The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Shovel, Shovel Toil and Trouble (4x6)

Air date: Sep 23, 1991

A large box had arrived... Gopher's package. You have to unwrap them just so, careful... rip, rip, rip! Lucille! He's about to propose to her. She's an electronic shovel... Piglet suggests he digs with her. Gopher excitedly makes Rabbit a carrot cellar - a hole in the middle of his house. He's going to build Pooh an olympic sized swimming hole... Of course you have to fill it first... He's off to renovate Tigger's house... Tigger comes to them, bandaged up. Piglet wants to talk to Gopher - he's only trying to help... He's only doing what he's supposed to do with a shovel... Piglet's house disappears beneath the earth... Maybe this has gone too far. Gopher is sleeping and dreaming about Lucille when Piglet sneaks in and takes the shovel - but an alarm sounds as he makes off with her to Gopher's horror. Piglet decides to bury her then explain to Gopher, but Lucille digs a really big hole... Gopher gets the gang to help him. Tigger thinks it's the tracks of a yellow bellied shovel and Pig