gor[b] Paul Gorbould: Words and Pictures

Happy Fun Bear

I have a black hole in my C.V., a lost year spent working on a children's TV show that never made it to air. Too bad, it was very 2.0, way ahead of its time. Long story.

Anyhow, I was deleting old files from my Palm Pilot the other day and came across this little oddity. One of the show's conceits was that it was to be a pirate broadcast, hacked into CBC's regularly scheduled and overly-good-for-you kids programming.

The working title for the lame show we'd interrupt was "Happy Fun Bear." Here's what I scribbled down for the theme song.

Happy Fun Bear

He's the nicest bear that you'll ever meet,
He's the teacher's pet and his room is neat,
He helps old ladies cross the street,
Hooray! for Happy Fun Bear.

Fun Bear does his best in school,
He helps kids learn the golden rule,
So come along, we know that you'll
say Hooray! for Happy Fun Bear.

Who wouldn't want to hack into that crap?

I even had a little tune for it, which is now stuck in my head (and mine alone, forever. Sometimes I wonder if one day I'll be humming it to my grandkids, and they'll look at me with sad sympathy... Sure you worked on a kids show, gramps. Sure you did.)

Damn you, Happy Fun Bear!