Series / St. Bear's Dolls Hospital

If you need some stiches,
you need to mend your britches,
your paw is sore, or what is more,
it tickles or it itches.
If you're a puppet who's strings are tangled,
a teddy who's ears are bangled,
a frog with a lump who can't find his jump,
all will be lovingly handled.
Dolls Hospital will mend you.
Straighten you up, or bend you.
We'll put back your stuffin' and clean up your fluff in...
Dolls Hospital.
Dolls Hospital, Yeah!

—Intro theme

St. Bear's Dolls Hospital is a Canadian Puppet Show.

The show is set in the titular St. Bear's Dolls Hospital, a place where toys can go to be mended, improved, and other such things. The show mainly followed the adventures of the staff of the hospital, such as Nurse Penny, Bob the crash test dummy, Pins and Needles the Russian engineers, and Professor Teddy.

The show aired in January of 1998 on YTV, and ran until 2000.

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St. Bear's Dolls Hospital contains examples of:

• Faint in Shock: In "The Forgetful Elephant", when the titular elephant (who thinks he's a rabbit), is told he's an elephant, he faints.
• Funny X-Ray: In one episode, a teddy bear's tummy ache following a fluff 'n stuff is revealed to be caused by the ring everyone was looking for being inside its belly by an X-Ray.
• Dem Bones: One episode has Penny discovering a living skeleton in a closet at the hospital, whom she assumed was a patient the staff had neglected. She became very afraid of a visiting inspector seeing him and assuming the staff wasn't doing their job. Of course, the inspector does see him, and reveals that he's a piece of teaching equipment.
• Eye-Obscuring Hat: In "The Wrong Patient", Professor Teddy was wearing a raincoat with a hat that covered his eyes, causing the hospital staff to not be able to recognize him.
• The Place: The series is named after the hospital it's set in.
• Theme Naming: Pins and Needles' names are a reference to the phrase "walking on pins and needles."

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