"Pooh Skies" |
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| Season 3, Episode 5 | |
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| Production Information | |
| Director |
Terence Harrison Ken Kessel (supervising director) Ed Ghertner (and Assistant Director and Key Layout Design) |
| Writer |
Carter Crocker Michelle Rifkin |
| Prod code | 305 |
| Airdate | October 6, 1990 |
| Episode Chronology | |
| Previous | Eeyi Eeyi Eeyore |
| Next | To Bee or Not to Bee |
Pooh Skies is the fifth episode of the third season of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It originally aired on October 6, 1990.
Synopsis
When Pooh reportedly “breaks the sky”, Pooh and Gopher go up and fix it.
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Plot
| This article/section features spoilers. Continue reading at your own risk. |
Christopher Robin is cloud watching with Pooh when rain clouds start to roll in. Pooh does not notice because he is gone. Soon Pooh tries to get honey out of a bee hive with a huge bamboo pole, but instead he knocks an eggshell out of its nest and when it falls down, Pooh believes it is a piece of sky. Claiming Pooh broke the sky with the pole, Pooh and Tigger hold a meeting and they conclude that the sky will fall by dawn.
Soon Everyone moves into Gopher's Tunnels. Gopher, who is not too thrilled about having house guests for the rest of time, devises a plan to fix the sky and volunteers Pooh to go with him. Gopher builds a huge contraption of ladders, ramps, and stairs up into the clouds, just as it starts to get dark, chilly, and windy. Piglet, Eeyore, All the Animals, Rabbit and Tigger lead an evacuation to Gopher's Tunnels, thinking Pooh and Gopher will die. The two start to climb up the ladder and Pooh rests on a cloud, while Gopher keeps climbing. But under Pooh’s weight the ladder collapses, trapping them in the clouds.
The ladder collapses and causes vibrations in the ground and air. At first, the rest of the gang was afraid to leave the tunnels because they thought the sky had fallen. When they emerged, they realized Pooh and Gopher were trapped in the clouds. Soon they came up with a rescue plan(s). Meanwhile, our other two heroes were having an adventure in the clouds. The clouds started to turn black and the air got windy and cold. The sky was about to fall (in reality it was just a thunder storm).
Gopher has come up with a plan to release the energy (rain) from the clouds and thus saving the sky. The water falls through the cloud onto the Hundred Acre Wood, scaring the rest of the gang. The thunderstorm ends and the cloud start to break up and drift away, dropping Pooh and Gopher. The gang catch them with a safety net, and later they have a party. Rabbit accidentally knocks down another eggshell and Tigger says Rabbit broke the sky too.
Later, Christopher Robin and Pooh are cloud watching again and Christopher Robin explains to Pooh that the “sky” was actually an eggshell.
Characters
- Winnie the Pooh
- Piglet
- Eeyore
- Tigger
- Rabbit
- All the Animals
- Gopher
- Christopher Robin
- Bees (mentioned)
Cast
| Voice actor | Character |
|---|---|
| Jim Cummings | Winnie the Pooh and Tigger |
| John Fiedler | Piglet |
| Peter Cullen | Eeyore |
| Ken Sansom | Rabbit |
| Michael Gough | Gopher |
| Tim Hoskins | Christopher Robin |
Credits
Produced by
WALT DISNEY
TELEVISION ANIMATION
Producer/Supervising Director
KEN KESSEL
Story Editor
BRUCE TALKINGTON
Directors
TERENCE HARRISON
ED GHERTNER
Assistant Story Editor
CARTER CROCKER
Written by
CARTER CROCKER
MICHELE RIFKIN
With the Voice Talents of
JOHN FIEDLER
KEN SANSOM
JIM CUMMINGS
as Winnie the Pooh
Assistant Producer
Assistant Director
ED GHERTNER
Storyboard Designers
RON CAMPBELL
HANK TUCKER
Key Layout Design
Character Design
Background Styling
Color Stylist
Supervising Timing Director
Timing Directors
Track Reader
Script Coordinator
Archives Administrator
Artwork Coordinator
Talent Coordinator
Post Production Manager
Post Production Supervisor
Post Production Coordinator
Production Assistants
Managing Film Editor
Supervising Editor
Sound Editor
Assistant Editors
Apprentice Editors
Songs Written and Produced
by
Music by
&
Animation Production by
Animation Supervisor
Animation Directors
Layout Director
Layout Artists
Animators
GEOFF COLLINS RICHARD SLAPCZYNSKI
PETER GARDINER ANDREW SZEMENYEI
WARWICK GILBERT MARIA SZEMENYEI
LIANNE HUGHES STEVEN TRENBIRTH
Assistant Supervisors
Background Supervisor
Background Artists
Production Manager
*.
©1990 The Walt Disney Company
All Rights Reserved
Distributed by
Buena Vista International, Inc.
VHS & DVD Releases
- This episode was release on the “Growing Up with Winnie the Pooh: Friends Forever” VHS & DVD.
- According to one of the trailers for “Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin” Special Edition DVD, this episode was originally planned to be a Bonus short on the DVD. It can be seen on with the Theme Song on VHS and the Bonus short on the DVD is “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day”.
- The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Volume 8: The Sky’s The Limit VHS
- Winnie the Pooh Friendship: Imagine That Christopher Robin!
Trivia
- This whole episode is a parody to the story line of the old folk tale, Chicken Little, before it became a Disney Canonical film.
- Christopher Robin tells Pooh that clouds come from a cloud machine. This is wrong. Clouds are made of water or ice. Water or ice travels into the sky within air as water vapor, the gas form of water. Water vapor gets into air mainly by evaporation – some of the liquid water from the ocean, lakes, and rivers turns into water vapor and travels in the air. When air rises in the atmosphere it gets cooler and is under less pressure. When air cools, it’s not able to hold all of the water vapor it once was. Air also can’t hold as much water when air pressure drops. The vapor becomes small water droplets or ice crystals and a cloud is formed. Of course it is possible that Christopher didn't know this yet.
- The story Tigger tells Pooh involves Tigger reenacting the nursery rhymes Hey Diddle Diddle, Humpty Dumpty, and Little Jack Horner.
- Beginning with this episode, Jim Cummings takes over voicing Tigger for the remainder of the series, except for the finale Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too where Paul Winchell returns to voice Tigger.