Thanksgiving: a time of being thankful for what you have, and whom you have. A time for getting together and eating. It just so happened that today was Thanksgiving in the Hundred Acre Wood...and everywhere else too for that matter. As you can imagine, Winnie the Pooh and all his friends will be getting together to have their own feast. They sure do, and each brings their own special dish: Pooh brings honey (what else), Piglet brings acorns, Gopher supplies the lemonade, Eeyore brings thistles, Owl brings biscuits, and Tigger's got the chocolate ice cream. I guess Kanga and Roo weren't invited. Well, this is certainly a creative makeshift Thanksgiving dinner, and of course, leave it to Rabbit to rain on their parade and act like an expert. He callously tells them that the food they brought "isn't what Thanksgiving is all about" and proceeds to lecture them on his limited knowledge of the holiday in question, mainly saying that it's about tradition and custom. Rabbit is very conservative, you see, he hates change. Because they're so gullible, everyone believes Rabbit's nonsense, and so he assigns each of them the task of going out to catch a traditional dish. Tigger and Eeyore are tasked with collecting cranberries for the sauce, Gopher is charged with making the pumpkin pie, Owl is given the duty of washing the dishes, Mr. Know-It-All will put up the decorations, and guess who gets to hunt them a turkey? I'll give you a hint: he gobbles too... well, gobbles honey. That's right, Pooh and Piglet get to find the turkey. Hey, what about the mashed potatoes? Well anyway, neither Pooh nor Piglet knows what a turkey is, so Rabbit shows them his very amateurish drawing and says it is the most vital part of Thanksgiving, like the fate of all humanity rests on people eating turkey for the holiday. So they head off into the dark woods, with Piglet scared to death that a turkey may be as fierce as a "jagular", and Pooh describing what he thinks a turkey looks like certainly doesn't help. I'm calling it now, guys, I don't think they're going to find a turkey.
So while the bear of very little brain and the pig with very little courage go combing the woods for a turkey, Gopher goes about his duty of baking the pies by way of blowing them up with TNT and trashing the kitchen. While that's going on, Tigger and Eeyore are off picking berries, and because Tigger doesn't know what a cranberry is, he just picks any berries he sees, even painting them red if he has to. Yeah, that ploy didn't work for the Queen of Heart's rose bushes and it won't work for cranberry sauce either. Once they gather their weight in berries, they head back to Rabbit's house, neglecting to notice the hole in the bag through which the berries are spilling. Uh oh. Bouncing back over to Pooh and Piglet, the former hits upon a brilliant idea to set a turkey trap, so they dig a hole... and find that it's too deep for them to climb back out. Oh bother. Eventually, they rescue themselves from the trap and try to find bait. They come across the berry trail left by Tigger and decide to use them. It's about now the striped one realizes their berries had flown the coop, and was all about to give up hope until he saw the trail they had left, so, back they go, as the trail predictably leads them to Pooh and Piglet's turkey trap. With Tigger and Eeyore in a sack, they think it's a turkey and bring it back to Rabbit's house, just as Gopher's pie is on the table and Owl's carrying a nice, tall stack of washed dishes. And now, my friends, witness as this whole fiasco crashes and burns before their very eyes: they tip up the table, sending the pie flying through the sky, and when Rabbit catches it, he falls in face-first (talk about getting your justdesserts), Owl trips and breaks all the dishes, just as Pooh and Piglet accidentally tear down all the decorations. As he stared at the mess HE created, Rabbit sighs and sinks into a deep depression. There's nothing to be thankful for. Thanksgiving is ruined... forever. So one by one, everyone goes home to pout and feel sorry for themselves. But all is not lost, for leave it to Pooh Bear to stumble upon the true meaning of Thanksgiving: sharing what you have with others, and so he rounds up the gang and they go back to try again, bringing their personal dishes (honey, acorns, ice cream, thistles, etc.). This time Christopher Robin joins them and they make Rabbit the guest of honor, and this time tradition seems to mean nothing to him. Maybe if they had just done it this way in the first place, they might have saved a lot of trouble. So, there you have it: the TRUE meaning of Thanksgiving: it's not WHAT you eat, it's WHO you eat it with.
