Line #93 WesternAnimation/TheTiggerMovie


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2	[[caption-width-right:250:''[[Music/KennyLoggins ♫ Your heart will lead you home... ♫]]'']]
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4	->'''Narrator:''' But of all his animal friends, Christopher Robin's very best friend was a bear called Winnie-the-Pooh.\
5	'''Tigger:''' '''''WINNIE-THE-POOH!?''''' Wait half a darned minute! It seems to me that most of these stories are about that silly old bear.\
6	'''Narrator:''' Well then, Tigger, who should this story be about?\
7	'''Tigger:''' Well, I happen to know someone who's extremely fascinatin'. Not to mention handsome and debonair-y!\
8	'''Narrator:''' But the title already says ''Winnie-the-Pooh''.\
9	'''Tigger:''' Oh, that's easy to fix... ''[rearranges and modifies the letters into "The Tigger Movie"]'' There! Now ''that's'' a wonderful title!\
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12	''The Tigger Movie'' is a 2000 Disney animated feature starring characters from the ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' franchise, mostly centered around Tigger and Roo.
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14	Here, Tigger feels lonely about being "the only one" and decides to search for a tigger "family" with Roo's help. But when things get out of hand, will the others be able to show Tigger who his real family is?
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16	This film is notable for being Pooh's first theatrical endeavor since 1983's ''Winnie the Pooh and a Day For Eeyore'', and the first Disney film to feature songs by Music/TheShermanBrothers since ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'' in 1971.
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19	!!This film contains examples of:
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21	* AdaptationalBadass: The avalanche at the climax of the film is perhaps the most genuine peril the Pooh cast have ever got caught into. Tigger's response is to perform a HeroicSacrifice and bounce them all to safety. Roo in turn, masters the Whoop-de-Dooper Loop-de-Looper Alley-Ooper Bounce to save Tigger.
22	* AngerBornOfWorry: Rabbit expresses this when they find Tigger. He tells Tigger snappishly that forget about his family, they need to get back home and wait out the storm.
23	* ArcWords:
24	** "Family".
25	** "The more you try, the more you fly. And that's what really counts".
26	* ArentYouForgettingSomeone: Roo until the end.
27	* ArtShift: The credits tell the film's story drawn in the style of E.H. Shepard's illustrations from the original ''Winnie the Pooh'' books.
28	* AscendedExtra: Roo starts to become a major character from this film onwards.
29	* AscendedFridgeHorror: This film takes a [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]] look at the [[LastOfHisKind implications]] behind the "punchline" of the lighthearted song "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers":
30	-->'''Tigger:''' But the most wonderful thing about tiggers is ''I'm the only one!''
31	* AwardBaitSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3e-cbGEAhg Your Heart Will Lead You Home]]" by Music/KennyLoggins.
32	* BigBrotherWorship: Roo's idolisation of Tigger is put into spotlight in the movie, and why he looks up to him so. He wants a big brother.
33	* BigNo: Tigger shouts an angry one when his friends try to get him to come home in the snow, and Rabbit tells him to "forget this 'other tiggers' nonsense", hitting his BerserkButton.
34	* BreakTheCutie: Tigger starts to feel more and more alone and crushed as he fails to find his family. Roo is also left in tears when Tigger storms off after he finds out the others' deception.
35	* BravingTheBlizzard: Tigger braves a blizzard when he runs away to look for his "family tree," with his friends making their way through to find him.
36	* TheBusCameBack: Since around the middle of the ''New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'' series, Kanga and Roo had more or less vanished from the Disney franchise besides a couple minor appearances. This film marked their true return as mainstays, with Roo even becoming a more central character from this point.
37	* ButtMonkey: Eeyore still can't catch a break throughout this movie. His stick house ends up getting demolished first by a boulder and then by Tigger.
