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Many Adventures

As a "Pooh-a-phile" (a person who really adores the franchise, despite not being from the UK, from which the stories originated under the pen of Alexander Alan Milne, father of the real-life Christopher Robin, upon whose childhood with his stuffed toys in the nearby Ashdown Forest - the100 Acre Wood, complete with Poohsticks Bridge, the 6 Pine Trees leading up to Owl's house [incidentally, Owl and Rabbit were never a part of the original nursery collection, as they were based on genuine fauna from the region, hence why the books mentioned "Rabbit's friends and relations" and why Owl always spoke at length about his extensive family heritage], and Gideon/Galleon's Lap, the big hill that CR and Pooh sat down on at the end of every episode of the www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmWvjK… - begot all this in the first place), I understand that the "stories weren't as familiar to the Americans as they were to the British". hence why Walt sectioned off the www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dpYZk… into short featurettes and added in the whistling Gopher as an American animal representative to get American audiences to be more aware of the stories and characters. To not upset us hardcore "Pooh-a-phile"s, they added in a double meaning for Gopher's introduction, in which he pops up out of his hole, saying, "I'm not in the book, but I'm at your service, Gopher's the name". It's a double meaning, because Gopher certainly isn't in any known phone book, but he isn't in the original A.A. Milne stories either, as a show of good faith between Disney and the Milne family (which included Christopher Robin himself at the time, since he didn't leave this world until 1996 and to this day, his and cousin Lesley Sincourt's disabled daughter Clare oversees how Disney handles her grandfather's and father's legacies, hence one of the key reasons why the 2011 film [ www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbAJPP… had tried so hard to return to form after the events of the 2010 CGI series that most fans seemed to not like).