Stan Berenstain, the man who, with his wife, created the wildly popular Berenstain Bears book series, died two years ago.
Not to speak ill of the dead or anything, but dude -- your books suck.
Brother and Sister Bear are two confused cubs who can't get out of their own way. Room-cleaning and shoe-tying induce panic in them both.
Papa Bear is a bumbling idiot who never, ever gets anything right.
And Mama Bear . . . well, Mama Bear is a know-it-all harpy who's worn her husband to a tiny little nub and has the cubs afraid of their own shadows. Sources say she was modeled on Jean Schmidt.
It'll take years of psychotherapy and family counseling to straighten out that mess.
And they don't even look like bears.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Is Mama Bear Dating Again?
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HAHAHAHAHAH! I used to like those books as a kid. Never quite saw the family like that...until now. You're freakin' right. You are freakin' right.
Stop trashing the bears. I love those bears, they taught me everything I needed to know about sharing, not telling on my brother, and letting mom run the show.
Therapy is for sissies.
I hated those books as a kid and hate them today. My kids hate them. Even Timothy Treadwell hated them.
Dr. Seuss was the chief editor in the publishing house when the couple were starting out. He hated the first book and talked them into dropping future books about the bears and write about a group of penguins (really). It would have worked except the books' salesmen reported huge demand for the bears (the masses are idiots) so they retured to Mama, Papa, et al. like a dog returning to vomit.
I can't believe everyone hates the bears!?
btw, semi-off topic - I'm reading the biography of Charles Schulz right now - and it is fascinating!
These must have come out later or they weren't permitted in our house.
You? Are my new hero.
THANK you for having the stones to tell it like it is!
And ps, I hate their preachy rhetoric and smug, smarmy tone. And what is UP with Mama Bear's haat, and why do ALL the bears in the series refer to these four by their familiar position? IE: It's bad enough that Papa bear calls Mama Bear "Mama Bear" and vice versa, but sheesh, the teachers call Sister Bear "SISTER BEAR". Doesn't she have a name?
Sheesh.
I think its teaching us all the importance of a family unit. Hence, reinforcing the roles as "Sister" and "Mama" even in the wrong context.
next you're going to tell me you all hate the "Frog and Toad Are Friends" series...
Frog and Toad--Si!
Unbears--No!
I think the bear series is propped up by parents and authority figures who stock school libraries. (See Bill O'Reilly for Kids.)
I love the Frog and Toad stories. They're nice, sweet little tales about friendship; a little melancholy, even. And the illustrations are wonderful.
Those Smurf-like faux bears can kiss my ass, though.
I don't know Frog And Toad. But the Smurfs - I know all about them. Allllll about them. God help me.
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