Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Tigger is Deaded

8:03 PM by Sonny Vegas

Bad news everybunny....

Paul Winchell, a ventriloquist, inventor and children's TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh's animated friend Tigger, has died. He was 82.

Winchell died Friday morning in his sleep at his Moorpark home, Burt Du Brow, a television producer and close family friend, told the Los Angeles Times.
Over six decades, Winchell was a master ventriloquist — bringing dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff to life on television — and an inventor who held 30 patents, including one for an early artificial heart he built in 1963.

But he was perhaps best known for his work as the voice of the lovable tiger in animated versions of A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" — with his trademark "T-I-double grrrr-R."
Winchell first voiced Tigger in 1968 for Disney's "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day," which won an Academy Award for best animated short film, and continued to do so through 1999's "Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving."

http://www.paulwinchell.com/

I am so sad.
Sonny

Comments (10)

  1. I'm sad too.
    No more "bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy fun fun fun fun fun".

    8:26 PM by Blogger Sonny Vegas

  2. We lost Piglet this week too.

    Bad day for the 100 Acre Woods.

    8:37 PM by Blogger Nicky Vegas

  3. Oh boy, saddness is oozing out of me at a high rate of speed.

    I just checked, Pooh is still warm.

    9:04 AM by Blogger Sonny Vegas

  4. My condolences to Sonny and Nicky for the pain they feel over this loss. Winnie the Pooh is an all time classic! And it is sad.
    :-(3T

    11:09 AM by Anonymous Anonymous

  5. Oh, poor babies. It's okay. You lost a couple of good friend, but the memories will remain in your hearts forever.

    Maybe they'll be reincarnated. :D Wouldn't that be nice?

    3:23 PM by Anonymous Anonymous

  6. Did Sonny just say, "Pooh is still warm"? EEEEWWWWWWW! Somebody get Sonny to take his Ritalin!

    Ma, I'll get over it. I'm just hoping that 3T is up for giving me some serious consoling! I need to be "comforted" in this time of grief.

    heh heh heh.

    3:30 PM by Blogger Nicky Vegas

  7. Okay, here's how old I really am. I LOVED Paul's Jerry Mahoney. I didn't even know he was Tigger. I was always worried that Paul was starving and out of work.

    5:51 AM by Blogger Bud

  8. Of course Nicky!
    What kinda future X-wife would I be, if I didn't console your greiving!;-)
    3T

    9:52 AM by Anonymous Anonymous

  9. pssst.... I have Tigger sheets...

    11:32 AM by Blogger Kim

  10. Oh yeah. I know ALL about the Tigger sheets! Naughty little love tart!

    3T, I'm in need for some serious comforting. You got any Mogen David?

    Bud, did you really need confirmation that yer old?

    7:51 PM by Blogger Nicky Vegas

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