DefunctTV: The History of Welcome to Pooh Corner

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In this episode, Kevin looks at the beginning of the Disney Channel and one of their original series, Welcome to Pooh Corner, a live-action full-body character iteration of A.A. Milne's classic Winnie the Pooh.
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A note on calling the costumes creepy: We here at DefunctTV rarely play into the trope that “look your childhood was weird let’s laugh at it.” We understand that a lot of people loved this show and didn’t find it creepy and we tried to respect that as much as possible. That said, with this show specifically, the audience that originally watched it was split between it being creepy and it being great, which put us in a difficult position of trying to put both of those sentiments in the video. It is not us making fun of it just for the sake of making fun. We apologize if it came across this way. Have a great weekend!

[@zixenvernon1643]

I think it's fine if the costumes were creepy to people even back then.

[@ElectroNukeMods]

As thoughtful as that is, people being intolerant towards your opinions or criticism isn’t really a problem of your’s or the show. As long as you aren’t treating your opinion like it’s the correct or dominant one or demeaning others for liking what they like, you have the right to criticize.

[@ElectroNukeMods]

And that’s just a different viewpoint. I can totally see why they didn’t come off as scary.

[@eripena7895]

VagrantDancer Actually, the Book of Pooh used puppets instead of costumes.

[@mrflamewars]

I loved it when I was little just because it was so freakin' weird. Those of us who grew up during that era have an appreciation for stuff that just don't fly today. Also Today's Special and Pinwheel on Nickelodeon and all the strange little animations shown as part of that show. I think it made us more creative.

[@Pikapika-gc2pp]

“Tigger force-feeds his friends spaghetti until they can’t take it” “It was wholesome and family friendly”

[@syafiqjabar]

I think I found Tigger's DeviantArt once.

[@TeamClusterTruck]

@@gunsmokeblues *Bonetrousle intensifies*

[@hell5309]

Sadly, back then at least, force-feeding your friends spaghetti like that WAS considered wholesome and family-friendly.

[@philollenberg]

That wholesome, family-friendly time Tigger briefly explored a feeder-eater relationship.

[@timothyross8834]

And just when I thought Tigger couldn't be any more like Papyrus

[@andrewkos5560]

"Pooh delicately launches into a musical number about how to prevent molestation" is a sentence I'll never be able to un-hear

[@JakeLovesSteak]

Same with Pooh saying "private parts."

[@ElvenRaptor]

@@JakeLovesSteak Or Pigley confessing that he doesn't know how to say "No."

[@jasonwebb5964]

@@dylanbaker7927 piglet is a pervert. I hear he's into some weird shit.

[@Troublethecat]

Andrew Kos This is probably the one thing that could possibly top the infamous Sonic Says segment about the same subject. It's too bad the internet never knew about this one.

[@FilmmakeroftheFuture]

@@Troublethecat I'd rather have the Sonic one than this.

[@kaijutamerpat]

"The show lasted 28 minutes." I heard that and busted out laughing. My mind went to the idea they made one episode and it was cancelled after that.

[@Gravydog316]

cancelled just before the end credits LOL

[@nintendo-relatedchannel5810]

Now I'm laughing at the idea of that after re-watching that part, damn you.

[@yvendous]

Same

[@alexp.288]

Reminds me of the episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt where a musical’s crew quits five minutes in and they can’t even finish the show before they close

[@tatertotter808]

He meant each episode was 28 mins

[@samuelschlick4910]

"Pooh delicately launches into a musical number on how to prevent molestation" Never thought I'd hear that in my lifetime but here we are!

[@Hillers62]

And remember an episode when Pooh got stuck in Rabbit's hole entry...Rabbit kept pushing on Pooh's butt...over and over...Private Parts?????????

[@mr.tomraypaz6085]

Hillers62 I hope Rabbit was thanking his lucky stars that Pooh didn’t fart in his face when he was trying to push him out of the hole.

[@peachblood555]

@@Hillers62 it isn't private if it isn't covered

[@the-nina-beans88]

With eyes like that... who could?

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

You do know he was in a PSA about drugs, right?

[@AllenQuid]

"Pooh delicately launches in to a musical number about how to prevent molestation" Hello brand new sentence

[@2026_Productions]

I wonder how much he was paid to sing that whole song.

[@fallingpetunias9046]

@@2026_Productions I wonder how many takes were necessary for Hal Smith not to lose the song's pace in bewilderment. I mean, I know he was a professional, but singing about dark subject matters for children's shows has to be one of those "How did I get here?" moments.

[@pac-man5828]

fun

[@Attmay]

@@fallingpetunias9046 This was made the same year *Sesame Street* outed Snuffleupagus as being real. That episode came after *Follow That Bird* came out in theaters.

[@Hillers62]

There are molesters in the Hundred Acres Woods????

[@goldstarsupreme]

"The show lasted 28 minutes" Damn cancelled too soon.

[@DoswarePictures]

GoldStarzzz I know it’s a joke, but there was actually a show that was canceled while airing the first and only episode.

[@wiibrockster]

@@DoswarePictures Wasn't it one Australian home video show?

[@alexn9856]

@@DoswarePictures There are several of those shows, actually. One was cancelled mid-broadcast...

[@skyler6175]

@@DoswarePictures I think the one you are thinking about was in England in the 60s. It was a 'comedy' sitcom that was about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun living in Berlin with Jewish neighbors. Bad taste does not begin to describe it...

[@DoswarePictures]

DigitalParallel I’m aware of Heil Honey, I’m Home! But the one I’m talking about was the one Tarlo The Boar was talking about, Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos.

[@mowserbedowser5436]

Wow, I think Pooh's corner may be the only show that actually brought up the fact that danger could come from a family member familiar adult. I have to applaud that.

[@benjaminmartinez7480]

Wow I never realized that😅

[@crimsondynamo615]

Yeah you never really hear that from other stranger danger psa’s.

[@srsone]

Tbh, 80%+ molestations happen by family members or close people the child already knows, and that’s something the “Stranger Danger” movement failed to address, so any furthered warning, like “private parts,” as cringy as it may seem, is frankly welcome. More needs to be done.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

As Piglet & Pooh (Phil Baron & Hal Smith) said on the TSFS special verbatim... Piglet: "I hate to mention it, Pooh, I really do, b-but I think we should tell our friends that danger doesn't always come from strangers. It can be from someone you know." Pooh: "Oh gosh, Piglet, you're right! People you see every day might want to...touch you & sometimes, that's dangerous." Piglet: "What do you mean Pooh?" Pooh: "Well, there are certain private places on your body that nobody's supposed to touch except you. Your bathing suit covers your private parts. Sometimes, your parents might touch them if they're dressing you or bathing you. *(Remember, this special was intended for preschool children, mind you & most little kids couldn't yet dress themselves properly at the age **_Welcome to Pooh Corner_** & its specials were marketed towards.)* Or, the doctor has to touch them when he's examining you. That's OK touching." Piglet: "B-but is there touching that's Not-OK, Pooh?" ~The Bear of Very Little Brain repeats the same three steps kids should know to avoid any kind of Stranger Danger (1. Say NO to Strangers, 2. Run away, 3. Tell your parents or a grownup you trust) before reminding Piglet that kids ("And bears & even piglets!") -- Although we all know that if a predator ever tried messing with a real bear or a mad sow protecting her young, that predator wouldn't be long for this world anymore. -- have to say NO to being preyed upon, which strangely leads to Piglet commenting that "I'm not very good at saying NO, could you show me how?" which prompts Pooh to sing the uncomfortable yet catchy _Just Say NO_ song (Of course, this wouldn't work in actual reality, because any predator would've gotten away with molesting their victim mid-song.)~ In all truthfulness, Pooh & Piglet should've just transitioned back to Tigger & Roo, where Roo asks Tigger what he should do if a bad stranger does grab him, Tigger directly tells him that he should "Scream & kick. Bite. Fight with all your might & try to get away." at which point Roo tells the home audience that they should go tell a trusted grownup if something like that happens to them.

[@thatblindgamer726]

Just hearing Pooh saying "private parts" is just..... wrong. So very wrong.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Especially when it's said by "Otis the Drunk"!

[@ACombineSoldier]

or better yet, "Freedom of speech"

[@abloogywoogywoo]

Say NOOO loud and clear, that's how you use your smarts.

[@winstonsmith3703]

Its wrong but not as wrong as child molestation.

[@the3dluxe53]

Pooh talking about molestation might actually beat sonic talking about it as the single most unexpected thing done by a fictional character.

