Bear in the Big Blue House

The gentle, soft title character of Bear in the Big Blue house is a talking, six-foot, light brown bear who lives in a house and loves to help children learn. Despite his enormous size, Bear is child-friendly, teaching them his favorite pastimes. He addresses the kids at home directly, talking to them as if they were all his close friends. Bear in the Big Blue House was created for the very young, teaching concepts like shapes, gravity, helping, seasons, and even toilet training. Joining the ever-curious Bear are an assortment of woodland creatures — excitable lemur Treelo, headstrong mouse Tutter, peppy otter twins Pip and Pop and imaginative little bear cub Ojo — all of whom help illustrate the day’s lesson. At the end of every episode, Bear goes out on his balcony to talk about what everyone has learned with his friend Luna, the wise moon. He then retires to bed with a great big smile.

Bear interweaves learning with playtime. After the musical call, "Where oh where oh where is Shadow?", Bear's friend Shadow appears. She then will tell Bear a story in musical form, relating to the episodes theme, played out with shadow puppets. Sometimes on certain episodes, There is a song; either called "Clean up the House!" or "Everybody in the Tub" that has nothing to do with the topic of the episode; just to add a little more music.