Chez Piglet: Rabbit manipulates Piglet into opening a restaurant at his home, but Piglet soon finds that it isn't as fun when he's doing all the work.
Pandora's Suggestion Box: Rabbit decides to create a suggestion box for everyone to use, but it doesn't go exactly as planned.
The episode as a whole contains examples of:
- Central Theme: Both episodes have An Aesop on honesty. "Chez Piglet" lays out that you should speak your mind if something's wrong, while "Pandora's Suggestion Box" is about being careful with criticism to avoid hurting the feelings of others.
- Jerkass Ball: Rabbit firmly holds it for both episodes, his ego being the cause of the conflicts in both episodes.
Chez Piglet contains examples of:
- An Aesop:
- Eeyore pretty much spells it out:
"If you don't tell folks when something's wrong, they got no way of knowing."- Running a business is a lot of work and one person can't be expected to do it all without limits. Playing pretend is one thing, but Rabbit forces Piglet to do all the work without break.
- Friendship Moment: Eeyore recognizes Piglet is tired and that the restaurant is closed, so even though he came by for a late night snack, he listens to Piglet's frustrations and agrees to find food elsewhere.
- Innocently Insensitive:
- The animals had no idea Piglet was being worked to the bone, and their antics such as Owl trying to go into another story and Tigger's Unsatisfiable Customer listed below were purely innocent.
- Rabbit himself thinks he and Piglet are running a fun business together and is genuinely apologetic when he finds out how stressful it is for Piglet. He seemed to think he was still just playing pretend like Piglet was at the start of the episode.
- Insane Troll Logic: Despite being the maitre'd, Rabbit still plays a food critic and has the nerve to criticize the restaurant for not having a maitre'd.
- It's All About Me: Rabbit forces the whole Chez Piglet fiasco because he enjoyed pretending he was at a fancy restaurant being served.
- Lethal Chef: Piglet understandably worries he's not going to do a good job cooking the foods from Rabbit's menu. However, none of the residents are seen complaining about his cooking, meaning he must've been able to pull off whatever the others ordered.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Tiny, meek Piglet eventually loses his temper and later is extremely harsh when helping emphasize to Rabbit what trouble he's been putting him in. He also deliberately becomes an Unsatisfiable Customer to get more payback at the end of the episode (though being Piglet, soon relents and laughs with Rabbit to show no hard feelings when it's all resolved).
- Pretentious Pronunciation: Rabbit insists that the restaurant's name should be pronounced "Chez Pig-LAY".
- Rage Breaking Point: Piglet, of all characters, suffers a near-breakdown when Rabbit getting increasingly too into the role, later badgering Piglet to serve a reviewer for the restaurant. The reviewer turns out to be him, and he lambasts the quality. The end result is one of few times you see Piglet get genuinely pissed off.Rabbit: There wasn't even a maitre d here to greet me when I arrived.Piglet: B-but Rabbit, you're the maitre d!Rabbit: Oh I am? *beat* Well then where am I? I really should be here when I come to review, don't you think?Piglet: *stammers indignantly* But you're the - and you're sitting right - so how can you - WAAGGHH, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!
- Restaurant-Owning Episode: Piglet gets dragged into this scheme by Rabbit after seeing him roleplay a waiter. Though the restaurant seems to go well, Piglet is made to do nearly all the work, exhausting him.
- Unsatisfiable Customer: Piglet suffers some more-dumb-than-malevolent versions:Tigger: Ah yes, my good man, I believe I shall have your potato soup. But, erm, are there potatoes in the actual soup?Piglet: Err...yes?Tigger: Uhh nuts. I hate potatoes.
Pandora's Suggestion Box contains examples of:
- An Aesop: Being overtly critical can hurt people's feelings. Even anonymous criticisms can still hurt.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- The other animals' suggestions don't quite work logically with the point of the box, asking for things like clouds of different colours in the sky and for trees to grow lower branches to pluck acorns from.
- Both Tigger and Pooh don't quite understand Rabbit's critique towards them:
Rabbit: *Death Glares Pooh* "Certain bears shouldn't leave their honey pots sitting where others might STEP. IN. THEM."
Pooh: Who do you think he means? *Kanga shrugs*
Rabbit: "Certain Tiggers should keep their feet out of certain gardens" *Death Glares Tigger* Well Tigger?
Tigger: How can I bounce in there if I gotta keep my feet out...?
Rabbit: Excuse me I'm not done yet. - Control Freak: Rabbit's criticisms and song boil down to wanting them to be more perfect like he supposedly is.
- Hypocritical Humor: Rabbit churns out a long list of criticisms towards his friends, and mocks them for being thin skinned when they get hurt by them. Then he reads a suggestion reading "Rabbit's garden smells" and immediately hits the roof.
- Irony: Eeyore of all people writes an unironically pleasant statement in the suggestion box.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Rabbit had bad intentions when he made the box, but he isn't wrong that the suggestions for acorns to grow from lower branches or for clouds to take different colors aren't exactly going to happen.
- Jerkass Realization: Rabbit finally realizes how rude he's been when Eeyore clarifies his criticism was actually a compliment, and apologizes for his behavior.
- Long List: The suggestion box is filled to the brim with Rabbit's (anonymous) criticisms. The other animals look mournful when it's even more full the following day.
- Nap-Inducing Speak: By the end of the first reading of suggestions (mostly Rabbit's), the other animals have either fallen asleep or look on the verge of such.
- Women Are Wiser: Downplayed. Kanga is the only animal Rabbit aims no onscreen suggestions towards, and while Kessie does get one (the first in fact) she's one of few to actually understand it and promise to rectify it. They still agree with some of the other more nonsensical suggestions by Pooh and Piglet however.
- You Are Fat: Rabbit criticizes Pooh for eating a lot of honey, claiming that he's getting rounder.
