YMMV / The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

• Awesome Art: As per usual for Disney's eighties cartoons, some of the episodes look amazingly close to the original film's quality for TV budget, especially the early episodes produced by TMS or Disney's Australian unit.
• Accidental Aesop: From both "How Much is that Rabbit in the Window" and "Groundpiglet's Day" - if you must use a tear-page calendar, make sure you have a backup method to confirm the date in case any pages are torn off accidentally.
• Accidental Innuendo: In "No Rabbit's a Fortress", Tigger tells Pooh and Piglet that he will lead them past the booby traps, and follows it with, "Tiggers is experts on trappin' boobies, y'know!"
• Awesome Music: The theme song. It was so kicking that all agree that the theme song is one of the best things to come out of the franchise. It's likely a whole generation of kids who grew up watching One Saturday Morning, the Pooh videos or other reruns have the theme drilled into their heads.
  • The closing credits' instrumental version of theme song, particularly the extended version with humming and just a bit of vocals at the end. The other instrumental closing credit version of the song (with more trumpets) is no slouch either.
  • The pirate song "Pirates Is What We'll Be" from the beginning of the episode "Rabbit Marks the Spot". It is one of the most awesome and fun pirate songs ever.
  • "Nothing's Too Good For A Friend" was cheery and catchy enough to make it into a later sing-along compilation.
  • Tigger sings a brief but utterly heart wrenching little number about his identity crisis during the climax of "Stripes". The score building up to it is even more moving.
  • Pooh's "Here We Go Floating" song that opens "Balloonatics" is absolutely sweet. It was also used as the intro song to the licensed games Ready to Read with Pooh and Ready for Math with Pooh.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Private-Ear Tigger's Disney Acid Sequence in "Eeyore's Tail Tale", which comes completely out of nowhere after Pooh hires him to look for his missing "Bee Tickler", and accomplishes nothing after it's done, with not one word being said about it, leaving audiences to wonder "What was that all about?"
• Bizarro Episode: A fair few episodes step out of the usual laid back antics of the original film and books and take a far more surreal tone, most notably "The Piglet Who Would Be King", "Cleanliness is Next to Impossible" and "Sorry, Wrong Slusher".
• Cant Unhear It: For many children of the '80s and '90s, this series was the main installment of the Pooh franchise that they grew up with, and these versions of the characters' voices are the ones they most associate with them (helped by most of them carrying over into the 2000s shows and featurettes). In particular, Ken Sansom is the definitive Rabbit for countless fans of the '80s/'90s generation (especially thanks to "Find Her, Keep Her"), despite Junius Matthews and Will Ryan having voiced the character first. This reached a point that Disney seemingly planned to release the original shorts dubbed over by the New Adventures cast (as revealed by a credits error in A Day For Eeyore's remaster).
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Nasty Jack, a literal horse, from "Paw and Order", to the point where he's playable in M.U.G.E.N.
  • Kessie from "Find Her, Keep Her" and "A Bird in the Hand". Everyone remembers Kessie. This is probably why she was promoted to main character in The Book of Pooh.
  • Stan and Heff from "The Great Honey Pot Robbery" and "A Bird in the Hand" have quite a following, too, if DeviantArt is anything to go by.
  • The Heffalump family from "There's No Camp Like Home" and "Trap as Trap Can" are also fondly remembered, especially Papa Heffalump with his funny Abnormal Allergies and Sneezes of Doom.
• Genius Bonus:
  • In "The Masked Offender," during the opening sequence where Christopher Robin is reading his story while the characters are acting it out, the name of the bandit Rabbit plays, "El Conejo," is actually Spanish for "the rabbit."
  • In "No Rabbit's a Fortress", Gopher mentions that he has U235 in his arsenal of explosives.
