Bubble Trouble

**Bubble Trouble** is the first segment of the third episode of the second season of *The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh*. It originally aired on September 23, 1989 on ABC.

## Transcript

[wind howling]

**Gopher**: Looks like we got a southwestern blowing through. Last time we had a wind this hard, it took the bark right off the trees. Well! By dinghy! That crazy wind's gone and blown my front door off. Ha ha ha! I can't lose that hole. The best I ever dug. Hey! Gotcha! Yaah!

[thump]

**Gopher**: Follow that hole!

**Tigger**: Is it time? Is it time?

**Pooh**: I think the wind has gone home now, Tigger.

**Tigger**: Ha ha ha! There she blows! [hooting]

**Piglet**: [giggling]

**Rabbit**: Attention, everyone. Ahem. I have an announcement. [gulp, coughing]

**Tigger**: Have a bubble, long ears, and join the fun.

**Rabbit**: Uh, no, thank you very much. I have more important things to do, such as getting ready for my lecture this evening on "Our Friend the Lima Bean," which I'm sure you'll all want to hear. Oh!

**Gopher**: Say, anybody seen a hole?

**Rabbit**: A whole what?

**Gopher**: A whole hole, that's what.

**Rabbit**: Why are you so excited? A hole isn't anything? It's just nothing.

**Gopher**: Well, it's something to me.

**Piglet**: Nothing is something?

**Gopher**: No! No! This nothing is something, and-- Ah! What are you trying to do, confuse me?

**Rabbit**: Huh. Imagine worrying about something as silly as a hole. Remember, everyone, "Our Friend the Lima Bean" tonight.

**Pooh**: Oh, you know, Tigger, these bubbles are very lovely, but they don't stay very lovely very long.

**Tigger**: Hey. Long-lasting bubbles. That sounds like an invention that needs inventing. Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! Hmm. Must have used too many jalapenos. *[mixing ingredients for an unusual bubble recipe]* Better add a little more glue, and a lot more honey. And a little more of this and a dash of that and a few of these and one of those, a pinch of them and *[laughs]* ah, that ought to do it. It's-- It's incredibibble. It's-- It's stupenderous! It's-- It-- It's even got a Pooh in it. I've got to test the bustability of this Bubble. Success! The first unbustable bubble! Hoo hoo hoo hoo! Absopolilutely can't be pooped-- I mean popped.

**Piglet**: Uh, Tigger, if you can't get in the bubble, how will Pooh get out?

**Tigger**: Ha ha ha! Why, he's just-- hee hee-- he'll-- Say, how are you gonna get out of there?

**Pooh**: I same way I got in.

**Tigger**: Right. Uh... how was that?

**Pooh**: I was hoping you'd know.

**Tigger**: Whoa!

**Piglet**: Oh, d-d-dear!

**Gopher**: Oh, where's that consarn hole? Huh? Yaah!

**Piglet**: Gopher, Pooh's stuck in a bubble.

**Gopher**: Hmm. So he is. Can't worry about that now. Got to find that hole. Here, hole. Here, boy.

[whistling, calling]

**Tigger**: Don't worry, buddy bear. I'll unbubble you if it's the last thing I do before lunch. If you want to... break something, y-you've got to drop it. Always works for me. [hooting] Tally-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!

**Piglet**: Do you think it'll work?

[bounce]

**Tigger**: Of course it'll work, or my name is--

**Pooh**: Tigger!

**Tigger**: Ha ha ha! Exactically.

[bounce]

**Tigger**: Huh?

**Pooh**: I hate to complain, but I'm getting a bit--

[bounce]

**Pooh**: ...dizzy.

**Tigger**: A little more to your right. Uh, your other right. This will get that bubble unbubbled.

**Pooh**: I certainly hope so.

**Tigger**: Fire!

**Gopher**: Here, hole! Here-- Oh!

**Tigger**: Look at the bright side, Pooh boy. If it rains, uh, uh, you'll never need an umbreller. [hooting]

**Pooh**: You mean I'm going to be in here forever?

**Piglet**: There, there, Pooh. You'll stay with me until we can break the bubble.

[Piglet humming]

**Pooh**: Can I help you with the cleaning, Piglet?

**Piglet**: Certainly, Pooh.

[crash]