[@folgerkelley2715]

I feel the need to point out that angst a thought: threat of abduction is maybe not the primary reason children should not explore construction sites by themselves

[@kieronireikets7884]

That's how Animorphs started, ya know. :P

[@Jaqhnun]

Kieroni Reikets lmao I was just scrolling down to the comments to make an Animorphs joke, you beat me to it

[@zomboss9242]

#PutPoohCorneronDisneyPlus

[@CurtisAlfeld]

When I was twelve there was a construction site behind my neighborhood. Me and some other kids decided to explore it. A cop came and told us it wasn't safe and we should go home. I thought I was going to get arrested.

[@amazingtribol5922]

Construction site are super dangerous, when i was a kid me and my friends went to play in one once and i got hurt real bad, its been over 20 years and i still have a huge scar in my left arm from that day

[@sunnyd6519]

I feel like this quote is applicable here, from a certain blue hedgehog. “Kids, there's nothing more cool than being hugged by someone you like, but if someone tries to touch you in a place or in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable, that's no good!”

[@toilet7970]

Sonic kun!

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Says the speedy blue hedgehog who has a comic harem full of female love interests, more or less (Sally Acorn & Amy Rose just being two of them).

[@TylerEubank]

I dont get it 🤔

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@TylerEubank In the Archie Sonic comics, despite predominately having Sally Acorn as his paramour (in spite the comics ultimately killing her off, which is still a stupid decision, IMHO), Sonic's been put with several other young Mobian females (Fiona Fox [who turned out be a traitor in love with Sonic Anti-Mobius counterpart, Scourge, much to Tails' dismay], Mina Mongoose [a female singer who harbored a crush on Sonic before being ultimately courted by either her male road manager Ash in the main timeline or an older Tails in one of multiple alternative future timelines], Julie Sue [a female echidna who was Knuckles' longtime girlfriend], Bunnie Rabbot [the Freedom Fighters' Southern Belle cyber-enhanced muscle & French coyote guardsman Antoine's eventual wife], and yes, Amy Rose). Let's be transparent here, though, Amy Rose's inclusion on the list is rather begrudging for Sally fans, but was clearly forced, primarily due to writers (Ken Penders, Karl Bollers, Johnathan Gray, and Ian Flynn) purposefully trying to make younger readers & ignorant fans -- indeed, many of whom were unaware of the drama the comics dealt with on a daily basis -- unfairly hate Sally typically for ridiculously petty reasons by deliberately seeking to make Sally look bad to bolster Amy Rose's character, thereby bastardizing Sally's overall character, derailing her previously likeable personality, undermining her established romance with Sonic, and tragically, getting the go-ahead by SEGA of Japan seizing control of Sonic Team to eventually murder Sally outright as a way of attempting to remove her from Sonic's history as if she never existed, all on account of SEGA of Japan hating SEGA of America out of resentful jealousy & wanting to erase the true original American Sonic universe alongside the beloved characters that were part of it, Sally included, regardless of the fact that SEGA of America was actually responsible for creating the Freedom Fighters in the first place, because as the closing credits for _Sonic SatAM_ state, *"All Characters & Names Licensed by SEGA of America(c)SEGA of America, 1992"* which thusly reaffirms that the Freedom Fighters are canonical SEGA creations, even if those who've been running Sonic Team ever since the 1998 internalization of the brand ahead of Sony's recent acquisition of SEGA want fans to incorrectly assume otherwise simply because SEGA of Japan couldn't stand playing second fiddle to its much more lucrative American counterpart; This is failing to take into consideration SEGA's own past, since SEGA in itself originally began as an American enterprise based out of Hawaii & suitably ran by SEGA of America's first president David Rosen back when Alex Kidd was the company's mascot before the Project Needlemouse concept that evolved into Sonic the Hedgehog was ever given life, with even Sonic's original creators Naoto Oshima (Sonic's core character designer & cultivator of his "way past cool" wisenheimer personality birthed out of American ideologies taken from the "Me generation") & Yuj Naka (the head programmer for Sonic's in-game movements during the Blue Blur's 16-bit heyday) reiterating repeatedly via 2010 Facebook interviews that "Sonic is viewed internally as an American property". In fact, as Sonic's father figure, Oshima stated unashamedly "I love American Sonic" (which is fitting, since he had a wall poster featuring early concept art starring the cast of _Sonic SatAM_ in his office space) & Naka said that the whole environmentalist underdog notion of nature vs machine utilized on the weekend cartoon animated by DiC Entertainment was intended to be the minimalist plot thread running throughout the classic Sonic video games, yet Sonic Forces failed spectacularly in trying to revive that plotline, no doubt because it included the post-"Modern" cast of characters older generations never gravitated towards, instead of featuring the original Freedom Fighters these same fans actually wanted to see return or even make the transition from cartoons/comics to the mainline video games proper (which would've happened had Sonic-16, an official game pitch reel developed by SEGA Technical Institute revolving around the Saturday Morning cartoon & its cast of characters, gotten the greenlight rather than finding itself swiftly cancelled, despite being already well into pre-production development).

[@valeriorodrigues3351]

what a funny phrase

[@Everik-ct6pg]

It's amazing how these characters don't know the difference between the size of a plant, but they know everything about molestation.

[@Claubuza]

"Tigger learns how to make spaghetti and force feeds it to his friends until they can't take it anymore." They may have changed the characterization for some of the animals, but this is very on brand for Tigger.

[@Attmay]

Kanga fared the worst since they made her look like Scooby-Doo.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@Attmay That's only in the opening intro. Her design actually in the show was different & more fitting to deal with, even if it was rare that she would feature in an episode (only those typically focused on either her joey Roo or Tigger would feature her, as well as the Christmas special episode) & even rarer if she did the interactive "Thotful Spot" arts & crafts/games/basic lesson portion of the show.

[@jennasmith9309]

Sounds like part of the movie Se7en to me.

[@aarongoddard2642]

Guys guys someone needs to draw a picture of Papyrus and Tigger in an iron chef competition making spaghetti with Mario as the judge

[@azadalamiq]

actually no. I grew up on the older pooh stuff and tigger didn't pull that shi -_-

[@maronhopequeno3033]

The defunctland episode china doesn't want you to see.

[@SuperWolsey]

Fuck em!!

[@skyler6175]

Xi Jinping coner

[@RocketboyX]

China would like to know your location.

[@42Caio]

I was expecting the comments to have way more China jokes than there are (when I first saw it).

[@klosterdev]

@@42Caio They buried by Chinese bots

[@thebookgoddess7380]

“with the safety of the nations children at stake, it seemed there was no one better to talk about the hot button issue that winnie the pooh” is not a sentence i expected to hear today

[@introvertedjo1238]

I mean, everyone else talked about Drugs, so Pooh had to help somehow 😂

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@introvertedjo1238 Pooh & Tigger still showed up in the anti-drug cartoon crossover _Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue_ though.

[@introvertedjo1238]

@@TherealRNOwwfpooh you’re right. I forgot about that

[@cagetheeternal6482]

Welcome to Pooh Corner the toilet is broken, this is all we got

[@Attmay]

From the studio that brought you BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS.

[@VikingBadass94]

help. mum found the poop corner

[@carlrygwelski586]

LOL underrated comment

[@sgnjamcitydevteam6913]

We sell drugs

[@TheStoenk]

Goddammit i can't breathe

[@HypeVoiceActing]

"This show would be unfortunately, and horrifyingly, live action" And decades later, we still can't escape that lol

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I liked this show.

[@Dracomut]

You aren't wrong, but I'll take the gratuitous sometimes drab CGI we have now over the horrifying and always lifeless... Things in Pooh Corner

[@EdWiley671]

As soon as I heard him say that, I thought, “am I going to regret watching this at midnight?”

[@zarachastellaris9016]

@@ChristopherSobieniak So did I, but I happen to adore those kinds of characters!

[@Launchpad05]

And The Cinema Snob would bring back those bad memories years later when he tackled 'Too Smart For Strangers'.

[@SoleaGalilei]

Meanwhile, when Pooh appeared in the drug prevention special "Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue", Jim Cummings refused to read lines talking explicitly about drugs in Pooh's voice because he felt it would be untrue to Pooh's innocent character, and the script had to be changed. If nothing else, this video proves that Jim had the right idea... yikes.

