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Ferret Jeter - my kids have watched this on DVD a zillion times and I still get a chuckle out of that one. Great kids show.

My younger two LOVED Bear. In fact until he started really speaking, my youngest used "bear eyebrows" for yes. It was the most adorable thing. I hope they release all of the shows to DVD, but I would have to agree the early ones are the best

I was already skirting 40 when this show premiered, but I admire nearly ANYTHING that the Hensons produce! The only thing I can't stand is that "Bear Cha-Cha-Cha!" I'm old enough to remember the fad, and that's definitely NOT cha-cha rhythm.

Oh, by the way, I love Bear's "cha cha cha" I think it's ghetto.

Bear In The Big Blue House rocks.

this show scared me when i was young

It jumped when Bear exposed his ball-sack for the TV audience. Kind of nasty for kids to think he goes to the bathroom out of that thing. Maybe he can have a kid with Tutter or Luna?

I don't know if I'd say it's jumped the shark, but that mouse "tutter" is so freaking annoying!

My son loves it though, so what can I say. I have to watch it.

My two-year old son and I still love old shows of BITBBH but when the show spread to going all over Woodland Valley and adding a bunch of characters, it got a bit tedious. And the special guest star Whoopi Goldberg episode was especially annoying and dull. They should have stayed with the basics.

BiBBH jumped when they left the confines of the Big Blue house and set about all of Woodland Valley, and added a bunch of uninteresting, add-nothing characters.

This show is amazing. I love it more than my 17 month old son. I think I'm in love with Bear!

Any time Whoopi Goldberg shows up, you know that something bad is happening (e.g., ST:TNG). That being said, all I can say now is, "The name of the mouse is 'Tutter'?" Wow. I thought it was "Cutter", which conjured up two unusual images in my mind. The first is "Cheese-Cutter", which seems appropriate for a mouse but is fraught with a rather foul reputation. The other is from the movie "Mad Max" and the character of the Toe-Cutter. If Tutter over showed up with one eyebrow shaved off, I'd have lost it.

I heard that the lady who provided the voice of Luna(the moon) on Bear in the Big Blue House had just died this year. That would be a pretty good reason for this show to jump the shark,for Luna could never be replaced.

This is the show, if I had kids, that I would want them to watch. Bear and his friends don't dumb themselves down for kids, and teach great lessons about responsibility that I wish I had seen when I was a kid! Also, for some strange reason, I sometimes feel like Andy Kaufman is in that big bear suit, because Bear sometimes acts wonderfully neurotic, and everything seems slightly off-kilter, but it is all still funny and heartwarming.

This show is the best children's show on television today. Like Sesame Street in its heyday(70's-mid 90-s), it is neither patronizing or insulting to children, and treats its young viewers as actual thinking people. This is in stark contrast to Barney, Teletubbies and the Elmo-dominated Sesame Street, all of which seem interested in children only as unintelligent, uninspired, non-thinking, non-creative consumers. Every generation of young people seem to have one specific show they, as adults, look back on most fondly: 1950's-Howdy Doody 1960's/70's-Captain Kangaroo 1970's/80's-Sesame Street. I think Bear in the Big Blue House could or should be this type of show for today's young people. Just about every child, no matter how much of a fan of Barney, Teletubbies or Elmo they might have been prior to age 4 eventually grow out of it and begin to see how incredibly stupid and mindless these shows are, but this is not the case with the Bear. Also, the music on the Bear is far superior to any of the other shows. The song the Bear and the Moon sing to end the show is, in my opinion, the best (and catchiest!) children's song to come along since the original Sesame Street theme. Goodbye, Goodbye...