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The Hub Hopes Men Will Start Calling Themselves “Belly Bros” and “Care Dudes”
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Next month, The Hub network will debut another revival of a 1980s toy commercial, Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot. Their earlier series, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, sparked an unlikely following among adult males, otherwise known as the Brony phenomenon, but one fandom isn’t enough for the Hub.
They think their Care Bears show needs an adult male fanbase, too, and they’re shamelessly encouraging it themselves. Their PR firm sent us the following press release, which besides not understanding the distinction between drawn and CG animation, suggests names for potential male Care Bear fans:
Hey Amid-
What’s the Care Bears equivalent of a Brony? Belly-Bros? Care-Dudes? “Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot” premieres this June on The Hub TV Network and features the same re-imagined CG animation and spirit of friendship and caring that made shows like “My Little Pony Friendship is Magic” a cult hit.
“Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot” is a modernized, CGI-animated version of the classic animated cartoon, which hits its 30th anniversary this year! Re-imagined in the same vein as the Hub’s other hit television shows, everyone’s favorite bears and their iconic Belly Badges have been transformed with today’s technology into a series that kids and families can enjoy together. I’d love to see if you’d be interested in featuring the bears for the series launch this June.
I have art and clips available and can also do email interviews with Executive Producer Sarah Finn, our director and voice talent. Let me know if this interests you and I can send over some more details!
Thanks!
[PR flack]This is likely the last time I’ll be mentioning Care Bears on Cartoon Brew’s homepage, but here’s a parting gift—the show’s teaser
… Something tells me “Care Dudes” and “Belly Bros” isn’t going to take off as well as they hoped.
Just… uh…
Just sayin’.
who is that clueless-looking bitch i do not like her
i do not like the new care bears i can see individual strands of fur it makes me uncomfortable
do not fuck up gentleheart lamb
WHO FUCKING CARES. MAKE A NEW VERSION OF JEM, THEN WE’LL TALK
I would love a Jem reboot, but last I heard it was tangled in a legal quagmire over ownership rights between all of the parties involved with the original cartoon.
LOL every ad I’ve seen for this (and I’ve seen plenty because I’m one of those adults who watches Aquabats and MLP)...
I THINK THEY MISSED THE POINT
intelligent, empowering...young girls >Inspire other similar IPs to follow suit and… start...
>Not to mention all the people *ALL THE PEOPLE* sexualizing the teenaged characters on that show. That’s barely legal in...
Oh dear lord. This will not work because The Care Bears are way way too preachy about caring. MLP was not.
^Goddamn, dat’s some of the realest shit I’ve read in a long time
WHY DOES ANYONE EVEN CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE
oh my god yes, all of this.
You know you might be on Tumblr when you see arguments like these over the demographics of fucking Care Bears and My...
Me talking about not wanting an excellent show to be used as a mold for future ironic male-oriented shows (which is...
So yea I read all of that and I agree 100% GOOD JOB ✔
Let’s face it, the young adult male is *the* advertising cash cow, so anything that might appeal to them becomes ‘the...
AHAHAHA.. AHHA… HAH… Something I really, really LOVE about… basically every major production studio in any form of...
According to the Hub, this was from an over-enthusiastic PR guy who released it before it was approved. Or rather...
W-whoah, everyone just chill…
^i love you^
wait what neil cicierega?
i was under the impression that mlp was about magical fucking horses but okay lmao