I haven't done something related to Winnie the Pooh in sometime so it's time to rectify that. This special is a television special that aired on October 25th 1996 on the CBS. (Cutting it close to Disney owning ABC there) So let's take a look at this special.
The narrator starts the special by telling us that it's Halloween in a nice flowery way that is better than this sentence here. We are in familiar territory of the 100 acre wood. Winnie the Pooh is practicing for trick or treating. He's dressed up like the creature that makes the honey, bees, while Tigger then jumps on him and he's dressed up like a skeleton. Gopher is dressed up like Eeyore while Eeyore is a mummy. (Which Eeyore calls Gopher's costume a yak costume) Tigger wants to start trick or treating but Pooh stops him because Piglet hasn't showed up yet. Meanwhile, at Piglet's house he's trying not be scared of Halloween. Also, he sings a song. (so it's one of those specials) Sung by Steve Schatzberg , who also did the singing voice for Piglet in "Pooh's Grand Adventure"and voiced Piglet in "Winnie the Pooh :Seasons of Giving"
The gang goes to Piglet's house. Piglet doesn't have a costume , but Tigger wants to go now and that's what they do. Pooh can't let his honey addiction go (joke, well kind of ) he decides to go to a tree where bees are to take some of their honey. (this seems like a bad plan) The bees do fall for his costume until it comes off and the bees swarm after him and rest of the gang. They run from the bees and right through Rabbit's pumpkins and smashed them. (Which he named.) Rabbit isn't a fan of Halloween.
The storm that has been going on gets stronger and Tigger decides to bring up scary things and causes Piglet to get frightened. Oh hey the narrator returns after the commercial break. Piglet runs back home and boards up everything. Anyway, another song this time Tigger's turn. Pooh, Eeyore, and Tigger decide to celebrate "Hallowasn't" with Piglet. He mistakes them for monsters in their costumes and runs away. They open the door and see that he has gone.
Tigger assumes that Piglet has been "pignapped". Piglet meanwhile, searched all the houses for the others and this terrifies him. The rest of the special goes through them pretty much scaring each other unintentionally. Piglet ends up "saving" Pooh. At the end all of them go trick or treating.
This special gives off a Halloween feeling , a well done one. Pooh specials do go for a more simple plot kind of like the "Peanuts" holiday specials and I think it gives them some character that you'd expect from a Winnie the Pooh special. The artwork is very nice and gives a nice Halloween spooky feeling. I can feel the chill in the air the special wants to give. The two songs are pretty nice and don't over stay their welcome. So if you like Winnie the Pooh and Halloween there's this special.
That's our lookback tune in next time when we watch Halloween special about Christmas trees taking over a town. (What?)
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