It was a rather calm day in Care-a-lot today: Share was humming to herself as she worked on her garden, Funshine and Surprise Bear were playing a game for four-square, and Oopsy was helping Grumpy out with a new invention.

BOOM!

Well… Oopsy was helping Grumpy with a new invention…

"Uh… oopsie..." the titular bear sheepishly said to a furious Grumpy. The two, much like Care-a-lot now, were covered head to toe in a purple jelly from Grumpy's broken machine.

"Oopsy!" the blue Care Bear then shouted back, all but shoving the green bear out of his workshop. "Your berry-bumbling oopsie not only destroyed my automatic jelly machine, it stickied most of Care-a-lot!"

"I'm sorry Grumpy," Oopsy tried to apologize, "I'll help you clean up your garage..."

Hearing this, Grumpy recoiled in disgust. "No, no, no, no," he then denied, "Go find someone else to 'help.'" And with that, he returned to his garage, sparing no expense in slamming the door in Oopsy's face. Confused for a moment, then dejected from his failure to help, Oopsy sadly wiped away his previously hand drawn Belly Badge (his favorite, the one of the shooting star) and replaced it with a sad face. Oopsy then worked to get up leg up out of the jelly to spin on his heel and walk away from Grumpy's workshop.

Under his toes, the jelly squished between them while make disgusting, squashing sounds every time he walked. Ahead of him he saw Cheer Bear as she examined the newfound mess- her home had been covered in the jelly as well with several globs hanging off of her awnings and several splotches ruining the front exterior paint. Noticing an abandoned shovel by the Gathering Tree, Oopsy was hit with an idea before taking it and running up to Cheer Bear.

"Need some help Cheer?" he asked her. Cheer looked up and gave a look that detailed her knowledge that he may or may not have caused this accident to occur.

"Oh, um..." she stumbled, not sure of what to say. "That's okay Oopsy," she finally decided, and with a small rub of her Belly Badge, Cheer then created a little scoop and presented it to him. "I've got it under control. Maybe you can help someone else?"

Slumping his shoulders, Oopsy once more realized he wasn't needed to clean the mess he made. He looked down at his feet (which still had some bits of jelly goo between them- gross) and then at his shovel.

"Would you like this instead?" he inquired, despite not sounding as enthused anymore. "It'll be better for scooping up the jelly than... that."

"Oh!" Cheer exclaimed at the idea. "That's a great idea Oopsy! Thank you."

Affording a small smile, Oopsy gave Cheer the shovel and started back on his way again.

Meanwhile, after Grumpy's machine had broke, it hadn't taken Funshine and Surprise Bear long to realize that the jelly held together well enough to make a snow-bear with jelly. They had worked well enough together to almost be done with it by the time Oopsy happened to walk through.

"Some times it's fun when Grumpy's inventions go wrong!" Funshine happily noted to Surprise.

"This jelly was a big surprise." the purple Care Bear agreed with a laugh.

"Hey!" Oopsy called out to them. The duo paused for a moment and waved at him, leaving Oopsy to come over to them.

"Cool snowman! Or should I say, 'jelly-man'?" Oopsy then said before giggling at his own joke. Funshine gave a weak smile, but Surprise became apprehensive. "Can I help?"

Surprise was the one that looked at Funshine before hesitantly, and quickly, telling Oopsy, "I-I don't know Oopsy... We're just about finished."

"Ah, it's okay Surprise," Funshine jumped in upon seeing Oopsy's sad face, "Oopsy can help us."

Excited that he could play with his friends, Oopsy wiped away the frown on his Belly Badge and replaced it with a smile.

"I'm gonna make him a hat!" the now cheerful bear decided as he ran off to collect some jelly. Surprise didn't look as sure and gave Funshine a worried glance.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"What harm could it do?" Funshine rebutted with a shrug. "Besides, look how happy he is."

This did not help Surprise outlook in the slightest, but the two looked over at Oopsy anyway. The green Care Bear expertly scooped up a moderate amount of jelly and then molded it into a hat shape. Proud of his creation, Oopsy started his way back but wasn't paying much attention to where he was walking. His lost his footing on a large glob of jelly and slid all the way from where he was to right into Funshine and Surprise's jelly-man.

"O-oopsy..." the clumsy bear quietly said to his friends, looking up at them with guilty eyes.

With their jelly-man destroyed, Surprise gave a surprised gasp before flashing Funshine a less than pleased glare. The yellow bear could do nothing more than offer an empathetic shrug before turning his attention to Oopsy.

"How about you take a walk in Rainshine Meadows, Oopsy?" Funshine then offered, placing a friendly hand on Oopsy's shoulder. Oopsy's shoulders sagged in defeat.

"Yeah," he agreed with a broken smile, "Sure. I think I will. Thanks Funshine..."

Funshine offered a genuine smile as Oopsy turned to leave.

When he was far enough away from Funshine and Surprise, Oopsy wiped away his Belly Badge once more to place the frowning face back on his belly.

"Nobody likes an Oopsy," he sighed, "And that's me..."

Meanwhile, one of the few humans allowed to regularly roam Care-a-lot relaxed under a tree in Rainshine Meadows. Clairinda Bennett couldn't have had a care in the world as she listened to her MP3 player and imagining elaborate dance numbers to them. She was just barely paying attention when she noticed that Oopsy was coming up to her- not quite aware of what was around him either, milling around while mumbling something to himself.

"Hey Oopsy." Claire smiled when she saw her friend, almost startling him. But after getting a good look at him, she then asked, "Why do you have… jelly in your fur? It's even in your toes- gross."

"I thought I got it out..." the Care Bear grumbled as he wiped more of the goo off of him. Making sure it was gone for good this time, he let out a sullen sigh. Claire observed this with a raise of her eyebrow.

"Come sit." she then offered, holding her arms out to him. Giving a small sigh (this one a bit more relieved), Oopsy did as he was told and crawled up in Claire's lap. Once he was comfortable, Claire hugged him around his middle- admittedly, he did feel a little better at the embrace.

"So tell me what happened." Claire then requested, gently playing with the top of his head.

"Well, it all started when I was helping Grumpy with his new invention..."

A/N: You know what I love the most about this? This chapter is at 1,167 words without the author's note, and we're not even two minutes into the episode yet. xDDD