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- A dying girl dreams of a better place in the next life.
- A spoof of those "No, No, A Thousand Times No!" melodramas.
- Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia...in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats, skeletons begin to rise from their graves and form a loosely-jointed band.
- After driving their mother hen to a nervous breakdown, her chicks realize it is Mother's Day and treat her well.
- A poor child is transported to Candyland, where he can eat his fill and the candy perform a carnival.
- Elves, moved by a cobbler's generosity, work extra hard to help him with his work.
- A toy soldier asks Santa Claus to make a special visit to a poor orphaned boy on Christmas.
- Caricatures of many of the stars in Hollywood from the 1930's all playing and eating as best suits their public image.
- Told in a musical-comedy format, this cartoon is the story of two department store mannequins who fall in love, become engaged and plan to marry. When the other dummies/manikins/mannequins in the store learn this, they arrange surprises for the couple with nearly every piece of merchandise in the store coming to life.
- At the Century Of Progress everyone's attending, apparently to not only see the wonders of modern technology, but Scrappy and Oopie too. The have silly inventions like a huge needle threader.Caricatures include Ghandi,Mussolini,Prince of Wales,Laurel & Hardy and VonHindenberg.
- Scrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the dates representing holidays come to life. Father time, in particular, takes Scrappy on a tour of the other holidays, stopping at dioramas representing Christmas, New Year's, Easter, and taking some eggs from Easter over to the feasts of Thanksgiving. Then he wakes up, and has to hurry to get to school on time.
- A Columbia animated short. Krazy Kat is in Russia and met by a dastardly and drunken hog who wants him to blow up the palace.
- A newborn seal pup has to learn how to fish on his own, without help from any of his family or friends.
- A Columbia animated short. Both Scrappy and Oopie audition for a part at Gigantic Movie Studios. They get a contract but are relegated to the kitchen to clean and cook for the stars. Many celebrities are featured.
- A Color Favorites cartoon from the Charles Mintz animation studios featuring a boy and girl comedy story, with music, set in Venice where the gondolas are seen traversing the Venetian canals.
- After an elderly toymaker closes his shop at night and goes home, all the toys come to life and have fun until he comes back in the morning.
- A group of puppies chase a grown up fox, and then the tables are turned.
- A dramatic school for children is holding graduation ceremonies in a huge auditorium. We see the kids are caricatures of Hollywood film stars, including Wallace Beery, Herman Bing, Joe E. Brown, Claudette Colbert, Stepin Fetchit, Kay Francis, Clark Gable, Hugh Herbert, Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, Marx Brothers, Three Stooges, and many others. The headmaster, trying to hand out diplomas, is harassed by kids on the stage, leaving him fumbling with his loose toupee , spectacles and dentures. Leopold Stakowski leads the orchestra playing for child Martha Raye's singing.
- An obnoxious little toddler boy scares and hits a whimpering puppy in his charge until his mother comes in and puts him to bed and scolds him for his cruelty. Asleep, the boy dreams that the puppy has grown to dinosaur size, bursting through walls, chasing down the brat until retribution looks nigh.
- The tranquility and happiness of a community of singing and dancing frogs is upset when an aggressive toad shows up, and before long he is demanding that the frogs build him a house and throw him a "welcoming" party. Matters come to a head when the frogs decide that they've had enough of this bully and make plans to "dethrone" him.
- Two rival families of hens (and roosters)are arming in preparation for a battle in a property-line dispute over the division line between their two barnyard coops. After much fighting, squabbling and squawking between the two factions, two peaceful doves bring about a settlement between the two groups. Those two doves should have been toiling their trade in Europe in 1939, rather than in a USA barnyard.
- Mice run, cavort, sing and dance around in the stores and restaurants of a big city at night. They wind up in a meat market for an early-morning snack and stocking up on food provisions before they return to the safety of their den beneath a manhole cover in the street.
- A he-flame lures a she-moth into his lantern and seduces her, leading her community to form a lynch mob.
- Columbia Krazy Kat animated short. Krazy Kat and Kitty enjoy time at the beach and then the beach amusement park.
- A little boy pilot tries to get a broken-down plane off the ground. While waiting for the take-off, a little girl air hostess entertains their increasingly impatient passengers.
- Scrappy and his dog start out for a fishing trip, but Oopie keeps tagging along, no matter how many times he's chased off. Finally believing he's left, they arrive at their spot at the lake, to find Oopie's beat them to it. From there they each try to out-fish each other, though the ornery fish seem to outsmart them most of the time.
- This cartoon is basically about a little dog who is a rather bad and cheeky museum cleaner. Not surprisingly, his boss is very impatient with him and urges him to keep cleaning. As the cleaner cleans, some of the things in the museum come to life.
