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[CortJstr]

I wonder if there had been messageboards during A.A. Milne's lifetime, would he have gotten all these questions?

"Is Pooh really a stuffed toy?  If so, how does he eat the honey?"

Overanalyzing is half the fun. The nature of the the animals is like our version of "where is Springfield", "does the family understand the baby", or "so can the wrestlers not see the camera crew while discussing their evil plot"

[Carlos del Vaca]

"Is Pooh really a stuffed toy?  If so, how does he eat the honey?"

The entire Pooh canon was a figment of Christopher Robin's imagination.  Kinda like St. Elsewhere.

[V-Adore]

I dunno, I can suspend disbelief about the whole "how are the stuffed animals alive" thing, but I do wonder why precisely Philippe lives with them and not with his mother. It seems like the sort of thing that should have a diagetic explanation (and very well might in the Serializer strips, for all I know), so that's what I'm curious about -- I understand that the non-diagetic answer is "because he had to be written into the strip somehow," but that begs the question of "why establish a mother and not resolve her? Why not just have him order himself Speaker Sneakers? He has a credit card!"

[Silverberg]

Perhaps the guest strip wherein Philippe is cruelly treated by his mother had more shades of truth than we had previously thought, and he is not allowed by law to live with her.

Alternatively, she thought the time was right for young Philippe to go out into the world and make his fortune.

[Va]

This is why Phillipe doesn't live with his mother.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I suspect that Phillippe was picked up in a store by Onstad when he (Phillippe) was in full-on stuffed-animal mode.  And Onstad is one of the few humans blessed with the knowledge that THEY'RE REALLY ALIVE

Also, I feel compelled to point out that Phillippe being only five didn't prevent him from getting his freak on with Ultra Peanut.

[Paisley]

she thought the time was right for young Philippe to go out into the world and make his fortune.

Male sea otters reach sexual maturity around 4-5 years of age. I'd assume they would be encouraged to leave their mother at around 1 or 2 years, so that she can get on with the business of raising more little otters.

That wouldn't mean that they are emotionally or intellectual mature, though--have you ever seen an otter when they're doing anything other than eating or sleeping? They are spazzes.

[Steve Hogan]

"Is Pooh really a stuffed toy?  If so, how does he eat the honey?"

The entire Pooh canon was a figment of Christopher Robin's imagination.  Kinda like St. Elsewhere.

Was it like a dream?  Did he wake up one day and Patrick Duffy wasn't dead, but instead naked in his shower?

[CortJstr]

"Is Pooh really a stuffed toy?  If so, how does he eat the honey?"

The entire Pooh canon was a figment of Christopher Robin's imagination.  Kinda like St. Elsewhere.

Was it like a dream?  Did he wake up one day and Patrick Duffy wasn't dead, but instead naked in his shower?

What's "Family Guy"?