# Who is Roo's Father? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2005, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703 "2005-08-12T07:56:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/81 "2005-08-23T19:55:13Z")
Something else to consider: Those animals go about in a most inexcusable state of undress all day long – and the two that _do_ wear clothes (Pooh & Roo) only wear **shirts** , for goodness sakes! Here’s a whole woods full of creatures, going about pants-less. Who knows what could happen when two stuffed perverts “bump” into each other … :mad: ---
**Author:** ![LeeH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@LeeH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeH)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/82 "2005-08-23T20:27:06Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > This is probably too serious an answer, but Kanga has a wistful air about her that makes me think she is a widow. I’m new here, but I’m going with the widow theory ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/83 "2005-08-23T20:42:38Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > It was the old switch-a-roo. You know, that was almost as bad as _Erectric Booga Roo_. Almost. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/84 "2005-08-24T02:26:07Z")
Oh. My. God. That’s it, my entire childhood, out the window, vanished forever, gone, completely scrapped, reduced to smithereens… You people are sick, gross, twisted, icky, and just _wrong_. _sniffle_ I love you guys! It can’t be Pooh because he and Piglet are _obviously_ in a relationship (a la Bert and Ernie), but is anyone else considering… Christopher Robin? _gasp_ ---
**Author:** ![ReBusEniGma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@ReBusEniGma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReBusEniGma)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/85 "2005-08-24T05:31:54Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > The movies are fanfic. They are not canon. If Milne didn’t write it, it doesn’t count. oh man, there goes my evolutionary thinking…nothing evolves anymore… not even good stories. 🙂 Actually, A.A. Milne did write about heffalumps (chapter 5 of ‘Winnie the Pooh’) somewhat representing our unseen fears, but the movie just brings them to life on screen. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/86 "2005-08-24T09:26:11Z")
> [@ReBusEniGma](#): > > Heresy! As of this year, the mysterious Heffalump has been revealed! Pooh’s Heffalump Movie (2005) shows them in all their splendor when a heffalump by the nickname of Lumpy _who’s actual name is Heffridge Trumpler Brompet Heffalump IV_, befriends Roo. Their species reside in a place called Heffalump Hollow, on the \*other side \* of the fence of the hundred acre wood. We shoulda known. Also, as I recall, Heffalumps and/or Woozles made a couple of appearances on _The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh._ They were, as it turned out, “stuffed” animals as well. Besides the obvious matter over if the series was heresy, canon, an alternate universe, or something inbetween, it does start to beg the question over what all these stuffed toys are doing out in the woods, forming little societies without human participation. I feel I must put forth an unsettling hypothesis: the inhabitants of the hundred acre wood aren’t actually stuffed animals at all, but some kind of “construct” life forms—Cloth Golems, or perhaps Rag Elementals—created and brought to animation by some kind of twisted, fiendish _something_ lurking in the fetid depths of the Hundred Acre Wood. Obviously “Sanders” has something to do with this—whoever he was, Pooh is obviously so far under his thrall that he claims to “live under his name.” A chilling token of veneration towards a figure who gives only the barest indication that he ever even _existed_. I fear the worst…Pooh and his friends are not merely the bizarre products of a Moreauian madman’s fevered genius, but may be the unholy spawn of a horror beyond human comprehension, a thing who to even speak It’s name brings madness. (Namely, _Heffashub-Woozgurtath,_ the mad-goat-of-the-hundred-acre-woods.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/87 "2005-08-24T12:11:34Z")
Hmmm…the film _Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree_ first appeared in 1966. The _same_ year that China started the Cultural Revolution. \ Roo’s father is…Chairman Mao! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/88 "2005-08-24T12:23:01Z")
> [@](#): > > I fear the worst…Pooh and his friends are not merely the bizarre products of a Moreauian madman’s fevered genius, but may be the unholy spawn of a horror beyond human comprehension, a thing who to even speak It’s name brings madness. (Namely, Heffashub-Woozgurtath, the mad-goat-of-the-hundred-acre-woods.) You mean…Like \*this]? [http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/plush\_cthulhu.html](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/plush_cthulhu.html) [http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/nyarlethotep.html](http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/nyarlethotep.html) [http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/plush/01.html](http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/plush/01.html) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/89 "2005-08-24T12:25:48Z")
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**Author:** ![Don26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@Don26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don26)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/90 "2006-12-25T07:10:36Z")
You are ALL wrong. Roo’s birth was a rare case of Kangaroo parthenogenisis, Kanga is his mother, he, like Cartman, and several Kimodo Dragons this year, has no father. I can’t believe I registered just to make this smartass remark… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/91 "2006-12-25T07:12:06Z")
Ahhh! Zombie kangaroos! Run away! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/92 "2006-12-25T07:41:14Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Hmmm…the film _Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree_ first appeared in 1966. The _same_ year that China started the Cultural Revolution. \ Roo’s father is…Chairman Mao! :eek: [/QUOTE] 1966 is also the year that Walt Disney died. Obviously, Roo killed Walt as he represented everything wrong with American culture. ---
**Author:** ![JValentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@JValentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JValentine)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/93 "2007-01-11T19:49:52Z")
[QUOTE=Podkayne] This is probably too serious an answer, but Kanga has a wistful air about her that makes me think she is a widow. [/QUOTE] Joking aside, I’ve always thought the same. She always seemed slightly sad to me, and not in the Eeyore way where you just want to hug him. Of course, that’s if there must BE any explanation; after all, we’re talking about anthropomorphizing your stuffed animals, and there need not be any father when you’re talking about a stuffed kangaroo and joey. I want to also add that I always thought Rabbit and Kanga had something going on (or at least, ever since I was old enough to contemplate “having something going on”). I have no idea why I came up with that, but there it is. This theory is alongside the Kanga-as-widow, I should add – Rabbit isn’t related to Roo. That’d just be stupid. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/94 "2007-01-11T20:05:42Z")
Great OG, it’s Zombie Kanga and her Three Vaginas! Run for the hills, run, run! (Seriously, I know posting to old threads is okay in Cafe Society now, but did it have to be this one?) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/95 "2007-01-11T20:08:23Z")
Clearly, a zombie was the father… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/96 "2007-01-11T20:30:05Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] (Seriously, I know posting to old threads is okay in Cafe Society now, but did it have to be this one?) [/QUOTE] As threads go, this one has a lot of good jokes in it. Don’t pooh-pooh it. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703/97 "2007-01-11T20:52:06Z")
Obviously she had artificial insemination with a donation from David Crosby. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-roos-father/316703.md?page=4)