Rabbit's friends are helping him tidy his house to prepare for a visit from Kessie, while Heff and Stan are nearby, with Stan sensing an "opportunity". As Rabbit explains to Pooh, who has brought honey, that he is throwing Kessie a "welcome home party", Heff and Stan decide to steal the honey. When Piglet brings Rabbit flowers, the latter sneezes, making a mess, and just as he's telling his friends to clean up, Kessie arrives.
While Stan gets the idea of exploiting Kessie as part of his honey-thieving plan, Kessie's friends apologise for the mess and the fact that the party prep is unfinished, but she is not disappointed. She addresses Rabbit by his name, and he points out that she used to call him "Rabbie", but she feels too old. He hugs her and reveals that he believes she's moving back in with him, but she's not so sure.
While Heff tries to figure out how exactly Stan plans to steal the honey with Kessie, Piglet, Tigger, and Pooh spy on Rabbit through the window, and observe that Rabbit is happy to have Kessie back, but she doesn't seem as happy, because he doesn't seem to realise that she's grown up. This does indeed seem to be the case — he tries to feed her in a high chair, bathes her in the sink, claims she's "pretend[ing] to be a big girl" when she says she's outgrown the high chair and sink baths, and tries to make her take a nap despite her stating she no longer takes naps. Thus, she decides to go away to prove she can take care of herself.
Meanwhile, Stan explains to Heff that they will kidnap Kessie and refuse to give her back unless Rabbit gives them honey. Kessie approaches them and asks for directions to a "vacant nest", while Rabbit goes to wake her to find her bed empty. He thinks she's playing hide and seek and searches the house, garden, and forest.
He keeps searching until he bumps into Stan and Heff, who lock him in a cage with Kessie. Stan demands ransom, but Rabbit refuses... because there's no ransom note. So, Stan writes a ransom note saying, "4 + 2 = [happy face]. We hav da byrd." and nails it to Pooh's door. The next morning, Pooh shows Piglet and Tigger and they all try to figure out what it means.
Seeing as they're all illiterate, they try to take it to Rabbit and have him read it, but of course they aren't home, so they go into the forest to look for them. They are then snatched off by Heff and locked in the cage with Rabbit and Kessie. Piglet points out that there is no one around to ransom them, so Pooh suggests they ransom themselves. Thus, Stan and Heff let everyone go, but the others have to give up the honey. As Rabbit apologises for failing to take care of Kessie, she tells Stan and Heff to "take care" of all of them, and if they don't, she and her friends will refuse to pay the ransom.
She gives Rabbit a taste of his own medicine by having him and everyone else take a nap despite Rabbit being much too old, and by making baby talk to him and threatening him with no carrot cake. When Stan and Heff bring a bed, Kessie claims they need milk to help them sleep, and when they bring it, she demands they heat it up. When they do, she claims she and the others aren't thirsty anymore and demands a story. Stan starts telling one, but when he adds a dragon to the story, she rejects it, claiming it will give them nightmares. Pooh, Tigger, and Rabbit are then reminded of how Rabbit treated Kessie. She says to the villains, "Too late! We've missed our nap time. Now we want some honey." When they go to retrieve some, she asks for the pot at the bottom of the pile, causing the pots to fall and covering Stan, Heff, and the floor in honey. Stan and Heff give up and let everyone free, and Rabbit now realises that Kessie is grown up and can take care of herself and demotes himself from Parental Substitute to best friend. Pooh, meanwhile, is happily eating the spilled honey.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes.
- An Aesop: Everyone grows up. It's important to accept it.
- Anti-Sneeze Finger: Rabbit tries to stop himself from sneezing by holding his finger to his nose, but it doesn't work.
- Baby Talk:
- When Rabbit tries to put Kessie to bed, he says, "Now it's nappy time".
- When Kessie is babying Rabbit to teach him a lesson, she says, "Now, Rabbie, you be a good boy or no carrot cake for snacky time".
- The Bus Came Back: Kessie returns for the first time since "Find Her, Keep Her", as do Stan and Heff from "The Great Honey Pot Robbery."
- Counting to Potato: The ransom note has "4 + 2 = [happy face]."
