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The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
"Owl in the Family"
Season 3, Episode 1b, Overall 55 (33b)
Production Information
Director Terence Harrison
Jamie Mitchell
Ken Kessel (supervising director)
Writer Ken Kessel (Story)
Carter Crocker
Bruce Talkington
Prod code 301b
Airdate August 18, 1990
Episode Chronology
Previous Oh, Bottle
Next Sham Pooh

Owl in the Family is the second segment of the first episode of the third season of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It originally aired on August 18, 1990.

Synopsis[]

Rabbit is out checking his garden and counting his tomatoes, when he realizes that one plant is missing. Rabbit is quick to realize his plants are being eaten by the thieving crows. He tries to stop them and chases them away, but ends up with his head stuck inside the pumpkin head of his scarecrow after knocking it off in the chaos.

Pooh, Piglet and Owl arrive to investigate Rabbit's distress, and the incident reminds Owl of a story. However, Rabbit, in frustration, states he has no time for Owl's "nonexistent" relatives or Owl's stories. Hurt, Owl leaves to reexamine his family tree and see that his relatives are real. Owl disregards Rabbit's disbelief in his family, and is excited by a ring at the door, expecting his family. Instead, he only finds Piglet and Pooh. When he asks if they have seen any owls other than him, he is disappointed to hear them say that he is the only owl they know. Owl then goes inside, saddened as Piglet explains to Pooh that Owl misses his family. They then decide to hold a Family Reunion for Owl. Overhearing, Owl is thrilled by their wish to help him and ecstatically readies for their arrival.

Pooh and Piglet then send invitations tied to a balloon as "air mail" to invite Owl's family. As Piglet goes to help Owl ready for the party, Pooh waits for Owl's relatives, but doesn't see them and goes off to look for them instead.

As Rabbit drives away the crows yet again, Owl and Piglet are readying food for the family reunion. The crows, seeing this, watch greedily, hoping to steal all the food. Pooh then surprises them and mistakes them for owls (which the crows take advantage of).

While the crows are feasting on Owl's food, Owl is delighted that Pooh has "found" his relatives. Though Piglet is suspicious that the "owls" look like crows, Owl brushes their worries aside, even as the crows act obnoxious and cause mischief, including breaking his dishes.

Owl later is persuaded into stealing from Rabbit's garden later that night, but they trigger an alarm and the crows flee, leaving Owl to be caught by Rabbit's trap for the crows. Rabbit is astonished by Owl's declaration that the crows are his relatives and decides to take action as Pooh and Piglet try to find their own plan to help Owl with the crow problem.

Pooh and Piglet later disguise themselves as Owl's Uncle Torbit and cousin Dexter to try and get rid of the crows, but are unmasked by crows. Owl is quite pleased to see them and believes the trick to be a wonderful prank. He is then surprised by the sound of more guests ringing his doorbell. Owl then opens the door to see his real Uncle Torbit, cousin Dexter and his Aunt Ophelia, and invites them inside. The crows, thinking the new owls are also frauds, make the foolish mistake of pulling out one of Aunt Ophelia's tail feathers, after which she smacks them with her purse. The crows fly away, scared and realizing their mistake as Owl wonders where they're off to in such a hurry. Rabbit, also thinking Owl's family are the crows in disguise, pulls out another of Ophelia's feathers, and is himself smacked by Owl's aunt.

As Rabbit lies dizzy on the floor, Aunt Ophelia reminisces on how Rabbit reminds her of their Uncle Tucker, causing Rabbit to realize Owl's family is real as Pooh explains their family reunion. Piglet also says that means four times as many stories to listen to, much to Rabbit's befuddlement and exasperation as he is forced to listen to Owl and his family tell their stories.

Characters[]

Locations[]

Interval Title Card[]

Cast[]

Voice actor Character
Jim Cummings Winnie the Pooh
John Fiedler Piglet
Ken Sansom Rabbit
Hal Smith Owl, Uncle Torbit and Dexter
Patricia Parris Aunt Ophelia
Frank Welker Crows


Credits[]

Produced by
WALT DISNEY
TELEVISION ANIMATION

Producers
KEN KESSEL
ED GHERTNER

Supervising Director
KEN KESSEL

Story Editor
BRUCE TALKINGTON

Directors
TERENCE HARRISON
JAMIE MITCHELL

Assistant Story Editor
CARTER CROCKER

“Oh, Bottle!”

