| Bear in the Big Blue House | |
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| Premiere | February 28, 1999 |
| Written by | Mitchell Kriegman |
| Director | Mitchell Kriegman |
| Theme | Potty |
Bear and Tutter are trying to have a fun game of checkers, while Ojo and Treelo are having their own fun playing. For some reason, though, everyone seems to be talking about the toilet and the bathroom. It all starts when Tutter needs to use the toilet during his game of checkers with Bear, but doesn't want to leave the checkers game. Bear assures him it will still be waiting for him. Tutter uses the bathroom and then washes his hands, stating that his Grandma Flutter taught him to. Later, Ojo has an accident and is very embarrassed, but Bear lets her know it's okay --- accidents can happen to anyone. When Pip and Pop hear about the day's events, they invite everyone to join their secret club --- The Mystic Order of the Toileteers, for everyone who uses, or is going to use the potty. In the Shadow segment, Shadow introduces a song with some new twists on the phrases "party party" and "potty training."
Songs[]
- Your Potty Chair
- Potty Potty
- The Toileteers
Gallery[]
Notes[]
- This episode was adapted in book form in 2000.
- Tutter's toilet is within just a few mouse feet of the hole itself.
- When a diaper appears after Bear states "When you're a baby, you wear a diaper," a brief instrumental riff of "Look at You Now" from "Ooh Baby, Baby" is played. It is also heard again later when Bear discusses this with Treelo.
- According to Mitchell Kriegman, this episode's writer/director and Bear in the Big Blue House showrunner, in this interview, the episode was created during a point at which Bear in the Big Blue House was so respected by Disney that he could "get away with murder." Despite this, he did not want to slip this episode by, so he specifically mentioned that it was being planned to Disney's executives, only for nobody to seem to care. After the rough cut of the episode had been made, he called up an executive and insisted that they needed to see it first. Upon seeing it, the executive panicked, stating it either couldn't air or that it had be neutered down so much that it basically wouldn't be what it was anymore. Backed up by his staff and educational experts, Kriegman finally convinced the brass to at least take the episode to test market. They did so and the episode received high ratings.
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