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Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo

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  • Awesome Music: Even a Pooh easter special has a few of these, often mixed with Funny Moments:
    • "Sniffily Sniff"; Pooh's whimsical little number about...having a sneeze.
    • "The Way It Must Be Done"; especially the Triumphant Reprise after Rabbit's epiphany.
  • Heartwarming Moments: Rabbit's Triumphant Reprise of "The Way It Must Be Done", called "The Grandest Easter Ever (Rabbit's Reprise)", that he sings after realizing the Bad Future was just a dream and he's going to fix things so he and his friends can have a fun Easter instead of Spring Cleaning Day.
  • He Really Can Act: This is probably Ken Samson’s best performance as Rabbit, aside from the New Adventures episodes with his adoptive daughter, Kessie. When Rabbit is reminded of his past, he seems genuinely heartbroken and in the Bad Future, he sounds like he’s actually crying.
  • Jerkass Woobie: While Rabbit was wrong for being so controlling and bossy, we learn in his flashback that he was really looking forward to being the Easter Rabbit until the others decided to celebrate Easter without him, making him feel depressed and bitter about the past and causing him to despise the holiday.
  • Protagonist Title Fallacy: Roo is only really the main character for the first act, with the film otherwise Yet Another Christmas Carol focusing on Rabbit. That said, however, Roo still has a part to play in the rest of the film trying to get Rabbit to change his mind.
  • Tear Jerker:
    • The Bad Future scene, where Rabbit discovers that his attitude has driven all his friends away from him.
      Rabbit's friends had moved away.
      Rabbit was all alone.
    • The scene where Rabbit reveals his reason for disliking Easter to Tigger; they made the latter the Easter Bunny when Rabbit's by-the-book Control Freak tendencies became too much for them, making him feel left out and bitter. Tigger's solemn reaction makes it clear that he knows they screwed up.
      Rabbit: Every Spring... I look forward to one thing most of all; being the Easter Bunny. You took that away from me.
      • Even worse, what really set off Rabbit the past year was Roo happily declaring Tigger to be the best Easter Bunny ever. And when Tigger tries to weakly claim that they only wanted to give Roo a Happy Easter, asking if Rabbit wants to do the same, Rabbit responds by ordering him to go away. Those instances really show how much Rabbit wanted to make Roo happy the previous year (which is heavily implied to have influenced his behaviour), only for his friends to cast him aside in favour of Tigger when it got too much for them.
      • Tigger’s reaction also deserves some mention as up into that point, he had failed to realize just how much him taking the Easter Bunny role away and doing Easter behind Rabbit’s back would upset him and innocently believed that once Rabbit remembered how much he loved Easter, he’ll bring the holiday back. It takes seeing how hurt Rabbit was the past year and then having him sadly tell Tigger off in the present for him to realize what exactly he and the others had done to Rabbit, leaving him in a very somber mood... until Rabbit brings Easter back at the end.
      • Also, up until that point, asides from Roo, Tigger was the most gung-ho about him and the others having a Happy Easter, cheerfully singing about things everyone loves about Easter and leading everyone into decorating Rabbit’s house. Once he’s reminded of what he had done and Rabbit calls him out for it, however, he ends up dropping it in favour of wanting to make things up to Rabbit, undoubtedly having realized he had gone too far.
    • The scene where Tigger tries to bring the bad news to Roo and the others about Rabbit not wanting to bring back Easter. He really feels like he failed Roo and let him down.
    • Roo’s drawing of him and Rabbit. All the little guy wants is to make Rabbit feel better.

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