• Growing the Beard: As popular as the original film was, New Adventures to many fans is considered when the Disney interpretation truly expanded from being a loose adaptation of the books to having its own iconic brand of storytelling. In particular this was the first Disney work to really attempt heavier plotlines that dealt with more sensitive subject matter and developing Hidden Depths for the main cast. Such that most Pooh works in the 90s and early 2000s would end up following on from the show's more earnest writing style.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Several episodes deal with the theme of growing up (especially "Grown, But Not Forgotten"), and the theme would receive the most focus in the Darker and Edgier Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin. That film in general makes many of the moments in this series between Pooh and Christopher Robin much more bittersweet, as in hindsight, you now know that those precious moments are on borrowed time before Christopher Robin grows up and can't come to the Hundred Acre Wood regularly anymore.
    • Pooh's cries to find the wishing star in "The Wishing Bear" become this when in Pooh's Grand Adventure, he similarly begs for the wishing star during his heart "Wherever You Are" — because he's "empty and [cold], and [his] heart's about to break".
  • In "The Wishing Bear," the rest of the gang tries various ways to jog Pooh's memory when he forgets the rhyme needed to make a wish Christopher Robin's wishing star. This plot was played much more seriously in Kingdom Hearts II when the Heartless tear pages of the Winnie-the-Pooh book out, causing him to lose his entire memory.
  • For similar reasons as the above, the episode "Tigger Got Your Tongue?" had the characters thinking Pooh's honey, Tigger's voice, and Rabbit's vegetables were stolen by a "Nobody", with talk of whether "Nobodies" existed or not being frequent in the episode.
  • The premise of Tigger having his voice "stolen" has heartbreaking undertones considering Paul Winchell by that point had to trade the role with Jim Cummings due to failing health and was eventually retired from the character altogether in 1999. It becomes even darker once he died in 2005. Repeated in "Monkey See, Monkey Do Better", where Bruno (Jim Cummings) boasting about supplanting the other toys touches a nerve, especially with Tigger (Paul Winchell). It would be Cummings that would end up replacing Winchell as Tigger.
  • The episode "Owl In The Family" has Owl realise he's become so estranged from his anecdote-spawning family that he questions if they exist, with Pooh and the others taking measures to initiate a family reunion to cheer him up. It's Played for Laughs and everything turns out alright in the end with a surprise visit from Owl's relatives. Ten years later however another member of the wood would suffer the same dilemma...
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • "A Bird In Hand" shows Kessie return to the Hundred Acre Wood, now fully grown and no longer in need of Rabbit's affection. Later works such as Season of Giving and Book of Pooh however show Kessie having made returns to the Hundred Acre Wood while still adolescent, showing Rabbit didn't miss out on all of Kessie's childhood.
  • This was Hal Smith's final performance as Owl, as he passed away shortly after the series ended. Rather fittingly and sweetly, Owl got the show's final episode^note besides Christmas Too "Owl's Well That Ends Well" devoted to him; in fact Owl's voice (namely his comically terrible singing) is the last voice ever heard in the show.
• He Really Can Act: Though still comical at heart, New Adventures was the first Pooh work to raise the stakes and emotion of many stories, thus we saw more poignant performances from the cast than usual. Paul Winchell gives a genuinely somber and lost performance as Tigger in "Stripes", while Ken Samson shows off his acting chops as Rabbit very early on in the Very Special Episode "Find Her Keep Her". Even Patricia Parris, who only sporadically got to play Kanga in this series alone, does a very heartwrenching breakdown as her in 'Babysitter Blues".
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • "Tigger Got Your Tongue" has Tigger lead the others in pursuit of invisible "Nobodies" stealing things. Sixteen years later...
  • Two ditzy friends, one with a mostly red and another mostly yellow color palette, go on adventures that get on the nerves of their neighbor, a stuffy green-colored fellow. Did we just describe Pooh, Piglet, and Rabbit, or SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward? It's even more hilarious since Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, became the voice of Rabbit starting in Winnie the Pooh (2011).
  • In "A Knight to Remember", Piglet searches for a dragon, which turns out to be Eeyore. Nearly 30 years later, one of the stories in The Best Bear in All the World plays out the same way.
