Berenstain Bears: All Purpose Thread

Looks like i started this thread on time too, considering that THIS now would have to have been their literally 50th anniversary since their first appearance in The Big Honey Hunt by Stan and Jan Berenstain debuting in 1962 as part of Dr Seuss' Begginer Books/Bright and Early series line distributed by Random House (indistinguishably exactly like how Warner Bros - Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies are made, roughly speaking).

I guess i'll start with the current series from 2002-2004, as far as animated adaptions are concered, the books were a reading staple for me as a kid, even my mother deliberately LIKES it, and MAINLY this adaption by the Canadian based Nelvana, i'm not quite sure what to say other than it followed the regular books much closer than the Saturday Morning one from the early to mid 1980s, however the current series still has it's flaws, for example, the pacing is ridiculiously sluggish, the writing is pretty pedestrain, the voice acting is nothing special and Brother's voice in the later episodes (Michael Cera going through pubrety) just makes me cringe to tremendous degrees, and the animation (by Animation Services H.K owned by AGOGO entertainment, which is literally half their role in producing this show with Nelvana) is also stiff and pedestrain as well.

BUUT for all the shortcomings, all the flaws in the current series seem to be very less in comparaision to the mid 1980s show, as far as i know from memory (don't get curious, it's not perfect) the shortcomings and flaws for THAT were even greater than the current one, for example it had characters that never appeared in the books such as Ralpish Ralph, Weasly McGreed and Big Paw and the entire execution looked amateurish, clunky, choppy and really dusty and murky, the writing was a bit on the obnoxiously contrived and brashly ignorant side and as such some of the character personalites weren't right, Mama Bear was pretty cynical, overreactive, hot tempered and bumblingly inept and crass rather than the cheerful, nice, helpful, eager and serious Mama Bear from the books, the specials (where Big Paw came from) and the current series, and Papa Bear was this boorish, grouchy, malicious, henpecked, self centered and indisguishably shared quite a lot of traits from Mama Bear in the SatAM series, the books, specials and the current series to an extent had a sitcom type Papa Bear that was pretty much the same as the original Walter Matthaiu based Homer Simpson father from The Simpson skits originally played on the Tracy Ullman Show.

FYI for the record: with Bigpaw's presence on the 1980s series, that sort to tells me that the 1980s series followed the specials MORE or less than the books, and the current series on the other hand follows the books in the deliberately same manner, so that'd make the current series the most TRUEST adaptation to the regular book series.

I'll stop right here, how about boosting this thread by chiming in, you are always MORE than to.....

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