A group of reclusive humanoid bears and a few trusted humans explore their lost heritage and prevent their enemies from exploiting it.
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Cast:June Foray , Noelle North , Lorenzo Music , Katie Leigh , Corey Burton , Michael Rye , Will Ryan , Paul Winchell , Brian Cummings , Rob Paulsen , Jim Cummings , Bill Scott , Christian Jacobs , Frank Welker , Tress MacNeille , Jason Marsden , Walker Edmiston , Peter Cullen
As Duke Igthorn plans an attack on King Gregor's castle, Cavin (a page in the castle) is left in the woods after some of Igthorn's ogres run off the Humans. The Gummi Bears find Cavin passed out in the woods with a Great Gummi Medallion, that was left to him by his grandfather. When he proves he is a friend, the Gummi Bears and Cavin team up to stop Igthorn's plans.
A traveling conman kidnaps the bears, freezes them with a magic powder, and sells them as statues to Princess Calla. / The water has stopped running in Gummi Glen, and Zummi, Grammi, Cubbi, and Cavin go to the source to fix the problem.
Tummi discovers a mechanical decoy used to make dragon footprints and uses it. The knights of Dunwyn mistake it for a real dragon. / Cubbi's new flute can control a flying lake wyrm so he and Sunni use it to attack Duke Igthorn's keep.
Sunni is kidnapped by a flock of ugly bird-like creatures known as Carpies, whose king wants her for a song bird. The other Gummies must use their new flying machine to get to the top of the mountain and rescue her.
In "The Oracle," Tummi finds a stone ogre oracle and uses it to trick Duke Igthorn and the ogres with it. In "When You Wish Upon a Stone," Cubbi and Cavin find a wishing stone in a cave guarded by a giant.
Zummi makes a magic hat for Sunni, who can change her appearance to anyone she wants by speaking that person's name. She turns herself into Princess Calla.
In "Loopy, Go Home," Cubbi finds a wolf cub and raises it, despite Gruffi's objections. In "A-Hunting We Will Go," a wild boar menaces Dunwyn Forest.
"The Fence Sitter": a bird is eating all the gummiberries, and Tummi's vote will decide how the Gummies are going to deal with it. "Night of the Gargoyle": Duke Igthorn sends a gargoyle to King Gregor with a note signed "The Gummi Bears". The gargoyle comes alive at night and starts to destroy things.
As Sunni struggles to accept her new role and to learn to make gummiberry juice, Duke Igthorn has Grammi kidnapped to force the recipe from her.
The Gummis discover a magic key belonging to a wizard of a different land, hidden by Igthorn. Thinking that the Gummis stole his key a showdown between Zummi and the wizard ensues.
Tummi befriends a blind lady shepherd. Duke Igthorn catapults Toadie into the forest, where he makes his way into Gummi Glen. When Tummi, who has been caught eating the other bears' picnic lunches and lying about it, sees him, no one believes him when he tries to tell them.
"Bubble Trouble": While reclaiming her forgotten gummiberry juice, Sunni stumbles on a lost infant cliff dragon who swallows the bottle whole then hiccups flame-filled bubbles. Igthorn sees them and steals the dragon to attack Castle Dunwyn. "Gummi in a Strange Land": Gruffi's attempt to grab honey results in a panicked slumber sprite's putting a spell on him, forcing Grammi and Cubbi to follow the sprite as he drags his honey supply into Drekmore...and somehow battle its evil plants and animals and stop Gruffi from sleepwalking into danger at the same time.
When the Gummis learn that Duke Igthorn is looking for an ancient Gummi signaling device/energy cannon, they must beat him to it.
When a Gummi Bear arrives on his airship, the Glen Gummies have a chance to rejoin their people, while Duke Igthorn wants the ship.
In "Faster Than a Speeding Tummi," Tummi cleans up his act and learns faster is not better. In "For a Few Sovereigns More," Duke Igthorn hires a bounty hunter to catch a Gummi Bear. When he refuses to pay, the hunter locks up Igthorn, the ogres, and Cubbi in his castle.
