Bear in the Big Blue House

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Bear In The Big Blue House
Bear In The Big Blue House title card
Genre	Children's
Creator(s)	Mitchell Kriegman
Starring	Noel MacNeal
Opening theme	Peter Lurye
Ending theme	Peter Lurye
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	119
Production
Producer(s)	The Jim Henson Company
Executive producer(s)	Mitchell Kriegman
Running time	approx. 22 minutes
Broadcast
Original run	1997 – 2003
Links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Bear in the Big Blue House is a television program for young children produced for the Disney Channel by The Jim Henson Company. The program teaches simple life lessons by following the title character and his puppet friends as they go through their day.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Cast 3 Popularity 4 Awards 5 Songs 6 External links

[edit] Overview

The gentle, soft title character of Bear in the Big Blue House is a talking, seven-foot (213 cm) orange bear who lives in a house and who loves to help children learn. Despite his enormous size, Bear is child-friendly. He addresses the kids at home directly, talking to them as if they were all his close friends. Bear in the Big Blue House was created for the very young, teaching concepts like shapes, gravity, helping, seasons, and even toilet training. Joining the ever-curious Bear are an assortment of woodland creatures—excitable lemur Treelo, headstrong mouse Tutter, peppy otter twins Pip and Pop and imaginative little bear cub Ojo—all of whom help illustrate the day’s lesson. At the end of every episode, Bear goes out on his balcony to talk about what everyone has learned with his friend Luna, the wise moon.

Bear interweaves learning with playtime. After the musical call, "Where oh where oh where is Shadow?", Bear's friend Shadow appears. Together with other shadow friends, the girl puts on shadow plays of brief, amusing stories— often with grown-up humor lurking just under the surface.

[edit] Cast

The cast for the show including:

• Bear: Noel MacNeal [1]

• Luna: Lynne Thigpen

• Tutter and Pip: Peter Linz

• Ojo: Vicki Eibner

• Pop, Treelo: Tyler Bunch

• Grandma Tutter: Alice Denean

• Tutters Cousin "Jet Set Tutter": Tim Legasse
• Benny the Bat Jim Kroupa

For more information, see the Muppet Wiki website

[edit] Popularity

Bear in the Big Blue House became a long-running hit on The Disney Channel. The program was initially produced from 1997 to 2003. After a three-year hiatus and the spin-off Breakfast with Bear, new episodes returned to the Disney Channel in April of 2006. The show attained such popularity that Bear himself sometimes appeared on Hollywood Squares.

Tom Fulp, the owner of the Flash entertainment site Newgrounds, once made a parody game in which Bear was abducting children and Pico, Newgrounds' mascot, had to kill the bear. However, the graphics were changed after Newgrounds faced legal threats from The Jim Henson Company. However, the original game can still be seen by users who gain enough Gold Grounds points on the site.

The show is also shown in the United Kingdom on five, on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and on RTÉ Two in Ireland.

[edit] Awards

• Two Time Emmy Award Winner
• Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner
• Director's Guild Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs - "Episode 225: Love Is All You Need"

[edit] Songs

• "Oops! I Goofed Again" (1:49), sung by Bear, included by Songs From Bear In The Big Blue House
• "So Much To Be Thankful For [Who could ask for more?]" (1:26), sung by Bear, Doc Hogg, Flutter, Pip, Pop, Ojo, Tutter and Treelo, included on Bear's Holiday Celebration
• "What's Mine Is Yours", sung by Bear, included on More Songs From Bear In The Big Blue House
• "What's That Smell?," sung by Bear in several episodes
• "What's in the Mail Today?," sung by Bear in several episodes
• "Everybody Say Ah!," sung by Old Doc Hog, Bear, Tutter, Ojo, Treelo, Pip, and Pop
• "Rub-a-Dub-Dub," sung by Bear, Tutter, Treelo, Ojo, Pip, and Pop in several episodes
• "A Little Quiet Time," sung by Bear and Tutter
• "Goodbye," sung by Bear and Luna (and sometimes others) at the end of every episode
• "Rock-A-Bye," sung by Bear and Shadow
• "The Shape of Bear," sung by Bear (and, later, Bear, Ojo, Pip, and Pop)
• "Good Morning," sung by Bear and Ray
• "Colors," sung by Bear
• "Wonderful Sounds," sung by Bear
• "Take Time to Smell the Cheese", sung by Bear and Tutter

[edit] External links

• Official Site
• Bear in the Big Blue House at the Internet Movie Database
• TV.com Show Guide
• Bear in the Big Blue House Muppet Wiki: Bear in the Big Blue House
• Bear in the Big Blue House DVD Reviews24.188.90.162 03:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)mitc03:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)24.188.90.162