38	* CharacterDevelopment:
39	** This movie brings some notable development for Tigger. He's always been a friendly, happy-go-lucky sort, but also rather self-centered, thoughtless, inconsiderate and InnocentlyInsensitive. In this movie he learns to be more considerate, and he not only starts putting his friends' well-being above his own, but also tones down his tendency towards UnwantedAssistance in favor of actually giving them the kind of help they need. This development sticks with him in later productions, leading to a notably kinder (if still very chaotic and accidentally destructive) Tigger. Roo's role as [[BigBrotherInstinct Tigger's]] MoralityPet would also be shown more frequently from this point.
40	** This is also the first work to really give heavy spotlight to Roo's character, granting him a more insecure and precocious personality that clings onto Tigger as a BigBrotherMentor, and actually accepts consequences with heavy sorrow when things go wrong, compared to the oblivious {{Keet}} he often was before. This would be continued throughout the proceeding ''Pooh'' works, where Roo is often shown acting independently from his mother and sometimes even Tigger, and sometimes seems like the most level-headed entity of the main group (while similarly remaining very child-like like Tigger has).
41	* ChekhovsSkill: The Whoop-De-Dooper Loop-De-Looper Alley-Ooper Bounce. Roo is taught this skill by Tigger but fails every time he tries to do so. It's not until Roo attempts to save Tigger from an avalanche that he [[CrisisMakesPerfect nails it]].
42	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Tigger says that his "family" is coming to see him, everyone gets an OhCrap expression except Pooh, who says he can't wait to meet them.
43	* CrisisMakesPerfect: Tigger shows Roo the Whoop-De-Dooper Loop-De-Looper Alley-Ooper bounce. Roo can't do it at first, nor later when he's practicing before bedtime. At the end, he has to do it to save Tigger from an avalanche and nails the bounce perfectly.
44	* CryIntoChest: Roo does this to Pooh after Tigger left his friends because he felt betrayed.
45	* DarkerAndEdgier: Not to the level of ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'', but still. It addresses the unfortunate implications of Tigger being the LastOfHisKind, talks about loneliness, depression, and the virtue of family, and even has the title character [[spoiler:''nearly get killed by an avalanche!'']]
46	* DarkestHour: By the time the climax rolls around, Tigger has lost trust in his friends and ventures into a dangerous blizzard, hellbent on finding his family, Roo and the others are left distraught at his departure, and no one (except for Rabbit) has prepared themselves for the harsh weather.
47	* DeathSeeker: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] that Tigger plans this if his "family" is not coming.
48	-->'''Rabbit''': Are you crazy? It's not safe out here.
49	-->'''Tigger''': ''Exac-ti-cally!'' That's why you should all go home, where it ''is'' safe! But I've got to wait here in my family tree for my real family!
50	* DisneyAcidSequence: "Round My Family Tree" is not insane in visuals, but there are ''many'' pop-culture references taking place, quite unlike the series proper.
51	* ADayInTheLimelight: As the title says, Tigger has the main spotlight for the film. Roo also plays SupportingProtagonist for a lot of the film.
52	* FamilyOfChoice: The main plot of the movie is set in motion by Tigger desperatly wanting to find and reunite with his family, realizing in the end he already has found his family: his friends who always care for him.
53	* FooledByTheSound: When [[HairTriggerAvalanche Tigger's shouting sets off an avalanche]], Piglet asks Pooh if [[GrowlingGut his stomach is making that sound]]. Pooh nervously says [[NotMeThisTime it's not him this time]].
54	* GoneHorriblyRight: Tigger using one of those terrific bounces to move the rock off of Eeyore's house not only works, it also destroys Rabbit's contraption and leaves most of the gang covered in mud.
55	%%* Literature/TheGrasshopperAndTheAnts: The film's side story involves the other animals blowing off preparing for the winter to help Tigger with his crisis. Rabbit represents the diligent ants warning them to take heed, though ultimately even he takes pity. Deconstructed when, for their loyalty, Tigger ends up supplying for them in the end.
56	* GroupPictureEnding: The movie ends with a shot of the group photo of everyone Christopher Robin took for the locket, which then closes up.