"Over the River and Through the Trolls": Cavin enlists the Gummi Bears' help to protect a gold-coach bearing his grandfather Sir Gawain, who originally found the Gummi medallion, from a band of thieving trolls...by having himself, Zummi, and Gruffi disguise themselves as part of the group to learn their hideout's location. But Cavin is caught, he sends the others to draw the knights to save him, and soon Sir Gawain and the driver also need rescuing too. "You Snooze, You Lose": Duke Igthorn's latest attempt to concoct gummiberry juice results in a potion that causes sleep when breathed in. His ogres pour it in Dunwyn Castle's moat so everyone except Calla, hiding from the pointlessness of princess life in a basement room, and Cavin, visiting Gummi Glen, are affected. As Calla arrives and seeks their help, Igthorn's scouts have inhaled the gas themselves so he's running late with the attack he only has an hour to complete before the kingdom awakens. But the eight still have their hands full trying to keep his ogres from scaling the castle Calla sealed off.
Cubbi becomes a masked superhero patrolling Dunwyn, only to find it is more complicated and dangerous than he expected.
"A Hard Dazed Knight": Duke Igthorn disguises himself as a peddler and tricks King Gregor into holding a magical glass egg that causes a statue to appear where he stood and him to be shrunk and trapped in the egg. Calla goes to the Gummies for help and Gruffi, seeing she's handy with machines, has her help him set up an old mechanical suit of armor to approach Igthorn as a "knight" to divert him while Calla searches for the egg to change Gregor back. "Do Unto Ogres": Toadwart is kicked out of Drekmoor while Sunni is disposing of her failed attempted crop-grower. He has his life saved by her so pledges himself to her service, so she tries to teach him about self-respect and assertiveness. As she is captured by the ogres he falls into the well she poured the potion down and becomes a giant, then attacks Drekmoor, not only to save her but to get revenge on Igthorn and the ogres for bullying him.
When Zummi dabbles in more advanced magic, he attracts the attention of an evil imprisoned wizard who uses that discovery to his advantage.
"Little Bears Lost": Several objects in Gummi Glen have gone missing and the only two not blaming anyone else yet, Grammi and Zummi, decide to find out what's happening to them. But Zummi misquotes his finding spell so shrinks them, but not his medallion, forcing them to go on a dangerous trip to the Great Book to get a spell then return to the medallion to restore themselves in just two hours before it's for good. "Guess Who's Gumming to Dinner": Sunni invites Calla to the Gummis' Folly Day festival but worry it won't be appreciated as much as Dunwyn's royal banquet so tries to think of how to make it formal. A book on tradition gives her some ideas, but she goes to even further extremes until the others are ready to turn the tables on her.
Tummi and Gruffi go on a ocean voyage, only to become stranded on a deserted island populated by an eccentric Gummi artist.
Toadie's cousin Tad convinces the ogres to overthrow Duke Igthorn and install him in his place. When he orders the destruction of the Gummiberry bushes, so the Gummi Bears reluctantly work to help Igthorn regain power to save their berries.
"If I Were You": Temporarily given the cold shoulder by the others while they prepare his birthday party, Tummi is captured by Duke Igthorn, who uses a totem to switch bodies with him so he can infiltrate Gummi Glen and use gummiberry juice and magic to rise to power. "Eye of the Beholder": Sunni learns that King Gregor's fiancé, Marzipan, is actually a power-hungry witch much older than she appears. She tries to tell Calla, but she, like everyone else in Dunwyn, is under Marzipan's spell. So the fight to find and attack with Marzipan's weakness is planned with even more secrecy than usual around humans.
"Presto Gummo": Tummi wants to be a magician for entertainment and Cubbi wants some excitement, so he sets up some stunts to make Tummi think the fake medallion he made works. Problems occur when Tummi tries to ward off Duke Igthorn with his "magic" and is captured. "A Tree Grows in Dunwyn": Calla has the Gummi Bears help her secretly plant a tree in the castle orchard for King Gregor's Monarch's Day present, but it's the same tree the trolls stashed their loot in - and the lead troll, Tuck, and two of his crew have just escaped the jail and, finding it gone, attack the Gummis to get it back.
When Tummi apparently wipes out the Gummi Berry crop through his own stupidity, he sets out to a long-abandoned Gummi agricultural region to attempt to find the materials needed to reestablishment it.
