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- A dying girl dreams of a better place in the next life.
- Caricatures of many of the stars in Hollywood from the 1930's all playing and eating as best suits their public image.
- A poor child is transported to Candyland, where he can eat his fill and the candy perform a carnival.
- 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.
- Krazy Kat runs a small train line which is being put out of business by a modern streamliner. A wild situation requires Krazy to make a fantastic rescue. After receiving a reward, Krazy gets his own streamliner.
- Elves, moved by a cobbler's generosity, work extra hard to help him with his work.
- 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.
- Krazy is castaway on a cannibal isle and visits their night club, "The Coconut Grove."
- A Kangaroo tricks his violin playing son into a boxing match to try to trick him into being a boxer.
- 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.
- An old-time Mississippi paddle-wheel showboat docks, and Krazy tries to serenade the girl that's the star attraction, but he has a hippo-faced rival. When the programme commences, She sings a long song with many gestures, though the song is a lot of holding long notes. Krazy and his rival are in balconies on either side of the stage. When her performance stops, Hippo guy does a dance, but Krazy sees to it he loses his trousers. Krazy then puts on a dance of his own, but slips up on banana skins. The audience pelts him with vegetables, shoes and irons.
- 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.
- 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 piano must be delivered by Krazy in his beat up old horse wagon to a skyscraper in the middle of a city. He struggles to set up a winch and pulley, getting caught in it, ending up on a ledge, where Kitty comes out of a window to join him to do a little singing, dancing and make trouble.
- 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.
- Scrappy is a young band leader; other little boys make up his band. They perform inside a gazebo, in front of an appreciative grown-up audience, as the wildlife get in on the act.
- 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 young groundhog wakes up before spring arrives and wants to go outside, but Mother Nature shows him why he shouldn't.
- 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.
- Manning a lighthouse is just a music-filled dancing pleasure for Krazy, who engages with fish, birds and a seal in his day's duty. As he spies Kitty in a passing ship, the skies fill with black storm clouds, and a fierce barrage of wind, rain and lightning churns the sea until the ship is (literally) swallowed by a huge wave, leaving Kitty floating on a raft-like scrap of wood. Krazy sets out in a life boat, but it sinks too, but just in time, Jonah surfaces and rescues them in a whale that's reconverted to approximate a ferry boat.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Toby organizes a Halloween celebration. Some witches and elves join the party.
- 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.
- 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 group of puppies chase a grown up fox, and then the tables are turned.
- Krazy leads a group of animals in a concert. After a time, he takes on personalities of various musicians of the day.
- A group of radio stars - caricatured as birds - perform.
- 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.
- Scrappy stops all the clocks in the house and then goes around the neighborhood stopping all the clocks. This also stops all the clocks in the world (don't ask), and everything stands still, including his pup, and all human beings and animals. (An animator's dream.). This scares him somewhat and he tries to re-start the clocks, and all moving things start to go backwards.
- In a musical parody of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", slaves pick cotton by the ton, Simon LeGree threatens Uncle Tom with a whip, and Krazy helps Little Eva run away on ice floes created by dumping out the blocks from an ice truck. When she dies and goes to heaven, Krazy attempts to trick St. Peter into letting him in too, but he falls earthward in time to wake up, it's all a nightmare he's been having at the theatre putting on a "Tommer" show.
- 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.
- Barney prepares a banquet in a upper-classy city home. The guests arrive- all Billy Debeck Characters from the comic strips "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" and "Bunky", including Snuffy, Lowezie, Sully, Spark Plug, Sunshine, Rudy the Ostrich, Bunky, Fagin and others. They all sit down for the big feed, and sing a song "Mister Google's tetched in the haid" based on one of Snuffy's signature phrases. Adding to this insult, they refuse to let Google get out more than a few words of a big speech he planned to give, by bombing him with messy food. The mob eats like wild animals, and all leave with the house a shambles.
- Scrappy and Oopie, though little boys, happily celebrate the return of beer after fourteen years, with the help of brew-guzzling gnomes, apparently from the "Rip Van Winkle" story. They leave an allegorical "Prohibition" figure (ugly old man in stovepipe hat) stripped and chased off.
- Krazy Kat is practicing playing music but the musical instruments rebel against him.
- In a metaphor-laden look at Wall street, mobs of bulls compete with bears, worrying over stock tickers and fighting over bags of coins. Lambs come in and get fleeced by wolves.Things look bleak for investor Krazy, until he follows the often heard depression era advice to spend his money rather than keep it locked up, and his eagle-backed coins start reproducing, and before you know it, there's tons of money and Krazy gets a parade for his efforts.
- Beaten in the first race, Snuffy's horse, Spark Plug, wins the next one for his ostrich stable pal, Rudy.
- 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 he-flame lures a she-moth into his lantern and seduces her, leading her community to form a lynch mob.
- Krazy is a dance instructor who is teaching moves to a quartet of clowns wearing leotards and high-heeled pumps. When the clowns are having trouble following his instructions, Krazy puts ropes on their legs to show them how to move. Momentarily, a Swedish girl with a blond spiral hair comes out of a dance school only a few yards away before entering Krazy's studio. The Swedish girl comes to Krazy, and shows him her dance skills. Krazy, however, isn't interested and therefore turns her down as he is expecting a famous soprano to arrive. The Swedish girl then shows her singing skills by letting out a high tone that jolts Krazy off his feet. But Krazy still turns her down. The Swedish girl then demonstrates her acting skills as she goes into a movable balcony, and recites some romantic poems. To keep her away, Krazy raises and sets the balcony to the peak. The Swedish girl screams in horror upon seeing no way down. A fancy car arrives just outside the studio minutes later. Exiting the vehicle is the soprano whom Krazy was waiting for. The soprano comes to Krazy, and sings a few notes for demonstration. The Swedish girl, who is still up on the movable balcony, applauds the soprano's test act. The Swedish girl is also leaning forward too much before falling off the platform and onto the soprano. The soprano is deformed as a result, and even has a distorted voice. The soprano leaves the scene embarrassed. Krazy has no choice but to pick the Swedish girl for the show. Later that night, the scene shows the outside of the theater with a banner of the event called "The Katnips of 1940." The name of the soprano on the banner is also shown being replaced by that of the Swedish girl. The event is started by a group of singing can can dancers. Next it is the turn of the Swedish girl to take center stage. The Swedish girl, wearing a fedora, is at first too hesitant to step into the limelight but thankfully Krazy literally gives her a push. The Swedish girl sings, dances, and plays castanets on the stage with complete fluency. Krazy, also wearing a fedora, joins her on stage seconds afterward. With three flawless performances, both of them receive applause. After the lights move away from them and back, Krazy and the Swedish girl are seen dressed like Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty respectively.
- 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?
- At a rural community dance, Krazy and his Minnie-Mouselike girl make quite a couple. After an odd gag where first she, then he wear a large pair of shoes, they burn up the dance floor. After she has a mild flirtation with other boys, She gets serious with Krazy. Really serious- enough to get married. A minister does the ceremony, and just after the knot's tied, she starts belting him around.
- Young Scrappy tries to impress a girl by smoking a cigar made out of cabbage, but he only succeeds in accidentally swallowing the cigar and setting her panties on fire.
- 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.