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- A dying girl dreams of a better place in the next life.
- 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.
- 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.
- A Kangaroo tricks his violin playing son into a boxing match to try to trick him into being a boxer.
- 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.
- A poor child is transported to Candyland, where he can eat his fill and the candy perform a carnival.
- 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 group of puppies chase a grown up fox, and then the tables are turned.
- A flock of little bluebirds come to the rescue of an abandoned baby. They form a carrying-squadron and transport the babe to Happyland. But all their efforts to entertain and make the child happy are fruitless. Finally they locate the distraught mother and bring mother and child back together.
- 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.
- One of the it-takes-a-villageism cartoons with a message in which a happy-and-prosperous village of honeybees goes to the aid of a village of starving grasshoppers, by dropping honey bombs and food to the stricken bug community. Prosperity returns and all the world citizens are happy again.
- Elves, moved by a cobbler's generosity, work extra hard to help him with his work.
- A small boy follows a leaping frog to the edge of a water-well and falls in. At the bottom of the well he encounters a water-fairyland, where water-babies ride in lobster chariots, float about and play polo on sea-horses. An octopus appears and chases the boy, but the frog pulls him up to safety.
- This is not a "Scrappy" cartoon - The staff at a large big-city hospital is all bothered and nervously awaiting the arrival of a patient, named Elmer, and the doctors and nurses are busily preparing for a major operation. Finally, a woman arrives in a large town-car, with a chauffeur, and she is followed by attendants carrying the patient on a stretcher...Elmer the Goldfish.
- Sniffles the mouse and his friend "The Book Worm" are harassed by a cat. They figure that by belling the cat, they could hear him coming and eliminate the element of surprise. Sniffles shows great courage and succeeds.
- Caricatures of many of the stars in Hollywood from the 1930's all playing and eating as best suits their public image.
- Flown away to the land of the story books, Jack and Jill, aided by Mother Goose, watch a fairland revue complete with chorus girls and marching soldiers.
- A Columbia animated short. Scrappy and Oopie are out butterfly catching. A captured butterfly offers a magic ring in exchange for her freedom. Excited, Oopie asks to become a butterfly.
- 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.
- Working as a sailor aboard a ship, a Chinese cook makes Krazy fish for the despotic Captain's breakfast.
- A toy soldier asks Santa Claus to make a special visit to a poor orphaned boy on Christmas.
- A Columbia animated short. It's cat mayhem in the middle of the night as Scrappy tries to get some sleep. The ruckus starts with two male cats fighting over Scrappy's female cat.
- A Columbia animated short. Scrappy and Oopie head in an expedition to the South Pole accompanied by famous radio personalities of that time.
- When Barney invites the whole hillbilly troupe to dinner and acts politely, they don't.
- A re-telling of the classic nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built".
- After driving their mother hen to a nervous breakdown, her chicks realize it is Mother's Day and treat her well.
- 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.
- A land on the far side of the moon is where the storks pick up their pink and blue bundles for delivery to the expectant parents all over the world. But on this night, one of the mothers wants to send her bundle back for a newer and improved model.
- This is not a "Scrappy" cartoon - A two-year-old horse is trained and primed to run in the Hollywood Sweepstakes, but catches cold and has to be scratched from the race. A small pony, from the stable, is substituted but with no hope of winning, and surprises all -- horses included -- by slipping in 'under' the finish wire.
- 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.
- 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?
- Scrappy dreams about The Gold Rush and finds out that that is the key to wealth and happiness.
- 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.
- 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 group of insects get together to play a game of football.
- 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 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 Columbia Scrappy animated short. Scrappy and pals are united against a rival in a barnyard war.
- 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.
- A down-and-out family of pigs wins a sweepstakes, are immediately besieged by reporters and photographers, and then go on a wild spending spree, which soon exhausts their windfall-prize money. Than the tax collector shows up. After paying the taxes, the pigs are right back where they started from.
- 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.
- Toby delivers his milk, gets caught in a bad storm, then attends a dance party.
- A group of radio stars - caricatured as birds - perform.
- Ignatz invents various methods for hurling bricks at Krazy who takes this as a term of affection. The only entry of the series to be modeled after George Herriman's original comic strip characters.
- 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.
- The Puppet Murder Case (1935) is one of the more stylish of the series, and has an especially cinematic interrogation sequence. The story here is pretty simple: Scrappy is running a puppet show for the neighborhood kids. Scrappy won't let his little brother see the show, socking him in the face repeatedly every time her tries. Oopy sneaks in anyway and, using a pee shooter, kills a stageful of puppets by breaking their strings. After Scrappy beats Oopy again, then has the 'puppets' put him on trial. This concludes with a puppet jury deciding Oopy is guilty, sentencing him to more abuse.
- A Columbia animated short. Scrappy and Oopie go camping.