ShareBear

For the object itself, see ShareBear (object).

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ShareBear
Network	Adult Swim (Cartoon Network)
Premiere date	April 12, 2021
Run time	22:35
Writer(s)	Anca Vlasan
Storyboard artist(s)	Joanna Davidovich Adam Ford Drew Schmidt Cassidy Stone Felipe Di Poi Tamargo
Director(s)	Richard Ferguson-Hall
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"ShareBear" is the second episode of Birdgirl season one. It aired on April 12, 2021 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. It was written by Anca Vlasan, produced by Susan Shipsky and Melissa Warrenburg, and directed by Richard Ferguson-Hall.

When Meredith makes Judy feel incompetent, she takes a major financial risk in supporting a new therapeutic bear from the socially awkward Etan DelVay and his tech company.

Memorable quotes

Judy: It's payday, bitch! I was talking to myself. I wasn't calling you a--.
Meredith: Payday!
Judy: Payday!

Meredith: Head turn, right arm, knee bend, elbow grab, shake it 'round, thumb up hoo-hah.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Gillian Sans	Kether Donahue
Birdgirl/Judy Ken Sebben	Paget Brewster
Meredith Mindtaker	Negin Farsad
Jessica	Unavailable
Lani-Marie Pfluger	N/A
Dog with Bucket Hat	John Doman
Brian O'Brien	Rob Delaney
Paul	Tony Hale
Phil Ken Sebben (photo)	N/A
Gillian's lover	N/A
Etan DelVay	Nicholas Braun
Tim Berners-Lee (photo)	N/A
Scot
Charley	Lorelei Ramirez
Josh	N/A
Dave	Unavailable
Lance Saxe-Cabung	Unavailable
Gillian's baby	N/A
Birdcat	N/A

Organizations

• Sebben & Sebben Worldwide
• Birdteam

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Sebben & Sebben Worldwide headquarters
    • Etan's company building
    • California (indirectly mentioned)
      • Stanford (mentioned)
        • Stanford University (mentioned)
    • Jeanette's (mentioned)
  • Japan

Objects

• Neodymium
• Sebben & Sebben Check Book
• Calypsis (indirectly mentioned)
• GoPro
• The New Yorker
• ShareBears (voiced by Ron Funches)
• Genius Monthly
• ShareBear prototype
• Sebben & Sebben XXX
• Baltimo
• Passé

Vehicles

• Nothing of importance

Production

Development

It was copyrighted in 2021.

Music

The theme song was performed by Leikeli47 and Michael Barney. The music was composed by Michael Kohler, although he's not expressly credited as such. Instead, he's credited for dialogue and other sound edits.

Crew credits

• Series creators: Michael Ouweleen, Erik Richter
• Series developers and executive producers: Erik Richter, Christina Miller
• Animation director: Richard Ferguson-Hall
• Consulting producer: Cirocco Dunlap
• Staff writers: Lorraine Degraffenreidt, Ele Woods, Jessica Haymond, Jonterri Gadson
• Writers' assistant: Anca Vlasan
• Script coordinator: Brittnay Johnston
• Animated services: Awesome Inc.
  • Executive producer: Ashley Kohler
  • Associate producer: Brandon Betts
  • Producer: Joshua Spencer
• Production assistants: Kaila Knight Tryal, Allie Wisniewski
• Storyboard artists: Joanna Davidovich, Adam Ford, Drew Schmidt, Cassidy Stone, Felipe Di Poi Tamargo
• Main character designer: Carly Monardo
• Lead character and prop designers: Claire Almon, Beth Lewis
• Character and prop designers: Kaila Knight Tryal, Alfred Taylor
• Lead character rigger: Bo Cai
• Character rigger: Jack Huang
• Lead background designer: Kat Stockton
• Background designers: Juan Montoya, Chris Nickels, Tessa Pray, Anna Renee, Kat Shea
• Assistant animation director: Melissa Wolfert
• Lead animator: Laura Ceredona
• Animators: Sam Alkaitis, Heather Bay, Angela De Vito, Davonne Dupart, Sofia Guerra, W. Justin King, Tatiana Moniz, Linh-Chi Nguyen, Torrey Notestine, Yuki Okamura-Wong, Emily Rodriguez, Ma. Belén Sáenz De Viteri, Gabriel Silva, Katelyn Walsh
• FX animator: Jenny Plyler
• Compositing and visual effects animators: Shannon Dingle, Jamie Galatas
• Conform editor: Thomas Fine
• Sound designer and mixer: Bluetube
• Supervising sound editor: Michael Kohler
• Audio assistant: Matt Peery
• Casting director: Dawn Hershey-Lopes
• Title sequence animator: Candice House
• Editor for WarnerMedia Studios: Jon Dilling
• Production coordinators: Inés Michelena, Sally Skinner
• Production assistant: Kat Daugherty
• Executive producers for Williams Street: Keith Crofford, Mike Lazzo

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: April 12, 2021 at 12am on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network)
• United Kingdom and Ireland: June 28, 2021 at 11pm on E4

Behind the scenes

• The ShareBears are a parody of Care Bears.

Errors

• The first check Judy signs is signed to a Lani-Marie Pfluger which she then passes to a character later identified as Jessica.
• The door on Brian's lab spells his surname O'Brian, but his own inspirational quote on his wall spells his surname as O'Brien.

Everlasting influence

• A poster in the breakroom informs of a monthly meeting about if the company should get the internet, which happens in "We Got the Internet."
• A photo of a ShareBear is on the Sebben & Sebben Memories Case in "Baltimo."
• For Adult Swim's 2022 April Fools prank, the episode was altered to have Pibby and Bun Bun from Learning with Pibby appear as cameos. They get tossed into the air along with all the other ShareBears.
• This won't be the only time Ron Funches voices a small teddy bear.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Not available. 😥