# Snuggle Bear Reveals His True Colors **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327 "2002-04-18T15:38:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/21 "2002-04-18T22:19:14Z")
Lever Brothers was able to sue 3DO over _both_ video game commercials, saying that the bear (“Tready”) was an unauthorized parody of Snuggle. Lever won-twice. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/22 "2002-04-19T14:02:27Z")
I saw it too! LOL Maybe theyre doing it on purpose. DO they KNOW the viewers find him…odd? Lets starta letter wriitng campaign! Off with Snuggles! On with Porcupine!!! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/23 "2002-04-19T18:44:54Z")
Yeah you’ve seen the ‘commercial’ but you don’t know half of SBs evil. You see the bear knew the woman _hated_ hedgehogs and would confuse a porcupine for a hedgehog. He also was ‘good friends’ with the little guy. So then Sunggle convinced him to go the house and told him the woman would love him. The evil bear did this to set the porcupine would be rejected and humilated again. (You see he just lost his wife to cancer and his job and he has tremendous medical bills) That bear was trying to drive him to suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa\_Ann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lisa\_Ann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa_Ann)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/24 "2002-04-19T19:02:32Z")
I would much rather cuddle the pokey pocupine than that stupid little bear. He is absolutely cute cute cute. Fabric softener, phooey! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/25 "2002-04-19T19:03:57Z")
i thought my wife was the only one who had a strange fixation with “that bear” and was convinced he was evil. guess not… * * * No tip for you, Shithook! ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Crude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/26 "2002-04-19T20:29:26Z")
Eve, you are a kindred spirit. I felt love and respect for that hedgehog ever since I saw the “Snuggle Audition” commercial. He’s cute and friendly, with just the right amount of attitude. He proves that you can be a nice guy even if you’ve got sharp quills. So there’s Mr. Hedgehog (we don’t even get to know his name, but we can assume that “Snuggle” is just a role for him) trying to help out this woman doing her laundry, only to be ridiculed by her and her demon-imp familiar bear up on the shelf. The disappointment in his voice and the dejection on his face are painful to witness. Oh, the tortures I dream up for that plush-bear prick. His day of suffering will come, but it will not end… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/27 "2002-04-19T20:37:09Z")
I assume the goddam fabric softener (I don’t even know what it’s called, I don’t think it’s actually “Snuggle Fabric Softener”) got a new ad agency, resulting in the clever “Auditions” ad. I am hoping there’s a “mole” there (not an animated mole, I mean—well, you know, an infiltrator) who is purposely setting the evil Snuggle up for a fall. Maybe there will be an “All About Eve” scenario, where the hedgehog/porcupine kisses up to the increasingly unstable and alcoholic Snuggle, finally pushing him over the edge. Or “Double Indemnity,” with stuffed animals. It’ll end in a fatal porcupine hug—“It’s you and me, Snuggle, right to the end of the line, baby.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/28 "2002-04-20T01:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\* > Maybe there will be an “All About Eve” scenario, where the hedgehog/porcupine kisses up to the increasingly unstable and alcoholic Snuggle, finally pushing him over the edge. \*\* Sounds a little like the final days of Adolf Hitler; I can just imagine Snuggle, hunched over a desk in his laundry-room bunker, shouting at his henchman Mr. Clean over the telephone, “Answer me, Dummkopf! Is the cleaning aisle burning!?” All in his squeaky “Cute” voice. Or not. Whatever. 😃 Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![RobGraham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@RobGraham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobGraham)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/29 "2002-04-20T01:42:35Z")
God, I love you people. All these years I thought I was the only one who found this little instrument of all that is evil to be horrifying. Now I know that I’m not insane. No really! I’m Not! ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/30 "2002-04-20T04:29:25Z")
You **are** insane, **Rob** , just not about this. ::snicker::[ ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/31 "2002-04-20T04:45:05Z")
I fall asleep in front of the TV a lot. Once, not too long ago, I woke up around 2:00 a.m… and there was a talking armadillo on screen… apparently I wasn’t totally awake, because it scared the crap outta me. But you know, I’ve always known the Snuggle Bear was evil. I’m not a fan of laundry in general, but if I saw some wild-eyed talking teddy bear come lunging out of my clothes basket, waving its arms and cackling, I’d beat it to death. ---
