Oh hey! Guess what? The fucking images are being shitty again. I had to reset my computer AGAIN. It's really truly wonderful how we are pretty much being forced to use YouTube and twitter and just social media because no one wants to fix the problems with websites like Blogger or Blogspot or anything. Fucking delightful. Gosh darn wonderful. I love it. Is it wrong to just want a small, fun, non-toxic area of the internet to enjoy? I just want to talk about comic books and old tv shows and the Care Bears Thanksgiving Surprise. Is that too much to ask for a person? I really don't believe so. I don't want to use Twitter because it seems just about everyone on it is a toxic bastard and I don't want to use YouTube because if I say something wrong I'll be crucified and by wrong I mean "I don't care about Lord of the Rings and probably will never see the Peter Jackson movies in my lifetime". I'm sorry I don't feel like getting treated like garbage because I don't care about Hobbits.
So what is this whole thing about, yeah It's been a while. four years in fact since I used this thing. This was at first a place for me to review weird old Holiday specials, then I changed it around to discuss failed pilots.........and holiday specials. of the nine of these I've done eight of them are Holiday specials. I promise I'll have something that isn't a holiday special next time. Maybe. If you are lucky. I will not wait another four years to do #10. That I promise, so I have until November 26th, 2029 to write another one of these. Let's hope I can keep to that promise. I will probably let you down, as I usually do. Sorry.
So did you know there are like hundreds of Thanksgiving specials. I did not realize this. I seriously thought the Thanksgiving specials were like Charlie Brown, Garfield and for some reason only God knows B.C. I was wrong though. It seems every TV show in the 1980s and 1990s had a Thanksgiving episode. Beverly Hills 90201 had SEVERAL thanksgiving episodes. Seriously. I kinda want to watch them now. I went with this one because it was one of the few I could remember. It's a wild time and I have to show you people it. Gram's Bear Thanksgiving Surprise was the 13th episode of the First season of the second Care Bears cartoon. The one with Beastly and Shrieky and No Heart instead of Frostbite and Professor Coldheart. I know way too much about the Care Bears. It's kind of disturbing honestly.
It was written by John de Klein, a man who was an animator for Nelvana. He also was a wrtier for them too. He wrote episodes of Babar, Tales of the Cryptkeeper and direct to VHS Madballs specials. Yes, they had Madballs cartoons. Two of them at least. Animated in my country and voiced by my countrymen. No I haven't seen them but I really will soon. I will probably put them in this category even though I do not think they appeared on TV. He also wrote the scripts to cinematic classics such as Babar the Movie and Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland. His last work was in 2013. I hope John is doing well!
The episode starts off with Brave Heart Lion and Playful Heart Monkey (I just realized like every Care Bear Cousin has Heart in their name. I am not a very observant human being.) getting apples out of a tree for the Thanksgiving Harvest. I suppose these apples will be made into Happy Apple Pies by Gram's Bear. She is coming in to Care A Lot from uh...Upstate New York. Yeah, that'll do it. Gram's Bear lives in Batavia most of the time. Sounds good! Anyway Tenderheart brings Hugs and Tugs back to Care-A-Lot from the Forest of Feelings. I love these names! Tenderheart on his way sees Share Bear who is going to earth to help a boy named Tony work on his Thanksgiving Speech. Yeah, Tony needs to write a speech about what Thanksgiving is all about!
This is our villain for the piece. His name is Sour Sam. He looks way too much like me for me to be comfortable. He wants to feed everyone in the town Crabby Apple Pies (I swear Share Bear calls them CRAPPY apple pies though) so that they will be grumpy and gassy and unpleasant to be around. I like his Chefs hat. Anyway this is the one and only time Sour Sam shows up. I like random one off villains that showed up because someone didn't want to find a way to jam the regular shows bad guys into their script. So the Mayor comes by and just takes a Crabby Apple Pie and just eats a giant piece out of the pie and then throws it away screaming EVERYTHING IS AWFUL. Yeah, Mr. Mayor in the 21st Century just about Everything is awful. 1986 had us pegged.