  • In the same episode, Rabbit says "Must be spring. The knights are getting shorter." Jim Cummings would make that same joke a few years later.
  • The Imagine Spot from "Grown, But Not Forgotten" shows what Christopher Robin's adult life would be... although it's nothing like what would happen several decades later.
  • The episode "Cleanliness is Next to Impossible" wouldn't be the last time that Jim Cummings plays a monster that lives under the bed.
  • At the end of "Groundpiglet Day", Tigger says, "We gotta find us a porcupine." In 2007, they do.
  • In the same episode, Tigger tries to find the significance to November 13th. Come 2019, that same day was made the launch of Disney+, with the show even being a part of the launch day's lineup.
  • In "To Dream the Impossible Scheme," Grandpappy Gopher says almost nothing except "Yup" and "Nope," not unlike Big Macintosh.
  • "Sorry, Wrong Slusher" has Tigger trying to convince the others to watch a Slasher Film, with Piglet being against the idea. Come 2022, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey was announced. This one crosses over into Harsher in Hindsight territory for obvious reasons.
• Ho Yay: In "Un-Valentine's Day", Tigger is first to play the romantic lead in the valentine Rabbit is directing, but when Rabbit tells him he's got to kiss Kanga, Tigger is disgusted and refuses. Rabbit pushes for it, and Tigger agrees to do the kiss...but then immediately leans over and kisses Rabbit instead. Also, in "No Rabbit's a Fortress", Tigger lamented about how he hadn't given Rabbit a "good bouncin'" in days, saying, "I feel an empty spot in my life."
• Memetic Mutation:
  • From "Tigger Got Your Tongue": 'Looks like polar bears eating marshmallows in the snowstorm'^note Tigger mistook a white piece of sheet for a painting that Piglet was supposedly doing
  • Pooh, Tigger, and Rabbit drinking hot cocoa while bundled up.^note First gained notoriety with the caption "IDK girls I think I like him", later also circulated with the caption "Stop normalizing the grind and start normalizing whatever this is."
• Realism-Induced Horror: In "Sorry, Wrong Slusher", Tigger pisses off a man he calls by mistake who happens to have a poor temper, and he proceeds to double down by giving him the address of Christopher Robin’s house to invite him to make good on his threats. Giving an angry stranger your address is, obviously, a horrible idea, especially since Christopher and the group are just a boy and his favorite toys.
• Signature Scene:
  • The ending of "Pooh Oughta Be In Pictures", with Pooh and Christopher Robin on the hillside as the sunset fades to night that is also used as the title card and closing credits of the series, is one of the most significant and iconic images of the Pooh franchise.
  • The "cloud painting" scene from "Donkey for a Day" that it serves as the emotional climax of the series intro.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: Aside from some emotional or darker moments, the series is a pretty laidback, fun and innocent show starring one of the most pure protagonists Disney has ever put to animation (and his equally innocent costars as well) that anybody watching can unwind with.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The show introduced a lot of original cast members who usually only made one or two appearances. Even some franchise regulars like Kanga and Roo only appear sporadically. Eeyore also tends to be Out of Focus in favor of Gopher.
• Tough Act to Follow: While Pooh's later series have their fans, The Book of Pooh and My Friends Tigger & Pooh are often considered paler shows compared to New Adventures due to its impressive hand drawn animation, loyalty to the original film, clever emotional writing and wider scale target audience. The series set such a ground for Pooh works that some consider even the later feature length films inferior. The latter series even more so since Owl is completely removed.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The bees have been redesigned from their realistic look in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh to cartoony in this show, and it doesn’t look right. The bugs who steal from Rabbit's garden look like they belong in the show. The bees on the other hand resemble tiny humans without ears. It looks unsettling.
• Viewer Name Confusion: This show has a minor character named Kessie, but some people assume she has the relatively more common name Cassie.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The 'Cloud Painting' scene at the end of Donkey for a Day.

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