Stripes

"Stripes" is the first segment of the eighth episode of the first season of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
==Plot==
Tigger loves bouncing in mud puddles, which forces Pooh, Piglet and Rabbit to give him a bath. But the bath causes his stripes to mysteriously vanish. Due to this, they cannot figure out what Tigger is. Tigger tries to be a rabbit, but fails when he unsuccessfully tries to protect Rabbit's garden from bugs. Shortly after, he tries to be a bear, but accidentally bumps into a honey tree, making the bees attack him. Afterwards, Tigger says. "I don't think I like being a bear. It gives me a heady-ache." Later, after Piglet covers Tigger in Christmas lights, they try to paint stripes on him at Piglet's suggestion which tickles. Overjoyed, Tigger bounces outside, but a rainstorm washes away the fake stripes. Discouraged, Tigger leaves in the middle of the night, wondering what he is. By daybreak, Eeyore passes by and tells him that he's still Tigger on the inside. Tigger then happily bounces around and his real stripes reappear. After that, Pooh and his friends recognize their old friend and Tigger continues bouncing in mud puddles.
==Cast==
Voice actor 	Character
Jim Cummings 	Winnie the Pooh
John Fiedler 	Piglet
Paul Winchell	Tigger
Ken Sansom 	Rabbit
Peter Cullen 	Eeyore
===Uncredited===
Voice actor	Character
Unknown 	Bugs/Bees
==Songs==
* I Don't Have A Name
==Trivia==
*Moral: Though you might look different on the outside, you're still yourself on the inside.
*This is the first and only time that Tigger has ever gone stripeless. 
**However, outside of the TV series, he is also seen stripeless in a level in Piglet's Big Game, which was a dream, and he was briefly stripeless in one scene in Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo when Pooh's sneeze blew his stripes away, and was stripeless during the junior mode in Winnie the Pooh's Rumbly Tumbly Adventure when orange paint fell onto his head.
*This episode marks the first appearance of the Bugs.
*This episode is similar to the Pixar short Boundin':
**The main character (Tigger/Lamb) loses something on the outside, which he is proud of (stripes for Tigger; wool for Lamb).
**They are both sad and discouraged by their loss.
**Later on, an empathetic character (Eeyore/Jackalope) comes along and tells the main character that what is on the inside is what counts.
**Both Tigger and Lamb bounce (or bound) when they are happy, and both instances end with them bouncing away.
*Coincidentally, Bud Luckey, the voice of the Jackalope, later went on to voice Eeyore for the Winnie the Pooh 2011 film adaptation.
==Home video==
===US===
*Volume 1: The Great Honey Pot Robbery (VHS)
*Friendship: Tigger-ific Tales (VHS)
*Growing Up with Winnie the Pooh: Volume 5: Love & Friendship (DVD)
=== UK ===
* The Great Honey Pot Robbery (VHS)
* The Magical World of Winnie the Pooh Volume 6: Love and Friendship (VHS and DVD)
Category:The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episodes