Gertorn the Grizzly Bear

Gertorn the Grizzly Bear

Gertorn Bernard Bjornson the Grizzly Bear - or simply Gertorn the Grizzly Bear - is a robot grizzly bear who lives in Barhamsville, Virginia, United States, and is one of the major characters in the "Barhambots" franchise.

## History

In January 2016 AD, Connor Banjoper was in the early planning phase for a recently-conceived franchise idea involving Rags the Raccoon, Lucy the Cat, and Nyazik the Mouse (Connor Banjoper's original three ideas for animatronic animals). He decided to make a male animatronic animal who found Lucy very attractive when he first lays his eyes on her. He used online generators to create the conception for this male character, and Gertorn the Grizzly Bear was soon designed later that month.

Like the rest of the Barhambots, Gertorn was originally designed to be a living restaurant animatronic for one of Barhamsville's restaurants. Connor Banjoper's plans were adjusted between 2019 and 2022, and Gertorn is now a regular citizen of Barhamsville.

He was officially manufactured in 202X, and later befriended all the other Barhambots.

After falling in love with Lucy the Cat, Gertorn has gone on a number of notable adventures, including visiting a junkyard in Ohio (S3E3), going camping with Lucy (S4E3), and visiting New Jersey (S4E8). (There aren't many episodes that focus on him, due to the fact that the majority of the episodes focus on the female Barhambots, rather than the males.)

In the movie,

 Gertorn and the other Barhambots (except Faina, who was living in Tanzania at the time), accompanied Connor Banjoper on a vacation to a ski resort in Kyrgyzstan, which Gertorn voted for (the other option was Jamaica). A week after the vacation, the Barhambots were on trial because Ruby massacred a Steam Community user at the airport shortly before they left for Kyrgyzstan. (The Steam Community user was trying to murder her out of xenophobic beliefs.) Connor Banjoper and the Barhambots were convicted and fined $2.5 million, or else the Barhambots would be repossessed by the government (and subsequently destroyed). Though they did pay the fine on time, they were still in danger because an angry mob was on their way to execute Connor Banjoper and the Barhambots because they were involved in ruining the mob members' lives. Before the mob could kill them, however, reality itself entered the scene and forced the entire Banjoper Universe to be completely realistic, causing Gertorn and the other Barhambots to become inanimate animatronics that could only be used for entertainment purposes. After Connor Banjoper is tried once again, the government follows through with their warnings and repossesses the Barhambots, despite Banjoper paying them the fines they demanded. However, instead of destroying them, the government relocated them to an amusement park in Pennsylvania named Cartoonia. ((REST OF PLOT TO BE ADDED LATER.))
## Trivia

* Gertorn is the very first male Barhambot to be designed.
* Despite his white appearance, Gertorn is not a polar bear, and he is a grizzly bear instead. The word "grizzly" was included in his basic name to avoid confusion (or unintentionally cause it).
* An early idea Connor Banjoper thought of in January 2016 AD was that Gertorn would be the 62nd of 100 random animatronic animals pulled from piles in a junkyard in a film idea called "Zombimatronics", where previously discarded animatronic animals would come back to life to haunt the junkyard and attack anyone who entered the junkyard. However, the film takes place a few years after the founding of Blazembu, so Gertorn would have to have been made by another factory in a much earlier time period than 2016 AD in order for it to work out. The idea was eventually scrapped, as the entire film idea was overshadowed by later production ideas Banjoper came up with - both related and unrelated to the Barhambots. So, Gertorn was confirmed to have been manufactured by Blazembu roughly around the time Lucy the Cat was.
* His first name came from a random name generator Connor Banjoper used in the mid-2010s to help him come up with character ideas. Banjoper used Swedish names in his settings.
	+ It's possible that the result given actually read "Gerton", and Banjoper misread it as "Gertorn", due to the fact that he almost couldn't find the name "Gertorn" on any website, including the one he generated it from. Despite this, he is still using this name for Gertorn, as he has a feeling it may be a real boy's name after all.
* Gertorn is planned to be voiced by Josh Peck, the same person who voiced either Crash or Eddie from the "Ice Age" franchise. This was made possible by AI voice cloning and conversion technology popularized in 2023.
* Unlike the other Barhambots, Gertorn was designed with dotted eyes instead of obvious white sclera like most cartoon characters.
	+ However, his sclera sometimes shows depending on his facial expressions, such as amazement, fear, anxiety, surprise, and concentration.
* Gertorn was first designed in the exact same month of the exact same year as "The Titanium Twist", a remix of Kenji Yamamoto's "Feather Fiend" created by Connor Banjoper.
* Gertorn may be a fan of "The Red Green Show", as he wore a Harold Green costume at the Halloween party in "Old 29".
* Gertorn is present in the very first skit of a 2017 concept animation called "Restaurant City Randomness" made by Connor Banjoper.
	+ In the skit, Gertorn is on a date with Lucy the Cat who is talking about herself to him, when a non-anthropomorphic bird defecates, and Gertorn sees it land on Lucy's leg, which she doesn't notice until she looks down.
	+ Oddly enough, not only was this the very first skit in the video, but it was also the first to be created as well, as Connor Banjoper developed it in November 2016 AD, which is five months before "Restaurant City Randomness" even occurred to him.
* Gertorn is friends with all of the male Barhambots - especially the males among the main cast - and a lot of the female Barhambots as well. This indicates that he is comfortable with the company of both genders.
* Gertorn may (understandably) prefer 21st-Century-made television shows over 20th-Century-made television shows, as shown in "Balloon Bots", where he watches the original "Wacky Races" series and comments that he'll probably never understand 20th Century cartoons, and is glad to be born in the 21st Century.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Lucy the Cat (Lover)
* Luan the Fox
* Doris the Fox
* Rags the Raccoon
* Randa the Raccoon
* Faina the Cheetah
* Ruby the Weasel
* Samar the Chinchilla
* Tomas the Wolverine
* Ricardo the Rat
* Edith the Cheetah
* Stacy the Weasel
* Sharon the Cat
* Frida the Weasel
* Greta the Cheetah
* Erin the Mouse
* Jade the Chipmunk
* Evie the Deer
* Connor Banjoper

### Enemies

* Connor Banjoper's Steam Community Enemies
* The Angry Mob In "The Barhambots Movie"

## Quotes

"Well, you see, I am currently doing a task for the mayor of this town in Virginia named Barhamsville, which is also where I live, and we the people of Barhamsville strongly suggest that our town is put on the maps of our state, our country, and the whole world." - (Gertorn explaining to a receptionist at National Geographic's headquarters what he is doing for Barhamsville. (S1E1: "The Map"))

"I guess us Barhambots have it in our blood to love Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'." - (Gertorn reminiscing the Kickin' In The Sticks Dance. (S1E2: "Lucy's Lover"))

"Of course, Lucy, I will do my best to be wherever you need me to be. I will be your Prince Charming!: - (What Gertorn promises to Lucy shortly before he is arrested for saying that Prince Charming part. (S1E2: "Lucy's Lover"))

"Man, I don't think I'll ever understand these 20th Century cartoons. I'm so glad I was born in the 21st Century." - (Gertorn watching "Wacky Races" on TV. (S2E5: "Balloon Bots"))

~MORE TO FOLLOW LATER ON.~