Where the Bears Are is a comedy-mystery web series that ran for seven seasons from August 1, 2012, to November 1, 2018. The series' creators and writers Rick Copp and Ben Zook star in the movie together with Joe Dietl.Described by the creators as a cross between The Golden Girls and Murder, She Wrote, the series focuses on Nelson (Zook), Wood (Dietl) and Reggie (Copp), three gay, bear friends sharing a house in the Silver Lake neighborhood who, in each season, are drawn into a different murder investigation which plays out as a season-long story arc.In 2023, a documentary chronicling the series and its popularity, A Big Gay Hairy Hit! Where The Bears Are: The Documentary, premiered at various LGBTQ+ film festivals. The documentary paid tribute to actor George Unda, who died in 2021.