Caws And Effect

Again the setting is Rabbit's garden... Do you know what happens in just one more day? It's the most wonderful day of the year- harvest! Vegetables at the peak of their tastiness... But Pooh hears his tummy calling out for hunny... That wonderful harvest day is almost here... but the crow know it too. Rabbit has to keep the beasts away until after the harvest... And he can see he needs help. He gathers the others, dresses up Pooh as a crow to familiarize them with the enemy... but it doesn't go according to plan... as Rabbit gets them to guard his garden from the crows. He gets Pooh to guard the garden ad he and the others follow the crows leaving them on a wild crow chase. The crows paint themselves red and trick Pooh. Pooh thinks they're the help that's arrived to help Rabbit. They begin to take Vegetables and dance, distracting Pooh bear, as he follows them. The others are lost, still following crow feathers, as the crows take all their vegibibbles into Rabbits house and set down to eat. Pooh gets the fake Pooh, Piglet and Rabbit to join them and the crows flee thinking it's them. Rabbit is distraught when he finds his garden ruined, and is mad with Pooh Bear... But he finds Pooh with all the vegetables, harvested. Pooh was glad to help and they dance around the vege table...

Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit

Welcome to Pooh Corner...

Winnie the Pooh, prized playmate of human boy Christopher Robin, has also become one of the most beloved honey-eating, life-pondering cartoon bears of all time. Pooh lived in the Hundred Acre Woods along with Christopher Robin's other stuffed animals, who all had lives of their own with or without the boy.

Pooh's best friend was little Piglet, who was the worrier and the conscience of the two. They would often head over to the overly chatty Rabbit's for tea, usually with disastrous results (e.g. - Pooh got stuck in Rabbit's narrow doorway and had to sleep there overnight until the gang could push him out. Silly old bear...)

Wise old Owl and motherly Kanga were the mature ones of the group, while rambunctious little Roo and bouncy Tigger were clearly the more hyperactive members. The lisping Gopher was the sarcastic one, while Eeyore, a donkey who was constantly losing his tail, was easily the most depressed.

Pooh and company started off as characters in a series of 1920's children's books by British author A.A. Milne. In the mid-sixties, Walt Disney created a series of theatrical featurettes featuring the Milne creations (later packaged into the feature The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh), and by 1970, the Pooh crew had a series of primetime TV specials. It wasn't until 1983 that the animals got their own series, with the characters played by actors in costumes on the Disney Channel's Welcome to Pooh Corner.

In 1988, the gang returned to cartoon format in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. After a year, the show was combined with Gummi Bears, then continued for three more years of new episodes (the last two as a stand-alone program... again!). This new Pooh made a few changes (most notably, Christopher Robin now spoke with an American accent), but the sweet-natured spirit of Milne's original remained intact. A hit with young Pooh fans, the show was also appreciated by older viewers, who rewarded The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh with two Emmy Awards for Best Children's Program.

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh left the air after the 1992-93 season, but the show returned later in the decade as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning lineup.