"Magic Earmuffs" is the second segment of the fifteenth episode of the first season of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Plot[]
One Winter day Christopher Robin rushes off to go play with his friends in the snow but not before his Mom tells him to wear his Earmuffs while going out. When Christopher Robin meets up with Pooh and Tigger. Pooh asks why Christopher Robin must always wear his Earmuffs to which Tigger replies his toes will get cold. To which Christopher Robin says that he has to wear them because of his Mom’s over protection of him.
Then Christopher Robin pushes their sled and then the three go sliding off into the snow eventually bumping into Piglet who lands in Pooh’s arms. When Piglet asks where they’re going Pooh says skating. On the ice Pooh, Tigger, and Christopher Robin join Rabbit, Owl, and Eeyore for skating while Gopher fishes nearby but Piglet is too afraid to step on the ice. Then Roo shows up and asks if anyone wants to play ice cookie to which Christopher Robin asks “Isn’t that Ice Hockey, Roo?” To which Roo tells him that the name has to be changed because he’s out of hockey pucks and his mama gave him an oatmeal cookie. Tigger and Christopher Robin decide to be the captains of the two teams to which Tigger picks Roo, Eeyore, and Owl for his team while Christopher Robin chooses Pooh, Rabbit, and Piglet for his team but Piglet rejects and runs away afraid telling his friends he has to mow his lawn. While the two teams play the game Pooh finds Piglet up a tree and ask him why he’s up there to which Piglet replies “I can’t skate”. Then the tree branch breaks and Piglet lands on the ice cookie and Rabbit hits it into the snow. Afterwards Christopher Robin comes forward and asks Piglet what’s wrong to which Pooh tells him that Piglet can’t skate and feels ashamed and embarrassed about it to which Christopher Robin and the others decide to teach him. First they try putting small Skates on Piglet to which it almost works but Piglet loses his balance once Christopher Robin lets go of him and falls down into Gopher's fishing hole. Second Tigger tries to put big Skates on Piglet’s feet and when he pushes Piglet from behind Piglet goes skating pretty fast and flies upside down in the air and lands in the snow. As the gang tries to figure out what to next Pooh says that maybe Christopher Robin’s Earmuffs might work to which Christopher Robin puts his Earmuffs on Piglet’s ears and then he and Pooh take Piglet to a small pond and finally Piglet can skate good and tells his friends that he can’t wait to play Ice Cookie to which Pooh says the game is now called Ice Honey because Eeyore ate the cookie puck and Rabbit bought a honey jar to use as a replacement puck to which he and Christopher Robin run off to play in the game leaving Piglet to skate on his own. After the game Owl and Christopher Robin leave to go home but Pooh, Rabbit, Tigger, and Roo stay behind and Pooh notices Rabbit’s honeypot on the ice and wonders if there’s any honey left in it and accidentally goes onto the ice without Skates to which his friends follow him and the ice breaks into water causing the gang to be trapped on an ice floe. Piglet hears his friends screaming and comes to their rescue. He grabs their skates and throws them to them but then the Earmuffs fall of Piglet’s head and land in the water and he chases them while his friends make it safely to shore. On shore, the friends watch frighteningly as Piglet catches the Earmuffs and almost goes over the waterfall but manages to run back up and back across the ice floes and lands in the snow. Later the gang watch Piglet skate on the small ice and realize he doesn’t need the Earmuffs after all. All he needed was more practice and a little confidence.
Characters[]
- Winnie the Pooh (voiced by Jim Cummings)
- Piglet (voiced by John Fiedler)
- Tigger (voiced by Paul Winchell)
- Rabbit (voiced by Ken Sansom)
- Gopher (voiced by Michael Gough)
- Owl (voiced by Hal Smith)
- Christopher Robin (voiced by Tim Hoskins)
- Christopher Robin's Mother (voiced by Patty Parris)
- Roo (voiced by Nicholas Melody)
- Eeyore (voiced by Peter Cullen)
Credits[]
Produced by
WALT DISNEY
TELEVISION ANIMATION
Producer/Director
KARL GEURS
Story Editor
MARK ZASLOVE
“LUCK AMOK”
Story by
MARK ZASLOVE
JYMN MAGON
Teleplay by
CARTER CROCKER
“THE MAGIC EARMUFFS”
Story by
TERRIE COLLINS
and MARK ZASLOVE
Teleplay by
CARTER CROCKER
With the Voice Talents of
JOHN FIEDLER
KEN SANSOM
PETER CULLEN
HAL SMITH
MICHAEL GOUGH
TIM HOSKINS
PATTY PARRIS
NICHOLAS MELODY
FRANK WELKER
JIM CUMMINGS
as Winnie the Pooh
and
PAUL WINCHELL
as
Tigger
Animation Director
TERENCE HARRISON
Assistant Producer
BARBARA FERRO
Assistant Story Editor
CARTER CROCKER
Art Director
ED GHERTNER
Storyboard Designers
DON CHRISTENSEN
BRUCE MORRIS
Character Design
LEONARD SMITH
Background Stylist
PARO HOZUMI
Color Stylist
JILL STIRDIVANT
Timing Directors
DAVE BRAIN
JOAN CASE
RICK LEON
JAMES T. WALKER
Track Reader
SKIP CRAIG
Overseas Animation Supervisors
KEN KESSEL
JAMIE MITCHELL
Talent Coordinator
OLIVIA MINER
Archives Administrator
KRISTA BUNN
Artwork Coordinator
KAREN SILVA
Post Production Manager
SARA DURAN
Post Production Coordinator
BARBARA BECK
Production Assistants
JEFFREY ARTHUR
PEGGY BECKER
STEPHANIE ELLIOTT
LEONA JERNIGAN
VITELLO & ASSOCIATES:
Supervising Editor
ELEN ORSON
Sound Effects Editor
ROY BRAVERMAN
Music Editor & Re-recording Mixer
ED BARTON
Songs Written and Produced
by
STEVE NELSON
Music by
STEVE NELSON
&
THOM SHARP
Animation Production by
TMS ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Walt Disney
Television
Distributed by
Buena Vista International, Inc.