Most people can negotiate revolving doors, even when they have their arms full of packages. But Bernard is not quite like everyone else

Doors

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At the Museum

Scuba Diving

Bernard goes to the gym and starts training enthusiastically... until he discovers that each piece of equipment has a life of its own

The Gym

Golf

Once he has found all his equipment, Bernard sets off to climb the highest peak. But the closer he gets to the summit, the trickier it becomes...

Ice Climbing

Bernard finds a beautiful tree with a beautiful swing. The only problem is that someone else has got there first!

The Swing

Bernard is very familiar with the exhibits in the museum where he works, so why is that moving sculpture carrying a canvas in its hand?

Security Guard

Sportsmanship is about knowing how to win and how to lose... and sometimes about how to share a refreshing drink with your opponent after the game...

The Vending Machine

Bernard desperately tries to copy all the things that Lloyd (the penguin) enjoys doing at the swimming pool... including diving from the highest springboard!

Diving Board

Whatever the time, wherever he is, Bernard is completely hooked on television... that is until the shop closes and the shutters come down

Watching TV

Picking up hitchhikers can often be very dangerous. So when Bernard stops to pick up Zack, he should remember that one day he may need a lift

Hitchhiking

If Bernard ever succeeds in jumping out of the plane, he's bound to forget his parachute. Is there any other way he would want to do it?

Sky Diving

Bernard just wants to have a good time at the theme park. The trouble is that someone else wants to be in his photo and then that balloon appears...

At the Theme Park

Bernard has gone to the mountain, while the mountain comes to Bernard! It may look like rain, but Bernard's not worried because he's got his umbrella

A Day in the Country

Bernard is learning to fly, and may not have chosen the best day... But once you are airborne, the important thing is not how you land, but where you land!

Learning to Fly

Bernard is delighted to receive a visit from a small extraterrestrial, but his visitor is less than delighted by Bernard's limited technological skills

Close Encounters

One night Bernard's supper is interrupted by an intruder. Can a lone polar bear deal with the darkness, his own deep-seated fears and... a little mouse?

The Intruder

There's nothing Bernard likes better than a challenge, and when it comes to playing basketball against Zack, winning means winning at all costs

Basketball

What do you get when you cross a motor scooter with a supermarket cart? The answer - as Bernard finds out the hard way – is a highly dangerous vehicle

The Cart

Bernard the bowling champ takes on Lloyd. It should be easy for Bernard, but in sport there are three kinds of luck – good luck, bad luck and... Bernard's luck

Bowling

In order to recover his property from Zack, Bernard takes up taekwondo. He develops awesome skills, but the result is not quite what he had planned

Taekwondo

Bernard looks forward to a day's scuba diving. At first all goes swimmingly, but he soon realises that not everything is quite what it seems under the sea

Museums contain thousands of priceless exhibits carefully preserved for hundreds of years. Then Bernard pays a visit...

When Zack lines up alongside him at the traffic lights, it gives Bernard the perfect excuse to start a race through the city streets. But what about other road users?

Street Racing

Bernard finds himself on a desert island where all the inhabitants try to make him feel welcome... in their own special way

The Desert Island

Bernard soon figures out how the baseball pitching machine works, until the machine steps up a gear and shows it has a few more tricks up its sleeve

Baseball

Bernard is proud of his small convertible. The only trouble is that he can't get everything in the boot, which complicates life more than you would imagine

The Car

Bernard loves his flower, and is determined to do whatever is necessary to protect it from danger – no matter what the cost

The Flower

Bernard finds a medallion, but soon discovers that it brings bad luck. So he tries to throw it away, but unfortunately for him, it keeps on coming back

The Medallion

When Bernard tries to get rid of an annoying moth, something unexpected happens and his kitchen becomes a very dangerous place

The Moth

Bernard finds himself in field full of bulls, and despite his lack of experience, decides to try his hand at bull-fighting

Bullfighter

Bernard gets bored trekking across the frozen Arctic wastes. Some abandoned equipment becomes a source of great entertainment, but not for long...

At the North Pole

Zack tries to steal a parcel which Bernard is carrying.  At first he succeeds, but Bernard doesn't give up that easily...

The Package

Even when he's asleep, Bernard is capable of anything – as he finds out when he wakes up in the morning

Sleepwalker

Bernard has to deliver a pizza to a haunted house... and to its starving owner. But how is he going to get paid?

The Pizza

To the amazement of Zack, Bernard discovers he has some performing skills which he never knew he had

The Unicycle

Although Bernard has been shipwrecked, his real problems begin when he finds an abandoned motorboat which could get him back to shore

The Motorboat

Bernard makes a daring escape from prison, but once he's out, he realises that perhaps life inside wasn't so bad after all

The Prisoner

Bernard is delighted with all the bargains he has bought. Now the only problem is how to get them all home

The Supermarket

Bernard feels very tired and wants to sleep for hours... But there's a mosquito about with other ideas. He just has to get rid of that mosquito

The Mosquito

In the middle of the desert Bernard stumbles across an oasis. The palm trees look real enough, and that cool water is just too tempting

Oasis

A map may lead you to the hidden treasure, but does not always tell you about the hidden dangers... Even Indiana Jones would have had trouble here

The Treasure

Bernard is cleaning the windows of a skyscraper, when he disturbs two birds trying to protect their fledgling

The Window Cleaner

Bernard, Zack and Lloyd are competing in a marathon. The winner will not be the one who runs the fastest, but the one who survives the longest

Marathon

Do you like cockroaches? No? Well, nor does Bernard, and he is determined to get them out of his house somehow

The Fumigator

Despite all Bernard's efforts, the cockroaches are taking over Bernard's house, but his patience is running out

The Fumigator 2

Another UFO appears on Bernard's radar. He is desperate to see what is inside the strange carapace, but the extraterrestrial is in no hurry to show himself

Close Encounters 2

Goliath may be tiny but he packs a charge of aggression and bad temper equivalent to someone several times his size... as Bernard discovers

The Little Dog

Is it really possible for our walking disaster of a polar bear to have a lucky day?

Bernard... lucky... for a whole day?

A Lucky Day

Once Bernard had a polar home on the ice cap, but a lightning strike during a polar thunderstorm forces him to leave it all behind

The Storm

A robot seems to offer Bernard a simple solution to the problem of cleaning his house. The trouble is that the robot is literally crazy about his job

The Robot

When the vacuum cleaner finishes its work, there's not a speck of dust anywhere, and no sign of Bernard's winning lottery ticket either!

The Vacuum Cleaner

Bernard wants to enjoy nature. The only problem is that the fauna and flora want to enjoy him at the same time

A Day in the Country 2

Bernard is a series of animated shorts centered on the fictional polar bear and main character of the same name. It is a Korean-Spanish-French co-production. Each three-minute episode focuses on the bear's curiosity and have many moments of slapstick. Bernard never speaks with the exception of unintelligible noises

Bernard is accompanied in the cartoons by a few other characters: Lloyd and Eva the penguins, Zack the lizard, Goliat the chihuahua, Sam the baby, Pilot the dog, Pokey the porcupine and Santa Claus. He usually gets knocked unconscious or severely injured at the end of an episode, due to some calamity caused by his bumbling

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