History WesternAnimation / WeBareBears

* PandaingToTheAudience: Gee, I wonder who?

*** In "Hibernation," while stating facts from a book on pandas, Panda refers to pandas as carnivores. Despite pandas having a mostly herbivorous diet, their digestive system is actually better suited for eating meat, which would classify them as true carnivores. Although, he might have meant carnivores as in members of the Carnivora family group, which bears belong to. In that same episode, Panda also mentions a real-life fact about pandas having a lining in their throats as protection from bamboo splinters. Ice Bear also lists off several polar bear facts, among them the notable one that only female polar bears den up for the winter.

* NobodyHereButUsStatues: In "Chloe and Ice Bear" while sneaking into a museum the pair disguise themselves as an animal exhibit, with Chloe in Ice Bear's mouth.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch''.

* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: In "I Am Ice Bear," after he gets hit on the head with a mallet, Ice Bear acts and speaks differently from his laconic, stoic self, starting out a bit more awkward than Grizz as a fast-talking, trendy alternate version of himself known as "Ice-B," whose social skills and love life surpass Panda's, only to turn into an insufferable social media jerk who doesn't recognize Grizz and Panda as brothers, with a falling bearstack-carved tree (which Ice-B ironically started chopping at) bringing Ice Bear back to his normal self.

* OlderThanTheyLook: A flashback to Tabes' childhood in "Creature Mysteries" shows that Charlie looked exactly the same as he does in the present. "El Oso," which takes place in 1913, confirms that he is over 100 years old.

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Japanese, Russian, and Korean dialogue occurs occasionally, both from native and non-native speakers.

*** While Grizzly is technically in the right habitat, the California grizzly bear species (Ursus arctos californicus) is extinct in California, with what was believed to be the last known California grizzly spotted in Sequoia National Park in 1924.

* AbortedArc: At the end of "Icy Nights II", Ice Bear finds out that his friend Yana [[spoiler: is actually the daughter of Yuri, the man who raised him]]. However, this is never followed up on, so we never find out [[spoiler: if Ice Bear told Yana about this, or what events transpired which lead Yuri to believe she was dead]].
* AdaptationExpansion: The webcomic had no concrete story or established setting, but the show puts the bears in San Francisco and the show revolves around their efforts to fit into society.

* AllThereInTheManual: The staff's official tumblr blog, "[[http://wedrawbears.tumblr.com/ We Draw Bears]]", has various facts and trivia about the show which haven't been revealed in the show.
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: In "I Am Ice Bear", after he gets hit on the head with a mallet, Ice Bear acts and speaks differently from his laconic, stoic self, starting out a bit more awkward than Grizz as a fast-talking, trendy alternate version of himself known as "Ice-B", whose social skills and love life surpass Panda's, only to turn into an insufferable social media jerk who doesn't recognize Grizz and Panda as brothers, with a falling bearstack-carved tree (which Ice-B ironically started chopping at) bringing Ice Bear back to his normal self.

* AnachronicOrder: The flashback episodes with the baby bears don't seem to take place in the episode order; in fact, there are a few that take place before the bears even met. So far all we know is that "Ramen" takes place not too long after "The Island", and that "Band of Outsiders" takes place right after "Yuri and the Bear."

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Our Stuff", the bears get confronted by the police, and the crowd chimes in on what they did. One man says they've been running around ruining the city. A hippie vendor remarks that they destroyed his shirt kiosk. A waitress then says that they came to her restaurant and only ordered ice water.

** Despite Ice Bear being soft-spoken, polar bears are typically the most aggressive bear species. They are considered to be the largest land predator, and because they're strictly hunters who can't fall back on plants the way black bears and grizzlies can, are more likely to consider humans as a potential prey source when times are lean.

** Rabbits are portrayed with paw pads and button noses, neither of which rabbits have in real life. Squirrels and chipmunks also don't have button noses either.
** Chipmunks are shown with deer-like tails, instead of more squirrel-like tails.

** In "Tunnels," some moles read and steal Panda's manga, start a cult based around it, and even drawing icons of the main character. First, moles are nearly blind and wouldn't be able to recognize images, let alone read. Second, moles are territorial and do not live in groups; they would realistically fight each other to death upon exposure. Third, they are portrayed as have grows the dark eyes; real moles, don't exactly have eyes...if anything, they have microscopic eyes underneath their skin, hence the near blindness. Fourth, [[spoiler: they end makes clear that they will regularly meet with Panda to read manga with him. Real moles will literally die from anxiety if they stay too long in light.]]
** In “The Kitty”, the bears are scared to enter their cave when it is invaded by cougars. In real life, adult bears almost always triumph over cougars in predator confrontations due to their size advantage.

