Bears Are Bad News / Western Animation

Watch out for bears... To them, you are spaghetti dinner.

— The main theme to Perfect Hair Forever

Bears Are Bad News in Western Animation.

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• 101 Dalmatians: The Series: Subverted in "Snow Bounders". Cruella and the pups stumble into a cave to get out of a blizzard only to be greeted by an angry bear ready to maul them. Cruella wasn't in the mood for any of that, and it only took a few mere moments before the bear ran away with fear. Played straight in the end of the episode when the bear found Horace and Jasper.
• [adult swim]: A Running Gag among many 11-minute animated comedies; the ones that happen to be related to each other by same way (usually creative staff). It started with an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast with Space Ghost brawling a bear; then became a prominent character in Perfect Hair Forever and spread from there.
  Granny: And then the Lord made bears. Lots of bears... too many bears. Should've dialed back on the bears... and so, he dialed back on the bears!
• Adventure Time crosses over this trope with Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking. In song.
  Billy! He's the greatest warrior ever, a hero of renown! Who slayed an evil ocean, who cast the Lich King down! [...] Also... He fought a bear!
  • Averted and then played straight with the bear in "In Your Footsteps", who unlike most characters, looks and acts mostly like an ordinary bear. Despite trying to ineptly copy Finn's voice, clothes, and mannerisms so he can be a hero too, he's shown to be harmless, none too bright, and misunderstood. At the end of the episode, however, he brings the book of heroes, the Enchiridion, to the evil Lich possessing a snail (although it could also be due to deception of The Lich's part).
• All Grown Up!: In the 3-part episode "R.V Having Fun Yet?", the gang encounter a bear. Luckily, they are saved by a dog that Kimi found during their cross-country road trip.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: There's a gang of bullies whose strongest and angriest member is a pink bear.
• American Dad!: In one episode, Stan has both his legs ripped off by a vicious polar bear, after being pushed in by the bear's tank by Roger, who wanted to save Stan and pretend to be a hero, so he'd let him move back in with him.
• Animaniacs: One episode has a skit with a Funny Animal type of bear, overcharging people for useless junk at his neighborhood Garage Sale. Then the Warners show up and start pestering him to sell them his actual garage.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: In "Vampiris", Frylock succeeds in eradicating all the killer vampires off the planet, though this, in turn, allowed a breed of steak-sauce craving bears to take over in their place. Shake then proclaims he made his own cure to the bear problem and covers himself in regular steak sauce. It goes well as he expected it.
• Babar:
  • Ursa Major and his polar bear pack in Land of Ice, who terrorize the neighboring penguins and refuse to negotiate when Babar and his family try to reason with them.
  • While the bear in A Charmed Life is neither evil nor threatening, the magical amulet he gives Babar is an Artifact of Doom that creates a Villain World in which Rataxes rules over Celesteville.
• Beavis and Butt-Head: On a camping trip, a bear mauls Mr. Van Driesen, and cuts his song about men's feelings to an abrupt halt — and it's the high point of the trip for Beavis, Butthead, and Stuart.
• Big City Greens: In the episode, “Bear Trapped,” a bear runs amok on Big City, with animal control set on tracking it down. Even though he’s never seen a bear before, Cricket still sees them as these horrible monsters, and becomes dead set of bringing it to justice. Then the kids find the bear, it actually turns out to be Beary Friendly. Even when the bear is seen alongside the kids, perfectly happy alongside each other, everyone else in Big City is still utterly horrified of the bear.
• Bonkers had the titular cartoon bobcat's co-star Grumbles Grizzly, who often played an antagonistic role in the Raw Toonage shorts, but is more of a grumpy neighbor during his few appearances in the actual series.
• Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot has one special example in the form of the series' villain, Grizzle. Even if he doesn't successfully hurt the Care Bears and does receive his dose of Karma at the end of each episode, he does still cause a considerable amount of collateral damage to Care-A-Lot indirectly.
• Catscratch has a bear for a recurring character. His most basic purpose is to make the cats' lives suck.
• Classic Disney Shorts: Some shorts pit a main character against a bear, either a generic bear (i.e., Mickey Mouse's encounter with one in "The Pointer") or, especially in the case of Donald Duck, a goofy-looking bear named Humphrey.
