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Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show

Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show is an animated comedy web series starring Gummibär, the singing and dancing green gummy bear character known from internet music videos, together with his friends Kala the Cat and Harry the Chameleon. Produced by Toonz Animation India and Gummybear International Inc., it premiered on YouTube on June 24, 2016 with a first season of 39 seven-minute episodes, and a second season followed from December 13, 2018.¹^•²^•³

Key fact	Detail
Premiere	June 24, 2016 on the Official Gummibär YouTube channel, first episode "Spooktacular"¹
Format	Seven-minute episodes; season 1 comprised 39 episodes¹
Main characters	Gummibär, Kala the Cat, and Harry the Chameleon¹
Created by	Dan Wicksman and Nuria Wicksman; directed by Valeriya Kucherenko and Konstantin Khabenskiy²
Production	Toonz Animation India and Gummybear International (season 1); Melon Animation (season 2)¹^•²
Season 1 viewership	Over 330 million total views on the Gummybear International YouTube Network; "The Surprise Egg" alone over 36 million views³
Feature film	Gummibär & Friends: Operation Cotton Candy, in development with delivery planned for 2026⁴

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Premise and characters

Each episode follows Gummibär, a green anthropomorphic gummy bear who lives in a large apartment, and his two companions: Kala, described in season 2 publicity as a feisty, intelligent gung-ho serval cat, and Harry, a nervous, geeky chameleon with a talent for gadgets. The trio gets into and out of silly situations, and in the middle of each episode Gummibär performs a song written specifically for that episode.¹^•³^•²

Recurring characters include Mr. Kronk, Gummibär's grouchy rival, and Granny Peters, an elderly scientist who enjoys baking cookies; according to the series' fan wiki, the five main characters live in separate apartments in the same building.²

Development and production

The character Gummibär dates to 2006, when the first Gummibär videos were posted on the internet; by 2016 the character had accumulated well over 6 billion video views on YouTube.¹ An animated series had been discussed years earlier: Jürgen Korduletsch, president of Gummybear International and one of the people involved in the original song, spoke in 2009 of negotiating a TV series featuring Gummy as the main character and of making an animated movie.² An earlier concept titled simply "The Gummibär Show" was in production around 2011 and 2012; it kept the character's original autotuned voice provided by Maci Schneider, ran as a promotional pilot on the main channel, and was later removed.²

The Toonz deal. On December 9, 2015, Toonz Media Group secured a deal with Gummybear International for the production of a Gummibär animated series, with Go For Launch Productions creating the main production designs and art direction.² Korduletsch described Toonz as "an enthusiastic and motivated partner for the further development of our Gummibär" and said the goal was to introduce the YouTube star to a bigger audience through new content for traditional media platforms.¹ A teaser trailer released on June 18, 2016 previewed scenes from different episodes, and the series debuted six days later.²

Season 1 was animated by Toonz Animation, a division of Toonz Entertainment, in collaboration with Gummybear International. For season 2, announced on December 12, 2018 and launched the next day as part of a Premiere Party event, Melon Animation took over production of the episodes.¹^•²

Release and viewership

The series aired exclusively on YouTube, including the YouTube Kids app.¹ Season 1 ran from June 24, 2016 to May 12, 2017, and season 2 from December 13, 2018 to August 26, 2022, according to the fan wiki; the listing site TVmaze records the show as ended on YouTube in 2020.²^•⁵ Sources also disagree on the total episode count: fernsehserien.de lists 78 episodes in 2 seasons, while the fan wiki lists 108.⁶^•²

The first season performed strongly on the platform. "The Surprise Egg", the most watched episode of season 1, generated more than 36 million views on its own, and the season received over 330 million total views on the Gummybear International YouTube Network, the Gummibär-focused multi-channel network. At the time of the season 2 launch, the Gummibär character overall had over 12.6 billion total views and over 9 million subscribers, and trade press described him as the most viewed animated character on the internet.³

Distribution, dubs, and licensing

Toonz's distribution arm, Imira Entertainment, handles worldwide sales of the series.³ IMDb lists distributors including Tencent Video in China (2019) and the Israeli children's channel Arutz Hayladim (2020–2021).⁷ Beginning April 1, 2020, the series was dubbed into other languages, with episodes uploaded mainly to the Gummy Bear Show International channel; the fan wiki lists Arabic, German, Hebrew (גומי דוב וחברים - המופע של גומי דוב), and Hindi dubs, with songs dubbed for some languages but not others.²

The series was part of a broader plan to build Gummibär into what the producers called a 360 brand, with merchandising, licensing, and feature-length films.¹ By 2019 the broader Gummibär brand had released CDs and DVDs in 27 different languages in over 40 countries.³

Feature film

A theatrical film, Gummibär & Friends: Operation Cotton Candy, is in development. Toonz's 2025 European Film Market lineup credits Pete Dodd (Freddy Frogface, Bellyfant) as director, Dan Berlinka (The A-List, Dixi) as writer, and Robert Chandler as creative producer, with production by Toonz Media Group, Telegael, and Space Age Films, producers P. Jayakumar and Paul Cummins, and executive producers including Jurgen Korduletsch; delivery is planned for 2026, with poster artwork carrying the tagline "Making the mission truly impossible" and "In theatres 2026".⁴ The fan wiki describes the film as set for theatrical release in 2027.²

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026