You Ever Notice...and What's the Deal...

[minor muppetz]

There's one episode of Mister Ed where Ed gets amnesia and forgets that he's a horse. But then why doesn't he talk to other humans besides Wilbur in that episode? There's one or two opportunities where he could have talked to humans, under amnesia he actually likes Mr. Addison, and of course he thinks he's a human so no need to keep his ability a secret.

 

[minor muppetz]

What's the deal with Winnie the Pooh being called Winnie the Pooh? Is Winnie a name that can normally be male or female? Because the only other Winnie I know of is from The Wonder Years. And Pooh... Sounds like Poo. Besides, he's a bear.

And they rarely refer to Winnie the Pooh as Winnie, often calling him Pooh or Pooh Bear. In fact outside of the various theme songs I don't know if anybody besides the narrarator ever refers to him as Winnie the Pooh (well, Pooh himself refers to himself as Winnie the Pooh in the Welcome to Pooh Corner theme song). And every other character is merely named after their species, shouldn't Winnie the Pooh be named Bear?

Most of the animals from Winnie the Pooh are naked, but Pooh, Piglet, and Roo all wear clothing. What's the deal with that? In fact Pooh was naked in the original books. And it seems like Piglet always wears his outfit, if he wears something else he always wears his usual outfit underneath. The only time I know of where Piglet didn't wear his outfit was in an episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh where for some reason Tigget has Pooh and Piglet switch clothing.

 

[D'Snowth]

What's the deal with Winnie the Pooh being called Winnie the Pooh? Is Winnie a name that can normally be male or female? Because the only other Winnie I know of is from The Wonder Years. And Pooh... Sounds like Poo. Besides, he's a bear.

And they rarely refer to Winnie the Pooh as Winnie, often calling him Pooh or Pooh Bear.

I've been asking that for years. In fact, I'm pretty sure I brought this up before.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

I think "Pooh" is his species and is a type of bear.

Like Tigger's species is a Tigger and it looks like a tiger.

 

[D'Snowth]

But the point is his name is "Winnie the Pooh", yet, he's always called "Pooh" and never "Winnie"... it'd be like if Kermit the Frog was always called "Frog" instead of "Kermit" (yeah, I know Grover, Elmo, and Cookie usually call him "Froggy" or "Green Frog", but that's besides the point).

 

[minor muppetz]

Why are there some sitcoms, Taxi and Newhart being the only that come to mind off-hand, that have tags for half the episodes and don't have tags for others?

 

[D'Snowth]

While THE PAUL LYNDE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL is an interesting and entertaining special, it seems like Halloween itself is more or less an undertone to the whole show.

I mean sure, the beginning of the special has Paul doing a Halloween-theme stand-up routine, the special co-stars Margaret Hamilton reprising her role as the Wicked Witch of the West and Witchiepoo from H.R. PUFNSTUF, and we got Florence Henderson doing a number singing "That Old Black Magic", but then the rest isn't very Halloweeny, like Paul in a skit where he and Tim Conway are truck drivers wanting to marry Pinky Tuscadero, another skit where Paul is a middle-eastern shiek who kidnapped Florence only for her to be rescued by Tim as a Foreign Legion scout, a couple of performances by KISS, and a big finish with "Disco Baby".

 

[Drtooth]

What's the deal with Winnie the Pooh being called Winnie the Pooh? Is Winnie a name that can normally be male or female? Because the only other Winnie I know of is from The Wonder Years. And Pooh... Sounds like Poo. Besides, he's a bear.

And they rarely refer to Winnie the Pooh as Winnie, often calling him Pooh or Pooh Bear. In fact outside of the various theme songs I don't know if anybody besides the narrarator ever refers to him as Winnie the Pooh (well, Pooh himself refers to himself as Winnie the Pooh in the Welcome to Pooh Corner theme song). And every other character is merely named after their species, shouldn't Winnie the Pooh be named Bear?

Most of the animals from Winnie the Pooh are naked, but Pooh, Piglet, and Roo all wear clothing. What's the deal with that? In fact Pooh was naked in the original books. And it seems like Piglet always wears his outfit, if he wears something else he always wears his usual outfit underneath. The only time I know of where Piglet didn't wear his outfit was in an episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh where for some reason Tigget has Pooh and Piglet switch clothing.

Simple. It's not made to make sense, so you need not think about why. Best I could logically dictate is British child slang from the 1800's (or whenever it was written). Didn't Piglet live in a house called Trespassers Will... as in "Trespassers will be shot?" It's clearly through the eyes of a child, and a young one at that. The character names are mostly malapropisms for animals, the characters act childish. None of them can read. Not even wise Owl. How many times have you heard little kids talk? They speak nonsense because it makes sense to them.

As for the fact that some wear clothes and some don't, that's much easier to explain. The characters are essentially a mismatched set of plush toys. Either some came with clothes, or Christopher Robbins's mother made clothes for some of the toys.

 

[minor muppetz]

Is there something funny about Bermuda Shorts? There have been times when I've seen people laugh at the mention of the term, and yet I don't really get what's so funny about bermuda shorts.

I first heard of the term after being familiar with the fact that Weird Al Yankovic's drummer goes by the name Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz. Most of those people who laughed at the term bermuda shorts do like Weird Al Yankovic but I don't think they're big enough fans to know the names of his band members off-hand. Bermuda Schwartz was also the name of a character in one episode of Bullwinkle, but I don't think the people who laugh at the term Bermuda shorts would know that fact (I can't even remember off-hand which Bullwinkle episode had that character, and I know this kind of stuff better than most people in my family).

So Bermuda Schwartz is clearly a pun of Bermuda shorts, but is Bermuda shorts a pun on something?

 

[D'Snowth]

Likewise, I still don't understand what's the big joke about Big Bird being a lark.