Things That Go Piglet in the Night

"Things That Go Piglet in the Night"
Season 1, Episode 20
Production Information
Director	Karl Geurs
Writer	Mark Zaslove (story) Bruce Talkington (teleplay)
Prod code	120
Airdate	November 12, 1988
Episode Chronology
Previous	The Masked Offender
Next	Luck Amok

Things That Go Piglet in the Night is the twentieth episode of the first season of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which first aired in November 12, 1988.

Plot

After a series of misunderstandings, Pooh and the gang believe there is a ghost in the Hundred Acre Wood.

=Full synopsis

The episode begins in a late afternoon, Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger and Owl are all playing on the swing. The only ones not there are Eeyore, who is just watching, and Gopher, who pops out in his pajamas complaining about the noise and saying that it is too late and they should all be sleeping. Upon hearing this, Tigger stops the swing abruptly, causing everyone else to fall, Especially Gopher, and enthusiastically states that they must go to bed early in order to wake up early in the next morning and play more. The others follow him, and when Piglet withdraws a little, Tigger tells him that he wouldn't want to stay awake in the night anyway, as there are monsters in the forest. This promptly convinces Piglet to run to his house and go to bed.

Deep in the windy night, the forest seems to be full of strange howls and shadows appearing on the windows. Piglet is scared and hides inside a pillow case, alleviated by the fact that now he won't be able to see the ghosts. Tigger realizes the problem is not keeping Eeyore on the swing, so he decides to build an improvised parachute for Eeyore. This actually works.

DVD releases

• "Winnie the Pooh's Spookable Fun"'

Gallery

Pooh and his friends on the swing.

The ghost hunting begins.

At first, Eeyore has some trouble with his parachute...

Pooh hopes they don't have to go throw this every time Eeyore wants to swing.

Trivia

• Roo makes a non-speaking cameo appearance when Tigger was sleeping over at his house.
• Christopher Robin and Kanga are the only characters who do not make an appearance in this episode.
• In shots of the woods involving either Piglet or Pooh's hunting party, ghostly voices can be heard moaning Piglet's name.
• The title of this episode is a allusion to the phrase "Things that go bump in the night".