Don't go camping with idiots.
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Written in rhyme. One of the older Berenstain Bears books before they really settled on their artistic style, when Mama and Papa Bear had really weird, long noses. I think it's before Sister Bear was born. Brother and his Bear Scout troop are going camping. They have a guidebook so they know what to do, but Papa Bear insists on coming along and is a complete idiot. He is extremely arrogant and keeps claiming that he knows what to do when he doesn't, and fails at everything. Apparently he was never a Bear Scout when he was a kid. He gets very badly hurt and comes home, and then the Bear Scouts say, "At least he showed us what not to do. Ha ha ha ha ha ha." The end. I don't even know what the message is. "Papa Bear is an idiot," maybe.
The best part: "I'll put in some eggs/And fresh green weeds./Some toadstools. Then/Some roots and leaves./And presto, chango,/Ala kazoo.../That's how I make/My favorite stew." And it just tastes bad, instead of getting him high or poisoning him to death.