57	* HairTriggerAvalanche: Tigger shouting at his friends to leave him to find his family causes the avalanche in which the climax takes place.
58	-->'''Piglet''': Is that a rumbly in your tumbly, Pooh?\
59	'''Pooh''': [[OhCrap I don't think so, Piglet]].
60	* HeroicBSOD: Tigger has one whenever he can't find his family tree, but it hits particularly badly before the avalanche, to the point of tearfully screaming at his friends to leave him alone.
61	* HeroicSacrifice: Tigger gets caught in the avalanche after making sure every last one of his friends was safe up on his family tree.
62	* IncomingHam: "WINNIE THE POOH?!? Wait half a darn minute!"
63	* InnocentlyInsensitive: The others just wanted to help Tigger stay happy; they had no idea how hurt he'd get when he finds out that his "family" are his disguised friends. So imagine their guilt (especially Roo's) when Tigger angrily storms off into a blizzard to find "them".
64	* InsaneTrollLogic: When Tigger tells his friends that the letter from his "family" says they're coming tomorrow, despite it not being written in the letter.
65	-->'''Owl:''' Now where did it say that exactly?
66	-->'''Tigger:''' ''-ti-cally nowhere ''per se'', 'cause with us Tiggers, you got to read be-twixt the lines.
67	* InteractiveNarrator: As is the standard for ''Winnie the Pooh'' stories, though due to the more sombre story, it's used more sparsely than normally.
68	* IronicEcho: Pooh's "''Lullabee''" song. It would also count as a mild [[ShoutOut shout out]] If you think about it, [[Creator/JimCummings1952 Winnie the Pooh]] [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 is in a tree]], [[HypnoticEyes singing the bees to sleep]], [[ActorAllusion while preparing to eat their honey...]]
69	* ItsAllMyFault: Roo blames himself for Tigger running away because it was his attempt of the Whoop-De-Dooper Loop-De-Looper Alley-Ooper Bounce that caused his disguise to fall off and Tigger realizing their deception. He even says it verbatim when he begs Pooh for help.
70	-->'''Roo:''' (''tearfully'') You've gotta help me find Tigger! It's all my fault! He never would've left if it wasn't 'cause of me! [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I didn't mean to make him feel bad...]] I just... I just wanted him to be my big brother...
71	* JerkassHasAPoint: Rabbit is quick to call out the others for wasting their time instead of preparing themselves for a blizzard. They admit that he's right, especially Pooh Bear when he realizes he has little honey for the winter.
72	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rabbit, as usual, can quickly lose his temper with the others and ''especially'' with Tigger, [[spoiler:but he needs surprisingly little persuasion from the others to lead them in finding Tigger, in the middle of the winter blizzard he spent the film worrying about.]]
73	* LastOfHisKind: Tigger's "The wonderful thing about tiggers is that I'm the only one" quote actually turns out to be true in this movie. And unlike the other films, it's genuinely PlayedForDrama.
74	* TheLeader: Played with in a similar manner as [[WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure the previous movie]]. During the climax when Roo begs for help finding Tigger, Pooh enlists the others in forming a search party, but immediately passes control over to Rabbit, insisting he is the only one smart enough to lead them.
75	* LiarRevealed: After several attempts to tell Tigger the truth about the letter fail, the others decide to pose as Tiggers so as not to upset. However, Roo's disguise falls off and Tigger realizes he has been duped. Played with, since he only gets as far as realizing the disguise is fake and [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint still clings onto the letter as legitimate proof his family exists.]]
76	* LiteralMinded: Owl suggests to Tigger that he should 'look up his family tree' to find his family. Tigger goes looking for an ''actual'' tree full of Tiggers.
77	* MarilynManeuver: A Marilyn {{expy}} Tigger in the aforementioned DisneyAcidSequence has her skirt flipped upwards by a vent, eventually causing her to fly upwards and off to the horizon.
78	* MassOhCrap: Tigger, Pooh and his friends panic when they realize that Tigger's shouting has caused an avalanche to come straight for them.
