Trivia / The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

• Acting for Two: Seen in the third and fourth seasons when Jim Cummings, already voicing Pooh, took over voicing Tigger. Besides this, some of the minor characters are also voiced by Cummings, usually the one shot characters such as Crud, Wooster, or Nasty Jack. Most of the other voices are sped up much like Chip 'n' Dale, including the bees, the bugs, and the Pack Rats, and the one instant that isn't being the Crows, after a single performance in the first season.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Patricia Parris voices Junior Heffalump in "There's No Camp Like Home" and "Trap As Trap Can".
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: A few episodes are available on the Growing Up With Winnie The Pooh DVDs and many VHS tapes and LaserDiscs contained episodes of the series back when those two formats was commonplace, but the vast majority of the series remains difficult to find. For those that have thrift stores, Goodwills or swap meets in their area, the VHS tapes are not uncommon finds there, along with a VCR to play them if you don't have one, often selling for $5 or less.
  • Some miscellaneous Winnie the Pooh DVDs have episodes of The New Adventures as bonus features, but at least one of those DVDs — The Tigger Movie 10th Anniversary Edition, usurped in 2012 by the DVD included in the "Bounce-a-Riffic Special Edition" Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack — has gone out of print.
  • Two episodes, "Pooh Oughta Be in Pictures" and "Cleanliness is Next to Impossible", are only available on long-out-of-print Region 2 videotapes, and another three, "Fast Friends", "To Bee or Not to Bee" , and "Sorry, Wrong Slusher", are unavailable on home video in any format, the latter most likely due to its disturbing subject matter.
  • With some searching, the entire series can be found online via YouTube or DailyMotion, and other video sharing sites.
  • The entire series has in fact been remastered in a widescreen HD format, though only particular countries such as Russia, Japan and Germany have saw a proper rerelease. As shown here.
  • The only way you can watch the Christmas Too special on DVD is through the Direct to Video film A Very Merry Pooh Year. While the special is remastered for the film, Rabbit's fur was painted yellow as commonly portrayed, while Christopher Robin's voice was re-dubbed by the actor who voiced the character in the new bridging sequences. The original special returned to television in 2007 on ABC, but several scenes were cut for commercial time. This version was the basis for the Freeform airings as part of their 25 Days of Christmas block from 2008 until 2013. The special returned to Freeform in 2018 and restored some scenes (notably Pooh's friends wishing him well when he unsuccessfully attempts to deliver the letter to Santa personally) but cuts others like Gopher helping Tigger and Rabbit set up their Christmas tree and subsequently decorating it, and uses Christopher Robin's voice track from A Very Merry Pooh Year. So far, the 1994 VHS and 1995 LaserDisc releases of the special remain the only way to watch it in its original form.
  • Rescued in fall 2019 when the series was made available on Disney+. It's even shown in its remastered high-definition format! (albeit in fullscreen) Christmas Too is not available in standalone format, instead repackaged as part of A Very Merry Pooh Year.
• Long Runner: It actually lasted longer in reruns than it did during its first run. It started on The Disney Channel on January 17, 1988 and ran until April 10, 1988. It then moved to ABC in first-run from September 10, 1988 until October 26, 1991 (during the 1989-90 season it was paired up with the newly-moved-networks Gummi Bears as the Gummi Bears/Winnie the Pooh Hour), then aired reruns until September 4, 1993. Reruns then started airing on ABC again on December 9, 1995, lasting through the entirety of the One Saturday Morning block (mostly to fulfill E/I requirements, however), continuing until that block's end on September 7, 2002 (with only a small break during the fall of the 1996-97 season). And of course there were the seemingly endless amounts of Pooh-related VHS tapes released during the 90s, reruns on the Disney Channel from October 3, 1994 until September 1, 2006, and on Toon Disney from April 1998 until November 2007, and multiple package films made of spliced together episodes of the show released up till the early 2000s, to the point it probably made more than one casual observer think the show lasted way longer than it actually did.
• Newbie Boom: The popularity of this show resulted in renewed interest in the Winnie the Pooh franchise in the 90's, leading it to become one of Disney's biggest cash cows of that decade.
• No Export for You: Believe it or not, the show actually got a full HD remaster (two versions, one with a 16:9 crop and the other in its original 4:3 aspect ratio)...which Disney has been shockingly quiet about. It's aired in a few foreign markets including Germany, Japan, Croatia, and the Czech Republic, but it took a few years for it to show up in its own country... at least until Disney+ started up and included the restored version of the series. Regardless, it's pretty shocking that they would be so quiet and secretive over such a restoration.
