Hal Smith credited as playing...
Winnie the Pooh • Owl
- Narrator: Now one day, Pooh and Piglet, Rabbit and Roo were all playing Pooh sticks together.
- Winnie the Pooh: But why call it Pooh sticks? I thought I started with fir cones.
- Narrator: You did, Pooh, but sticks are easier to mark.
- [Pooh thinks to himself, then smiles]
- Winnie the Pooh: Oh yes, now I remember.
- Narrator: [clears throat] Now one day, Pooh and Piglet, Rabbit and Roo were all playing Pooh sticks together.
- Eeyore: [as he floats in the river] Don't pay any attention to me. Nobody ever does.
- Rabbit: Eeyore, what are you doing down there?
- Eeyore: Give ya three guesses.
- Winnie the Pooh: Fishing?
- Eeyore: Wrong.
- Roo: Going for a sail?
- Eeyore: Wrong again.
- Rabbit: Oh, waiting for somebody to uh - help you out of the river?
- Eeyore: That's right. Give Rabbit the time, and he'll get the answer.
- Winnie the Pooh: I wonder which will come out first?
- Narrator: Well, the big one came out first, and the little one came out last, which was what Pooh wanted.
- Winnie the Pooh: I did?
- Narrator: Yes, Pooh, and that was the beginning of a game called "Poohsticks".
- Winnie the Pooh: [smiles proudly] Which I invented!
- [last lines]
- Piglet: Tigger's alright. Really.
- Christopher Robin: Of course he is.
- Winnie the Pooh: Everybody is. Really. That's what I think.
- [sadly]
- Winnie the Pooh: But I don't suppose I'm right.
- Christopher Robin: Of course you are. Silly, old bear!
- Narrator: So off Piglet trotted in one direction, and in the other direction went Pooh with his jar of honey. However, Pooh hadn't gone very far when a very funny feeling began to creep over him. It began at the tip of his nose - and trickled all the way down to the soles of his feet, as if someone inside him were saying...
- Winnie the Pooh: Now then, Pooh, time for a little something!
- Winnie the Pooh: Well! Whoever lives here certainly takes a long time to answer his door!
- Piglet: B-B-B-B-But Pooh, isn't this your house?
- Winnie the Pooh: Oh, so it is! Well, let's go in.
- Winnie the Pooh: [entering his house with Piglet] Hmm. I must get poor Eeyore a present of some sort.
- [looks around the room, then his honey pot catches his attention]
- Winnie the Pooh: Uh, honey. That should do very well. What will you give him, Piglet?
- Piglet: [eagerly] Wouldn't I give it, too, from b-b-b-b-b-both of us?
- Winnie the Pooh: [looks puzzled for a few moments] No, Piglet. That wouldn't be a very good plan.
- Piglet: [thinks a moment, then lights up] Perhaps I could give Eeyore a balloon!
- Winnie the Pooh: [patting Piglet on his back, smiling] That, Piglet, is a very good idea. Nobody could be uncheered by a balloon.
- Piglet: [joyfully] I have one at home! I'll go and get it r-r-r-r-r-r-right now!
- [dashes away happily]
- Narrator: Pooh had every intention of getting another fir cone, but the river was slipping away so peacefully beneath him that he began to slip away with it.
- Winnie the Pooh: [as he watches his cone float away] That's funny.
- [points to his left, then his right]
- Winnie the Pooh: I dropped it on the other side, and it came out on this side. Hm... I wonder if it would do it again.
- Eeyore: It's my birthday, the happiest day of the year.
- Winnie the Pooh: Your birthday?
- Eeyore: Of course. Can't you see all the presents?
- Winnie the Pooh: Nnno.
- Eeyore: Can't you see the cake, the candles, the pink sugar?
- Winnie the Pooh: No.
- Eeyore: Neither can I.
- Winnie the Pooh: Oh. Well, many happy returns of the day, Eeyore.
- Eeyore: Thank you, Pooh. But we can't all, and some of us don't.
- Winnie the Pooh: Can't all what?
- Eeyore: No gaiety, no song and dance, no "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush". But don't worry about me, Pooh. Go and enjoy yourself. I'll stay here and be miserable, with no presents, no cake, no candles.
- Winnie the Pooh: Eeyore, wait right here.
- Winnie the Pooh: Oh, I can see yours, Piglet!
- Piglet: Mine's a sort of g-g-g-g-g-grayish one.
- Winnie the Pooh: Yes, that's what I can see.
- [Piglet's stick starts to come out from under the bridge, which little does everyone know is actually Eeyore's tail.]
- Winnie the Pooh: It's coming over to my side.
- Roo: Come on, stick! Stick! Stick!
- [More of Eeyore's body comes into view.]
- Piglet: Are you sure it's mine?
- Roo: It's a big, grey one! Here it comes! A very big grey...
- Rabbit: No, no-no-no-no, it isn't. It's... it's...
- [Eeyore's head is revealed.]
- Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Roo, Rabbit: Eeyore!
- Winnie the Pooh: Now, fir cones belong in trees, up high with the buzzing bees, but this one I found down on the ground freed by a gentle breeze.
- Owl: There. All finished. What do you think of it? I kept it simple. Just saying happy birthday.
- Winnie the Pooh: It seems like a lot of words.
- Owl: Well, I specifically had it say happy birthday with love from Pooh.