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* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Chloe Park immediately became popular during the sneak peek due to her being {{Adorkable}} and her cute appearance. It also helps that her voice actress also voices Ruby from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''.
** Background character example: the Muslim girl wearing a hijab in the intro and at the college in "Chloe" has a few fans, despite presently lacking a name. One reason is that her design is considered one of the more unique ones out of all background characters since it's not common to see Muslim women in traditional garb in cartoons.
** The Fireman that saved baby Grizzly in "Burrito". Some fanart has already popped up and some people have labeled him "The Most Wonderful Human Being Ever."
** Lucy is quite well-liked as well due to being very friendly with the bears and being a very level-headed person. Despite this, it wasn't until the third season, where she made her second ''real'' appearance and became a recurring character.
** Ranger Tabes. It helps that she's a hilarious {{cloudcuckoolander}} and a LargeHam.
** Karla from "The Island", due to the maternal relationship she had with the bear cubs. Being played by Creator/FeliciaDay helps.
** Yuri from "Yuri and the Bear", for the same reasons as Karla, except only with baby Ice Bear. Being a HuskyRusskie survivalist who made Ice Bear into who he is alongside his tragic past and paternal relationship with him certainly helps.
** The three pregnant workout ladies from "Yard Sale", particularly on Website/DeviantART.
** Another background character: the young man with brown hair and wears a red shirt, jeans, and sandals. He was one of the campers in "Primal", seen kicking Panda's chair in "Shush Ninjas", on the video on Panda's phone in "My Clique", and high-five'd Grizzly in "Tote Life". Nameless, he's referred to as "Sandal Guy".



* HilariousInHindsight:
** [[https://youtu.be/874oPaE2M54 "Every day is your birthday when you're wearing your birthday suit"]]. Seems like it got picked up after all.
** The premise of the show starring three bears (a grizzly bear, panda bear, and polar bear) brings to mind ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe'', which also had [[https://youtu.be/HM_yXH9dB70 the same three species as the main characters]]. Fans have [[http://boshypastrana.deviantart.com/art/We-Bare-Bears-542676751 already taken notice]].
*** The anime is eventually referenced in "Coffee Cave".
-->'''Grizz:''' How about "Polar Bear Cafe?"\\
'''Panda:''' Nah, I think that name's already taken.
** ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', a film released about a month before this show, contains the line "There are no bears in San Francisco" said by Disgust to Fear, after which Anger butts in saying that he saw "[[TheBear a hairy guy [that] looked like a bear]]". Creator/{{Pixar}} probably wasn't counting on Creator/CartoonNetwork to make a show all about bears in San Francisco. Not only that, creator Daniel Chong was a story artist on the film, and both works feature Bobby Moynihan.
** Even more coincidental is during E3 2015, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTriForceHeroes'' was revealed, and one of the main gameplay elements is that three Links can stand on top of each other and form a stack of three, [[http://cartoontriper.deviantart.com/art/BearTotem-colors-542588508 just like the "#bearstack"!]]
** A year before the webcomic began, the children's book "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pcZ98kMMl4 Panda and Polar Bear]]" told the story of a panda cub and a polar cub meeting and becoming friends like how Panda and Ice Bear met as cubs.
** And way back in 2007, the short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58hikmBWq9w "Poles Apart"]] featured a panda bear fitting into a city of polar bears and Pang Pang's appearance and {{Adorkable}} ButtMonkey character is very similar to Panda's. (And he looked exactly like Ice Bear when he got covered in snow.)
** As usual for fandoms, various "dirty confession blogs" were created on Tumblr. One person on such a blog suggested that [[http://dirty-wbb-confessions.tumblr.com/post/126272426111 Panda has an anime body pillow]]. The episode "Hibernation" reveals that Panda has a Dakimakura he calls Miki-chan.
** In one episode, the bears are playing an obvious parody of the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}. Then, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHRonIfqswA a couple]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hKORbLaiAc of commercials]] with the bears for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch were released. Clearly, these bears are Creator/{{Nintendo}} fans.
** In ''Film/TropicThunder'', Tugg Speedman regretfully killed a panda. When he called his manager with his mobile phone about what happened, his manager heard wrong and thought that Tugg "killed Amanda" and he wore the Panda's head as a hat. In "[[Recap/WeBareBearsS3E17SummerLove Summer Love]]", Panda returned a phone to a girl named Amanda, who wears a lot of panda-themed accessories including a hat, and she noted how their names sound alike.
** In "Grizzly: The Movie", there's a [[SerkisFolk mo-cap actor]] named "Andy" performing Grizzly's stunts, as an obvious reference to Creator/AndySerkis. In the 2018 film ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'', Serkis plays a bear, Baloo, via motion capture.
** One of the Season One episodes is named ''Primal''. This would later be the name of a [[WesternAnimation/{{Primal}} completely unrelated mini-series]] that would also be produced by Cartoon Network for its late-night programming block Creator/AdultSwim.



* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
** The music during the basketball game at the beginning of "Our Stuff" is based on the Brother Bones version of "Sweet Georgia Brown," better known as the theme song for the Harlem Globetrotters.
** "Raincloud Chill" from the episode "Chloe" sounds a lot like "Mr. Blue Sky" by Music/ElectricLightOrchestra.
** The stacking battle at the end of "Brother Up" is accompanied by a song that sounds quite a lot like Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger".
** "Dance Outside Your Window" from "Nom Nom's Entourage" bears a striking similarity to Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go".
** The song from the dance-off in "The Audition" sounds a lot like "Working for the Weekend" by Loverboy.
** "Icy Nights" features two references to famous songs from the movie ''Film/Drive2011'': "[[https://soundcloud.com/bradbreeck/wbb-e044-icy-nights-wolf-street-song WOLF STREET]]" which sounds like "Nightcall", and "[[https://soundcloud.com/bradbreeck/wbb-e044-icy-nights-greatest-song GREATEST]]" which references "A Real Human Being".
** The Bears' LockAndLoadMontage in "The Kitty" is accompanied by a song that's obviously based on "Danger Zone" by Music/KennyLoggins.
** "Forever On The Dancefloor" from "Dance Lessons" is very similar to "September" by Music/EarthWindAndFire.
** "Bear Lift" features a song suspiciously similar to "This Is How We Do It" by Montell Jordan.
** The song during the cleaning montage in "I, Butler" is a rather obvious parody of "Yakety Yak" by The Coasters.
** "Hot Sauce" briefly features a rap tune that sounds almost exactly like "The Next Episode" by Music/DrDre and Music/SnoopDogg.
** "Pretty Boy Club" from "The Limo" is a rather blatant pastiche of the style of Music/{{PSY}}.
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* The heavy usage of memes and current pop culture references in the show. Is it helping viewers connect with the show's universe, or is it crippling the show by dating it heavily?

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Panda of all characters could be seen as a JerkassWoobie if you think about it hard enough. While nowhere near as mean as Nom Nom, Panda is easily the most self centered of the three bears and the most quick tempered, plus there was his actions in "Panda's Date" and "Brother Up" which pushed him into borderline {{jerkass}} territory. However, there's no denying that Panda is a woobie that could use a big hug. The episode "Cellie" especially makes Panda look like a JerkassWoobie. As a matter of fact, in the subject of "Brother Up", did Panda go too far, or was Grizz such a {{Jerkass}} to him, and got his Karma?

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Panda Panda, of all characters characters, could be seen as a JerkassWoobie if you think about it hard enough. While nowhere near as mean as Nom Nom, Panda is easily the most self centered self-centered of the three bears and the most quick tempered, plus quick-tempered; plus, there was were his actions in "Panda's Date" and "Brother Up" Up", which pushed him into borderline {{jerkass}} territory. However, there's no denying that Panda is a woobie that could use a big hug. The episode "Cellie" especially makes Panda look like a JerkassWoobie. As a matter of fact, in the subject of "Brother Up", Up," did Panda go too far, or was Grizz such a {{Jerkass}} to him, him and got his Karma?



** Nom Nom. Despite the shows painting of him as a JerkassWoobie, fans are still split on whether he's a fun recurring troublemaker, or just a fun killing asshole with a recurring case of AesopAmnesia.
* BrokenBase: The heavy usage of memes and current pop culture references in the show. Is it helping viewers connect with the show's universe or is it crippling the show by dating it heavily?
** Some fans are split on whether they enjoy the [[WholeEpisodeFlashback baby bear episodes]] or not. On one hand, they're a fun look into the bears' childhood before they settled down and it's nice to see them helping people around the world; on the other, they're easy to forget due to the lack of recurring characters that the present day episodes have, and the fact that Season 4 has much more of them than the previous seasons does not help (though this may be due to ExecutiveMeddling).

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** Nom Nom. Despite the shows show painting of him as a JerkassWoobie, fans are still split on whether he's a fun recurring troublemaker, troublemaker or just a fun killing fun-killing asshole with a recurring case of AesopAmnesia.
* BrokenBase: The heavy usage of memes and current pop culture references in the show. Is it helping viewers connect with the show's universe universe, or is it crippling the show by dating it heavily?
** Some fans are split on whether they enjoy the [[WholeEpisodeFlashback baby bear episodes]] or not. On one hand, they're a fun look into the bears' childhood before they settled down and it's nice to see them helping people around the world; on the other, other hand, they're easy to forget due to the lack of recurring characters that the present day episodes have, and the fact that Season 4 has much more of them than the previous seasons does not help (though this may be due to ExecutiveMeddling).



** The series usually relies on slice of life genre or even MundaneMadeAwesome. "Jean Jacket" is the closest thing of anything supernatural in the show although [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane the situation is left ambiguous enough to pass it off as just the bears' imaginations]].

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** The series usually relies on slice of life the slice-of-life genre or even MundaneMadeAwesome. "Jean Jacket" is the closest thing of to anything supernatural in the show although [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane the situation is left ambiguous enough to pass it off as just the bears' imaginations]].



** Grizzly and his Burrito. [[http://wedrawbears.tumblr.com/tagged/burrito The last two official sketches doesn't help matters.]]

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** Grizzly and his Burrito. [[http://wedrawbears.tumblr.com/tagged/burrito The last two official sketches doesn't don't help matters.]]



