You’re in time-out, Bluey. Go do a wellness check on Steve, Blue’s Clues. There’s another blue-centric show for preschoolers now streaming, and it’s a ’90s gem. Bear in the Big Blue House, the puppet-based children’s show that aired on Playhouse Disney from 1997 to 2006, is on Disney+ as of October 19.
This is huge news for millennials and Gen-Z young adults who grew up with the show, which follows a large, Big Bird–size bear named Bear, who is best friends with the moon, owns gorgeous real estate, and lives with a coterie of cute creatures like bear cub Ojo, otters Pip and Pop, weird creature (apparently a lemur?) Treelo, and an extremely excitable mouse named Tutter. One housemate is the shadow of a girl separated from her body (which sounds like a Julio Torres bit on Los Espookys). Her segments deviate from the Jim Henson house style and use shadow-puppetry in the vein of Lotte Reiniger — if Lotte Reiniger ever made a short film about pooping in a toilet.
But any BITBBH stan knows that the best character is the moon (which sounds like another Julio Torres bit from Los Espookys). The show as a whole has cozy, mellow vibes in a children’s-media landscape that is so often chaotic, and the moon’s gentle vocals at the end of every episode drive the whole thing home. (Bear is also friends with the sun, who honestly gets slept on, but his vocals are undeniable.)
When Bear in the Big Blue House premiered, so many shows for children in this age range were either cloying like Barney or insipid like Teletubbies, which also debuted in 1997. Bear, on the other hand, plays like Sesame Street’s suburban sister — full of inventive puppetry and character design.So whether you’re a parent who wants to see Cocomelon murdered, a toxic nostalgist, or just an adult completist for all things Muppets-adjacent, you now have 118 episodes of Bear in the Big Blue House to enjoy. Anyway, here’s Tutter screaming for 47 seconds:
Bear in the Big Blue House Is Finally Streaming on Disney+Episodes: 119 (half-hour)
Seasons: Four
TV show dates: October 20, 1997 — May 6, 2007
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Lynne Thigpen, Noel MacNeal, Vicki Eibner, Tyler Bunch, Peter Linz, Tara Mooney, and James J. Kroupa.
TV show description:
A children’s series that stars the lovable and affable seven-foot tall Bear (Noel MacNeal).
Bear speaks to viewers directly as if they were close friends and asks them to join him as he goes about his day, helping his puppet housemate friends learn about the world.
Living in the house are excitable lemur Treelo (Tyler Bunch), headstrong mouse Tutter (Peter Linz), peppy otter twins Pip and Pop (Peter Linz and Tyler Bunch) and imaginative little bear cub Ojo (Vicki Eibner). Each episode comes to a close as bear recounts the day with Luna (Lynne Thigpen), the wise moon.
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Charlie and Dennis? Fuck I hope he didnt get Mac.
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Don't worry, he was at the Poconos.
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Hah, he got Mr. Furley’d
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Going to Emmett's Fix-It Shop to "fix" Emmett!
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