** "Food Truck" has an owl react in disgust to a skunk's musk along with all the other animals. Owls have a very poor sense of smell, which is how they are able to prey on skunks without worrying about getting sprayed. In fact, great horned owls are known for being one of the few predators to regularly prey on skunks.
* AsianCleaverFever: In the episode "Losing Ice," Ice Bear is shown to be very skilled in cooking this way. His prowess gets him a job at the local Japanese restaurant Teppan Yaki, where he amazes the customers with his high-flying knife twirls.
* BabiesEverAfter: In "Tabes and Charlie", Ranger Tabes' dog Kirk has outgrown his puppy years and doesn't come when Tabes has prepared his favorite meal. Tabes and Charlie go looking for Kirk in the forest, and they discover that Kirk has fathered a litter of hybrid wolf-dog pups.
* BackupBluff: In "El Oso", Charlie dresses up a bunch of cacti as sheriff's deputies to scare Blue-Eye Ramon out of El Oso's hideout. His partners run away, but it takes a little more creative convincing on Charlie's part to scare off Blue-Eye Ramon.
* BadassAdorable: Ice Bear is a cute, quirky bear, until you see him handling an axe.

* BilingualBonus: Chloe and her parents speak in Korean. Ice Bear appears to be fluent in a wide variety of languages, including Russian.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: One of the bears friends is Charlie (voiced by Creator/JasonLee), a friendly but also socially awkward Sasquatch who lives in the forest and is afraid of being discovered by humans, there was also an episode with a {{Jerkass}} Yeti named “Ralph” (voiced by Creator/JohnDiMaggio).

** DownerEnding: The saddest of the baby bears episodes is the infamous "Yuri and the Bear", since it ends with Baby Ice Bear and Yuri tragically separated from each other and end up all alone just as they become family after losing their respective ones.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: While the protagonists are fairly nuanced, nearly every character in the series can be confidently lumped into either "outcast on the bears' side" and "ridiculously evil fratboy bully".

** During the Episode Ranger Tabes the bears order a package off of [[Creator/AmazonStudios Glamazon]].

* BlindWithoutEm: In "Chicken and Waffles", Panda loses his contact lenses and must rely on Charlie to guide him to the restaurant to meet Grizzly and Ice Bear. It doesn't go very smoothly.
* BollywoodNerd: Saanvi Patel, Chloe's archrival in "Money Man", who eventually decides to work with Chloe.
* BottleEpisode: The Charlie-centred episode “El Oso” is set in the Mexican desert in 1913 and almost entirely takes place in and around a criminal hideout.
* BreakoutCharacter: The baby bears are very popular and have many episodes. They eventually got so popular, a spinoff dedicated to them was greenlit.
* BulletTime: In "The Library", Grizzly tries to help Chloe stay awake so she can study for a big biochemistry exam by feeding her a bunch of candy from the vending machine. When Chloe goes hyperactive and starts running around the library at high speed, the Bears stuff themselves with candy until they can keep up with Chloe and get her back on track. While Chloe and the Bears are on their sugar rush, everything around them seems to be going in slow motion.

** Panda casually mentions he is allergic to nuts to Ice Bear when he's making food at the start of "Viral Video". His nut allergies set up the plot of "Panda's Date."
** After watching the pregnant mothers' workout DVD in "Yard Sale", Ice Bear's newly-learned maternal instinct skills help Annie as she goes into labor.
*** After getting into trouble from going on a punching spree around town, Grizz's giant oversized novelty fist gloves help him summon a taxi to take Annie & Paul to the hospital.

* CivilizedAnimal: The bears live in a fully-furnished cave, own cell phones and a computer, and eat home-cooked meals. Other animals seem to show traits of this, such as the pigeons who run a stolen merchandise ring in "Our Stuff" and the animals in "Food Truck" who know how to use money.

* CommunityThreateningConstruction: In "Occupy Bears", the bears' home is being demolished in order to put up a cell phone tower, and they have to find proof that they have been living there for over five years to stop the construction.
* CompanyCrossReferences: In "My Clique", Chloe is watching ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' on TV.
* ContinuityNod: In "Chloe and Ice Bear," Ice Bear is visibly uncomfortable when Chloe shows him a Decorator Crab at the museum. This is because he was attacked by a crab in "Emergency."

* CunningLikeAFox: Downplayed in "Bear Squad", when the bears find out that a fox has been stealing stuff, so they track it to its lair in an abandoned building, where they discover that the mother fox has been taking stuff to provide a sheltered living environment for her kits.

