C Bear and Jamal

C Bear and Jamal is an animated musical comedy children's television series that aired on the Fox Kids programming block from 1996 to 1997.[1] It centers on an elementary school-aged boy named Jamal, whose constant companion was "C Bear", an orange hip-hop teddy bear who raps.[2] Film Roman co-produced the show.[3]

C Bear and Jamal
C Bear and Jamal Title Card
Genre	Adventure Comedy Musical
Created by	Earl Richey Jones Todd R. Jones
Voices of	Arthur Reggie III Tone Lōc George L. Wallace Dawnn Lewis Darryl Sivad Aries Spears Jeannie Elias Margaret Cho Paul Rodríguez
Country of origin	United States Germany
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	25 mins
Production company(s)	Film Roman Taurus Film
Release
Original network	Fox Kids
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	February 3, 1996 (1996-02-03) – February 22, 1997 (1997-02-22)

Characters

• Jamal Harrison Wingo - (Arthur Reggie III) - Jamal is a trustful, 9 year-old African-American boy who always seems to be in a mission, but has C Bear to help him when he's in trouble.
• C Bear - (Tone Loc) - C Bear is a wise rapping teddy bear with a hip-hop look. He comes back to life when Jamal is around and is always ready to give him advice. He has the power to take with Jamal on wacky adventures. C Bear is based loosely on Tone Lōc's childhood teddy bear with which he could go on fantasy rides.
• Hawthorne Wingo - (George L. Wallace) - Hawthorne is the father of Jamal, who is always in desire and often questions Jamal on why he still keeps C Bear. It's unknown what happened to Hawthorne's wife.
• Grandma - (Dawnn Lewis) - Jamal's grandmother, who cooks the food for her family and is very nice to everyone.
• Grandpa - (Darryl Sivad) - Jamal's grandfather, who is bald and almost never leaves his chair.
• Maya - (Kim Fields) - Jamal's love interest, who is very loud but dislikes it when she is corrected on that. She is also very smart.
• Big Chill - (Aries Spears) - Jamal's fat friend, who is always hungry and sounds like he has a cold. Whenever he's coming in a room he'll say "the b-i-g c-h-i double l is in the hizzouse".
• Kwame - (Aries Spears) Jamal's best friend, who is dressed in African clothes and believes in "power to the people" and often calls things "conspiracies by 'The Man'" when he is displeased.
• Chipster - (Jeannie Elias) - Jamal's Caucasian friend, who likes to make his friends laugh and never thinks of himself as weird.
• Kim - (Margaret Cho) - Jamal's Asian friend, who is always with Maya and hates to see her friends being chosen on.
• Javier - (Paul Rodríguez) - Jamal's Latino friend, who doesn't tend to say mean things.

Episodes

Season 1 (1996)

No.	Title	Original air date
1	"Rap Van Winkle"	February 3, 1996 (1996-02-03)
C-Bear takes Jamal into the future to show him the sad effects of sleeping through his education. Song: "The Rap Song"
2	"Emperor's New Gear"	February 10, 1996 (1996-02-10)
C-Bear introduces Jamal to the "Duke" in an effort to convince Jamal that the clothes he wears don't matter. It's the person he is that counts. Song: "New Clothes"
3	"Big"	February 17, 1996 (1996-02-17)
On Jamal’s 10th birthday, he decides act like more of a grown-up starting with leaving C-Bear at home. Song: "Jamal's Blues"

Season 2 (1996–1997)

Ep#	Title	Airdate	Song
4	Teeing Off	September 21, 1996	Ode to Duckie Jordan
5	The Prince and the Po' Boy	September 28, 1996	If I Were A Rich Boy
6	Raging Bully	October 12, 1996	Little Red Ragamuffin
7	Hanging with Mr. Wingo	November 2, 1996	No Worry Free J.O.B
8	Big Head Jamal	November 9, 1996	Benocchio's Lament
9	Sleepless in South Central	November 16, 1996	Ain't Got No Life
10	Dumbing Down	November 23, 1996	The Thinker
11	The Truth and Nothing But the Truth	February 1, 1997	Jamal Can't Handle The Truth
12	Puppy Love	February 15, 1997	Here Comes Jamal
13	Most Valuable Grandpa	February 22, 1997	Tortoise And The Hare

Credits

• Executive Producers: Tone Loc, Phil Roman, Margaret Loesch
• Producer: Bob Richardson
• Story Editors: L. Rice, Al Sonya
• Voice Director: Debbie Allen
• Executives in Charge of Production: Bill Schultz, Anne Luiting
• Studio Production Manager: Lolee Aries
• Manager of Foreign Production: Kenneth T. Ito
• Casting: Eileen Mack Knight
• Director of Creative Development: Guy Vasilovich
• Directors: David Brain, Vincent Davis, Brian Hogan, Emory Myrick
• Music by: Kurt Farquhar
• Main Title Song Written and Performed by: Tone Loc
• Character Design: Bruce W. Smith
• Layout Design: Charles Payne, Cliff Vorhees
• Prop Design: Gary Hoffman, Jim Schumann
• Painting: Deborah Mark, Belle Norman, Elizabeth Reed, Cookie Tricarico
• Art Director: Brad Landreth
• Backgrounds: Nathan Chew
• Layouts: Nathan Chew
• Color Key Supervisor: Phyllis Craig
• Storyboards: Robert Boyle, Sandra Frame, Gary Hoffman, Brian Hogan, Chris Hubbard, Jay Lender, Scott Shaw!
• Picture Editors: Don Barrozo, Lee Harting
• Post Production Sound Services: Advantage Audio, Inc.
• Sound Recording Mixers: Melissa Gentry-Ellis, Ray Leonard, Jim Hodson
• Sound Effects Design: Michael Warner
• Music Editor: Fil Brown
• Track Department: Peter Aries
• Creative Producer: Swinton O. Scott III
• Creative Consultants: Earl Richey Jones, Todd R. Jones, Bruce W. Smith
• Creative Concepts: Frankyln Ajaye, Barry Douglas
• Executive in Charge of Production for Fox Kids: Barney Gilmore
• Production Accountant: Kyle C. Hammans
• Production Managers: Barbara Cordova, Stephanie Elliott
• Assistant Film Editor: Kurtis Kunsak
• Negative Cutting: D and A Negative Cutting, Inc., Tim Heyen
• Telecine: Editel, Complete Post, Inc., Sunset Post
• Operator: Larry Field
• Post Production Director: Barbara Beck
• Post Production Supervisor: Noel Quinn-Roman
• Overseas Supervisor: Russell Crispin

Home video releases

Xenon Entertainment Group released every episode of the show on VHS and DVD in 2000.

References

1. Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 118–119. ISBN 978-1538103739.
2. Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 168=169. ISBN 978-1476665993.
3. "Tone Loc to Debut Cartoon Series on Fox". The Los Angeles Times. 1996-01-30. Retrieved 2010-08-24.

External links

• C-Bear and Jamal at the Wayback Machine (archived November 4, 1996) - Fox Kids
• C Bear and Jamal on IMDb
• C Bear and Jamal at the Big Cartoon DataBase