Does anyone remember The Berenstein Bears?

[ShadowFireLance]

Anyone remember that awesome book series and Tv show that aired for a while?

Well, does anyone remember it being spelled "Berenstein" or "Berenstain" ?

I'm mostly curious as to what you guys remember.

[Coidzor]

I remember there was one story where it ran into that awkward situation where there were bears that were just feral animals and the bears that were people like what you have with Goofy and Pluto both being dogs. IIRC, it was completely glossed over.

And another one where they were eating too much candy, which in their world was brightly colored balls for the most part.

[Fjolnir]

My favorite Berenstain story is The Berenstains' B Book, which has a big brown bear, blowing bubbles, biking backwards bumping into various other sequences of words that all begin with 'b' such as Brother Beagle's Banjo Bagpipe Band (the fact that I haven't read it in over 20 years and can still remember those aspects of the book tell you something.)

as I track it down again it is even more ridiculous than that, it is Big Brown Bear, Blue Bull, Beautiful Baboon, blowing bubbles biking backwards...

[BWR]

We had one book, about the kids cleaning their messy room. My sister and I marveled that something as clean as that was called messy.

[SaintRidley]

We had one book, about the kids cleaning their messy room. My sister and I marveled that something as clean as that was called messy.

My mother took that one to heart and threatened to trash my stuff if I didn't clean up.

She literally threw out my entire collection of Pokemon cards to prove her point - including my Charizard and Base Set errors.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Oh yeah! Big chunk of my childhood, there.

[KerfuffleMach2]

I think I had most of them at one time. I loved them.

And it is spelled Berenstein.

[Fragenstein]

Did not like them, I'm afraid to say. The artwork seemed odd, with everyone wearing these perpetual leers. The writing seemed whitewashed and dumbed down, ever for little kids.

They don't even seem to be very useful for teaching kids how to read -- my wife has been using a few, and the kids always trip over the artificial colloquialisms.

There were plenty of books that I loved as a child. Berenstein always came across as slightly nauseating and absent of any interesting character traits. At least Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel presented a challenge, and managed to trap two characters in a cellar.

[BWR]

At least Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel presented a challenge, and managed to trap two characters in a cellar.

Man, I haven't thought of that one in years. I remember liking it.

[Karoht]

Anyone remember that awesome book series and Tv show that aired for a while?

Well, does anyone remember it being spelled "Berenstein" or "Berenstain" ?

I'm mostly curious as to what you guys remember.

Loved them.
Learned to read with these books.
Grew up with them.
Looked for new ones every time we went grocery shopping. This was eventually replaced with Goosebumps books until broader fantasy and sci-fi was made known to me.
Miss them. Surprisingly, a lot actually. I almost cried when I sent my collection of them to my fiancee's mother to give her trio of recent daughters. This was maybe 5 years ago? 6? They still had my early handwriting. I used to write "This book belongs to me. Me = [my real name]." Yeah, I was a dork.

Story I remember best? The one where they moved from the cave to the tree house. I remember Brother Bear asking about leaving his friends behind, but the cave is isolated and kind of desolate, at the top of a mountain/hill, and I was thinking "where are these friends he's talking about?" Also, at age 4 I pointed out to my mom that they make the cave look dark and dank and scary and keep to a very narrow color use, but the town they use all kinds of colors and they're all bright. I didn't use the word juxtaposition, but I was more or less describing it. Of course, being a kid I said "I'll be the real cave looks really nice, but they make it look this way for the story," and wondering where the real cave might actually be. I did say I was a dork right?

[Ramza00]

We had one book, about the kids cleaning their messy room. My sister and I marveled that something as clean as that was called messy.

Same here this is one of the two books I remember (the other was the brother and sister fighting). My room was always a mess as a kid and now as an adult.

Recently I learned why, I was diagnosed with ADHD something my family did not believe was real, and I didn't really think about until recently. I am horrible at organizing for it is mentally exhausting, as well as the fact everything that is happening now seems far more urgent or immediate than something that is static like my room. Thus unless I have a deadline, my room is going to remain a mess. (Luckily I am doing better now, than even a few months ago.)

[Traab]

The Great Big Enormous Turnip was one of my early favorites. I liked the bears well enough, but I also loved Amelia Bedilia.

[Legato Endless]

At least Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel presented a challenge, and managed to trap two characters in a cellar.

I remember that series. I used to love tracing the roads in the snow plow book when I was 4. Hypnotic stuff.

[JadedDM]

I remember the books and the cartoon, although I don't look back fondly on either. They were really preachy and judgmental, but then again, they were a product of the 80s and 90s (i.e., video games are bad, the internet is bad, etc.).

[Joran]

I remembered calling it the "Bernstein Bears" and reading it in the doctor's office. I don't think anyone remembers the actual spelling is Berenstain.

[Coidzor]

I remembered calling it the "Bernstein Bears" and reading it in the doctor's office. I don't think anyone remembers the actual spelling is Berenstain.

It would be the undoing of many of us in a spelling bee, aye.

[Gnoman]

The really funny thing? Stan and Jan's early work was not only aimed at an adult market (the work I find the most is a comedic work about teenagers, from a parent's point of view), but some of it was quite daring in the '70s.

[Bulldog Psion]

I remember that series. I used to love tracing the roads in the snow plow book when I was 4. Hypnotic stuff.

Katy and the Big Snow! I remember that. The marginal pictures also fascinated me when I was tiny. All the different vehicles and tools. I was an enormous fan of construction equipment until I discovered tanks and jet fighters ...

I remember the books and the cartoon, although I don't look back fondly on either. They were really preachy and judgmental, but then again, they were a product of the 80s and 90s (i.e., video games are bad, the internet is bad, etc.).

Fortunately, I wasn't exposed to the Berenstain Bears until I was an adult. I think the scars would have been too deep otherwise.

[Rodin]

My nostalgia heart will always belong to Clifford the Big Red Dog.