Last Updated: June 8, 2019
This show was performed in the Country Bear Playhouse. Guests are treated to a comedic show featuring a cast of singing, dancing, and wise-cracking Audio-Animatronic bears.
Country Bear Vacation Hoedown Secrets:
In the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Attraction: As your beehive vehicle travels out of a big Heffalumps and Woozles scene and into a "Honey Party" scene. Mounted high on the wall directly behind your vehicle are the old animatronic heads of Melvin the Moose, Buff the Buffalo, and Max the Deer from Country Bear Jamboree.
Voices:
Henry - Pete Renoudet
Liver Lips McGrowl - Dave Durham
Max - Pete Renoudet
Buff - Thurl Ravenscroft
The famous sleeping bear was not originally part of the Country Bear Jamboree but was incorporated into the show with the holiday overlay Country Bear Christmas Special that debuted in 1984. Rufus was now the sleepy, lone stage hand in charge of fixing lights, running projections and changing backdrops.
He is constantly admonished by Zeke, Wendell or Henry for not having something working. Poor Rufus who is never seen is often heard to be out of breath as he struggles to run to different locations to fix things, sometimes resulting in something crashing to the floor in the booth behind the audience or a sudden electrical jolt.
He generally just speaks in surprised grunts. He was also incorporated into the Country Bear Vacation Hoedown show that premiered in February 1986 in a similar role.
Henry and Wendell were based on a comedic musical country-western act known as Homer and Jethro. Just like Henry and Wendell, Homer played guitar and Jethro played the mandolin. Davis playfully based Wendell's appearance on fellow Imagineer Harper Goff, who played the banjo in the musical group The Firehouse Five Plus Two. Homer and Jethro wrote Fractured Folk Song and Mama Don't Whoop Little Buford, which Henry and Wendell sing in the show.
Henry and Wendell were based on a comedic musical country-western act known as Homer and Jethro. Just like Henry and Wendell, Homer played guitar and Jethro played the mandolin. Davis playfully based Wendell's appearance on fellow Imagineer Harper Goff, who played the banjo in the musical group The Firehouse Five Plus Two. Homer and Jethro wrote Fractured Folk Song and Mama Don't Whoop Little Buford, which Henry and Wendell sing in the show.
