History WesternAnimation / TheHairBearBunch

* ColdOpening: On the CBS run, only the first three episodes had a cold open--the 13 other episodes had the regular theme song opening and the pre-episode title teaser. Upon returning in 1984 to USA (and later CN and Boomerang), all the 15 other episodes were reformatted with cold opens.

* ColdOpening: On the CBS run, only the debut episode had a cold open--the 15 other episodes had the regular theme song opening and the pre-episode title teaser. Upon returning in 1984 to USA (and later CN and Boomerang), all the 15 other episodes were reformatted with cold opens.
** The DVD set has the episodes as CBS originally ran them--cold open, opening title, episode title, episode on the debut; opening title, teaser, episode title and episode on the other 15. Plus they have the "we'll be right back" bumpers as well.

* LaughTrack: An H-B-created laugh track was used starting with episode four ("Love Bug Bungle"). It was removed when it returned on USA in 1984 and has been absent during its Cartoon Network and Boomerang broadcasts.

* [[EditedForSyndication Edited For TV]]: Scenes that were animated but not used on the first CBS run were used in the second run. Among the scenes were the bears getting busted for playing "Slap Jack" with Bananas (''Closed Circuit TV''), Peevly accosting a wild forest bear, mistaking it for the Bunch (''I'll Zoo You Later''), and Peevly verbally accepting Hair's proposal to stage a re-enactment of the story of Noah and the Ark (''Ark Lark''). These scenes have been noticeably absent from the show's play on USA, Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

-->'''Hair:''' Nothing like getting a head start, sir.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Up till recently, the series was not available on DVD, although the debut episode was featured on volume 2 of Warner Home Video's ''Saturday Morning Cartoons'' collection in 2010 and selected episodes were released on VHS in the 80s. The entire series is now available on DVD through Warner Archive.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Up till recently, the series was not available on DVD, although the debut episode was featured on volume 2 of Warner Home Video's ''Saturday Morning Cartoons'' collection in 2010. The entire series is now available on DVD through Warner Archive.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: According to Mr. Peevly, at least. Otherwise subverted - the bears are very nice and friendly to everyone they meet.
-->'''Peevly:''' Why Noah took animals with him I'll never know.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Comedian [[Car54WhereAreYou Joe E. Ross]] was Botch. Creator/DawsButler was Hair Bear and Creator/PaulWinchell was Bubi.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Comedian [[Car54WhereAreYou Joe E. Ross]] was Botch. Creator/DawsButler was Hair Bear and PaulWinchell was Bubi.

* ShoutOut: The bears put on a scam on Peevly through role-playing, calling themselves Hair's Mighty Art Players (in "Rare Bear Bungle") or The Mighty Hair Bear Performers ("I'll Zoo You Later"). This is a not to the Mighty Carson Art Players from ''The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson''.

* ShoutOut: The bears put on a scam on Peevly through role-playing, calling themselves Hair's Mighty Art Players (in "Rare Bear Bungle") or The Mighty Hair Bear Performers ("I'll Zoo You Later"). This is a not to the Mighty Carson Art Players from the Tonight Show with JohnnyCarson.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Just ask Mr. Peevly.

The show was chided as being rather moronic, and even Joseph Barbera commented that he [[CreatorBacklash wasn't even aware his studio made it.]] It was developed as "The Yo-Yo Bears" and was renamed some two months before it hit the air on Creator/{{CBS}} September 11, 1971. It ran one year, was shelved, then returned in replays in September 1973. It ran Sunday mornings then was moved to Saturdays in February 1974 after CBS revamped its Saturday line-up. It was canceled that fall and remained dormant until 1984 when USANetwork ran it on its Cartoon Express block. CartoonNetwork and its sister channel, Boomerang, have also run the series.

