Every season brings a reason to be giving!
Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving is a 1999 Compilation Movie in the Winnie the Pooh franchise. It comprises the episodes "Groundpiglet Day" and "Find Her, Keep Her" of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and the Thanksgiving special A Winnie The Pooh Thanksgiving, with special material added to link the segments with each other.The movie is divided into three segments focusing on the fall & winter season. The first focuses on winter's arrival as a whole, the second covers Thanksgiving, and the third begins in winter and is framed around Christmas in the present day. The movie's main song for introducing each segment, "Seasons of Giving", was composed by the legendary Sherman Brothers.
Followed by The Tigger Movie in 2000, and in a seasonal context, by 2002's Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year, which straddles Christmas and New Year's Day in similar fashion.
Tropes:
- Big Damn Reunion: Kessie appearing with the Christmas star, causing the gleeful Rabbit to reunite with her after a long time.
- Big Eater: Pooh's hunger for honey as usual, but here, it's the popcorn, and he enjoys it so much he ends up wolfing down the whole bowl when there are only four pieces of it on Piglet's string.
- The Bus Came Back:
- Kessie comes back to Rabbit at the end of the film, much to his delight.
- Kanga and Roo similarly make their first reappearance in a Disney Pooh work since New Adventures.
- Canon Discontinuity: A Bird in the Hand doesn't appear to be canon here as Kessie is still depicted as a child as still refers to Rabbit as "Rabbie" whereas in the aforementioned episode, she's now an adult and no longer calls Rabbit "Rabbie".
- Christmas Episode: The final act is set on Christmas Eve.
- Compilation Movie: The special is basically a New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode + a Thanksgiving special + another NAoWtP episode.
- Continuity Nod: The special makes reference to Kessie from the New Adventures series. Kanga and Roo also have no idea who she is, having never appeared in the same episodes as Kessie.
- Flashback with the Other Darrin: Mostly averted. Despite several cast changes for the new footage, the New Adventures footage and A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving retain their original voice work. Only the narrator was re-recorded for the latter. The end of "Groundpiglet Day", however, is redubbed by Jim Cummings so that Tigger's dialogue can tie into the next segment.
- Idiot Ball: Pooh apparently has no excuse to eat all the popcorn for Piglet's tree chain, resulting in it turning out too short for the tree.
- Irony: While stringing popcorn for the tree, Pooh tells Piglet "he should've made more," when ironically he eats all the popcorn before the string is even finished.
- Rule of Three: Three segments, each proceeded with a variation of the "Seasons of Giving" song.
- Thanksgiving Episode: The Thanksgiving segment.
- Variable Mix: The "Seasons of Giving" song has three versions to fit the seasons: The first version for "Groundpiglet Day" is upbeat and fast-paced to reflect Spring and Summer, the one for "A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving" is slower-paced but still lively to reflect Fall and the one for "Find Her, Keep Her" is much slower-paced to reflect Winter.
- Whole Episode Flashback: "Find Her, Keep Her" is presented here as a flashback to when Rabbit saved Kessie.
- Wish Upon a Shooting Star: Rabbit gathers everyone to make a wish on a falling star he sees in the sky, which turns out to be Kessie presenting a star for the tree.