* DesignatedHero: Not in the show, where the protagonists actually are nice (most of the time), but in the original comics they come across as violent, selfish brats.
* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Ice Bear is kind of distant and eccentric, so he may have Autism or something similar. His upbringing was also extremely stressful before he met Grizzly and Panda, which is likely another factor: not from the way he was raised as a badass, but from being traumatized by poachers constantly hunting him down and losing his ParentalSubstitute, he has every right to be messed up in the head.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Some fans portray Nom Nom as jealous of the bears or a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. There is the [[FoeYayShipping fan pairing]] [[http://imgur.com/a/0muqB Grizznom]] where Grizzly openly has a crush on Nom Nom, while Nom Nom secretly has a crush on Grizz and doesn't want to admit it publicly.

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* DesignatedHero: Not in the show, where the protagonists actually are nice (most of the time), but in the original comics comics, they come across as violent, selfish brats.
* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Ice Bear is kind of distant and eccentric, eccentric so he may have Autism or something similar. His upbringing was also extremely stressful before he met Grizzly and Panda, which is likely another factor: not from the way he was raised as a badass, but from being traumatized by poachers constantly hunting him down and losing his ParentalSubstitute, he has every right to be messed up in the head.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Some fans portray Nom Nom as jealous of the bears or a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. There is the [[FoeYayShipping fan pairing]] [[http://imgur.com/a/0muqB Grizznom]] Grizznom]], where Grizzly openly has a crush on Nom Nom, while Nom Nom secretly has a crush on Grizz and doesn't want to admit it publicly.



** Background character example: the Muslim girl wearing a hijab in the intro and at the college in "Chloe" has a few fans, despite presently lacking a name. One reason is because her design is considered one of the more unique ones out of all background characters, since it's not common to see Muslim women in traditional garb in cartoons.
** The Fireman that saved baby Grizzly in "Burrito". Some fanart has already popped up and some people have labeled him "The Most Wonderful Human Being Ever".
** Lucy is quite well liked as well, due to being very friendly with the bears and being a very level headed person. In spite of this, it wasn't until the third season where she made her second ''real'' appearance and became a recurring character.

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** Background character example: the Muslim girl wearing a hijab in the intro and at the college in "Chloe" has a few fans, despite presently lacking a name. One reason is because that her design is considered one of the more unique ones out of all background characters, characters since it's not common to see Muslim women in traditional garb in cartoons.
** The Fireman that saved baby Grizzly in "Burrito". Some fanart has already popped up and some people have labeled him "The Most Wonderful Human Being Ever".
Ever."
** Lucy is quite well-liked as well liked as well, due to being very friendly with the bears and being a very level headed level-headed person. In spite of Despite this, it wasn't until the third season season, where she made her second ''real'' appearance and became a recurring character.



* {{Fanon}}: When drawing the bears as humans, [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/1e/e7/fb1ee70f5ce2f9cbcdd196f17139cdc7.jpg it is common]] for Grizzly to be portrayed as African-American, Ice Bear as a Caucasian with pale hair and eyes, and Panda as East Asian. Considering the three are from America, Russia and China respectively, it falls nicely into PhenotypeStereotype. This become AscendedFanon when their human counterparts debut in "Panda's Friend".

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* {{Fanon}}: When drawing the bears as humans, [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/1e/e7/fb1ee70f5ce2f9cbcdd196f17139cdc7.jpg it is common]] for Grizzly to be portrayed as African-American, Ice Bear as a Caucasian with pale hair and eyes, and Panda as East Asian. Considering the three are from America, Russia Russia, and China respectively, it falls nicely into PhenotypeStereotype. This become becomes AscendedFanon when their human counterparts debut in "Panda's Friend".



* GeniusBonus: The albino alligator from "Chloe and Ice Bear" eating the jelly sandwich and enjoying it may seem odd for a carnivore, but in real life crocodilians eat fruit for diet supplements.

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* GeniusBonus: The albino alligator from "Chloe and Ice Bear" eating the jelly sandwich and enjoying it may seem odd for a carnivore, but in real life life, crocodilians eat fruit for diet supplements.



** The show has tons of merchandise that's only available in China, even though the show didn't even air there! Apparently, the merchandise was so popular, they've started airing the show in China, as of May 2017.

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** The show has tons of merchandise that's that are only available in China, even though the show didn't even air there! Apparently, the merchandise was so popular, they've they started airing the show in China, as of in May 2017.



** Panda's sacrifice in Googs would be [[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries repeated]] except this time [[spoiler:it's not a simulation]].
** Remember all that times the fandom asked about racism against the bears? well, guess what happens in the movie...
*** To cap that moment, what are the bears destined places? For Panda a "reserve", for Ice he is deported to Antarctica and Grizzly is abandoned in a park.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: The WholeEpisodeFlashback of "Yuri and the Bear" shows how Ice Bear acquired some of his present-day skills whilst working for the title character. Yuri also refers to himself in the [[ThirdPersonPerson third person]], implying that Ice Bear talks like this as a remembrance to the man who raised him.

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** Panda's sacrifice in Googs would be [[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries repeated]] repeated]], except this time time, [[spoiler:it's not a simulation]].
** Remember all that times the fandom asked about racism against the bears? well, Well, guess what happens in the movie...
*** To cap that moment, what are the bears bears' destined places? For Panda Panda, a "reserve", for Ice Ice, he is deported to Antarctica and Grizzly is abandoned in a park.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: The WholeEpisodeFlashback of "Yuri and the Bear" shows how Ice Bear acquired some of his present-day skills whilst working for the title character. Yuri also refers to himself in the [[ThirdPersonPerson third person]], implying that Ice Bear talks like this as a remembrance to of the man who raised him.



