History WesternAnimation / OpenSeason

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The theme song of the Japanese version is called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8AY-pZHJMg&pp=ygUWIlRvb2thZ2UiIGJ5IENoZW1pc3RyeQ%3D%3D "Tookage"]] by Chemistry.

* ShoutOut: A few ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' references, courtesy of Creator/BillyConnolly and the squirrels.
-->'''[=McSquizzy=]:''' ''(riding a rearing Mr. Weenie like a steed)'' FREEDOM!

-->'''Ed:''' Jolene?\\

* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:When Boog overpowers Shaw and roars in his face, the camera cuts to the other animals watching as Shaw cries out in pain, [[GoryDiscretionShot implying that Boog is mauling or possibly even eating him]]. Boog then walks away to check on Elliot, revealing that he's actually just tied Shaw up with his own rifle]].

* HorrifyingTheHorror: When Shaw was about to kill Boog in the climax, Elliott [[TakingTheBullet launches himself into the line of fire]], causing Boog to loom over Shaw, pinning him down in anger and roaring in his face, all the while Shaw was terrified by this.

''Open Season'' is a 2006 buddy-comedy AllCGICartoon produced by Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation in their animated feature debut. In the small mountain town of Timberline (seemingly located somewhere in the Rockies or Cascades of the northwestern USA), Boog (voiced by Creator/MartinLawrence), a happily domesticated, 900-pound adult grizzly bear, is kept as a pet by Ranger Beth (Creator/DebraMessing). Boog enjoys being the star of the town's educational nature show (ironically branding him as "the mighty grizzly") and sleeping in Beth's cozy garage. However, Boog's pampered life turns upside down when he meets a scrawny, fast-talking one-antlered mule deer named Elliot (Creator/AshtonKutcher). Through a series of disastrous events, culminating with Elliot inadvertently ruining Boog's show (and leading both of them to be sedated by local police) while trying to escape from the crazed, egomaniac hunter Shaw (Creator/GarySinise), Beth mistakenly and reluctantly deems Boog unsuitable for domestic life and has him (along with Elliot) helicopter-lifted to a distant part of the forest. Awakening from tranquilization, Boog immediately panics, having no idea how to survive in the wild, while Elliot, eager to glean both protection and companionship from Boog, promises to lead the grizzly home. The duo thus embark on a buddy-comedy journey in which they encounter an EnsembleCast of forest animals (a clan of Scottish squirrels, a duo of Russian ducks, beavers mirroring construction workers, Elliot's [[JerkJock antagonistic former herd]], etc.) and are pursued through the woodlands by the vengeful Shaw, who wants revenge on Boog and Elliot for wrecking his truck. While Boog just wants to get home, Elliot, despite his clinginess and oft-harebrained schemes, just wants to have a friend.

* APetIntoTheWild: Boog starts off as a domesticated bear who is released into the wild and eventually grows accustomed to his new life. Mr. Weenie also runs off to live in the wild, but ultimately returns to his owners in the second movie.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Elliot.]]

''Open Season'' is a 2006 animated buddy-comedy produced by Creator/SonyPicturesAnimation in their animated feature debut. In the small mountain town of Timberline (seemingly located somewhere in the Rockies or Cascades of the northwestern USA), Boog (voiced by Creator/MartinLawrence), a happily domesticated, 900-pound grizzly bear is kept by Ranger Beth (Creator/DebraMessing). Boog enjoys being the star of the town's educational nature show and sleeping in Beth's cozy garage. However, Boog's pampered life turns upside down when he meets a scrawny, fast-talking one-antlered mule deer named Elliot (Creator/AshtonKutcher). Through a series of disastrous events, culminating with Elliot inadvertently ruining Boog's show while trying to escape from the crazed, egomaniac hunter Shaw (Creator/GarySinise), Beth mistakenly and reluctantly deems Boog unsuitable for domestic life and has him (along with Elliot) helicopter-lifted to a distant part of the forest. Boog panics, having no idea how to survive in the wild, while Elliot, eager to glean both protection and companionship from Boog, promises to lead the grizzly home. The duo thus embark on a buddy-comedy journey in which they encounter both an EnsembleCast of forest animals (a clan of Scottish squirrels, a duo of Russian ducks, beavers mirroring construction workers, Elliot's [[JerkJock antagonistic former herd]], etc.) and are pursued through the woodlands by the vengeful Shaw, who wants revenge on Boog and Elliot for wrecking his truck. While Boog just wants to get home, Elliot, despite his clinginess and oft-harebrained schemes, just wants to have a friend.

* SeriesContinuityError: At the end of the first movie, Boog gave his stuffed toy Mr. Dinkles to Beth so she could always remember him. In the third movie, Mr. Dinkles is inexplicably back in Boog's possession.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: In the first movie, Boog throws up a green splash of barf with regurcitated cereals and snacks over the glass of the garage window of the ranger station after he and Elliot spend the whole night at the general store and eat almost everything from there.

* GettingSickDeliberately: In the second movie, Roberto is having a PottyEmergency, so Fifi [[IntentionalMessMaking forces himself to throw up on their owner's lap]] ([[VomitDiscretionShot offscreen]]) to make her pull over.

In 2023, a TV series based on the series, titled ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeasonCallOfNature'' was anncounced. Produced by the Canadian studio Creator/NineStoryMediaGroup, the series involes Boog and Elliot discovering a abandoned summer camp, where they used it to create a new safe area for animals to live. While it was anncounced for a 2024 release, [[ShortRunInPeru it ended up premiring in Latin America in October 2023, with a Canadian premire the following month]].