The Bear Named After the Train Station: Paddington

A bear that loves marmalade? It can be possible. But a bear that talk?! It’s not. In the deep jungles of darkest Peru, a British geographer named Montgomery Clyde happens upon a previously unknown species of bear. He is about to shoot it to take back a specimen to England when another bear playfully takes his gun away. He learns that this family of bears is intelligent and can learn English, and that they have a deep appetite for marmalade. He names them Lucy and Pastuzo. As he departs, he throws his hat to Pastuzo and tells the bears that they are always welcome should they wish to go to London.

Years have passed, Lucy and Pastuzo are living peacefully with their nephew when an earthquake damaged the forest and destroyed their home, forcing them to seek shelter underground. Distracted and upset at the loss of his home, Pastuzo is unable to reach the shelter in time. He disappears, with his hat being found the next day by his nephew. Aunt Lucy sent her nephew to go and find a new home in London, and stows him away on a cargo ship, after which she says she will move into the Home for Retired Bears.

When the young bear reaches the train station, he had nothing but a marmalade sandwich. The warm welcome the he’s expecting is nothing. He is ignored by everyone until he was saw by the Brown Family. That is when Mrs. Brown named her after the train station, Paddington.

Feeling unwanted at the Browns, Paddington leaves and attempts to track Montgomery Clyde himself. He finally locates the house, only to discover that Clyde died many years ago, and that Millicent is actually his daughter – who resents her father for losing his job and membership with the museum; out of a change of heart, he refused to bring a valuable Peruvian bear specimen home, even though it would have made him the wealthiest man in the world. Millicent is determined to succeed where her father failed and become rich and famous herself. She tranquilises Paddington and prepares to stuff him, but when Mr. Curry discovers her true intentions, he informs the Brown family and they rush to save Paddington. They rescue him, and Paddington subdues Millicent by throwing a marmalade sandwich at her, which attracts a huge flock of pigeons, distracting her as family relative Mrs. Bird opens a roof hatch and inadvertently pushes her off of the roof, trapping her on a flagpole. He is suddenly adopted by the Brown Family.