Nightmare Fuel / The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

• When Pooh and Christopher Robin run away from the bees, Pooh briefly struggles to climb over a log, forcing Christopher to go back and pick him up. The bees hit the spot where Pooh was just as he's picked up. Imagine if Christopher had been a second too late.
• Despite heavy amounts of Nightmare Retardant trying to make the monsters as cuddly as possible, the song "Heffalumps and Woozles" scared the bejeezus out of many children. Justified because, well, it's Pooh's nightmare.
  • In particular, the part where a heffalump takes the lid of a walking jar of hunny, and the jar starts laughing hysterically, despite having no visible mouth. The heffalump then quickly slams the lid back on the jar, suggesting that even the heffalump found that hunny too creepy to eat. Or perhaps for their own enjoyment.
  • Other particularly frightening bits include the transparent heffalump that comes out of a honey pot and guzzles up all the honey 'til it explodes, the creepy, drunkenly laughing woozle jack-in-the-boxes formerly pictured here, the slow dance between two heffalumps with unchanging gazes and smiles on their faces (the music at this point sounding particularly unsettling), and the small flying heffalump who yelps out some unintelligible gibberish before dive-bombing behind Pooh ^note He's saying "ho-ho!" much like in the books, transforming into a soldier with a popgun trunk who knocks Pooh into a heffalump canon, which a woozle soldier proceeds to light. Also the sound of the accordion trunks of two twin heffalumps played right before the abovementioned part.
  • The mood is set even before the nightmare with Tigger bouncing around outside Pooh's house, purring while an organ plays, the wind howls and he growls before jumping on Pooh when he opens the door. Even though Tigger sets our minds at ease, it's not very comforting to kids who are scared of things that go bump in the night or people who worry that somebody is trying to break into their house at night.
  • Also, the organ music in the background is the Heffalumps and Woozles theme.
• A lot of viewers were freaked out by the Pooh doll winking at the end of both the film and the original shorts. It's meant to symbolize Pooh will always be there for Christopher Robin (it does come after a greatly Bittersweet Ending after all), but the surrealism of it (some were left fearing that their own dolls would come to life), the fact that it comes out of nowhere without warning, and that the closing music crescendos to a loud finish (different in each featurette, with the one from Honey Tree being the tamest of the three and the one from Blustery Day being reused for the complete feature) led it to having a not-so-great impression on many.
  • The shot of the winking Pooh doll at the end of the Honey Tree featurette is slightly worse because the curtains can be seen moving in the wind, making the illusion of a stuffed animal winking in live-action footage more convincing.
  • Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, wait 'til you see it at the end of the 1987 mashup video, Apocalypse Pooh, created by Todd Graham...
• The whole idea of the Rabbit's plan. Rabbit is seen as mature and somewhat level-headed as opposed to most of the residents of 100 Acre Woods. Yet he has no problem deliberately trying to get Tigger lost, and have who knows what happen to him. Even Pooh, while dozing through the meeting, wakes up and says in alarm, "Lose him?!"
• The plan seems to work at first, when Rabbit makes Piglet and Pooh hide. Then they end up walking in circles, ending up back at the sandpit. As Rabbit goes off in a huff because he finds Pooh's idea of trying to find the pit rather than home dumb, Pooh and Piglet encounter Tigger when making their own way back. It turns out Tigger was never lost; as he puts it, "Tiggers never get lost." He was scared for them because they don't know the way back.
• Rabbit slowly going insane when he's lost in the woods and the noises about him are fueling his paranoia. (Animated by Don Bluth.) Sort of doubles as a Funny Moment if you weren't scared.
  • The noises of the woods are actually re-dubbed in the Hungarian 1988 dub, making them sound somewhat more demonic.
• Rabbit's brief moment of Sanity Slippage when a stuck Pooh finally budges in his house. He laughs maniacally and pulls his ears below his head, and his grasp of the English language becomes much more stunted than usual.
  Rabbit: CHRISTOPHER CROBIN! CHRUSTOPHER RIBBON! HE BIDGED! HE BADGED! HE BOODGED! TODAY'S THE DAY!

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