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Even if you don't know who Jim Cummings is, you definitely know his voice. Cummings has been a professional voice actor for decades and has provided a legion of characters for the Walt Disney Company. Although Darkwing Duck and Bonkers D. Bobcat have their fans, there's a special place in all of our hearts for Tigger and Pooh.

Jim Cummings has been the voice of the willy-nilly-silly-old-bear since 1988's The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh animated series, but he wasn't Tigger until he took the reigns from his original performer, filling a pair of very big (and bouncy) shoes in the process.

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Many of you animation buffs out there might be thrilled to know that Cummings has his own podcast where he and a few familiar guest stars from the animation and voice-acting community share experiences and stories. On a...

Disney has had a long and successful track record of animated shows for television. Beginning in the 1980s with shows like The Adventures of the Gummi Bears, DuckTales, and The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, they were a major force in the renaissance age of American animation. This trend has continued into the 2010s, with shows like Gravity Falls, Amphibia, and The Owl House receiving praise from audiences and critics for their stellar animation, memorable characters, and strong mix of comedy and drama.

The highly anticipated Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was released on September 6, 2024, and many of the original actors returned for the Beetlejuice sequel, however, the franchise already had a great sequel 35 years prior. Following the success of Beetlejuice in 1988, director Tim Burton created, and executive produced, a Canadian animated TV series called Beetlejuice in 1989, which was loosely based on the original movie. The animated Beetlejuice series followed a young Lydia Deetz (Alyson Court) and her friend Beetlejuice (Stephen Ouimette) on their wild adventures in the mortal world and the Neitherworld in a four-season run which spanned 94 episodes.

Beetlejuices animated series had a unique art style, and its comedy derived from slapstick humor, wordplay, and allusions. The majority of Beetlejuices episodes focus on Beetlejuices relationship with Lydia, with Lydia being the voice of reason to the wild schemes of Beetlejuice, and Beetlejuice helping Lydia be more confident. The animated series ran for two years,...

To talk about Peter Cullen's voice acting career is to take a trip through the last five decades of mainstream U.S. animation. The man has lent his voice to so many noteworthy cartoon series that it boggles the mind, including "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo," "The Smurfs," "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends," "Voltron: Defender of the Universe," "Alvin and the Chipmunks," "Muppet Babies," "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers," and "Invincible." But one cannot even begin to do justice to his body of work without touching on the iconic character that he's voiced across multiple animated shows and feature films for nearly 40 years now. Truly, at this point, Cullen is all but synonymous with his onscreen counterpart: Eeyore. 

After debuting as the Autobots' intrepid leader in "The Transformers" in 1984, Cullen took over voicing the most relatable resident of the Hundred Acre Wood from the late Ralph Wright (who voiced...

Disney Studios is famous for its entertaining stories, which have been enchanting kids and adults alike for generations. Disney Channel has been a perennial source of light-hearted, family-friendly entertainment for those who can't get enough of the movies. However, some Disney Channel cartoons had dark and disturbing characters who didn't quite belong in a cheery children's show.

Related: 10 Disney Channel Sitcoms That Were Surprisingly Dark

Some dark Disney Channel characters were terrifying villains with huge goals or even tragic heroes with complicated backstories. Characters like Aladdin's Mozenrath and Gravity Falls' Bill Cipher had dark personalities that added an edge to some Disney cartoons.

Updated on 8th June 2023 by Fawzia Khan: Even though Disney's most renowned villains are from the movies, the animated shows that aired on Disney Channel had some of the most fearsome characters. Even if they seemed benign on the outside, they were quite insidious in their actions.

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a Disney animated series that features Pooh, Piglet, and all the rest of the Hundred Acre crew in adventures and outings that just couldn't be contained in the pages of his storybook. It's a piece of the '90s that puts Pooh and company into a more modern era, but also some incredibly strange situations.

Related: 10 Weirdest Winnie the Pooh Moments In Disney History

Though most episodes feature the friends doing their usual schtick in and having fun in the forest, they're no strangers to some very out-there adventures into the realms of fantasy and the absurd. If you want to see some peculiar Pooh episodes, have a look at the 10 featured on our list.

Disney has shared a new trailer for their upcoming Disney+ streaming service and it’s over 3-hours long! I don’t know if you want to spend over three hours seeing what Disney+ has to offer when it launches, but you have the option!

Disney+ also posted all of the films and TV shows coming to the streaming service on a super long Twitter thread, which I included below the trailer. As you’ll see there’s a ton of stuff that will be available that will make Disney fans happy. Gargoyles and several other classic 90s animated series are among them along with a lot of old weird films that have been pulled out of the Disney vault.

If you don’t want to watch the trailer or scroll through the Twitter feed, I shared the full list of titles for you. Check everything out below and let us...

Not every movie can play on the nostalgia factor for every generation, but no matter how old you are, there’s a good chance that you grew up with Winnie the Pooh in some form. The character created by A.A. Milne has endured for over 90 years as a beloved figure of children’s literature and television. And in that time, that silly old bear has been through a lot. Here, we look at the history of Pooh Bear across his many books and cartoons, all the way up to the live action “Christopher Robin.”

