Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!

Winnie The Pooh & Tigger Too!
Directed by	John Lounsbery
Written by	A. A. Milne Ralph Wright
Narrated by	Sebastian Cabot
Starring	Sterling Holloway John Fiedler Paul Winchell Junius Matthews Dori Whitaker
Music by	Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release date(s)	December 20, 1974
Running time	25 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! is the third Winnie-the-Pooh short from Disney, released in theatres on December 20, 1974 as a double feature with The Island at the Top of the World. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but lost to Closed Mondays. It was later added as a segment to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (March 11, 1977). A soundtrack album was released simultaneously and featured such songs as "The Honey Tree" and "Birthday, Birthday." The film is based on the fourth and seventh chapters of The House at Pooh Corner, the second Pooh book by A. A. Milne.

Plot

Tigger has been bouncing on anyone he comes across for fun, which gets on Rabbit's nerves. After holding a meeting with Pooh and Piglet, Rabbit decides to take everyone, including Tigger, out into the Hundred Acre Wood. But during the trip, Rabbit, Pooh, and Piglet purposefully ditch Tigger on the hopes he would get lost. The three hide in a log as Tigger searches for them. The three try to make it back home, but end up at a certain spot.

Pooh offers a silly suggestion to search for that same spot, and Rabbit abandons them to try to prove Pooh wrong. Pooh and Piglet find their way out of the forest by themselves where they come across Tigger. Tigger reveals that Tiggers don't get lost easily. Tigger finds out that Rabbit is still in the forest so he goes off to find him. Rabbit is lost and as he's finding his way home, he's scared by various animal noises such as crickets, frogs, crows, and woodpeckers. The sounds get to him and he frantically tries to run away only to be tackled by Tigger. Tigger then takes Rabbit home.

It's now snowing and Roo wants to go play. Kanga can't be with him so she calls on Tigger to look after Roo which he gladly accepts. Along the way through the woods, Tigger and Roo see Rabbit skating on the ice. Tigger tries to teach Roo how to ice skate by doing it himself, but unfortunately, he loses his balance and collides with Rabbit and the result is Tigger sliding across the ice into a snowbank and Rabbit crashing into his house. Tigger then decides that he doesn't like ice skating. Later on, while bouncing around the woods with Roo on his back, Tigger accidentally jumps too high up a tree and is too scared to get down. He calls for help and Pooh and Piglet come to the scene. Roo successfully jumps down but Tigger refuses to follow suit.

Soon, Christopher Robin, Rabbit and Kanga arrive and try to convince Tigger to jump. Eventually, Rabbit decides that the group would just have to leave Tigger in the tree forever, on which Tigger promises never to bounce again if he ever was released from his predicament. Sebastian Cabot (narrator) chimes in for help. Tigger begs Cabot to "narrate [him] down from [the tree]," and Cabot tilts the book, allowing Tigger to step onto the text of the page. Tigger starts to feel better that he made it this far and before he can do otherwise, Cabot tilts the book again causing Tigger to fall down into the snow. Happy, Tigger attempts to bounce but Rabbit stops him reminding Tigger of the promise he made. Devastated, Tigger slowly walks away and Rabbit feels better that there will be peace. But everyone else is sad to see Tigger like this and remind Rabbit of the joy Tigger brought when he was bouncing. Suddenly, Rabbit feels sorry for Tigger and takes back the promise he made and is given a friendly tackle by an overly-excited Tigger. Tigger invites everyone to bounce with him and even teaches Rabbit how to do it. For the first time, Rabbit is happy to be bouncing, as is everyone else and Tigger sings his trademark song for the last time.

Voice cast

• Sterling Holloway - Winnie-the-Pooh
• Paul Winchell - Tigger
• Junius Matthews - Rabbit
• John Fiedler - Piglet
• Dori Whitaker - Roo
• Sebastian Cabot - Narrator
• Timothy Turner - Christopher Robin
• Barbara Luddy - Kanga

v • d • e Winnie-the-Pooh Books When We Were Very Young (1924) · Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) · Now We Are Six (1927) · The House at Pooh Corner (1928) · Return to the Hundred Acre Wood (2009) Characters Eeyore · Gopher · Heffalump · Kanga · Kessie · Lottie  · Lumpy · Owl · Piglet · Rabbit · Christopher Robin · Roo · Tigger · Winnie-the-Pooh · Woozle · List Storybook classical stories Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966) · Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) · Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (1974) · Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983) Feature films and DTV The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) · Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) · Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving (1999) · The Tigger Movie (2000) · Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002) · Piglet's Big Movie (2003) · Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004) · Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) · Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005) Television Welcome to Pooh Corner (1983–1986) · The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988–1991) · The Book of Pooh (2001–2002) · My Friends Tigger & Pooh (2007–present) Specials Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990) · Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (1991) · Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh (1996) · A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (1998) · Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You (1999) Video games Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood · Winnie the Pooh Adventures · Winnie the Pooh's Party Games: In Search of the Treasure · Tigger's Honey Hunt · Pooh & Tigger's Hunny Safari · Winnie the Pooh Pre-School · Winnie the Pooh Kindergarten · Piglet's Big Game · Winnie the Pooh's Rumbly Tumbly Adventure · Ready to Read with Pooh · Kingdom Hearts (series) Songs "Winnie the Pooh" (1966) · "Up, Down and Touch the Ground" (1966) · "Mind Over Matter" (1966) · "Rumbly in My Tumbly" (1966) · "Little Black Rain Cloud" (1966) · "A Rather Blustery Day" (1968) · "When the Rain Rain Rain Came Down" (1968) · "Heffalumps and Woozles" (1968) · "Hip Hip Pooh-Ray!" (1968) · "The Wonderful Things About Tiggers" (1968, 1974, 2000) · "I Hum to Myself" (1983) · "Just Say, 'Yes I Can'" (1983) · "The Right Side" (1983) · "You're the Only You" (1983) · "Try a Little Something New" (1983) · "Ev'ry Season Has A Reason" (1999) · "Someone Like Me" (2000) · "Whoop-de-Dooper Bounce" (2000) · "Pooh's Lullabee" (2000) · "How To Be A Tigger" (2000) · "Round My Family Tree" (2000) · "Your Heart Will Lead You Home" (2000) People A. A. Milne · Christopher Robin Milne · Sherman Brothers · Jim Cummings · Peter Dennis · Walt Disney · Sterling Holloway · Paul Winchell · Yevgeny Leonov  · E. H. Shepard · Shirley Slesinger Lasswell · Stephen Slesinger · David Benedictus Related articles Ashdown Forest · Bother! The Brain of Pooh · Hundred Acre Wood · Methuen & Co. Ltd. · More Songs from Pooh Corner · Poohsticks · Return to Pooh Corner · The Tao of Pooh · The Te of Piglet · Winnipeg the Bear Category ·  Wikiquote ·  Commons ·  Wikinews

External links

• Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! at the Internet Movie Database
• Detailed Info on Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! including Don Bluth's involvement