** The premise of the show of starring three bears (a grizzly bear, panda bear, and polar bear) brings to mind ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe'', which also had [[https://youtu.be/HM_yXH9dB70 the same three species as the main characters]]. Fans have [[http://boshypastrana.deviantart.com/art/We-Bare-Bears-542676751 already taken notice]].

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** The premise of the show of starring three bears (a grizzly bear, panda bear, and polar bear) brings to mind ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe'', which also had [[https://youtu.be/HM_yXH9dB70 the same three species as the main characters]]. Fans have [[http://boshypastrana.deviantart.com/art/We-Bare-Bears-542676751 already taken notice]].



** ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', a film released about a month prior to this show, contains the line "There are no bears in San Francisco" said by Disgust to Fear, after which Anger butts in saying that he saw "[[TheBear a hairy guy [that] looked like a bear]]". Creator/{{Pixar}} probably wasn't counting on Creator/CartoonNetwork to make a show all about bears in San Francisco. Not only that, creator Daniel Chong was a story artist on the film, and both works feature Bobby Moynihan.
** Even more coincidental is during E3 2015, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTriForceHeroes'' was revealed and one of the main gameplay elements is that three Links can stand on top of each other and form a stack of three, [[http://cartoontriper.deviantart.com/art/BearTotem-colors-542588508 just like the "#bearstack"!]]

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** ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', a film released about a month prior to before this show, contains the line "There are no bears in San Francisco" said by Disgust to Fear, after which Anger butts in saying that he saw "[[TheBear a hairy guy [that] looked like a bear]]". Creator/{{Pixar}} probably wasn't counting on Creator/CartoonNetwork to make a show all about bears in San Francisco. Not only that, creator Daniel Chong was a story artist on the film, and both works feature Bobby Moynihan.
** Even more coincidental is during E3 2015, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTriForceHeroes'' was revealed revealed, and one of the main gameplay elements is that three Links can stand on top of each other and form a stack of three, [[http://cartoontriper.deviantart.com/art/BearTotem-colors-542588508 just like the "#bearstack"!]]



** One of the season one episodes is named ''Primal''. This would later be the name of a [[WesternAnimation/{{Primal}} completely unrelated mini-series]] that would also be produced by Cartoon Network for it's late-night programming block Creator/AdultSwim.

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** One of the season one Season One episodes is named ''Primal''. This would later be the name of a [[WesternAnimation/{{Primal}} completely unrelated mini-series]] that would also be produced by Cartoon Network for it's its late-night programming block Creator/AdultSwim.



** Panda, [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic surprisingly]]. So far, he locked his brothers in a closet, buried their new phones out of envy, lied about his bamboo diet, yelled and kicked at a pigeon and ruined his date by eating Lucy's salad, but he's just so fragile and insecure and cries so easily that he really deserves a hug in spite of his outbursts. When it all boils down to it, he just wants to be loved by someone, even if it does mean playing a few dirty tricks here and there. [[InnocentlyInsensitive Most of the time he doesn't even realise how bad it is]].

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** Panda, [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic surprisingly]]. So far, he locked his brothers in a closet, buried their new phones out of envy, lied about his bamboo diet, yelled and kicked at a pigeon pigeon, and ruined his date by eating Lucy's salad, but he's just so fragile and insecure and cries so easily that he really deserves a hug in spite of despite his outbursts. When it all boils down to it, he just wants to be loved by someone, even if it does mean playing a few dirty tricks here and there. [[InnocentlyInsensitive Most of the time he doesn't even realise how bad it is]].



*** The episode "[[Recap/WeBareBearsS3E20Kyle Kyle]]" makes it official. It's revealed that Nom Nom was separated from his family at a young age, and the long lost brother he's happily reunited with turns out to be a lying con artist.

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*** The episode "[[Recap/WeBareBearsS3E20Kyle Kyle]]" makes it official. It's revealed that Nom Nom was separated from his family at a young age, and the long lost long-lost brother he's happily reunited with turns out to be a lying con artist.



* MagnificentBitch: "[[Recap/WeBareBearsS4E3Googs Googs]]" : [[ForScience Ari Curd]] is the founder of the Googs headquarters. Designing the virtual reality goggles, she throws a contest with the offer being a tour around the facility. When the bears win, she tricks them into being her test subjects and through her online avatar, she [[BatmanGambit plays on Panda's frustration]] with his brothers to send him on a rocket to the moon and later, the sun while he's vulnerable. Ending the simulation Ari cheerfully greets the Bears and offers to give them the real tour, albeit [[LackOfEmpathy oblivious to their trauma]].

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* MagnificentBitch: "[[Recap/WeBareBearsS4E3Googs Googs]]" : " [[Recap/WeBareBearsS4E3Googs Googs]]": [[ForScience Ari Curd]] is the founder of the Googs headquarters. Designing the virtual reality goggles, she throws a contest with the offer being a tour around the facility. When the bears win, she tricks them into being her test subjects subjects, and through her online avatar, she [[BatmanGambit plays on Panda's frustration]] with his brothers to send him on a rocket to the moon and later, the sun while he's vulnerable. Ending the simulation Ari cheerfully greets the Bears and offers to give them the real tour, albeit [[LackOfEmpathy oblivious to their trauma]].



