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Icy Nights is the 18th episode of the second season of We Bare Bears and the 44th episode overall.[2]
Synopsis[]
Ice Bear's custom vacuum mobile gets stolen by a gang of techies, and he must navigate the city's underground world in order to retrieve it.[2]
Plot[]
While going to quick mart in the night, Ice Bear brings his "updated" Roomba for a ride. While shopping, some men come and tangle around with it. When Ice Bear sees them, they ask for how much Ice Bear would like to sell his Roomba.
Ice Bear simply replies that his Roomba is not for sale. However, they would not budge and keep insisting on buying his "ride". Ice Bear says, "Ice Bear will repeat, Not-For-Sale". When Ice comes back inside the shop to finish his shopping, the men just decide to steal the Roomba.
After this, Ice Bear goes out to get back his Roomba, leading him to a weird arcade café, and eventually the HQ of the Techies Gang. We then see that the reason the men stole the Roomba was to use it in robot battle game where Ice Bear manages fight until he been pinned down.
The Roomba is then destroyed by the Techies Gang where they all laugh evilly. Furious, Ice Bear destroys the other robots out of his fury. As the Techie Gangs leave, terrified of Ice Bear's fury and destroying their robots, Barry remains fearless and encloses him on how he will be one step further from him. When Ice Bear tries to lunge on him, Barry quickly turns into a hologram, scolding Ice Bear saying that he will find in one day, as Barry sarcastically replies, "Good Luck" and disappears.
When Ice Bear leaves the building, he makes it to the Cave and brings the Two Bears what they think are "pizza bagels" which turns out to be one of the machines Ice Bear had brought from the store after his long night with Barry. Meanwhile, Ice Bear goes inside the Bears' shed and gets some tape and other supplies to fix the Roomba. The Roomba successfully generates making Ice Bear smile as the episode ends.
Characters[]
Major Characters[]
- Ice Bear
- Barry (debut)
- Techies Gang (debut)
Minor Characters[]
Locations[]
- The Cave
- Arena
- The Street
Objects[]
Music[]
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- This episode is the second episode, the first being "Chloe and Ice Bear", where Grizzly and Panda are only seen in minor cameos, both at the beginning and end of the episode.
- The upgraded Roomba seen in this episode is very likely the vacuum first seen in "Everyday Bears".
- This episode "The Demon", "Icy Nights II", "Planet Bears" and "Charlie's Halloween Thing" are the only episodes with a non-standard title card.
- This is the first episode to begin with a cold open.
Cultural References[]
- The book Ice Bear is reading, War and More War, is a spoof on the novel War and Peace.
- The font of the title card and the overall style of the episode are homages to Drive and other films directed by Nicolas Winding Refn[3]. The storyline of Ice Bear wanting to retrieve his Roomba from the men who stole it and asking people from his past for help also vaguely references the 2014 action film John Wick.
- The font itself used to spell out the title of the episode is named "Mistral". The font was released back in 1953, and was designed by the French typeface designer and graphic designer, Roger Excoffon. Mistral is based on Excoffon's own handwriting.
- The music played during Ice Bear's fight at the arena is very similar to the song "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" used in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 action film Kill Bill: Volume 1.
- Yana bares a striking resemblance to Sombra from the video game Overwatch.
- This would make sense as she works in what appears to be an highly exclusive gaming club.
- The episode might have had a bit of similarities to the action violent video game Hotline Miami. In this case, the music and neon colours.
- In the arena, the announcer yells "Fatality!" when a competitor won during a battle. It referenced the video game Mortal Kombat.
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