* DarkHorseVictory: In "The Money Man", Chloe is entering her device that can turn thoughts into visual images in a science fair against [[BollywoodNerd Saanvi Patel]], who has an Amaze Navi, a device that can find lost objects and help solve mazes. Chloe and Saanvi reluctantly decide to team up and combine their inventions, only for absent-minded Prof. Bean to award the scholarship to a jock who drew a face on a basketball with a magic marker, and Prof. Bean calls it "a basketball with a personality". Just as Chloe and Saanvi are contemplating what to do next, the government takes their high-tech invention away.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Several episodes focusing on Ice Bear, notably "Chloe and Ice Bear", "Yuri and the Bear", "Icy Nights" and "Icy Nights II".
** A flashback to young Panda's childhood in "Panda 2", before he met Grizz and Ice Bear.
** Grizzly in "Grizz Helps".
** Nom Nom has a solo moment in "Kyle", with an impostor claiming to be his long-lost brother, with no Grizzly, Panda, or Ice Bear.
** Charlie in "El Oso", where it is revealed that [[spoiler: he was around back in 1913 and referred to as El Chupacabra by Mexicans]].
* DisguisedInDrag: In "Charlie", the title character disguises himself as Panda's girlfriend in order to avoid the paparazzi.
* DisruptingTheTheater: In "Shush Ninjas", the Bears go to the movie theater but get annoyed by people talking and being rude. They take it upon themselves to go around the theater shushing everyone who makes so much as a small noise, but they end up taking it too far and being thrown out for being disruptive themselves.

** Ice Bear is a stoic, eccentric polar bear who is a SupremeChef. All he needs to do now is [[Manga/ShirokumaCafe make puns at the drop of a hat]]. Lampshaded in "Coffee Cave", where "Polar Bear Cafe" was a name considered for Ice's coffeehouse.

** Chloe is a little girl who sneaks into the home of three bears in the middle of the forest, eats their porridge, breaks their furniture, [[{{Literature/Goldilocks}} sound familiar?]] Only Chloe is made a Korean girl and the bears are three different species instead. Also, try saying the name "Chloe Park" and then "Goldilocks" out loud and notice how similar they sound.

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Given the nature of the show, it's rare that any sort of violence happens. Even then, the police officers who show up are pretty much always unarmed. It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at one point when the Bears approached a cop for help with finding a thief, they demanded her to "use your gun", before noticing an empty waistband and asking "Where is your gun?".
* FemaleGaze: Whether or not it's intended to be played for laughs but there's quite a number of [[http://teamstarfox.tumblr.com/post/128302722146/does-somebody-at-cartoon-network-have-a-fixation shots that focus on Panda's butt]].
* FictionalSocialNetwork: Several examples, most of them introduced by Internet addict Panda. The most prominent are "Yo Date!", a Tinder expy on which Panda struggles to find any match, and "Everyone's Tube", where the bears want to become famous like Nom Nom the cute Koala.
* FingerlessHands: Their paws are stubby and although they have fingers, they stand on their stubs instead of flat on their paws. Look at how Panda is holding that phone.

* FriendOrIdolDecision: Happens quite a few times, and most of the time, Panda's the one who has to make it. For example, in "Bro Brawl", Grizz, Panda and Ice Bear's opponents are their human counterparts: Griff, Tom, and Isaac, with a luxury apartment as the big prize. While in the restroom, Tom tells Panda that if his team loses the match, they wouldn't be able to live together anymore because they couldn't afford their current apartment. Near the end of the game where the two teams participate in a [[Series/DoubleDare1986 Nickelodeon Double Dare-style]] bonus round, Panda pretends to get trapped by a sock, allowing Tom and his brothers to win the luxury apartment. Grizzly and Ice Bear are good sports about it, since they still have their cave and can relate to their opponents, knowing their brotherly bond won't be broken up.
* FriendsRentControl: PlayedWith. The bears live in a renovated cave they paid nothing for, at least some of their furniture is hand-made, they either walk or use public transportation, and apparently panhandle for a living. That said, this doesn't stop them from getting an internet connection, cell phones, laptops, television, a fridge, and they still have plenty of free time to do whatever the plot requires.

* GenderBlenderName: Courtney, the animal-trapping hunter (a man) in "Rescue Ranger".
* HappilyMarried: Darrell Zaragosa and Sofia, in "Best Bears".
* HistoricalInJoke: In "$100", the young bears find a briefcase that says "Property of D.B. Cooper" on the outside. D.B. Cooper was a man who hijacked an airplane and mysteriously disappeared with $20,000 in ransom money in 1971.

** In "Bear Cleanse", Panda encourages Grizzly to follow his example and fully commit to the all-natural system cleansing diet [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism while basking in all the social media attention he's getting.]] Panda is later caught cheating on his diet and eating chocolate cake when his diet clearly called for him to eat nothing but bamboo. An outraged Grizzly calls him out on this, and he eventually loses his social followers when the post of him eating cake goes public.
** In "Primal", Grizzly forces his brothers not to eat human food, but he is ironically the first to go against this.

** The series' main plot. The bears just want people to hang out and have fun with, but clearly don't know how to be social. Grizzly is easily the most enthusiastic about it.

* ImprobableFoodBudget: None of the bears are shown to have any source of income but they somehow are able to buy food and other stuffs.

** Estelle appears as herself to sing the full version of the show's theme song in "More Everyone's Tube". The bears, Charlie, Chloe, Ranger Tabes, Nom Nom, and Lucy act as backup singers.
** In "The Mall", Estelle returns to play popular musician Estellar, who is making an appearance at the titular mall.