** Chloe is very much this as well due to her adorable appearance, voice, and personality.
** Nom Nom is aware that he's this InUniverse and fully exploits it. Even then, many fans found him quite adorable in spite of his [[SpoiledBrat personality]].

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** Chloe is very much like this as well due to her adorable appearance, voice, and personality.
** Nom Nom is aware that he's this InUniverse and fully exploits it. Even then, many fans found him quite adorable in spite of despite his [[SpoiledBrat personality]].



** At the beginning of the theme song, Estelle scat-singing.

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** At the beginning of the theme song, Estelle Estelle's scat-singing.



* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: When the first season was airing, Charlie was a lot of people's least favorite character for his constant rude and pushy behavior, making the bears feel uncomfortable in many of his appearances. As the series progressed, Charlie's HiddenDepths, his good, loyal heart, and his somewhat tragic nature as the only one of his kind was revealed, causing the fandom's opinion of him to do a full 180. By seasons 3 and 4, Charlie had become a fan favorite recurring character like Ranger Tabes, partly because of shippers pairing him with Panda.

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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: When the first season was airing, Charlie was a lot of people's least favorite character for his constant rude and pushy behavior, making the bears feel uncomfortable in many of his appearances. As the series progressed, Charlie's HiddenDepths, his good, loyal heart, and his somewhat tragic nature as the only one of his kind was were revealed, causing the fandom's opinion of him to do a full 180. By seasons 3 and 4, Charlie had become a fan favorite fan-favorite recurring character like Ranger Tabes, partly because of shippers pairing him with Panda.



** In "Charlie", the titular Bigfoot eats cheese puffs straight out of the jar, then realizes that it's rude to take them without permission... so he spits them out into his hand, then resumes digging in after asking. Then he wipes the dust off on the bear's couch. THEN he makes the toilet overflow, uses Panda's pillow to sponge it up, and gives it back to him.
* StoicWoobie: Ice Bear in the episode Food Truck considering the fact that no one even wanted to try a free sample of his delicious calzones. Although he does step out for a moment and walk away to throw a tantrum. He gets hit with this especially hard in "Nom Nom", when the titular koala steals his brothers' attention from him and eventually traps him in a hole where he cannot even call for help thanks to his quiet nature. And then there's "Yuri and the Bear", where he has gone through hell in the Arctic continent as a cub before meeting Grizzly and Panda, implied to have lost his mother to poachers, being too young to hunt for food by himself, constantly going into hiding from the hunters, attacked by his soon to be ParentalSubstitute for trespassing on his property, severely damaged his growing relationship with him, and never seeing him again without having the chance to reconcile. The poor polar bear has been through a lot, and uses his stoicism as a way of hiding the pain from the past and the present.

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** In "Charlie", the titular Bigfoot eats cheese puffs straight out of the jar, then realizes that it's rude to take them without permission... so he spits them out into his hand, then resumes digging in after asking. Then he wipes the dust off on the bear's couch. THEN he makes the toilet overflow, uses Panda's pillow to sponge it up, and gives it back to him.
* StoicWoobie: Ice Bear in the episode Food Truck considering the fact that because no one even wanted to try a free sample of his delicious calzones. Although he does step out for a moment and walk away to throw a tantrum. He gets hit with this especially hard in "Nom Nom", Nom" when the titular koala steals his brothers' attention from him and eventually traps him in a hole where he cannot even call for help help, thanks to his quiet nature. And then there's "Yuri and the Bear", where he has gone through hell in the Arctic continent as a cub before meeting Grizzly and Panda, implied to have lost his mother to poachers, being too young to hunt for food by himself, constantly going into hiding from the hunters, attacked by his soon to be ParentalSubstitute for trespassing on his property, severely damaged his growing relationship with him, and never seeing him again without having the chance to reconcile. The poor polar bear has been through a lot, lot and uses his stoicism as a way of hiding the pain from the past and the present.



* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Since around the time the show premiered many people believed that the show was a ripoff or inspired by the manga and anime series ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe''. Daniel Chong admitted later that he was not aware of the series until after We Bare Bears premiered.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It's noted every now and then how the bears are [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight able to interact with humans without them minding]], while the shows seems to imply that the bears (along with Nom Nom and Charlie) are the only non-humans capable of human language and cognition, something which is never brought up as a plot point.

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* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Since around the time the show premiered many premiered, 8many people believed that the show was a ripoff or inspired by the manga and anime series ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe''. Daniel Chong admitted later that he was not aware of the series until after We Bare Bears premiered.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It's noted every now and then how the bears are [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight able to interact with humans without them minding]], while the shows show seems to imply that the bears (along with Nom Nom and Charlie) are the only non-humans capable of human language and cognition, something which is never brought up as a plot point.



** It's hard for some fans to feel sorry for Charlie in his first appearance, since he annoys the bears, wrecks their house, unsettle them and it was shown that the bears wanted to get away from him. If anything, some fans feel more sorry for the bears. However, future episodes try to make him seem more sympathetic. Unfortunately, Charlie continually being hypocritical about his problems of being harassed by humans makes him more unsympathethic.