• Clerks: The Animated Series: Who is driving? Oh my god, bear is driving! How can that be?"
• Code Lyoko: In "Teddygodzilla", XANA brings Milia's teddy bear to life and turns it into a giant to attack the heroes.
• Danny Phantom just couldn't do with a regular bear, they had to make it a mutated ghostly one with four arms!.
• Darkwing Duck: In one episode, Darkwing takes Launchpad and Gosalynn on a camping trip, only for a very mean bear to be a persistent problem. When it finally turns violent, Darkwing decides to use his flamethrowing gas gun on it ("Hate to do this to an endangered species," says the hero) only to discover that the "bear" is actually a robot created by F.O.W.L. agents.
• Dennis the Menace:
  • "The Life You Save": Margaret becomes loyal to Dennis after he saves her life. Desperate to get Margaret out of his hair, Dennis tries to invoke this trope by disguising Ruff as a bear and having him chase him so Margaret will save him. Margaret doesn't fall for it, but the disguised Ruff attracts a real bear in a love-struck state, whom Margaret scares away with her dreadful singing.
  • "Circus Berserkus": Joey mistakes an escaped bear for a teddy bear. Mr. Wilson doesn't think it's real until he pulls its nose.
  • "Wheeling and Double-Dealing": Winston's lackeys disguise themselves as bears as part of their plan to stop Dennis and PeeBee from winning the perpeutal motion cross-country race. The two are then chased away by a real bear in a lovestruck state.
• Dilbert: Dogbert hosts a TV financial round-table. With 3 financial specialists and one drunken bear.
• The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town: One of the antagonists is Gadzooks, a mean bear who guards the pass between Kidville and Town, mugging any travelers for their food. The Bunny fools him by coloring his eggs and claiming they're colored paperweights. (Explaining why he does so from then on.) Gadzooks wises up eventually, but turns over a new leaf — and becomes a powerful ally — once the children of Kidsvile surprise him with a new Easter suit.
• Family Guy: OH MY GOD, THERE'S A BEAR IN MY OATMEAL!
• Felix the Cat (Joe Oriolo): Subverted in "Out West With Big Brownie". In it, Felix and Poindexter encounter Big Brownie, a giant brown bear who causes trouble for Felix, Poinsy and the ranch owner Bart at the start of the episode. But as Poindexter insists, it turns out Brownie isn't bad, just clumsy and misunderstood.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In one episode, after Bloo's makeshift beard of honey gets the gang chased around by a swarm of bees, Mac says the situation could have been worse had the honey attracted a bear. That immediately shows up before Mac even finished the sentence.
• Garfield and Friends: The Buddy Bears may not attack or maul anyone, but their presence inevitably makes things worse for Garfield anyway, especially if their theme song is any indication:
  Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, we always get along!
  Each day, we do a little dance and sing a little song!
  If you ever disagree, it means that you are WRONG!
  Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, WE ALWAYS GET ALONG!
  • Seriously, they can be downright sadistic sometimes. They once offered Garfield a whole table full of free food just to tempt him when he was trying to prove to Jon that he could go five minutes without eating.
  • There is another verse of their theme song which is doubly creepy:
    Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, we never have a fight!
    Anyone who disagrees is never, ever right!
    If you have a point of view, then keep it out of sight!
    Oh, we are the Buddy Bears, WE NEVER HAVE A FIGHT!
  • To which Garfield questions them...
    Garfield: But what about having an individual point of view?
    Bear 1: I have an individual point of view.
    Bear 2: And I agree with him.
    Bear 3: And I agree with both of them.
    All: We all have an individual point of view!
• Goof Troop has two straight examples and a subversion. The Christmas special and "Winter Blunder-land" both feature a bear as an actual threat to the characters. In "You Camp Take It with You", when Goofy and Pete take Max and PJ camping, there is another bear. Everyone except Max is worried the bear would or did eat the boys, but he turns out to be just another father trying to protect his son in the wilderness (though in this case he was a Talking Animal and his baby had a diaper). In the ending scene, he is significantly nicer than Pete and about as nice as Goofy.
