Referenced By / Care Bears

Literature

• Tommy from Like No Other Boy wears Care Bear pajamas.

Western Animation

• The Party Bears from the Adventure Time episode "The Belly of the Beast" are a clear reference to the franchise, being multi-colored little bears with tummy symbols.
• Robot Chicken:
  • A sketch from "Password: Swordfish" feature the Care Bears performing a genocide on the Care Bear Cousins. When they succeed, the Great Cloudkeeper in the Sky punishes them by turning Care-A-Lot into New Jersey.

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  • A sketch from "That Hurts Me" features a man named Doug being killed in an archery accident and reincarnated into a Huggytime Bear named Doug-A-Lot. At the end of the sketch, it is revealed to be a Near-Death Experience.
  • A sketch from "Slaughterhouse on the Prairie" features a commercial for the Intensive Care Bears.
  • A sketch from "Eaten By Cats" features Cheer Bear trying unsuccessfully to get a man to convert to the Care Bears' religion.
  • A sketch from "Botched Jewel Heist" features a Care Bear on a phone sex line, and using his Care Bear stare as an analogy for an ejaculation.
• The Dummi Bears from Rugrats is a Show Within a Show that's a parody of Care Bears. It is revealed in "Meet the Carmichaels" that Susie's father, Randy, is the show's head writer, and in "Dummi Bear Dinner Disaster" that Paul Gatsby is the show's creator.

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• The Simpsons: In "The Fat and the Furriest", one of the bears who appears in Homer's fantasy is an "Intensive Care Bear", a seven-foot Care Bear with a crowbar.