Balloonatics

"**Balloonatics**" is the second segment of the third episode of the first season of *The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh*.

## Notes

The Season 1 Opening has Pooh is seen flying with a balloon on his hand and passing through the branch.

The Season 2 Opening has Rabbit is wearing an oversized coat and hat and trips.

## Transcript

(Pooh Humming Tune, Chuckles)

(Door Knocking)

(Door Opening)

**Pooh**: Oh, hello, might Christopher Robin be at home?

**Christopher Robin**: (Chuckles) Silly old bear, it is me.

**Pooh**: And who might that be?

**Christopher Robin**: A balloon, Pooh. You know, made of rubber and air?

**Pooh**: In that case, may I take it for a walk?

**Christopher Robin**: Well, if you're careful not to pop it.

**Pooh**: I shall take care of it as if it were... as if it were honey.

**Christopher Robin**: Then it's in the best of hands, Pooh.

**Pooh**: Whee!

**Pooh**: (Singing) Here we go floating Anywhere we please Holding you tight as I can You're safe as a honey pot You always will be And I'll be right there when we land You're snuggly-wuggly Snug as a bug-gly (Chuckles) You're snuggly safe in my hands

**Rabbit**: Why, you flying feather duster! I'll... I'll... Whoa!

(Crash)

**Rabbit**: There's got to be a way to keep those birds out of my garden!

(Pooh Humming)

**Rabbit**: I've got it! (Chuckles) A brilliant idea!

(Rabbit Laughs)

**Rabbit**: But I need that balloon!

**Pooh**: Oh, Hello, Rabbit.

**Rabbit**: Why, hello, Pooh bear. Nice balloon you've got there.

**Pooh**: Yes, isn't it? Christopher Robin let me borrow it.

**Rabbit**: You know, I was wondering if I could borrow it from you.

**Pooh**: Well, I don't know.

(Amazed)

**Pooh**: Honey!

**Rabbit**: Yes, fresh honey.

**Pooh**: (Gleefully) Fresh. You know, watching Christopher Robin's balloon has made me a bit hungry, Rabbit? I don't suppose you could look after it for me.

**Rabbit**: Pooh, I suppose I could. Always glad... happy... ready to help a friend.

**Pooh**: But be very, very careful with it. I promised Christopher Robin that I would take care of it.

**Rabbit**: (Laughs) You're just the thing I need!

(Rabbit Humming)

**Rabbit**: (Chuckles) Perfect!

(Rabbit Humming)

**Rabbit**: There. That should do the trick.

(Laughs)

**Piglet**: Oh, hello. You must be a friend of Rabbit's. Have you come to visit him? Oh, no need to be shy, I'm a friend of Rabbit's too.

(Exclaiming)

**Piglet**: Yike! Help!

(Stammering)

**Piglet**: Run! Tigger! Run! There's a big monster right behind me!

**Tigger**: Where? Where? Let me at him! Let me at him! Hey, don't get pushy! Don't get pushy!

**Piglet**: I think he's mad.

**Tigger**: Oh, a tough guy, eh? Ha! You missed me! (Chuckles) This guy isn't so tough. Hmm, this calls for a little strategery. Listen, Piglet, follow me.Okay, Piglet, now, here's the plan. Get him!

(Piglet Screams)

**Tigger**: (Running) Good work, Piglet! You got him on the run! Don't let go!

**Rabbit**: What's going on? Wha... The balloon, it's gone. Oh, my! Oh, my! Oh, my, my, my!

**Piglet**: Yo!

**Tigger**: I got you, kid! I got... (Trips) Whoo-hoo-hoo!

**Rabbit**: Where's the balloon? How could you? How could you?

**Tigger**: How could we what, bunny boy?

**Rabbit**: You broke my scarecrow. (Gasps) Oh, my. Oh, my... The balloon. I borrowed it from Booh Pear... Pooh Bear... who borrowed if from Ristopher Crobin... Ristopher Cribbin... (Cackling)

(Pooh Humming Tune)

**Rabbit**: (Screams) It's Pooh bear. Pooh bear! Quick! Back to the house! I gotta go home!

(Pooh Humming)

**Rabbit**: (Singing) Rock-a-bye bunny In the tee-trop... uh, treetop When the wind blows The radle will crop When the bough brakes

**Pooh**: (Gasps) What happened to the ba...

**Rabbit**: Shh! The balloon's asleep, Pooh bear.

**Pooh**: I don't hear it sleeping, Rabbit. You know, it's much smaller when it sleeps.

**Tigger**: Why, absotively posilutely! They have to shrink, Pooh. So they can fit in the bed... for goodness sake.

**Pooh**: Wake up, balloon. Time to go back to Christopher Robin.

**Rabbit**: No, you'll wake it, Pooh.

**Pooh**: Why, it's not sleeping. It's eyes are open. But shouldn't be big now? Now that's it's awake, I mean.

**Rabbit**: Oh, that's no good. Pooh, we popped the balloon.

**Pooh**: Oh, bother. What shall I tell Christopher Robin?

**Tigger**: (Chuckles) You don't suppose he'd believe it was asleep, do you?

**Pooh**: No! I must tell him the truth!

**Rabbit**: No, no, no! If you tell him that he popped his balloon, he'll never talk to us again. We must make a pact to never tell Christopher Robin about this. Now raise your right hands and right legs. Now, jump and down and promise. Friends together, friends apart, I'll never, never, cross my heart, tell how this balloon was popped. And if I do, I hope I drop. Now, you hide it.

