Pooh's Adventures of the El Feo Kid

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**Pooh's Adventures of the El Feo Kid** is the eighteenth episode of the series**.**

## Synopsis

A take on the classic tale 'Big Fat Liar', this is the story of Pooh Bear, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and a 14-year-old cowboy named Tumbleweed Jake who lies for the fun of it. He loses an important story assignment entitled 'The El Feo Kid' in movie producer Rhinestone Rudy's limo, which Rudy then turns into a film, and Pooh's old foe Nasty Jack the horse thief is up to no good. When Jake sees a movie preview of his story, he, his best friend Belly Dance Belle, Pooh, Charlie & Snoopy go to Los Angeles to make Rudy confess to using his story, to clear his name, and to get him out of having to be committed to summer school. The teen liar then has to match wits with Rudy, who also turns out to be a big liar.

## Plot

In the narrated prologue, an useen Masked Marauder is terrorizing the San Fernado Alley, and all hopes look to a future warrior soon to be "The El Feo Kid."  (*Walk Outside)*

In the present time, Tumbleweed Jake is a 14-year-old chronic liar living in the western town of Phoenix, Arizona who is constantly deceiving and misleading his way out of trouble.  When he is assigned a creative writing assignment one day, Jason does not complete it and attempts to escape writing his 1000-word essay by making up a lie, but he gets caught. His parents Harry & Jenny later called into school, and Jason is told that if he cannot bring a handwritten story to the cub scout meeting by 3 p.m., it will not be considered a valid contribution, and he will the community and have to go to Juvenile Hall. After remembering his father Harry telling him that he appears to be very talented at making up stories, Jake finally writes a story entitled *The El Feo Kid*, based on his experiences of constantly acting ugly all the time. After finishing his story, Jason meets Pooh Bear, blockhead extraordinaire Charlie Brown & his dog Snoopy, and rides his horse Angus and accidentally collides with the jeep of arrogant Hollywood producer Rhinestone Rudy, whom Jake blackmails into giving him a ride to school. With Rudy is Pooh's old foe Nasty Jack the horse thief.  During his ride, Rudy reveals to Jake that he is also a liar and con man, though a more professional one than Jake. When the jeep reaches the cub scout territory, Jake hastens out of the jeep, not realizing that he has left his story behind. Rudy initially attempts to give it back to Jake, but when he sees that it is excellent, he decides to keep it for himself.

Jake realizes his paper is missing, and neither his parents, or his Troopmaster Derek, believe him but they give him 10 days to return the paper. Later, Jake and his best friend, Belly Dance Belle, find out that Rudy has plagiarized his paper and is turning it into a film. Using their savings, Pooh, Charlie, Snoopy, Jake and Belle fly to Los Angeles to confront Rudy, leaving Angus to attend to Belle's absent-minded Pappy.  Upon their arrival, they trick limo driver and struggling actor RG (short for Running Gag) into giving them a ride to Rudy's studio, Rhinestone Pictures.  (*What We Gonna Do?)*

Once there, Jake sneaks into Rudy's office to tell him to call his mom and tell her that he stole the story from Jake, but instead Rudy "accidentally" shoots Jake's paper and removes him and Belle from his office. Pooh asks Jack for a hug, but the horse thief kicks him aside. Tigger suggests that the gang teaches Jack "a thing or three," and Owl & Gopher sing *No Chance*, but Snoopy quiets them with a growl.  Angered, Jake couldn't stop thinking of the paper.  In the meantime, he and Belle spend the night in the Golden Galaxy Inn.  (*I'm Telling You This)*

The next morning, Jake and Belle plan to inconvenience Rudy until he admits to having stolen *The El Feo Kid*. RG, having discovered their true identities, joins them in their plan, as he has had a troubled history with Rudy. After gathering information about Rudy's treatment of his employees, Jake and Belle sabotage Rudy by going as far as soaking Rudy's underwear in meat and assisting Rudy's employee Henry's pet dog, Gunner, to attack him by chewing his bottom, prompting more dogs, cows, crocs, bears, rhinos & panthers to chase him.  (*Big Dog)*

Shortly afterwards, Jake approaches Rudy and agrees to help in exchange for his confession to having stolen the story.  However, Rudy betrays Jake again and kicks him, Belle, Pooh, Charlie & Snoopy out from their hiding place. Jake and Belle are told by Bosko, the head of security for Rhinestone Pictures, that they will be forced out from Hollywood and sent back to their hometown in disgrace, while the incidents they caused will be covered up.

