Shared delusion or actual movie, you decide

July 7, 2007 9:09 PM

Help me and my husband prove we aren't crazy and/or having the same delusion. We swear we saw a trailer for a movie based on an 80s/90s cartoon and we can't figure out what it was.

The trailer is animated and in it, a bunch of teddy bears are on conveyor belts in a factor. The narrator says something like "Each bear is checked to make sure it is perfect. If the bear isn't perfect it is dropped off to the side and forgotten forever." And you see the bear sitting in another room or something and more narration to the effect of saying somehow this bear gets special powers and becomes.... And that's all we can remember. We know the bear was from an 80s or 90s cartoon, but it wasn't Gummi Bears or Care Bears, and that we knew its name when we heard it, but never would have remembered it on our own. We thought maybe it was Teddy Ruxpin, but we can't seem to find any mention of any Teddy Ruxipin movies coming out, and we can't think of any other teddy bear cartoons. Please help us figure out who the movie was about! Bonus points if you can find the trailer too!

posted by JonahBlack to media & arts (7 comments total)

Well, there was this mention...
posted by alexei at 9:13 PM on July 7, 2007

Yeah, we know about the Penny Arcade cartoon, but that isn't the tralier we saw, which was much more kid friendly it seemed, and there is no link anywhere on Penny Arcade to anything that shows that there really is a Teddy Ruxpin movie, and that it isn't just a fevered dream of Tycho and Gabe.
posted by JonahBlack at 9:18 PM on July 7, 2007

That sounds like Superted.
posted by zamboni at 9:22 PM on July 7, 2007

Zamboni, that's it. Or at least almost it. My deluded brain still thinks we saw a remake of it on TV as a trailer for a movie that was a bit newer than that, but my husband says that was it, and we were watching 80s cartoon intros the other day...
posted by JonahBlack at 9:31 PM on July 7, 2007

Long shot: are you combining it in your memory with the Lovey Bears production line from Futurama episode Love and Rocket? Since it's less expensive for Romanticorp to genetically engineer real bears than to produce toys, the bears "frolic in the Lovey forest until their first birthday, then we choose the cuddli-uddliest ones and stuff them full of fire-retardant love fluff." There's a numbing image of the bears plucked from their happy sylvan home and trundled along an assembly line to the "bear hospital" where they're altered.

[quote courtesy of my geektastic recall, and therefore highly suspect.]
posted by Elsa at 9:37 PM on July 7, 2007

Superted! I have old VHS tapes of the Superted adventures! He was cool.

Wait, there's gonna be a Superted MOVIE?
posted by Zephyrial at 9:38 PM on July 7, 2007

This is a scene from futurama.

Futurama had an episode where they visit a factory owned by romanticorp that makes valentine's day candies. There also make little bears. It turns out the bears are real bears and the rejected ones run free and are caught by logan-esque guards.

From here:

Sheldon: Do any of you collect Lovey Bears?

Amy: I do! Kif's given me dozens. Is it true what the ad says? That you kiss them together out of blanket cloth and magic buttons?

Gwen: No.

Sheldon: It's actually cheaper to genetically engineer real ones. [They pass some Lovey Bears on a grassy area.] They frolic in the Lovey Forest until their first birthday. Then we choose the cuddly-uddliest ones and stuff them full of fire-retardant love fluff!

[The staff stare blankly. In the Lovey Forest, bears are picked up and put onto a conveyor belt where they are delivered to the "Bear 'Hospital'".]

posted by damn dirty ape at 10:16 PM on July 7, 2007