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** It's hard for some fans to feel sorry for Charlie in his first appearance, appearance since he annoys the bears, wrecks their house, unsettle them unsettles them, and it was shown that the bears wanted to get away from him. If anything, some fans feel more sorry for the bears. However, future episodes try to make him seem more sympathetic. Unfortunately, Charlie continually being hypocritical about his problems of being harassed by humans makes him more unsympathethic.unsympathetic.



** Panda is treading down this road. Most of the time, he seems to have a look of sadness or worry on his face. This especially applies in "Panda's Date", where his attempts to woo, impress, or otherwise have fun with Lucy end in humiliation, disappointment [[spoiler:and a near death experience]].

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** Panda is treading down this road. Most of the time, he seems to have a look of sadness or worry on his face. This especially applies in "Panda's Date", where his attempts to woo, impress, or otherwise have fun with Lucy end in humiliation, disappointment disappointment, [[spoiler:and a near death near-death experience]].
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** Yuri from "Yuri and the Bear" acted aloof and short-tempered at times, but he lost his wife and daughter, [[BrokenBird causing him to become abrasive and withdrawn]]. However, once he [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness]] by raising Ice Bear and bonding with him, he becomes a straight-up [[TheWoobie woobie]], especially when he is forced to [[ShooTheDog send Ice Bear away to keep the hunters from pursuing him]] and go back to being all alone again, regretfully knowing it's his own fault for putting his newest family member in danger and he shouldn't have snapped at him for pushing his BerserkButton and not even having a chance to reconcile with the cub.

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** Yuri from "Yuri and the Bear" acted aloof and short-tempered at times, but he lost his wife and daughter, [[BrokenBird causing him to become abrasive and withdrawn]]. However, once he [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness]] by raising Ice Bear and bonding with him, he becomes a straight-up [[TheWoobie woobie]], especially when he is forced to [[ShooTheDog send Ice Bear away to keep the hunters from pursuing him]] and go back to being all alone again, regretfully knowing it's his own fault for putting his newest family member in danger and he shouldn't have snapped at him for pushing his BerserkButton accidentally angering him and not even having a chance to reconcile with the cub.



** Ice Bear has his moments, ''especially'' in "Yuri and the Bear". In that episode, it's implied he lost his mother to poachers, could not hunt on his own, ended up upsetting his ParentalSubstitute Yuri because of his [[InnocentlyInsensitive unintentionally insensitive]] [[BerserkButton actions]], and to top it all off had to get separated from Yuri to get to safety. Even worse, he never got to reconcile with him.

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** Ice Bear has his moments, ''especially'' in "Yuri and the Bear". In that episode, it's implied he lost his mother to poachers, could not hunt on his own, ended up upsetting his ParentalSubstitute Yuri because of his [[InnocentlyInsensitive unintentionally insensitive]] [[BerserkButton insensitive actions]], and to top it all off had to get separated from Yuri to get to safety. Even worse, he never got to reconcile with him.
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** Some fans are split on whether they enjoy the [[WholeEpisodeFlashback baby bear episodes]] or not. On one hand, they're a fun look into the bear's childhood before they settled down and it's nice to see them helping people around the world; on the other, they're easy to forget due to the lack of recurring characters that the present day episodes have, and the fact that Season 4 has much more of them than the previous seasons does not help (though this may be due to ExecutiveMeddling).

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** Some fans are split on whether they enjoy the [[WholeEpisodeFlashback baby bear episodes]] or not. On one hand, they're a fun look into the bear's bears' childhood before they settled down and it's nice to see them helping people around the world; on the other, they're easy to forget due to the lack of recurring characters that the present day episodes have, and the fact that Season 4 has much more of them than the previous seasons does not help (though this may be due to ExecutiveMeddling).
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: "Chicken and Waffles", well...There wasn't any creepy forced "romantic" subtext from Charlie to Panda, at least. Such as in the previous Charlie episodes. The subtext that ''is'' there is sweet, healthy, and mutual enough to make it a favorite among Panda/Charlie shippers.
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Ice Bear is kind of distant and eccentric, so he may have Autism or something similar. His upbringing was also extremely stressful before he met Grizzly and Panda, which is likely another factor: not from the way he was raised as a badass, but from being traumatized by poachers constantly hunting him down and losing his ParentalSubstitute, he has every right to be messed up in the head.
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1. Nom Nom has shown redeeming qualities since that episode that prove that he’s not beyond redemption. 2. Stealing money from some kids is not an act evil enough to be this.


** Nom Nom crosses this in "Nom Nom" with his comeback plot, which involves [[spoiler:tricking Grizzly and Panda into entering a pool and endangering their lives with his pet sharks, so he could "rescue them". He also traps Ice Bear in a deep pit, leaving him covered and unable to escape. And his behavior and whiteboard notes make it clear that he doesn't care if they might die in the process of reclaiming his fame.]]



** Although [[spoiler:Cory]] doesn't directly endanger anyone in "$100", [[spoiler:he does betray the baby bears and robs them of their hundred-dollar bill]] which makes it pretty much impossible to sympathize with him.