[@vguyver2]

Funny in hindsight when you see him playing Winnie the Pooh as Darth Vader.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Actually, it's worse, because in that special, he exists as druggie Michael's kid sister Corey's stuffed animal literally sleeping with her (not that way, for you sickos out there, but as a lifeless teddy bear) before pointing out that he can speak & is concerned about Michael's descent into drug use, but in the Alan Menken composed _Wonderful Ways to Say NO_ trippy musical number that also references the fall of the Berlin Wall later on as the special descends into insane madness (probably from the perspective of Michael, on the grounds of his stealing money from Corey's piggy bank to score some pot, before his druggie friends, including one kid that seems to be Wheeler from the Planeteers [right down to the same voice actor], buy the harder stuff like "Lady STING" & talk about purchasing crack cocaine at the urging of George C. Scott-voiced vapor Smoke, with the blond female of the group, slickly snatching an unaware Michael's wallet [which he never gets back, actually]), Pooh does get lines like "There's no time to KILL" & "Achoo...Guess I'm allergic", before curiously going from sentient stuffed teddy to traditional cartoon character, shown leaping into a wall poster referencing the VHS cover art located in either Corey or Michael's bedroom, which begs the question of whether or not the special wants to be serious or something not to be taken seriously due to its lack of adhering to continuity & occasional off-the-wall antics.

[@Attmay]

@@TherealRNOwwfpooh The bear doth protest too much methinks. At least TSFS has a good message behind it.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@Attmay Well, "Cartoon All-Stars" does as well. It's just, although both of them have noble intentions, the execution is a tad uncomfortable.

[@superwooper5210]

@Legendary ϟuper ϟaiyan If you're gonna be homophobic you can at least not be pathetic enough to have an anime girl in a tiny bikini as your banner.

[@jasperlovestippy]

I had a friend who worked on this show, and I sometimes visited the set. A cool thing about the heads: The voices were recorded ahead of time, and played back during the taping of each scene. Each voice was on a separate channel of an eight-track tape machine. Each channel was wirelessly sent to the appropriate character. The amplitude of the voice made the mouths open and close. Simple but clever. The eyes and eyebrows were wirelessly remote controlled by people offscreen with modified RC car controllers. So the actors didn’t do any of the head actions!

[@nowheretogobut9430]

Yoo that’s so cool! I always love hearing about how production teams found workarounds for that sort of stuff before modern tech was the standard! I also really love Winnie the Pooh and puppets in general so this sounds like it’d be so much fun to just sit back and maybe just people watch and sketch the things I see that are interesting ^^ thanks for the fun fact !

[@matthewthescienceguy7627]

Do you know who that was?

[@jasperlovestippy]

@@matthewthescienceguy7627 Lee Gutenberg

[@jakeinator2005]

Given the costume's head articulation was developed by Alchemy II, I am not surprised the mouths were controlled by 8-track tape machines that broadcasted signals into the heads, as a very similar design was used in their toy Teddy Ruxpin, which controlled its eyes and mouths by an inaudible 8-track tape coded for the head movements combined with an audible tape that would play so you can hear it talk. Very similar technology in play here.

[@carolinekvngh]

I LOVED THIS SHOW. I specifically remember for maybe my 3rd or 4th birthday, which was Pooh themed, my mom and I were at the bakery ordering a cake and I told her I wanted a Pooh Corner cake, not regular Winnie the Pooh. I ended up with a cake with Pooh in the corner of the cake lol

[@aliciamoon9816]

That's such an adorable memory! Was 3 or 4 year old you mad about the misunderstanding? Haha. It makes a nice story now 🙂 We should all use our Disney Plus subscriptions to go to the "give feedback" section of the help center and request this show. Maybe with enough requests, they'll put it on.

[@Nini-vj8sw]

I think u are lucky to have this show in your childhood! I grew up with another cool Winnie the Pooh show 2000s I think? And yes, that Pooh in the corner of the cake is such a funny memory to remember, you know what I feel like eating cake right now!:)

[@DisneyDude1928]

8:27 “Where Tigger learns how to make spaghetti and force feeds it to his friends until they can’t take it anymore” Top 10 deepest anime episodes

[@trystan7533]

W H O L E S O M E C H I L D R E N ' S E N T E R T A I N M E N T.

[@47Jaspers]

David Fincher would later allude to this episode in his debut feature, Se7en.

[@aaronbasham6554]

Papyrus, is that you?

[@andrewvarney5687]

Josuke, we need you to fix Tigger's Spaghetti!

[@Ozymondias99]

DHMIS

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

_"You don't spell it, you feel it," said _*_Pooh._*_ "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of _*_honey_*_ left inside." "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." "Any day spent with you is my favorite day."_

[@austinvoelker9270]

I feel a bit of tear's popping out nowhere. I wonder why that's happening.

[@LowellMorgan]

It’s not healthy to have honey every day.

[@dandylionsloth446]

+

[@suzybear22]

Our city didn't have cable tv back then but our friends in another city did, and each week they would record this show for our son. That kid played those tapes over and over and over again, so much so that to this day his dad and I will sometimes spontaneously break out in either a song ("Responsible People" or "Right Side" or, my favorite, "My Nose Is A Part of Me") or some of the bits we made up ourselves based on what the gang at Pooh Corners said or did (Tigger, knocking books off the table, leering, saying "Accidents happen, Pooh."). It's embedded in our DNA at this point.

[@Shinsay]

I feel like this sort of content should require a Tigger warning.

[@BFBrix]

Prince of Eros congratulations, you win one free internet for the day

[@Gravydog316]

ok, Eeyore.

[@Shinsay]

@@Gravydog316 Thanks for noticing me.

[@Gravydog316]

@@Shinsay hey, any time i can complain about you, i will gladly do so :-)

[@Grandma419]

No Whoop-de-Dooper Loop-de-Looper Alley-Ooper Bounce zone

[@AutisticJoker88]

One thing you forgot to mention about the costumes: They were actually designed by the father of Teddy Ruxpin himself Ken Forsse

[@Hillers62]

So THAT'S why they are creepy....

[@daredrogers3884]

@@Hillers62 Now this could because i liked Teddy ruxpin when i was younger but i think the costumes in this look kinda weird.

[@PrincessSybilla77]

Good Lord!

[@jordynburton6056]

Thats a nonfun fact for sure

[@PurpleWind64]

That explains too much...

[@iHeartsNostalgiaPit]

THEORY: the narrator is an adult version of Christopher Robin

[@OGamerGirl92]

🤯🤯🤯

[@heatherarnold8360]

I always thought so too

[@wiibrockster]

That's....actually quite plauseable..

[@BLasherman]

I'm pretty sure that was who he was, didn't know anyone thought he wasn't.......

[@otaking3582]

I thought Christopher Robin was kidnapped by strangers?

[@Lil_Vilkas]

“a musical number about how to prevent molestation” is not something I’d ever think I would hear in a video about a Disney television show

[@TheSpark717]

Do not diddle kiiiids, it's no good diddling kiiiids...

[@SteveSmith-rt7wx]

"You gotta pay the troll toll..."

[@bunniesbunniesbunnie]

the 80s were a hell of a time, friend

[@BrendanBarney]

I love how everyone in the comments is bringing up Too Smart for Strangers and nothing else.

[@BrendanBarney]

@@connorhawkins1801 Nothing. It's quite surprising that Winnie the Pissing Pooh would leave such a shock on many people.

[@PinkGoldAbby]

Ah yes, free speech. How unfortunate.

[@GundamGokuTV]

It kind of heartwarming and also kind of sad that Walt Disney loved Winnie the Pooh so much that he tried for years to gain the rights. That it was a memory that he held with his children and that when he finally got the rights and the short animated feature was made that he didn't get to see what Pooh bear came to mean to multiple generations.

[@Tonithealtwing]

I have good news, actually!!!! I know this comment was three years ago, but Walt was actually, to my knowledge, still alive during some of the releases of the Winnie The Pooh shorts!

[@MoreThanALoser8107]

If i had to decide between a Winnie the Pooh with hellish blood eyes and a big head or a Pooh with mechanical eyes that stare into my soul and trigger my fear of a robot revolution.. . I would just run. Just run.

[@ChaseDobson]

MoreThanALoser8107 Say no, run away, and tell

[@DoswarePictures]

What about the puppets used for The Book of Pooh in the early 2000s?

[@thecreatoroflaziness]

MoreThanALoser8107 I Love Christopher Robin Pooh. That design looked cute in my opinion.

[@JBobBuilder]

Just say NO!

[@DisneyDude1928]

Dosware Pictures Hey that show was cute

[@axesoccer7887]

Even though he wasn't him, I'd always thought that the narrator was Christopher Robin as an adult when I watched Welcome to Pooh Corner as a kid.

[@mr.tomraypaz6085]

I thought that too and so did my mom.

[@abraveastronaut]

That was what I thought, too.

