Shadow (Bear in the Big Blue House)

Role in the series

Shadow is a playful, sentient shadow on Bear in the Big Blue House. In most episodes, she tells a story, sometimes partly in song. Occasionally, her stories are entirely sung. Shadow's stories combine joy and melancholy.

She is a character who's a shadow in a shape of a whimsical person possessing a quirky nature whose stories are illustrated using the medium of shadow puppetry. Often she will sing the stories and rhymes while the characters within the shadow puppet segments give deadpan commentary. Her melodies are often modal.

Shadow usually presages her presence with her musical laugh. Bear (with the help of the viewers) tries to find her by singing her song -- "Where, oh where, oh where is Shadow?" This never seems to work, though, so Bear has to call "Shadow!" in order to get her to appear.

The shadow puppet segments that accompany Shadow's stories are written, designed, and performed by Jon Ludwig. Ludwig and Mooney worked together with Peter Lurye the musical director to write most of the shadow puppetry music segments.

Trivia

• The shadow puppet segments that accompany Shadow's stories were written, designed, and performed by Jon Ludwig.
• Ludwig and Mooney worked together with Peter Lurye the musical director to write most of the shadow puppetry music segments.
• In the first part of "A Berry Bear Christmas", Shadow twists the format of finding her; instead of Bear singing the Shadow song, Shadow sings her own version of the song, "Where Oh Where is Bear?".

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Media Bear in the Big Blue House (Episode list) • Breakfast with Bear Soundtracks: Songs from Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House • More Songs from Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House Disney Parks Bear in the Big Blue House: Live on Stage • Playhouse Disney - Live on Stage! • Disney Stars and Motorcars Parade Characters Bear • Annette • Baby Blotter • Edwina Badger • Benny the Bat • Big Old Bullfrog • Billy • Bonnie • Christine • Doc Hogg • Doc Owl • Earl • Ferret Jeeter • Grandma Flutter • Grandpa Highland McTutter • Harry the Duck • Hephaestus Tortoise • Jack the Dog • Jacques the Beaver • Jeremiah Tortoise • Jet Setter Tutter • Jim Mouse • June Mouse • Keisha • Klutter Tutter • The Klutter Tutters • Uncle Koala • Lily • Lois • Luke • Luna • Mama Duck • Miss Maxwell • Moss • Mousey the Great • Ojo • Otto and Etta Otter • Pip and Pop • The Possums • Puck • Ray the Sun • Rita Mouse • Rocko • Shadow • Skippy • Snook • Tardy • Treelo • Tucker Tutter • Tutter • Nutter Tutter • Tutterly T. Tutter • Twizzler Tutter • Uncle Tito del Tutter • Ursa • Ms. Henrietta Vanderpeen • Whiner Tutter Episodes Season One: "Home is Where the Bear Is" • "Water, Water Everywhere" • "Mouse Party" • "Shape of a Bear" • "Picture of Health" • "Share, Bear" • "Why Bears Can't Fly" • "Falling for Fall" • "What's in the Mail, Today?" • "Dancin' the Day Away" • "A Wagon of a Different Color" • "Dirt, I Love You So!" • "Music to My Ears" • "All Connected" • "Summer Cooler" • "The Big Little Visitor" • "A Winter's Nap" • "Working Like a Bear" • "Magic in the Kitchen" • "Spring Fever" • "A Plant Grows in Bear's House" • "Eat, Drink Juice and Be Merry" • "Need a Little Help Today" • "Lost Thing" • "Listen Up!" • "Friends for Life" Season Two: "Ooh Baby, Baby" • "Raiders of the Lost Cheese" • "The Big Sleep" • "Clear as a Bell" • "Good Times" • "You Learn Something New Every Day" • "Back to Nature" • "The Ojolympics" • "The Great Pretender" • "It's All in Your Head" • "Oops, My Mistake" • "Bear's Birthday Bash" • "Picture This" • "The Big Blue Housecall" • "Change is in the Air" • "Look What I Made" • "If At First You Don't Succeed..." • "All Weather Bear" • "I Built That!" • "Tutter's Tiny Trip" • "Dance Fever!" • "Afraid Not" • "I Gotta Be Me!" • "Buggin'" • "Love is All You Need" • "It's a Mystery to Me" • "As Different as Day and Night" • "Grandparents Just Want to Have Fun" • "The Way I Feel Today" • "You Go, Ojo!" • "Scientific Bear" • "Boys Will Be Boys" • "I Was Just Thinking" • "Wish You Were Here" • "And to All a Good Night" • "Call it a Day" • "We Did it Our Way" • "What's the Story?" • "When You've Got to Go!" Season Three: "Friends At Play" • "Nothing to Fear" • "Lost and Found" • "The Senseless Detectives" • "Halloween Bear" • "You Never Know" • "It's All About You" • "Woodland House Wonderful" • "I've Got Your Number" • "What's Mine is Yours" • "Bear's Secret Cave" • "Smellorama" • "I For-Got Rhythm?!?" • "Wait for Me" • "Morning Glory" • "That Healing Feeling" • "The Tutter Family Reunion" • "Bats are People Too" • "Words, Words, Words" • "Let's Get Interactive" • "The Yard Sale" • "The Best Thanksgiving Ever" • "Read My Book" • "Go to Sleep" • "A Berry Bear Christmas" Season Four: "Welcome to Woodland Valley" • "Step by Step" • "First Day at Mouse School" • "Rockin' Rocko" • "When Harry Met Hallie" • "Show and Tell" • "Tutter Gathers Some Moss" • "History, Herstory, Bearstory" • "At the Old Bear Game" • "The Amazing Skippy" • "Let's Hit the Road" • "Great Ball of Firefighters" • "Appreciation Day" • "Show Your Stuff" • "Grandma Flutter's 100th Birthday" • "The View from You" • "To Clean or Not to Clean" • "The Great Bandini" • "Volunteers of Woodland Valley" • "Big Blue Home of the Brave" • "A Trip to the General Store" • "Tutter's First Big Sleepover Bash" • "A Strange Bird" • "Let it Go" • "This is Your Life, Bear" Location The Big Blue House • Doc Hogg's Office • Mouse School • Otter Pond • River City • Sequoia City • Woodland Valley • Woodland Valley Cinema • Woodland Valley General Store • Woodland Valley Library • Woodland Valley Mall • Woodland Valley Post Office Songs Welcome to the Blue House • Clean Up the House • Goodbye Song