(groovy guitar music)

- [Voiceover] We Bare Bears is the new

cartoon kid on the block, but it's already amassed

a huge and loyal following.

Fans love watching the trio of brother bears master

the art of the selfie and more while trying to find

their place in the San Francisco Bay area.

My name is Tim and today on Channel Frederator,

we're counting down 107 facts about We Bare Bears.

Let's get started.

Hashtag Ice bear for president.

Number one, the series was originally a web comic titled

The Three Bare Bears.

Each comic featured the bears in their

signature stack formation, except when they're babies,

then they're in their box. Aw.

Number two, the series and comic were created by

Danial Chong, an animator and storyboard artist whose

previous film credits include Inside Out,

The Lorax, Cars Two, and Bolt.

Which is weird because those are all CG movies,

and We Bare Bears looks very traditional.

Number three, Chong got his degree at

the prestigious California Institute of Arts,

and he was certainly part of an impressive crew.

Pendleton Ward, J.G. Quintel, and Patrick McHale,

were all attending CalArts around the same time.

Number four, in 2014, Chong won an Annie Award

for outstanding achievement in storyboarding

for the TV special, Toy Story of Terror.

The Annie Awards are essentially the Oscars of animation,

so this is a pretty big deal because we all know

that animation is snubbed at the Oscars. They're movies too.

Number five, the concept first arose when Chong was in

a library trying to make his girlfriend's niece laugh.

I wish my attempts to impress my girlfriend

resulted in successful cartoon shows.

Number six, Chong's appreciation for bears began

during his time living in the Bay area.

Specifically, he lived near UC Berkeley,

whose school mascot is, you guessed it, a bear.

It doesn't tell us what kind of bear, though.

Is it a grizzly? Or is it a panda or an ice bear?

Number seven, this influence also lead Chong

to set the show in San Francisco.

The city's skyline is prevalent throughout.

Even the forest the bears live in share many characteristics

with the areas outside San Francisco.

Number eight, We Bare Bears was pitched

while Chong was still working at Pixar.

There were several years of hiatus between

the end of the web comic and Chong's

adaptation of the concept into a TV series.

Number nine, Chong created the pilot short

of We Bare Bears with the support of

the Cartoon Network Studios Global Artists Program.

Number 10, the pilot premiered

at the Annecy International Animation Festival in June 2015.

While the series sticks to an 11 minute format,

the pilot was a seven minute long short,

which I'm pretty sure is actually long for a short.

Number 11, the bears personalities

were not very refined in the comic.

Their main differences are slight nuances in their speech.

For example, Ice bear has just

always talked in the third person.

- Ice bear wants justice.

- [Voiceover] Number 12, once he started shaping the show,

Chong saw the bears as brothers and used

that dynamic to shape their personalities.

Grizz, the oldest, is super outgoing.

Panda, the middle child, is more introverted and emotional.

Ice bear is the youngest child that no one understands,

but is still the best character.

Like, I get it, I'm definitely seeing more of myself

in Panda, but Ice Bear is the best character.

Number 13, their status as brothers was a bi-product

of the stack Chong has always drawn them in.

Grizz on top, Ice Bear on bottom,

with Panda logically in the middle.

Except in the episode, Up Top.

Number 14, while Chong has based the personalities

of all three bears on different aspects of

his own personality, he says Panda is

the closest to himself in real life.

He can't choose a favorite bear, though.

Number 15, Chong's comedic and artistic style

was influenced by The Wrong Trousers,

and Peanut shorts, the comic strips

Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, and Garfield,

and the Winnie the Pooh book series.

That's a lot of influences.

I definitely see the Peanuts, though.

Number 16, for the show's aesthetic,

Chong wanted it to feel natural, as if real media

was being used even though it was created digitally.

As a result, many of the lines are soft and rounded

and the background are colored with a watercolor appearance.

Number 17, the theme song is sung by

Grammy Award winning singer Estelle,

who also coincidentally voices Garnet on Steven Universe.

Number 18, if you look closely at the intro,

the gold phone Grizz uses to take the selfie is different

from the black one which shows up in the series title card.

But if we're taking this literally, I guess the title

wouldn't have been photographed either.

Number 19, during the show's intro, Ice Bear can be

seen waving and wearing a crown, lipstick,

and a sash that says, "HONORABLE MENTION".

However, Steve Harvey accidentally

said that he was the winner.

Number 20, ever wondered who makes those catchy songs?

The lyrics are written by Chong and the music is composed

by Brad Breeck who also composes for Gravity Falls.

Most of the songs from the show are also available

for blissful listening on Breech's SoundCloud.

If you're listening Brad, I'd really like

an version of Fury Heart because

I am a sucker for 80s montage music.

Number 21, the music of We Bare Bears

frequently parodies popular music, especially rap and pop.

Who can forget the resulting hits

such as Step Off Playa and Fro-Yo Song.

Again, I'm a fan of Fury Hearts and will not be dissuaded.