"Water Way to Go": Gusto encounters a mermaid named Aquarianne and wants her to pose for him but Sunni, jealous that he won't paint her, lies that he plans to capture her. When she leaves, Duke Igthorn captures her so her sea-monster pet will follow her and attack Dunwyn. "Close Encounters of the Gummi Kind": Gusto's rolling sculpture of Gruffi to lead away ogres instead attracts not only Igthorn and his ogres but a group of humans who want to see the Gummis for a variety of purposes.
"Snows Your Old Man": Winter has not left Dunwyn on time and, while out, Tummi, Sunni, and Cubbi discover the reason is a frost giant controlling the weather. They try to convince him to stop it but may have to avoid end up getting frozen. "Boggling the Bears": Sunni rescues a boggle, a creature able to shape-shift, from a wolf but has to keep it a secret from the others who think Gummi Glen is haunted when things start moving around by themselves. Then "Ditto" misunderstands Sunni's reassurance that the place a haven and invites her whole pack, and the wolf is still hungry...
The Gummi Bears rediscover the ancient city of Gummadoon, which appears for one day every 100 years.
While fishing at Grimtooth Inlet Cubbi learns his perch is a griffin's egg and hides from it in the shell, but its baby mervin is lost and Gruffi is stuck with it, causing confusion to the mother over who's her offspring.
Just as the gears in Gummi Glen's system fail and there's no way to escape the roasting heat, a prince from the Great East, where they are well-known and revered, comes seeking them to help with a special task. Duke Igthorn orders Toadwart to steal Prince Yen Moon's statuette he was going to use as part of it, but can't figure out how to use it to get power like he wanted. The Gummi Bears and Prince Yen Moon reclaim it and teleport to his kingdom but Igthorn and Toadwart get dragged along unnoticed. And what they're asked to help out with turns out to be a dragon...
"Music Hath Charms": Igthorn gets a hold of a set of enchanted bagpipes that hypnotize the listeners (except stupid ogres) into doing the player's bidding for a day, and enchants not only all of Dunwyn but five of the Gummi Bears. Grammi was inside a pot that got hit just before so is briefly deafened. She has to follow them to Drekmoor to stop Igthorn from making everyone his slaves - without becoming mesmerized herself when able to hear again. "Dress for Success": The Gummis all attend Folly Day since they can be taken for costumed people. While entering a fashion contest, Sunni learns that Duke Igthorn is planning to use an explosive to defeat King Gregor, and has to escape when he traps her to prevent her stopping it.
"A Knight to Remember": After accidentally scaring everyone into thinking they're under attack while playing as a knight, Cubbi goes out to gather plants and sees the grave of a Gummi knight, Sir Gallant, whose ghost than appears to him. The others don't see him and don't believe Cubbi, whom Sir Gallant asks for help on a quest he never finished to dismantle the gears of a clock that will end the world if started up for long enough. "Gummies Just Want to Have Fun": Nogum, a leprechaun Grammi knew as a kid, shows up and encourages her to enjoy life, which she's happy to do since she always works. But the others dislike how they cause plenty of problems without solving any, and order him out, and Grammi seems ready to follow him.
With repairs needed, the bears look for another home. After an adventurous night, the bears decide that their home really is perfect for them...almost. / Gusto has an existential crisis and ends up the unofficial royal artist.
Obnoxious Lord Willoughby makes a risk-everything bet with Sir Gawain that he won't be able to find a Gummi Bear. Cavin can't break his promise and show him Gummi Glen to help so begs the Gummi Bears to step in and help him themselves. But there's an added reason for urgency: Tummi has eaten fruit off a tree that causes anyone to do so to turn into a tree himself and a spell is needed to save him. But the Gummi medallion has fallen off of Zummi's neck while getting him inside and Willoughby has found it, and is set on hiding it so Gawain can't be proved right. The Gummies ask Gawain to team up with them to reclaim it.
