A Bear for Punishment is a 1951 animated Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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 Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...

 cartoon released in 1951, featuring The Three Bears. That was the last cartoon of The Three Bears series. It was directed by Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...

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The DVD extras for this cartoon include Stan Freberg reminiscing about the cartoon and reciting part of Junior Bear's poem, "My Pa", in the bear's voice; a clip of Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...

 stating that Papa Bear's growling, "I HATE breakfast in bed!" was taken from his own experience as a father when his children would try to serve him on Father's Day

Father's Day

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The march, "Father", performed by Junior and Ma, is a special vocal written to the tune of "Frat", a long-standing Warner cartoon staple.

Censorship

• The ABC version of this cartoon edits the "Let's Give A Cheer for Father" song to remove the two times Ma and Junyer Bear fire off shotguns.
• Nickelodeon left in the gunfire in the "Let's Give A Cheer for Father" song, but edited two scenes:
  • Early in the cartoon, when Pa is trying to shut off Junyer Bear's alarm clock
    Alarm clock
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    s, he yells at Junyer, "How do you turn these blasted things off?!" Junyer shushes the clock
    Clock
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    s and they all stop. Rather than congratulate his son (or ask how he did that), Pa slams a clock
    Clock
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     in Junyer's face and Junyer is shown with a broken alarm clock
    Alarm clock
    An alarm clock is a clock that is designed to make a loud sound at a specific time. The primary use of these clocks is to awaken people from their night's sleep or short naps; they are sometimes used for other reminders as well. To stop the sound, a button or handle on the clock is pressed; but...
    
     for a face before it cuts to Ma saying, "But Henry..."
  • The scene where Junyer mistakes gunpowder for pipe tobacco by misspelling it ("'G-U-N-P-O-W-D-E-R'. Duh, 'tobacco'") and congratulating himself on being a good speller ("I am a good speller, I am. C-A-T, dog. B-A-T, Rhode Island
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