They might be street performers if "Jean Jacket" is anything to go by.
In the same episode, Ice Bear also said, he does, everyday hustling.
Hustling is also a type of dance.
Polar Bears and Pandas are endangered. Maybe they get stipends from the government?
Oh well, by that logic Grizzly ought to have everything paid for by the government since the species is extinct in California.
Ice Bear may still have his job from "Losing Ice".
Chloe's report
Why hasn't Chloe's report gotten more shit? Even if she was being scientifically accurate, her report put the bears in a very bad light and didn't seem to have any redeeming parts to it. Second, she's doing a report on bears yet she chooses the bear brothers - who seem very abnormal compared to other bears. Even if they were in close proximity and would provide a good source of study, they would still be abnormal and not be indicative of most other bears. (Which would be obvious from the start, since they're three different bears living in San Francisco.)
Seconded, especially on that first point-while her actions were certainly not scientifically sounded from a biased perspective, we have to consider that her actions were quite unfriendly and hurtful...and yet, the story of that episode, and the characters within, do not call her out on it. It allows her to walk away scot-free.
Chloe's a ten year old. She can't really be expected to have much of a moral compass.
She's actually ten or twelve.
Maybe the bears were too friendly and forgiving to call her out on that personally? I just hope that they cover her insensitivity in a future episode.
Because it's the truth. Because the trio and Nom Nom are the only animals (Charlie doesn't count because he's a cryptoid) to talk. Because it wasn't insensitive due to how academia actually operates. You are supposed to keep an unbiased approach to it. Friendship and feelings be damned. The biggest issue on the report is what the first person said, the bears are abnormal, but they still show similarities to normal bears.
Truth or not, it would have been well within the Bears' rights to never let her hang out with them again. She harmed them with that paper; that she didn't consider that is her own fault, and it was unacceptable as a friend to allow those things to be said about them. If she wouldn't have allowed someone else to do it in that class, she should not have either.
Unnecessary Apologies
In "The Road", why does Ice Bear need to apologize to his brothers when he didn't do anything, let alone said everything that would get his brother mad at each other? And why didn't he do anything to help bring peace between his brothers?
If you pay attention to Ice bear, he was fighting with them too (not gesturing them to stop fighting, building a box cannon and blasting a box at Grizz's direction), then he like his brothers felt lonely too. Grizz and Panda sang about how they missed Ice bear too, not just each other.
Ice Bear being called "Ice Bear"
Why isn't Ice Bear called "Polar Bear", or even just "Police"? It just makes more sense to call him that.
It could be them purposefully breaking the theme naming for Rule of Funny. Or, for a more in-universe answer, maybe Ice Bear named himself and simply thought "Ice Bear" sounded cooler than "Polar Bear". You'll notice during the hibernation episode when he's reading a book about Polar Bears he calls them "Ice Bears" even though the book almost certainly doesn't call them that. (The cover of the book reads "Polar Bears".)
Maybe he finds "polar" offensive?
Maybe he knows German and likes that name for his species better? (Eisbären, or, literally, Ice Bears.)
Or he knows Swedish, which does the same thing with the name as German.
Maybe he calls himself and members of his species "ice bear" because "polar" relates the region you find them, while "ice" would be referring more so to their habitat, as they tend to live mostly on the polar ice caps of the arctic, so "ice" makes more sense to him, than "polar".
From a Doylist standpoint, many of his quips seem to be catchier with "Ice Bear" than "Polar Bear". (e.g., "Ice Bear wants separate checks." vs "Polar Bear wants separate checks.") "Ice Bear" is also shorter than "Polar Bear", befitting his terse nature.
Feeding the animals
In "Food Truck", we got this sign that forbids feeding animals. Buy why the Bears are allowed to get food? In the end, they're still animals.
The sign specifies wild animals. Our trio is rather "civilized".