"Tummi's Last Stand": Tummi is so slow that he and Cubbi are almost caught by ogres and stumble upon an ancient obstacle course. It may be the only thing able to help him to fight off Duke Igthorn when he and his ogres return and capture Cubbi. "The Crimson Avenger Strikes Again": Gruffi finds Cubbi's Crimson Avenger costume and thinks he's imitating the hero he distrusts and disposes of it. Toadwart, exiled by Duke Igthorn, stumbles on and dons it not realizing what potential it has until robbers flee him. Deciding to create a new name for himself as hero, he poses as the Crimson Avenger but soon ends up fighting against his former master and Cubbi, who does not want people to think his alter ego is a lowlife coward.
"Ogre Baby Boom": While looking for Toadwart to literally kick him around then chasing Grammi who's disposing of a mixture of gummiberry juice and baby powder, Duke Igthorn's ogres' ending up in a pond full of it transforms them into infants. Igthorn and Toadwart get stuck with most of them, but Grammi stumbles upon Zook and decides to try and bring him up hoping he'll turn out better. "The White Knight": Cavin's hero, the famed Sir Victor, comes to visit Dunwyn, but he has a terrible secret. When he runs into Igthorn, the duke forces him to help him conquer Dunwyn by threatening to reveal that he is his brother if he doesn't. Cavin sees them meeting then Sir Victor preparing to betray King Gregor and goes to the Gummies to get help in stopping the attack.
Gruffi accidentally breaks his foot while working and is predictably a reluctant patient. When a group of invaders set up camp nearby, taking the Gummis' resources and planning to strike Dunwyn, he sneaks out to try to drive them away.
Cubbi becomes obsessed with flying after hearing a story of the mythical Aerials. He builds a gummiberry-juice-powered jet pack and has Artie instruct him, and finds their floating island. But the Aerials aren't winged like legends say but use machines...and they have another secret: they're old enemies subdued by the Ancient Gummies and plan to capture the Gummies and enslave them to power their aircraft like Cubbi did his "wings". Artie overhears but is captured before he can warn Cubbi, who returns convinced the Aerials are friends. While he is shut up in his roof after getting home, Gummi Glen is attacked and the other six captured, forcing him to try to find a way out and free them.
Tummi stumbles on a dragon-shaped submarine created by the ancient Gummies, and the Gummies decide to use it to finally go abroad to meet their relatives. But as they set out, Duke Igthorn, at sea planning to attack King Gregor as he returns home from abroad, sees it and decides to commandeer it and use it as a weapon against him.
When Gruffi accidentally destroys the Great Book of Gummi, he sets out to the supposedly abandoned Gummi capital city of Ursalia to attempt to replace it, only to find he's not the only one looking there.
"A Gummi a Day Keeps the Doctor Away": Tummi decides to help out Dr. Dexter, a peddler who hasn't gotten the hang of his family's medicine's recipe, by giving him gummiberry juice so his patients will be strengthened. Duke Igthorn learns of this and captures Dr. Dexter to learn its ingredients, forcing the Gummis to come to the rescue. "Let Sleeping Giants Lie": Sunni is glum about attending the yearly Festival of the First Snow with the Gummis instead of a ball with CAlla, so is unhappy when she wins a game where the prize it is to carry a potion to Lethiathan Mountain. But she has more to worry about while she and Cubbi lose it and encounter a newly-awakened giant who attacks them...
"Bridge on the River Gummi": The wooden X Bridge falls apart and Gruffi decides to construct a new stone one, but goes overboard with making it long-lasting and grand, neglecting his duties to the others. But the real trouble begins when Duke Igthorn decides to use it as a shortcut to invade Dunwyn. "Life of the Party": Duke Igthorn meets Lady Bane and falls in love, and they decide to meet and see if they can come up with a plan to defeat the Gummi Bears since they both want to for their own respective purposes. In competition for finding a magical re-sprouting tree whose sap keeps their home from leaking, Sunni and Cubbi see them and hurry to think of an idea to thwart their alliance.
Tummi's love of food gets him in trouble, and he learns a valuable lesson about willpower. / After a night with Cubbi, Gusto learns that rules are an important part of life.
Cavin has Zummi turn him into a Ogre to infiltrate Duke Igthorn's forces, but Cavin's mission has a series of complications that earn the villain's favor of him to the point that the Gummis fear Cavin's mind has been affected.
