Old School: Volume 2 (1985–1992)

Bear's Adventures: Old School, Volume 2 is a DVD set collecting episodes and skits from the early seasons of Bear's Adventures, released in 2003.
This set is a follow-up to the first installment, which was released in 2002. The Old School sets are marketed as a nostalgia set, aimed at teenagers and adults who remember the series from their childhood. This set contains a 12-page booklet with behind-the-scenes information and photos, and a special collectible animation cel from "Pinball Number Count."
Each episode features a special introduction by the Typewriter.
Mark M. Magner designed all packaging, disc labels, booklet and premium animation cel.
A third volume followed some 9 years later before 50th Anniversary in 2004.
== Episodes ==
# Fungus Amungus (January 28, 1990): No one seems interested in Mud/Slinger's newly created mudophone until they accidentally discover that it can make delicious cookies. Mud/Slinger picks up all the fungus in Mossy Meadow in order to keep up with their pals' appetites. Then a menacing swarm of crunchybugs shows up and starts attacking the Groundlings. Crunchybugs eat fungus and by picking it it all, Mud/Slinger has upset the balance of nature!
# Maggie's Quest (Feburary 3, 1990): Unable to get attention from the groundlings with her latest spectacle, Maggie sets off to find the magical fen flowers Eco told them about. Mud/Slinger follows her, while Galileo starts to organize his own expedition to find the fen flowers. But Maggie must abandon her quest when Mud/Slinger gets injured. Her natural skills come in handy as she takes care of Mud/Slinger and leads them back to the marsh.
# Big Dreams (October 23, 1990): Looking for adventure, Galileo builds a boat only to be too scared to sail it. Unable to admit his fear to Maggie, Galileo uses the appearance of an ice blossom plant in the creek to postpone the first sail. Since ice blossoms only grow on the top of Mount Mumblemoo, Galileo enlists Mud/Slinger's help in trying to recreate a mountain environment in the marsh, but the ice blossom doesn't respond. Galileo returns back to Groundling Marsh knowing that the ice blossom's fate is now in nature's hands.
# Life Before Stacks (December 23, 1990): Stacks is shocked when Maggie tells him that he's a machine. So Eco tells him the story of how he first came to life after a bolt of lightning struck a pile of electronic junk that Galileo had been working on re-connecting. After naming him Stacks, Galileo discovered he knew everything there was to know about the world beyond the marsh.
# All For One (March 12, 1991): Eco tries to leave for the annual Conference of Fruit Trees and Bean Stalks, but the other Groundlings keep demanding her attention. After insisting they leave her alone, she finally gets away-only to have an accident which leaves her hanging off the edge of a cliff. Maggie finds her and calls the other groundlings to help. Mud/Slinger's rain catcher invention serves as a rescuing device and they are able to save Eco. Eco is so pleased with her friends, she invites them all to the Conference with her.
# Night and Day (December 25, 1991): Maggie and Galileo are at each other's throats, but after Mud comes down with the mumblemumps, they must set off together to find the cure-red glowberries, which only grow at Grey Grotto. As night falls Galileo's night vision leads them to Grey Grotto-but his over eagerness sends them falling in! Maggie's natural climbing ability leads them out of Grey Grotto and to the red glowberry bush.
# Truth and Consequences (June 3, 1991): Eco's concerns over soil erosion in the marsh set Maggie off on a quest. Determined to find trees threatened by erosion, Maggie gets distracted playing practical jokes on her friends. When she finds a tree about to fall due to the erosion around its root, she can't convince her friends to help-so she sets out to save the tree herself.
# Them Dingling Dozy Daisies (December 21, 1991): Mud/Slinger discovers that their windy huffer-puffer machine can suck the sleepy seeds out of dozy daisies rendering them harmless and musical. However, the hollow tree trunk where they are storing the seeds is threatening to rupture, which would send sleepy seeds all over the marsh. Everyone puts their heads together and they discover that adding water to the sleepy seeds makes them sprout!
# Pot of Plenty (December 2, 1991): While preparing the Harvest Meal of Gratitude, Eco accidentally breaks the sacred Pot of Plenty. Galileo convinces the utterly despondent Eco to trust the story of their ancestor Groundling who made the original pot. Together they re-trace his steps to find the special clay to make a new pot.
# The Featherbeam (January 31, 1992): Feeling lonely, Galileo finds a rainbow-coloured featherbeam, one of the rarest creatures on the planet, and decides to make it his pet. But there's something very wrong with it. The Groundlings come up with ideas to make it feel better, including a sting in Mud/Slinger's new invention-a bird resort. Nothing stops the featherbeam's suffering until Eco tells Galileo a story that inspires him to set the featherbeam free.
# Flower Power (March 28, 1992): A wonderful new kind of flower starts growing in the marsh, but Maggie can't stop eating it. Galileo gets mad and insists Maggie leave the flowers be. Upset, she hides in a Bear Cave, not knowing that the flowers start growing uncontrollably all over the marsh. They cover Stacks, threatening his disk drives. Galileo realizes that Maggie needs to eat the flowers to control their growth and goes to Bear Cave to get her.
# Heat Wave (June 5, 1992): The hottest heat wave in history is making life miserable for everyone. So Mud/Slinger tries to come up with inventions to make everyone happy, but they all backfire. When Galileo faints from heatstroke, Mud/Slinger's coolerator helps him recover. Then a storm comes up and the heatwave breaks, but the wind and rain destroy the coolerator. At first, Mud and Slinger are devastated, but then they realize that nature just took over from the coolerator.
# Sticks and Stacks (December 8, 1992): As the annual bogbuzzer invasion looms, Stacks realizes he doesn't know very much about nature because he's a machine. When a new bunch of stuff is dumped on him, he gets bopped on the head and wakes up thinking he's a tree named Sticks. He seems to understand about nature in a whole new way, while the other Groundlings have to learn to accept his new persona. Then another accident reverts him back to being Stacks, and he's able to communicate with the bogbuzzers and send them elsewhere.
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