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The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
"The Piglet Who Would Be King"
Season 1, Episode 5, Overall 7
The Piglet Who Would Be King
Production Information
Director Karl Geurs
David Block (Animation Director)
Writer Mark Zaslove (story)
Mark Cassut (story)
Bruce Talkington (teleplay)
Bruce Reid Schaefer (teleplay)
Jymn Magon (teleplay)
Prod code 105
Airdate February 14, 1988
Episode Chronology
Previous Find Her, Keep Her
Next Cleanliness Is Next to Impossible

"The Piglet Who Would Be King" is the fifth episode of the first season of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It originally aired on February 14, 1988.

Synopsis[]

Pooh is looking through his closet and happens upon a spring from a Jack-in-the-box. He gives this to Piglet as a ’friendship present’. To show his thanks, Piglet, along with Tigger and Rabbit, set out to gather honey to give to Pooh in return. Since there is currently a honey shortage in, they decide to travel to the Land of Milk and Honey. Meanwhile, Pooh battles honey-nappers he thinks are stealing honey.

Plot[]

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One day, Winnie the Pooh finds an old metal spring in a box and decides to give it to Piglet as a best friend gift. After he does so, Rabbit and Tigger tell Piglet he should surprise Pooh with something he likes, though Piglet only has a small honey pot which Tigger and Rabbit say is not enough. Rabbit suggests he gets more honey straight from a honey tree, though the plan goes awry when the bees attack him. The three go around the Hundred Acre Wood and gather honey pots as Piglet carries them in a tall pile. However, he eventually loses his balance and drops them, which causes them to break and ruins the honey. With no honey left, Tigger says they should go to “The Land of Milk and Honey”, which is in a jungle somewhere in the forest. They start their journey the next day, going through the woods and a jungle. On the way, they ask a hyena, who is very easy to make laugh, then a monkey band, for directions to the Land of Milk and Honey. The mention of the name keeps getting Rabbit trampled by a bunch of excited little purple Buffalumps.

They finally make it to the Land of Milk and Honey and find it is inhabited by Pygmy Piglets. The Piglets see the spring that Pooh gave Piglet and claim it is the “sacred tail”, so they make Piglet their king. Piglet is unsure about this, but Tigger and Rabbit talk him into it, saying they can get whatever they want. They also say they will do the talking for him and be his prime minister and chamberlain. After that, they help Piglet put the spring on the bottom of a giant Piglet statue, which makes it pour honey into a fountain, though Piglet is worried about how he will tell Pooh he lost the present. Later, Rabbit teaches some of Piglets how to garden while Tigger teaches another group how to bounce, each claiming they were ordered to by Piglet. Tigger and his group end up bouncing into a garden Rabbit and his group have planted. Tigger and Rabbit begin arguing, which Piglet witnesses and gets concerned about. Tigger and Rabbit then each have the Piglets build giant statues of them, once again saying Piglet wanted them. Piglet tells them that people should do nice things as a desire rather than out of obligation and walks sadly away. Tigger and Rabbit realize they are being spoiled and decides to go home. That night, they sneak out and remove the spring from the statue, which causes a volcano of honey to erupt. The Piglets run frantically to Piglet and ask what to do. Piglet decides to speak for himself and has the Piglets knock down the statues of Rabbit and Tigger. The ruins act as a dam and stop the honey from flowing into the village. While the Piglets cheer for their king, Tigger looks on and learns that Piglet is good at being king after all.

Meanwhile, Pooh had been searching for Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger. When he finds them missing and that they have no honey, he concludes a honey-napper is on the lose, so he barricades his front door and keeps on guard for the honey-napper. That night, Piglet, Rabbit, and Tigger return and enter Pooh's house through his opened back door. Piglet gives him a honey pot, to which Pooh tells Piglet that his friendship is enough, but decides to eat it anyway as to not let it go to waste.

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Cast[]

Voice actor Character
Jim Cummings Winnie the Pooh
John Fiedler Piglet and the Pygmy Piglet
Paul Winchell Tigger
Ken Sansom Rabbit, the Laughing Hyena and the Gorilla Conductor

Credits[]

Produced by

WALT DISNEY

TELEVISION ANIMATION

Producer/Director

KARL GEURS

Story Editor

MARK ZASLOVE

“THE PIGLET WHO WOULD BE KING”

Story by

MARK ZASLOVE

and

MARK CASSUT

Teleplay by

BRUCE TALKINGTON

BRUCE REID SCHAEFER

and

JYMN MAGON

With the Talents of

JOHN FIEDLER

KEN SANSOM

FRANK WELKER

JIM CUMMINGS

as Winnie the Pooh

and

PAUL WINCHELL

as

Tigger

Animation Director

DAVID BLOCK

Assistant Producer

KEN TSUMURA

Art Director

ED GHERTNER

Associate Story Editor

BRUCE TALKINGTON

Storyboard Designers

ROB LA DUCA

RICH CHIDLAW

STEVE GORDON

Character Designer

TOBY SHELTON

Additional Character Design

KENNY THOMPKINS

Background Stylist

PARO HOZUMI

Additional Background Styling

GARY EGGLESTON

Color Stylist

JILL STIRDIVANT

Additional Color Styling

DEBRA JORGENSBORG

Timing Directors

DAVE BRAIN

BOB ZAMBONI

TERENCE HARRISON

Artwork Coordinator

KRISTA BUNN

Overseas Animation Supervisor

MIKE REYNA

Post Production Coordinator

SARA DURAN

Production Assistants

JACALEEN VEBER

LUANNE WOOD

Track Reader

SKIP CRAIG

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

THOM SHARP

&

STEVE NELSON

Nothing’s Too Good for a Friend

Performed by

KEN SANSOM

PAUL WINCHELL

Animation Production by

TMS

ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

THIS PICTURE MADE UNDER

THIS JURISDICTION OF

*.

AFFILIATED WITH

A.F.L. C.I.O.

©1988 THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY

All Rights Reserved

Walt Disney

Television

Distributed by

Buena Vista International, Inc.

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Trivia[]

  • This episode was recorded on January 8, 1988.
  • This episode marks the first appearance of Kanga in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
  • Canibibals are mentioned again in "Oh, Bottle".
  • The episode's title comes from the story The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling.
  • Some scenes from this episode are used in some of the intros for the series:
    • Tigger and Rabbit landing in a blue flower during their journey to the Land of Milk and Honey.
    • Pooh checking the cupboard for Piglet.

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