Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh is a children's book written in 1926 by author AA Milne.

The first book had a sequel released in 1928 titled The House at Pooh Corner. Two books of poems -- When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six -- include several poems about Winnie-the-Pooh and friends.

For the many adaptations of these books, go this way.

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Winnie-the-Pooh is the Trope Namer for:

• The Eeyore

Tropes used in Winnie-the-Pooh include:

• Animal Stereotypes
• Big Eater: Pooh.
• Big Good: Christopher Robin.
• Black Bead Eyes: Most of the characters.
• Catch Phrase:
  • Pooh: "Bother!"
  • Christopher Robin: "Silly old Bear!"
• Children Are Innocent
• Cloudcuckoolander: Just about anyone besides Eeyore. Kanga's a bit more stable, too, if a little overprotective.
• Common Knowledge: Everyone knows that Pooh and friends live in the Hundred Acre Wood -- except that they don't. "The Hundred Acre Woods" is actually just a small section of a much larger, nameless forest (based on and clearly meant to be Ashdown Forest in Sussex, but in the books just called "the Forest"). The only character who actually lived in the Hundred Acre Wood is Owl; the rest of them live in other parts of the Forest. Though this misconception is probably another result of Adaptation Displacement: in the Disney version, "The Hundred Acre Wood" is the name for the entire Forest.
• Covered in Mud: Pooh covers himself with mud to disguise himself as a rain cloud to fool the bees while he gets their honey. The bees aren't fooled.
• Cryptic Background Reference: "Don't you know what ther means?"
• Deadpan Snarker:
  • Eeyore is good at this, much more so than in the Disney version.
  • Rabbit has a couple of moments as well.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Piglet, Owl, and Rabbit. Played with for Kanga, Roo, and Tigger. Even Pooh is sometimes referred to as "Bear".
• Dude in Distress: Piglet, in the chapter in which he's "Entirely Surrounded by Water".
• Dumb Is Good
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: All chapter titles. The first one of the first book was called "In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees and the Stories Begin", for crying out loud.
• Fearless Fool: Piglet confesses to being afraid when carrying out the escape from Owl's fallen home, and is assured that makes him even more courageous.
• Feigning Intelligence
• Fish Out of Water: Tigger.
• A Friend in Need
• Ghibli Hills: The Forest (which is not actually called the Hundred Acre Wood, see Common Knowledge above).
• Going in Circles
• A Good Name for a Rock Band: There are bands named "Edward Bear" (Pooh's real name) and "Trespassers William" (Piglet's grandfather's name).
• Growing Up Sucks: The end of The House at Pooh Corner.
• Have a Gay Old Time: It's somewhat impressive that a character named "Pooh" has managed to endure as long as it has with the same name, since the connotations of the word have changed a lot since the original book was printed. Probably because the toilet humor version is spelled differently. The News Quiz, however, was highly amused with a branding magazine talking about kids having "Pooh on their pyjamas, and Pooh on their facecloths." "Pooh" as an expression of contempt or annoyance still exists in the English language, even if it's not as commonly used as it once was.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: Pooh and Piglet.
• Hufflepuff House: Rabbit's friends-and-relations
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: See Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• Improbable Food Budget
• In Which a Trope Is Described
• Ironic Echo: "Oh, Tigger, I am glad to see you," cried Rabbit.
• Kangaroos Represent Australia: Kanga and Roo.
• Kids Prefer Boxes: Pooh intends to give Eeyore a jar of honey... and then absentmindedly eats the honey. Eeyore doesn't actually like honey, but he's very happy to be given the empty jar.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Owl (making him thereby a subversion of The Owl-Knowing One) and Rabbit.
  • To Owl's credit, he's not particularly egotistical about it. Rabbit, now...
• Literal-Minded and Malaproper: Everything, being based on children's logic. For example, the idea that Pooh living "under the name of Sanders" means that he has the word written above his door.
• Living Toys
• Man Child: Tigger.
• Old Windbag: Owl.
• Once Upon a Time: "...a very long time ago, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders."
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Pooh, pretending to be a cloud.
• Parental Bonus/Genius Bonus: Many of the jokes will go straight over your average five-year-old's head.
• Picky Eater: Tigger.
• The Power of Friendship
• Primal Fear
• Rouge Angles of Satin: Many of the jokes in the books are fueled by these.
• Stock Animal Diet: Honey for Pooh.
• Surrounded by Idiots: This was A.A. Milne's explanation for why Eeyore is depressed.
• Sweet Tooth
• Think Nothing of It
• You Say Tomato: Being based on the playacting of a little boy, this is rather common. Notable examples include Woozles (weasels), Heffalumps (elephants), Jagulars (jaguars), Eeyore (onomatopoeia for the braying of a donkey), Tigger (tiger) and Winnie the Pooh himself (based on Winnipeg, a bear at the London Zoo).
• Zany Scheme: Several, including Pooh's plans to steal honey and catch a "Heffalump", and Rabbit's plans to kidnap Roo and "unbounce" Tigger.