About to give up on exposing Rudy, Jake prepares to face permanent humiliation and disbelief back home when Rudy's assistant, Tara, appears. Having grown tired of Rudy's abuse, she decides to help Jake and Belle to expose him. With her help, Jake, Belle, Pooh, Charlie & Snoopy rally all of Rudy's co-workers and employees and devise a plan to stop him and Jack once and for all. As Rudy heads to the studio to begin shooting, many of his employees cause him to be late through multiple mishaps. As Rudy finally arrives to the studio, he witnesses Jake stealing the legendary Boomerang of Fiery Doom. After a chase across the studio, Rudy is tricked into confessing that he stole Jake's story and Tara, disgusted that Rudy would steal from a young boy, immediately quits due to these actions. Jake thanks Rudy for teaching him the importance of telling the truth. After Jake finally re-establishes his trust with his parents, Rudy gets knocked off the Hollywood sign by his own boomerang, and tumbles down the hill into the hay stack, where Henry was slaving away on, and Henry allows Gunner to to exact revenge by chewing on him.  Jack starts to complain that he can't trounce Piglet anymore and wonders what is he supposed to do now. Charlie then tells Jack that he could be Sheriff now and that made Nasty Jack very happy.

In the epilogue, Rhinestone Pictures later reproduces *The El Feo Kid*, utilizing the talents and skills of all those whom Rudy had abused, and the film is released in theaters, with Jake being credited during the closing credits for having written the original story.  Finally, Jake, Belle, Harry & Jenny fly off into the sunset towards home sure to have a hero's welcome.  When Charlie & Snoopy part ways, Pooh & Eeyore rode off into the sunset, and Owl & Gopher start to end the story with a song about the next adventure, but the curtain closes on them and the episode ends.

## Trivia

### Story Behind the Story

I had been to the Hot Sulphur Springs resort, which has a Western feel.

### Pooh's side

Charlie Brown and Snoopy appeared in a rare book named *Snoopy & the Gang Out West,* and Nasty Jack is Pooh's old foe in *Paw and Order,* the very episode that is the template of almost every Pooh Adventure.

### Early Concept

The movie was originally written to guest star Po & the Furious Five, to have a *Shanghai Noon* style and have underscore by Bruce Broughton. It was later declared that the movie be changed to focus Charlie Brown & Snoopy as the guest stars, and Alan Menken underscore, because it made no sense to waste such a grand western story on otherwise unimportant characters and/or music.

## Cast

Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh & Nasty JackJohn Fiedler as PigletPaul Winchell as TiggerKen Samson as RabbitPeter Cullen as EeyoreHal Smith as OwlMichael Gough as GopherTim Hoskins as Christopher RobinPeter Robbins as Charlie BrownBill Melendez as SnoopyMacaulay Culkin as JakeAnnie Mumolo as BelleBrad Garrett as RGRandy Quaid as RudyRoseanne Barr as TaraJamal Duff as BoskoJohn Mahoney as Troopmaster DerekJennifer Tilly as Jenny and FionaSam Elliot as HarryHollywood Hulk Hogan as Captain UndershirtAndy Dick as HenryFrank Welker as GunnerMel & Donal Gibson as Victor & HectorJim Varney as PappyDenis Leary as Diego Marlin & the Trailer AnnouncerRobert C. Bruce as the Narrator

### Songs:

* The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh theme
* Walk Outside
* What We Gonna Do?
* *No Chance*
* I'm Telling You This
* Big Dog
* *Legend has been Told*
* End Title Song: Bailamos by Enrique Iglesias
* Exit Music: On the Farm by Alan Menken