"Princess Problems": A spoiled princess named Marie comes to visit Dunwyn with her father, making life miserable for Calla. Things quickly get out of hand when Sunni, visiting and forced to act like a toy to avoid anyone knowing what she is, is attempted to be stolen by Marie, and the girls' fight angers their fathers enough to declare war. Sunni puts herself in harm's way by passing herself off as a doll to end it. "A Gummi is a Gummi's Best Friend": Gusto sculpts Zummi shoveling while Gruffi is getting himself another shovel broken when Zummi saved him from being crushed by a boulder, but manipulates Zummi into going with him to pose for another. When Gruffi returns, he thinks the magician has turned himself into stone. So does a passing Lady Bane, who is determined to get ahold of "him" to learn the Gummies' magic. She succeeds in stealing the statue, sending Gruffi on a battle against her and her Troggles.
An elf named Carney running a sideshow doesn't have any success acting as a Gummi Bear, but his disguise fools Grammi, who sees him in a fight and "rescues" him, taking him to Gummi Glen. He is disappointed to learn that they are not creatures of wealth as some stories claim, but decides using them in his show will increase his profit. He lures them all into a trap which they can't seem to escape from, but they are determined...
Tuck, Clutch, and Nip escape from Dunwyn Castle's dungeon again. Cubbi finds their lost treasure map and takes Tummi to look for it. They use the Gummies' tunneling Mole machine to remove rocks an avalanche blocked the treasure with, but are caught by the trolls who steal the Mole to steal Calla's crown jewels. The Gummies are left to figure out how to get it back so the robbery doesn't occur and humans don't get a hold of it or learn whose it is either.
The Glen Gummies are summoned to Ursalia and meet the Barbics, a nation of barbarian Gummi Bears who seek both a new home and a mighty weapon to exact revenge on humanity.
At each other's throats as usual about their efficiency in their respective jobs, Gruffi and Grammi decide to switch chores for the day. While trying to repair one of the ogre traps, Grammi is captured by Duke Igthorn's ogres, and he tries to interrogate her on how to use a newly-built Gummi logging machine based on a blueprint Toadwart found to attack Dunwyn with.
Tummi can't seem to refuse a request for help, so when he follows the smell of food to a monastery, he ends up taking the abbot up on his offer to stay. But when Tuck, Clutch, and Nip strike in disguise, he must learn how to refuse their demands quickly to stop the peaceful monks from being robbed and subject to their demands and destruction of their monastery.
Dunwyn is about to host a knights' tournament and the local hero, Sir Tuxford, doubts he can stand up to his rivals, and an attempt by Cavin with Cubbi's help to make he think he's doing a great deed backfires, making him feel mocked. On the day of the tournament, Tummi and Cubbi are helping Gruffi repair their tunnels under Dunwyn when they'd rather be watching it. But they stumble across a plan by Duke Igthorn to invade while the festivities have called everyone away from their work so he can sneak in. They try to stop him, but Cavin is having a harder time convincing Tuxford to do his part...
Duke Igthorn finds a suit of magic armor that can make the wearer invincible, but the only minion of his whom it fits is Toadwart.
Zummi is determined to memorize all his spells so he will stop making mistakes when quoting them. But he pushes himself so hard that he isn't getting enough rest, and when he finally does fall asleep he speaks the words to the spells, causing mysterious events that none of the other Gummis can explain...
Zummi uncovers a magical quilt that contains pictures of every noble deed a Gummi ever performed. Sunni borrows it to show Calla, but Lady Bane runs into her and steals it, trying to harness its energy for her own power. The Gummis try to retrieve it, but she has already grown strong enough to capture King Gregor even without completely controlling the quilt, and has the assistance of a lovesick Duke Igthorn, who blindly assists her without realizing she's just using him...
Sir Thornberry comes to visit Gummi Glen, causing havoc with his wackiness and unclear thinking. While using one of the Quick Cars and handling it clumsily, he ends up awakening the Spinster, a giant spider. She traps the local six, forcing Cavin to trust the old knight as they go to free them before they are eaten.
