Winnie the Pooh is a Dangerous Cartoon

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I used to have a different schedule on Saturday morning and while I was eating breakfast the local news would end and cartoons would come on; I didn't bother to change the channel. For a while the one that came on was Winnie the Pooh. I know that many cartoons feature violence of one sort or another such as appears in Roadrunner and the Coyote but in those it is pretty clear even to children that the danger is impossible and since it involves such outrageous and only cartoon characters, it is something not to be immolated. But Winnie the Pooh has a real human looking boy who interacts with Winnie and thus makes it easier for a child to relate and to think they can do what the characters in the show do. There was one that really bugged me. In it they had the human kid and later Winnie blowing up balloons and then the balloons would act like they had helium in them instead of just air. They showed Winnie using one of the balloons, note it was just one, that had been filled with air and then jumping off a cliff and floating off. First it only had air so it would fall to the ground and second even if it had helium, one would not be enough to lift fat Winnie into the air when he jumped off the cliff. I have to wonder how many kids jumped out a second story window after seeing that with a balloon filled with air and fell to get hurt. The parents of those kids probably had no idea why the kid how thought to do it.