• Gravity Falls: Dipper has to prove his manliness by killing the Multi-bear, mortal enemy of the Manotaurs. Despite being a powerful fighter, the Multi-bear turns out to be a Beary Friendly guy who likes listening to BABBA just like Dipper, and Dipper can't bring himself to do it.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
  • "Here Thar Be Dwarves!": During his camping trip, Billy comes across a disheveled, mangy-looking, and starving Yogi Bear who wants Billy to give him his basket of food so he and his equally undernourished nephew Bubu can eat something. Billy refuses and the furious Yogi chases him across the forest until the kid hides in a cave and taunts both bears because they can't get him there. In an example of Artistic License – Biology Played for Laughs, Yogi and Bubu lament being unable to keep pursuing Billy because bears are Dirty Cowards that hate going into caves. They both later turn up at Billy's singing performance, having seemingly made peace with him.
  • "Druid, Where's My Car?": Basil the druid teaches Grim and Billy how to achieve the forms of their inner animals by transforming into a grizzly. However, he immediately lets out a ferocious roar and starts tearing Grim apart until he comes to his senses, apologizes, and returns to his human form while explaining that those who transform into animals may experience "an unquenchable bloodlust".
• Hanna-Barbera ursine stars Yogi Bear, Breezly Bruin and The Hair Bear Bunch are usually bad news to their protagonists. Averted with the CB Bears, who are heroic. Two other notable exceptions are The Hillbilly Bears and Blubber Bear from Wacky Races.
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: Birdman is tasked with defending Boo Boo Bear, or as he's also known, "the Unibooboo".
  Phil Ken Sebben: He's a bear! Buster Brown and his Hairy Hollyknockers! Have you ever tried to bring one down?
  • May be an example of an Actor Allusion, as Phil's voice actor is Stephen Colbert.
  • Averted with... the bear, who mostly stands around, and usually leads the Oh, Cisco! moment at the end of the shows. In one episode, "Phil believes the Bear is pure evil and stealing from him."
• Hero: 108: High Roller's henchmen (other than the Zebra twins) are an army of bears! They are seen as his henchmen. Especially their king being High Roller's sidekick in evil.
• The Hill Farm: A bear the size of a battleship is certainly bad news. Interestingly the farmhand/shepherd is able to keep the monster bear from eating a sheep by swatting it on the nose with his shepherd's crook. But when one of the hunters wanders into the bear's cave and takes a shot at it, the bear comes out of the cave and menaces the farm.
• Huntik: Grier has a bear Titan named Breaker. With four arms and Spikes of Villainy. Yeah, Grier's a pretty badass Anti-Villain.
• n Jimmy Two-Shoes: Lucius punishes Samy with a bear on a stick. It eats him, chews him up, and spits him out.
• Johnny Bravo: One episode has Johnny run into a talking bear who claims to be Chronos, Master of All Time!
• In Kid Lucky, the gang enters a mine shaft, and an aggressive bear follows them in it.
• Kim Possible: In the Christmas Episode, Ron and Dr. Drakken are stuck in the Arctic. So how do you top that? You add a vicious polar bear.
• The Legend of Korra has a couple:
  • Two of them are in the main cast. The larger of the two team pets is Naga, a Polar Bear Dog. Korra is distinct in that she's the first to be able to tame such a beast. Korra can and does use Naga as an intimidation tool, and Naga is fiercely protective of Korra. (She is also female, making her a literal Mama Bear example.)
  • In the predecessor series Avatar: The Last Airbender, it's played straight with a platypus bear, another one of the Mix-and-Match Critters. The first time we see this, it's trying to attack a man for coming onto its territory.
  • Subverted with Bosco, the Earth King's pet bear. He's more Beary Funny than scary. The Gang themselves were skeptical that there was such a creature as "just a bear" and suggested that perhaps it was another type of creature, such as a platypus-bear, skunk-bear, armadillo-bear, or gopher-bear. But no, he's just... a bear.
• Moral Orel: In the second season finale, Orel's father Clay gets drunk, accidentally shoots Orel, and promptly passes out after Orel calls him out. It is only then that a grizzly appears and begins sniffing around the camp. When Clay's drunken sleep-muttering attracts the bear's attention to them, Orel reluctantly empties the revolver he has to kill the bear and save his father.
