Shout Out / We Bare Bears

• Sneaking into the home of three bears, eating their porridge and breaking their furniture... is Chloe Goldilocks?
• The music during the basketball game in "Our Stuff" is a sound-alike of the Harlem Globetrotters' theme (Brother Bones' version of "Sweet Georgia Brown").
• One of the college students in "Chloe" is wearing a hat similar to Dipper's.
• One of the dudes Grizzly interacts with in "Everyday Bears" looks like a thin, older Steven Universe.
• Marie the internet reporter from "Nom Nom" has a Triforce emblem on her shirt.
• "Shush Ninjas", being set in a movie theater, is pretty Reference Overdosed:
  • The movie Panda wants to see, Solar Eclipse of the Night 3, is an obvious parody of Twilight.
  • The poster for the movie Not Alive resembles the one of John Carpenter's The Thing.
  • Another poster for a movie called Really Really Fast is a pastiche of The Fast and the Furious series.
  • The poster for a film called Space Conflict is an obvious parody of A New Hope's.
  • The poster for the '70s Period Piece Here Comes The Popo seems to reference Starsky & Hutch's.
  • Grizzly's speech is accompanied by a montage of the bears acting out various movies. In order:
    • Grizzly in The Sound of Music.
    • Grizzly and Panda in Titanic.
    • The bears as the ape men touching the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
    • Panda in Modern Times.
    • Panda in The Little Mermaid (1989).
    • The bears in O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
    • Grizzly in Rocky.
    • Grizzly in North By Northwest.
    • The bears in My Neighbor Totoro.
    • Grizzly and Ice Bear in Inception.
    • The bears in Singin' in the Rain.
• A scene from the "Enchiridion" episode of Adventure Time plays on Chloe's TV in "My Clique".
• In "Chloe and Ice Bear" Ice Bear sees the ad for the Science Museum, and can't stop staring at the albino alligator, complete with pseudo-Dream Academy music.
  • Also from "Chloe and Ice Bear", the Science Museum and its albino alligator are references to the California Academy of Sciences and Claude respectively.
• In "Bear Cleanse", a knockoff of the Kill Bill siren plays when Grizz is glaring at Panda for cheating on his diet. It plays again in "Captain Craboo" when Ice Bear flashes back to when the titular crab attacked his ear in "Emergency," "Lunch With Tabes" when Tabes finds that the sandwich she made earlier is missing, and "Go Fish" when the giant goldfish appears and eats the captain.
• In "Losing Ice", the scene of Darrel running towards the airport with Panda and Grizz on his back bears a striking similarity to Simba running through the desert back to the Pridelands.
• In "The Library", Chloe's sugar rush-laden speed bursts make the same sound as The Powerpuff Girls flying.
• A DanceDanceRevolution analogue appears in "Brother Up".
• The opening of "Icy Nights" is a direct riff on the opening of Drive (2011), right down to the use of the Mistral font for the credits and a Suspiciously Similar Song version of Kavinsky's "Nightcall".
  • In the same episode, Ice Bear finding a hidden room in an arcade behind an arcade cabinet is directly from TRON: Legacy.
  • The episode's setup (Ice Bear refuses to sell his vehicle to a spoiled rich kid who then steals it, sending Ice Bear on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge) mirrors the plot of John Wick.
• One of the citizens shown in "Nom Nom’s Entourage” strongly resembles Futurama‘s Phillip J. Fry .
• Ice Bear's music video in "Everyone's Tube" is a parody of the famous video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice".
• In "Christmas Parties", after the Bears accidentally ruin the dinner Chloe's family made and awkwardly try to leave, Chloe's cousin yells to them, "Merry Christmas, you filthy animals!"
• In "Panda's Friend", Panda wakes up in a perfect recreation of his room and only realizes it's a fake after seeing the city outside of the window, just like in the climax of Perfect Blue.
• The music that plays over the opening shots of the snowy scenery in "Yuri and the Bear" is strongly reminiscent of the theme music from Fargo.
• The opening of "The Demon" resembles the opening of My Neighbor Totoro.
• The part where Chloe and Ice Bear hide in the kitchen from the titular dog of "The Demon" spoofs the raptor attack scene from Jurassic Park. Furthermore, Chloe has a plush dinosaur named Winston, after the late Stan Winston who worked on the animatronic dinosaurs for the first three films.
• In "Coffee Cave", one of the names considered for the coffeehouse that Ice Bear ran at the cave was "Polar Bear Cafe", which was taken.
• In "Road Trip", the bears and Chloe visit a rest stop that's clearly the Cabazon Dinosaurs.
• In "The Kitty", the song that plays during the Bears' Lock-and-Load Montage is a parody of "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins, as heard in Top Gun.
  • Also in "The Kitty", one of the names Grizzly suggests for the kitten is "Tigerclaw", to which Panda replies, "Nah, too evil". Tigerclaw is the Big Bad of the Warrior Cats series.
• Ice Bear makes references to The Fast and the Furious and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in particular, "Bear Lift".
