Film Theory: Winnie The Pooh's DEADLY Diet! (The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh)

[Music] ah just what i needed how about you poo [Music] poo maybe you should slow down a bit there friend who are you okay are you okay poo poo oh bother starting cpr [Music] hello internet welcome to film theory the show that dives headfirst into a honeypot of theories only to pass out in a sugar coma with 20 20 keeping me locked inside with a toddler i've broken down and broken out a couple of the classics from my childhood to show him there's mickey mouse there's mulan but his favorite is the 1977 classic animated movie the many adventures of winnie the pooh granted he really only likes to listen to the theme song 30 times in a row and run around in counterclockwise circles to it but well he was doing that over and over and over again i was theorizing this movie was a staple of my childhood and it's been really fun to go back and watch it but looking at it now through theory-addled eyes i have a few questions for old pooh there there are quite a few winnie the pooh theories out there in the world and i mean this stuff goes deep i think one of the weirdest that's gained a lot of traction over the years is that the internet claims the characters from the 100 acre wood represent the seven deadly sins rabbit is wrath because he's always angry owl is pride because he's so cocky and confident all the time you get the idea who is of course gluttony constantly eating honey and hungry for more but i'm not interested in the seven deadly sins idea i think that one is a bit of a stretch even i have my limits but i am interested in poo's honey obsession it's a clear driving force for him throughout these movies we literally never see him eat anything else so i asked myself if it would be possible for poo to survive only on honey alone at first it was just a little thought experiment honestly but it ended up here as an episode because there's a lot more than just a smackerel of biology involved and also this is like the only disney theory i've done that's not about the main character being evil or dead or about to die or is it just kidding this is winnie the pooh we're talking about you're here because you like things that are cute and relaxing and get you to think think think so today let's think think think together and get this episode started a few ground rules to this theory since yes i know pooh and his friends are stuffed animals in reality it means that none of the plushie characters actually have to eat to survive but we're assuming here that pooh is gonna be a real bear because well that's how he's depicted in the movies he's a plushie bear sure but he still roams around the forest eating honey by the pot load even in the live-action movie christopher robin the stuffed teddy bear is still trying to consume very real world honey so we're just gonna go with that plus we need poo to eat honey so we can continue to live on in the very real imaginary world of our hearts to start with i think there's a simpler question that we need to answer first do real bears actually eat honey i'm sure most of you are probably rolling your eyes at this point of course bears eat honey matpat but honestly i was a bit skeptical bees are serious business and if you're a bear you're looking for the path of least resistance between you and your dinner so my assumption would be that most bears were only getting honey from like unsuspecting campers who also somehow think that honey is a camping necessity i thought that the idea might just be movie nonsense that we've been fed throughout our childhoods but i actually did some research and it turns out the idea of bears eating honey is based on real world fact according to national geographic quote all bears are considered omnivores and yes they all love the taste of honey other sources state that this is because honey is made up of the simple sugars glucose and fructose which can be broken down quickly by mammals for a quick boost of energy plus the sweet addicting qualities of sugar keep them coming back for more it's basically the bear equivalent of us with candy you say you're only going back for a couple of m m's before you know it the whole bag is gone there's even closed circuit tv footage of bears in china sneaking into a local nature reserve to eat the honey collected in the apiary clearly bears very much want to eat honey but could they survive on it well we're not really interested in whether all bears could survive we only care about one bear in particular different species of bear have different biological requirements so to answer this question we really need to figure out what kind of bear is a pooh bear winnie the pooh was created by a.a milne in 1926 and was based on his son's stuffed bear his son christopher robin milne named the toy after a popular american black bear at london zoo called winnipeg so is that her answer then he's a black bear well just because pooh was named after a black bear it doesn't guarantee that that's what he is so to double check let's compare pooh to other types of bears there are eight species of bear in existence today the north american black bear the brown bear the polar bear the asiatic black bear the andean bear the panda bear the sloth bear and the sun bear we can discount a few right off the bat pooh is very clearly not a panda based on his lack of fur patterns this logic can also be applied to the andean bear with pooh lacking the famous spectacled face markings as well as the sloth sun and asiatic black bears with pooh lacking the prominent chest markings he's also not a polar bear given the fact that he lives in a forest rather than the arctic after that we're left with only two types of bear the brown bear and the american black bear but matpat i hear you say who is clearly yellow not black or brown to which i say not so fast first the original witty the pooh is not yellow he was in fact brown in bringing him to film disney blondified him as they did with christopher robin who was also a brunette in real life also sure who is yellow in the movie but actually both brown and black bears have been seen in a variety of colors including black brown and even golden