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Tigger is a fictional tiger character
originally introduced in A. A. Milne's book The House at Pooh
Corner.
He is easily recognized by his orange and
black stripes, beady eyes, a long chin, a springy tail, and his
bouncy personality.
As he says himself, "Bouncing is what Tiggers
do best." Like other Pooh characters,
Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin
Milne's stuffed animals.

Tigger is introduced in Chapter II of House at Pooh Corner,
when he shows up on Winnie-the-Pooh's doorstep in the middle of the night,
announcing himself with a big bounce.
Most of the rest of that chapter is taken up with the
characters' search for a food that Tigger can eat for breakfast .
Despite Tigger's claims to like "everything", it is quickly
proven he does not like honey,
acorns, thistles, or most of the contents of Kanga's pantry.
In a happy coincidence, however, he discovers what Tiggers
really like best is extract of malt.

From that point on, Tigger lives with Kanga
and Roo in their house in the northeastern part of the
Hundred Acre Wood near the Sandy Pit.
He becomes great friends with Roo, and Kanga
treats him in much the same way she does her own son.
Tigger also interacts enthusiastically with
all the other characters — sometimes too enthusiastically for
the likes of
Rabbit , who sometimes seems exasperated by Tigger's
constant bouncing,who is once bounced into the river by Tigger, and
Piglet , who always seems a little nervous about the new,
large, bouncy animal in the Forest.
Nonetheless, the animals are all shown to be
friends.
Tigger is a rash and bouncy
animal.
He has the tendency to chance things without thinking.
Bouncing get
Tigger often in trouble.
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He looks a bit as a tiger, but he is very
friendly. And most wonderful thing is "He is the only one".

Tigger also appears in the
Disney cartoon versions of the Winnie-the-Pooh
stories, beginning with
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day in
1968.
He has even starred in his own
film,
The Tigger Movie Disney,
2000), along with his friends from the
Hundred Acre Wood. Tigger was originally voiced
by
Paul Winchell. Since 1990, he has been
voiced by
Jim Cummings (who is also the voice of
Pooh),
with the exception of
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for
Christopher Robin (1997), in which Winchell
reprised the role of Tigger one more time.
On
June 24,
2005, Winchell died;
John Fiedler, the voice of
Piglet in some of those films, died the next
day. In the movies, Tigger has his
own theme song, "The
Wonderful Thing about Tiggers".
The music for it was written
by
Richard M. Sherman, with lyrics by
Robert B. Sherman.
 An interesting quirk about
Tigger is that, according to his theme song,
"the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is (he's)
the only one."
This song leads to his search
for his family in
The Tigger Movie. In
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and
subsequent cartoons, Tigger lives in a large
treehouse.
A tire swing hangs prominently
from a branch of the tree.
In
The Tigger Movie, Tigger builds a makeshift
addition (gluing the shingles on with honey) in
anticipation of a hoped-for visit by members of
his family.
This "family room" is
eventually relocated to serve as a replacement
for Eeyore's collapse-prone house of sticks.
The Disney version of Tigger
was featured in both the TV special
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue and the TV
series
House of Mouse.

Pooh
Eeyore
Christopher Robin
Piglet
Rabbit
Kanga
Roo
Owl

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