The Berenstain Bears (TV Series)

Too Much Birthday (1985)

Brian Cummings: Papa Bear

Quotes 

• Brother Bear : [as Sister pins the tail on the donkey just right]  Terrific! Way to go! Yea, Sister!

  Sister Bear : [removing her blindfold]  Oh goody, I won, I won!

  Papa Q. Bear : [presenting one of the guests with the prize]  Good work, sonny, here's your prize.

  Sister Bear : But Mama, I won fair and square.

  Mama Bear : Of course you won, sweetie, but you can't get the prize because it's your party. That wouldn't be polite.

• Papa Q. Bear : [eating the last of Sister's birthday cake; last lines]  You're absolutely right, Mama.

  [gulps] 

  Papa Q. Bear : There *is* such a thing as too much birthday - *and*, too much birthday cake.

  [chuckles nervously, then the cubs chuckle along with him] 

• Sister Bear : I want to thank you for my birthday party, Papa. You and Mama.

  Papa Q. Bear : Parties *are* exciting, sweetie, and presents *are* lovely, but your mama is right. Getting to be six years old is pretty important. You're going to be six for a whole year, and it's up to you to make the most of it. To learn, to have fun, to grow in every way.

• Mama Bear : [after the guests sing "Happy Birthday" to Sister, she cries]  Sweetie, what's the matter? It's your birthday. Why are you so upset?

  Sister Bear : It isn't fair. I was the first one out in musical chairs, I didn't get my donkey game prize, I got bounced on the pony, and sick on the merry-go-round. And I don't *wanna* have six cubs, I only wanna have three.

  [sobs as Mama hugs her] 

  Brother Bear : Gee, Sis, what about your presents? You haven't opened them yet.

  Papa Q. Bear : And cake and ice cream. You haven't had them yet, either.

• Papa Q. Bear : [as Mama presents Sister with her birthday cake]  Okay gang, when I give the signal, Sister's gonna blow out the candles, then we're all gonna sing "Happy Birthday, Sister Bear".

  [to Sister] 

  Papa Q. Bear : Okay sweetie, get set - *blow*!

• Papa Q. Bear : All right, our first game will be everybody's favorite: musical chairs.

  [the guests rush to the chairs, then we fade to them standing around the chairs, awaiting Papa's instructions] 

  Papa Q. Bear : Okay, you march, and when the music stops, the one caught off the chair is out. Start the music... march!

• Sister Bear : Do we have them, Papa?

  Papa Q. Bear : Do we have what?

  Sister Bear : Annual rings.

  Papa Q. Bear : [laughing]  No, my dear. We have something better: *birthdays* and birthday *parties*. And it seems to me that you're going to be having a birthday pretty soon.

  Sister Bear : A party? Am I going to have a birthday party?

  [dancing excitedly] 

  Sister Bear : A real birthday party with all the trimmings?

  Papa Q. Bear : I don't see why not.

• Papa Q. Bear : Oh, good. The ponies and the merry-go-round are here.

  Mama Bear : The what?

  Papa Q. Bear : Oh, didn't I tell you? I rented ponies and a merry-go-round for the party. It just wouldn't be a party without ponies and a merry-go-round.

• Mama Bear : [sighing as she piles that season's pumpkins in a wheelbarrow]  I do hope Papa is being careful. He's taking down that big tree today, and...

  Papa Q. Bear : Tim-berrrrrrrrrrrr!