YMMV / Adventures of the Gummi Bears

• Awesome Music: Good God, the main theme with lead vocals by Joseph Williams of Toto. It has no right to be as boundlessly energetic as it is. Listen for yourself.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Gruffi, given how hard he is on the younger Gummis.
  • Any human in Dunwyn who isn't Cavin is this, given the high standards of knighthood, as well as their authority. Calla on the other hand is also a Well, Excuse Me, Princess! in addition to this trope.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Ursa, the Lady of War leader of the Proud Warrior Race the Barbic Gummis, judging by how many fanfics feature her as a character despite her appearing in only 4 episodes, none of which have been released on DVD.
  • The Knights of Gummadoon, specifically Sir Plucki, Sir Gumlittle and Sir Blastus, only show up in one episode and yet appear in tons of fanfiction and fan art. Quite a bit of fanfiction finds ways to bring them back into the main cast.
  • Chummi Gummi, who shows up once in "Up, Up and Away" is a fan favorite.
• Genre Turning Point: This series, with its superb writing and lavish production values, changed the game for western television animation, helping to usher in The Renaissance Age of Animation, with Disney's competitors forced to similarly raise their own standards to compete.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Czechs love, nay, absolutely adore Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, and they have taken their dedication to amazing levels.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: Duke Igthorn is the Big Bad of the series, but he's such a Laughably Evil Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain that he comes off as entertaining. The same can't be said for Unwin, a squire who likes to pick on the pageboy Cavin. It is perhaps for this reason why Unwin was eventually phased out through Chuck Cunningham Syndrome.
• Once Original, Now Common: As mentioned above, when the show first premiered in 1985, its animation and writing were praised for being higher in quality than most other shows that existed at the time. But because many other shows with better animation and serialization have since been released over the years, modern viewers likely won't be able to see why this show was so revolutionary in terms of animation and storytelling.
• Popular with Furries: Due to being one of several shows of Disney Afternoon focused on its non-human cast, it has its furry fans.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Sir Gawain: former knight, outspoken believer in the Gummi Bears, found the Gummi Medallion that started the events of the show and Cavin's only known relative. When he gets to meet the Glen Gummis and learns that Gummi Bears do exist, he doesn't appear again.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?:
  • Throughout the series, it is shown that the bears of Gummi Glen are remnants of a Vestigial Empire in a medieval setting, reminiscent of the real-life Roman Empire and the small groups of monks and intellectuals who kept its ancient knowledge alive after the fall of the western portion. As for Igthorn, with his conflict against a feudal king and the Gummi Bears' usage of ancient technology and knowledge, he can be seen as a Machiavellian upstart.
  • There's also the fact that Igthorn keeps trying to confiscate the Gummi Bears' homemade Gummiberry juice. His Mooks are dim-witted and ineffectual, while the liquor the Gummi Bears drink makes them jump around like crazy, and the Gummi Bears themselves are friends to two children. If this had been made six decades earlier, it would have been seen as an anti-Prohibition allegory.
• The Woobie: Tummi is often this if an episode centers around him.

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