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The Book of Pooh
"Once Upon a Happy Ending"
Season 2, Episode 2b, Overall 28b
Production Information
Director Mitchell Kriegman
Writer Claudia Silver
Prod code 202
Airdate July 15, 2001
Episode Chronology
Previous Mothers of Invention
Next Piglet's Perfect Party

"Once Upon a Happy Ending" is the second segment of the twenty-eighth episode of The Book of Pooh.

Synopsis[]

Mr. Narrator accidentally skips to the end of the story where we find Tigger stuck in a tree. In search for answers, he goes back to the beginning to find Tigger diligently chasing an acorn around the Hundred Acre Wood for Piglet.

Plot[]

The story supposedly starts with Tigger hanging from a tree with honey pots stuck to his paws and a pair of binoculars. Both he and Mr. Narrator are initially confused, but the latter soon realizes he mistakenly skipped to the end of the story and backtracks to the beginning to find out what happened. As Tigger was bouncing, he comes across Piglet wanting an acorn from up a tree. He bounces up the tree and gets it down, but it hits Piglet's head and rolls away. Piglet tells Tigger it is okay if he wants to give up, but Tigger expresses in song how he will go through great lengths to help his friends, then Piglet joins in saying he would do the same. Tigger gets a pair of binoculars to help search for the acorn, but he does not see it on a rock near his feet and mistakenly kicks it. It lands at Pooh's house in one of his piles of honey pots. Tigger catches up and asks Pooh about the acorn, but Pooh is unsure which pot it landed in. Tigger searches the pots, getting two of them stuck to his paws in the process. While trying to free the pots, he accidentally kicks the one with the acorn, which sends the acorn flying again and landing in Rabbit's garden. Rabbit finds it and throws it away before Tigger can stop him. It ends up back at the tree it came from. Tigger is about to bounce for it, but then remembers how the story ends and refuses. However, he hits a thorn bush, which makes him jump in surprise and end up stuck in the tree anyway. Mr. Narrator discovers there is one page left where Pooh, Rabbit and Piglet help Tigger down. Tigger is nonetheless disappointed at having not retrieved the acorn, but at that moment, it falls into Piglet's hand. Piglet wonders how it got back to the tree, which Tigger promises to tell him about after a nap.

Later, Tigger is hanging from the tree again, but on purpose this time, as he and Mr. Narrator recap the events of this and the previous story.

Characters[]

Songs[]

Quotes[]

  • Mr. Narrator: (At the beginning of the episode's recap, where Tigger is hanging upside down in a tree) "Hello, Tig... Oh Dear. You're stuck in the tree again."
  • Tigger: "No. I'm not. I'm just hanging out here for fun. I can. Catch up anytime I want. Where are ya?"
  • Mr. Narrator: "Over here, Tigger!"

Credits[]

Directed by

Mitchell Kriegman

Written by

Claudia Silver

Story Editor

Andy Yerkes

Produced by

Robin Seidon

Puppeteers

Jennifer Barnhart Eric Jacobson

Ron Binion Lara MacLean

Matthew Brooks Noel MacNeal

Tyler Bunch Amanda Maddock

Eric Englehardt Paul McGinnis

James Godwin John Pavlik

BJ Guyer Robin Walsh

Character Voices

Jeff Bennett Nikita Hopkins

Peter Cullen Roger L. Jackson

Stephanie D’Abruzzo Ken Sansom

John Fiedler Kath Soucie

Andre Stojka

and

Jim Cummings

as the Voices of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger

Christopher Robin

Paul Tiesler

Dialogue Director

Ginny McSwain

Virtual Sets by

Entertainment Design Workshop

and

Shadow Digital

VSET CG Supervisor

Paul Lacombe

Puppets Designed and Built by

Shadow Character Design

Puppet Stylists

Mary Brehmer

Matthew Brooks

Manju Shandler

Mari Tobita

Associate Director

Dean Gordon

Production Designers

Cabot McMullen

Chris Renaud

Art Director

David Ellis

Editor/Post Producer

Erica Levin

Production Accountant

Joyce Hsieh

Associate Producer

James Sabatini

Supervising Music Producer

Brian Woodbury

Score by

Julian Harris

Audio Supervisor

Matthew Galkin

Technical Director

Tom Guadarrama

Director of Photography

Aaron Medick

Cameras

Kevin Burke

Larry Solomon

Script Supervisor

Chris Hoey

Production Manager

Chris Savage

Stage Manager

Adam Matalon

Script Coordinator

Ajamu Walker

Continuity Coordinator

Kim DeLise

Digital EFX Supervisor

Lawrence Littleton

Audio Editor

Ray Palagy

Audio Mixer

Danny Caccvo

Post Production Coordinator

Nicole J. Kouveras

Assistant Camera Key Grip

Cris Trova Chris Dino

Video Engineer Property Master

Tom Guadarrama Bill DePaolo

Audio Scenic Artist

Peter Hefter Cindy Gnazzo

Joe West Puppet Wranglers

Gaffer Todd Casper Hargreaves

Marc Labatte Michelle Hickey

Anney McKilligan

Songs by

"Everyone Knows He's Winnie the Pooh"

Brian Woodbury

"Rhyme-A-By"

Sean Hartley

"Friends to the End"

James Lavino & Matthew Galkin

"Goodbye for Now"

Brian Woodbury & Mitchell Kriegman

Curriculum Consultants

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Stacy Grossman, Ed.M.

Kiki Donis, M.A.

Tina Grotzer, Ed.D.

Based Upon Characters by

A.A. Milne

Executive Producer

Mitchell Kriegman

©MMI Disney Enterprises, Inc.

All Rights Reserved

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