Cartoon
CB Bears

Animal

Outfit: fedora / rubber gloves / dress shirt / Gary Larson's eyeballs

Tagline: "breaker breaker" something something "over, that's a big 10-4 good buddy, the 1970s"

Plot summary: "Hustle" and the Citizens Band Radio Bears come very close to dethroning Jabberjaw (the great white shark who sounds like Curly but does Rodney Dangerfield material while playing drums in a band called "The Neptunes" and solves mysteries underwater in the future) as the most ridiculous, unbelievable character description in Hanna-Barbaric lore. Hustle (named after the dance "the hustle" from the 70s) and his bear friends use CB radio (a device from the 70s) to communicate with "Charlie" from Charlies Angels (a television show from the 70s), who is now a sexy-voiced woman that sends them off on missions to solve mysteries (every cartoon from the 70s), which is weird because the CB Bears are garbage men (what) who drive around in a garbage truck and, if I'm reading the opening credits correctly, LIVE IN THE GARBAGE CAN.

God, I hope I'm never involved in a mystery so complex that it requires the services of bears that a woman has put in a garbage truck and driven over to my house. Hustle was voiced by Monster General Daws Butler, whose decision to "voice act" by just doing an impression of a celebrity (Phil Silvers) set the precedent for the following and preceding twenty years of Hanna-Barbera animation. (more)

User Comments: At first I was shoot shook by the CB Bears wearing rubber gloves, especially when one of them has a garbage can lid for a hat and nobody is wearing pants. But I guess when you're a garbage bear you've got to wear rubber gloves or else you'll get the trash all over your hands. Haha, that's the best sentence I've ever written.

It's like this cartoon was originally going to be THE GARBAGE PAIL BEARS or something and the CB craze of the 70s hit, and it was easier to just animate sequences where they're in the front seat talking on the CB than it was to make a whole new show about it. The new show could've had "Pig Pen" the pig and "Rubber Duck" the duck hauling hogs, running from the cops, and playing non-threatening tamborine-fueled rock music with eleven long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse microbus. "Sod Buster" could've shown up as a butt-fucking gorilla in a painters cap that sounds like Paul Lynde.

User Rating: 5.8/10 (1,977 votes)