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** Courtney the Yowie Hunter crosses it in "Rescue Ranger" when he [[spoiler: attempts to murder Ranger Tabes with a crossbow for attempting to rescue Charlie from him]]. Capturing and trapping innocent creatures was already one thing, but [[spoiler: straight-up trying to murder a person]] is another.
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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Believe it or not, when the first season was airing, Charlie was a lot of people's least favorite character for his constant rude and pushy behavior, making the bears feel uncomfortable in many of his appearances. As the series progressed, Charlie's HiddenDepths, his good, loyal heart, and his somewhat tragic nature as the only one of his kind was revealed, causing the fandom's opinion of him to do a full 180. By seasons 3 and 4, Charlie had become a fan favorite recurring character like Ranger Tabes, partly because of shippers pairing him with Panda.

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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Believe it or not, when When the first season was airing, Charlie was a lot of people's least favorite character for his constant rude and pushy behavior, making the bears feel uncomfortable in many of his appearances. As the series progressed, Charlie's HiddenDepths, his good, loyal heart, and his somewhat tragic nature as the only one of his kind was revealed, causing the fandom's opinion of him to do a full 180. By seasons 3 and 4, Charlie had become a fan favorite recurring character like Ranger Tabes, partly because of shippers pairing him with Panda.
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Up To Eleven is being dewicked.


** ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', a film released about a month prior to this show, contains the line "There are no bears in San Francisco" said by Disgust to Fear, after which Anger butts in saying that he saw "[[TheBear a hairy guy [that] looked like a bear]]". Creator/{{Pixar}} probably wasn't counting on Creator/CartoonNetwork to make a show all about bears in San Francisco. [[UpToEleven Not only that]], creator Daniel Chong was a story artist on the film, and both works feature Bobby Moynihan.

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** ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', a film released about a month prior to this show, contains the line "There are no bears in San Francisco" said by Disgust to Fear, after which Anger butts in saying that he saw "[[TheBear a hairy guy [that] looked like a bear]]". Creator/{{Pixar}} probably wasn't counting on Creator/CartoonNetwork to make a show all about bears in San Francisco. [[UpToEleven Not only that]], that, creator Daniel Chong was a story artist on the film, and both works feature Bobby Moynihan.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: Some fans portray Nom Nom as jealous of the bears or a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. There is the [[FoeYay fan pairing]] [[http://imgur.com/a/0muqB Grizznom]] where Grizzly openly has a crush on Nom Nom, while Nom Nom secretly has a crush on Grizz and doesn't want to admit it publicly.

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* DracoInLeatherPants: Some fans portray Nom Nom as jealous of the bears or a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. There is the [[FoeYay [[FoeYayShipping fan pairing]] [[http://imgur.com/a/0muqB Grizznom]] where Grizzly openly has a crush on Nom Nom, while Nom Nom secretly has a crush on Grizz and doesn't want to admit it publicly.



* FoeYay: Lampshaded in "Icy Nights II", when Yana remarks that Barry's obsession with defeating Ice Bear makes it sound like he has a crush.

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* FoeYay: FoeYayShipping: Lampshaded in "Icy Nights II", when Yana remarks that Barry's obsession with defeating Ice Bear makes it sound like he has a crush.
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** Panda being forced to eat bamboo in "cleansing" also becomes this after seeing his episode were is show that until he ran away, that was all he ever had eaten.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Grizzly getting stuck in a tree in "Everyday Bears" becomes less funny after watching "Burrito." It turns out Grizzly once got stuck in a tall tree during a bad thunderstorm as a cub, and he still has nightmares about it well into adulthood.
** Panda being forced to eat bamboo in "cleansing" also becames this after seeing his episode were is show that until he ran away, that was all he ever had eaten.



** Grizzly getting stuck in a tree in "Everyday Bears" becomes less funny after watching "Burrito." It turns out Grizzly once got stuck in a tall tree during a bad thunderstorm as a cub, and he still has nightmares about it well into adulthood.
** Panda being forced to eat bamboo in "cleansing" also becomes this after seeing his episode were is show that until he ran away, that was all he ever had eaten.



** Panda's sacrifice in Googs would be [[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries repeated]] except this time [[spoiler: it's not a simulation]].
** Remenber all that times the fandom asked about racism against the bears? well, guess what happens in the movie...

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** Panda's sacrifice in Googs would be [[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries repeated]] except this time [[spoiler: it's [[spoiler:it's not a simulation]].
** Remenber Remember all that times the fandom asked about racism against the bears? well, guess what happens in the movie...
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what genius put "Africa" there?


*** To cap that moment, what are the bears destined places? For Panda a "reserve", for Ice he is deported to Africa and Grizzly is abandoned in a park.

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* WhatAnIdiot:
** [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy A museum night guard]] sees a polar bear with a human girl in his mouth [[NobodyHereButUsStatues pretending to be a tiger statue in a tiger exhibit]] and walks away, thinking everything is normal.
** The hipster clerk at the beginning of "Tote Life". Not only is badmouthing someone for not having reusable bags and insulting their grocery choices (he called the gang out for buying both vegan cookies and eggs) a {{Jerkass}} move, but if you work at the grocery store (and don't own the place), it's a sure-fire way to lose your job.
** The cupcake shop manager from "Cupcake Job" not even making much of an effort to get a feel for each of the bears and basically mismatching them for the respective jobs: the klutzy and panicky Panda on conveyor duty, the eager to please but simple-minded Grizzly on people helper duty (a couple of them became a little difficult) with touch panel, and the handy but socially awkward Ice Bear as attract mascot. (The latter accidentally succeeds as a panhandler at least.)
** Tabes during "Creature Mysteries" for setting a flare trap on the bears' cave! She knew perfectly well they lived there and still set a trap atop their house just to catch Charlie. The top of the cave catches fire in the climax of the episode and she becomes trapped inside and almost dies.
** Grizzly in "Planet Bears" [[PottyEmergency while looking for the bathroom]], finds one, but it needs a code. Instead of asking an employee what the password is, he tries to break the door down without much success. Afterwards, Grizzly tries to knock over the door with a forklift, but it spins out of control, so he ends up [[BringMyBrownPants wetting himself in fear.]]

