Heffalumps and Woozles

"Heffalumps and Woozles" is a song from the 1968 Walt Disney musical film featurette "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day". It was written by the Sherman Brothers.

The song is about phantasmagoric elephants and weasels becoming a threat to Pooh and his food source. The song serves as a soundtrack to the iconic, psychedelic "Pooh Nightmare" sequence where Pooh subconsciously deals with the theft of his all-too-precious honey.

Although the song is not used in the 2005 feature, "Pooh's Heffalump Movie"; it is generally accepted that the song and accompanying visual montage is the inspiration of the Heffalump film. Such is more definitively the case with the relationship between the Sherman Brothers' song, "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" and the 2000 release of "The Tigger Movie".

The song was considered very "of its time,"Fact|date=March 2008 borrowing liberally from the psychedelic experimentation which was prevalent in the late 1960s. It has also been compared to the similar Pink Elephants on Parade animated sequence from the Dumbo movie.Fact|date=March 2008

The song is the main theme in dream scenes of the Winnie The Pooh series of rides at the Disney Parks. Part of the song is played as part of the soundtrack of "HalloWishes", a Halloween-themed fireworks display held during "Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party" at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

Literary Sources

* Sherman, Robert B. "". Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998.
* Peterson, Monique. "Disney's The Little Big Book of Pooh". New York: Disney Editions, 2002.