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Recap / The New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh S 1 E 1 Pooh Oughta Be In Pictures

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Christopher Robin takes Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger to see a monster movie, which scares Piglet. Afterwards, they try to make their own movie but Piglet gets overwhelmed by his fears during production.


This episode contains examples of the following tropes.

  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of part one, Tigger shouts out to the audience: "See you in the Hundred Acre Woods!". Part 2 takes place in the Hundred Acre Woods.
  • Clingy Costume: The zipper gets stuck in Tigger's costume, so he's unable to take it off in front of his friends. The others just think it's a real monster carrot that ate Tigger alive.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Piglet nearly crosses this after his cowardice prevents him from saving Pooh from the mutant carrot (which was only Tigger in a costume). He snaps out of it when Pooh gets entangled in the tattered costume.
  • Dramatic Thunder: Happens a few times during the second act, most notably when Pooh arrives at Piglet's house on a stormy evening, and a couple more times when the mangled carrot costume is blown onto Pooh and Piglet goes to rescue him.
  • The Faceless: We never see Christopher Robin's mother's face; only the back of her head.
  • Fake-Out Opening: The episode opens with Christopher Robin and friends running from something inside a scary looking castle. It turns out to be an Imagine Spot of Christopher avoiding his mother, who wants him to eat his carrots.
  • Faux Horrific: The opening scene has Christopher Robin overreacting to having to eat carrots. Inspired by this, Tigger makes a carrot costume for the movie, thinking that there's nothing more terrifying than a "vegebibble".
  • Kids Hate Vegetables: Christopher Robin thinks carrots are yucky.
  • Mistaken for Own Murderer: Tigger in his giant carrot costume is mistaken for a real monster carrot, and hearing his pleas to get out of this thing made them think he was Swallowed Whole.
  • Movie-Theater Episode: The first half of the episode has Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger being taken to a movie theater by Christopher Robin to see Birdzilla. Then they wind up making a mess of the projection booth while trying to convince Piglet that the movie is nothing to be scared of, resulting in them fleeing the usher and running out of said movie theater.
  • Mundane Made Awesome: Tigger's costume, especially how he describes it.
    Tigger: Behold, the ultimate terror...the ugliest, scariest thing in the world...a VEGEBIBBLE!
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Piglet feels deeply ashamed after having been too scared to save Pooh from the giant carrot, which turned out to only be Tigger in a costume.
  • Notzilla: The monster in the movie Christopher Robin and the gang watches, named Birdzilla.
  • Sticky Situation: Pooh and Piglet get stuck in gum that was left under the seats at the movie theater while looking for Pooh's honey crunch bars that were dropped on the floor. Christopher Robin frees them.
  • Stock Sound Effects: Birdzilla's roaring sounds are the same ones recorded for the title character in Hanna-Barbera's The Godzilla Power Hour. Though it's justified in that the show often used numerous Hanna-Barbera sound effects.
  • Stock "Yuck!": Christopher Robin does not like carrots. He reacts to his lunch of them as if he's eating poison, and the monster in his monster movie is a giant, living carrot.

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