- A Columbia animated short. A take on Oliver Twist, Oopie is forced into selling matches for an evil miser who eats aplenty and shares no food with Oopie.
- When Barney invites the whole hillbilly troupe to dinner and acts politely, they don't.
- Two tramp crows laze around all year until winter comes and they have to go south. The duo are put to the curb by everyone with sense, until they are caught in the freeze. Friendly Mr. Squirrel graciously takes them in, but have our crows learned their lesson?
- A group of radio stars - caricatured as birds - perform.
- Scrappy's dog, Yippy, isn't feeling well. Scrappy sees a sign for Dr. Woof's Dog Tonic and thinks that's just the thing. But in order to get there, he has to pass through Rough House Alley. To protect his only coin, he puts it in his mouth, accidentally swallowing it; it's jarred loose, only to roll under a lady's skirt, pointedly avoid rolling down a grate, and land in a blind beggar's cup. To remove it, Scrappy whistles, and the eagle on the coin flies out, bringing the coin home. He buys the tonic, then runs into bullies, a cop, and bullies dressed as a cop; the tonic falls into a pond, gets eaten by a duck, and comes out inside an egg (with a separate tiny egg for the cork). Finally, Scrappy gets home, only to break the bottle just outside the dog house. But Yippy is feeling fine now and so are her new puppies.
- Beaten in the first race, Snuffy's horse, Spark Plug, wins the next one for his ostrich stable pal, Rudy.
- A parade of various animals leads piano-playing Krazy and his likewise opponent, a Lion, to a large, crowded arena where they square off in the boxing ring to play a musical duel. The Lion has an upright piano, and plays a bit though a fly keeps bothering him. Krazy has a grand piano, and plays a little too, but soon it's between rounds, and all four competitors (the pianos are living creatures also) are exhausted. Then the pianos go at it alone in a punch out, Krazy and the victorious Grand start a spirited playing of "St. Louis Blues", and the Lion and Upright join in as well. All take a bow at the end.
- Weary of his running-in-circles existence as a merry-go-round horse, the little hobby-horse gets a case of wanderlust. That night he gets out after the fair has closed and takes in the world of the Crazy House, the Wax Museum, the Ferris Wheel and a roller coaster. Battered and beaten from his adventures, he concludes he is better off on his stand at the merry-go-round.
- Krazy Kat is practicing playing music but the musical instruments rebel against him.
- A pair of monkeys (male and female) meet in the jungle and immediately fall in love. After serenading the little lady, the boy takes her home and runs into trouble in the shape of a gorilla...a jealous gorilla. But the girl monkey dispatches the gorilla with ease.
- A Kangaroo tricks his violin playing son into a boxing match to try to trick him into being a boxer.
- Scrappy and Oopie receive a pony named "Sugar" and they sing a song about it.
- Told in flashback, th story explains why one of the bunnies in the classroom is so much bigger and older than his classmates. He devoted his early years to disrupting the class rather than studying and learning his lessons, with the result that he remained behind while the other students were promoted.
- A Columbia Krazy Kat animated short. Kitty is seduced into leaving the ice cream shop with a sneaky fox until she discovers his true intentions. Krazy Kat is called to the rescue.
- A mouse and a cuckoo bird, skeptical about the existence of ghosts, are startled by a midnight visit from a sextet of spirits, all men who once wooed a Florador show-girl. The specters do a song-and-dance routine from the gay-90's era of show-business. They all fade away at dawn, leaving the mouse and the cuckoo bird less-convinced skeptics than they were before the witching hour.
- Shunned by Scrappy's scout troop, Oopie forms his own, consisting of three dachshunds. When Scrappy's troop are stranded on a mountain, Oopie's scouts come to the rescue.
- A butterfly sailor returns to port aboard a turtle battleship to marry his butterfly girlfriend. The courtship runs smoothly and wedding plans are made. The ship's whistle signals the end of shore-leave and frustrates their plans. The sailor ships out, leaving his broken-hearted sweetheart behind.
- Scrappy's young brother Oopie is running for President, but doesn't know anything about the issues, so he lip-syncs his speeches from a hidden "speech recorder". He winds up running into more trouble than he bargained for.
- The king paces back and forth; a knight rushes in with the news: It's a boy! The knight visits the three wise fairies with the news, inviting them to a ball in celebration. The fairies arrive (singing), and bestow various blessings on the child (including dancing the jitterbug). There follows some general merriment and dancing, until the clock strikes three. Everyone leaves to let the baby sleep, but he's not done yet -- a full set of percussion instruments pops up in his bed, and his drum solo brings everyone back for more.