**Author:** ![l1I235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@l1I235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/l1I235)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/32 "2002-04-20T06:09:07Z")
My Chest hurts from laughing so hard…! ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/33 "2002-04-20T06:12:02Z")
Long snuggle bear story When I was stationed in Korea, in a mobile communications unit, we somehow got ahold of a snuggle bear. We used “Mr Snuggles” for stress relief. We’d kick him around, throw him against the wall & drag him through mud puddles. We ran over him many times with a 2 1/2 ton truck, then stuffed him in the exhaust stack. Eventually he started to fall apart. When his eye fell off, we gave him an eye patch. When his leg got ripped off, we outfitted him with a peg leg using a plastic fork. One day, we had to go to the AMC (Air Mobility Command) terminal to pick up new people destined for our unit. Since you didn’t know what your new people looked like, you would hold up a sign with your unit designation on it. We tied the very beat up looking Mr. Snuggles to the top of the stick with our sign just underneath. People at the AMC terminal looked at us like we were insane. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/34 "2002-04-20T07:14:43Z")
Thank you, **Eve**! The first time I saw this commercial, the first thing that went through my mind was that the evil chuckle and the snide “Bye-bye!” were sooo out of character for the formerly cute, cuddly and nice Snuggle. I’m glad I’m not the only one that caught the change in attitude. Looks like Mr. Snuggle’s psyche is fragmenting from the pressure of having to screen test (“Snuggle Auditions”) for the role he created. jayjay ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/35 "2002-04-20T20:18:35Z")
Actually, its all a CONSPRIACY. You see, STeve is not really leaving Blue’s Clues cause he WANTS to, him and Snuggle Bear are in it Together!!! um… you DO know the bear is the antichrist? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/36 "2002-04-20T23:08:57Z")
Hey! Lay off the bear. I love Snuggles. I also love the commercial where they’re showing a lot of decidely UN snuggly animals- like hedgehogs, lobster, etc…and then they show Snuggles. How can you not adore him? ---
**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/37 "2002-04-20T23:25:34Z")
Did anyone ever see that episode of that sketch-comedy show, “The State”, where a woman is happily ironing some clothes, and from a basket of laundry near her, the Snuggle Bear pops out? It starts its inane cutsey jingle, and the woman, panicking at what is obviously the most bizarre thing to ever happen to her, screams and beats the Snuggle Bear to death with her iron. This was hilarious to me, because, I fear and loathe the Snuggle Bear, and besides, think about the horrifying situation actually portrayed in these commercials: I mean, what would you do if a talking plush bear popped out of your laundry? Like any self-respecting homo sapien, your internal alarms would go off and you’d immediately try to kill the thing and end the danger to yourself and your family. I know I would, anway. 😃 I’m totally against animal cruelty, but a talking plush bear that invades my home and croons sickeningly to me about consumer products? It’s like a Lovecraft story come to life. ---
**Author:** ![Misery\_Loves\_Co](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Misery\_Loves\_Co](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misery_Loves_Co)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/38 "2002-07-01T16:55:17Z")
Yeah, somehow they managed to change the snuggle-bear from an insipidly cute, surrogate-baby-looking charmer to a fuzzy version of Chucky. I wish I’d seen that short on The State! Attitude + Snuggles just doesn’t work. Instead of making Snuggles “hip”, it made me yearn to see a parody cartoon of the Snuggle bear and the Porcupine having a world-class grudge-match pit fight, preferably ending with Snuggles skewered on our hero’s quills. Maybe the Porcupine’s got … connections… and can have the bear rubbed out, y’know? ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/39 "2002-07-01T17:58:31Z")
> [@](#): > > How can you not adore him? Very easily, given that he is _ **Evil Incarnate in a polyester plush suit!!** _ That faux sweet voice; that slightly sibilant way he cocks his head; that perverted way he falls into the laundry basket, kicking his evil little feet . . . he reminds me of Chucky, only a lot scarier. I’m serious: If I woke up at night to find his beady little eyes looking over the edge of the bed at me, I’d shit a brick. He is _eeeeevil_. Of all the monstrosities of the eighties, why was _he_ the one to come back? I have seen the commerical of which you speak, EVE, and I loathe it as I loathe every commercial ever made featuring that awful little mutant. Death to Snuggle Bear! Long live the glorious hedgehog revolution! ---
**Author:** ![WV\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@WV\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WV_Woman)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/40 "2002-07-01T22:35:48Z")
Is it me or is the chick in that commercial kinda … well … homely? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327.md?page=3)