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Season 1, Episode 4, Overall 6
Find Her, Keep Her
Production Information
Director Karl Geurs
David Block (Animation Director)
Writer Mark Zaslove (story and teleplay)
Doug Hutchinson (teleplay)
Larry Bernard (teleplay)
Prod code 104
Airdate February 7, 1988
Episode Chronology
Previous Balloonatics
Next The Piglet Who Would Be King

"Find Her, Keep Her" is the fourth episode of the first season of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The story focuses on Rabbit’s adoption of a bluebird named Kessie.

Plot[]

During a snowstorm, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Rabbit try to salvage a lone carrot in Rabbit’s garden when they hear calls for help from a baby bluebird in a nest being blown around. Rabbit abandons the carrot and saves the bird, then afterwards volunteers to take care of her, who reveals her name to be Kessie. A few days later, Rabbit is feeling the stress of parenthood while taking care of Kessie. When Pooh and Piglet drop by, Rabbit has become hysterical and manically leaves Kessie to them while he attends his garden, but briefly returns inside when he hears the bird cry. Pooh and Piglet give Kessie a bath, but she accidentally spills the bubble bath in the bathtub and fills the entire house with bubbles. The bubbles burst out of the house as Kessie floats away in one. Rabbit sees this and runs after her. When he catches her, he makes her promise to not fly again because out of fear of her safety, which Kessie reluctantly agrees to.

Spring arrives and Rabbit teaches Kessie how to weed his garden when he stubs his toe on a pot with a carrot in it. Kessie says that is the first carrot she planted which she saved for Rabbit. Tigger bounces in and asks if Kessie can play with him, but Rabbit refuses, saying she is busy weeding carrots. Tigger joins in, but pulls the carrots out after mistaking them for weeds. Later, Tigger is bouncing around the Wood with Kessie riding on his back. He encounters a very tall tree and bounces up it, but once atop, the tree fall down and and leaves Tigger and Kessie hanging over a cliff. Kessie calls for help, which Rabbit hears and immediately rushes over. He walks across the tree, but stops halfway across after noticing his weight is tipping the tree towards the ledge. He instead has Tigger swing his tail, which Kessie is hanging from, and toss Kessie to him. However, she slips from Rabbit's hand and falls down the cliff. Rabbit tries to jump after her, but Tigger stops him saying it is too late. Owl passes by Kessie, but mistakes her falling for an air trick and proceeds to tell her about a relative of his who used to do the same air trick. He eventually saves her and carries her back to Rabbit, who is relieved to know she is okay. Owl tells Rabbit he will teach her to fly so she can migrate, but Rabbit disagrees with this and brings Kessie home, telling her flying is not good. Later, Rabbit is reading a story to Kessie, who is still sad at not being allowed to fly. She walks away in the middle of the story to look out the window and sees other birds flying.

It becomes autumn and Kessie walks around the woods still saddened by her flightlessness. After seeing a flock of birds, she climbs a tree and jumps off a branch in an attempt to fly, but falls into a leaf pile. Trying again from a higher branch, she falls again and lands on Pooh, whom she asks not to tell Rabbit about her flying attempts. Pooh says he will teach her to fly and takes her to a cliff where Piglet ties a slingshot to two trees, which Tigger pulls back on with Pooh inside holding Kessie. Rabbit shows up and angrily tells everyone off for teaching Kessie how to fly. He forcefully makes Tigger let go of the slingshot while forgetting he had stepped inside it, accidentally shooting himself off the edge of the cliff. Kessie runs off the cliff and manages to pull Rabbit back up the ledge. Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger celebrate over Kessie’s achievement, but Rabbit walks away sadly thinking Kessie might leave. That night, while a snowstorm is happening, Kessie asks Rabbit to read her one last bedtime story, but Rabbit is feeling too gloomy for this.

The next morning, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Owl get ready to see Kessie off. However, Kessie notices Rabbit is absent and wants to say goodbye to him, to which Pooh says he is probably busy with his garden. However, he is really searching for that first carrot Kessie planted. He eventually finds it and races off to say goodbye to Kessie, but she is already airborne when he arrives. Feeling saddened, he drops her carrot over the cliff and sits down. He is cheered up when Kessie briefly returns to say goodbye to him. Later, Pooh and Piglet watch the sunset while contemplating the recent events. Piglet finds it odd that Rabbit seemingly went into liking Kessie in an instant, to which Pooh says people sometimes care too much and describes it as love. An amazes Piglet thinks they should tell Rabbit, but Pooh believes Rabbit already knows while seeing him staring out to the sky.

Characters[]

Locations[]

Cast[]

Voice actor Character
Ken Sansom Rabbit
Laura Mooney Kessie
Jim Cummings Winnie the Pooh
John Fiedler Piglet
Paul Winchell Tigger
Hal Smith Owl

Credits[]

Produced by

WALT DISNEY

TELEVISION ANIMATION

TELEVISION ANIMATION

Producer/Director

KARL GEURS

Story Editor

MARK ZASLOVE

“FIND HER, KEEP HER”

