"Bearly Alive" is the seventeenth episode of The Disney Afternoon animated series, TaleSpin. It premiered on September 24, 1990.
Plot[]
Rebecca misinterprets a phone call as news that Baloo is dying. When Baloo finds out, he decides to fly to the Bearmuda Trapezoid, from which no pilot has ever returned.
Cast[]
- Charlie Adler as Howard Huge, Oscar Wiggerstumper
- Scott Bullock as Dr. Omeyer
- Pat Fraley as Wildcat
- Ed Gilbert as Baloo
- Sally Struthers as Rebecca Cunningham
- R.J. Williams as Kit Cloudkicker
Trivia[]
- This episode has a similar premise to the DuckTales episode "Scrooge's Last Adventure" in which one of the characters receives a call from a "doctor" telling them that a broken item cannot be repaired, which they misinterpret as meaning that one of the characters will die. Both episodes also have the doctor asking to be sold the "spare parts".
- The Bearmuda Trapezoid is a play on the Bermuda Triangle.
- Howard Huge's Goons are the same ones working for Trader Moe from "Time Waits for No Bear", "Double or Nothing", and "The Golden Sprocket of Friendship"; only silent and competent.
- Howard Huge's name is an obvious pun on famed aviation pioneer, Howard Hughes.
- Also his "Titanium Turkey" seems to be a parody of the Spruce Goose, a derogatory term for his pet project the Hughes H-4 Hercules.
- Emelia Airhead's name is an obvious pun on famed aviator, Amelia Earhart, while Charles Limburger is a pun on famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- Emelia Airhead would also go on to be mentioned by Pistol Pete in the Goof Troop episode "Hot Air".
- The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, are also indirectly mentioned in the episode, with Baloo referring to them by the nickname of "the Kitty Hawk Kids", in reference to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- The title is a pun on the phrase "Barely Alive".
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