Plaintive Possum

The Plaintive PossumAmerica Sings press kit is a character featured in the Disney Parks.
==History==
===Background===
As her name implies, the Plaintive Possum is a mother opossum who says a "tender complaint sung from the heart", expressing her own sorrow about her life being stressed out, stressing herself about her overworked routine where she sings "I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again" hoping that she were a single mother again to help her overcome the challenges of being stressed.
===Development===
The Plaintive Possum character was created for the defunct America Sings attraction at Disneyland in the Tomorrowland section where she was placed in the "Going South" sequence, which opened on June 29, 1974. However, America Sings closed on April 10, 1988 in order to retheme the attraction to Innoventions, with the plaintive possum's animatronic was repurposed as "Miss Possum", and most of the animatronics moved to Splash Mountain at the Critter Country section, which opened on July 17, 1989 while the three baby opossums hanging upside-down during the former attraction's first act were redressed as female opossums wearing bows and thin tutus named "Pansy, Poppy, and Petunia" respectively. However, the two opossum joeys (specifically the ones standing next to their mother) are the only ones who keep their original designs from the original incarnation of the attraction.
As of 2020, Splash Mountain at the Disneyland Park has been announced for closure in order to retheme the attraction into a The Princess and the Frog-themed attraction in order to remove references to Song of the South, due to controversy surrounding the film which the attraction is based on. Therefore, it is currently unknown of what will replace the mother possum's animatronic in the rethemed version of the Disneyland version of Splash Mountain. Splash Mountain at California permanently closed on May 31, 2023.
==Role in the attraction==
The Plaintive Possum appears during the first act's musical number "I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again" where she sings "I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again", expressing herself about her overworked, stressful life about her desires to be a single mother again while five animatronic baby opossums are displayed next to her which are her children. After singing, the sequence loops to the "Down in the Valley" musical number.
==Gallery==
Possumfamily.jpg|The Plaintive Possum as Miss Possum in Splash Mountain
Plaintive possum .jpg|The Plaintive Possum in America Sings. (1974-1988)
==Trivia==
*In the Disneyland version of Splash Mountain, the Plaintive Possum wears a different maid outfit different from the one in the America Sings incarnation of the attraction closely resembling the colors of the clothes that Miss Possum wears in Song of the South which Splash Mountain is based on.
==References==
Category:America Sings
Category:Splash Mountain characters
Category:Theme park characters
Category:Females
Category:Opossums
Category:Disney characters
Category:Parents
Category:Spouses
Category:Adults
Category:Anthropomorphic characters