Cubbi has two encounters with a group of culinary thieves as The Crimson Avenger but regrets the mockery he gets at home. Then, during a third battle, he is humiliated and his face is almost seen by the enemy, and he flees in shame, burns his costume, and vows never to fight again, disillusioning a boy named Milton who admires The Crimson Avenger. The following day, the villain's plan is revealed as he steals the kingdom's taxes, replacing them with gold-wrapped chocolate coins. Milton learns of this but is kidnapped, and Cubbi's alter ego is the only one who can save him...
Lately everyone is unhappy with Grammi's cooking. So she decides to become a better cook. Grammi goes out and gathers a number of strange roots. Three gnomes see Grammi collecting the exact same roots they need. The gnomes are enslaved by a non-stop hungry monster that keeps them alive only to get food. The three gnomes decide to kidnap Sunni, Gruffi, Zummi and Tummi to feed them to the monster. To rescue the gummi bears, Grammi comes with the ingenious plan to cook for the monster.
During a fight among the Carpies, their king falls and loses his crown and is found by Tummi, who tries to help him along with Grammi despite Cubbi's and Gruffi's distrust, while the crown is donned by Sunni pretending to be a princess. But the Carpies take this to mean she is now their leader and kidnap her again. She must think of a way to force them to release her while the king is equally set on getting home and dealing with his subjects.
As the Glenn Gummies and the Barbics work on different solutions to Ursalia's water problem, Gritty goes out of his way to hatefully cause trouble for some nearby humans.
After an extended absence, Duke Igthorn returns with his grandest scheme to destroy Gummi Glenn and conquer Dunwyn.
With Igthorn triumphant over the Gummis and Dunwyn, the remaining Gummis desperately attempt to stop him even as the Great Gummis are returning to that land.
Duke Igthorn buys a gypsy love potion to make Lady Bane fall for him. She, meanwhile, has had her Troggles out Gummi Bear-hunting and has succeeded in capturing Tummi. As their two carriages race toward each other and crash, the bottle of potion breaks and sends it spraying over the other carriage. Lady Bane has fallen in love with Toadwart, to Igthorn's misery, and is aware that Tummi has fallen in love with her so tries to exploit this to get him to give her the Great Book of Gummi so she can be all-powerful.
Lady Bane's youth potion taken a century before has worn off and signs that she is a millennium old begin to show before she has company, so she sends her Troggles to find something young enough to exchange her age for that being's youth. They run across Sunni and don't succeed in capturing her but do get a tuft of hair. The next day the others think she's grown to the point where they can finally tell, and she is delighted to be taken as something more than a child by the others, especially Gusto. But the next day she is elderly, and Zummi, Gruffi, and Gusto set out to undo Lady Bane's spell, but she is determined to follow despite her now being so weak...
When Duke Igthorn's virtuous brother, Sir Victor, temporarily oversees Dunwyn's security, the Duke decides to abduct and impersonate Victor to strike at King Gregor.
Sunni visits Calla to cheer herself up while being stuck cleaning with Tummi and Cubbi, but hides in a box transferred with Calla and King Gregor to King Jean-Claude's country, forcing Cubbi and Tummit o follow. Calla is not happy to see Marie again, and her mood doesn't improve when Sunni's refusal to hide as bidden results in her humiliation when she is forced to claim clumsiness so no one knows Sunni caused disturbances around her. Sunni leaves the next day, sure their friendship is over, then witnesses Calla and Marie, in a competitive horse-race, being kidnapped by the enemy who tried to sink King Gregor's ship on the way in he was meeting with King Jean-Claude to discuss how to defeat the enemy...
Grammi goes to offer food to the feather-tailed zephyrs like every year, but this year she and Tummi witness Toadwart and some other ogres capture them intending to use them as food for Duke Igthorn. However, when he receives them he decides their size would be better suited for an aerial attack on Dunwyn. Grammi has taken in a chick whose mother was caught and leaves Tummi, Sunni, and Cubbi to deal with it while she goes with Gruffi and Zummi to free the birds and keep Dunwyn safe...
When Cavin visits Ursalia, he is challenged by Ursa to compete against Buddi in the Trial of Bearhood, unaware of Buddi's own reticence and the unexpected dangers to come.
