Hey, the Care Bear would actually be my favorite character.
They're called Bisounours here. Ha, nothing sexist, but females happened to find them cute when I was a child. Nothing surprising, huh...
They even brought about some popular saying over here. Being called a Bisounours (again, a Care Bear like that one on the mural) means you're a naive idealist, and it's actually cool, in my opinion at least.
I'll confess that I never watched the show, though. It felt boring to me as a kid.
I liked violent Japanese animated shows much better, and now that I watch them again as a grown-up, I find them completely stupid. I can't even watch for over 3 minutes cause they're so boring.
Go figure.