Awesome / The Berenstain Bears

• Sister beating a bully by herself after being coached by Brother.
• Papa diffusing Mama and the cubs' room-cleaning dilemma in "The Messy Room".
• Brother Bear winning a full-court basketball match against Too-Tall and his gang, because they have been smoking and are unhealthy.
• In Gotta Dance!, Brother Bear uses what he learned in ballet class to dump Too-Tall Grizzly in a dumpster.
• In The Wheelchair Commando, Brother stands up for Harry against Too-Tall, to which Harry responds by mocking Brother about only helping him because he's a "cripple". Brother proceeds to give Harry a short but powerful "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how he'd do that for anyone that was being bullied by Too-Tall, which several bystanders confirm, complete with a story about Brother beating the stuffing out of Too-Tall, before tossing him in a dumpster for hassling Sister's ballet class (The Gotta Dance! example above). Harry is shocked and apologizes for his prejudice, which Brother, in a second moment of awesome, accepts.
• In The Dress Code, F.R.E.E.S., the students challenging the school dress code, go into a debate against B.O.R.E., the adults and school faculty in favor of the dress code. Instead of saying anything, however, F.R.E.E.S. just shows off some pictures of the wild fashions Papa Bear, Miss Glitch, and Vice-Principal Grizzmeyer, the B.O.R.E. debaters, wore in their younger days. This embarrasses them so much that they yield the debate, giving F.R.E.E.S. the win without them saying a word.
• In The Berenstain Bears and No Guns Allowed, Too-Tall tries to humiliate Ferdy on the day they have to present by squirting him with a water pistol. Everyone is at first worried because the pistol looks like a rifle and Bonnie even calls her father Chief Bruin in a panic. They start laughing in relief after seeing a drenched Ferdy. Then Ferdy reveals the rubberband gun and with a Grin of Audacity, according to the page images, fires accurately at Too-Tall who yelps. The police confiscate the water pistol and give Too-Tall a warning, saying that it's all fun and games until kids get scared for real.
• The cubs defusing a Feuding Families scenario by a brilliantly acted rendition of Romeo and Juliet in New Girl in Town.
• Ferdy Factual, despite being known as "Nerdy Ferdy," gets several awesome moments in the Big Chapter Books.
  • In The Nerdy Nephew, he manages to memorize the rules for football in a night.
  • In The Dress Code, he's the one who convinces the other students to launch their strike against the Dress Code.
  • In The Haunted Hayride, he uses a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax for a good cause and uses a hologram projector and a voice synthesizer to convince Farmer Ben to allow the festival that can (and does) save his farm from bankruptcy.
  • In The Perfect Crime (Almost), he's able to notice at a glance that there's something wrong with the document they had displayed, and with a little time to investigate he figures out that the document has been switched out for a forgery.
• Milton Chubb in his appearance in The Date Match is normally a Gentle Giant. But then Too-Tall and his gang insult his crush, Bertha Broom. He hits his Rage Breaking Point and lifts all four members of the Too-Tall Gang by their collars, throws them on the ground, and crushes them with a running splash that he called "The Pancake." Too-Tall is so intimidated that he goes out of his way to avoid Milton, even forfeiting his spot on the wrestling team when Milton loses enough weight to get into the Light-Heavyweight class.
• Papa accidentally winning the strongest bear competition against Two Ton Grizzly in the 1980s cartoon episode "Ring the Bell" after getting stung by some bees.
• In one of the books, Sister is cast as the lead in a school play and spends a good deal of time being nervous while Brother, who only has a single line, taunts her over her stage fright. Papa and Mama coach her in what she needs to do with the Boring, but Practical solution: Practice, practice, practice! She takes the time to memorize her lines, practices in front of her mirror, stuffed animals, friends, and family. By the time of the performance, she's overcome her stage fright and even has to coach Brother, who had done nothing to prepare and ended up with stage fright himself, to deliver his one line.