[@Wildduckpro]

But he looks nothing like Obi-Wan?

[@marcusblackwell2372]

@@Wildduckpro maybe that was how Disney ORIGINALLY envisioned Christopher Robin to look as an adult

[@kathysuzanne8947]

Ay ditto

[@mechajay3358]

_Pooh delicately launches into a musical number about how to prevent molestation_ This show really went all-in on educating their viewers.

[@elises1876]

I was definitely shown the "stranger danger" special in preschool. Thank you for unearthing bizarre memories in my brain, Defunctland

[@masterxak]

Yeah, I was trying to figure out why this show looked familiar since I was a kid in the 90s without cable. That stranger danger one hit my memory hard and the Disney Education logo placed it for me. I probably saw it in kindergarten or first grade, back when the police would come to school and tell us about strangers and later drugs.

[@ZNKChannel]

I remember seeing the school bus special in school... which was unusual in my case 'cause I was always a car rider.

[@4dultw1thj0b]

Oh no, I think I very vaguely remember that too..

[@roecocoa]

It came out the year I was born, but I didn't see it until the mid-'90s when my kid brother had it on VHS. It was no less unnerving then.

[@ostensiblyaverage5576]

Same here, but I was in preschool around 2005 so it makes you wonder just how long they used these tapes.

[@doubtful_seer]

“Spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti” sounds more horrifying than... wholesome.

[@josephrowe849]

Tigger likes lotsa spaghetti!

[@jackson5056]

sounds like Se7en to me

[@FilmmakeroftheFuture]

@@josephrowe849 Nice YTP reference. 😉

[@helloofthebeach]

It's wholesome wheat

[@SuperWolsey]

Somebody toucha Tigger's Spaghett!

[@officialclownbusiness7788]

A "Pooh Corner" sounds like something to call in a hazmat crew for.

[@SineN0mine3]

The utter desperation of only having one towel left and no toilet paper...

[@peterbeck88]

Me: Mom, can I have Disney's Winnie the Pooh? Mom: No, we have Disney's Winnie the Pooh at home. Disney's Winnie the Pooh at home: PRIVATE. PARTS.

[@kylehegedus5498]

peterbeck88 😂😂😂😂😂

[@marcusblackwell2372]

Oh, well: at least that probably wasn't on VHS

[@silveryote1]

@@marcusblackwell2372 I don't know if that was, but I remember a "Strangers" VHS in the 90s but the box art scared me so much I didn't want my parents to rent it

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@marcusblackwell2372 Actually, _Too Smart for Strangers_ was released on VHS. The show itself had some of its episodes put on 4 Volume set VHS tapes, too. The other specials were also later released, although they were put onto DVR-quality DVDs.

[@jdude9365]

It’s only a matter of time before he covers The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ABC Saturday morning cartoon. That show’s theme song will NEVER leave my head!

[@julianhudson7811]

And my friends tigger and pooh

[@OGamerGirl92]

I loved those

[@OGamerGirl92]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZzZn4V4a657ibc

[@mckstellar1005]

I wish kingdom hearts would of done a whole world with missions based around that cartoon it was my absolute favorite

[@AnimeGames16]

POOH BEAR WINNIE THE POOH BEAR!

[@masterchaoss]

I didn't know China's leader had a TV show?

[@baron_von_brunk]

[REDACTED]

[@chandlerwright5460]

Don’t feel so bad, Neither did the Chinese

[@VancesMediaTreasures]

Who, the giant glowing orb?

[@The_Yosh]

Xi Jinping actually looks like Winnie the Pooh, lol.

[@DoswarePictures]

Speaking of China, I want a DefunctTV episode about Sagwa!

[@idontgivetkachuk]

My Grandma recorded all the episodes when it was airing. I use to watch them as a kid. I loved Welcome to Pooh Corner. And she still has tons of episodes on tape at her house!!

[@curewhipandnaenae]

You should try and upload some of them online if you can. A lot of them are considered lost media like the video said

[@weathermansam2]

Yeah you should totally try to upload them

[@ioletsgo7539]

"Full Body Puppets" those are called Costumes, Kevin.

[@Musicradio77Network]

“Sing Me a Story with Belle” also has the same puppets as well as live actors like Lindsay McLeod as Belle, and the costume looks like it came from Disneyland and WDW where she used for the show, as well as the kids.

[@anonymousoff-brand7538]

fursuits

[@petersmythe6462]

The original source of UwU. Did furries as we know them even exist before modern cartoon animals? Not bestiality or mermaids or something but anthropomorphic animal furries.

[@ioletsgo7539]

@@petersmythe6462 please shut up.

[@polipix_]

@@ioletsgo7539 the hell are they even doing?

[@gwendolynstata3775]

"One of the episodes, Piglet Pride, is about Piglet and his friends accepting themselves for who they were." I'm so proud of them for deciding to come out and live their authentic lives as part of the PPTROR+ community.

[@bunny-ys9up]

Piglet said gay rights 😳

[@Optimegatrongodzilla]

Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, Owl, Roo?

[@gwendolynstata3775]

@@Optimegatrongodzilla yes

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@gwendolynstata3775 You forgot Kanga, the only canonical female in the group & Roo's mother, who adopted Tigger into her & her joey's home.

[@gwendolynstata3775]

@@TherealRNOwwfpooh that's why there's a +

[@LateroseMosswing]

My school district showed the School Bus special every year as part of their bus safety program, straight through the end of middle school. When I last watched it in 2004 (!), the presenter had to spend the next twenty minutes pointing out all the inaccuracies, and things that had changed since the episode was first made. That video has haunted me for years. I'm relieved to know it wasn't just a weird fever dream.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Amusing when films date themselves.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@Frizzurd I'm sure it comes down to money and not wanting to keep buying new films/videos all the time. We've all been through that I'm sure, I was watching films made 10-20-30 years earlier in the schools I went to.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@Frizzurd Might be. I still think of school districts being on the cheap if they don't make their levies.

[@JCBro-yg8vd]

They still had a copy in working order in 2004?

[@LateroseMosswing]

JCBro2014 Sure did! Wheeled out the huge old TV cart with the VCR and everything. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if they had transferred it to DVD and were still showing it even now. Fits right in with the decades old textbooks for health and pre-algebra they used to make us use.

[@FPalace]

The quirky energy of the narrator is what I remember most. He was really genuine.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

He also would end up narrating most of the Pooh products out there, from the Read-Alongs of the 4 adapted Pooh stories (the original 3 and Winnie the Pooh & A Day For Eeyore), many Pooh-related video games (Tigger's Honey Hunt during the PS2 era of consoles, for example), early childhood-level computer games, and the 2 Animated Storybook computer CDs (Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree and Winnie the Pooh & Tigger Too). He would replaced Sebastian Cabot (who was the original Narrator in _The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh_ [the 3 preceding featurettes linked together by new 1977 animated footage to tell a cohesive story, with a tear-inducing last chapter _In Which Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to The Enchanted Place & We Say Goodbye_ just as Christopher Robin is basically saying farewell to his own childhood] before he passed away) as Mr. Narrator, just Hal Smith would serve as the interim voice for Pooh whilst still voicing Owl until Jim Cummings took over the voice for Pooh when _The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh_ started airing on ABC during the weekends & later coming to the Disney Channel too. It was during the production of _The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh_ that original Tigger voice actor & noted ventriloquist comedian Paul Winchell would retire from the role, thus leading to Jim Cummings not only succeeding Hal Smith as Pooh, but taking over from Paul Winchell as the voice for Tigger also. In a final bit of sad trivia, both Paul Winchell & John Fiedler (the original voice for Piglet) would end up passing away only a day apart.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

​@@TherealRNOwwfpooh I didn't know that he became a semi-regular narrator. I thought after this show the next narrator was John Cleese

