Does anybody know where i can find some Humphrey Bear cartoons on video?

[Inkspot]

there is one cartoon in particular i'm trying to find that stars Humphrey Bear. It's the one where he is fighting with another bear over a female. If anyone can help me find this cartoon i'd appreciate it.

[Cartman]

I don't believe there is such a Humphrey short. You probably saw a different cartoon bear.

Here is Humphrey's complete filmography

HOLD THAT POSE: The short stars Goofy as a photographer. This is Humphrey's first appearance where he is a more surley bear than what we are used to.

GRIN AND BEAR IT: Donald Duck is picnicing in Brownstone National Park and Humphrey tries to get him to give him some of his food. This is also the first appearance of Ranger Woodlore.

BEARLY ASLEEP: In this short, Donald is the forest ranger. It's winter time and the bears are hibernating, but Humphrey's snoring causes the other bears to kick him out of the cave. Humphrey sneaks into Donald's cabin so he can sleep in there.

BEEZY BEAR: Humphrey is constantly trying to steal beekeeper Donald's honey.

HOOKED BEAR: Humphrey tries to catch some fish during fishing season, which, without Ranger Woodlore's knowledge, had ended a day earlier.

IN THE BAG: Ranger Woodlore, being too lazy to clean up the tourists' litter himself, tricks the bears into doing so by making them think they're playing a game. This was both Humphrey and Woodlore's last cartoon. :(

[PlopKat]

Humphery Bear was also in another Donald Duck cartoon, RUGGED BEAR. In this short, Humphery pretends to be a bearskin rug to stay in Donald's cabin. Humphery is subjected to all kinds of (unintentional) abuse from Donald.

Like Cartman, I don't recall a cartoon with Humphery fighting another bear for a female bear's affections. Could you perhaps be thinking of the Bongo segment from the Disney feature FUN & FANCY FREE? It has a small bear, Bongo, escaping from the circus and going back to the wild. He falls for a girl bear, Felice, in the forest. Bongo has quite a battle with the large & mean Lumpjaw to win her affections.

-PlopKat
"A bear likes to say it with a slap."

[Nelson]

I whole collection of Humphrey & Woodlore cartoons on video...just e-mail and we'll work out a trade

[David Gerstein]

The Humphrey cartoon Inkspot has mentioned *does* exist. It's called BEAR AND THE BEES and was released by Walter Lantz!
Upon leaving Disney's (in the late 1950s, I think... I don't have my references handy), director Jack Hannah went to Lantz and actually continued to use Humphrey there! He renamed him Fatso and altered his facial appearance just enough to avoid a lawsuit, but the personality, size, and even mannerisms (running around in a grunting panic with his paws held at chest level, for instance) are exactly the same.
Ranger Woodlore was replaced with Ranger Willoughby, basically Lantz' Inspector Willoughby in a different guise.
Besides BEES there are also HUNGER STRIFE and EGGNAPPER in the Lantz Humphrey series... and perhaps more?
Disney, BTW, has returned to making Donald/Humphrey cartoons, as part of their Mouseworks/House of Mouse series. They released DONALD'S GRIZZLY GUEST in 1999 and DONALD'S FISH FRY earlier this year. Ranger Woodlore is also in FISH FRY.

[Inkspot]

Thank u, i know i wasn't going crazy. Where can i find it on tape?

[Matt Yorston]

If I may add my two cents worth...

While David is correct that in "Bear and the Bees" (which was by Walter Lantz, BTW), "Fatso" (nee Humphrey) is trying to win the affections of a female bear, he does not in any way tangle with a rival bear. Instead, the only thing keeping him from winning her affection in the cartoon is his own outright clumsiness (he accidentally knocks a garbage pail on her head, overzealously shoves flowers in her face, knocks her into the mud, etc.). SPOILER ALERT!!! In the end, he does succeed in winning her over but finds out all the fuss wasn't worth it... she already has a family of cubs (which he ostensibly has to help raise).

Also starring in the cartoon is a miniature Dan Cupid who is the one responsible for getting romance into his mind to begin with.

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by David Gerstein
Disney, BTW, has returned to making Donald/Humphrey cartoons, as part of their Mouseworks/House of Mouse series. They released DONALD'S GRIZZLY GUEST in 1999 and DONALD'S FISH FRY earlier this year. Ranger Woodlore is also in FISH FRY.


Humphrey also appeared in an episode of Chip'n'Dale Rescue Rangers. (The only episode I watched, because Humphrey was in it.)

[David Gerstein]

Whoops! You're right, Matt!
Humphrey *doesn't* fight with a rival bear in BEAR AND THE BEES.
On the other hand, I did a little research around here and find that the fight with another bear seems to come from a Humphrey Bear comic book story (!), "The Bashful Brute," published in DONALD DUCK BEACH PARTY #6 (1959) and reprinted in WALT DISNEY'S COMICS DIGEST 16 (1969).
A dangerous grizzly from the woods up north has come into Brownstone Park. He's driving away tourists, so Ranger Woodlore decides to make his own bears get rid of the intruder. Humphrey winds up with the task and gets clobbered by the bully several times— until he disguises himself as a girl bear and flirts with him (so there's a sort of love aspect involved in it, too).
Does this comic book story, which I had as a kid (in the 1969 reprint, picked up used at a yard sale) sound familiar to any of you?

[Inkspot]

ok good, now where can i find it on video?

[Inkspot]

i'm sorry nelson i forgot about your post, first i want to know if u have this particular cartoon on tape.