Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)

Winnie the Pooh: [seeing a lunchbox pop up from Gopher's hole] A lunchbox?
Gopher: [appearing] It certainly is. I'm workin' the swing shift, you know.

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[singing]
Winnie the Pooh: Hum dum de dum, hum dum de dum / I am so rumbly in my tumbly.
Winnie the Pooh: [hits head] Ooh!
Winnie the Pooh: Time to munch an early luncheon / Hum de dum dum dum / Oh, I wouldn't climb this tree / If a Pooh flew like a bee / But I wouldn't be a bear then / So I guess I wouldn't care then / Bears love honey and I'm a Pooh bear / So I do care, so I climb there / I'm so rumbly in my tumbly / Time for something... for something...
Winnie the Pooh: [branch breaks] ... sweet! To eat!

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Narrator: Christopher Robin lived in another part of the forest where he could be near his friends and help them with their problems. On this summer day, Eeyore, being stuffed with sawdust, had lost his tail again.

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Posters from the initial release include pictures of Piglet and Tigger, who wouldn't appear until the next short, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. The design for Tigger is closer to the original Ernest Shepard illustrations than the final design used on screen.
Gopher often says, "I'm not in the book." This has a double meaning: he's not in the phone book and he is also not in the A.A. Milne book. Gopher is the only Pooh character that did not originate in one of Milne's books. He was originally created to replace Piglet, until they decided to bring Piglet in for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.
This featurette was originally released in the USA on a double bill with the full-length film The Ugly Dachshund.
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