Care Bears

The Care Bears are a set of characters created by American Greetings in 1981 for use on greeting cards. The original artwork for the cards was painted by artist Elena Kucharik. In 1983, Kenner took the characters and made the first in a line of very succesful teddy bears based of the Care Bears. Over 40 million units were sold between 1983 and

Miscellaneous

• In French-speaking countries, the Care Bears are referred to as Bisounours, roughly translating as kiss bears, from bisou () and nounours (teddy bear). However, French-speaking Quebec knows them as Les Calinours, or " bears".
• When the franchise was introduced in the 1980's, a mistake was made causing Bedtime Bear (blue) and Wish Bear (aqua) to swap colours. As soon as the mistake was discovered, the two bears returned into their appropriate hues, and later on a children's story was written explaining why.
• The term Care Bears was used as a fan base name for Carrie Underwood (the winner of 2005's American Idol). Coincidentally, she comes from Sigma Sigma Sigma, the same group where the cartoon's founder, Linda Denham, came from.
• The Latin American Spanish dub of the Care Bears is the most chaotic dub ever known, mainly because the movies and the TV series were dubbed in many countries by different cast members. (The movies were dubbed in Mexico, the first half of the Nelvana series was dubbed in Chile, the second half was dubbed in Venezuela and a new dubbed version, showing in the Latin American version of Cartoon Network's Boomerang channel, is now dubbed in Colombia. The Colombian dub is considered for being the worst Latin American Spanish dub of the Care Bears' TV series.