Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)

Junius Matthews: Rabbit

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Quotes 

• Winnie the Pooh : [in a sticky voice]  I must be going now. Goodbye, Rabbit.

  Rabbit : Well, goodbye, if you're sure you won't have any more.

  Winnie the Pooh : [turns to leave then stops]  Is there any more?

  Rabbit : No, there isn't.

  Winnie the Pooh : I thought not.

  [tries to climb out the front door but is stuck] 

  Winnie the Pooh : Oh, oh, help and bother! I'm stuck.

  Rabbit : Oh, dear. Oh, gracious. Oh. Well, it all comes from eating too much.

  Winnie the Pooh : It all comes from not having front doors big enough!

• Rabbit : Why did I ever invite that bear to lunch? Why, oh, why, oh, why?

• Rabbit : [hammering a sign in front of Gopher]  Don't, feed, the, bear!

  Gopher : [scoffs]  I'm gonna skedaddle. I'm not in the book.

  [falls into hole, screaming] 

  Gopher : And I'm a ding dang glad of it!

• Rabbit : [encouragingly]  Uh, Would you like condensed milk...

  [discouragingly] 

  Rabbit : or honey on your bread?

  Winnie the Pooh : Both. But never mind the bread, please. Just a small helping, if you please.

  Rabbit : Huh, there you are.

  [gives Pooh a single drop of honey; Pooh looks at him disappointedly] 

  Rabbit : Is, uh, something wrong?

  Winnie the Pooh : Well, I did mean a little larger small helping.

  Rabbit : Perhaps, it would save time if you took the whole-

  [Pooh takes the honey pot from Rabbit] 

  Rabbit : -jar?

  Winnie the Pooh : Thank you, Rabbit.

• Winnie the Pooh : Is anybody at home?

  [no answer] 

  Winnie the Pooh : What I said was, "Is anybody at home?"

  Rabbit : No.

  Winnie the Pooh : Bother. Isn't there anybody here at all?

  Rabbit : [hurriedly collecting dishes from his table]  Nobody!

  Winnie the Pooh : Must be somebody there, because *somebody* must have said, "Nobody."

• Winnie the Pooh : Well, isn't that the Rabbit's voice?

  Rabbit : [talking into a honey jar]  I don't think so. It isn't meant to be.

• Rabbit : [drawing on Pooh's backside when he's stuck in Rabbit's door]  Oh, Pooh! You messed up my moose!

• Winnie the Pooh : [peering into Rabbit's hole]  Hello, Rabbit!

  Rabbit : Oh, oh, hello, Pooh Bear.

  [realizes] 

  Rabbit : Uh, Pooh Bear! Uh, uh, aha, aha, what a pleasant surprise! And, uh, how about lunch?

  Winnie the Pooh : [entering Rabbit's home]  Oh, thank you, Rabbit.

  Rabbit : [lamely]  And uh, help yourself, Pooh.

• Narrator : Now Pooh wasn't one to give up so easily. When he set his mind to honey, he stuck to it. Now, honey rhymes with bunny, and bunny rhymes with...

  Winnie the Pooh : Rabbit? I like Rabbit, because he uses short, easy words like, "How about lunch?", and "Help yourself, Pooh."

  Rabbit : [Listening from inside]  Pooh? Lunch? Oh, no. Not again. Oh my, oh my, oh my goodness gracious.

• Narrator : And then, one morning, when Rabbit was beginning to think that he might never be able to use his front door again, it happened!

  Rabbit : [after Pooh budges through Rabbit's door a little ways]  He budged! Hooray! Christopher Rabin! Uh, uh, Chrostopher Robin, he bidged! He badged! He booged! Today's the day!