Everyone back at Care A Lot is rocking the hell out doing their chores. Cleaning up the room. You see Good Luck Bear, Cheer Bear, Lottsa Heart Elephant and Yellow Bear. I do not know what Yellow Bear's actual name is. Sorry. Ask the admins of the Care Bear Wikia. I have SOME dignity left! Tenderheart is all like GRAMS BEAR IS OLD AND WILL JUST DO OLD PEOPLE THINGS. However she shows him up by FLYING IN FAST AS FUCK on her scooter. This bear ain't no lazy bum! She's got energy for 10 Care Bears! She also has a high amount of what I like to call Lesbian Energy. My headcanon is that Grams Bear is an old lesbian. I don't see no Gramps Bear! Grams Bear goes inside and guess what STARTS ROCKIN OUT TO THE MUSIC. Tenderheart can go get FUCKED.
Share Bear and Tony are finding it very weird out. People just yelling at them. Doors being slammed a guy going I DONT CARE ABOUT ANYONE OR ANYTHING. Wow I didn't know Qix's dad moved into town! They learn from the Mayor that Thanksgiving has been CANCELLED. They Mayor called it off!! Tenderheart being the SHITHEAD that he is just complains about Grams Bear having fun. She's now MAKING the music rocking on on a Care Bear geeeeeetaur. The Care Bears get a message from Share Bear and they all go to the town, except fot Grams Bear and Hugs and Tugs. They will stay home and make Tacos. Grams Bear's voice actor says Tacos in the weirdest way humanly possible.
While they search the town to see whats up, Sour Sam puts pieces of Crabby Apple Pies all over the place. Like on the seats of swings or even on the ground. I would not eat Pie I just saw laying around on the ground. It's not even on a damn paper plate! Sour Sam should invest some of his money into these evil schemes if he really wants to make the planet crabby. Anyway he turns all of the Care Bears into crabby assholes. Grams Bear is cooking with Hugs and Tugs and realizes that they have been away for quite some time. She decides to take them down to the small town where all this crazy shit is going on.
Grams Bear shows up and it seems she and Sour Sam have some history together. Grams Bear must have stopped several of his plots over the years. Anyway Grams Bear, Share Bear, Hugs and Tugs and TONY GABBAGOOL (thats what I imagine his last name is) are left to stop Sour Sam. Hugs and Tugs go to eat some Crabby Apple Pie that';s just laying in the grass and Grams Bear stops them. She tastes a little bit and then goes JUST AS I THOUGHT CRABBY APPLE PIE. Grams Bear gets Tenderheart to eat some HAPPY APPLE PIE which will turn them back into their usual old cheerful selves. However they didn't look BEHIND THEM because Sour Sam got into his PIES truck and used a claw to grab Grams Bear. Oh no!
Share Bear, Tony, Hugs and Tugs just chase after Grams Bear and Sour Sam on her scooter. Tenderheart the DUNCE chases after Share Bear. I like this episode because he takes the STARCH outta Tenderheart's shirt. The red bastard. HE'S PROBABLY A COMMIE TOO. Anyway Share Bear and them crash and we then go to Sour Sam's hideout. Sour Sam asks Grams Bear if she'd like to see his set up and all she says is she'd like to see him behind bars. Grams Bear is hardcore. I'm not really sure if turning people crabby is actually something you can go to jail for. I don't think we have laws against world takeovers.
Sour Sam gets Grams Bear into a pie tray (after she threw several happy apple tarts at him. I like to think she has them on her at all times, just in case) and is about to turn her into a Crabby Apple Grams Bear Pie! Share Bear shows up and does the old CARE BEAR STARE and Sour Sam jumps out of the way of the Pie Making Machine. The Stare hits the Pie making machine and does nothing. However Sour Sam jumps into his Pie Throwing Machine and tries to hit Share Bear with it. Tony ends up saving Grams Bear in the nick of time. Tony Gabbagool is our hero! Now they have to stop the Pie throwing machine. Tenderheart gets hit by one lol. Then Grams Bear is all like ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT and just uses her Care Bear Stare to shove several pies back into the machine causing it to explode sending Sour Sam in to a pie tin. He gets turn into a HAPPY APPLE PIE. He is now switching from being very giddy and happy to being a grumpy dickhead.
Tenderheart asks Grams Bear if they can make enough Happy Apple Pies to help the town again and she says theres not enough time. So It's all up to Tony and his speech. HIS SPEECH ABOUT THANKSGIVING THAT IS SO POWERFUL he turns everyone back into being happy, even Qix's dad! TONY SAVED THE DAY! The Care Bears fly off with Sour Sam's Pies Truck I guess as a souvenir of some kind. Now remember not to eat any Crabby Apple Pies this Thanksgiving!
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