** Charlie just wants to be friends with the bears. However, he lacks the social boundaries and often gives them too much unwanted attention, not to mention being a complete {{Hypocrite}} about it when it comes to humans.

** Ari Curd from "Googs", who makes the bears unknowingly go through a simulation where Panda ends up dying, causing distress for all three of them. She sincerely sees nothing wrong with doing this for "research purposes".

* KnightTemplar: In "Fire", Grizz turns into an over-zealous version of Smokey the Bear when he is made an honorary fire marshal by the firefighters after he stops Berger's hot dogs and hamburgers from catching fire, and he starts snuffing birthday cake candles and barbecues, which takes a turn for the worse when he causes a greater fire at the Aqua Yaki restaurant and has to rescue the aquatic life from the tank.
* LighterAndSofter: The webcomic this series is based on is not so family friendly, with mild swearing, violence, alcohol use, and falls into the DadaComics category.
* LineOfSightName: In "El Oso", when Charlie emerges from hiding in the closet, Blue Eye Ramon asks for his name, and Charlie, thinking back to the desert, nervously comes up with "The name's, uh... Cactus... uh, Amigo?"

* LoonyFan: "Vacation" reveals that Nom Nom has a ''legion'' of them (which might explain why he's so surly), with the guy who collects his claw clippings being a standout, going so far as to impersonate the pilot who would fly him to his retreat - essentially kidnapping him and Grizzly.
* MeaningfulName: El Oso, Charlie's outlaw friend from the "El Oso" episode, is Spanish for "the Bear", with the episode set in 1913, over 100 years before Charlie met and befriended the bears.
* MexicanStandoff: In "Lazer Royale", after young Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear have eliminated the other contestants in a game of laser tag, they think they're the only ones left when they are reminded by the hostess that there can only be one winner.

** The series has wolves living in the San Francisco Area, despite the fact wolf populations in the United States are now confined to the more northern regions (aside from a few reintroduced ones in Arizona and New Mexico). Coyotes would have been a more appropriate choice.
** A cryptozoological example occurs with Ralph, who is a yeti (an Asian cryptid) living in North America. Possibly justified as there have been reports of yetis on Mount Shasta.
** Averted in each bear’s respective OriginsEpisode, Grizzly’s takes place in Canada, Panda’s in China and Ice Bear’s in the Arctic.

* ObsessiveHobbyEpisode: In "Tote Life", the bears get shamed by a grocery clerk for using plastic bags, so they buy tote bags. They then become obsessed with collecting them and their collection becomes harmful to the forest's wildlife. An EPA agent intervenes and points out that the situation is ironic since the whole point of reusable bags is you don't have to buy a lot of them and they're less bad to the environment. The bears then donate their collection to some beavers to build their dam with.
* OlderThanTheyLook: A flashback to Tabes' childhood in "Creature Mysteries" shows that Charlie looked exactly the same as he does in the present. "El Oso", which takes place in 1913, confirms that he is over 100 years old.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: It's implied Ice Bear may not be Ice Bear's real name, seeing as how nobody but himself ever refers to him like that. Grizz called Ice Bear "Po" once, possibly short for "Polar Bear".
** Panda, who is referred to as "Pan Pan", may be a [[SubvertedTrope subversion.]] "Pan Pan" means "hope" or "expectation" in Chinese, and was the name of a giant panda who lived from 1985 to 2016, believed to have fathered about 130 or more descendants, until his death at age 31 in December 2016.
** Ranger Tabes calls Panda "Stripes".

* OriginsEpisode: "Yuri and the Bear" shows Ice Bear's life before Grizzly and Panda, and how he became so skilled with axes and cooking. It doesn't explain how he met them though.
** "Panda 2" shows Panda's life before Grizzly and Ice Bear as he lives in an isolated area and explains his obsession with anime and need to make contact with the outside world.

* PeskyPigeons: ''We Bare Bears'' features an entire underworld pigeon cartel who engage in all manner of shady activities. The first episode reveals that they're engaging in specific forms of burglary, but they return in future episodes to cause more trouble, such as trying to sell off illicit shipments of sriracha hot sauce.
* PinPullingTeeth: Parodied in "The Kitty", where Grizzly throws a ball of yarn like a grenade in the hopes of distracting some cougars that broke into the Bears' cave, and bites a bit off the end before throwing it.
* ThePromposal: In "Log Ride", a boy does this during the titular ride, holding a sign that reads "PROM?" while his picture is being taken.
* PottyEmergency: Panda has one in the short "Potty Time".

* PottyFailure: In "Potty Time", just when Panda finds a bathroom, the woman they met before hugs him, which results in Panda wetting himself on her.
** In "Planet Bears", when the store guard catches up to Grizzly, he mentions that he doesn't need to go anymore...
* PunBasedTitle: In Latin America, the show is named ''Escandalosos'', which literally means "scandalous males". It's also a pun because it combines the words "escandalo" (scandal) and "osos" (bears).
* Really700YearsOld: Charlie in "El Oso", who is at least 100 years old (if not older), when he meets an outlaw named "El Oso", over a century before encountering the bears.

