El Oso (Spanish for The Bear) is the third and final studio album by the New York City band Soul Coughing, released on September 29, 1998, by Slash Records and Warner Bros. Records.

Artist Jim Woodring (Frank) drew the cartoon "monkey-bear" on the disc's cover.

Curious, Doughty recorded it into his ASR-10 sampler with the intention of simply reversing it and seeing what the joke was, and wrote the song around what he found there.

[9] The music video features Fred, Barney and other Hanna-Barbera characters walking in front of the same repeating background, with subtitles showing existential dialogue.

The video for the song "Rolling" was also produced, which was synced with a scene from a Betty Boop cartoon.