We Bare Bears: Food Truck Rewatch

August 23, 2015 11:01 PM - Season 1, Episode 3

The bears are unsatisfied with a visit to a local food truck and decide to start their own selling Ice Bear's calzones. Unfortunately they make the mistake of giving some to a nearby raccoon....
posted by JHarris (1 comment total)

• What is the ursine concept of money? When we see the bears pay for something, it tends to take the form of a pile of bills and coins thrown onto a counter. For that matter, how do the bears get money? How do they pay for electricity, for gas for their stove, for their food? This seems like a matter of greater concern here than in something like Steven Universe, where at least we know Steven's dad owns a business. In any event, it does look like the bears got bilked in their ramen taco transaction.
• DO NOT FEED THE WILDLIFE. Ah, hm, okay. I see.
• Ladies and gentlemen! Your questions are answered. We have it confirmed right here. BEARS KNOW HOW TO USE YELP. "One quarter-star!" "Why give them a quarter, they have to learn!" "Eh, I like the ambiance!" "Well, I'm not pulling any punches!" (typing) "Eat here if you hate... eating." (emoji emoji emoji emoji....)
• Grizz is an entertaining eater. Chomp chomp chomp!
• Where did they get the truck from? Apparently it was last registered in 1989. Ice Bear at least knows automotive repair, it seems.
• Their business is named CAL-ZONE, which is pretty clever seeing as how they're in California! The show is set in the environs of San Francisco, which is unusually precise for a show about bears trying to make it in the human world!
• No one even accepts a free sample?! Although I suppose I'd be iffy if a very large hairy animal came up to me and gave me something to eat, even if it was on the end of a fork and had come off a little plate.
• DO NOT FEED THE WILDLIFE. MINIMUM FINE $500. Umm, okay, I... I guess....
• If you give a raccoon a calzone, he's going to ask for a glass of milk? (By the way, isn't the lesson of that book don't give things to the needy, instead let them suffer and starve?)
• The local animal community is quick to spread the word about the bears' calzones. And to get money to exchange for them. I'm starting to see why that rule was enacted. Although....
• The scenes of the animals paying and getting served food are adorable.
• "Hey! What are you guys doing? You're driving away the customers!" But wait, you set your food trucks up in the woods, what do you expect? Man, human beings.
• There is a scene, when the camera scrolls by surveying the wild animal havoc, of a rabbit with a cup of coffee and EXTREMELY WIDE EYES. Guys, please don't give coffee to bunnies.
• In the first overhead shot of the guys and the bears on top of the truck, the animal population in that shot seems to be about 50% wolves for some reason.
• A fine for feeding the animals, for selling without a permit, for driving an unregistered truck, and for disturbing the peace. "Yeah, it's not like this is the first ticket we've ever gotten."
• And so, we and the bears learned a valuable lesson: DO NOT FEED THE WILDLIFE. Because... um, because....

WAIT WHAT ABOUT THE BEARS THEMSELVES THEYRE WILDLIFE DOESNT ANYONE SEE THAT WHAT IS WITH THESE PEOPLE WHAT PLACE DO THE BEARS HAVE IN THE HUMAN WORLD WHY IS EVERYONE NOT FREAKED OUT ABOUT THEM BUT STILL IS SO STANDOFFISH ANYWAY WHY DOESNT THE RAMEN TACO GUY GET FINED WHAT IS UP WITH THIS SHOW WHY I OUGHTTA........
posted by JHarris at 11:16 PM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]