Western Animation / Grizzy and the Lemmings

Grizzy and the Lemmings is a French CGI Show made by Studio Hari.

It is about a bear named "Grizzy", who lives in the Forest Ranger's house in Canada & always get provoked by the Lemmings, a bunch of cheeky blue critters who enjoy really exciting activities. Inevitably, hilarity ensues as they each try and find ways to ruin each other's day, no matter how extreme the measures get, but no matter what they squabble over, they always end up getting the short end of the stick.

Tropes in this show include:

• Acme Products: Nearly every type of product that Grizzy and the Lemmings try to exploit, up to and including their beloved Yummy chocolate spread, is manufactured under the Zenithal brand.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Grizzy tries to win the affections of She-Bear, who clearly isn't interested.
• Ambiguously Absent Parent: She-Bear is revealed to have a cub in "Babysitting". She is obviously a single mother, as Grizzy is still pining for her affections.
• Ancient Artifact: The titular characters encounter a lot of artifacts used in ancient times, from totems to amulets. But they’re not only found in Canada, but also all over the world, which Grizzy and the Lemmings fight over to use them for their own gain, only for it to come back to bite them.
• Animalistic Abilities: In "Eagle Spirit", the Lemmings, along with Grizzy, find ancient animal totems that give the holder the abilities and, somewhat, the behavior of the animal. Those animals are an eagle, a mountain lion, a cobra, a frog, and a fish.
• Astral Projection: In "Foodie Phantoms", Grizzy locks the Lemmings up in a trunk and takes back his jelly, only once he did so, the Lemmings found a ghost shaped relic that can remove the spirit from the body.
• Backstory: In "As Far as Bear Can Remember", Grizzy was a young bear cub peacefully eating berries till a group of the young Lemmings were playing on a slide-like rock, which annoyed the young bear, and next thing they slid on a stump, and crash landed in the place the young critters would be familiar with as a home. While the Lemmings were having fun, Grizzy was trying on what would be his attire today. Eventually they found Yummy Chocolate spread, which they would find heavenly delicious. They were escaping with it until the box that held the spread fell from a cliff and thankfully held on to a branch. When the Ranger came home to find a mess, he screamed scaring both Grizzy and the Lemmings to which they wouldn't find their stash (which unfortunately rotted) till the beginning of this episode.
• Be the Ball: What the Lemmings can do together for either fun purposes or taking care of Grizzy.
• Bears Are Bad News:
  • Grizzy of course.
  • In "Uncouth Bear", there's also the titular prehistoric grizzly bear who is stronger, meaner and hungrier than Grizzy.
  • The "World Tour" episodes also introduce a panda bear, who is skilled in martial arts and pretty strong to boot.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: "Lemming Birthday" is about the Lemmings trying to celebrate one of their own's birthday, doing all they can to keep Grizzy at bay. The episode ends as though it were any other, with our main characters in an unfortunate position in one way or another.
• Bittersweet Ending: In "Ice and Bears", Grizzly and the Lemmings end up stuck in a giant circular chunk of ice of their own making. But on the bright side, the polar bear isn't hot anymore and is floating back home.
• Blow That Horn: In "Outboard Cabin", Grizzy found a ancient horn that can summon a whale that can do his bidding. When the Lemmings find this out, they want to use it to surf the water.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Grizzy is as lazy as the average bear and maybe even more, but he makes up for it in his ideas, and they are quite creative, and one might say ingenious. An example is using creative ways to kick the lemmings out of the cabin. This mostly involves the pan.
• Butt-Monkey: Grizzy and the Lemmings always end up hurting themselves.
• Colony Drop: Some episodes end with the moon inadvertently dropping on the Earth... with Grizzy and the Lemmings underneath the point of impact, naturally.
• Diet Episode: "Diet Bear" is about Grizzy discovering the Forest Ranger got a new high-tech refrigerator. It contains the jar of spread he likes, but it won't let him have it because he's too overweight. So it will only let him have the jar if he gets into shape. Both Grizzy and the Lemmings have other plans.
• Downer Ending: Played for Laughs. Just about every episode ends with the situation comically turn out bad for both titular characters, neither getting what they each wanted in the first place.
• Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: The titular characters sport these whenever things don't go their way, mainly at the end of the episode.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Some of their misfortunes have them accidentally blowing up the earth.
• Elemental Powers: In "Elementary Lemmings", Grizzy found a magical amulet that gave the wearer control over the elements shown on the amulet, such as air, earth, ice, and fire so long as they were in contact with said specific element.
