Tigger also interacts enthusiastically with all the other characters — sometimes too enthusiastically for the likes of Rabbit, who is sometimes exasperated by Tigger's constant bouncing, Eeyore, who is once bounced into the river by Tigger, and Piglet, who always seems a little nervous about the new, large, bouncy animal in the Forest.

Eeyore appears in chapters IV, VI, VII, and X of Winnie-the-Pooh, and is mentioned in a few others.

His name is an onomatopoeic representation of the braying sound made by a normal donkey, usually represented as " hee haw " in American English: the spelling with an " r " is explained by the fact that Milne and most of his intended audience spoke a non-rhotic variety of English in which the " r " in " Eeyore " is not pronounced as / r /.

Physically, Eeyore is described as an " old grey donkey.

Eeyore is also surprisingly good at the game Poohsticks, winning more times than anyone else when it is played in the sixth chapter.

Despite his depressive nature, Eeyore is capable of great compassion, whereas in the books he is more apathetic.

Several episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episodes exemplify this, including " Donkey for a Day ", " Stripes ", " Home is Where the Home is " and " Eeyi Eeyi Eeyore ".

Eeyore is usually one of the core group of animals, along with Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit and Tigger.

According to Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, this was possible because Eeyore is full of sawdust.

In animation, Eeyore is colored his natural grey, though he is coloured blue with a pink muzzle in merchandising.

He appears less frequently than Pooh, Tigger, and Eeyore, but he is more common than the rare Rabbit.

The stretched bird base is used in Lang's Bald Eagle, Greenberg's Eeyore, and some other high-intermediate and complex models.

This involves getting the bees to move into a new hive by convincing them that Eeyore is a bee.

The final house, however, is a disaster, but Tigger and Pooh go off to tell Eeyore about the house.

Tigger and Pooh go to inform Eeyore of the bad news, but Piglet arrives to tell them all that the house is fine.

A. Milne, author of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, worked as his assistant ; it is thought that Seaman's dour disposition may have been the inspiration behind the gloomy character of Eeyore.

( 新しい人よ 、 眼ざめよ ; Atarashii hito yo mezameyo ) is a 1983 semi-autobiographical novel by Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe, about his day-to-day life with his mentally handicapped son, Hikari ( represented by an alter ego called " Eeyore ") and the effect that William Blake's poetry has had on both his life and work.

Eeyore also wrote the awkwardly-rhymed poem called " POEM ", which appeared on the " rissolution ", making him the only character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books other than Pooh himself who attempts to write poetry.

Though often a supporting character, Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore focuses on him.

In reference to this, Cullen re-enacted a scene at BotCon to demonstrate a scene where his character Optimus Prime meets Eeyore.

* Roo's character originally was a toddler and would most often be sitting on something like Eeyore or Tigger's back, Kanga's pouch, or his high chair.

He voiced Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, Digit in An American Tail, Petrie in The Land Before Time with the current voice of Willie the Giant, started voicing the character from Mickey's Christmas Carol and continues to do voice work.

The original stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne and featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, with Eeyore on the right

Roo participates in the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig ; Eeyore, a toy donkey ; Owl, a live owl ; Rabbit, a live rabbit ; and Christopher Robin, a human boy.

Some of Roo's friends include Tigger, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, and Christopher Robin.

The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig ; Eeyore, a toy donkey ; Owl, a live owl ; and Rabbit, a live rabbit.

The title comes from a story in which Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet build a house for Eeyore.

The most prominent characters he has voiced are Eeyore in the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise and Optimus Prime ( as well as Ironhide ) in the original 1980s Transformers animated series.

He has played Coran, Stride the Tiger Fighter, and King Alfor in the Lion Voltron series, the transforming spaceship / robot Ramrod in the 1980s anime series Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, Commander James Hawkins in the Vehicle Voltron series, Eeyore in the Winnie-the-Pooh series, KARR in Knight Rider, Antor and Bomba, and Gunner, in Dino-Riders, Airbourne, Nemesis Enforcer and Zandar in G. I.

Other notable characters created by Milne include the bouncy Tigger and gloomy Eeyore.

Eeyore has a poor opinion of most of the other animals in the Forest, describing them as having " No brain at all, some of them ", " only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake " ( from chapter 1 of The House at Pooh Corner ).

Eeyore as depicted by Disney

Eeyore appears in the Winnie the Pooh cartoons popularized by The Walt Disney Company.

Eeyore was voiced by Ralph Wright in the original featurettes, although Ron Feinberg filled in as his voice in the short film Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons.

Although Cullen was still active when the film Winnie the Pooh was in production, Eeyore was voiced by Bud Luckey for the film.

Piglet's adventures in the first book include hunting Woozles, attempting to capture Heffalumps, giving Eeyore a birthday balloon ( popped ), impersonating Roo in an attempt to trick Kanga, joining the Expotition to the North Pole, and being trapped by a flood.

* Eeyore ( voiced by Peter Cullen )

Here Piglet comes up with the idea to build Eeyore a house and he and Pooh are joined by Tigger to build it.

Eeyore, Rabbit, Roo, and Tigger are now standing by the edge of the ravine, next to the waterfall, but the log inside which Pooh and Piglet were trapped has fallen far into the waters below.

In 1960 HMV recorded a dramatised version with songs ( music by Harold Fraser-Simpson ) of two episodes from the book, starring Ian Carmichael as Pooh, Denise Bryer as Christopher Robin ( who also narrated ), Hugh Lloyd as Tigger, Penny Morrell as Piglet, and Terry Norris as Eeyore.

* In Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, he asks whether one should live their life as a Tigger or as an Eeyore.

* The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Christopher Robin, Owl, and Gopher.

His other friends are Eeyore, Kanga and Roo, Rabbit, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger.

In The House at Pooh Corner, Eeyore has some level of literacy.

Pooh and Piglet built it for him after accidentally mistaking the original house that Eeyore built for a pile of sticks.

In the adaptations, Eeyore has developed a close friendship with Tigger.

Their closeness begins at the end of Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore and continues in later works such as The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving and the Winnie the Pooh film.

When Eeyore lost his tail, Owl found it and used it as a bell-pull beside his door before Pooh found it for Eeyore.

In Disney merchandise, Eeyore sometimes has an uncharacteristic smile.