming that the former job is far easier for the girls than the latter. Cheer however does not take it well and instead makes both pairs switch jobs to prove which of them is actually harder, resulting in the boys babysitting while the girls go fix the lighthouse. In the end, both jobs turn out to be more difficult than expected with Champ realizing that boys and girls can do them equally as well, although Cheer offhandedly admits that she would rather stick with jobs like babysitting than do something like fixing the lighthouse again.

* GoldfishPoopGang: Shreeky and Beastly in The Nelvana series. Their the villains the Care Bears encounter the most, but are too inept to pose any kind of real threat.

* GoldfishPoopGang: Shreeky and Beastly in The Nelvana series. Their the bears' main villains, but are too inept to pose any kind of real threat.

* DenserAndWacker: The Nelvana series became significantly more comedic towards the end of its run, giving greater screen time to the slapstick bungling of GoldfishPoopGang Shreeky and Beastly.

* RecycledInSpace: Later episodes sometimes took place aboard a starship that's a dead ringer for the [[Franchise/StarTrek U.S.S. Enterprise,]] while others were sometimes set in [[OneMillionBC dinosaur times.]]