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@marcusblackwell2372 No. The _Monty Python_ alum & guest star of _The Muppet Show_ didn't become the narrator for Pooh material until the various specials (ABCs & 123) & late Playstation/early Playstation 2 era video games (Tigger's Honey Hunt & Pooh's Rumbly Tumbly Adventure). Clease returned to the role for the 2011 animated film (alongside narrating the Disney Jr. mini-sode retellings of the various Disney Pooh films cut up into smaller segments featuring the 2011 film's cast dubbing over the classic cast [bearing exceptions, such as Barbara Luddy & Kath Soucie as Kanga or Ralph Wright & Peter Cullen as Eeyore], which also means that, on occassion, Jim Cummings would actually be redoing his own audio if the footage is from either _The New Adventures_ cartoon series or any of the post-milllennium Pooh films with him taking over as Tigger once Paul Winchell grew too ill to continue the role he originated [2000's _The Tigger Movie_ being particularly notable since Disney initially wanted Winchell to reprise the role one final time, but when he came in to audition, he realized that he could no longer do the voice anymore, so Cummings stepped in for him, much like he had done prior for the later episodes of _The New Adventures_ cartoon series]). Audio and/or footage of Laurie Maine as Mr. Narrator (from other things besides _Welcome to Pooh Corner_ & its corresponding PSA episodes) can be heard below... _Winnie the Pooh & a Day for Eeyore_ 4th featurette: kzbin.info/www/bejne/haGshWaqaMSnbaM _Winnie the Pooh & a Day for Eeyore_ (Read Along version [this features the cast of _The New Adventures_ cartoon series]): kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZrdfZhqaL12qKM Full story of _Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree_ Read-Along (book on tape re-release): kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5zQfmmDrLhsr7s&pp=ygUed2lubmllIHRoZSBwb29oIGF1ZGlvIGNhc3NldHRl *Additional Tidbit* Tigger in the following recordings is voiced by someone else rather than his original voice actor Paul Winchell, nor his eventual permanent replacement Jim Cummings. Full story of _Winnie the Pooh & the Blustery Day_ Read-Along (book on tape re-release): kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5mmkoGufpqha6s&pp=ygUnd2lubmllIHRoZSBwb29oIGJsdXN0ZXJ5IGRheSByZWFkIGFsb25n Full story of _Winnie the Pooh & Tigger Too_ (1970's LP record & 1990's audio cassette re-release): kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJbEgIqPrZ6Aq6c & kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoGkl2aKj8Zrg5Y _Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons_ (a pre _Seasons of Giving_ 1981 special): kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3zFeJ2Zg5WcoKc _Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree_ Audio Storybook (CD-Rom game): kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZ3Hp36jotmIq9U&pp=ygUpd2lubmllIHRoZSBwb29oIGRpc25leSBhbmltYXRlZCBzdG9yeWJvb2s%3D _Winnie the Pooh & Tigger Too_ Audio Storybook (CD-Rom game): kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6CadpamfNh3m7c&pp=ygUld2lubmllIHRoZSBwb29oIHRpZ2dlciB0b28gcmVhZCBhbG9uZw%3D%3D _Winnie the Pooh Preschool_ (CD-Rom/PSX game for preschoolers): kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH_GkoShZ5mDoK8

[@samdragonborn5864]

You’re telling me the government didn’t keep track of how many kids went missing until the 80’s?!

[@LLL124Original]

What?!

[@kellyweingart3692]

*Pooh breaks the 4th wall*

[@happyfacefries]

Hell no. They still don't.

[@HoldenMuhKnutz]

Now we’re finding out the government has a hand in it

[@merpo2806]

"If someone gets too near to your *private parts* " -Pooh

[@Gravydog316]

*some ONE (not, some Pooh Bear. Pooh Bears are ok)

[@merpo2806]

@@Gravydog316 What? What are you talking about?

[@Gravydog316]

@@merpo2806 Pooh didn't say 'if some bear gets too near..." bears are ok. let bears near your junk

[@merpo2806]

@@Gravydog316 i never wrote bear

[@sumjester]

@@Gravydog316 wut

[@hammerman1758]

Welcome to Pooh Corner really should be released on Disney+, since most of the episodes are lost entirely, and the majority of them are taken from old Disney Channel recordings (with some exceptions like Too Smart for Strangers). Plus, it could introduce a new generation to the show as well. I think (but cannot confirm) that the costumes from the show were once on display at Disney Disney Hollywood Studios' Backlot Tour, but now it's unknown what happened to them after the attraction closed down.

[@lamontyaboy718]

There are newer shows that feature pooh and the gang with better production values, such as the book of pooh or my friends tigger and pooh, so it would probably be better if Disney+ had those instead for kids to watch. I didn't grow up with this show so I don't have nostalgia for it but honestly it looks like crap. And I can't imagine a little kid of today would wanna see it.

[@90skakid]

We're told the entire Disney catalog of movies and shows will be on Disney+ with the exception of Song of the South so I'd speculate its only a matter of time until it gets put on. I hope so at least.

[@90skakid]

@Wheels 42288 that list that came out is just launch material though. From my understanding they'll continue to add to the list.

[@Attmay]

@@90skakid They're not going to put everything up all at once. It's going to be a slow rollout. That's why they lock you into a three-year deal, treating it as if it were cable.

[@Hitchcock00Starlet]

My parents didn't pay for the premium channel, but we had a VHS tape with several episodes and my older brother was obsessed. I, on the other hand, developed a lifelong fear of costumed characters.

[@CylindricalWhistle]

Speaking of that stranger danger episode, I have to point out that the oversized emphasis on 'stranger' danger in all of those PSAs epically misses the mark and may even confuse children. Most abuse and kidnapping of children is not done by strangers but by people who the child knows -- family members, family friends, trusted mentors, or parents themselves. All of these PSAs acted like strangers were the only source of danger. What is a kid supposed to think if they're abused by the very people the PSAs told them to go find when a stranger threatens them? None of the warnings ever acted like people you knew could be the dangerous ones, and, again, that is the group that is statically FAR more dangerous to children than total strangers are. I don't know what PSAs about abuse kids are getting these days, but I really hope the messaging has changed since the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. It was very misleading. Many people today still wrongly assume that kids are most at danger from some random dude in a van, and don't think to watch out for the teacher, the uncle, the coach, the music teacher, the religious leader, etc.

[@TheEmeraldWeirdo]

I remember hearing about one instance where a young girl who was lost in the woods hid from a rescue party because she didn't know any of them, having been taught "don't talk to strangers."

[@456puff]

@@TheEmeraldWeirdo Are you talking about Brennon Hawking, or did that happen more than once?

[@TheEmeraldWeirdo]

@@456puff I don't know. I don't think the site I read it on mentioned any names.

[@elimidd6626]

Yeah, I was watching something about the missing child panic back in the 80s-90s and they mentioned that a lot of these missing and lost children were often a result of people close to them, not some guy in a white van with 'free candy' written on it.

[@deshawnedwards6412]

There's just something wrong about hearing Winnie the Pooh say "private parts".

[@boxman139]

Deshawn Edwards ikr it made me feel uncomfortable

[@kylehegedus5498]

Deshawn Edwards 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Tufticles]

Ngl I bust out laughing when I heard Pooh say that. It was so utterly ridiculous it's surreal.

[@boxman139]

Bear Merchant the KZbin poops of it are the best. There’s just so much to work with

[@kjw21411]

At least it's Hal Smith's Pooh and not Sterling Holloway or Jim Cummings

[@joejdubbruce]

I loved pooh corner as a kid. I remember going to my grandmother's house and watching it, along with Dumbo's flying circus... I was mildly disappointed to see them not listed on Disney +'s list.

[@cwiese1324]

Me too!

[@katanah3195]

A lot of Pooh films and series are missing from Disney+, I was kinda upset by that cause I'm like the only person in my household who uses it and we mostly got it for the Pooh content.

[@jeffdeboer1679]

I loved this show so much as a kid. And I still have a deep affection for the Winnie the Pooh characters because of it.

[@milesium-487]

I heard they're gonna bring back Welcome to Pooh Corner at Blizzcon 2019

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

When was/is this?

[@lampcrow5453]

Hearing Pooh be called “Winnie” is both bizarre and oddly soothing.

[@KairuHakubi]

I'm one of those anal fucks that gets annoyed when he's insistently referred to by the nickname pooh bear as if that were his name, like when people overuse 'Spidey' or substitute it for the various spider-named things about him such as the -sense but you get extra nerd points if you ever call him _Edward Bear_

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@KairuHakubi The funny thing is, Edward Bear is the toy of the genuine Christopher Robin Milne rechristened to Winnie-ther-Pooh (later just Winnie the Pooh, sans hyphen), but the actual bear that his nickname Winnie is taken from was a genuine female black bear purchased as an orphaned cub - off a hunter on a train ride carrying the "too small for my liking" furry black bundle his arms after likely killing the cub's parents - Canadian wartime vet (both in terms of fighting in war & in terms as "an animal doctor") Harry Coulborn gifted to the London Zoo on permanent loan. Winnipeg, or just Winnie "for short", became C.R.'s favorite animal (there's even picture footage of the young Milne boy feeding her malt extract [as unlike her fellow ursines, including the former Edward Bear "living under the name of Sanders" obsessed with "hunny" to the point of it having a hallucinogenic effect on him, the real life bear rather disliked honey, according to reports by her handlers]), so much so that Winnie-ther-Pooh was a mashup of Winnie (based on the real life bear, of course) & Pooh, the haughty sound made by a local Sussex, England swan that went by this name (Pooh, that is) in one of his writer father A.A. Milne's prior batch of storybook poems for children (despite the author having no real time for, nor association with, actual children, as even his own son - otherwise named Billy Moon for funzies - was primary raised by a hired nanny & not his actual parents).

