YMMV / The Book of Pooh

• Awesome Music:
  • "Nightmare Wranglers": An upbeat, optimistic Western-style tune with Pooh and Tigger getting ready to catch a 'nightmare'.
  • And "Get Growin'".
  • A lot of songs by Tigger qualify, but special mention goes to "Stripey McSnarl Always Gets His Man", a low-key Film Noir-styled jazz number with Tigger boasting about his skills as a private detective.
  • Eeyore's song in "Beastly Burden", "Carry On", contrasts an upbeat country tune with Eeyore singing about how he doesn't have anything that makes him stand out.
  • "Too Much Honey"; a psychadelic tune accompanying a Disney Acid Sequence.
  • "Show the Sign".
• Can't Un-Hear It: Since the show reprises most of the cast from the 80s and 90s Pooh projects, it has the same distinction. It has the addition of having Kath Soucie and Nikita Hopkins as Kanga and Roo, who were the longest running voices for the characters and thus often considered the most recognisable portrayals.
• Franchise Original Sin:
  • This was the first entry in the Disney Pooh works to depict Kanga and Roo moving in after Tigger, contradicting Blustery Day. However in this case, the series is a spin-off in which Kanga and Roo were absent for the first season, and Tigger's involvement was specifically to show how he and Roo first bonded, elements which were not in play when the film canon adopted this Series Continuity Error.
  • This was also one of the first Pooh works to shift Kanga and Owl's characters into the more intelligent Team Mom and Team Dad role respectively. However here it is more clearly to give them a broader role within the main dynamic and the show's more educational format, and they still maintain a lot of Not So Above It All moments and take part in the main shenanigans many times over, while the projects following this reduced them to Out of Focus sensible authority figures who usually only appeared at the end to solve the current misunderstandings.
• Memetic Mutation: The "Brain Drain" episode has become popular in the YouTube Poop community, spawning several collabs by CamHead. He went even as far as milking the joke in countless YTPs of his.
• Narm Charm: "Show the Sign", a rap song that is completely out of place in the franchise, but so darn catchy.
• Periphery Demographic: One of the first Pooh works aimed primarily at a preschool crowd, though keeps the usual wit and silliness of the franchise and directs to a more advanced story and teaching mechanics than the norm.
• Special Effect Failure: Not so much a failure as a trade-off, but because of the set's background, Rabbit's and Tigger's whiskers have a length limit when a bodypart isn't behind them.
• Squick: In the Halloween Episode, Pooh and Tigger attend the Halloween party together as Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, respectively. Pooh is unsure about the costume, but Tigger insists that he's perfect and that he needed to have someone play the Little Red to his Wolf. It seems innocuous at first, but then you remember that the Wolf tried to eat Little Red in the original story. For whatever reason, it's also a popular couples' costume. The kicker? Tigger said that it was bad enough that Rabbit wouldn't be the Grandma, who the wolf ate (to be fair, some versions of the story have him simply lock her in the closet).
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: The show takes a lot of Welcome to Pooh Corner's format, however while the latter is regularly considered So Bad, It's Good, Book of Pooh stays more aesthetically authentic to the franchise, and utilises the younger more Aesop-heavy structure while still having enjoyable storytelling and humour. The puppetry is also far less creepy than in Pooh Corner.
• Tear Jerker: "Goodbye For Now", a remix of the already tearjerking "House at Pooh Corner" by Loggins & Messina, is a bittersweet reminder that, while they're not gone for good, the adventure the characters just had has come to a close, and they need to leave.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: While reviving Kessie from New Adventures as a regular had potential, she spends a lot of the series as a Living Prop with her old dynamic with Rabbit seldom looked into.

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