After being unable to stop ants from stealing his picnic food, Piglet becomes depressed about his short height. The others attempt to help by fooling him into thinking he's grown, only to create further problems.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes.
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: Thinking he's become bigger, Piglet becomes more smug towards his friends and puts himself in dangerous situations like stepping across a cliff and confronting the crows in Rabbit's garden. This last one results in the crows tearing apart the devices that made him think he was big, leaving poor Piglet back where he started.
- An Aesop: You may be small on the outside, but the many things you can do let you feel big on the inside.
- Bullying a Dragon: Piglet sees fit to try to stop a murder of crows eating Rabbit's crops. It doesn't go well.
- Fee Fi Faux Pas: After Piglet plods off in despair at the beginning, Tigger expresses his sincere sympathy with "the poor little runt". He gets glances from Christopher Robin and Pooh, and a glare from Rabbit.
- Heel–Face Turn: Species example. The episode's first scene is of an ant acting belligerent and taunting the heroes, distracting them while his fellows steal Piglet's picnic. In fairness, Piglet's act of kindness towards some other ants (it's unclear if they're the same ants from the beginning) later in the episode earn him their gratitude and praise. They even get to join the party at the end.
- Androcles' Lion
- Book Ends: The ants' antics at the beginning are what unintentionally cause Piglet's Height Angst throughout the episode. It's also the ants who semi-intentionally help him get over it.
- Rule of Symbolism: Ants are very strong creatures despite their sheer tininess compared to much bigger animals.
- Height Angst: Piglet is upset about being too small. His friends try to help by making him think he's grown bigger, but that falls apart after the encounter with the crows. Later, Piglet helps out some ants, which helps him realize he's just the right size for him.
- Knight of Cerebus: The crows in this episode are much larger and more menacing than the very goofy and cartoony crows that typically appear in the show.
- Miniature Effects: To fuel Piglet's belief that he's taller (and even gigantic), Pooh, Rabbit, and Tigger quickly replace as many flowers as they can with miniature trees.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: You just know the crows in this episode are bad news when Rabbit, whose first instinct is usually trying to get them to stop eating his vegetables, reacts with alarm and fright when he sees Piglet try to intimidate them into going away.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When the crows decide to attack Piglet, two of them are shown to inexplicably turn their white eyes red.
- Replacement Goldfish: After Piglet leaves for being too small, Tigger and Rabbit suggest getting a "new Piglet" to be Pooh's best friend. The "new Piglet" is Eeyore in one of Piglet's shirts. The attempt (and the attempt to rectify the first one), predictably, fails.
- Mood Whiplash: These hilarious scenes are intercut with scenes of Piglet continuing to wallow in his despair of being too small...even as he helps ants in their plights that prove him otherwise.
- Reverse Telescopic Vision: The guys put binoculars on Piglet so that everything would look smaller, making him think he was bigger.
- Scully Box: In-Universe: Piglet has boxes tied to his feet so that he would think he was taller.
- Shout-Out: Piglet saves an ant caught in a spider web and about to be eaten, all the while shouting "Help me! Help me!"
- Stock Sound Effects: All we hear of Pooh, Rabbit, and Tigger's unseen placing of the boxes on Piglet's feet are comically loud construction noises, complete with saws, chainsaws, and jackhammers.
