"Pooh, you need to help me. There, there's something wrong with Piglet. He just killed my wife. Please!"
In 1926, writer A.A. Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard got together and created the character of Winnie-the-Pooh. Before the end of that year more than 150,000 copies of the book were sold and Pooh, Piglet, and the rest of his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood became a huge hit in households everywhere.
In 1966, The Walt Disney Company released their first animated adaptation of the silly ol' bear and the rest is history. Pooh Bear and is friends are now a major part of the Disney corporation and there seems to be no stopping that phenomenon.
And then 2022 happened.
The book rights to Winnie-the Pooh entered the public domain and a man named Rhys Frake-Waterfield went upon himself to write, direct, and produce a film where Pooh and Piglet become homicidal maniacs attacking and killing anyone that enters their territory.
Join us as we discuss this film and try to wonder how something that was a pretty moderate success also earned five Golden Raspberry awards. How can something this panned help create a shared universe of killer creatures that also involve Peter Pan, Bambi Pinocchio, and the rest of the Hundred Acre Wood animals? And the major questions after all of this are: How much does Melissa regret doing this podcast and will there even be an Episode 06?
