Bears Against The System.

With John Stephenson as Joe Flynn for the aptly named (!) Mr.Peevely, Joe E.Ross as, well, Oo-oo!, Joe E.Ross, as Botch, and as the bears themselves,
Daws Butler as Jack Oakie (think between Phil Silvers and Art Carney, which Butler had respectively done for Hokey Wolf and the most famous HB bear of all, Yogi) or Hair Bear himself, Bill Callaway doing a voice straight out of the Mel Blanc bag for Square Bear, and Paul Winchell doing that weird regular/nonsense dialect for Bubi (how many thought it was spelt Booby....?) Hal Smith, Janet Waldo, Len Weinrib, Vic Perrin, Joanie Gerber, all familiar names, and also ONE that escapes me COMPLETELY, Jeannine Brown(?), are the seven other credited voice actors. Very catchy theme song..

Hal Erickson wrote in his book "Television Cartoon Shows" that Joe Barbera wasn't too pleased during rehearsals with John Stephenson's performance as Peevely as a Joe Flynn imitation. When Stephenson asked why wasn't the real Joe Flynn cast for the role, Barbera replied..."we did audition him...and he didn't sound right."

Got to love the invisible motorcycle that the Hair Bear Bunch rode.

Help Help! Just kidding love those bears. The Hair Bear Bunch for me were usually in the weekday morning slots (cira 1-3am) and i also recall them getting Super chunks. But i don't really think i managed to see all the episodes in youth even if they weren't all that many.This show is just so many shades of odd and fun it's endearing. That being said this is one of the show's that is a dandy to explain to someone who's never seen it. "Yeah it's got three 70s bears in a zoo that have an invisible motorcyle, oh and one has a giant afro..." oh my the looks you do see XD

That being said the trio are pretty fun and likable characters. I dig their shenanigans.The chance to see them all is fun. However just an observation i feel like this one is a odd one in terms of getting people to know about. While run of mill people have decent memories of HB's bigger efforts and those who are a bit more devoted, it seems to me the Hair Bears are often one's neglected from memory amongst the mid level HB shows. No idea why really. Since it also seems to happen with people my age. That being said i know people who know plenty of HB shows that had similar time slots to Hair Bears in the 90s, yet i guess a lot more people forgot these three for whatever reason. I hope the dvd helps them in the new kids that will see them. Since i feel like the Hair Bears are worthy of being further up the totem pole of HB cartoons.

Also as a last note, that theme is amazing!

I had a Hair Bear Bunch lunchbox when I was in the first grade (1973-74).