* RipVanTinkle: Ice Bear at the end of "Frozen Ice", after [[HumanPopsicle the ice cube he was stuck in]] melts.
* TheRival: In the opening, Nom Nom the koala throws a plastic bottle at Panda to make him drop his drink. In "Viral Video" he invites Grizzly to his limo, only to have him thrown out when it suits him.

** Nobody saying Ice Bear's name, except for Ice Bear. Subverted in "Video Date" when Celine said his name when asking who Ice Bear is when he accidentally said his name while posing as Panda.
** Generally putting clothing on them results in them enjoying their new life before said life becomes too much for them to [[JustForPun bear]].
** Whenever one of the bears say the word "dingle," someone present will treat it as if they said a swear.

* SadistTeacher: Professor Lampwick, who initially gives Chloe a failing grade, then he puts the pressure on her after his kidnapping when he only gives her five minutes to find the equivalent point of sodium hydroxide; Chloe succeeds in passing the make-up test and afterwards, Lampwick doesn't press charges, but commends her for being the first student to get it right in a limited amount of time.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In "Professor Lampwick", [[SadistTeacher the titular Professor]] employs one when he gives Chloe five minutes to find the equivalence point of sodium hydroxide:

*** In "Chloe", during the bears' Q&A session with Chloe's class, Grizz holds up panda's paw to display his sesamoid while Ice Bear shows off his claws and foot pads. The panda's "thumb", which may have evolved for life in the trees and now helps them eat bamboo, is one of the things that sets it apart from other bears. And polar bear paws are perfectly adapted to a life on the ice and snow.
*** In "Burrito", both Panda and Ice Bear are shown to be disgusted by the smell Grizzly's titular CompanionCube is giving off, but Ice Bear has a more animated and extreme reaction. This is because Polar Bears have the best sense of smell of any bear, capable of smelling seals through three feet of ice, and females receptive to breeding from over a hundred miles away. It's only natural that he would have the more sensitive nose, and he is later seen with wads of tissues shoved into his nostrils to block the scent.
*** In "Hibernation", while stating facts from a book on pandas, Panda refers to pandas as carnivores. Despite pandas having a mostly herbivorous diet, their digestive system is actually better suited for eating meat which would classify them as true carnivores. Although he might have meant carnivores as in members of the Carnivora family group, which bears belong to. In that same episode, Panda also mentions a real-life fact about pandas having a lining in their throats as protection from bamboo splinters. Ice Bear also lists off several polar bear facts, among them the notable one that only female polar bears den up for the winter.
*** In "The Audition", Ice Bear mentions that pandas are raccoons, which Panda denies stating "a bunch of scientists confirmed pandas are bears". At first, scientists debated whether pandas are bears or raccoons since they share characteristics with both animals, before molecular studies confirmed pandas are indeed bears.
*** In "The Perfect Tree", it would be natural for Ice Bear to dive into a frozen pond (to rescue a turkey) and come out unaffected by the freezing cold water, as polar bears have dense fur and thick layers of blubber which protects them from the extremely frigid temperatures of not only the Arctic but also its waters.
*** The Bears going crazy for honey in "Beehive". While this may seem [[StockAnimalDiet unsurprising]], it's been observed bears really do tend to go nuts when they come across honey.
*** "More Everyone's Tube" show accurate scientific names for Grizzly (''Ursus arctos''), Panda (''Ailuropoda melanoleuca''), and Ice Bear (''Ursus maritimus'').

** Also from "Chloe and Ice Bear", the alligator eats the jelly sandwich Chloe used to lure it out. [[http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/10/03/alligators-eat-fruit/ Real-life crocodilians are known to eat fruit.]]
** In "Yard Sale", Grizzly goes through the entire episode with giant foam fists stuck on his hands. He wasn't able to get them off. At the end of the episode, the bears end up helping a woman deliver a baby, and when Grizzly approaches the baby and says hello, it effortlessly takes the giant fists off him. Although this example is PlayedForLaughs, newborn babies actually have enough grip strength to fully support themselves by one hand. It baffles scientists why they have such strength and why they lose it after a few months.
** In "Nom Nom's Entourage", Nom Nom mentions he refuses to eat leaves on a plate and instead requires them still on a branch. While this may seem like him being spoiled as usual, this is real-life behavior of koalas because they cannot adapt to changes in routine due to their small brains, and thus they don't know what to do with eucalyptus leaves when they're presented on a plate because they normally eat them while they're still on the tree.
** In general, Nom Nom's HairTriggerTemper and bad attitude in spite of his role as a cute internet star stem from the fact koalas are aggressive and territorial despite their cuddly appearances.
** Unlike their domesticated relatives, wild turkeys are capable of flight and quite good at it too, as demonstrated by the ones from "The Perfect Tree" [[spoiler:when they retrieve Chloe's selected Christmas tree after it fell into a ravine]].
** In "I Am Ice Bear", Grizzly and Panda consult an internet video on head injuries to solve the problem of Ice Bear's amnesia, only to find that it ends with the "specially trained physician" shrugging and saying he doesn't know what the cure is. While real life medical science has confirmed that blows to the head can cause memory loss, it has absolutely no clue how to fix this (albeit to insist that a second blow isn't the answer.)
** In "Beehive", it is pointed out honeybees die after they sting, since their stingers get ripped off and this causes extreme damage to their exoskeletons. [[spoiler:It's also how Tabes gets the bears to snap out of their mind control from the bees.]]

