Do You Dare Enter the Winnie the Pooh Night Thread? It Might Be Too Scary!

The trailer for the hotly anticipated Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 was released today, and as predicted, it took the internet by storm. Everyone can’t wait to find out what horror icons such a Piglet, Owl, and Tigger are up to next! So to commemorate this very special occasion, let’s take a look at some spooky pictures of Pooh and the gang…IF YOU DARE! I warn you. THIS IS GOING TO GET SCARY!

To kick off our tour of terror, let’s have a look at Wooster. Wooster is a giant ass woozle who appeared in one episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. I don’t know how to explain who he was without this taking all day, but the TLDR version is there were these two honey thieves–a heffalump and woozle–and they were stealing all of Pooh’s honey. When their efforts were foiled, they went to get “Wooster” for help. Wooster, as previously stated, was absolutely enormous. Like if you got stepped on by this bastard, you’d be an instant pancake, and instead of being a pancake covered with maple syrup, you’d be a pancake covered in blood. Your blood. Anyway, Pooh won over Wooster by sharing his honey with him and they became friends. Wooster was never seen on the show again, except in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sight gag as Christopher Robin’s hunting trophy in a later episode (I’m kidding! Or am I?).

Had enough? Well, if a giant woozle wasn’t enough to haunt your dreams forever, then maybe this photo from some stage production of Winnie the Pooh will. I know absolutely nothing about the context of this image. I don’t even know if this play was officially licensed by Disney or was just some local production where they got lucky and didn’t get sued by Mickey’s lawyers. Either way, here’s a man who may or may not have facial hair in a Winnie the Pooh costume eating out of a honey pot. I know this shouldn’t scare me, but it actually kind of does. He looks like if the cutesy-wutesy narrator from Welcome to Pooh Corner finally snapped and decided to become one with Winnie the Pooh. If I had kids, I would keep them away from this man, even though he is probably a super nice chap, and I am just making dumb jokes about him. Lock your doors tonight, people.

Moving on, we have these fucking guys. I can’t recall their names, but they’re three…bootleg plush toys of Tigger, Piglet, and Pooh who lived in a toy store in another episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Somehow, Rabbit got stuck there, and these guys chased him around, and it was a whole thing. They all talked like gangsters. Look, I loved this show growing up and still do, but in hindsight, it got a lot weirder than I realized as a child. Like how did they come up with shit like this? Who types the words “he looks just like Winnie the Pooh, except he’s evil” in a script and goes “yeah, I like where I’m going with this”?

And while we’re at it, let’s talk about this Balloon Judge, again, a character who appeared in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, even if it was just in a dream sequence. See, Pooh popped Christopher Robin’s balloon, and then he freaked his shit out, because he was worried Christopher Robin might make him into a hunting trophy or something, and then he had a nightmare, and then this fucking BALLOON JUDGE showed up as a balloon jury chanted “GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!” Then Pooh found himself locked in a cage slowly drifting downwards into an endless abyss, unable to do anything but scream. Sheesh!

Anyway, let’s wrap this up with something that isn’t from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and move on to The Book of Pooh. The Book of Pooh was a 2001 Disney Channel series which used puppets and computer animation to bring the 100 Acre Wood to life. Honestly, it was pretty cute and funny. But those puppets were expensive to operate–each one took like five or six different puppeteers–so for the last few episodes, all of them were redesigned…and consequently looked, well, worse. No one fared worse than poor, poor Owl, who in my head-canon had a terrible accident with a razor blade one day, resulting in him losing several feathers from his chin. Seriously, look at this guy. He just wants the pain to end. And it never will.

Have a scary night, y’all!