Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears was a
cartoon that was aired in the
United States and other countries in the mid-to-late-
1980s. The show was made by
The Walt Disney Company and premiered on
NBC on
September 14,
1985. It was inspired by the
gummy bear candies. There are 65 episodes.
The main characters were seven anthropomorphic bears, although some human characters also featured. The series is set in medieval times in the once populous Gummi Glen; the main Gummies' neighborhood is inhabited only by seven gummies. The world has other gummies. Great Gummies are refugees elsewhere awaiting a signal to return. Other gummies live in Ursalia. Allies of the gummies are the people of Dunwyn (King Gregor, Princess Cala, Cavin). Their nemesis is Duke Igthorn, who aims, with the aid of ogres to rule Dunwyn.
The theme song, Bouncing here and there and everywhere was written by Michael and Patty Silversher.
The Gummi Bears gained their ability to bounce by drinking Gummiberry Juice. If the juice was consumed by humans, they would (temporarily) gain superhuman strength and for this reason, the bears kept the recipe secret. A fruit juice drink called Gummiberry juice was for a short while retailed in England, and possibly other places.
The Gummies
The seven gummies who live in Gummi Glen are:
- Gruffi - the every-job-gummi
- Zummi - a magician who casts a lot of spells that don't always work the way he wants them to.
- Grammi - matriarch of the Gummi clan, she cooks and cleans and tells the younger Gummi Bears what to do.
- Tummi - the always hungry gummi, notorious for his persistent hunger and apparent unintelligence.
- Sunni - "token teenager" of the bunch who often rebels against the clan but she learns her lessons eventually.
- Cubbi - the youngest gummi, he is always looking for adventure which usually gets him in trouble, but he learns from his mistakes.
- Gusto - the artistic gummi, he is a hermit who lives on a mountain with his pet toucan Arte Deco. Gusto is an artist who is very creative. He sometimes goes to Gummi Glen to visit the rest of the Gummis. Unlike the rest of the Gummis he doesn't appear too often on the show.
Episodes
- A New Beginning (22min)
- A Gummi In A Gilded cage (22min)
- Sweet And Sour Gruffi (11min)
- Little Bears Lost (11min)
- A Recipe for Trouble (11min)
- Gummi in a Strange Land (11min)
- A Gummi A Day Keeps The Doctor Away (11min)
- Duel of the Wizards (11min)
- Do Unto Ogres (11min)
- Loopie Go Home (11min)
- Wings Over Dunwyn (22min)
- Never Give A Gummi An Even Break (11min)
- The Sinister Sculptor (11min)
- A Gummi By Any Other Name (22min)
- The Secret of the Juice (22min)
- Night of the Gargoyle (11min)
- Can I keep him (11min)
- The Oracle (11min)
- Someday my prints will come (11min)
- Toadie's Wild Ride (11min)
- The Fence Sitter (11min)
- Zummi Makes It Hot (11min)
- My Kingdom For A Pie (11min)
- Light Makes Right 22min
- For a Few Sovereigns More (11min)
- Over the River and Through the Trolls (11min)
- If I Were You (11min)
- Faster Than a Speeding Tummi (11min)
- Up, Up, And Away (22min)
- The Crimson Avenger (22min)
- My Gummi Lies Over The Ocean (22min)
- Color Me Gummi (11min)
- Gummi Dearest (11min)
- You Snooze, You Lose (11min)
- Good Neighbor Gummi (11min)
- Bubble Trouble (11min)
- Close Encounters of a Gummi Kind (11min)
- For Whom The Spell Holds (22min)
- A Hard Dazed Knight (11min)
- Mirthy Me (11min)
- The Knights of Gummadoon (22min)
- Just a Tad Smarter (11min)
- Too Many Cooks (11min)
- Gummies Just Want To Have Fun (22min)
- Eye of the Beholder (22min)
- Day of the Beevilweevils (22min)
- Gummi's at sea (22min)
- Girls Knight out (11min)
- Guess Who's Gumming to Dinner (11min)
- Music Hath Charms (11min)
- A Tree Grows in Dunwyn (11min)
- The Crimson Avenger Strikes Again (11min)
- There's No Place Like Home (11min)
- Zummi in Slumberland (11min)
- Tummi's Last Stand (11min)
- Ogre Baby Boom (11min)
- Water Way To Go (11min)
- He Who Laughs Last (22min)
- Dress for Success (11min)
- Presto Gummo (11min)
- Top Gum (22min)
- A Knight to Remember (11min)
- Snows Your Old Man (11min)
- Friar Tum (11min)
- The White Knight (11min)
- The Magnificent Seven Gummies (22min)
- Ogre For a Day (22min)
- Princess Problems (11min)
- Boggling The Bears (11min)
- The Road to Ursalia (22min)
- What You See Is Me (11min)
- Bridge Over The River Gummi (11min)
- A Gummi Is a Gummi's Best Friend (11min)
- When You Wish Upon a Stone (11min)
- Return to Ursalia (22min)
- Life of the Party (11min)
- The World According To Gusto (11min)
- Let Sleeping Giants Lie (11min)
- A-Hunting We Will go (11min)
- Once More The Crimson Avenger (22min)
- Tuxford's Turnaround (22min)
- Thornberry To The Rescue (22min)
- True Gritty (22min)
- Rocking Chair Bear (22min)
- Patchwork Gummi (22min)
- Trading Faces (22min)
- May The Best Princess Win (22min)
- The Rite Stuff (22min)
- Toadie The Conqueror (22min)
- A Gummi's Work Is Never Done (22min)
- King Igthorn part 1 & 2 (44min)
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