The Shocking Secret Past of Sugar Bear

fanboy.com — I had always assumed that the animated Sugar Bear character was created just for commercials, but it turns out that he got started in Linus the Lionhearted a 1963 Saturday morning kids cartoon which crossed the now unimaginable line of having sponsored mascots pushing junk food. And it also turns out that he's based on martini drinking Dean Martin! Jan 11, 2009 View in Crawl 4