**Pooh**: Oh, can't sleep either, huh, balloon?

(Inhales, Sighs)

**Balloon Judge**: You, Pooh bear, have been accused of popping a balloon!

**Christopher Robin**: He broke my balloon! How can I ever speak to him again? (Crying)

**Balloons in The Jury**: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

**Balloon** **Judge**: Silence! Pooh bear, how do you plead?

**Pooh**: (Stammering)

**Balloon Judge**: Guilty!

**Balloons in The Jury**: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

**Pooh**: (Shouting) Christopher Robin!

**Rabbit**: Oh, my! It's Pooh Bear!

**Piglet**: Oh, he's gonna tell Christopher Robin about the balloon.

(Rabbit Strains)

**Rabbit**: Watch where you're going! You almost made me drop Christopher Robin's balloon.

**Piglet**: But I'm Christopher Robin's balloon.

**Tigger**: What are you talking about? I've got his balloon.

(Bubblegum Blows)

**Christopher Robin**: Now, what are you three up to?

**Rabbit**: (Sniffles) I'm sorry, but I broke your balloon, Christopher Robin.

**Tigger**: No, I did. Tiggers are the ballooniest breakers.

**Piglet**: Uh, I'm the actually the one who p-p-popped it.

**Tigger**: Christopher Robin, we're sorry, but we all broke your balloon.

**Pooh**: Christopher Robin, I have broken your balloon.

**Christopher Robin**: It's not broken, it's only untied. The air's out of it.

**Piglet**: Oh, no! Not again!

**Tigger**: Hold on, you two balloony brains! (Laughing)

**Rabbit**: Oh, my. Oh, my! Oh, my!

**Christopher Robin**: Hey! Come back, you balloonatics! (Chuckles)

## Credits with a Song and Logos

**Produced by
WALT DISNEY
TELEVISION ANIMATION**

**Producer/Director
KARL GEURS**

**Story Editor
MARK ZASLOVE**

**“THERE’S NO CAMP LIKE HOME”**

**Story by
MARK ZASLOVE**

**Teleplay by
DEV ROSS**

**“BALLOONATICS”**

**Story by
MARK ZASLOVE**

**Teleplay by
BRUCE REID SCHAEFER**

**With the Voice Talents of
JOHN FIEDLER
KEN SANSOM
TIM HOSKINS
PATTY PARRIS
NICHOLAS MELODY
JAMES GALLEGO
FRANK WELKER**

**JIM CUMMINGS
as Winnie the Pooh**

**and
PAUL WINCHELL
as
Tigger**

**Animation Director
DAVID BLOCK**

**Assistant Producer
KEN TSUMURA**

**Art Director
ED GHERTNER**

**Associate Story Editor
BRUCE TALKINGTON**

**Storyboard Designers
HANK TUCKER
KEN BOYER
JAN GREEN**

**Character Designer
TOBY SHELTON**

**Additional Character Design
KENNY THOMPKINS**

**Background Stylist
PARO HOZUMI**

**Additional Background Styling
GARY EGGLESTON**

**Color Stylist
JILL STIRDIVANT**

**Additional Color Styling
DEBRA JORGENSBORG**

**Timing Directors
DAVE BRAIN
BOB ZAMBONI
TERENCE HARRISON**

**Artwork Coordinator
KRISTA BUNN**

**Overseas Animation Supervisor
MIKE REYNA**

**Post Production Coordinator
SARA DURAN**

**Production Assistants
JACALEEN VEBER
LUANNE WOOD**

**Track Reader
SKIP CRAIG**

**Managing Film Editor
RICH HARRISON**

**Supervising Editor
CHARLIE KING**

**Editor
RICK HINSON**

**Assistant Editor
GLENN LEWIS**

**Songs Written and Produced
by
STEVE NELSON**

**Music by
THOM SHARP
&
STEVE NELSON**

**“Floating Song”**

**Performed by
JIM CUMMINGS**

**Animation Production by
TMS
ENTERTAINMENT, INC.**

**THIS PICTURE MADE UNDER
THE JURISDICTION OF
I.A.T.S.E.
IA
AFFILIATED WITH
A.F.L.-C.I.O.**

**© 1988 THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY
All Rights Reserved**

Walt Disney
Television

Distributed by
Buena Vista International, Inc.

## VHS Releases

* The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Vol. 4 There’s No Camp Like Home
* The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - Rabbit Goes Kessie
* Best of Pooh
* Yellow Bear Pooh Again