A bit of fluff between some meatier material.note
We have a very blustery day! Pitr grows rutabaga! Paulo fixes a rocking chair! Carolyn gives hugs! Tim falls out of a tree! Lisa eats honey!
Episode 66 of Film Reroll. Based on the 1968 Disney short.
Starring Lisa Kopitsky as Winnie the Pooh, Carolyn Faye Kramer as Piglet, Timothy "Tim" Nolan as Owl, Paulo Quiros as Eeyore, Pitr Strait as Rabbit, and Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as the Dungeon Master.
Tropes:
- Ambiguous Gender: Piglet is portrayed as such, as the Rerollers were
legitimately uncertain about the character's gender. - Ascended Extra: Invoked by Pitr, who makes it her mission to give Rabbit a bigger role than The Cameo he had in the film.
- Bar Brawl: Apparently, Rabbit participated in at least one back in the 60's.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: The Rerollers (particularly Pitr) spend an extended amount of time discussing the anatomy of our stuffed animal protagonists, such as whether or not they have skeletons.
- Companion Cube: Brock, Pooh's new "rock friend." Also a Call-Back to Pokémon: The First Movie.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Owl is implied to have had some vague, barely remembered interaction with humans at a young age, which he catches a glimpse of in a dream.
- Death by Adaptation: The players give a moment of silence to Piglet, implying that he somehow died in the original version of the episode.
- The Eeyore: The Trope Namer himself, of course, who Paulo takes to downright nihilistic levels.
- Everybody Lives: One of the few Film Reroll campaigns without a single confirmed death.
- Fun with Acronyms: "Friend to Everyone, Mostly Animals."
- Human Ladder: Eeyore, Pooh, Rabbit and Piglet form one to reach Owl's tree house.
- Improvised Parachute: As they're blown away by the wind, Piglet and Pooh use the former's scarf as a makeshift sail. It works.
- Inevitable Waterfall: Our protagonists head toward one during the climax, after the forest has been flooded. They are all saved by Owl, who swoops in for the rescue.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rabbit is a bit of a Jerkass and a Deadpan Snarker, but he's still willing to let the whole gang spend the night in his house once they become homeless.
- Lighter and Softer: While Darker and Edgier than the source material, the episode is still this compared to the original campaign, which was apparently less comedic, more cynical, and had at least one character's death.
- Lost Episode: Sadly, the original recording of this episode disappeared due to technical issues, forcing the Rerollers to redo the reroll and start the campaign over from scratch. What's worse is that the original was to be Jocelyn's debut as the DM, and that it apparently had some really good jokes.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Pooh accidentally drops Brock the Rock on Piglet while trying to introduce him. Fortunately, nobody got hurt.
- Nightmare Sequence: The Heffalumps and Woozles scene from the film is retained... sans the Heffalumps and Woozles themselves, as Tigger no longer has time to mention them.
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The Other Darrin: In the original campaign, Piglet was played by Pitr, rather than Carolyn (who wasn't in that episode.) It also featured Andy Hoover, possibly as Pooh, (who ended up being played by Lisa in this episode.) - Shell-Shocked Veteran: Eeyore and Owl are both portrayed as such, with Eeyore having the most obvious symptoms.
- Ship Tease: Carolyn is determined to start a romance between Piglet and Eeyore. The later is about as enthusiastic about *that* as he is about anything else.
- Shout-Out: The players spend some time discussing what type of benders the protagonists would be. As illustrated here.
- The Unreveal: It's implied several times that there is some dark conspiracy in the Hundred-Acre Woods, but what this secret actually is is anyone's guess, as it's never actually revealed.
