History Fridge / WinnieThePooh

* Near the end of Pooh's Grand Adventure, Christopher Robin explains to Pooh why he went to school. One of the reasons he gave was to learn how words are spelled, then dejectedly adds "and...how they're ''not''." Perhas he took an innocent word and accidentally spelled it to form something the teacher found offensive.

** Actually, that line refers to Christopher Robin mispelling 'School' as 'Skull' in the note he left for Pooh at the beginning of the film.

* In the 2011 film, various characters suggest alternatives to Eeyore's lost tail. Every time someone comes up with a ([[FailureIsTheOnlyOption short-lived]]) solution, the whole gang sings a very cheerful congratulatory song. By the time they start to sing the song for Kanga, she cuts it off immediately and suggests they celebrate ''with silence''. This of course is because she's a mother of a young child, and probably is a bit worn down by dealing with such songs ''all the time''.

* A bit of both Fridge Brilliance and Fridge Horror (but mostly the latter)-the reason why some of the characters act as they are is because they represent psychological illnesses: Pooh represents eating disorder, Piglet represents generalized anxiety disorder, Rabbit represents OCD, Eyeore represents major depression, Tigger represents ADHD, and Christopher Robin represents schizophrenia.

* ''The Many Adventures of WinnieThePooh'' ends with a conversation about doing nothing and staying friends forever. Now watch the beginning of ''Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin''. '''It's the same conversation, word for word''', making the latter movie the direct sequel of the former. - Kintatsu

* ''WinnieThePooh And Tigger Too'', which I'd seen probably a decade and a half ago. The narrator makes himself known to Tigger, and then helps him and Roo down from the tree. In other words: Tigger ''uses the fictional medium he's in to escape his predicament.'' Not only that, but since this was a movie, with the book merely as a FramingDevice, ''said fictional medium itself was fictional.'' That wasn't just PaintingTheMedium, that was tearing it down, building up a new one, and refurbishing the whole building. -@/KimikoMuffin

* The sign (which reads "Trespassers Will") above [[WinniethePooh Piglet's]] door. The sign appears to be broken off at the "Will" part, and according to Piglet, Trespassers Will is actually his grandfather. Do you want to know what the sign actually reads if it was shown as a whole? "Trespassers Will [[spoiler: Be Shot!"]]

** Another one from the 2011 movie, at the end of the movie, Pooh and friends are seen interacting with the end credits as they scroll down. Rather funny at first, but then you realize that Pooh and friends interact with their book's sentences like this all the time, so of course, it's perfectly natural for them to interact with the credits!

* "But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is....I'M THE ONLY ONE!"...left?

* "The best thing about Tiggers is....I'M THE ONLY ONE!"...left?

* ''WinnieThePooh And Tigger Too'', which I'd seen probably a decade and a half ago. The narrator makes himself known to Tigger, and then helps him and Roo down from the tree. In other words: Tigger ''uses the fictional medium he's in to escape his predicament.'' Not only that, but since this was a movie, with the book merely as a FramingDevice, ''said fictional medium itself was fictional.'' That wasn't just PaintingTheFourthWall, that was tearing it down, building up a new one, and refurbishing the whole building. -@/KimikoMuffin

* There's an episode of the cartoon series where the group meets a giant wind-up gorilla GaryStu. After he misunderstands Christopher Robin telling his friends he isn't keeping him (he had meant to say he was a gift for a friend), the wind-up toy goes to be in the woods by himself...and then sadly declares he needs to "unwind" and pulls out his wind-up key. [[IGotBetter He gets better when the main cast finds him and puts the key back in]] but ''we just saw a heartbroken toy commit'' '''''suicide!'''''

* There's an episode of the cartoon series where the group meets a giant wind-up gorilla GaryStu. After he misunderstands Christopher Robin telling his friends he isn't keeping him (he had meant to say he was a gift for a friend), the wind-up toy go to be in the woods by himself...and then sadly declares he needs to "unwind" and pulls out his wind-up key. [[IGotBetter He gets better when the main cast finds him and puts the key back in]] but ''we just saw heartbroken a toy commit'' '''''suicide!'''''

* The first part of the ending credits have the stuffed animals in Christopher Robin's room "acting out" scenes from the movie. The observant viewer will notice that only Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga and Roo appear as stuffed animals in this section; Owl and Rabbit are for the most part absent, and when they do appear they're represented by porcelain/wooden figurines that look --nothing'' like them. Might seem a little odd at first -- but it's really a call-back to the original books and A. A. Milne. Owl and Rabbit ''weren't'' stuffed toys.

** It's also subtly alluded to in ''The House At Pooh Corner'' where Rabbit tells Owl that "you and I have brains, the
others have fluff." It can be taken, and is probably meant, as ego stroking and praising their own level of intellect, but does gain an extra dimension when you realize that Owl and Rabbit were based on real animals instead of stuffed toys -- and so they ''would'' have actual brains.

!!The Cartoons
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