** Kazumi, the Japanese ramen shop owner from "Ramen", is shown to have a disdain for raccoons. Raccoons were introduced to Japan in the 1970s, due to the popularity of the anime adaptation of the children's book ''Rascal'', and have become pests there ever since.
* ShowWithinAShow: There are several of them. There's ''Action Buddies'', a [[LongRunners long-running]] action movie franchise that's been going since the bears were cubs and has more than a dozen entries. (The episode "Road Trip" briefly shows a TV screen with a title card for ''Action Buddies XIV''.) There's Korean drama ''My Sassy Heart'' which is a favorite of Panda Bear, and the same episode that introduces that one also has ''Hotdog Ninja''. Grizzly is actually making one himself - the ''Crowbar Jones'' series.
* SitcomCharacterArchetypes: All three fit though Grizzly is a slightly more nuanced take in that while he's a goofball wisecracking character, he avoids the more modern take of being a jerk.
* SliceOfLife: The show generally revolves around the bears trying to adapt to human society, wandering the city, and taking part in human activities. Most episodes are heavily focused on common aspects of modern human society, such as environmentalism, online dating, social media, and Internet culture. About the closest thing the show has ever come to touching upon supernatural or fantasy forces is in the episode "Jean Jacket", where a leather jacket seems to bring the bears good luck but also keeps mysteriously returning to them after vain attempts to get rid of it.

* StarstruckSpeechless: In "The Mall", Panda and his human counterpart Tom are waiting in line to meet pop singer Estellar (played by Estelle, who sings the show's theme song) when they get in an altercation with two other people on the line, who chase them across the mall. In the end, they all meet Estellar, and Panda, Tom, and the two bullies chasing them are so starstruck that all they can do is stand there in a blissful trance and say "Estellar".
* StealthPun: In "Charlie Ball", you have three NBA teams represented: the Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Portland Trail Blazers. And then you have Grizzly, who, even though he's not wearing an NBA uniform, might be seen as a hidden reference to the Memphis Grizzlies.

** Panda's artistic skills. While he's honestly not ''that'' much of a TerribleArtist, he still has a blatant habit of [[OnlySixFaces reusing identical facial features and expressions]], best exemplified in "Our Stuff" where he's tasked with creating mugshots of dozens of different people and they all look neither different nor accurate.

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Japanese, Russian and Korean dialogue occurs occasionally, both from native and non-native speakers.

** During the basketball game in "Our Stuff", Ice Bear distracts the opposing player with fancy dribbling skills ala ''WesternAnimation/TheHarlemGlobetrotters''; the opposing player simply steals the ball away.
** In "Food Truck", Ice Bear builds a food truck so the bears can sell his calzones but by the end of the episode the park ranger gives the bears a ticket for selling food without a permit and driving an unregistered truck (not to mention feeding the other animals at the park).
** In "Burrito", after spending several days with it without eating it, Grizzly's burrito eventually goes bad and smells.
** "Primal" is kicked off by Grizzly taking Panda and Ice Bear into the woods, deliberately getting themselves lost to "be one with nature". This results in the bears getting attacked by ants, and Panda and Ice Bear nearly starving because Grizz can't pull up any fish in a polluted lake.

