What is the name of the baby bear in the Looney Tunes 'Three Bears' shorts?

The baby bear in the Looney Tunes “Three Bears” shorts is Junior Bear. He is the dim-witted child of Mama Bear and Papa Bear, created as part of Chuck Jones’s comic parody of the traditional Goldilocks story.

Junior first appeared in “Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears,” a 1944 Merrie Melodies short written by Tedd Pierce and directed by Jones. Instead of finding porridge, the bears prepare carrot soup as bait for Goldilocks, but Bugs Bunny wanders into their home and takes the trespasser’s role.

Junior is often overshadowed by his louder parents, but his childlike foolishness is central to the family’s humor. Kent Rogers provided his voice in the original cartoon. Rogers died in a military training-flight crash later in 1944, and subsequent Three Bears cartoons used other performers, including Stan Freberg and Billy Bletcher.