 Eeyore is gloomy, like always, but more so now. His birthday is right around the corner and everybody has forgotten. It didn t cheer him up any when Tigger "accidentally" knocks Eeyore into the river. Pooh invents a new game, "Pooh Sticks", and everyone contributes to Eeyore s party, there s flat balloons, storage honey pots with Owl s hand writing on them, and a game of Pooh Sticks which Tigger claims he likes, but immediately hates it because he lost. It turns out to be a happy birthday celebration after all.