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* HarsherInHindsight: While many episodes show that Ice Bear does not mind if his brothers think of him as a boring and uninteresting person, "Losing Ice" shows that he cares about how much Grizzly and Panda appreciate everything he does for them, feeling genuinely hurt when they ignore the meal he spent so hard making for them.

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While many episodes show that Ice Bear does not mind if his brothers think of him as a boring and uninteresting person, "Losing Ice" shows that he cares about how much Grizzly and Panda appreciate everything he does for them, feeling genuinely hurt when they ignore the meal he spent so hard making for them.



** Panda's sacrifice in Googs would be [[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries repeated]] Except this time [[spoiler: it's not a simulation]].
** Remenber all that times the {Fandon} asked about racism against the bears? well, guess what happens in the movie...
*** to cap that ["SarcasmMode" moment]what are the bears destined places? for Panda an "reserve", for Polar he is deported to africa and Grizzly is abandoned in a park, is like the Officer is doing it in purpose.

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** Panda's sacrifice in Googs would be [[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries repeated]] Except except this time [[spoiler: it's not a simulation]].
** Remenber all that times the {Fandon} fandom asked about racism against the bears? well, guess what happens in the movie...
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* IntendedAudienceReaction: The [[DudeWheresMyRespect lack of respect]] and trust the bears face in their day do day lives deliberately reflects the struggles of [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer]], right down to irrational responses from humans in episodes such as "Cupcake Job".

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* IntendedAudienceReaction: The [[DudeWheresMyRespect lack of respect]] and trust the bears face in their day do day lives deliberately reflects the struggles of [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer]], AllOfTheOtherReindeer, right down to irrational responses from humans in episodes such as "Cupcake Job".



** Nom Nom might be on the road to becoming this, since he says in "Nom Nom's Entourage" that he does not know how to make friends.

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** Nom Nom might be on the road to becoming this, Nom, since he says in "Nom Nom's Entourage" that he does not know how to make friends.



* JustHereForGodzilla: K-pop fans only watched Panda's BirthdayEpisode because Music/MonstaX was in it.



** Valiant Panda. [[note]] Panda's "sacrifice" in Googs has been mashed up with the [[spoiler music from the [[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Valiant Hero ending of Completing the Mission]]. [[/note]]

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** Valiant Panda. [[note]] Panda's "sacrifice" in Googs has been mashed up with the [[spoiler [[spoiler: music from the [[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Valiant Hero ending of Completing the Mission]].Mission]]]]. [[/note]]
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** Nom Nom is aware that he's this InUniverse and fully exploits it. Even then, many fans found him quite adorable in spite of his personality.

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** "Pretty Boy" from "The Limo" is a rather blatant pastiche of the style of Music/{{PSY}}.

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** "Icy Nights" features two references to famous songs from the movie {{Film/Drive}}: "[[https://soundcloud.com/bradbreeck/wbb-e044-icy-nights-wolf-street-song WOLF STREET]]" which sounds like "Nightcall", and "[[https://soundcloud.com/bradbreeck/wbb-e044-icy-nights-greatest-song GREATEST]]" which references "A Real Human Being".

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** "Icy Nights" features two references to famous songs from the movie {{Film/Drive}}: ''Film/Drive2011'': "[[https://soundcloud.com/bradbreeck/wbb-e044-icy-nights-wolf-street-song WOLF STREET]]" which sounds like "Nightcall", and "[[https://soundcloud.com/bradbreeck/wbb-e044-icy-nights-greatest-song GREATEST]]" which references "A Real Human Being".
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** The song from the dance-off in "The Audition" sounds a lot like "Working for the Weekend" by Loverboy.
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** "Dance Outside Your Window" bears a striking similarity to Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go".

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* MagnificentBitch: "[[Recap/WeBareBearsS4E3Googs Googs]]" : [[ForScience Ari Curd]] is the founder of the Googs headquarters. Designing the virtual reality goggles, she throws a contest with the offer being a tour around the facility. When the bears win, she tricks them into being her test subjects and through her online avatar, she [[BatmanGambit plays on Panda's frustration]] with his brothers to send him on a rocket to the moon and later, the sun while he's vulnerable. Ending the simulation Ari cheerfully greets the Bears and offers to give them the real tour, albeit [[LackOfEmpathy oblivious to their trauma]].
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Very few people realize that the show was based on [[http://thethreebarebears.blogspot.com/ a web-comic]]. Justified, as it only lasted ''9 pages''.

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** Valiant Panda. [[note]] Panda's "sacrifice" in Googs has been mashed up with the [[spoiler music from the [[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Valiant Hero ending of Completing the Mission]]. [[/note]]

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