The first Winnie the Pooh story written by Alan Alexander Milne first appeared in the London Evening News in 1925 on Christmas Eve. The story, “The Wrong Sort of Bees,” would be the first chapter in the first volume of stories, “Winnie-the-Pooh,” published on October 14, 1926. Milne named the boy in the story after his son, Christopher Robin Milne,...

Actor and comedian Chuck McCann, known for his voice work in “The Garfield Show” and several “DuckTales” films, died on Sunday. His publicist Edward Lozzi told the Associated Press that McCann died of congestive heart failure in a Los Angeles hospital. McCann was 83.

The comedian began his career in the entertainment industry in 1959 and continued to act until his death. Among his work in TV, films, and advertisements, McCann created the voice of Sonny the Cuckoo Bird for General Mills’ Cocoa Puffs TV commercials, recording the iconic “I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!” line.

He had guest roles throughout the 1970s on “Little House on the Prairie,” “Bonanza,” “The Bob Newhart Show,” “Diff’rent Strokes,” “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” and “Columbo.” On the big screen, McCann had a notable supporting gig in 1968’s “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” and was featured in “Herbie Rides Again,” “Robin Hood: Men in Tights,...

Beloved children’s TV show host, comedian, puppeteer, actor, and voiceover artist Chuck McCann died on April 8 from congenital heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Deadline has confirmed. He was 83.

McCann was born on September 2, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York. It was in his hometown where he made a name for himself as a versatile entertainer in the ’60s. He, along with Soupy Sales, Sandy Becker, and Claude Kirschner were comedic influencers of the time. He worked on various children’s shows including Captain Kangaroo and Rootie Kazootie.

In 1963, he headed The Chuck McCann Show which ran on New York’s Wpix-tv, seven days a week. He went on to host Chuck McCann’s Laurel & Hardy TV Show in 1966 which featured Laurel & Hardy animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera. The show gave McCann the opportunity to do his Oliver Hardy imitation.

His television career also included recurring roles on Santa Barbara,...

I recently had the opportunity to speak with the man behind many of the voices I grew up listening to in the mornings, after school and even on the weekends.  Peter Cullen is known throughout the world not only as the voice of the wise and heroic leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, in the 1980s The Transformers cartoon series, but he was also the voice of various other robots including Ironhide, Slugslinger, Streetwise, Wingspan and Nightstick. He reprised the voices of Optimus and Ironhide in the 1986 ?The Transformers: The Movie? film. In 2007 Cullen returned as Optimus Prime in Michael Bay's live-action Transformers film and it's subsequent sequels. Cullen has also lent his talents to the somber voice of Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. He has lent his voice to Knight Rider (K.A.R.R.), The Pirates of Dark Water (Mantus), Dungeons and Dragons (Venger), Voltron,...

I didn't even know Disney was bringing everyone's favorite 'hunny'-lovin' bear Winnie The Pooh back to theaters, but indeed they are... and it's looking nice and old school. Admittedly, I'm a bit partial to Pooh since I grew up with the character's 70s iterations as well as "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" that aired on television in the late 80s. I think it remains one of Disney's sweetest franchises, so it's nice to see it not only returning but also retaining the look...

The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…

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It’s been a long, long, Long wait, but the fine folks at Cinematic Titanic make a strong return with their road-tested riff of the awkward merging of both Kung-Fu And Blaxsploitation, all wrapped in a model of poor filmmaking and worse acting… I give you East Meets Watts (Cinema Titan, Not Rated, DVD-$14.99). Not only is the riffing tight, but this is also the first Cinematic Titanic Live release,...

Calling Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving a full-length adventure is a little bit of a lie. Ok, so it’s a huge lie, as it’s neither full-length nor adventuresome. The truth is, it’s a compilation of three previously televised stories set in the Hundred Acre Wood tied together with a truly awful song with lines like “every season brings a reason” and animation even more tragic in comparison. The characters in the segments look nothing like the characters in between, and I’m pretty sure Piglet’s face isn’t supposed to look like it got squashed.

The first episode, Groundpiglet’s Day, isn’t so bad. Tigger and friends all get confused and believe it is Groundhog’s Day (due to a mishap with Rabbit’s calendar and a gust of wind). Since they don’t know any groundhogs, they come up with the fabulous idea...

A children's video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon favorites has been slapped with a gay alert warning by Christian Conservative groups. The music video, due to be sent to 61,000 schools across America in March, was made by the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation to encourage tolerance and diversity. But Christian activist groups the American Family Association and Focus On The Family say the innocent cartoon characters are being exploited to promote the acceptance of homosexuality. The video is a remake of the 1979 hit song "We Are Family," featuring SpongeBob, Barney, Winnie The Pooh, Bob The Builder, the Rugrats and 100 TV cartoon stars. It was made by a foundation set up by songwriter Nile Rodgers to promote America's healing process after the September 11 attacks. Christian groups, however, have taken exception to the tolerance pledge on the foundation's website, which asks people to respect the sexual identity of others along with their abilities, beliefs, culture and race. Rodgers hits back, "That is so myopic and harsh. You have really got to look hard to find anything in this that is offensive to anyone. The last thing I am going to do is taint these characters."...