**Pooh**: Oh, bother.

[clatter]

**Piglet**: Oh, d-d-dear.

[crashing]

**Piglet**: Yipe!

**Pooh**: I'm trying to go this way, but the bubble wants to go that way. Um...

**Piglet**: Uh, Pooh, uh, perhaps Tigger needs some help at his house?

**Tigger**: Take a-- [grunt]-- load off your bubble, buddy bear.

**Pooh**: Uh, Tigger, I don't want to be any... trouble.

**Tigger**: Oh, ha ha ha! Not trouble at all. Comfy?

**Pooh**: Well...

**Tigger**: Uh, maybe you would be happier at Rabbit's?

**Rabbit**: Bears and bubbles and holes and gophers. Don't they realize that I'm trying to bring them some culture?

**Tigger**: Think thin, Pooh.

**Pooh**: Hello, Rabbit. Can I help you?

**Rabbit**: Help me? Help me? Why, look what you've undone! You want to help? All right, Pooh. I know how you can help me. There. Now let's get it in the tree. When the other apples see how wonderfully big this apple is, they'll grow, too. And he'll be out of the way.

**Gopher**: Say, that hole showed up yet? Hmm. Ah. I know. I'll comb the forest till I find that thing.

**Piglet**: But, Rabbit, how will Pooh come to your lecture on-- heh heh-- "Our Friend the Lima Bean"?

**Rabbit**: Uh, I'm afraid I can't have him there, Piglet, not with the way he bangs into everything.

[snoring]

**Rabbit**: He's just too much trouble.

[thunder rumbling]

**Pooh**: Oh, bother.

[thunder]

**Pooh**: I wish I weren't such a bother to everyone.

**Rabbit**: "Our Friend the Lima Bean." When many Lima beans get together and go for a swim, this we call bean soup.

**Gopher**: Ehh. I'm never gonna find that hole.

**Pooh**: Hello, Gopher.

**Gopher**: Huh? Uh, still in there, huh? What are you doing hanging in a tree?

**Pooh**: It seems to be the only place I'm not in the way.

**Gopher**: Uh, guess you and me are both kind of unwelcome these days. By crackety, don't they see? If I could find that hole, I'd have time to be more sociable.

**Pooh**: I wish I could help, but the only hole I know of is the one in my pocket.

**Gopher**: Hmm? Say, you got a hole in your pocket? Ahem. Uh, could I get a look at it?

[rip]

**Gopher**: By dinghy! There she is! [laughing] Ah, I've been looking all over for that thingy.

**Pooh**: Oh? I didn't know it was yours.

**Gopher**: Well, Pooh Bear, you're in luck. That’s just the hole we need to get you out of there. Stick it on the side of that bubble.

**Pooh**: It works. Oh, bother.

**Gopher**: Well, there's the best one I ever dug. Heh heh heh heh.

**Rabbit**: Yes, Piglet, the garbanzo bean is a member of the Lima bean family, but not the immediate family. Now, who can tell us which is the most intelligent of all beans?

**Pooh**: Piglet! Tigger! Rabbit! Gopher found his missing hole.

**Gopher**: Yep. [laughing] Good as new.

**Piglet**: Pooh, the bubble's gone.

**Pooh**: Yes, Piglet. Or as I was saying, Gopher found his hole in my pocket.

**Tigger**: Buddy bear! You're you!

**Pooh**: Of course, Tigger. I always was me. I was just me inside a bubble.

**Piglet**: But we treated you differently.

**Tigger**: Yeah. We kinda forgot about you.

**Pooh**: Well, that's all right. I'm back now.

**Gopher**: Hey! Ahem. What about me? Doesn't anyone want to see this baby in action?

**Rabbit**: Please, Gopher, no more hole silliness.

**Gopher**: Silliness, hmm?

**Rabbit**: I was just about to discuss the social life of the Lima-- Aah!

[thud]

**Rabbit**: ...bean.

**Gopher**: Ha! Now what do you think? Hmm?

**Rabbit**: Ah, I have a whole new outlook on... holes.

[pop]

## VHS Releases

* Winnie the Pooh Learning - Solving Problems
* The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Vol. 6 All’s Well That Ends Well
* Winnie the Pooh Friendship - Together Forever