** In "Chloe" the teacher scolds Chloe about the bears' awful presentation and it nearly drives her to tears. Chloe may be smart enough to get into college, but she's still just a little girl.
** In "Panda's Daydream", Panda is waiting in line at the video game store when the guy in front of him lets his friend cut in line in front of Panda. After several [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]] of confronting the line cutter, Panda ultimately does nothing.
** When the bears visit the doctor in "Bear Cleanse", their physical exam had shown their health is in poor condition as result of eating only human foods throughout the series. The doctor has to put them on a diet of what their species naturally eat in order to improve their health.
** Also from "Bear Cleanse", Ice Bear has the most difficult time trying to follow his diet, because seal meat is hard to come by, so he steals a live seal from the zoo. After he spends about half of the episode preparing to eat it, he ends up growing attached to the seal (he never even tries to kill the poor thing[[note]]though, considering how adorable it is, who would even want to?[[/note]]), but by then the seal is dying of dehydration and Ice Bear is forced to return it to the sea.
** In "The Perfect Tree", Grizzly simply throws the Christmas lights onto the Parks' house expecting them to somehow elaborately decorate the whole house like in cartoons. The lights just end up hanging on the roof of the front door.
** In "Bro Brawl", during the cooking competition, the judge says that Ice Bear and Issac's dishes are both amazing and was about to declare a tie until he found a strand of Ice Bear's fur in the food, so he declares Issac's dish the winner. Considering that Ice Bear is entirely covered in fur and he doesn't wear anything to prevent his fur from falling into the food, this was bound to happen sooner or later and it's quite surprising that no one noticed this until now.
** At the end of "Anger Management", Nom Nom terminates Grizzly's role as his personal anger management partner, saying that he's rich and famous and will figure something out himself. Come "Vacation", he's so stressed out by his lifestyle, it's literally killing him. Apparently, just because his emotions are tamed doesn't mean he'll stay mentally healthy. He still has other issues to deal with and still needs support and therapy more than he thinks.
** "Googs" has the bears winning a competition and a tour of the titular company, where they are shown a presentation on virtual reality headsets upon entering. After seemingly taking off the headsets, they go through a series of events that leads to Panda's death from being shot into the sun inside a rocket ship, much to his brothers' horror. Then it's revealed they didn't actually take the virtual reality headsets off, revealing that [[AllJustADream it was just another simulation]] that the company's owner claims it's for "research" and innocently asks if it was entertaining for them. [[DudeNotFunny Instead of being relieved, the bears are not amused by this at all]], having found the experience to be traumatic and sincerely thought everything was real, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere deciding not to continue with the real tour]].
* TalkingAnimal: The three bears, Charlie and Ralph the cryptids, and Nom Nom the koala. The spiders from the pilot and the titular hamster from the short "Nom Nom vs Hamster" are revealed to be able to speak as well, meaning there could be more talking animals.
* TelevisionGeography: In "Bear Squad", the Bears' address is revealed to be Bear Cave, Forest, Bay Area 91502. In real life, 91502 is one of the ZIP codes for Burbank, CA, which is about 375 miles or so southeast of San Francisco Bay.

* TookALevelInKindness: Nom Nom in "Vacation", when Grizzly is hired as his therapy animal helper and helps him through an ordeal, shows some appreciation for Grizz and allows him to stay at the health spa while taking time to unstress himself en route to regaining popularity.

** "Primal", the episode right after, has the three bears trapped in the wilderness after Grizzly tries to help them live out their natural ways instead of living at home with technology. Panda and Ice Bear end up reverting to their primal bear natures and actually attack Grizz, their own brother, because they aren't anthropomorphic anymore.
** In "Hurricane Hal", Chloe and Ice Bear are almost killed by a subway train when they try to find cover from the hurricane by going underground. They only survive because a chain of events unknowingly caused by the other bears in different places causes the power to go out, making the train stop just in time.

* TheVoiceless: Ice Bear makes literally not a sound in the cub flashback episodes, except in "Yuri and the Bear".

* TheWonka: "The Money Man" features Dr. Harold J. Bean, an elderly, senile professor with a touch of nearsightedness who donated the funds for the science lab, and is the science fair's judge, with Chloe and her device that can read people's thoughts and visually display them on a monitor competing with Saanvi Patel's Amaze Navi, a lost device finder that can also help to solve maze puzzles as the main entries. [[spoiler: He ultimately chooses a jock who drew a face on a basketball with a magic marker as the winning project, thinking that it's a basketball with a personality.]]

It follows the adventures of three brothers, Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear, as they attempt to integrate themselves into the norms of human society in the San Francisco Bay Area. These brothers also happen to be a bunch of cave-dwelling, [[TalkingAnimal talking bears]].

The series premiered on July 27, 2015 and completed its fourth season on May 27, 2019. A MadeForTVMovie entitled ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBearsTheMovie'' was released digitally on June 30, 2020, which served as the GrandFinale. A SpinoffBabies series, ''WesternAnimation/WeBabyBears'', premiered on January 1, 2022.

* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Aside from the three titular characters, "Food Truck" shows the animals at the park going through town robbing people, vending machines and [=ATMs=] to get money to pay for the Bears' calzone. Heck, the fact that they even ''pay'' for the snack qualifies (probably they got the idea after the raccoon mother mentioned it, since she only got her calzone after paying for it).
** There's also the pigeons who run a crime ring in "Our Stuff" and the fox mother in "Bear Squad" who steals from people to furnish the den she made for her cubs.

* ArtEvolution: The character designs of the bears become rounder and more solidified over the course of the series.

** Despite Ice Bear being soft spoken, polar bears are typically the most aggressive bear species. They are considered to be the largest land predator, and because they're strictly hunters who can't fall back on plants the way black bears and grizzlies can, are more more likely to consider humans as a potential prey source when times are lean.