The show was chided as being rather moronic, and even Joseph Barbera commented that he [[CreatorBacklash wasn't even aware his studio made it.]] It was developed as "The Yo-Yo Bears" and was renamed some two months before it hit the air on {{CBS}} September 11, 1971. It ran one year, was shelved, then returned in replays in September 1973. It ran Sunday mornings then was moved to Saturdays in February 1974 after CBS revamped its Saturday line-up. It was canceled that fall and remained dormant until 1984 when USANetwork ran it on its Cartoon Express block. CartoonNetwork and its sister channel, Boomerang, have also run the series.

* ArtShift: In preliminary models, Hair Bear was given a jutting chin, similar to ScoobyDoo. It was later refined, but this preliminary version was briefly seen in the debut episode "Keep Your Keeper" as well as throughout its comic book adaptation "Zoo's Who" (Gold Key #1, February 1972).

* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Done in "Love Bug Bungle." The bears are out of control on an air-filled inflatable toy horse (using jet-propulsion to go). Whe Square asks how to control it, Hair says, "I'm a bear, not a cowboy!" Then in "I'll Zoo You Later," the bears make a getaway on a helium tank using the same jet-propulsion principle.

-->'''Hair:''' Look, I'm a bear, not an astronaut!

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Hanna-Barbera planned to revive and update the Hair Bear Bunch and TheCattanoogaCats as revolving middle features of ''TwoStupidDogs'' in its second season, but the plans were scrapped.

** Later in the series, Hair Bear is dressed up as Mama Bear when the bears try out for a revisionist movie of the {{Goldilocks}} story. Botch dresses up as Goldilocks at the conclusion.

** The aforementioned tweaked version of the "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" story. The actress playing Goldilocks, Twinkles Sunshine, is built up as a lovable sweetheart, but she turns out to be an AlphaBitch.

* MythologyGag: In "The Diet Caper", the bears find themselves in what appears to be a haunted house (actually the haunted house of an amusement park). Background music from ''ScoobyDoo'' is used.

* TalkingToHimself: John Stephenson is both Peevly and the superintendent. DawsButler does voices for Hair Bear, Bananas and Fumbo.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Comedian [[Car54WhereAreYou Joe E. Ross]] was Botch. DawsButler was Hair Bear and PaulWinchell was Bubi.

* WhoIsDriving: Square Bear is able to conjure up an invisible motorcycle when the situation calls for it.

The bears were Hair Bear, so called because of his big orange afro; Bubi Bear, who speaks in gibberish quite often, and Square Bear, a clumsy lumberer with a big appetite.

* ColdOpening: On the CBS run, only the debut episode had a cold open--the other 15 episodes had the regular theme song opening and the pre-episode title teaser. Upon returning in 1984 to USA (and later CN and Boomerang), all the other 15 episodes were reformatted with cold opens.

* ForgottenBirthday: Zig-zagged at the end of "The Diet Caper." Hair's alibi for raiding Peevly's refrigerator is that the animals were celebrating Botch's birthday, which Peevly grudgingly buys. While left to clean up, Hair confesses he made up the alibi and that Botch couldn't blow the whistle because ''he'' doesn't remember when his birthday is either.

* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Done in "Love Bug Bungle." The bears are out of control on an air-filled inflatable toy horse (using jet-propulsion to go). Whe Square asks how to control it, Hair says "I'm a bear, not a cowboy!" Then in "I'll Zoo You Later," the bears make a getaway on a helium tank using the same jet-propulsion principle.

* SyndicationTitle: [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer Some reference material]] claims that the show went into syndication under the name "The Yo-Yo Bears" (its developmental title) after its CBS run. It actually remained dormant until USA Network acquired it for their "Cartoon Express" show in 1984.

* TalkingToHimself: John Stephenson is both Peevly and the superintendent. DawsButler does Hair Bear, Bananas and Fumbo.

** Joe Flynn (of ''McHalesNavy'') originally tried out for the voice of Mr. Peevly but he didn't work out. So they got John Stephenson doing a Joe Flynn-type voice.[[hottip:*:He would later use this voice for Finkerton in ''WesternAnimation/InchHighPrivateEye'', and Captain Snerdly in Galaxy Goof-Ups.]]