Wow, I thought I was the only one that remembered this cartoon.

I actually never watched it since I'm not from Canada, but I found it on Youtube years later!!

Not from Canada either, but they showed this on the Disney Channel in the US.

I'll gladly accept your offer, I see the passion in your eyes! :D

Now I just gotta actually sing that song at a con!!

*boop*

*boops back*
Let's go on an adventure!!!

Yay ^^

Aaaaaah!!! This is so awesome!!! I love it

ME TOO!!!! :D

Ahhh this is fantastic!

I absolutely adore Jonas' work and it was such a pleasure to get a piece from him!!

I can tell!

YISS!!!!

Sure! The Bert look suits you.

Thanks, man! I got a shirt just like that, look forward to some fursuiting photos of me wearing it in the future.

Really? Where'd you find that? Looking forward to seeing that! I think a Charlie Brown shirt would also look good on you.

On Redbubble. the REAL official jumper was too small for me and impossible to get.
So I got a similar one one Redbubble (it doesn't have the yellow trim on the sleeves and bottom however)

Yup!

No way!!! There will be plenty of Americans there.

Wow the Raccoons on CBC Canada's toon. I got all the episodes.

Nice. The DVD sets have long been out of print, but I have seen a few episodes.

I remember the shivers I always got listening to Lisa Lougheed (Lisa the Raccoon, in her IRL incarnation) perform the whole end titles ('Run With Us') or simply Steve Lund's stock title edit at the end of every episode, and I still do now. I watched that cartoon- probably the first anthropomorphic animation I watched thus- religiously, every Sunday or weekday after school (on CBC 5 here in Toronto), and I don't use that word lightly ('religiously'). It was a big part of inspiring me to get into drawing my own artwork, then specifically Furry artwork (although not to the exclusion of all else) and finally writing, and then eventually to animation school in Oakville, at Sheridan College...where, not to a little of my surprise, got to meet a number of the folks who worked on 'The Raccoons' for Nelvana, as quite a few of my professors did.

I have, I think, a lot to thank that obscure, but loved Canadian animal-person cartoon for. :) Full circle, good sirs!

-2Paw.

# Found this a few days ago, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Siz8kzMZA

# And for a taste of a beloved classic, sung by the Lady Herself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Zf_lnulDA

That's really awesome! Thank you for sharing that story. It's wonderful to know that a show like The Raccoons still has a lot of staying power to this day.
And thanks again for the great song renditions!

It's a pleasure to share the crafted results of imagination, freely available and thoroughly inspiring to enjoy! And you're very welcome for the sharing of my wee journey; thank you for sharing my story's telling as an excellent listener and kind ear! :) The Raccoons I never forgot as I grew; had more than a few 'What if...' reboot ideas go through my mind over the last twenty or thirty years since: a Raccoons set in the series' future (as in, our modern day) after human contact was unavoidable; a cyberpunk-ish revision of the series, with the proper trappings involved, and even a 'Godfather'-esque setting with the series' characters taking unexpectedly extreme roles instead.

I was very happy to hear there was a much more recent DVD collection of the series; not currently easily available, mind you, but it was great to hear there was enough push by the copyright owners (if it's no longer Nelvana alone) to put a set like that out. The last thing I didn't know until I saw the Lisa Lougheed video for 'Run With Us' in the second link: I know exactly where the video was shot. Did you see the printed words on a billboard in the background reading 'The Uptown & Backstage'? The Uptown Theatre was a franchised movie theatre in what was the 'Famous Players' chain here in Canada (in this case, specifically in Toronto), and where it was is about four subway stops from me here in town. I saw 'Blade Runner', 'Wayne's World', 'Underworld' and 'Trainspotting' at that theatre (and at the Backstage on Balmuto Street behind it, I saw Terminator 2: Judgement Day), and it had what was the best leg room in the front row; you could put them all the way up onto a large, flat area. Decades prior to the theatre being converted to a film cinema, the Uptown was a live theatre stage, resulting in the unusual gap between the front row and the screen proper. Sadly, the Uptown was torn down when the Famous Players chain closed down shop, and even more regrettably, two construction workers died during the pulling-down when a wall, thought to be better-secured than it was, collapsed on top of them, killing them both.

As for Bert, Lisa and Bentley, Cedric and Cyril, the three Pig Henchmen and the big shaggy dog fellow and his wee bit, well, I've not forgotten them myself. I know a lot of folks here- not all of them in Furry or in the animation industry, either- haven't themselves! :) Thank you kindly for posting back, ami raton-laveur!

-2Paw.

By much more you mean 10 years ago and in the UK, yeah Kevin Gillis just doesn't want to acknowledge the original series sadly for some reason?

You're exactly right, ami. I don't know what to say to that; The Raccoons was a serious, but light-hearted and realistic animation that I grew up with and loved to bits, and still do today. I'm at least glad we can still keep the Raton-Flag high, as best we can! <3

-2Paw.

At least we got a couple of seasons on DVD and complete seasons they are, more then what can be said for poor Canada, but at least they had Len Carlson reprise his role as Bert Raccoon for the menus, shortly before his passing.

I can't believe that I haven't faved this yet. Jonas did a terrific job. You look great in Bert's sweater.