blonde there are also a couple of other historic and geographic reasons that pooh has to be one of these two species first conveniently the 100-acre wood is based on a real forest the 500-acre wood in the uk while not the most interestingly named the reference is clear and the bear that used to roam the uk in these woods was a subspecies of brown bear however that still doesn't close the book on this because pooh is after all also a teddy bear and they happen to have a very specific origin story in 1902 the story goes that president theodore roosevelt refused to shoot a black bear that his associates had tied up to a tree this then became a political cartoon and inspired morris mitchum to create the very first teddy bear named after theodore roosevelt teddy the president this funny little piece of presidential legend political propaganda became the most ubiquitously owned toy in the world in the century since so we have ourselves the two main suspects but which is it fortunately there are a few key features that can help us distinguish each type of bear let's start with brown bear they tend to have small round ears deep sunken eyes close together and a disc shaped snout where there's a clear curve between the top of the head and the tip of the nose brown bears also have a very defined shoulder hump which is the highest point of their body when they're on all fours black bears on the other hand have longer more erect ears eyes that sit further apart and no shoulder hum and because of that they have more of a teardrop body shape with the rump being the highest part so now let's look at pooh his ears stand on end and are more oval than round so one point for black bear we can definitely see from the face that his eyes are set further apart another point as for body shape pooh clearly doesn't have a shoulder hump and although we never see him walking on all fours his torso is larger at the bottom and gets narrower as it goes up pointing to the likelihood that his rump would be higher so it would seem that pooh is indeed an american black bear now that we've established the kind of bear poo is we can start to work out what he needs to survive the average american blackberry needs to consume 8 000 calories every day during the spring and a whopping 20 000 calories in the fall to get ready to hibernate however we already know that poo doesn't hibernate due to the many times that we see him playing out in the snow and that's not all the average black bear is five to seven feet or one and a half to 2.1 meters tall when stood on their hind legs given the fact that we see pooh standing next to a child it's unlikely that pooh is nearly that tall to get a better understanding of how many calories a bear his size would need to consume we need to figure out his height now i thought that this would be simple but it turns out there's no cannon height for winnie the pooh a character that's been around since 1926 does not have himself a cannon height a quick google search suggested that pooh is 22 inches or 56 centimeters tall but the source for this was sketchy at best it's mainly a random collection of pages based on winnie the pooh godzilla and american cereal of all the things to have a website for i don't think i'd ever have thought to put winnie the pooh alongside godzilla and captain crunch though god admit i definitely watched that show long story short i took matters into my own hands and brought out the pixel measurements it would be nearly impossible to measure poo in the cartoon given none of the characters have canon heights and the objects tend to be proportional to them rather than to the world instead i turned to the 2018 live-action film christopher robin ewan mcgregor who plays christopher robin has a height of 1.77 meters or 5 foot 10 inches therefore we should be able to take shots of poo next to him and figure out his height but after hours of measuring i got nothing due to angles and perspective every time i did the math or maths if you're using the proper version of english i got a slightly different answer it would range anywhere from 20 to 25 inches or 51 to 63.5 centimeters all around the right range but nothing definitive at this point i was ready to give up but then i remembered this shot why is that shot important well poo is put in a british red telephone box and their sizes are standardized the box that they're in is a k-6 model and yes of course i'm up on my british telephone box types aren't you this is clear because we can see that it has eight rows of glass with the middle panes being much wider than the two on either side previous models like k2 3 and 4 had six rows of equal sized panes and the k1 had four rows of two equal sized panes plus modern versions tend to be one solid pane of glass so it is unquestionably a k6 telephone box in the movie based on the standardized size of k6 telephone boxes i can now say definitively that poo is in fact 22 inches or 56 centimeters which in an ironic twist means that that sketchy website was right that is several hours of my life that i'm not getting back should have listened to that godzilla cereal website if we compare this to the smallest average black bear five feet or one and a half meters who is just over a third of that size so if you break down the amount of calories per day in the spring per centimeter of height who would need a calorie intake of just over 2980 calories per day that's not that much but for someone who's 22 inches high it's pretty substantial and poo is supposed to only be eating honey does honey contain enough calories is there even enough honey in the hundred 100-acre wood to keep them alive for those answers i had to look into one of my new favorite topics sunny science and yes it is a real thing in fact in 1912 there was an annual journal released and it's still going strong today entitled bee world that would discuss and i quote the progressive interests of modern bee culture you like jazz and people think that being in the movies makes you a nerd in volume 32 issue two of b-world eva crane wrote a paper focusing on the amount of honey a colony of bees can yield in a year in this paper she notes that the caloric value of honey is 1400 calories per