Papa Bear is having a hard time

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Movie
Original title A Bear for Punishment
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1951
length 6:59 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Chuck Jones
script Michael Maltese
production Chuck Jones
synchronization

Papa Bear hat's mighty hard ( Engl. Title A Bear for Punishment ) is an approximately 7-minute animated film of Warner Brothers Studios from the year 1951. He is English, the third and last part of the cartoon series "The Three Bears." ( The Three Bears ). Papa Bear Has It Mighty Difficult was distributed on VHS cassette for a while, but was taken off the shelves and even from the TV programs because the acts are too violent.

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It 's Father's Day , but the only one happy about it is Junyer . Henry (usually just called Pa ' ), on the other hand, is extremely irritable when he wakes up, while Ma' half-heartedly tries to appease Pa '. Most of all it annoys Pa 'that Junyer of all people wants to “really spoil” his father. Because the son is incredibly clumsy and difficult to understand and so soon one catastrophe chases the next: breakfast lands on Pa's head, while shaving he is almost beheaded ( off-camera ) and instead of tobacco Junyer stuffs gunpowder into Papa's pipe. To top it off, Pa 'is forced to watch a bizarre dance and show performed by Ma' and Junyer, the theme song of which is about how "great" dad is. The episode ends with Pa ' dressed like the Statue of Liberty and staring at the camera with a traumatized look.

Characters

  • Henry Bear: is usually only addressed as Pa ' , he is the head of the family. Henry has the shortest stature and always wears a green t-shirt . He is downright choleric , sometimes even violent. He only takes his frustration out on Junyer, he likes to yell at his wife or to order her around. This behavior of an “ archaic head of the family”, which is not uncommon for cartoon characters from the 1960s, has led to criticism of the series, especially in younger years.
  • Mother Bear: remains nameless in all three parts of the series and is consistently addressed as Ma ' . She always wears a pink cap on her head and a royal blue one-piece. Her trademark is her resigned, bored expression on her face that really never changes. She met Henry's outbursts of anger consistently with a mixture of half-hearted attempts at appeasement and ignorance . Your objections and comments always begin with: "But Henry ...". However, she seems very attached to Junyer and spoils him.
  • Junyer: is the only child in the family. Although physically the largest of the Three Bears and believed to be of legal age, it appears to have stopped at the age and maturity of a child. He's actually still wearing diapers. His mental deficit is also noticeable in his behavior: he is clumsy, but enthusiastic and naive and whatever Henry tells him, Junyer tries to do it conscientiously. However, his ventures fail either because of his strength (which is completely atypical for his age) or because of Henry's impatience.

backgrounds

Papa Bear has had a tough time on October 20, 1951 in cooperation with Vitaphone Corp. produced and first broadcast in the same year. The episode has been copyrighted since it first aired . Producer was Chuck Jones , screenwriter was Michael Maltese . The synchronization was done by Bea Benaderet , Billy Bletcher and Stan Freberg . The cartoon series "The Three Bears" is more or less loosely based on the children's fairy tale of the same name " Goldilocks and the Three Bears " by Robert Southey from 1837. However, the series has been repeatedly criticized because some of the acts are too violent and therefore unsuitable for children are. The episode Papa Bear Has It Mighty Difficulty was available on VHS for some time (along with other animated films from the Warner Bros. Studios Merrie Melodies series ), but it was withdrawn from the TV program due to sharp criticism. Today all three episodes are available on BluRay and DVD .

The characters' names and ways of speaking have a strong southern accent: "Junyer" is a slang-related, deliberate misspelling of "Junior", while "Ma '" and "Pa'" are short forms for "Mama" and "Papa" .

literature

  • Michael Samerdyke: Cartoon Carnival: A Critical Guide to the Best Cartoons from Warner Brothers, MGM, Walter Lantz and DePatie-Freleng . Lulu-Press, 2014, ISBN 9781312470071 , pp. 106-107.

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