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Pooh Skies is an half-hour episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Released during the third season, it is chronically the 62nd episode. The plot involves that after cloud watching with Christopher Robin, Pooh thinks he's broken the sky with a rod and his friends his imagination run wild and everyone runs for cover. The episode has been released numerous times over the years.

Plot
Christopher Robin is cloud watching with Pooh when rain clouds start to roll in. Pooh does not notice because he is gone. Soon Pooh tries to get honey out of a bee hive with a huge bamboo pole, but he instead knocks an eggshell out of its nest. Tigger comes and thinks it is a piece of sky, claiming Pooh broke the sky with the pole. Pooh and Tigger hold a meeting at Rabbit's house and they conclude that the sky will fall by dawn.

Everyone soon moves into Gopher's tunnels. Gopher, who isn't to thrilled about having houseguests for the rest of time, devises a plan to fix the sky and volunteers Pooh to go with him. Gopher builds a huge contraption of ladders, ramps, and stairs up into the clouds just as it starts to get dark, chilly, and windy. Rabbit and Tigger leads an evacuation to Gopher's tunnels thinking Pooh and Gopher will die. The two start to climb up the ladder and pooh rests on a cloud while Gopher keeps climbing, but under Pooh's weight the ladder collapses trapping them in the clouds.

The ladder collapses and causes vibrations in the ground and air. At first the rest of the gang was afraid to leave the tunnels because they thought the sky had fallen. When they emerged they realized Pooh and Gopher were trapped in the clouds. They soon came up with a rescue plan(s). Meanwhile our other two heroes were having an adventure in the clouds. The clouds started to turn black and the air got windy and cold. The sky was about to fall (in reality it was just a thunder storm).

Gopher comes up with a plan to release the energy (rain) from the clouds and thus saving the sky. The water falls through the cloud onto the Hundred Acre Wood scaring the rest of the gang. The thunderstorm ends and the cloud start to break up and drift away dropping Pooh and Gopher. The gang catches them and they have a party later. Rabbit accidentally knocks down another eggshell and Tigger says Rabbit broke the sky again.

Later Christopher Robin and Pooh is cloud watching again and Christopher explains to Pooh that the "sky" was actually an eggshell. All is well once again in the Hundred Acre Wood.

Production
This episode is the sixty-second episode produced by the Walt Disney Company. This was the first time that Jim Cummings took over the role of Tigger, following the retirement of Paul Winchell. Winchell would return to reprise Tigger's voice in the 1997 film Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin

Cultural references
Pooh Skies is a pun of Blue Skies. The entire episode pokes fun at the age old tale of Chicken Little. Tigger's tale of "Humphrey Dumphrey" is a spoof of the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. The gang moving into Gopher's tunnels is a ironic fact that in previous episodes, he'd moved into their houses.

Home video
This particular episode has been released three times on home video spaning a time of nearly two decades, tying it with eight other episodes. . It was first released in 1992 as part-eight in ten part Winnie the Pooh home video franchise intitled: The Sky's The Limit, along with Rabbit Takes A Holiday and Owl in the Family. It would be six more years, before it was released as the fifth and final installment of the "Winnie the Pooh: Friendship Collection" set. Entitled Imagine That: Christopher Robin! it runs 44 minutes, and also contains the episodes: Oh, Bottle! and Up, Up and Awry.