Tigger

"Why, that's what tiggers do best!"

—Tigger

T. "Tigger" Tiggerington, is an ironic, mischievous, energetic tiger originally introduced in A.A. Milne’s book The House at Pooh Corner. Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based one of Christopher Robin Milne’s favorite stuffed animals.

Tigger is recognized as orange fur with black stripes, large eyes, a long chin, a springy tail, and his bouncy personality (Both literally and Figgeratively). His striped tail is long and can make a "Boing!" sound.

He shows up on Winnie-the-Pooh’s doorstep in the middle of the night. He cannot eat Pooh’s honey, Piglet’s acorns and Eeyore’s thistles. He went to Kanga’s house, Tigger is loved extract of malt. Tigger loves bouncing around the forest. He is Pooh's exuberant, bouncy friend. He is also Roo’s closest friend. He has relatives like Lily The Tigger, Tigger's mom, Jerry The Tigger, Yellow Tigger, Tiggerosaurus Rex.

He has been voiced by the late Paul Winchell, Will Ryan, the late Ed Gilbert, the late Sam Edwards and Jim Cummings.

Appearances

Books

TV series

Welcome to Pooh Corner (1983-1986)
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988-1995)
- Jim Cummings (who's also the new voice for Pooh) started voicing Tigger on January 1, 1989 for the first time.
The Book of Pooh (2001-2004)
My Friends Tigger & Pooh (2007-2010)

TV specials

Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (1991)

The Tigger Movie, a film based on the Disney adaptation of Tigger.
Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh (1996)
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (1998)
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You (1999)

Films

Songs

Songs by Tigger include:

The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers
Friends to the End - with Piglet (The Book of Pooh - "Once Upon a Happy Ending")
Get Growing (The Book of Pooh - "Greenhorn with a Green Thumb")
Mental Altitude - with Piglet (The Book of Pooh - "Tigger's Replacement")
Stripey McSnarl Always Gets His Man - with Chorus (The Book of Pooh - "Case of the Disappeared Donkey")
Nothing's Too Good for a Friend - with Rabbit ("The Piglet Who Would Be King" - Story from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh)
Someone Like Me (The Tigger Movie)
The Whoop-De-Dooper Bounce - with Roo (The Tigger Movie)
Round My Family Tree - with Chorus (The Tigger Movie)
It’s Gonna Be Great (Winnie the Pooh (2011 film)

Sing-Along Songs

Nicknames

Original Tigger — Original E. H. Shepard illustration, of Pooh meeting Tigger outside his front door in *The House at Pooh Corner*.

In the Disney Pooh productions, Tigger often likes to refer to his friends by various nicknames, which include the following:

Pooh - Buddy Bear, Pooh Boy, Buddy Boy, Fuzzy-Top, Fluff Boy
Eeyore - Donkey Boy, Gray Buddy, Buddy Burro, Old Smiley
Kanga - Mrs. Kanga Mam
Gopher - Go-Go, Gopherini, Gopherino
Kessie - Kesserini, Kesserino
Roo - Roo Boy, Little Buddy, Little Nipper
Owl - Beak Lips, Buddy Bird, Feathers, Featherduster
Piglet - Piglet Ol’ Pal, Pigcasso, Pigaletto, Buddy Boy, Little Guy
Rabbit - Bunny Boy, Long Ears, RaRa, Fluffy Tail, Floppy Toe, Floppy Ears, Fluff Face, Ol’ Cotton Bottom, Fluffy, Captain Fuzz Face
Darby - Dar-buddy, Dar-Dar, Darberina
Turtle - Shell Boy
Lumpy - Lumpster, Lumperino
Buster - Busterino, Buster Boy, Little Poochie Guy

(Boldface indicates that the nickname is mentioned in Tigger’s entry in the Disney Junior Encyclopedia of Animated Characters.)

Internationally

In Arabic, Tigger is known as نمور or Namoor in English letters.
In Brazil, Tigger is known as Tigrão. In the Brazilian dub, Tigger’s been voiced by Isaac Bardavid in all his appearances, except for some episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in which he was voiced by André Luiz Chapéu.
In Dutch, Tigger is known as Neigetje. Not to be confused with the real animal "tijger".
- Neigetje is written without an R, but pronounced with an R. This is confusing, even for the children in Dutch.
In France, the character's name is Tigrou and his voice was provided by Patrick Préjean in all Pooh productions.
In Portugal (Spanish terms), Tigger is known as Tigre, the most weird is that is the real name of the animal.
In Italy, Tigger is known as Tigro and has been voiced by Gil Baroni and Luca Biagini
In Japan, Tigger is called ティガー and his voice is provided by Tesshō Genda
In Russian, Tigger is known as Тигрa. His species is called Тигр, a word of Tiger animal.

Casting History

Paul Winchell: From Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) through 1979; from 1980 through March 2, 1990 (and occasionally since 1991-1999) From Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (1991) through A Valentine for You (1999)

Will Ryan: Only on Welcome to Pooh Corner (1983-1986)

Ed Gilbert on Disney Records

Sam Edwards

Jim Cummings: From January 1, 1989 and so on to present.

Gallery

Trivia

In Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, he asks whether one should live their life as a Tigger or as an Eeyore. Pausch indicated that he was a "Tigger".
Tigger appears in four segments of the Cartoon Network show MAD: "Pooh Grit", "Fast Hive", "Adjustment Burro", and "Frankenwinnie".
The Genie briefly turns into Tigger in the Aladdin episode "As the Netherworld Turns".