"Even more sadistic [than Fool's Gold] is the puppet piece Teddy Bear Picnic, which somehow manages to turn a skit with cuddly plush toys into a truly gruesome horror show straight out of a Takashi Miike torture porn flick." - Corey Hall, Metro Times Detriot
"The low point (or high point, depending on your sense of humor) [of Spike & Mike's 2007] is Justin Bastard Sane’s Teddy Bear Picnic, which would be better titled Cannibal Teddy Bear Picnic." - Nick Keppler, Houston Press
"[One of the four "most effective pieces" in the 2007 Spike & Mike's show is] “Teddy Bear Picnic,” in which seemingly sweet, fluffy animated stuffed animals visit the torturous territory of “Hostel” by cutting apart and eating another teddy bear while he’s still alive." - Jake TenPas, Corvallis Gazette-Times
"The two bust-a-gut funniest shorts aren't really animation at all. Washington is a heroic rap ode to the Founding Father over a succession of cunningly crude panel drawings, while the gory Teddy Bear's Picnic is basic stuffed-animal puppetry (and evisceration)." - Charles Cassady Jr., Cleveland Free Times
"Justin Bastard Sane's Teddy Bear's Picnic is more proof of the amusingly repulsive behavior of animals. At a delightful little picnic, the bears (to the accompaniment of the old novelty song) turn brutally carnivorous." - Richard von Busack, Silicon Valley's Metroactive
Written and Directed by Justin Bastard Sane
Director of Photography: Shawn R. Lear
Production Designer: Dana W.N.