[@Gravydog316]

Fun Fact: I lived in Winnipeg, namesake of Winnie The Pooh for 6 months!

[@KairuHakubi]

Well, you've out-nerded me! yeahh there was a lot of weird kid neglect back in the day.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@KairuHakubi Which was why PSA like "Too Smart For Strangers" existed & why Snuffy was finally revealed to the grownups at last on _Sesame Street_ after years of the adults misthinking Snuffy was just the 8-foot-tall Big Bird's imaginary friend (Ironically, when Mr. Rogers made a crossover as the racing judge between Big Bird & Snuffy, Snuffy thought his best friend only imagined Mr. Rogers being there, since Mr. Rogers had left before he could see Snuffy, but he no doubt would've been the first to validate Big Bird's claims had he seen Snuffy).

[@kiruppert]

I had the Disney Channel as a kid in the 80s, and remember this show. I also remember that it aired with a show called Dumbo's Circus, a show of identical presentation and nearly identical premise, just instead of being about Pooh and Friends in the Hundred-Acre Wood, it's about Dumbo and his friends (Most of which were made up for the series, I believe) doing the same things as part of a traveling circus.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Both shows were quite well made for their time. I used to watch these everyday as well.

[@SchuminWeb]

I hear you about putting Pooh Corner on Disney+. Disney really should release all of their classic content, even if it would be considered grossly outdated by today's standards. Let the public experience it for itself - even more controversial material, like Song of the South - and let them decide what they think about it.

[@ricochet0928]

If there's one thing I want most in the world, it's to never hear Winnie the Pooh say "private parts" ever again

[@michaelnagle5482]

"Which plant is the tallest?" Children were very stupid back then.

[@Lesbomarx]

They didn't even rearrange the plants so they wouldn't line up!

[@bernebelmont1857]

All that lead paint they were drinking

[@Wourghk]

Showrunners didn't know how to educate kids. Any child who saw that would be stunned and silent, wondering if there was some trick to it since the answer was too obvious.

[@Kunkel5]

You learned at some point too.

[@heylinspongesprite]

Psych student here, learning how to differentiate and classify size is actually very beneficial for toddler-aged kids! It's a precursor to math learning. It helps them practice their conceptualizations of spatial awareness, which needs to be developed so they can conceptualize math functions and geometry when they get a little older. So, no, these were not "stupid" kids. Just toddlers learning basic shapes and sizes, which toddlers still need to do today. :)

[@noahpauley]

Omfg I have a stranger danger episode of Pooh corner on vhs 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SuperReckless96]

Same here. I didn't want to remember that creepy looking Pooh.

[@paulrawsonjr.2423]

I swear they showed us that episode at school.

[@dampowl]

"Pooh delicately launches into a musical number about how to prevent molestation."

[@baconboiiscoolandnice]

that stranger danger episode sounds like “lost media”

[@suzybear22]

Google "Too Smart for Strangers" and you'll find it was a stand-alone VHS tape. I bought it for my son back when it come out in the 1980's.

[@realar]

Nope. It's famous, there's no chance it will be lost media anytime soon.

[@evanrichardson4744]

@@realar there’s a full episode on KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHWoXnyNrbplY6M

[@romanpopovv]

China: *We don’t do that here.*

[@thecreatoroflaziness]

Roman Popov rightfully so

[@fwir711u2]

the chinese presdient sure has had an interesting career

[@mckstellar1005]

Ikr atleast the Chinese president is teaching kids about "stranger danger" and "private parts"...

[@mckstellar1005]

@NickyMalone it was a reference to the fact that some Chinese kid said Winnie the pooh looks like t he Chinese president but I wouldn't be surprised if your right

[@kc_9970]

*F U C K C H I N A*

[@EntertainmentFan11]

Pooh Corner deserves to be on Disney+, as well as the Adventures in Wonderland TV series!

[@MrBigDub]

What! You mean I'm not the only one who watched Adventures in Wonderland? The Mad Hatter was somethin' else wasn't he?

[@EntertainmentFan11]

@@MrBigDub "How true that is."

[@gererdlyon2347]

And Dumbo's Circus

[@EntertainmentFan11]

​@@gererdlyon2347 Never watched much of that show. If it DOES come to Disney+, I might check it out. Maybe put Jim Henson's Dinosaurs on there, too. "Not the Mama!" Edit: Well, the latter is on there, along with Adventures in Wonderland. That just leaves Dumbo's Circus and Welcome to Pooh Corner. Any episode of both shows that is considered lost media MUST be found.

[@themadhoffer5802]

Man, this was a blast from the past. I remember our class watching this in, like, second grade. We actually watched one of these ‘stranger danger’ videos once a year, and I remember somewhere a whole safety town was set up in our gym. It’s a bit odd that we watched an older show in the late 2000s though

[@daniexists6]

Good work as always, Kevin and the gang. I think it's fascinating that this is technically the second time Hal Smith had taken on a legacy franchise character with tons of history from a previous voice actor. For a hot minute there he had taken over voicing beloved Looney Tunes straight man Elmer Fudd after the original voice actor, Arthur Q. Bryan, passed away suddenly of a heart attack in 1959.

[@matthewgee1030]

How bad can it..... “it’s live action” Well, how bad can that be? Ohhhhhhhhh GOD!!!

[@sofiarosanes9511]

welp at least christopher robin movie fixed it am i right.

[@wiibrockster]

I actually think Rabbit's live action suit is pretty good,especially since it was the early 80's

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

They were pretty good suits for the tasks they needed to do (especially the dance numbers). I recall liking how the characters had little things they were into as well.

[@wiibrockster]

@@ChristopherSobieniak I liked that too.

[@happyfacefries]

I think it's great that they took on the subject of molestation. It's such a sensitive topic but one that's not talked about enough. My mom was really good at teaching my sisters and me to get away or even harm someone who would touch us inappropriately, but I know that many, many others were not as fortunate to have that in their life and hopefully that brought to someone's attention that normally would not have had that chance to know.

[@iamryanne]

I don't people now realize how important those 'stranger danger' and 'molestation' teachings were. In the 70s and 80s, we went anywhere and everywhere without any adult supervision. Sometimes, these places were creepy, not well lit, and empty (at least where I lived) and we didn't care, we were just away from adults.

[@mads_in_zero]

"The show lasted 28 minutes" Me: Damn, cancelled so soo-- oh wait no I see.

[@Musicradio77Network]

It has no commercial breaks at all. Remember what the announcer says “‘Welcome to Pooh Corner’ will return after these messages”.

[@Gravydog316]

lollll

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@Musicradio77Network They had in-house commercials. Mostly adverts for other programming & infomercials relating to the developing theme park expansions (most of which didn't come to fruition for certain reasons, such as the failure of Disneyland Paris under its old EuroDisney moniker & other ventures Eisner failed at as C.E.O).

[@itwontcomeout5678]

Lol

[@degrassigirls80]

We had the "Too Smart for Strangers" episode on VHS when I was a kid. It was lime green.

[@tylerlucero]

Kevin, your content is absolutely top-tier, professional, entertaining and informative. One of the very highest quality channels on KZbin. Please don't stop doing what you do. We love you!