Story by
MARK ZASLOVE
STEPHEN SUSTARSIC
BRUCE TALKINGTON

Teleplay by
STEPHEN SUSTARSIC
CARTER CROCKER

“Owl In The Family”

Story by
KEN KESSEL
CARTER CROCKER
BRUCE TALKINGTON

Teleplay by
CARTER CROCKER
BRUCE TALKINGTON

With the Voice Talents of
JOHN FIEDLER
KEN SANSOM
HAL SMITH
TIM HOSKINS
FRANK WELKER
PATRICIA PARRIS

JIM CUMMINGS
as Winnie the Pooh

and
PAUL WINCHELL
as
Tigger

Assistant Producer
BARBARA FERRO

Art Director
ED GHERTNER

Storyboard Designers
HOLLY FORSYTH
HANK TUCKER

Key Layout Design
JIM SCHLENKER

Character Design
LEONARD SMITH

Background Stylist
PARO HOZUMI

Color Stylist
JILL STIRDIVANT

Supervising Timing Director
MIRCEA MANTTA

Timing Directors
BOB SHELLHORN
BOB TREAT
RICK LEON
MITCH ROCHON

Track Reader
SKIP CRAIG

Script Coordinators

MIRITH SCHILDER

LEONA JERNIGAN

Archives Administrator

KRISTA BUNN

Artwork Coordinator

KAREN SILVA

Talent Coordinator

OLIVIA MINER

Post Production Manager

SARA DURAN

Post Production Supervisors

BARBARA BECK

JOSEPH HATHAWAY

Post Production Coordinators

JEFFREY ARTHUR

RICK FINN

Production Assistants
PEGGY BECKER

WADE ZIA NASSIR

JOHN ROYER

Managing Film Editor

RICH HARRISON

Supervising Editor

CHARLIE KING

Editor

RICK HINSON

Assistant Editor

GLENN LEWIS

Songs Written and Produced

by

STEVE NELSON

Music by

STEVE NELSON

&

THOM SHARP

Animation Production by

WALT DISNEY

TELEVISION ANIMATION

AUSTRALIA

Animation Supervisor

DALE CASE

Animation Directors

GAIRDEN COOKE

IAN HARROWELL

HENRY NEVILLE

Layout Director

ALEX NICHOLAS

Layout Artists

YOSH BARRY      SCOTT BENNETT

ZHIGIANG DING            JOHN HILL

VICTOR JUY            STEVE LYONS

MARK MULGREW DAVID SKINNER

BUN UNG              KEVIN WOTTON

Animators

ROWEN AVON-SMITH         WALLY MICATI

TY BOSCO                   KATHIE O’ROURKE

CHRIS BRADLEY                  KEVIN PEATY

ANDREW COLLINS               CAROL SEIDL

GEOFF COLLINS RICHARD SLAPCZYNSKI

DICK DUNN                         PAULO SANTO

ARIEL FERRARI             MIKE STAPLETON
PETER GARDINER   ANDREW SZYMENYEI
WARWICK GILBERT    MARIA SZEMENYEI

GERRY GRABNER           STEVEN TAYLOR

LIANNE HUGHES      STEVEN TRENBIRTH

DWAYNE LABBE                     JEAN TYCH

MORRIS LEE                     KANG-LIN ZHU

HELEN McADAM                                       

Assistant Supervisors

JANEY DUNN

MICKIE CASSIDY

DI RUDDER

Background Supervisor

BEVERLEY McNAMARA

Background Artists

BARRY DEAN       JERRY LIEW

PAUL PATTIE HELLEN STELLE

KEN WRIGHT

Production Manager

DAN FORSTER

*.

©1990 The Walt Disney Company

All Rights Reserved

Walt Disney

Television

Distributed by

Buena Vista International, Inc.


Trivia[]

  • This episodes plot is similar to that of The Tigger Movie, where Owl wonders about his family's existence, and later his friends do disguise themselves as said family, only for the title character to suddenly discover for himself it was his friends all this time and sees it as a joke, except whereas Tigger takes this personally and despairingly leaves his friends, Owl just cheerfully calls it a "wonderful prank". Ironically, Tigger does not appear in this episode.
  • This is the last of three episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh where Tigger does not appear after "Nothing But the Tooth" and "Fish Out of Water." Of the three, this is the only one not from the first season.
  • This episode marks the first of two appearances of Dexter followed by "The Bug Stops Here".
  • The episode's title is a play on the American television series Template:WikipediaLink, that ran from 1971 to 1979.
  • This is the only episode of the series in which the oft-mentioned Uncle Torbit actually appears.
  • This is Dexter's first appearance in the series. His next (and last) appearance was in "The Bug Stops Here".
    • This is excluding the smaller owl that appears in "Paw and Order", if this owl is indeed Dexter making an early cameo.
  • Owl and his relations talk about how "Uncle Tucker" spent a summer in a cuckoo's nest and never got over it, in reference to the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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