The Drumming Bears

The Drumming Bears, internationally as The Dragon Bears, was a TV show during the 70s. While it was televised as a fictional show, it was secretly a documentary about real events.

The show centered around a family of seven real life bears: John Bear, Joe Bear, Moe Bear, Flo Bear, twins Shmo and Shmo Bear, and Hector. Their recurring nemeses were the Mole Mens, six-legged robots with domes of purple glass for heads that contained actual moles on top of a man's body. The Bears would typically defeat them using the power of music and rhythm through their drums.

While it only lasted for one season, it did create 300 episodes. It is lauded for its universal appeal and has gathered a cult following over the years, spawning an annual convention of fans known as Drumming Bear Con.

Season 1
Episode 84, The Mole Mens Underground Lair, showed in detail how the Mole Men operated and what technology they used.

Episode 87 was titled Attack of the Mail Men. The Mole Mens recruited the USPS and its leader Karl "The Mailman" Malone. The episode led to the death of the entire staff of the postal services as the show was secretly not fictional and the bears mauled them all.

Season 2
Unknown to the public, a second season of another 300 episodes was filmed some time in the 80s. Because the second season of the show reveals the real interdimensional origins of the secretive Mole Mens, they stole it and prevented knowledge of it existing from going out. At some point, however, fans of the show learned about this second season and retrieved it to show during Drum Bear Con. With the help of Doctor Isis, the Mole Mens broke into the convention and, once again, stole the footage. At the time, Dick and Johnson were attending the con for the viewing and, together with their new friend Freddie Mercury, investigated the theft. While they uncovered the Mole Mens' and Doctor Isis' plot and managed to secure the disks with the second season, they decided not to reveal its secrets and instead keep it at their home for private viewings only.

Season two includes one episode in which the Bears are stranded on an island and fighting a monster made of smoke; a Christmas episode, in which the Bears have to grow a tree from a corn seed, kill it by chopping it down and take it back to their cave, and, as a result, Shmo Bear doesn't get any presents; and an episode late in the season, in which the now older Bears are unsure of their future, but then put together a concert with all of them and a four year old Beyoncé.