Rabbit Marks the Spot | |
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| Season 2, Episode 2a | |
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| Production Information | |
| Director |
Terence Harrison Karl Geurs (Voice Direction) Mark Zaslove (Voice Direction) |
| Writer |
Bruce Talkington (story) Mark Zaslove (story) Carter Crocker (teleplay) |
| Prod Code | 202a |
| Airdate | September 16, 1989 |
| Episode Chronology | |
| Previous | To Catch a Hiccup |
| Next | Good-bye Mr. Pooh |
Rabbit Marks the Spot is the first segment of the second episode of the second season of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It originally aired on September 16th, 1989 on ABC.
Synopsis[]
Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Gopher play pirates and Rabbit buries a treasure chest full of rocks and makes a map to find it because of them wrecking his Garden, which he later regrets.
Plot[]
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Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Gopher have become a pirate crew called the Pooh pirates and begin to search for buried treasure. First, they start to tear up Rabbit's garden in search of buried treasure. Vowing not to become furious about what they did, Rabbit decides to teach them a lesson for tearing up his beloved garden. Rabbit starts by filling a treasure chest with rocks, dumps dirt on it, and marks a letter X on it. Then he draws up a map to help the Pooh Pirates find it. Rabbit sends the map to the pirates and claims that the treasure belongs to his great great uncle Long John Cottontail. After following the map’s directions, Captain Piglet and his crew finally find the treasure.
Fearing that someone might try to steal the treasures once they open it outside, Pooh and his friends decide to open the chest inside Piglet’s house. They try all they can to open the treasure chest, but they need to open it. Late at night, Rabbit was excited that his plan might succeed. However, when he fell asleep, he began to have a nightmare with Pooh and his friends appeared from the ground as stone monsters, Gopher furiously doubting he's a genius, Piglet angrily telling Rabbit that it wasn't a very nice thing to do, Pooh furiously saying that he built up their hopes, and Tigger furiously saying that he got them all excited. Gopher furiously argues with Rabbit for giving them a bunch of rocks. Rabbit apologizes and tries to admit it was just a joke. After the dream, Rabbit becomes scared that Pooh and his friends become extremely mad with him when they find out what’s in the chest. Rabbit tries to retrieve the chest before it is opened. First Rabbit disguises himself as the ghost of Long John Cottontail and tries to scare Pooh and his friends into giving him the chest, but it fails.
Rabbit is sure that Pooh and his friends don’t talk to him anymore and decides to leave the Hundred Acre Woods. But then the Pooh pirates decide to blast the chest open and bring Rabbit to watch the explosion. The pirates see the rocks and Rabbit apologizes to them, but Pooh and his friends actually like the rocks and find a great use for them. Then the real ghost of Long John Cottontail appears and confronts them. Pooh and his friends are terrified of him and run away. After that, a bewildered Long John Cottontail disappears and the episode ends.
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Cast[]
| Voice actor | Character |
|---|---|
| Jim Cummings | Winnie the Pooh |
| John Fiedler | Piglet |
| Paul Winchell | Tigger |
| Ken Sansom | Rabbit and Long John Cottontail |
| Michael Gough | Gopher |
Quotes[]
- Rabbit (after getting run over by a ship in his garden) I am not going to get mad. (angrily shouts) I AM GOING TO TEACH THEM A LESSON!!!!
- Rabbit: I never dreamed the trick would turn out so well. When they find that chest is full of rocks, they'll think twice about tearing up gardens. (he inhales) Ahh, Rabbit, you are a genius. (he dreams) Genius. Genius. (he's fast asleep) Genius. (in his dream) Yes, an absolute and complete genius. Ho-ho-ho! That's what I am. (Gopher as a as stone monster appears and Rabbit gasps)
- Gopher (as stone monster): Genius, hm?
- Piglet (as stone monster): It wasn't a very nice thing to do, Rabbit. (Rabbit shivers)
- Pooh (as stone monster): You built up all our hopes.
- Tigger (as stone monster): You got us all exciterated.
- Gopher (as stone monster): What'd we get? Huh? A bunch of rocks.
- Rabbit: Uh, I'm sorry. It was a joke. It was just a joke. A j-ohhhh-ke! (he had a bad dream and he wakes up) It was... it was just a joke. Just a... just a... Oh my. It was just a bad dream. Oh no! When they find out what's in that chest, they'll hate me forever. I've got to get it back before they open it.
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Trivia[]
- This episode was recorded on June 12, 1989.
- The title of this episode is an allusion of the phrase, “X marks the spot.”
- This was also an episode where Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Christopher Robin, and/or any other Winnie the Pooh character doesn’t appear in besides Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, and Gopher in this episode.
- This episode was also the first and only appearance of Long John Cottontail. (As he would never appear in another episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.)
- First Episode of Rick Finn and the only Episode of Lonnie Thompson.