79	* MoodWhiplash: The jovial "How to be a Tigger" gets interrupted by an exasperated Rabbit who ''yells'' at them to prepare for the snowstorm.
80	* MelancholyMusicalNumber: "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" gets a DarkReprise when Tigger realizes that he might not actually ''have'' a family, and he's almost in tears during it.
81	--> '''Tigger:''' Oh, the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm... the very only, last... lonely... ''(sniffles)'' single, s-s-solitary...one.
82	* MoodDissonance: It's kinda odd to tell if one of Tigger's friends is feeling worried, nervous, etc. during the family reunion scene because their disguises have smiles on them.
83	* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: Pooh singing "Lull-A-Bee" to lull the bees to sleep so he can sample the honey unguarded.
84	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The others, [[TearsOfRemorse especially Roo]], when their deception leaves a hurt and disillusioned Tigger trudging into the blizzard alone to find his family.
85	-->'''Pooh:''' We only wanted to help, Tigger...
86	* MythologyGag:
87	** Eeyore mentions Pooh has a habit of getting stuck in places.
88	** Later, Piglet nervously asks Pooh before the avalanche starts to hit, if he has a "rumbly in his tumbly."
89	** Roo wants Tigger as his "big brother". In the original novels, Tigger was HappilyAdopted by Kanga, so almost literally ''was'' Roo's big brother.
90	* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
91	** A minor example, but Piglet inadvertently makes the bees chase Pooh and his friends by tapping on the bear's rump and causing him to fall into the hive, because he was worried his friend never came down and thought he got stuck.
92	** Roo attempting the Whoop-De-Dooper Loop-De-Looper Alley-Ooper Bounce leads his disguise to fall off and for Tigger to find out about the others' deception.
93	** Tigger using one of those terrific bounces to move the rock off of Eeyore's house not only works, it also destroys Rabbit's contraption and leaves most of the gang covered in mud.
94	* NoAntagonist: The conflict of the movie comes from Tigger trying to find where his family is and the emotional struggle he and Roo face with that, rather than from a person.
95	* NotBloodNotFamily: Subverted. Tigger initially believes this when he comes to realize the implications of being ‘the only one’. But by the end of the movie, when he learns that it was his friends who wrote the letter to him, he realizes that this is not true and that a real family is the people who support him.
96	* OnlySaneMan: Christopher Robin, as the end of the movie shows. When he appears to help find the others in the snow and hears about Tigger's quest, he gently tells him that Tigger's family is right here.
97	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
98	** In this movie, Tigger is incredibly sad about not having a family. Even his uniqueness, one of the things he most proud of, makes him realize that he's the only Tigger. Needless to say, Roo wants to make Tigger feel better as soon as possible.
99	** When Tigger finds out the others pretended to be his family, he vents a very uncharacteristic moment of TranquilFury before storming off, making it obvious to the others they've hurt him in a ''very'' big way.
100	** Roo himself usually can surpass Tigger as the wood's {{Keet}}. After his BigBrotherMentor turns his back on him however, he spends most of the climax very morose, when not outright crying.
101	** Usually, when Rabbit scolds Tigger, the latter takes said scoldings in stride. When Rabbit pleads for him to come home, however, he's so fixated on finding his real family, as well as offended by Rabbit telling him to "forget this 'other tiggers' nonsense", that he outright snaps at him, making it clear that he's going to disobey him. This also applies to Rabbit, who normally hates being confronted or disobeyed, but is cowed by Tigger's refusal.
102	* PaperThinDisguise: The gang's disguises as various Tiggers have parts of their real bodies still showing (ie. Kanga and Roo's ears, Piglet's legs, Eeyore's tail, etc.) yet they still manage to fool Tigger completely.
103	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When he's told by Rabbit that it's not safe outside in the snowstorm, Tigger says:
104	-->'''Tigger:''' ''Exac-ti-cally!'' That's why you should all go home -- where it ''is'' safe. But I've got to wait here, in my family tree, for my! ''Real!'' '''''FAMILY!!'''''
