Bear in the Big Blue House

"Bear in the Big Blue House" is an American children's television series created by Mitchell Kriegman and produced by Jim Henson Television for Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney preschool television block. It also aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 5 as part of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkshake! Milkshake!] block. Debuting on October 20, 1997, it aired its last episode on April 28, 2006.

Plot
Bear lives in the Big Blue House with his friends Ojo, Tutter, Treelo, Pip, Pop, and Shadow. He and his friends have many adventures together. Those normally include solving problems, sharing, cooperating with each other, and developing social/life skills.

Each episode opens with the welcome song. The other characters in the show then make their appearance, and the theme and plot of the show then comes to place. Throughout the episode, the theme (ex; "sleep", "doctors", "Thanksgiving") is learned about, and a lesson is learned at the end of the episode. Songs and jokes accompany the episode. Bear acts as a caregiver towards Ojo the red bear cub, Treelo the green and white lemur, Tutter the blue mouse, and Pip and Pop, who are two purple otters. The character "Shadow" narrates a segment with shadow puppets in each episode. Most of the segments are in song, while some are simply a short story relating to the episode's theme. At the end of the program, Bear then sings the goodbye song with Luna, the moon.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The cookie-cutter episode plots can be tiresome for some people.
 * 2) "When You've Gotta Go!" overuses toilet humor.

Trivia

 * "Luna", the first name of the character "Luna the Moon", is actually "Moon" in Latin.
 * On October 19, 2022, the series was finally added to Disney+ by popular demand.
 * "A Berry Bear Christmas" movie special was last shown on Thanksgiving 2021, but on October 19, 2022, the Christmas special was gone like a treatment to Peanuts' Apple TV+-PBS deal.