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Bear In The Big Blue House
Bear In The Big Blue House title card
Format	Children's
Created by	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
Executive producer(s)	Mitchell Kriegman
Producer(s)	The Jim Henson Company
Running time	approx. 22 minutes
Broadcast
Original run	October 20, 1997 – May 6, 2007
External 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 taught simple life lessons by following the title character and his puppet friends as they went through their day.

In 2004 The Jim Henson Company sold The Bear in the Big Blue House franchise to The Walt Disney Company. The characters and show are currently owned and operated by The Muppet Holding Company, LLC.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Cast 3 Popularity 4 Awards 5 Songs 5.1 Other media 6 External links

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.

Bears character was used as a model for "Snook," the main character in "It's a Big Big World," who is a tree-sloth with similar size and mannerisms^{[citation needed]}.

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.

The cast for the show including:

• Bear: a tall, gentle bear portrayed by Noel MacNeal
• Luna: the moon portrayed by Lynne Thigpen
• Tutter and Pip: a small blue mouse and one of two purple otters, respectively both portrayed by Peter Linz
• Ojo: a girl bear cub portrayed by Vicki Eibner
• Pop, Treelo: one of two purple otters and a colorful lemur, respectively both portrayed by Tyler Bunch
• Grandma Flutter: Tutter's grandmother mouse portrayed by Alice Denean
• Cousin Whiner: portrayed by Victor Yerrid
• Tutters Cousin "Jet Set Tutter": portrayed by Tim Legasse
• Benny the Bat portrayed by Jim Kroupa

Bear in the Big Blue House became a long-running hit on The Disney Channel. The program was initially produced from 1997 - 2007. After a three-year hiatus and the spin-off Breakfast with Bear, new episodes returned to the Disney Channel in April 2006. The show attained such popularity that Bear himself sometimes appeared on Hollywood Squares.

Disney announced plans for several events and new merchandise to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary in 2007. However, as of late June 2007, further details have yet to be announced.

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

• 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"

• "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 a Bear," sung by Bear (and, later, Bear, Ojo, Pip, and Pop)
• "Good Morning," sung by Bear and Ray
• "Colors," sung by Bear
• "Clean Up," sung by Ojo Tutter Treelo & Pip & Pop
• "Take Time to Smell the Cheese", sung by Bear and Tutter
• "The Bear Cha Cha Cha" sung by Bear

Ubisoft released in 2002 a video game of Bear in the Big Blue House under license from the Jim Henson company, on the Game Boy Color platform.

• Bear in the Big Blue House at the Internet Movie Database
• TV.com Show Guide
• Muppet Wiki: Bear in the Big Blue House
• Bear in the Big Blue House DVD Reviews