• The Original Darrin:
  • After being voiced by Phil Baron in Welcome to Pooh Corner, John Fiedler returns to voice Piglet from here until his death in 2005.
  • Paul Winchell returns to voice Tigger after Will Ryan voiced him in Welcome to Pooh Corner (though as noted below, Jim Cummings would fill in for Winchell later on).
• The Other Darrin: By the time the third season began production, Jim Cummings, already voicing Pooh, replaced Paul Winchell as Tigger, reportedly due to Winchell's declining health^note Winchell returned to voice Tigger in both Winnie the Pooh, and Christmas Too! and Pooh's Grand Adventure, and continued voicing Tigger on occasions until his retirement in 1999 as his health worsened. Cummings also filled in for Winchell in odd episodes of the previous seasons starting with "King Of The Beasties", so that (according to Cummings) Winchell could continue his humanitarian work in Africa.
  • Cummings, meanwhile, starting with this series, inherited the role of Pooh from Sterling Holloway (who voiced Pooh in the original featurettes), who declined to reprise his role for retirement and health reasons (Holloway would die in 1992, the year after New Adventures aired its last episode). He also replaces Hal Smith as well (who had did Pooh from 1978 to 1987).
  • Ken Sansom replaces Will Ryan as Rabbit and Peter Cullen replaces Ron Gans as Eeyore.
  • Patricia Parris replaces Julie McWhirter-Dees and Diana Hale as Kanga.
  • Voice actor Michael J. Gough (not to be confused with another Michael Gough) was brought in to replace Howard Morris as the voice of Gopher, as Morris was under contract to Garfield and Friends. When Morris decided to retire from voice acting altogether, Gough became Gopher's permanent voice.
  • Minor example with Christopher Robin: he was voiced by Timothy Hoskins for the show's entire run, but in the Christmas Too special he was replaced by Edan Gross. When the special was edited into A Very Merry Pooh Year, Gross' voice was dubbed over by William Green, who voiced Christopher in the bridging sequences.
• Recycled Premise: A few plot points from the novels are loosely adapted in the series. "The Old Switcheroo" for example reuses the premise of Piglet taking Roo's place in Kanga's pouch, and getting trolled by Kanga as payback. Other way round, a few story ideas from the series were loosely reused in The Book of Pooh, while the episode "Owl In The Family" even seems close in concept to The Tigger Movie.
• The Resolution Will Not Be Identified: The final produced episode of the series proper "Owl's Well That Ends Well" plays out like any other episode, though it does end on a rather beautiful sunrise that functions as a nice enough send-off. The fourth season also featured several episodes dealing with heavier themes of growing up and Christopher Robin's relationship with the cast, providing him some closure and character development.
• Role Reprise: John Fiedler, Paul Winchell, and Hal Smith all reprise their roles as Piglet, Tigger and Owl respectively from the original shorts and original film almost two decades before. Smith does not reprise his previous role as Pooh from A Day for Eeyore and Welcome to Pooh Corner, however, the role inherited by Jim Cummings from this show onward.
• Similarly Named Works: BoJack Horseman, Family Guy, Futari wa Pretty Cure, and Littlest Pet Shop (2012) all also have an episode titled "Fish Out of Water".
• Star-Making Role: Jim Cummings had been doing voice work for several years by now, but this marked his first starring role in a cartoon. Pooh and (trading off with Paul Winchell) Tigger, along with his roles as Don Karnage and Darkwing Duck in the next few years, would catapult him to A-List voice actor status.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Before the pilot episode, Pooh Oughta Be in Pictures, was broadcast, there were plans for a Winnie the Pooh movie, its script penned by Linda Woolverton. For reasons unknown, the project was ultimately shelved. Funnily enough, the aforementioned episode was about the characters going to a movie theater and deciding to make their own movie.
  • According to Disney Television Animation developer Michael Peraza, higher ups suggested a series where Pooh and co. live in New York City and solve mysteries. Peraza's response was, "Does he have a Scooby van or something to go with it?"
  • The show's team sought out as many reprises from the original featurettes as they could. Sterling Holloway (Pooh's original voice actor) did an early try-out, but was deemed too aged to replicate the voice anymore.
  • "Pooh Skies" was to be a bonus feature to the 2006 Special Edition of Pooh's Grand Adventure, even being advertised in the edition’s trailer, but it was ultimately replaced by Winnie the Pooh and a Blustery Day.

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