This is a one shot cartoon from MGM. There will be spoilers ahead:
This short follows a hapless donkey just trying to boost his contribution to the scrap rubber drive and running into all sorts of problems. It becomes clear early on that things won't go well for him when he has problems with a shovel he literally runs into. After getting hit by the shovel a time or three, he discovers that the reason for the trouble is also the "solution" to his anemic rubber pile-a buried inner-tube.
The donkey not being the shiniest pebble in the pond, he fails to think through his plans to consider the possible physics of his ideas. There are nice bits involving a sprinkler system and the undercarriage of a car up on blocks (the payoff to this latter one is probably the best laugh in the short).
The most novel idea in the short is to make the inner-tube out to be smarter than the donkey and to appear as though it's laughing at him and taunting him. The majority of the gags are both familiar and predictable, but it's a nice little cartoon, even if it doesn't exactly pull off anything novel or special.
This can be found here and there and is worth watching.
This short follows a hapless donkey just trying to boost his contribution to the scrap rubber drive and running into all sorts of problems. It becomes clear early on that things won't go well for him when he has problems with a shovel he literally runs into. After getting hit by the shovel a time or three, he discovers that the reason for the trouble is also the "solution" to his anemic rubber pile-a buried inner-tube.
The donkey not being the shiniest pebble in the pond, he fails to think through his plans to consider the possible physics of his ideas. There are nice bits involving a sprinkler system and the undercarriage of a car up on blocks (the payoff to this latter one is probably the best laugh in the short).
The most novel idea in the short is to make the inner-tube out to be smarter than the donkey and to appear as though it's laughing at him and taunting him. The majority of the gags are both familiar and predictable, but it's a nice little cartoon, even if it doesn't exactly pull off anything novel or special.
This can be found here and there and is worth watching.