• Enemy Mine: Grizzy and the Lemmings would often team up whenever the situation becomes too big for both of them to handle.
  • Ironically, Grizzy teams up with the Lemmings to steal chocolate spread from the alternate versions of themselves (who are friends and actually work together). After they return to their own dimension, Grizzy breaks the truce to make off with the chocolate spread.
  • In "Peaceable Enemies", a panda that came out of a sleeping capsule forces Grizzy and the Lemmings to play nice, so that either can be allowed to use the tablet they fight over. Sure enough, both parties eventually collaborate to try and get rid of the panda.
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Some episodes end with Grizzy and the Lemmings running away from something that will hurt them.
• Extra-ore-dinary: In "Northern Lights", when Grizzy flung one of the lemmings out of the cabin and into the aurora borealis, this lemming discovers he could manipulate anything made of metal.
• Flea Episode: in "Bear Itch", the Lemmings use a flea infested raccoon to get themselves infested to do some breakdancing, while Grizzy finds a treatment.
• Fantastic Fireworks: In "Fireworks Cabin", the Lemmings use fireworks to have some fun in the middle of the night, much to the chagrin of Grizzy. Eventually, the fireworks take them across the world from China to Hawaii.
• Foil: Our titular characters are this. Grizzy is a big, lone bear who is strong and smart (in his own way) but lazy and just wants to loaf around the Forest Ranger's cabin all day. The Lemmings are tiny little guys who rely on strength in numbers, are more active, and want to have fun all day. This is at the core of why both are at odds with each other every episode.
• Fountain of Youth: One episode has the Lemmings discover a magical bowl of pink elixir that can change somebody young (and reverse the effects if splashed upon the subject again).
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: In one episode, Grizzy and the Lemmings discover an idol that can swap one's spirit into anything when it accidentally swaps Grizzy with a moose. When the Lemmings make off with the idol to have some fun with it, Grizzy is forced to chase after them for it in order to regain his body.
• Friend to All Living Things: In "Relaxation Bear", Grizzy's beloved She-Bear shows concern for the moose who was injured by the main characters' latest shenanigans, for no other reason except that it was hurt. And the episode ends with her fawning over its recovery. She's also shown adoring butterflies and the like.
• Gelatinous Encasement: "Jelly Lemmings" features the titular characters warring over gelatin desserts. This culminates in them accidentally pouring gelatin powder into a lake, gelatinizing the entire body of water... only for them to get trapped in the container submerged inside the jello lake, unable to access their dessert despite being surrounded by it.
• Giant Enemy Crab: "Odd-Job Crab" has Grizzy and the Lemmings find a crab-like artifact that acts like a video game controller to the giant crab, which the two use for their own gain. Soon enough, however, they misplaced its shell, causing it to get payback on its manipulators and use the cabin as a makeshift shell.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: The Forest Ranger, who, outside of "As Far As Bear Can Remember", is only seen as a silhouette in the title animation and represented through assorted objects with his likeness, as Grizzy and the Lemmings do their shenanigans during his absence.
• Heat Wave: Grizzy and the Lemmings find themselves in a few heatwaves, which they have to find ways to stay cool with either air conditioning, fridges, ice cubes, or even doing a rain dance.
• Hollywood Prehistory: "Ancestral Bear" shows prehistoric versions of the main characters living alongside Mesozoic dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
• Identity Amnesia: In "Role Change", Grizzy and the Lemmings gain a head injury that makes them forget who they were, and thought they were their nemesis; Grizzy thinks he’s a lemming, and the Lemmings think they’re a bear. Near the end of the episode, they both share a head injury, and after seeing a moose, they think that they are a moose (with the Lemmings posing as the antlers).
• Immune to Slapstick: The She-Bear is rarely subjected to the Amusing Injuries that usually happen to Grizzy and the Lemmings, since she is clearly not involved with their shenanigans outside of Grizzy's hopeless attempts to win her heart.
• Irony: While the two do hate one another, in "Conflict Generation", Grizzy's younger self likes to party like the Lemmings, and the Lemmings' older versions like to relax like Grizzy.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Both main characters tend to be jerks especially to each other, but they've shown to be capable of caring for others and even each other.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia:
  • "Switched Roles" has Grizzy receive a head injury and (by looking upon the lemmings) believes he's a lemming. Later, the lemmings also believe they're collectively a bear. The episode ends with both parties collectively believing they're a moose.