- Covered in Gunge: When the honey pots fall, Stan and Heff get honey all over them.
- Damsel in Distress: Stan and Heff lock Kessie in a cage.
- Denied Food as Punishment: As part of Kessie's punishment to Rabbit for babying her, she threatens him with "no carrot cake for snacky time" if he doesn't take a nap.
- Distressed Dude: Stan and Heff lock Rabbit, then Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger in a cage with Kessie.
- Dramatic Irony: When Pooh and Piglet get swiped up, Tigger says that they're safe with him around.
- Extreme Omnivore: Heff eats some of Rabbit's flowers.
- Growing Up Sucks: Interestingly Played With on two fronts that usually aren’t explored in a children’s show.
- Rabbit suffers this trope in that he has to come to terms with the fact that Kessie is no longer a young child that is dependent on him, and she now has her own life. It especially hits hard for him as it’s evidently the first time he’s seen her since she was a child, suggesting there was a large gap since the last time he saw her, which doesn’t help his mental image of her.
- Kessie suffers this trope in having to deal with the fact that Rabbit isn’t accepting that she’s now grown and is trying to baby her when she’s long since grown out of it. Ultimately, both parties come to terms with their evolved relationship and are able to form a healthier one.
- I Have Just One Thing to Say: After Stan and Heff let Kessie and her friends free, Rabbit sternly tells Kessie that her plan was dangerous and he has one thing left to say... and then he hugs her and says, "Thank you".
- Lighter and Softer: The episode is mercifully less emotionally complex and dramatic than "Find Her, Keep Her", with a much less bittersweet ending for the cast. It also counts in regards to "The Great Honey Pot Robbery", as Stan and Heff are less menacing here and also don’t have the ominous hanging threat of Wooster to fall back on this time.
- Mondegreen Gag: Rabbit tells Piglet to fetch daffodils but no dandelions, but Piglet mishears him and thinks it's the other way around.
- Outgrowing the Childish Name: Inverted — Kessie feels too old to call someone else (namely Rabbit) by a childish nickname (Rabbie).
- Pity the Kidnapper: Invoked by Kessie to convince Stan and Heff that holding them hostage is more trouble than it's worth. It works.
- Plot Allergy: Rabbit is revealed to be allergic to dandelions.
- Put on a Bus: This is the second appearance of Kessie, Stan, and Heff, and also their last in the series. Kessie would return as a main cast member of The Book of Pooh, while the villains haven’t returned to date.
- Sequel Episode: To both "Find Her, Keep Her" and "The Great Honey Pot Robbery".
- She Is All Grown Up: Kessie is no longer a child and is now a mature young lady, but Rabbit has trouble accepting it.
- Significant Name Shift: Played with. Kessie has stopped calling Rabbit "Rabbie" and now calls him by his name, but she doesn't think any less of Rabbit; she just feels too old to be using childish nicknames.
- Smart Ball: Despite usually being the dumber of the two, Heff, rather than Stan, is the one to realise it's a bad idea to grab the honey pot at the bottom of the pile.
- Sneeze Interruption: Rabbit tries to explain to Piglet that dandelions make him sneeze, but before he can get to the word "sneeze", he actually sneezes.
- Speak in Unison: When Kessie says, "Stan and Heff are gonna take care of me now!", they say in unison, "We are!?".
- There Is Only One Bed: Stan and Heff only give Kessie, Rabbit, Pooh, and Piglet one bed to sleep in. Unlike most examples, however, there isn't any romance involved, and the only awkwardness comes from the fact that they're all too old for naps.
- Took a Level in Badass: Kessie shows she’s now smart and capable enough to work her and the group’s way out of trouble with Stan and Heff. Given how the Wood flailed at their threat the last time they showed up, this easily makes her the most capable character on the show when it comes to such threats.
- Warm Milk Helps You Sleep: Subverted. When Kessie is bossing Stan and Heff around and making them "take care" of her and the others, she says it's their nap time and demands milk. When they bring a bucket of milk, she says, "Not cold milk!". However, when they warm it up, she claims it's too hot and that she and her friends are no longer thirsty.
