Christopher Robin shows Pooh his personal wishing star and tells him the rhyme he uses when wishing on it. Pooh quickly forgets the rhyme, but remembering it becomes the least of his problems when the wishing star seemingly disappears after he tries to use it. Left without the star's help, Pooh decides to make his friends' wishes come true on his own.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes.
- Animation Bump: This is the first episode animated by Walt Disney Australia, with fuller and cartoonier animation.
- Argument of Contradictions: Rabbit and Tigger have one during the third exercise, arguing whether Pooh should stand up or sit down. This is what causes Pooh to remember the wishing rhyme seconds later.
- Book Ends: The episode starts and ends with Pooh and Christopher Robin on the knoll looking at the wishing star twinkling in the night sky.
- Brown Bag Mask: Rabbit uses one with a monster face drawn on it to scare Pooh into remembering the wishing rhyme, but it doesn't work.
- Dramatic Irony: The audience knows Pooh didn't accidentally wish the wishing star away, though he doesn't.
- "Eureka!" Moment: When Rabbit and Tigger are arguing over whether Pooh should stand up or sit down, this causes Pooh to have an ephinany and remember the wishing rhyme.
- Halfway Plot Switch: Pooh spends the first half trying to learn the "magic wishing rhyme" that Christopher Robin taught him. Once that problem's taken care of, the second half focuses on him trying to help his friends fulfill their wishes.
- If You Won't, I Will: Said by Pooh as he vows to make everyone's wishes come true if the star won't.Pooh: If the wishing star can't make their wishes come true, then I WILL! ...I hope.
- Jump Scare: Rabbit's first plan to get Pooh to remember the rhyme is to scare him out of nowhere while he's eating.
- Make a Wish: The central theme of the episode.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- Pooh says this when he believes he accidentally wished Christopher Robin's star "out".
- Played for laughs at the start of the episode, when Christopher Robin tricks Pooh into thinking that his wishing star can grant wishes (by pulling out a jar of honey that Pooh wishes for while his eyes were covered), Pooh immediately goes Drunk with Power trying to wish for even more honey than before. Christopher Robin's Oh, Crap! face shows that he didn't think his little trick through.
- Or My Name Isn't...: Pooh says it after he confesses the star's "disappearance" to his friends and vows to make things right.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Pooh manages to pull three of these, one for each of his friends' wishes: as Piglet's snowman, another "Tigger" for Tigger to play with, and a bug wrangler to lure the bugs away from Rabbit's house.
- Rule of Three:
- Piglet wishes to build a snowman all by himself, Tigger wishes for another Tigger to play with him, and Rabbit wishes for the bugs to leave him for good.
- For the first try to get Pooh to remember the wishing rhyme, Rabbit tries scaring him. For the second, Tigger turns Pooh upside-down to get the memories to "flow back to his head". For the third, Rabbit ties a hot water bottle to Pooh's head to "warm up" his thoughts. The first two don't work, but Rabbit and Tigger's Argument of Contradictions during the third end up giving Pooh a "Eureka!" Moment and he remembers the rhyme.
