Have they ever mauled a group of campers?
Just wondering where bears would get clothes from, unless they rampaged and mauled some campers.
Can you imagine the humor when Papa brings home four blood-stained sleeping bags of some hapless campers, and then cheerfully announces that they will go on a camping trip that weekend? Or have Sister be unable to open a jar of honey because she doesn't have opposable thumbs? I won't even mention all the humor possibilities based on the old joke about "does a bear #$#$ in the woods?"
Seriously, why even make them bears to begin with, when they act no different from humans at all? Why not just have a bunch of hicks called The Berenstain Hicks?
"Just do it. Sue sue sue. Do it. Go go go go." - How Tom Cruise deals with bad press.