[@Greyspecies9999]

"Just say no and run" >implying that the kid is still with the molester *Yeah, good luck with that last part too*

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

You should remember the telling line one boy said in response to the unseen, nameless adult molester from the "Stranger Danger" PSA (which was rather fittingly released the same decade as Mr. Snuffleupagus being confirmed as real to the _Sesame Street_ adults off the back of genuine headlines of pedophilia gripping the nation's moral core at the time, yet it was also ironic as this was the same decade in which 3 fictional pairings put together an unsettling but captivating adult with an underage minor, with 1 actively being official canon meanwhile the other 2 were only heavily suggested & these ships were: 1. mercenary hitman Slade "Deathstroke the Terminator" Wilson X sociopathic jailbait geomancer Tara "Terra" Markov in the _New Teen Titans_ comic book's landmark "Judas Contract" story arc [it later greatly influenced the 2nd season of the 2003 _Teen Titans_ pseudo anime cartoon adaptation - which actively focused on the Terra betrayal plot whilst keeping the torrid squick of Slade X Terra canon relationship regulated to unsettling comnents made by Slade concerning his new apprentice or otherwise inferred through subtext that only older viewers understood - as well as became the basis for a 2018 telefilm animated retelling featuring Christina Ricci as the voice of the illegitimate princess of Markovia rather than sticking with the established voice actors from the 2003 cartoon & its 2012-present parody series _Teen Titans GO_ & replacing deliberate Red X influence Jason Todd, whose ashes are in an urn in the team's artifact & storage room for eagle-eyed fans to spot as a nice cameo, as the Robin on the team with Bruce Wayne's equally detestable biological son - else known as the byproduct of Talia Al Ghul, the ninja assassin daughter of demonic sorceror Ras Al Ghul, RAPING Batman - Damien "I'm the blood son" Wayne], 2. 14-year-old older sibling/babysitter Sarah X ageless Jareth the Goblin King [respectively portrayed by a burgeoning Jennifer Connolly at the cusp of consensual age & iconic Glam Rocker legend David Bowie shown playing with 3 magical spherical ball-shaped ornaments meanwhile simultaneously wearing skin-hugging tight pants failing to hide his noticeable package that several female fans across the generations have admitted to being transfixed on, yet at the same time, young male fans of the film no doubt felt utterly awkward or maybe even sexually inadequate by comparison] - from Muppet creator Jim Henson's 2nd collaborative visionary "Creature Feature" executively produced by _ Star Wars_ founder George Lucas titled _Labyrinth_ wherein Sarah's infant brother Tobey is kidnapped by Jareth's goblin underlings just so Jareth could tempt Sarah's developing desires as an allegory for teenage sensual development following the onset of puberty whilst also attempting to make the stolen toddler his unwitting heir over his confusing maze domain envisioned by Jim Henson & brought to life by artist Brian Froud channeling his inner M.C. Escher & 3. Michael Keaton in his favorite character role of the randy con-artist, self-professed freelance bio-exorcist & titular "Ghost With the Most" Betelguese - whose name based on the star cluster appropriately serving as the "armpit" for the constellation of Orion the Hunter wound up getting phonetically spelled to _Beetlejuice_ for proper pronunciation purposes & reasons regarding marketability potential - X iconic '80s "STRANGE & Unusual" teen queen Winona Ryder in her most recognized appearance [For the uninitiated, this was decades before her career resurgence via the Duffer brother's '80s nostalgia horror-suspense-thriller coming-of-age Netflix streaming series _STRANGER Things_ as Will Byer's often put-upon mother, mind you & was even before her kleptomaniac tendencies put her promising career as a quirky individual doing nontraditionally unconventional however typecast roles into a tailspin following her publicized newsworthy breakup with Johnny Depp] as the budding junior photographer Lydia Deetz [Despite her bit player supporting placement in the film, she still had the best rapid character development within the 1988 cult classic co-created by David Geffen & oddball filmmaker Tim Burton, as she changed from a depressed, suicidal emo to the embodiment of the quintessential perky goth, with her somehow curiously apparently implied at some unseen juncture to personally view the Neither World afterlife as a form of deliberate escapism if not even a borderline aphrodisiac/sexual stimulant/turn-on when Tim Burton's peculiarity of romancing live people with the "Recently Deceased" is factured into the equation, though fans suspect this was done primaily to purposely counterbalance Lydia's humdrum normalcy of co-existing with her prepetually neurotic father Charles & her eccentric post-modernist sculptress stepmother Delia as their outcast wallflower 16-year-old daughter upon finding herself narrowly escaping an eternal marital union to Michael Keaton's undead slimeball poltergeist] & it ultimately got to the point whereby the 1989 to 1992 spin-off cartoon completely removed the husband & wife ghost couple Adam & Barbara Maitland entirely - even though the source material film actually revolved around them dealing with the bueaucracies of being no longer alive & having to deal with Yuppie humans taking ownership over the house they haunted -from early drafts [likely due to their being too boringly bland to center a wacky corresponding cartoon around], before deciding to rework the breakout characters of Betel & Lyds into supposed "best friends" messing around across both the _Nightmare Before Christmas_ styled Neither World afterlife & the smalltown Winter River Connecticut community renaming itself to the more ambiguous suburbia of Peaceful Pines, made all more outlandish courtesy of the outright tangible thread of unresolved sexual tension suggested between the pair that flew in the face of the massive age gap that implicates blatant pedophilia on Betelguese's end opposite the "whole being dead thing" of him as a corporeal however ethereal being versus the freshly de-aged Lydia being a living human thereby implicating necrophilia on Lydia's end if we go by creator interviews reaffirming the purported shipping as being purposely intended within the cartoon, although it had to be forthrightly skirted around using sexual innuendo & not-too-subtle subtext for real-life ethical censorship reasons emanating from the prevailing "Stranger Danger" campaign to combat real world child predators, even though nothing could stop the emergence of not-really-surprising Rule 34 cheeky adult pictures of the tabbo couple contracted series animators actively drew on the side during episode breaks), in which he said, "If you touch me AGAIN, I'll tell my Dad." This is disturbing, as it outright brazenly states that the kid in question had likely been touched inappropriately before, which is only worsened by the fact that, in most documented cases, said molestation happens between a mentally disturbed grown-up the child victim knows personally (such as a family member or a quote-unquote close friend of the immediate family paid to look after the child whilst the unassuming, ignorant parents are away for work-related business or out on a date night together to rejuvenate their marriage) & the child in question (many of whom have been too afraid to speak up/speak out due to a likely possible fear of being harmed any further by the molester; It's no simple "trick" or some "phony story" to get molestation victims to keep quiet like the _Welcome to Pooh Corner_ costumed characters erroneously claimed in their "Don't Be Fooled By Tricks" song, it's a genuine, active threat, as anybody with common sense moral ethics certainly wouldn't put it past a molester to not only psychologically & mentally, but to also emotionally as well as physically - especially that last one - torment their victim if they were to have the opportunity).

[@lukasd.4389]

@@TherealRNOwwfpooh This is a long, and probably very good comment, but reading it, everything just blends together. Thank you for the effort

[@pikachuiguana]

I have fond memories of renting "Too Smart for Strangers" from the local video rental store, with that and "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue" being the videos we would rent the most times

[@BigBossMan538]

pikachuiguana Cartoon All-Stars could be an interesting episode of DefunctTV

[@juliagoodwin3461]

I used to rent Cartoon All-stars to the Rescue a lot as a kid... looking back it wasn’t as good as I thought it was...

[@Videogamefanmax]

Pooh corner roo: *exists* Me:"look how they massacred my boy"

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Incidentally, Roo was the only character actually lost by Christopher Robin Milne & never recovered, nor remade. He was lost in the family's orchard & never resurfaced, presumably lost to the elements of nature. Piglet looks a bit deformed too, since he was chewed upon by the neighboring dog that the adolescent Christopher was paid to babysit. This curious incident was, coincidentally, the impetus for the _New Adventures_ episode "Pooh Day Afternoon", wherein the animated version of Clare Milne's father & his literary renowned toys babysit a neighbor's sheepdog that constantly licks Piglet, which causes Piglet to think the affectionate pooch wants to eat him, but in order to keep the large mutt from causing a ruckus (since the animal often bounded after passing cars if they had a noticeable horn sound when passing by), the gang would "borrow" the bicycle horn from their owner's bike & use the SQ-WONKY sound effect to keep the dog well-mannered, only to end up in a local supermarket due to the dog's collar accidentally getting snagged onto a runaway shopping cart! While in the store, the toys would come across Christopher, who was directed by his mother to go shopping before he could return to see how his sentient toys were doing with the neighbor's dog, causing a bit of a wild take between the toys & their owner, especially when the neighbor's dog ran past. In the ensuing fracas, Tigger would comically bellow "SQ-WONKY" into the store's intercom (causing the pursuing store manager to quizzically quip, "SQ-WONKY? We don't carry any SQ-WONKY!" before physically ejecting Christopher, his toys & the dog from the store, with all of them heatedly racing to get back home before the neighbors do, since Christopher noticed the neighbor's car going by as they trudged home).

[@knucklehoagies]

I faintly remember this show airing on Disney during the afternoons when I was in kindergarten. At the time, I actually never thought it was creepy but I do remember wondering why Christopher Robin was never incorporated into the story.

