Gopher (Winnie-the-Pooh) were in "A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving" and "Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You". He also made minor appearances in "A Very Merry Pooh Year", "House of Mouse" and appeared in "Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh", which was included as part of "Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie". To date, this is Gopher's last appearance in any form of "Winnie the Pooh" media. Gopher was notably absent for the 2011 film, "Winnie the Pooh". Gopher did not appear in the 2018 live action film "Christopher Robin", either. Gopher was the only character in the original shorts that was an
Winnie-the-Pooh right in "When We Were Very Young". In the first chapter of "Winnie-the-Pooh", Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply "Pooh": The American writer William Safire surmised that the Milnes' invention of the name "Winnie the Pooh" may have also been influenced by the haughty character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" (1885). The Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England. The forest is a large area of tranquil open heathland on the highest sandy ridges of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty situated 30 miles (50 km) south of