• Looney Tunes: In "Big Top Bunny", Bugs joins the circus and butts heads with Bruno the Magnificent, an egotistical Russian Bear who isn't keen on sharing the spotlight.
  • There's also "Wabbit Twouble," "Hare Remover" and "Hare Brush", all of which employ the "play dead and he won't hurt you" trick when accosted by a ferocious bear.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • "Boast Busters" sees Twilight Sparkle forced to deal with an Ursa Major, a huge, terrifying blue bear as big as a house and made of stars, thanks to two none-too-bright colts who wanted to see boastful magician Trixie take one on. It turns out that was only an Ursa Minor — a baby throwing a temper tantrum. The real Ursa Major, its mother, is bigger, scarier and purple: as big as Ponyville itself.
  • "Lesson Zero": Fluttershy, to Twilight's shock, fights and seemingly Neck Snaps a bear. She was really giving him a massage. This bear, named Harry, returns frequently in subsequent episodes, but always as a friendly bear.
  • "Slice of Life" sees Ponyville attacked by a beelike Bugbear that escaped from Tartarus. However, this issue takes a back seat to the wedding that is the focus of the episode.
  • My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): An Ursa Minor is responsible for breaking Tempest Shadow's horn and starting her way down the path to villainy.
• The Perils of Penelope Pitstop: Bears threaten both the heroes and the villains in "Tall Timber Treachery" and "Cross Country Double Cross".
• Pound Puppies (2010):
  • Squirt and Niblet, who are lost in the Canadian wilderness due to getting stuck in a plane's cargo, discuss this trope in "Homeward Pound". Niblet believes the bears will help them and Squirt believes the bears would kill and eat them, prompting the two to split up when they can't agree on what to do. In a subversion of the trope, Niblet manages to convince the bears to save Squirt from going over a waterfall and even provide them — and the rescue crew coming to find the two — with plenty of fresh fish.
  • Played for Laughs in Patches' take on three episodes (including the one above) in "The Secret Super Pup Club". In the first two scenarios (the Canadian wilderness and a construction site), a bear pops out to scare/threaten the Pound Puppies, only to be scared off when Patches leaps from nowhere and barks at it. It gets ridiculous when the third scenario involves five of them coming out of nowhere in a suburban neighborhood, only to be once again scared off by Patches.
• Regular Show: Death Bear in the episode of the same name when Mordecai, Rigby, Margaret and Eileen try to get a picture of themselves inside of his cage in an abandoned zoo, the bear himself is an especially dangerous bear as he has the ability to withstand being shot by hundreds of tranquilizer darts and he can also do martial arts..
• Robot Chicken: One sketch features the Care Bears brutally massacring the non-bear Care Bear Cousins.
• Robotomy: "Nana's Run": In the final scene, the robots try to conquer a planet of teddy bears... who turn out to also be a tribe of warlike barbarians who massacre them instead.
• Rocko's Modern Life: In one episode, Rocko and Heffer instigate a snowball fight with Ed Bighead, who attempts to retaliate by shooting snowballs back at them. He inadvertently hits a bear, who responds by slowly removing Ed's goggles and punching him hard enough to knock all of his teeth out.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo featured an episode titled "The Hairy Scare of the Devil Bear", which is about this trope! Quite scary.
  • Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery: A ghost bear appears, threatening to cancel the Wrestlemania match. The bear even had a feud with Sin Cara ever since his great-great-great-grandfather defeated it when it was declared undefeatable.
• Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings (2002): In one episode, a friend of Simon's makes fun of him for still owning a teddy bear. Simon vents by drawing an angry version on said teddy bear on his chalkboard. He then goes to the Land Of Chalk Drawings, and discovers the bear he drew running around wrecking peoples' things.
• The Simpsons:
  • "Homer Badman": Even the tame bear and television host Gentle Ben attacks his handler after hungrily going for the food table.
  • "The Day the Violence Died": Kent Brockman reports about a bear who stowed away on a space shuttle that is now terrorizing the astronauts.
  • "Much Apu About Nothing": Parodied. A bear wanders around Springfield, not once getting aggressive, but it causes enough of a panic to lead to an extensive (and costly) bear watch program. Although as pointed out by Lisa, Homer was only paying $5, so regardless of whether it's a percentage or just $5 per person, it was the smallest tax hike in history.