There you have it, friends. Winnie the Pooh and Thanksgiving Too. Aside from Charlie Brown, there aren't very many noteworthy Thanksgiving specials out there, mainly because I guess unlike Halloween and Christmas, not much can be made out of a Thanksgiving story. Similarly to Charlie Brown, Pooh and his friends create a makeshift dinner using what they have, and the stuck-up know-it-all of the group has point out that it isn't a TRUE Thanksgiving dinner without turkey, cranberries, mashed potatoes (again, Rabbit forgot those) and pumpkin pie. It's only later that this stubborn individual gets a swift lesson in what the holiday is truly about. They usually wait until the end of the special to do that, or else it will be very short. I remember Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving used to air after Charlie Brown, but not lately. There's not much else I can except it's your typical Winnie the Pooh fair, and I'm glad they included Gopher, as he seems to be becoming more and more scarce in recent franchise projects. This special was really good, predictable, but nothing too over-the-top. Again, it's Winnie the Pooh, so it's extremely innocent. If you can find it, I do recommend it. There isn't really anything about it I would change, and for the most part, I'm glad they didn't go the route of Pooh and Piglet actually meeting a live turkey and saying, "we'd like to have you for dinner." I guess, if they did that, the extremely dark prospect of Pooh characters actually killing someone would be instantly realized, and that's absolutely something they would want to avoid at all costs.
So while the bear of very little brain and the pig with very little courage go combing the woods for a turkey, Gopher goes about his duty of baking the pies by way of blowing them up with TNT and trashing the kitchen. While that's going on, Tigger and Eeyore are off picking berries, and because Tigger doesn't know what a cranberry is, he just picks any berries he sees, even painting them red if he has to. Yeah, that ploy didn't work for the Queen of Heart's rose bushes and it won't work for cranberry sauce either. Once they gather their weight in berries, they head back to Rabbit's house, neglecting to notice the hole in the bag through which the berries are spilling. Uh oh. Bouncing back over to Pooh and Piglet, the former hits upon a brilliant idea to set a turkey trap, so they dig a hole... and find that it's too deep for them to climb back out. Oh bother. Eventually, they rescue themselves from the trap and try to find bait. They come across the berry trail left by Tigger and decide to use them. It's about now the striped one realizes their berries had flown the coop, and was all about to give up hope until he saw the trail they had left, so, back they go, as the trail predictably leads them to Pooh and Piglet's turkey trap. With Tigger and Eeyore in a sack, they think it's a turkey and bring it back to Rabbit's house, just as Gopher's pie is on the table and Owl's carrying a nice, tall stack of washed dishes. And now, my friends, witness as this whole fiasco crashes and burns before their very eyes: they tip up the table, sending the pie flying through the sky, and when Rabbit catches it, he falls in face-first (talk about getting your justdesserts), Owl trips and breaks all the dishes, just as Pooh and Piglet accidentally tear down all the decorations. As he stared at the mess HE created, Rabbit sighs and sinks into a deep depression. There's nothing to be thankful for. Thanksgiving is ruined... forever. So one by one, everyone goes home to pout and feel sorry for themselves. But all is not lost, for leave it to Pooh Bear to stumble upon the true meaning of Thanksgiving: sharing what you have with others, and so he rounds up the gang and they go back to try again, bringing their personal dishes (honey, acorns, ice cream, thistles, etc.). This time Christopher Robin joins them and they make Rabbit the guest of honor, and this time tradition seems to mean nothing to him. Maybe if they had just done it this way in the first place, they might have saved a lot of trouble. So, there you have it: the TRUE meaning of Thanksgiving: it's not WHAT you eat, it's WHO you eat it with.
There you have it, friends. Winnie the Pooh and Thanksgiving Too. Aside from Charlie Brown, there aren't very many noteworthy Thanksgiving specials out there, mainly because I guess unlike Halloween and Christmas, not much can be made out of a Thanksgiving story. Similarly to Charlie Brown, Pooh and his friends create a makeshift dinner using what they have, and the stuck-up know-it-all of the group has point out that it isn't a TRUE Thanksgiving dinner without turkey, cranberries, mashed potatoes (again, Rabbit forgot those) and pumpkin pie. It's only later that this stubborn individual gets a swift lesson in what the holiday is truly about. They usually wait until the end of the special to do that, or else it will be very short. I remember Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving used to air after Charlie Brown, but not lately. There's not much else I can except it's your typical Winnie the Pooh fair, and I'm glad they included Gopher, as he seems to be becoming more and more scarce in recent franchise projects. This special was really good, predictable, but nothing too over-the-top. Again, it's Winnie the Pooh, so it's extremely innocent. If you can find it, I do recommend it. There isn't really anything about it I would change, and for the most part, I'm glad they didn't go the route of Pooh and Piglet actually meeting a live turkey and saying, "we'd like to have you for dinner." I guess, if they did that, the extremely dark prospect of Pooh characters actually killing someone would be instantly realized, and that's absolutely something they would want to avoid at all costs.