The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
Based on the book series Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.
The film joins together 3 previously released Winnie-the-Pooh animated featurettes with extra bridging material to link the three stories into a larger tale as well as short scene based on the final chapter of The House at Pooh Corner which brings the film to a close.
Intro song (“Winnie the Pooh”).
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
The storybook opens with an overweight teddy bear named Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood going through his morning stoutness exercises (“Up, Down, Touch the Ground”). He discovers that his jar of honey is nearly empty and starts wondering where he can get honey as he eats what is left in the pot. He hears a bee fly by and tries to pull his head out of the jar, then decides to try to get honey from the bee's hive in the nearby honey tree. At first, Pooh is unsuccessful (“Rumbly in My Tumbly”) so he borrows a blue balloon from a human boy named Christopher Robin and disguises himself with mud in an attempt to fool the bees and get the honey (“Little Black Rain Cloud”). Pooh is able to obtain some honey but is chased by the bees.
Pooh visits Rabbit, hoping to find honey there. Pooh devours every jar of honey in Rabbit's house. He tries to leave through Rabbit's front door, but has become extremely large from the vast amount of honey he has eaten — so fat that Pooh gets stuck in Rabbit's front door. Rabbit tries to free Pooh by pushing his oversized bottom, but it's no use, so he goes off to find Christopher Robin for help. While waiting, Pooh is visited by Owl, who analyzes Pooh's peculiar situation and decides that the intervention of an expert is necessary. Gopher, an excavation expert, arrives and tries digging through Rabbit's front door over the blockage, but to no avail. No one is able to free Pooh so everyone comes to a solution; Pooh will have to stop eating and get thin again. Rabbit is forced to make the best of a bad situation, and devises various ways to disguise the bear's bottom as a hunting trophy.
As the days go by, Pooh finally slims down enough to be freed, and Rabbit is delighted. Everyone attempts to pull Pooh out (“Mind Over Matter”) which is successful however he flies into a hole of a honey tree which scares the bees and gives Pooh a chance to enjoy a hive full of his favorite honey.
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)
Intro song (“A Rather Blustery Day”). At the beginning of the story, Gopher tells Winnie the Pooh that it is "Winds-day", where upon Pooh decides to wish everyone "Happy Winds-day". He visits his friend, a young pink pig named Piglet. Piglet is blown into the air, his scarf unravelling all the while, and Pooh grabs hold of him. As they fly like a kite through the air, over the other characters' heads, Pooh wishes Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Rabbit, and Owl a happy Winds-day. During the windstorm, Owl's house is knocked down, and Eeyore decides to find a new house for Owl.
That night, Pooh hears an unfamiliar noise coming from elsewhere in the Hundred Acre Wood. There is a knock on his door, then Tigger bounces inside in search of something to eat. After singing his signature song (“The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers”). Before leaving Pooh’s house, Tigger tells him that there are Heffalumps and Woozles in the forest and that they steal honey, Pooh's favorite food. Later, Pooh suffers from a nightmare in which Heffalumps and Woozles steal his honey while the song "Heffalumps and Woozles" plays (“Heffalumps and Woozles”).
Later that night, a storm floods the Hundred Acre Wood (“Rain, Rain, Rain Came Down, Down, Down”). Piglet, who is trapped in his home, writes a bottle-note for help, just before the waters carry him away, him riding a chair. Pooh, who is trapped in a honey pot, floats away from his home as well. At Christopher Robin's house, and Christopher discovers and reads Piglet’s message. He then sends Owl to inform Piglet of a rescue plan in the works, but just after he delivers the news, Piglet and Pooh are mixed up in a waterfall which switches Piglet to the honey pot and Pooh to the chair. When they arrive together at Christopher Robin’s house, he mistakenly thinks that Pooh rescued Piglet, and throws a hero party for Pooh.
During the party, Eeyore announces that he has found a new home for Owl. But everybody, unfortunately, learns that the one Eeyore found is Piglet's house. They are shocked and dismayed and try to tell Eeyore that Piglet already lives there. However, Piglet decides to reluctantly give his home to Owl, to which a touched Pooh offers to let Piglet live with him. Pooh suggests to Christopher Robin that the hero party should become a two-hero party because of Piglet’s generosity. He agrees, and the characters celebrate both Pooh’s and Piglet's good deeds that day (“Hip-Hip-Hooray”).
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974)
Tigger has been bouncing on anyone he comes across for fun, which gets on Rabbit's nerves after he ruins his garden. After holding a meeting with Pooh and Piglet, Rabbit decides to take everyone, including Tigger, out into the Hundred Acre Wood. But during the trip, Rabbit, Pooh, and Piglet purposefully ditch Tigger on the hopes he would get lost. The three hide in a log as Tigger searches for them. The three then try to make it back home, but due to it being so misty they end up getting lost and wind up at a certain spot in every direction they take.
Pooh offers a silly suggestion to search for that same spot, and Rabbit abandons them to try to prove Pooh wrong. Pooh and Piglet find their way out of the mist by themselves. This is where they come across Tigger, who had escaped the mist with ease earlier, realizing that Rabbit's plan to lose him had failed. Pooh tells Tigger that Rabbit is still about in the mist so Tigger goes off to find him, for by this time, Rabbit has become lost trying finding his way home, and ends up in a dark, damp, and misty part of the forest. It drives him mad and he frantically tries to run away only to be tackled by Tigger, who declares that Tiggers like him don't get lost easily, and then takes Rabbit home.
It's now snowing and Roo wants to go play. Kanga can't be with him, so she calls on Tigger to look after Roo which he gladly accepts. Along the way through the woods, Tigger and Roo see Rabbit skating on the ice. Tigger tries to teach Roo how to ice skate by doing it himself, but unfortunately, he loses his balance and collides with Rabbit. Tigger then decides that he doesn't like ice skating. Later on, while bouncing around the woods with Roo on his back, Tigger accidentally jumps too high up a tree, only to discover he is afraid of heights and is too scared to come down. He calls for help and Pooh and Piglet come to the scene.
Soon, Christopher Robin, Rabbit, and Kanga arrive and try to convince Tigger to jump. Eventually, Rabbit decides that the group would just have to leave Tigger in the tree forever, on which Tigger promises never to bounce again if he ever was released from his predicament. Sebastian Cabot (the narrator) chimes in for help. Tigger begs Cabot to "narrate [him] down from [the tree]," and Cabot tilts the book, allowing Tigger to step onto the text of the page. Tigger starts to feel better that he made it this far and before he can do otherwise, Cabot tilts the book again causing Tigger to fall down into the snow. Happy, Tigger attempts to bounce but Rabbit stops him reminding Tigger of the promise he made. Devastated, Tigger sadly walks away and Rabbit feels better that there will be peace, or so for only he feels. But everyone else is sad to see Tigger like this and remind Rabbit of the joy Tigger brought when he was bouncing and prefer the old bouncy Tigger. Seeing that he is outnumbered and they are getting him to admit his errors, Rabbit feels sorry for Tigger, regrets his mistake, and takes back the promise he made and is given a sudden friendly tackle by an overly-excited Tigger, who then invites everyone to bounce with him and even teaches Rabbit how to do it. For the first time, Rabbit is happy to be bouncing, as is everyone else and Tigger sings his trademark song for the last time.
Christopher Robin must leave behind the Hundred Acre Wood to start school. The Narrator concludes that wherever Christopher Robin goes, Pooh will always be waiting.
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Music
Features music from the Sherman Brothers