A fat, dumb, freeloading bear who lives in Brownstone National Park and is always on the lookout for an easy meal. Humphrey tended to run afoul of Donald Duck and fussy ranger J. Audubon Woodlore.

The Humphrey cartoons have been aptly described as "belly-laugh" shorts by Leonard Maltin, as they feature a broader, wilder style of comedy than the usually cute or coy gags typically associated with the Classic Disney Shorts.

Not to be confused with the star of the Australian children's show Here's Humphrey.

Media Featuring Humphrey:

Television shows:

• The Mickey Mouse Club
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
• Goof Troop
• Mickey Mouse Works / House of Mouse
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (Cameo appearance in one episode)
• Legend of the Three Caballeros
• Mickey Mouse (2013) / The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse (cameo)
• Once Upon a Studio

Tropes That Apply to Humphrey:

• Animated Anthology: Walt Disney Presents, in its "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" phase, aired the episode "The Ranger of Brownstone" in 1968, which compiles most of the original Humphrey shorts from the 1950s. There's actually two versions of this episode; the original aired version, and a syndicated version. Both versions skip the Goofy short "Hold That Pose", but feature the shorts "Grin and Bear It", "In the Bag", "Hooked Bear", Rugged Bear" and "Bearly Asleep". However, the original version of the episode features a Donald Duck short in which Ranger Woodlore appears, "Grand Canyonscope", whilst the syndicated version swaps that short for one of the two missing Humphrey shorts; "Beezy Bear".
• Bears Are Bad News: Well, sort of. Humphrey may make life harder for those around him, but he's a pest rather than an actual threat.
• Beary Friendly: Humphrey never shows any signs of aggression despite being a grizzly bear.
• Beary Funny: His bumbling attempts to get food and avoid hunters leads to lots of comedy.
• Big Eater: Humphrey devours massive amounts of food... when he can get food, that is.
• The Cameo: Spike the Bee appeared in "Beezy Bear".
• Captain Ersatz: Not Humphrey himself, but when Humphrey's creator Jack Hannah left Disney for Walter Lantz, he created a new character named Fatso Bear, who was more or less identical to Humphrey.
• Catchphrase: A very distinctive "heh". Humphrey also has a tendency to take in a deep breath and let it out with an exasperated babbling of his lips when things go awry for him.
• Dagwood Sandwich: In "Grin and Bear It", Humphrey joins Donald's picnic and helps him build two sandwich towers. Instead of sharing them, however, Donald just smooshes the two together and eats them himself.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In his first appearance, on the Goofy short "Hold that Pose", he has a different design and acts more belligerent.
  • In Bearly Asleep, Donald is the ranger rather than Woodlore. His name wasn't even Humphrey, given by his rare speaking line, "Humphrey pinched me!"
• Fence Painting: On "In the Bag", the Ranger tricks the bears into picking up garbage by making it into a game.
• Fire-Breathing Diner: Downplayed in "Grin and Bear It"; after Donald refuses to share his Dagwood Sandwich with Humphrey, the bear instead tries to sneak something out of Donald's picnic basket, only to eat a hot pepper. Cue Humphrey's cheeks bulging, face going bright red, and small spurts of flame escaping his tightly pursed lips before he ultimately flees to cool the internal inferno by guzzling from a waterfall. It's obvious he probably would have gone spewing flames everywhere if he wasn't desperately trying to hide that he'd just stolen some of Donald's food.
• Have a Gay Old Time: From "Grin and Bear it" comes Brownstone Park's final rule, which is also repeated on a big wooden sign for emphasis: Don't molest the bears.
• Hot Potato: The ending gag in "Beezy Bear". Donald has caught Humphrey sucking honey through a hose, so he hooks the hose to a faucet and turns it on full blast. The ranger arrives, takes the hose away from Humphrey and gives it back to Donald, who knows what's coming and tries to give it back. They fight over who gets it until all three of them get soaked.
• Implied Death Threat: In "Grin and Bear It", the Ranger warns the bears (mostly Humphrey) not to steal the park goers' food. If they don't, he threatens them with "the supreme penalty", and points at a ratty bear skin rug hanging on the side of the ranger station.
• Jerkass:
  • Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore is consistently characterized as quite a jerk to Humphrey, even given Humphrey's foibles. In particular, he never expresses any sympathy when Humphrey has a legitimate problem, and is constantly berating Humphrey about following various park regulations, often punctuating his orders with physical abuse. For example, in "Grin and Bear It", he bops Humphrey on the head and orders him to pick up a discarded snack container that Donald threw on the ground in front of Humphrey, and slaps Humphrey whilst chastising him about putting his elbows on the table. Meanwhile, in the short "In the Bag", Woodlore turns a blind eye to the other bears blatantly cheating by dumping all of their rubbish in Humphrey's cleaning square and insists that he has to clean it all up himself, all while happily feeding supper to the other bears.
  • Donald Duck is the closest thing to an antagonist in "Grin and Bear It", having come to Brownstone Park, where it is expected that the guests will provide food for the bears in exchange for the bears entertaining them, and refusing to share any food with Humphrey even when the bear begs for it.
• Little Girls Kick Shins: In "Hooked Bear", a boy kicks Humphrey in the shin after he pops the kid's fish balloon float. When Humphrey complains to the Ranger, the Ranger angrily tells him to "Leave the kiddies alone!" and hits Humphrey in the same shin with a bucket of fish.
• Non-Mammal Mammaries: Rare male example: he has rather human-like pecs (although without visible nipples).
• Non-Standard Character Design: In his brief appearance in "In the Bag", Smokey the Bear looks different from the other bears, with a less cartoony appearance and a much stiffer animation.
• Not So Above It All: In "Grin and Bear It", after Humphrey's last attempt to get Donald's picnic basket results in its contents littering the road, the Ranger orders them to clean it up. As he points out what to pick up, he runs into a large ham and secretly hides it inside his shirt. Donald and Humphrey catch him and stick him in the butt with their pickers. The Ranger can just smile sheepishly and utter Humphrey's "Heh."
• Old Faithful: On "In the Bag", Humphrey has to clean all the litter in the park to get his dinner, so he just throws it all in a hole. Unfortunately, that hole is the geyser Old Fateful, and Humphrey tries to stop it before it gives him away.
• Pear-Shaped Gentle Giant: Humphrey is a chubby, pear-shaped brown bear with a big appetite, but he's never aggressive toward anyone, only trying to get food via non-violent means.
• Shark Fin of Doom: In "Hooked Bear", Humphrey takes the keel from a toy sailboat and wears it on his head as a fin to scare away fishermen and keep the fish for himself.
• Shout-Out: Smokey the Bear appears in In the Bag, stomping out Humphrey's attempt to burn his trash, telling viewers that "Only you can prevent forest fires."
• Staged Pedestrian Accident: Humphrey tries to con Donald one last time in "Grin and Bear It" by pretending to be run over as Donald drives away from the park. Don tries to walk away from the scene of the crime, but Humphrey starts screaming and Donald gives him all his food to shut him up. Unfortunately, this doesn't fool Ranger Woodlore.
• This Is My Side: In "Beezy Bear", a white line indicates the border between the park and Donald's bee farm, and the Ranger warns the bears not to cross it. Don puts up barbed wire along his side for good measure, not that it deters a hungry Humphrey much.
• Traveling-Pipe Bulge: Seen in "Beezy Bear" when Humphrey tries to siphon Donald's honey through a garden hose.
• The Unintelligible: Humphrey's speech consists of grunts, mumbles, and whines, with some occasional talking thrown in.