  • "When You Dish Upon a Star": One of Homer's dream sequences involves him as "Homey the Bear", a Yogi Bear parody in both appearance and animation style. Not so bad, until Homey proceeds to brutally maul Ranger Ned (Flanders).
  • "Marge Simpson in: Screaming Yellow Honkers": Inverted when Chief Wiggum designs a supposedly educational skit that involves dressing one of his men in a costume and calling him "Curtis E. Bear." He designs it with the same incompetence and violence that he exhibits in everything else he attempts, so the version that's performed involves beating up the cop in the bear suit while having lost any of the actual message of courtesy that was the occasion for the skit.
  • "Treehouse of Horror XI": Bart and Lisa meet the three bears, who are less than friendly to intruders. They manage to escape. Goldilocks on the other hand...
  • "Homer vs. Dignity": While pulling a prank for Mr. Burns, a male panda mistakes a panda costume-clad Homer for a female and implicitly rapes him.
  • "Brawl in the Family": When Mr. Burns and the Rich Texan begin destroying the environment, Kent Brockman announces that "Smokey the Bear" is now "Choppy the Lumberjack". Cut to a bear in a lumberjack get-up cutting a tree with a chainsaw, while an activist protests to his actions behind him. Choppy backhands him angrily and revs up his chainsaw.
  • "The Fat and the Furriest": Homer is traumatized by a bear attack and has nightmares of being attacked by vicious bear mascots. That bear later turns into an Androcles' Lion as Homer finds out that he had a defective tracking tag on that kept sending painful jolts in its ear, driving it into abnormal aggression.
    Homer: Are you a Care Bear?
    Care Bear: [takes out a crowbar and starts tapping it] I'm an Intensive Care Bear.
    Homer: Why does a bear need a crowbar?
    Care Bear:...Eh, I don't like to get my hands dirty.
  • "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses": Bart and Lisa are stuck in a forest fire. Homer arrives in a helicopter, and lets down a rope ladder. Before the kids can climb it, a bear shoulders them aside and climbs the ladder himself, only being stopped from reaching the chopper by Homer cutting the rope.

• South Park:
  • Subverted when a Mama Bear carries off several Jewish Cub Scouts... to be guests at a birthday party for her cub.
  • In the battle of the YouTube stars, Sneezing Panda kills three of his opponents.
  • Played horrifyingly straight in "The Return of Chef," when a grizzly bear shows up along with a mountain lion to rip the already brutalized Chef to pieces.
• In Space Ghost Coast to Coast, there's an episode that Space Ghost is attacked by a bear, because there's a shark in the set. According to his educational documentary sharks like to walk along with bear, so the shark, named "Kentucky Nightame", attracts him.
• SpongeBob SquarePants has Squidward running afoul of an easily-provoked Seabear in "The Camping Episode": "DON'T RUN, SEABEARS HATE THAT!"
  Squidward: What'd I do that time?!
  SpongeBob: I don't know! Maybe he just doesn't like you!
• Teen Titans (2003):
  • "The Quest": The first of three animal spirits that Robin has to fight his way past on his way up the mountain is a bear. The guy is polite about it, but the fight is anything but easy for Robin.
  • "Hide and Seek": Raven spends much of the episode in disbelief that Melvin's imaginary friend Bobby is real, instead believing Melvin is telekinetic and won't admit it. When Monsieur Mallah finally manages to kidnap Melvin and the other kids, and we learn that Bobby is not only real but a giant, nightmarish Lightning Bruiser of a teddy bear. Beatdown ensues.
  • Beast Boy also tends to turn into a bear (among other ferocious creatures) when he's angry enough.

• A Thousand and One... Americas:
  • Halfway during the sixteenth episode, Chris, Lon and a young Inuit boy they met prior hear the pleas of a hunter who's been cornered by a hungry polar bear, and quickly run to the source of the voice. Upon arriving to the scene, Chris and Lon take the man to a safe place while the young Inuit boy stays to fight against the bear. Even after dodging several attacks and temporarily stabbing the bear from the back with his harpoon (twice, in fact), the young boy needed the help of the then-returning main characters to knock the animal out (even then, the bear recovers and gets up again despite having been stabbed in the chest, which prompts the characters to evacuate; they finally drive it away by climbing a snowy hill and throwing a large snowball to it).