105	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Roo to Tigger after the avalanche, with Tigger still lamenting over seeking his family.
106	-->'''Roo:''' Please don't go.
107	* PleaseWakeUp: Roo to the unconscious Tigger when he lands on the rock he ended up on during the avalanche.
108	* RogerRabbitEffect: The opening to the film has Tigger animated in the middle of the live-action setting of Christopher Robin's room.
109	* RoundaboutShot: During the family reunion, Pooh briefly has one as he dances with Tigger.
110	* ShoutOut: Unusually for a Pooh film, the song "Round My Family Tree" contains many pop culture references, from ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' to ''[[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]]'' to ''Film/TheSevenYearItch''.
111	** Some scenes are reminiscent of the original Pooh featurettes of the 1960s and 1970s.
112	** The illustrations that accompany the end credits are reminiscent of E. H. Shepards's illustrations for the original Pooh novels, and the characters are depicted like Shepard drew them.
113	** All through the movie Roo wishes for Tigger to be his big brother, and at the end Tigger calls him "my bestest little brother." In the original novels, Tigger ''does'' become Roo's big brother when Kanga adopts him at the end of his introduction chapter.
114	* SkewedPriorities: When the "How to Be a Tigger" sequence has been halted by Rabbit barging in, he chews them out for goofing off and not preparing for winter.
115	* SoMuchForStealth: Pooh manages to put the bees to sleep so he can get the honey, but Piglet and Eeyore are worried that he never came down for a long time and assume he's stuck. Piglet climbs up to check on Pooh, but when he lightly taps on Pooh's bottom, it causes Pooh to fall into the hive, which wakes up the bees and initiates a mad chase.
116	* SupportingProtagonist: As much of the film is focused on Roo's bond with Tigger as the latter's own quest for his family.
117	* TearsOfRemorse: Roo breaks down sobbing after his idea to have his friends pose as Tiggers angers him into leaving.
118	* ToneShift: Who would have thought that the film focused on ''[[CloudCuckooLander Tigger]]'' would be one of the darkest and most emotional films in the ''Winnie The Pooh'' series?
119	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Some of the trailers spoil Tigger and his friends getting their group photo taken at the very end of the film.
120	* TranquilFury: Tigger does '''''not''''' take kindly to his friends' trick, but he manages to keep his cool regardless.
121	* TrueCompanions: The ultimate theme of the movie - Tigger's true family aren't the others of his kind (whether they exist or not), but the dear friends who stood by him no matter what and searched him out in a snowstorm out of concern for his safety.
122	* UndyingLoyalty: Roo refuses to leave the despondent Tigger. The other animals, and later even Rabbit, ultimately join in helping him.
123	* VitriolicBestBuds: Tigger and Rabbit, as usual. Especially notable during the aforementioned scene under DeathSeeker; for all that they argue over and as short-tempered as Rabbit gets, ''neither'' wants the other in danger.
124	* WhamLine:
125	** One when Tigger realizes his friends duped him.
126	-->'''Tigger:''' Somewhere out there, there's a Tigger family tree, full of my ''real'' Tigger family. I've got a letter here to ''prove'' it. And I'm gonna find 'em...so, T-T-F-E. Ta-ta...'''forever'''!
127	** Another important one when the friends recite the letter to him, causing Tigger to realize they were the ones who wrote it and who his true family is:
128	-->'''Tigger:''' You mean...''you'' fellas are my family?
129	* WhatTheHellHero: As exemplified by the above WhamLine, Tigger is left rather upset when he finds out his friends duped him into believing his family had contacted him.
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131	->'''Owl:''' ''Dear Tigger, just a note to say:''\
132	'''Kanga:''' ''Dress warmly.''\
133	'''Pooh:''' ''Eat well.''\
134	'''Piglet:''' ''Stay safe and sound.''\
135	'''Eeyore:''' ''Keep smiling.''\
136	'''Roo:''' ''We're always there for you.''\
137	'''Owl:''' ''Signed...''\

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