[@somedandy7694]

When my dad was stationed in Germany in the late 80s, my grandparents recorded Disney Channel on VHS and mailed it to us. I grew up watching 80s Disney tapes well into the 90's. Imagine being used to Pooh Corner and Mousterpiece theatre (George Plimpton was a boss! Only he can refer to Donald as "The Duck"), and then...Aladdin...and Lion King. Man, the 90's rocked! 12"20 - I was always sad that Disney didn't release New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh on dvd, either. What is it with Pooh shows being allowed to die?

[@UltraSenseiHoots]

Seeing as how you're doing this, I hope you consider covering Dumbo's Circus in the future! :)

[@DoswarePictures]

Taylor Gilligan replace Dumbo with Jojo.

[@JasonicProtosh]

I was hoping the same thing. I watched both shows when I was younger.

[@u710274]

@@JasonicProtosh Jojo's Bizarre Circus

[@crow-t-robot]

Or Adventures in Wonderland!

[@EraserqueenStudio]

I watched both if these as a child and have nice memories of them...I guess my "creepy " radar was broken 🤣

[@Tonberry2k]

Please tell me there will be a Dumbo’s Circus episode.

[@pizza-pi]

Yeah, that would be one of these 45m+ ones for sure.

[@alexn9856]

My uncle also saw dumbo's circus??? And I have to know what it is, I-I just have to know that.

[@nodesire9291]

That one was SO MUCH WEIRDER. of course it was about a circus so it makes sense that it was weirder.

[@princesskristan]

YES! I LOVED DUMBO'S CIRCUS

[@Roserae16]

Does anyone remember the magic shoes episode? Some kid read the rhyme inside the shoes and they started dancing by themselves and haunted my dreams

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

While this show was a good deal before my time, there was a live action Winnie the Pooh show that did scare me as a kid that I had on VCR. It was called the Book of Pooh, or something, and it was specifically the intro that freaked me out. In the intro you see a kid reading a book which he then lays down on the table. It's revealed to be a pop up book which opens on a page about the Hundred Acre Woods. The camera zooms into the page which transitions into a set piece and there's about 5 seconds of silence until a puppet of Pooh jumps out from the left side in a jerking motion and walks towards the camera while singing with it not seeming like his feet are truly touching the floor. It makes it seems like Pooh's possessed by some sort of demon and gave me just a sense that something was just wrong when I watched it.

[@TrepidRez]

Just looked it up. Wasn’t too bad. A bit odd, though. The puppets are kinda stiff.

[@MojoWesker]

Honestly, shows like Welcome to Pooh Corner, Dumbo's Circus, and Eureka's Castle were odd, but very memorable parts of my childhood. I kinda miss the live action muppetry/costumed character shows of the 80's and early 90's. It sucks that you can barely find episodes online, let alone ones that aren't in fuzzy, VHS quality

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Whenever I see a Pooh-related costume, all I think of is the Tigger Court Case.

[@hentaiobserver7544]

Tigger Court case?

[@JomasterTheSecond]

@@hentaiobserver7544 OH BABY, YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE TIGGER COURT CASE?! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIiZqKicgZpkeKs You're welcome in advance.

[@garchomplord5081]

Hoo boy an oldie but a goody

[@HandmadeGoose97]

I didn't know they made an entire show based off of China

[@skyler6175]

"Oh bother, I got my head stuck in human rights violations again."

[@TheChesterKiwi]

@@skyler6175 YIKES

[@Mr_Fancypants]

Winnie tries to deny the 1989 Hundred acre wood massacre

[@nathanschmitz2302]

"Oh bother, Those "Bees" are trying to steal my "Honey"

[@adrianshephard378]

@@Mr_Fancypants put that on reddit!!!!

[@TravJam317]

I loved shows like Welcome to Pooh Corner and Dumbo's Circus when I was younger. I miss the old Disney Channel.

[@NecroCritic]

The spaghetti episode is literally the only episode I remember watching. Mostly because, after more than 25 years, Tigger's spaghetti song will still never leave my brain. My old elementary school also forced me to watch the School Bus Safety special like three different times. Keep in mind, this was the during the late 90s.

[@zfalcon44]

"And force feeds it to his friends until they can't take it anymore....But it was wholesome children's entertainment" LOL

[@bardlover6]

This show was my absolute favorite as a kid! When my parents took me to Disney World when I was 3, I was scared of all characters but the Winnie the Pooh. Clicked on this so fast.

[@TheNotoriousBTG]

Fun fact about the Winnie the Pooh books: EH Shepard, artist of the books was the father of Mary Shepard, the artist for the Mary Poppins books.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

Don't you mean "author"?

[@TheNotoriousBTG]

@@marcusblackwell2372 PL Travers was the author. Mary Shepard was the illustrator for Mary Poppins.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

@@TheNotoriousBTG I thought Mary Poppins was a chaptee book like Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

[@TheNotoriousBTG]

@@marcusblackwell2372 It is, but it still has illustrations.

[@jobyd2000]

I LOVED this show and Dumbo's Circus as a kid.

[@Attmay]

How many kids who grew up with *Dumbo's Circus* grew up to be furries? I didn't.

[@Dracorex13]

I definitely remember Welcome to Pooh Corner and Adventures in Wonderland, but not Dumbo's Circus. Surely it can't be that furr- OH NO.

[@jobyd2000]

@@Attmay It was surely a gateway drug for many.

[@pixelplayer140]

I don’t somehow mind Furries

[@anamorphicmind]

I actually grew up in the 80's and remember watching this every day after I came home from school.. Lol

[@obliviousfafnir01]

Same. I loved it as a kid. As an adult... well I'll just say it didn't age well.

[@ladiesngerms]

Those child abduction clips hit me deep in my core & gifted me with memories I need not remember

[@laurasanderslmt3934]

holy WOW this brought back memories of my childhood. I LOVED my VHS of this show!! didn't know about the molestation episode, but good on them for educating kids!

[@hannahrose4266]

I loved this show as a kid! They also did a show called The Book of Pooh, which began in 2001, and filmed for two seasons. The costumes got a major revamp and fixed many of the issues you presented. It's on Disney + if any of y'all want to check it out since the original isn't available yet. I have no idea if it was done by the same team, or was intended to be a follow-up project, but Book of Pooh looks like what they wanted Pooh's Corner to look like.

[@bbolin5626]

Believe it or not, The Book of Pooh was made by Bear in the Big Blue House creator Mitchell Kriegman. It used a groundbreaking technique called Shadowmation that he developed.

[@alejandrocervantes3624]

"we need to establish a pooh corner" - Disney Skyliner 2019

[@loganmiller7827]

I just wanted to thank you for making this episode. When I was little I went through a phase of wanting to go back and watch the TV shows that I grew up watching, and my parents told me about the shows that they grew up watching. My mom told me about this show and showed me the theme song to it. This memory stuck in my head and about a year or two ago when I started becoming interested in lost media, I did some research on this series, which then lead me to create the article for it on the Lost Media Wiki. It means a lot to me to see how much attention this show has gotten after I brought its existence and status as lost media to everyone's attention. I hope the show can be found someday! Thank you for your help in the search for it!

[@Rockyo987]

Oh my god, I had completely forgotten about this show, until that intro kicked in, and I started singing along, re-sparking lost memories of my childhood... Well played, sir. Well played.

[@nicolethorson8186]

What stuck with me the most is that random headline off to the side during the newspaper footage in the beginning: "How to get yourself (or your kid) a fixed-rate 8 1/2% mortgage."

[@HamiltonMechanical]

woah this footage is totally taking me back to my childhood! such great memories of this channel, of which we had pirated somehow; my uncle was an engineer and did something to our satellite lol so we got disney

[@LaurensTravels]

I’m shocked they discussed such a serious matters as molestation and abduction. But I don’t imagine too many other children’s shows were doing this.

[@Attmay]

Yes, they were. Even sitcoms aimed at the same demographic were doing it; *Diff'rent Strokes, Webster,* and *Punky Brewster* all did very special episodes about abducted children the same year as this special within about three months of each other. It is also why *Sesame Street* had to make Snuffy real. Considering how many creepy shows about teens populated the channel during the horror show that was the Zoog years, how much of this was out of genuine concern for children's safety, and how much was get-off-my-backism?

[@StarlitGlitch]

“One and only you is considered lost media” I didn’t know that! I remember watching it in Kindergarten. I wonder if my school still has the tape haha. It was about being careful and not for example running under a bus for a stuffed animal because you can always get another of those but there is only one of you.

[@american_cosmic]

Fond memories of this show! I had VHS tapes of it when I was little, and I would wake up first thing in the morning and watch Pooh Corner... one of my earliest memories. Thanks for doing this!