The Dreamcatcher
In "Occupy Bears", how did the Bears get their dreamcatcher back? Last they (and we) saw of it, the raccoon was absconding with it into the woods.
They didn't get it back. The dreamcatcher that's stolen by the raccoon and the one they hang in their window are two different dreamcatchers. The first one is a well made, normal dreamcatcher while the second one is crudely made with twigs and string, presumably made by the brothers themselves.
Vegetarian with exceptions
In "Chicken and Waffles", why was Panda (who is vegetarian) so excited to eat chicken?
Chicken and Waffles is stated to be a soul food restaurant. He could be excited for the non-meat dishes such as peach cobbler, cornbread, sweet potatoes, or hushpuppies among other things. Wikipedia has a list on soul food.
He specifically says that he wants to be eating chicken and waffles. Chick'n holds up pretty well when deep fried and battered, so maybe the restaurant offers it. Some vegetarians will also put their dietary choices on the shelf if it's a really, really special occasion.
Actually, this could be a Furry Reminder on the writers' part, as pandas are primarily herbivorous but can, do, and will eat meat (though, they tend to scavenge it usually), hell, their digestive systems are made for consuming meat (if a little nerfed). Alternatively, Chicken and Waffles also has a soy-based chicken substitute, so he could really be after that.
Talking bears
Can bears usually talk in this show, or is it just the main trio? Since nobody's shocked by their speech, I assume that speech is common among bears. But on the other hand, there are no talking bears visible anywhere else in the show.
Given that Nom Nom can also talk, is a considerable celebrity and him talking is neither out of the norm nor surprising to his crew, I think it's safe to say that animals can just talk in this world.
Just the main characters and occasional recurring characters. Remember the episode with the food truck? Other animals act like animals, without any talking involved. Other cases of animals acting like animals is observed. There are cases were bears are treated like animals (the fact books and hunters in IB's backstory) suggesting that bears are normally just bears.
Maybe they talk is because they've been around humans long enough to learn how, while your other wild animals haven't.
Left to write Manga
In "Summer Love," Panda's reading a manga. The book itself has the spine on the right side like manga books do, but the panels we see are read left-to-right, the way manga is not. What's up with that?
Some translated manga reads left to right, and Panda doesn't seem to speak Japanese.
I think you mean some printings, rather. That said, it's possible that it's an American produced manga.
Time skip?
How old is Chloe? In "Bear Flu" she says she's ten but in "The Perfect Tree" she says she's twelve. Or did we happen to come across a show that doesn't run on Comic-Book Time?
Unseen Time Skip, most likely. Two years passed between "Bear Flu" and "The Perfect Tree", even though the production order/when they aired might say otherwise.
Coming after Charlie
Both Nom-nom and the bears are talking animals, so why would people be interested in Charlie? Seems to me, Charlie shouldn't have any need to hide, since talking non-humans are so common in this world.
As Charlie seems to be (more or less) the only one of his kind, he would certainly be a desirable prize for a hunter, or a creature scientists would want to trap and study.
I think people are interested in Charlie because he always hides. By hiding, he becomes more mysterious, ironically attracting attention to him. As of why he always hides, that's probably because in the past, he's known as a chupacabra (a monster that eats goat). As chupacabra, he was hunt because he killed many goats (at least what legend says). In El Oso, his bounty is $1000. Here, he hides for his own survival. And that habit carries into the present even after people stopped having an intention to kill him.
Koalas and our trio are acknowledged species, while Charlie isn't. That and the aforementioned have been around humans long enough for people to get used to 'em.
Yuri and the Bear
Cub Ice Bear doesn't know how to talk, or even write, but he has already "engineering level" mastery of (or he learned in a very short timespan) Linear Algebra, Differential and Integral Calculus.
Most likely, it was a case of Ice Bear not being able to talk at all and later gaining the ability as an adult, a developmental disorder that can and has happened many times, and to explain Ice Bear’s skills could in the same vein be explained as Savant Skills.