** In "Tunnels," some moles read and steal Panda's manga, start a cult based around it, even drawing icons of the main character. First, moles are nearly blind and wouldn't be able to recognize images, let alone read. Second, moles are territorial and do not live in groups; they would realistically fight each other to the death upon exposure. Third, they are portrayed as having glow in the dark eyes; real moles, don't exactly have eyes...if anything, they have microscopic eyes underneath their skin, hence the near blindness. Fourth, [[spoiler: they end makes clear that they will regularly meet with Panda to read manga with him. Real moles will literally die from anxiety if they stay too long in light.]]

* ChangingChorus: The Castilian Spanish version of "Forever My Heart" from the episode "Everyone's Tube" changes the "Forever my baby, forever my heart" part of the chorus every time. The first time, it's "Y para siempre yo te voy a amar"[[note]]"And I'll love you forever"[[/note]], the second time, it's "Tu eres mi chica, siempre te amaré"[[note]]"You're my girl, I'll always love you"[[/note]], and the third and final time the chorus is sung, it's "Por siempre mi chica, yo te voy a amar."[[note]]"Forever my girl, I'll love you"[[/note]]

* SecretTestOfCharacter: In "Professor Lampwick",[[SadistTeacher the titular Professor]] employs one when he gives Chloe five minutes to find the equivalence point of sodium hydroxide:

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** Kazumi, the Japanese ramen shop owner from "Ramen", is shown to have a disdain for raccoons. Raccoons were introduced to Japan in the 1970s, due to the popularity of the children's book ''Rascal'', and have become pests there ever since.

** Despite Ice Bear being soft spoken, polar bears are typically the most aggressive bear species. They are considered to be the largest land predator, and because they're strictly hunters who can't fall back on plants the way black bears and grizzlies can, are more more likely to consider humans as a potential prey source when times are learn.

** Despite Ice Bear being soft spoken, polar bears are typically the most aggressive bear species. In fact why are considered to be the largest land predator.

* CaffeineBulletTime: In "The Library", Grizzly tries to help Chloe stay awake so she can study for a big biochemistry exam by feeding her a bunch of candy from the vending machine. When Chloe goes hyperactive and starts running around the library at high speed, the Bears stuff themselves with candy until they can keep up with Chloe and get her back on track. While Chloe and the Bears are on their sugar rush, everything around them seems to be going in slow motion.

Has a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/WeBareBears Best Episode Crowner.]]

It follows the adventures of three brothers, Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear, as they attempt to integrate themselves into the norms of human society in the San Francisco Bay Area. These brothers also happen to be a bunch of cave-dwelling, [[TalkingAnimal talking bears]]. [[HilarityEnsues They do a pretty terrible job of it]].

* SeldomSeenSpecies:
** "Viral Video" has Balancing Lizard, a bearded dragon.
** In "Food Truck", great egrets and ground doves can be briefly seen during the panoramic shot of the animals going on a rampage.
** In "Primal", a two-toed sloth makes a brief appearance on the related videos list.
** "Chloe and Ice Bear" showed moon jellyfish and a decorator crab.
** "Hibernation" has books referring to goannas, greylag geese, griffon vultures, and harbor seals.
** The seal from "Bear Cleanse" appears to be either a grey seal or a harbor seal, judging by its coat color and spots.
** "Yuri and the Bear" has a bridled tern.
** "Poppy Rangers" has a rose-wing grasshopper and a cave salamander.
** California quails make an appearance in "Citizen Tabes". Tabes's Wildlife Checklist also lists marmot, chuckwalla (misspelled as "chuckwall"), bufflehead, Sprague's pipit, and differential grasshopper.
** "Lil' Squid" featured spotted eagle rays, copperband butterflyfish, clownfish, and blue tang.
** A toco toucan briefly appears in "The Limo".
** A shovel-snouted lizard appears in "El Oso".
** Doctor Ocelot from "Tunnels".
** The dog that appears in "Fire!" is a Shiba Inu.

** A cryptozoological example occurs with Ralph, who is a yeti (an Asian cryptid) living in North America.

** Ralph, a Yeti, is bigger and meaner than Charlie, a Bigfoot. According to folklore, Yetis are larger and more aggressive than Bigfeet. Also, while him living in North America may be a cryptological case of MisplacedWildlife as Yetis are better known to live in the Himalayas, some people have reported to have seen Yetis on Mount Shasta.

** Ralph, a Yeti, is bigger and meaner than Charlie, a Bigfoot. According to folklore, Yetis are larger and more aggressive than Bigfeet.

The series premiered on July 27, 2015 and completed its fourth season on May 27, 2019. A MadeForTVMovie entitled ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBearsTheMovie'' was released digitally on June 30, 2020, which served as the GrandFinale. A SpinoffBabies series, ''WesternAnimation/WeBabyBears'', was announced for a [[https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/10/6/21503113/we-bare-bears-prequel-show-baby-bears-cartoon-network Spring 2021]] premiere, but was pushed to January 2022 due to UsefulNotes/COVID19-related production issues.

* TheDanza: Creator/LeslieOdomJr plays a character named Dr. Leslie.