Story by

MARK ZASLOVE

Teleplay by

DOUG HUTCHINSON

LARRY BERNARD

and MARK ZASLOVE

With the Talents of

JOHN FIEDLER

KEN SANSOM

HAL SMITH

LAURA MOONEY

JIM CUMMINGS

as Winnie the Pooh

and

PAUL WINCHELL

as

Tigger

Animation Director

DAVID BLOCK

Assistant Producer

KEN TSUMURA

Art Director

ED GHERTNER

Associate Story Editor

BRUCE TALKINGTON

Storyboard Designers

HOLLY FORSYTH

ROB LADUCA

Character Designer

TOBY SHELTON

Additional Character Design

KENNY THOMPKINS

Background Stylist

PARO HOZUMI

Additional Background Styling

GARY EGGLESTON

Color Stylist

JILL STIRDIVANT

Additional Color Styling

DEBRA JORGENSBORG

Timing Directors

DAVE BRAIN

BOB ZAMBONI

TERENCE HARRISON

Artwork Coordinator

KRISTA BUNN

Overseas Animation Supervisor

MIKE REYNA

Post Production Coordinator

SARA DURAN

Production Assistants

JACALEEN VEBER

LUANNE WOOD

Track Reader

SKIP CRAIG

Managing Film Editor

RICH HARRISON

Supervising Editor

CHARLIE KING

Editor

RICK HINSON

Assistant Editor

GLENN LEWIS

Songs Written and Produced

by

STEVE NELSON

Music by

THOM SHARP

&

STEVE NELSON

“Rock A Bye and Keep Still”

Performed by

KEN SANSOM

Animation Production by

TMS

ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

*.

©1988 THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY

All Rights Reserved

Walt Disney

TELEVISION

Awards[]

  • This episode won the 1989 Humanitas Prize for Outstanding Children’s Programming.

Trivia[]

  • This episode was recorded on January 7, 1988.
  • This marks the debut of Kessie in the Winnie the Pooh franchise. She later appears, along with Stan and Heff, in “A Bird in the Hand” in the third season of the show and would be main character in The Book of Pooh.
  • This is regarded by many Winnie the Pooh fans as the most heartbreaking episode of the entire series.
  • This is the first episode of Holly Forsyth and Rob LaDuca.
  • This episode, along with "Donkey for a Day" and "Friend in Deed" is in Vol. 3: Newfound Friends.
  • This story is reused in it's entirety in the direct-to-video release Winnie the Pooh: The Seasons of Giving.
  • Tigger is shown to like being kissed, but in "Un-Valentine's Day", he finds it disgusting.
  • When the episode aired on ABC, it has the Volume 5 Intro and the bumpers with Piglet voicing over the series title card.
  • Rabbit's House has three entrances, two of them regular doors. This is the next episode that the new entrance is used.

Quotes[]

  • Rabbit: (sings Kessie a lullaby to stop her from crying) Rock-a-bye and keep still, because you're driving me crazy!
  • (Kessie continues crying, until Rabbit wraps her in a blanket and fastens it with a pin)
  • Rabbit: There.
  • (Kessie pops out of the blanket and giggles)
  • Rabbit: (sighs) I'm glad one of us is enjoying this.
  • Kessie: Daddy sad?
  • Rabbit: Daddy?! No, no, no. I'm Rabbit.
  • Kessie: Rabbie?
  • Rabbit: Rabbit. Rabbit! (turns around and gasps) Oh!
  • (the milk bottle that is heating on the stove is swelling up to a monstrous size)
  • Rabbit: (grabs a broom) Back! Back, you monster!!
  • (he whacks the bottle with his broom, popping it; milk spews all over Rabbit; Kessie laughs)
  • Tigger: (after Rabbit catches Kessie in his honey jar) Nice catch, Bunny Boy!
  • (the door on which they are riding, floating in the wind, suddenly sputters like a car)
  • Tigger: Well, whattaya know? (laughs nervously as the door stops) Outta gas.
  • (after Kessie's ride in a soap bubble)
  • Rabbit: Now, Kessie, promise me you won't go so high ever again. It's not safe.
  • Kessie: But I like it.
  • Rabbit: But I like you. And I don't want anything to happen to you.
  • Kessie: I promise, Rabbie.
  • Tigger: Is something wrong, bunny boy?
  • Rabbit(after Kessie has fallen down a cliff, and it seems all hope is lost forever) Oh, Tigger. I never...even told her...I loved her. (breaks down into tears)
  • Kessie: (giggles) Rabbie!
  • Rabbit: (shocked) Kessie....!
  • Tigger: (bounces for joy) YAHOO!!!!!
  • Pooh: I hope Spring decides to come early this year. I can't wait to see Kessie again!
  • Piglet: It's the most peculiar thing: For the longest time, I thought Rabbit didn't like her.
  • Pooh: You know, Piglet, sometimes people care too much. I think it's called "love".
  • Piglet: Oh! Do you think we should tell Rabbit?
  • Pooh: Don't worry. I believe he already knows.
  • Rabbit: (voice over) And that was the last time I saw her.
  • Tigger: Hiya, bunny-boy! Just dropped by to see if the kiddo can come out and play.
  • Kessie: Rabbie, please?
  • Tigger: Yeah, Rabbie. Pleeeeeeeeease?
  • Rabbit: No, she can't. I was just teaching her something useful. How to weed carrots!
  • Tigger: Ooh, is he lucky! Weedin' carrots is what Tiggers do best! (he starts pulling up every carrot in Rabbit's garden)
  • Rabbit: Oh, no! Stop! Stop!
  • Tigger: (stops) Hey, what's the matter? Am I makin' ya look bad in front of the kid?
  • Rabbit: You're pulling up my carrots!
  • Tigger: (looks at the carrots in his hands) Oh! So these are carrots, huh?! Well, whattaya know?! (laughs)
  • Pooh: (sees that Kessie is unharmed) Rabbit, you saved her! Why, you're a hero!
  • Rabbit: HERO!?! Fiddle D D! Look at my house! It's a mess!

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