Care Bear Stare!

Care Bears is one of the cartoons that I grew up with. The concept is rather strange -- a community of multi-colored bears with symbols on their stomachs who live in a kingdom in the clouds. But hey, it works. Each bear is especially talented in a particular area. The green bear with a shamrock his stomach is good luck. The yellow one with the sun is cheerful. Each bear's stomach is white, and the symbol is centered within it. When something happens that needs an extra lot of love, they all join together for the Care Bear Stare, during which their symbols shoot out rays of color and the rays merge.

The kingdom in which they live is called Care-a-lot. It is made of clouds. They drive cloud cars which trail rainbows behind them. They take care not to run off the edge of a cloud and fall down to earth. They spend most of their time tending to the daily duties of their kingdom, but when the alarm sounds, they head off to earth to make a bad situation turn out all right. Sometimes they don't even show themselves. The Care Bears are, perhaps, Disney's answer to angels. Care-a-lot is the type of kingdom many children imagine Heaven to be. The main thing to take away from the show is that someone is watching over us, ready to come to our aid if we need it.