  • Early on during the twenty-second episode, Chris and Lon save an Iroquois hunter from being killed by an American black bear. It takes a lot of fleeing from the fierce animal, sue to how persistent and aggressive it is, and in the end they're lucky that they climb a tree with a beehive, whose insectile inhabitants give the bear a good one as retribution for having disturbed them. The Iroquois man returns to the village, injured; however, Chris and Lon go there to give back the Wampum belt he lost in the middle of the fight.
• The Tom and Jerry Show (2014): In "Tom's in Tent Adventure", at one point Tom encounters a baby bear, who runs away when Tom scares him. Then he meets a bigger bear.

  Narrator: Aw, isn't that cute? It's a bear. (bigger bear appears) HOLY COW IT'S A BEAR!

• Total Drama:
  • Total Drama Island has a recurring grizzly bear that menaces the campers in numerous challenges. In "Paintball Deer Hunter", it mauls Cody to the point where he has to wear a body cast and is sent home for his injuries, while, in "Search and Do Not Destroy", it actually manages to halfway swallow Owen when he has to get a key around his neck. Izzy also disguised herself as a bear in "The Sucky Outdoors" to scare her teammates for laughs... and then the real deal shows up shortly afterwards.
  • Total Drama World Tour: Bridgette is attacked by a bear after she is shipped off to Siberia by Blaineley. She does end up befriending it after discovering it was aggressive due to having an injured paw and then tending to it, but the bear (who she names Bruno) ends up following her when she returns to the Aftermath show and becomes insanely protective of her, even attacking Geoff when Bridgette tries to get affectionate with him.
• VeggieTales: Happens in the Silly Song "The Yodeling Veterinarian Of The Alps", where someone brings in his pet bear, and Larry tries to sing to the bear, but this only makes the bear even angrier, before it chases after Larry.
• The Venture Bros.:
  • The Revenge Society is recruiting new members, and during the Terrible Interviewees Montage, one of the interviewees is a guy in a bear costume. He's covered in blood, looks freaky, no one knows how he got there and just stands there, not speaking or doing anything except breathing creepily. Phantom Limb, Professor Impossible, and Baron Underbeit, all experienced supervillains, are scared shitless. And then he pulls out a knife.
  • The bear reappears in a much later episode and his true intentions are vague. During the middle of a massive (artificial) blizzard, Hank is worried about his girlfriend Sirena and goes out into the storm to find her. He slams his against a streetpole and is knocked out. The bear finds him, carries him, takes him to a convenience store for a snack, then takes him to Dean's dorm room where he learns that Sirena is cheating on him with Dean. Why the bear did all this is unknown.
  • In another episode the Monarch forces a prostitute into a deathtrap gauntlet. Featuring the polar bear from Lost.
• The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald : In "Scared Silly", Hamburglar attempts to use a bear-emulating whistle as part of a prank invoking this trope on his fellow campers; unfortunately for him, a real bear stands behind him before proceeding to run after him and Ronald's gang. Although Ronald manages to send him careening into an extradimensional doorway, Grimace (having been deeply frightened by the chase) continues to encounter computerized illusions of said ursine a few times once the cast enters the Haunted House later on.
• We Bare Bears:
  • Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear are usually an inversion, but the episode "Primal" shows Panda and Ice Bear going feral from hunger. When Grizz tries to stop them from attacking each other, they start to chase him.
  • In "Planet Bears", all three bears go mad with hunger after an unsuccessful trip to the grocery store and start fighting over a granola bar Grizz happens to find.
• Woody Woodpecker: In one cartoon, Woody's foil is a clockmaker trying to turn Woody into a cuckoo; a running gag in the short is said foil making loud noises and waking up a hibernating bear who doesn't like being woken up. Eventually, Woody is able to use this to his advantage, moving the sleeping bear to the shop right before the top of the hour when every cuckoo clock chimes simultaneously, and the clockmaker (who wisely has earplugs for when that happens) is trounced hard enough consider giving up.

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