pound or 31 calories per kilogram which adds up because that's what we see advertised today on average a strong colony in a good year produces 30 to 60 pounds or 14 to 27 kilograms of honey in a 365 day span equating to about .16 pounds or 70 grams of honey per day this would only give poo 224 calories for his daily meal far below what he needs to survive but again that's just one colony of bees how many colonies of bees are there likely to be in the hundred acre wood well we've only seen a couple of hives on the show but that's where eva crane comes in again she states that one colony of bees needs one acre of well-pollinated land in order to produce those averages in theory the hundred acre wood could have a hundred colonies living there each within their own acre obviously it could be more as bees have been known to travel up to five miles it could be less but for the sake of clean numbers let's just say that there are a hundred colonies this means then that even in a low season there would be around 3 000 pounds or 1 361 kilograms of honey every year that is over 4 million calories per year giving poo a more than healthy 11 500 calories per day to live off of that's over four times what we estimated he would need it also means that pooh would have to travel about 26 acres every day to get his fill maybe that's why we see him wandering around so much so is that it who just survives well if you're familiar with this channel you know i couldn't just leave it there technically for a blackberry size pooh could find his requisite 3000 calories per day but that isn't necessarily a good thing black bears are opportunistic eaters by nature because of this 75 to 95 of their diet tends to be vegetation things like grass berries nuts if the environment allows for it they'll also fill a portion of their diet with rodents birds fish insects all of this is an aid of collecting fats carbohydrates protein the fats and carbs get broken down stored and used for energy but protein has a bigger role here helping to balance hormones creating and repairing muscles as well as being a source of energy it also has the added bonus of making you feel fuller faster whereas things like sugar and simple carbs often make you feel hungrier sooner honey does provide carbs that the body can use for energy but it doesn't contain any protein which is why it isn't usually a major source of food for bears notice how i said isn't usually that's because under normal circumstances bears don't just eat honey bears will eat everything inside the beehive the honey the larvae even the bees themselves this balances out the sugary carbs with the much needed protein but with poo we see him spitting out the bees he only eats the honey inside so poo is gonna be getting some energy out of this but without any protein in his diet he actually starts to run into a number of health risks the first of which is that he's malnourished we've all seen those videos online of a starving pet that's been abandoned their bones showing through their skin barely able to walk it's a sad sight be sure and the reason they look like this is because they're malnourished protein unlike fatter carbohydrates can't be stored for the body to draw in later so if you're not eating enough protein the body does the only thing it can do and finds what it needs within the body who's hunger is never satisfied because his body is crying out for the nutrients that he's not getting and that's not the only problem that he faces as poo's body begins to eat away at his internal proteins it very well may start to eat away at the protein p10 this protein is what scientists believe allow bears to gain so much weight before hibernation but also never contract diseases like type 2 diabetes how pten works is it tells the body to store sugar rather than immediately breaking it down and sending it through the body this means they have a large supply of sugar built up so when they hibernate it can slowly be released to give the body energy and keep their blood sugar levels regulated if poo's body isn't getting any protein and begins to eat away at p10 he isn't gonna store the sugar to release it safely when he needs it instead he'll have dangerous levels of sugar pulsing through his body which his body won't be able to handle and winnie the pool reach the same inevitable consequence that all of us do type 2 diabetes that's right if poo doesn't start diversifying his diet and picking up a few of those carrots from rabbit's garden he's heading down a dangerous path towards honey induced diabetes pretty soon he'll start feeling fatigued feeling abnormally thirsty get blurred vision itchy skin sudden weight loss and wouldn't you know it always feeling hungry it's a little concerning that poo is always constantly asking for another small smack roll of something and that's probably not just regular hunger he's feeling but his body telling him it needs a much better balanced diet if he's going to keep hunting hephalons in the hundred acre wood all that's to say maybe it's for the best that our childhood imagination doesn't manifest itself in real life all that often since pooh turns out to be not only a bear of very little brain but also a bear of very likely diabetes and rabbit is pretty spot on to hide his honey jars whenever poo comes a knock in so is poo's love of honey plausible yeah totally is it possible for him to get enough interestingly enough absolutely is it now christopher robin's responsibility to make sure pooh doesn't eat himself into a diabetic coma in the middle of the hundred acre wood most definitely sorry christopher welcome to adulting but hey that's just a theory a film theory and cuts winnie the pooh captain crunch and godzilla looking for flavors through time and space honey and kaiju mixed in with their cereal what other adventures could they stuff in their face you

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Length: 16min 39sec (999 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 22 2020

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[u/MachaPanta]

I know the guy that made the Pooh, cereal, and Godzilla website with Pooh's height. He lives in North Carolina and wrote a book on cereal.