My Friends Tigger & Pooh is an American computer-animated television series, inspired by Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne. The television series features Winnie the Pooh and his friends, including two new characters: a brave, tomboyish six-year-old red-headed girl named Darby and her dog, Buster. Darby is the main human friend of Pooh and the gang and the leader of the Super Sleuths, while her longtime friend, Christopher Robin, also a good old friend to Pooh and company, is away for a while and only appears in two episodes.
Developed by Walt Disney Television Animation, the show premiered on Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney block on May 12, 2007. The show's theme song was written by Jellyfish lead singer Andy Sturmer and is sung by former Letters to Cleo singer Kay Hanley with Chloe Grace Mortez as Darby only singing during the main chorus. In Season 2, the theme song was sung by Chloë Grace Moretz as Darby, with Kay Hanley only singing the chorus. Also, beginning with this series Travis Oates permanently took over the role of Piglet after John Fiedler, who had died in 2005, two years prior to the debut of the series. This was also the final Winnie the Pooh media to feature Ken Sansom as the voice of Rabbit and Peter Cullen as the voice of Eeyore, prior to Cullen's return as Eeyore in the Doc McStuffins special "Into the Hundred Acre Wood!". Lumpy's original voice actor Kyle Stanger also did not reprise his role from both Heffalump movies possibly due to puberty similarly to Roo. In this series he is voiced by Oliver Dillon.
On July 4, 2010, the show started airing outside of Playhouse Disney, while three new episodes aired in October as the series finale, and since February 14, 2011, after Playhouse Disney has been re-branded into Disney Jr., this show went on hiatus for five years until returning on September 12, 2016, for Pooh's 90th anniversary.
In July 2016, Disney Jr. made available all episodes from the show, as well as several music videos and the special Super Duper Super Sleuths through its Watch Disney Junior app. Some music videos not made available on the website were instead released by Disney Junior through YouTube. While some content on the Watch Disney Junior service requires a sign-in through a cable/satellite service to watch, the episodes of My Friends Tigger & Pooh were for a time made freely available, in widescreen HD. While this was eventually discontinued, some episodes are made available freely on a rotating basis, with complete archives available to those who sign in using a provider.
The first two seasons (Season 3 was merged into Season 2) of the program were made available on Disney+ at launch.
Main Characters
Cast[]
Main characters[]
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Darby
- Dee Bradley Baker as Buster, Woodpecker, and Frost
- Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Beaver
Recurring characters[]
- Travis Oates as Piglet
- Peter Cullen as Eeyore
- Ken Sansom as Rabbit
- Kath Soucie as Kanga
- Max Burkholder as Roo
- Oliver Dillon as Lumpy
Minor characters[]
- Struan Erlenborn as Christopher Robin
- Mikaila Baumel as Holly
- Tara Strong as Porcupine and Vixen
- Mark Hamill as Turtle
- Rob Paulsen as Raccoon
- James Arnold Taylor as Skunk
- Brenda Blethyn as Mama Heffalump
- Sydney Saylor as the Opossum Twins
Production crew[]
- Executive Producers - John Lasseter, Jeff Kline, and Brian Hohlfeld
- Line Producer - Angi Dyste
- Director - David Hartman
- Director - Don MacKinnon
- Composer and Songwriter - Andy Sturmer
- Voice Director - Virginia McSwain
- Story Editors - Brian Hohlfeld, Dean Stefan, and Nicole Dubuc
- Staff Writers - Brian Hohlfeld, Dean Stefan, Nicole Dubuc, Eileen Cabiling, Erika Grediaga, and Kim Beyer-Johnson
- Editor - Jhoanne Reyes
- Production Manager - Craig Simpson
Episodes[]
- Main article: My Friends Tigger & Pooh episode list
Owl and Gopher[]
Owl and Gopher are absent in the entire series. While Owl’s absence is unknown, Andre Stojka had stopped voicing the character the same year the series released and the character wouldn’t appear again until the 2011 Winnie the Pooh film. It can be presumed that Owl's absence is that his know-it-all personality would be redundant in the show’s theme of strategic thinking. Beaver in the series loosely resembles Gopher. Beaver is a cameo character from Walt Disney's classic Lady and the Tramp.
However, in the direct-to-DVD film Tigger & Pooh And A Musical Too, when Beaver guesses the right password to go to Tigger's side of the Wood, Tigger disappointedly says "I miss Gopher."
DVD releases[]
- Main article: My Friends Tigger & Pooh videography
Theme Song (Audio)[]
The Promo
Trivia[]
- This would be the first Winnie the Pooh project to be fully animated in CGI, as the previous television series The Book of Pooh used CGI for the paper-cutout style backgrounds.
- Since Lumpy is now friends with Winnie the Pooh and the others, Heffalumps are no longer considered a threat to the Hundred Acre Wood. Only woozles and jagulars are seen as such.
- In the UK version, Darby is voiced by Kimberlea Berg. This version, however, is not available worldwide as an audio track on Disney+.
- This would be Disney's first time depicting Christopher Robin with corneas in animation. This would coincidentally happen again in their next Pooh project being the 2011 Winnie the Pooh film by their main animation studio and in the 2017 Doc McStuffins special "Into the Hundred Acre Wood!"
- Many have assumed Christopher Robin went off to college in the timeline of this series, however when he appears on the show, he is still a child, chances are he is at his own home when he's away from the woods.
- In comparison to other Pooh shows, this Winnie the Pooh television series has the most spun-off direct-to-video movies including Super Sleuth Christmas Movie, Tigger and Pooh: and a Musical Too, and Super Duper Super Sleuths.
- Excluding the Mini Adventures of Winnie the Pooh re-dubbed anthology series, this would be the last Winnie the Pooh series where Kath Soucie voices Kanga.
- This was also the last piece of Winnie the Pooh media where Ken Sansom voices Rabbit before his death in 2012.
- This was the last Winnie the Pooh series until Playdate with Winnie the Pooh.
- In earlier works, Tigger didn't like taking baths, but in this series, he doesn't seem to mind doing it as he has a bathtub outside of his house.
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