• In "Panda 2", Panda watches a parody of Seinfeld where the Jerry look-alike asks "What's the deal with bees?", and a magical-girl anime reminiscent of Sailor Moon.
• The chase sequence through the airport in "Vacation" seems to be based on A Hard Day's Night, what with a celebrity trying to dodge a horde of crazed fans while accompanied by 60s-style pop-rock music.
• Ice Bear's fantasy sequence after tasting honey in "Bee Hive" is a parody of "Baby Mine" from Dumbo.
• The episode Professor Lampwick seems to be a Whole-Plot Reference to the Community episode "Intro to Knots", where a professor played by Malcolm McDowell is kidnapped and tied up by characters seeking to change a grade, while he manipulates and turns them against each other using nothing but words. At the end of the We Bare Bears episode, he remarks "Do you really think you're the first student to kidnap me over a grade? You are, however, the first to get it right."
• Ice Bear tosses a stick into the air to decide where to go to in "The Park". Just like the Ronin does in Yojimbo.
• The classroom music in "Teacher's Pet" is an Homage to Mark Mothersbaugh's soundtrack for Rugrats.
• In "Googs", BMO is one of the robots seen in Googs' research and development lab.
• When the Baby Bears ask to rent a room in "Paperboyz" and the house owner asks for references, Grizz, thinking he means movie references, goes "Get to the chopper!"
• The music playing during the cleaning montages spoofs the Leiber and Stoller song Yakety Yak.
• "Family Troubles" parodies classic TGIF sitcoms like Full House and Family Matters.
  • When Baby Grizz tries to imagine what the new family member will be, he first imagines a "wise, eccentric neighbor" that looks like Wilson from Home Improvement, then some "sassy, independent ladies" based on The Golden Girls.
• In "Bear Squad", Panda finds himself outside a store selling body pillows. One of them has a dragon girl dressed as a maid.
  • In the same scene, there is a section of posters based on video games with one depicting an Ocarina and another that resembles Excitebike
• In "Money Man", Chloe's rival, Saanvi, invents a device that looks and functions like a Dragon Radar.
• In "Adopted", not only does Carl the gorilla does a "King Kong" Climb but he leaps off the mansion to save the Baby Bears in a plane, which mirrors the climax of The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
• "Christmas Movies" has, predictably enough, a speedball of references to various Christmas movies. To start with, the bears discuss and describe in-universe versions of such holiday classics as How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, It's a Wonderful Life, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Die Hard. Later on, they're seen watching various thinly-veiled parodies of other such Christmas films: alongside the aforementioned The Grinch and It's a Wonderful Life, they also watch their universe's version of A Charlie Brown Christmas, Home Alone, and Jingle All the Way, plus a generic film adaptation of A Christmas Carol (they didn't go for parody name there because that work is already in the public domain, as its numerous adaptations prove.)
• In "The Mall", Ice Bear and Issac's ice-skating competition is a parody of Yuri!!! on Ice.
  • Ice Bear wears Sans' outfit, while Issac wears a suit colored like Todoroki's hair.
• The entirety of the episode "Imaginary Friend" is a homage to the Power Rangers franchise.
  • The Ultra Meteorite Fighters all transform like the Rangers, complete with exclaiming their transformed names whilst posing.
  • The Baby Bears end up calling out mechas of their bear species in a clear parody of the Zords, right up to the mech-combining via Bear Stack.
  • At one point, Ice Bear "assumes his power" by taking out a decorated knife and playing it like a flute.
  • Silver Bear, the imaginary friend in question, is voiced by none other than Jason David Frank, the original Tommy Oliver/Green Ranger in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
• In "Baby Orphan Ninja Bears", the bear cubs go into the New York City sewers, are trained in the art of ninjas and eat pizza in a parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• In "Fire", Grizz turns into an overzealous version of Smokey the Bear, extinguishing such small fires as birthday cake candles and park barbecues.
  • The music used during the montage sequence of the above events sounds a lot like "Tank!" from Cowboy Bebop.
  • Grizz rescues the fish from a tank when Aqua Yaki catches on fire, reminiscent of the climactic rescue scene from Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
• In "Ranger Norm", when Norm is revealed to be an evil real estate developer who plans to turn the forest into a golf course, one of Tabes' friends, Outback Ranger riding in a kangaroo's pouch, resembles Dot from Dot and the Kangaroo.
• In "Braces", when Panda's braces give him electromagnetism powers, he goes mad with power and turns into Magneto.
• "Laser Royale" is an episode-long Homage to Battle Royale, albeit with much lower stakes. Additionally, the music that plays when the bears engage in a standoff is clearly based on A "Silhouette of Doom" from Navajo Joe and popularized by Kill Bill. Finally, the three way duel in a circular arena and cinematography therein closely resembles The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• In "Summer Love," Panda's manga has a boat in it named the SS Ann (just with a different spelling than the boat it references).
• In "Panda's Art", Panda tries to reproduce his first painting of Charlie by drawing in the style of many classic paintings such as Vincent van Gogh's self-portrait, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Scream, and The Son of Man.

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