Number 22, Grizz is voiced by Eric Edelstein,

who also voices Chad in Clarence,

and he's played an ill-fated padlock supervisor

in Jurassic World who gets eaten by a dinosaur.

Number 23, Edelstein practiced his voice acting skills

when he was a preteen by prank calling

a radio station in Portland.

Some people have a voice for radio,

and some people have a voice for pranking radio.

Number 24, Edelstein has admitted that

his personality is incredibly similar to Grizz's.

He once joked, "Look at me, I'm a bear in real life

"and now I'm finally getting paid for it."

Number 25, Edelstein has an actual jean jacket

with a tiger on the back.

No word if it brings him super luck, though.

Number 26, Sam Lavagnino, the voice of Baby Grizz,

is also the voice of Catbug from Bravest Warriors.

(laughing)

Number 27, the voice behind the adorable

Panda is Bobby Moynihan, who is also

a comedian on Saturday Night Live.

Number 28, Moynihan loves how both kids

and adults can enjoy We Bare Bears,

and his mother also approves.

Number 29, Moynihan has remarked that

his personality is similar to his character's,

except he's not quite as sensitive

and technologically inclined.

Does that mean he can draw like Panda can draw?

I want to see a drawing by Bobby Moynihan.

Number 30, Baby Panda is played

by the adorable Duncan Joiner.

Number 31, Ice Bear is voiced

by stand-up comedian Demetri Martin.

Martin is famous for being an endearingly awkward comedian,

so we feel this is the perfect casting.

Number 32, baby Ice Bear never speaks.

He communicates through action,

and also a mechanical talking fish.

Number 33, this show is one of

Cartoon Network's most recent additions.

The first episode aired on July 27th, 2015,

and people were basically asking for

107 facts July 28th, 2015.

Number 34, Chong is a huge basketball fan.

That's why the very first scene in the first episode

is of the bears playing in the park and losing horribly.

They get one basket, though.

Number 35, Panda's phone is his most prized possession

and it makes an appearance in almost every episode.

He says, "It's his life and soul in rectangular form."

Panda speaks for most of the millennials on this one.

- Be careful with this, please?

It is my life and soul in rectangular form.

- [Voiceover] Number 36, Chong thinks one of the most

relateable moments in the shows still early history

is in Viral Video, where Grizz makes a video

and spends the night in front of the computer

desperately clicking and re-clicking refresh.

I certainly know the feeling. I also know the feeling

of the first comment you see being a negative one.

Number 37, YouTube in the We Bare Bear's

universe is called Everyone's Tube.

Number 38, one of the most famous internet celebrities

in We Bare Bear is Nom Nom, the koala.

Nom Nom's video, "Koala eats Leaf, Wow"

has 50,000,000 views.

While impressive, this may be slightly unrealistic

because the real life adorable video of a baby koala

eating leaves has only 155,000 views.

Hey everyone, taking a quick break from We Bare Bear facts

to let you know what's coming up next week.

So on Tuesday on Cartoon Hangover,

we have 107 facts about the Spiderman animated series.

Then on Thursday on channel Frederator we have

107 more facts about Steven Universe, because it turns out

that you people really love Steven Universe.

And with that, back to We Bare Bears.

Number 39, Nom Nom is voiced by Patton Oswalt.

Number 40, Grizzly loves salmon bagels more

than almost any other food and actual salmon

is a major part of a grizzly bear's diet,

which might just be because salmon tastes really good.

I don't know if that's a bear thing

or just a salmon is really good thing.

Number 41, the bears find a good friend in Chloe,

a prodigy attending college, but who feels more comfortable

with the bears than with her classmates,

which is fair because if you're not in college,

relating to college students is actually pretty difficult.

Number 42, in the show Chloe's age is never defined.

The show's staff has explained that she doesn't have a

specific age, but is between 10 and 12 years old.

Number 43, Charlyne Ye, the voice of Chloe,

is also Ruby from Steven Universe.

Number 44, after observing the bears habits,

she recognizes that Panda's diet

mainly consists of ramen and more ramen,

but that could be different kinds of ramen to be fair.

Number 45, when slowed down, the error screen that appears

at the end of Chloe's presentation says the following,

"Something is messed up, too many flame GIF's,

"way too many, overload, really don't know what to do here.

"This program is like for nine year olds.

"Whatever you did, you should not have done that."

Number 46, Yo Date, the dating app

that Panda uses is a parody of Tinder.

Number 47, at the end of the episode Chloe,

the bears and Chloe watch a TV show

that is a reference to the Peanuts.

Like we mentioned earlier, Peanuts was

a huge influence for Chong.

Number 48, the song Girl Be Sellin' Sunshine

featured in the episode, Panda's Date,

is the first song in the series sung by one of the bears.

Number 49, Lucy from the farmers market

is voiced by the very funny Ellie Kemper.

Number 50, who says that bears don't need corrected vision?

Panda has terrible eyesight and wears contact lenses.

Number 51, on Panda's Facebook, he has 256 friends

at the beginning of the episode Everyday Bears.