  • The same also happens to Grizzy's beloved She-Bear, twice over. First time, she thinks she's a lemming as well. Second time, towards the ending, she thinks she's a partridge, fills herself with helium and flies away.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Grizzy and the Lemmings always end up suffering the consequences of their self-centeredness.
• Lightning Can Do Anything: Exaggerated. Almost any time someone and/or something comes into contact with electrical objects, the resulting short-circuit is guaranteed to supercharge and give superpowers that Grizzy and/or the Lemmings will immediately take advantage of.
• Love Potion: "Irresistible Bear" has Grizzy find a love potion which he has plans for on She-Bear, only for this to backfire when a moose drinks most of the potion and falls for him.
• Mammoths Mean Ice Age: In "Spinning Lemmings", the Lemmings find a real live mammoth that is quick to be on friendly terms with them.
• Medium Blending: The television feed and characters' thought bubbles are depicted with 2D animation, in sharp contrast to the CGI visuals seen everywhere else.
• Misplaced Wildlife: The World Tour episodes feature polar bears and walruses in Antarctica alongside penguins, and black-and-white tapirs (which live in Asia) in South America.
• Mime and Music-Only Cartoon: There is no dialogue whatsoever, as all of the characters make grunting noises.
• Monkey King Lite: Well, more really his belongings. In "Bear in the Cloud", Grizzy found a temple with a stone monkey statue holding a staff that can grow at will, and a crown that can summon a playful cloud.
• Naturally Huskless Coconuts: Coconut seeds appear in most of the World Tour episodes set in the Pacific, including ones hanging from trees. Averted in "Odd-Job Crab", where the coconuts have green husks.
• Negative Continuity: Episodes typically end with Grizzy and the Lemmings trapped in some sort of inescapable or otherwise undesirable situation that there is no way to reverse other than a Snap Back.
• Now That's Using Your Teeth!: The Lemmings sometimes use their teeth to chew through pretty much anything from cloth to wood.
• "Oh, Crap!" Smile: The Lemmings tend to do this when any single or more of them realize that Grizzy is about to put the hurt on them, yet try to act sheepishly nice.
• One-Word Vocabulary: The Lemmings can only say "Tabodi".
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Super Lemming Bros", the Lemmings try to use Grizzy's favorite things to take his attention away from the racing game he becomes addicted to. They offer him chocolate spread, he tosses them out. They offer him salmon with chocolate spread, he tosses them out. Even when they bring She-Bear, he tosses them out (and She-Bear).
• Ostrich Head Hiding: In "Tam Tam Lemmings", several ostriches stick their heads in the ground in response to the characters' music rhythm.
• Pictorial Speech-Bubble: These pop up for Grizzy and the Lemmings, whenever they take a moment to ponder about things.
• The Power of Rock: In "Rock 'N' Lemmings", Grizzy and the Lemmings unwittingly unlock a special electric guitar from a rock band's trailer. Touching the guitar endows its user(s) with godly rock 'n' roll-playing abilities and appropriate face paint.
• Power-Up Food: In "Lemming Tonic", one of the lemmings was thrown where a chili pepper factory was. Once he ate a few peppers, he discovered it gave him incredible levels of strength and speed, for a few minutes.
• Pro Wrestling Episode: "Couch Wrestling".
• Psycho Serum: "Chemical Lemmings" has the Lemmings using a chemistry set which Grizzy threw away, only for the chemicals to get mixed up and poured on the Lemmings, which made them more chaotic and more of a problem for Grizzy, fortunately he found a cure for the lemmings, the moose that drank the tainted water however, were another story.
• Rain Dance: In "Thirst Quencher", while Grizzy and the Lemmings fought over the last supply of water in a inflatable pool, which was being used by the Lemmings, only for the remaining water to evaporate causing Grizzy to hallucinate, seeing the lemmings and a chicken as bottles of water. Meanwhile, The Lemmings found an ancient temple that has a staff and instructions to do a rain dance which the two enemies fight over for some water.
• Running Gag: Grizzy throwing the Lemmings out of the cabin and into the nearby cliff, occasionally squashing them flat beforehand. It never stops the Lemmings for long.
• Sadist Show: Oh yes. The show's main source of entertainment comes from Grizzy and the Lemmings constantly giving each other a hard time, and suffering the dire consequences for their selfishness.
• Shrink Ray: In "Mini Troubles", The Lemmings find a staff with the ability to shoot a beam that can shrink anything to the size of a common flea.
• Speaking Simlish: The Lemmings only using "Tabodi" as a word in conversation counts as this.
