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Recap / The New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh S 1 E15a Luck Amok

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Rabbit is looking at his reflection in a mirror, when Tigger comes along and breaks it. Rabbit says that breaking a mirror means seven years of bad luck, and Tigger is at first scared until he realises that it's Rabbit's mirror, so he'll get the bad luck.

Tigger tries rather unsuccessfully to protect Rabbit from the bad luck, but then Rabbit realises that the mirror is Pooh's, so Pooh should be the one having bad luck. Tigger, wanting to protect Pooh, has him and Piglet swap clothes so that the bad luck will be "confused", but both of them end up having bad luck.

After Piglet goes into shock after nearly being struck by lightning, Rabbit realises that everyone's luck worsens when Tigger tries to help, so he must be causing the bad luck. He tries to leave, but the others miss him and try to get him back.

Christopher Robin then tells Pooh that breaking a mirror doesn't really cause seven years of bad luck, and he agrees... but decides to pick a four-leafed clover just in case.

This episode contains examples of the following tropes.

  • Big "NO!": Rabbit yells, "NO!" twice, once when Tigger pulls the plug in the bathtub, and Rabbit gets sucked down the drain and once when he sees his watermelons rolling down on him.
  • Dumb Struck: When Piglet's shelter is destroyed by lightning, he's so shaken up that he can't speak.
  • "Eureka!" Moment: Pooh's comment that Tigger was always there when everyone had bad luck made Rabbit realize that he was the cause of it, meaning the bad luck was Tigger's like Rabbit initially thought.
  • Hammerspace: Tigger packed a trunk to bursting with Rabbit's things, even his bed and kitchen sink. Somehow, he manages to close it and has no trouble carrying it.
  • Heroic BSoD: Piglet goes into a massive one as lightning striking and destroying his shelter (thanks to a lightning rod Tigger foolishly placed on the top) leaves him in a complete state of shock. So much that he's unable to speak or really even respond to anything.
    Tigger: Well, that didn't work.
  • House Amnesia: A variation. After realizing he was a jinx, Tigger packed seven years worth of supplies to go away. Unfortunately, it was Rabbit's stuff he was packing, even his bed.
  • The Jinx: When Rabbit realises that Tigger's attempts to prevent the bad luck seem to just be causing bad luck, he thinks that means Tigger himself is unlucky.
  • Kitchen Sink Included: Tigger capped off packing Rabbit's stuff by taking his kitchen sink.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Tigger is made to realize that all the misfortunes attacking his friends was his fault for breaking the mirror, he gasps... and doesn't punctuate it with Saying Sound Effects Out Loud like he usually does. This is a sign that he realizes how badly he screwed everything up.
  • Overly Long Gag: Piglet stuttering nonstop after his fort gets struck by lightning.
  • Rhyming Title: Luck Amok.
  • Sanity Slippage: Rabbit almost completely loses it after the watermelon incident, until he remembers that the broken mirror belongs to Pooh.
  • Screams Like a Little Girl: Rabbit when he sees what looks like a submarine periscope in his bathtub (it turns out to be Tigger's snorkel.)
  • Skewed Priorities: Pooh, after Tigger leaves.
    Pooh: We can't let him leave, not for seven years! He'll miss my birthday.
    (Rabbit faints)
  • Superstition Episode: Tigger breaks a mirror in Rabbit's home, and Rabbit tells him that means seven years bad luck. Tigger dismisses it, as it wasn't his mirror that broke, and he tries to help Rabbit avoid bad luck, which just results in Rabbit getting one misfortune after another. Eventually, it's revealed that the mirror belonged to Pooh, so Tigger tries to help him avoid bad luck, with the same results. Eventually, after everyone but Tigger suffers from bad luck, it become apparent that Tigger is the one who is unlucky, so he's cast out. The others feel sorry for him and reverse the bad luck by "fixing" the mirror (taping a picture of Tigger so that he thinks it's his reflection).
  • Tree Buchet: Tigger is removing the apples from Rabbit's apple tree when he finds one with a worm on the highest branch and pulls it down for Rabbit to see. As Rabbit holds the apple, Tigger lets go and sends poor Rabbit flying.

 
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Tigger breaks a mirror Rabbit used meaning he has seven years bad luck, but he claims it isn't his and Rabbit is the one who has the bad luck.

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