• Squashed Flat: As is the cartoony nature of the show, Grizzy and the Lemmings often find themselves in this position, often in the Downer Ending.
• Suicidal Lemmings: Averted by the Lemmings themselves. The only reason they fall off cliffs is due to Grizzy throwing them off, not that it ever harms them. This is also often parodied by having the Lemmings jump off high places and onto something bouncy, or a remaining lemming follow the others who have fallen off to avoid Grizzy's wrath.
• Super-Speed: In "Lemming Juice", when the lemon juice was in contact with lightning, it gave whoever drank this juice the ability of temporary speed.
• This Is Gonna Suck:
  • The usual reaction to each predicament that Grizzy and the Lemmings suffer at the end of most episodes is to stare coldly, towards the viewer, as they're not amused by what will happen to them afterwards.
  • In "Cellular Bear", Grizzy and the Lemmings both get in a school bus that the latter ordered during a chase, only for both sides to immediately stop fighting once Grizzy and one of the Lemmings notice a road sign around the bend that conveniently warns about a school bus falling off a cliff. Grizzy and the lemming stare wide-eyed, so Grizzy braces himself by closing the school bus door.
• This Loser Is You: Grizzy a big, selfish grizzly bear who wants to do nothing more than loaf around on the couch, snacking on chocolate spread straight from the jar and watching television all day.
• Toilet Humor: In one episode, while fighting for the last jar of chocolate spread, both parties accidentally drop it on a rock below. Now that doesn't stop them, as they see the spread as salvageable. What does stop them is when an eagle poops on the chocolate spread from above.
• Toon Physics: If falling down a cliff and surviving wasn’t enough, in "Cartoon Bear", by using a more powerful battery, it made their world more cartoony than it ever was, making them more capable of doing all sorts of cartoonish things, like making a bomb from an apple.
• Trademark Favorite Food:
  • Both Grizzly and the Lemmings love hazelnut chocolate spread and eating it in their downtime. The only difference is, Grizzly occasionally likes to eat salmon (and other fish) with his.
  • They also love cheese puffs and nacho chips, especially when dipped in hazelnut chocolate spread.
  • Grizzy likes orange juice, which he drinks out of an empty fish bowl.
  • In the World Tour episodes set in the Pacific, the titular characters found they like coconut milk mixed with cocoa powder.
  • Both characters also take a liking to jelly pudding during their time in Scotland in World Tour.
• Trip Trap: The Lemmings often do this to Grizzy by forming a line with each other.
• Unicorn: "Rainbow Moose" has a moose with the colors and the horn of a unicorn.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Both of the titular characters. How unsympathetic they are tends to vary on the episode, but at their core they are slacker animals whose lifestyles clash with each other, pushing them to do devious things to get rid of the other party.
• "What Now?" Ending: A one-shot example of this occurs in some episodes, as Grizzy and the Lemmings are otherwise fine from any danger but are clearly left disappointed by the outcome of the prior shenanigans (e.g. the cabin being destroyed, someone else obtaining what they wanted instead of them, etc).
• World Tour: As the name of the season implies, the "World Tour" episodes have Grizzy and the Lemmings fight over a jar of chocolate spread, only for said fight to knock over a grappling hook which caught a plane, leaving their old home (Canada) behind, for them to be in China, The Pacific, Antarctica, Africa, Scotland, and Brazil (in that order).
• Wrestler in All of Us: "Couch Wrestling" shows the two enemies finding a box of wrestling masks, and it’s shown that those who wear them obtain the skills that you’d find in a wrestler.
• Worthless Yellow Rocks: "Bling in Bling Bear" is about Grizzy trying to win over his beloved She-Bear with a diamond ring. The episode ends with her happening upon a giant diamond, but discarding it over a mere flower she adores.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Often times, Grizzy and the Lemmings find large quantities of food that they're willing to share. And then something bad happens to them like every other episode.
• Yin-Yang Bomb:
  • In "Bad Bear, Good Bear", a magic tomahawk causes Grizzly to be split into his grouchy, mean self and his laid-back, kindlier self. Naturally, the Lemmings are pleased when Nice!Grizzly makes them home-made chocolate spread, and confused when Mean!Grizzly treats them, well, like usual.
  • In "Neither Yin, Nor Yang", a raccoon is infused with the forces of Yin and Yang. Not only that, but it can emit an aura depending on the mood it’s in. Yang makes others more energetic than they usually are, while Yin makes others drowsy.
• Zany Cartoon: A rare CGI show example.

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