Columbia Pictures / Screen Gems «Phantasy» cartoons (1939 - 1949)

The first of a new Columbia Phantasy cartoon series, introducing Margie, who receives a charm bracelet from Scrappy. When she falls asleep, the various charms on the bracelet come to life. They have a picnic and a good time, and as Margie awakens, they become inanimate objects on the bracelet again.

A bum is sleeping by the road when Scrappy roars up on his motorcycle -- he's a messenger in this cartoon -- to give him a telegram. His uncle has died and left him a million. While he goes into conniptions over his newfound wealth, Scrappy points out the word he missed. His uncle has left him a million cats. The bum doesn't listen, but begins to spend his wealth, telling everyone to send him the bill.

Krazy Kat, now an exterminator with an office and a Joe Penner voice, answers a call to clear a house of an annoying mouse. When he arrives he tries various methods of traps and poisons, but the mouse outwits him, usually painfully, each time.

A series of gags about supposed odd news events around the United States, in the style of a Pete Smith short subject.

A music concert is disrupted, first by some weak buttons, and more notably by the bubble gum the violin soloist is chewing. Before that, the soloist annoys the conductor with an overly extended solo. The tubas keep blowing a toupee among the various bald musicians. Even though he gets increasingly tangled up in the sticky bubble gum, the violinist manages to play most of his notes (though he has to pluck a few when his bow is stuck).

Scrappy runs a theater where he acts as the ticket collecter, the usher, the snack vendor, and the performer. He later has some probelms with another child in the audience.

Two recruiters, one from the army and one from the navy, fight over a pipsqueak, each making him ludicrous promises of fun, excitement, luxury and comfort.

A homely old maid hen with buck teeth (!) tries to get a boyfriend at an all-chicken barn dance. The only one she's interested in is a cornball practical joker in an old fashioned straw hat, who returns her affection with embarrassing dirty tricks. When she's in an egg laying competition, he slips her some gum that causes her to lay a bursting, gooey balloon, and he tricks her into eating hot pepper-laced ice cream. She finally becomes the belle of the affair when her pepper-infused smooching is a hit at the kissing booth.

After the "Squawk Club" closes for the night, the mice come out and put on a show of their own. The Mouse of Ceremonies introduces the vastly-talented Miss Hedy La Mouse, and Hedy stops the show. Elmer, a rube-mouse from out of town, wanders in and falls for Hedy but the jealous M.C. attempts to restrain Elmer. The latter, evidently not all that far from out of town, assists Hedy in a couple of dances, including a Conga in which all the mice join in. But the night janitor, a real party-pooper, shows up, and all the mice scurry for cover.

A theatre-crowd is gathered to listen to Zaza Raja, a renowned mystic, who answers all questions regarding people's life and future. In response to a question from a young girl in the audience, the psychic goes wonder-gazing into his crystal ball and visions ancient Egypt. In search of the answer to the question, he wanders off into the tombs of the ancient Pharaohs, where many mummies held him solve the riddle of the young lady's future. But, when Zaza Raja snaps out of his spell, he finds he has forgotten the answer. He also finds the theater audience is none too pleased about it.

A small, long-eared pup comes across Butch, the Bulldog being captured by the dog catcher, but rescues him. Butch was being hauled off for being without a license, but he notices his new friend has one, and proceeds to trick him out of it, and laughs as the dog catcher now takes him to the pound. His conscience, embodied by a devil and angel Butch, have it out and he decides to turn himself in. But he finds the pound in flames, and now does the rescuing, of all the dogs as well as the Dog catcher.

A hobo crow tricks a canary out of his comfortable cage with inflated promises of happiness in the outside world.

A dog who works as an air raid warden is all prepared for a good night's sleep. He is just starting to doze when the "dripping" noise of a leaky kitchen faucet awakens him. At first, he tries to ignore the problem by counting sheep (but the sheep turn into drips). He then tries to drown out the noise but this doesn't work either. Determined to stop the dripping, the dog puts a sponge in the sink to absorb the water. It absorbs too much water and expands tenfold. He then tries turning the faucet upside down. It "drips" upside down to the ceiling! He tries stopping it up with a cork but the tap inflates and spews it back out. Finally, the dog has had enough and pulls at the faucet until he's uprooted the plumbing of nearly the entire street! At last, the dog can get to sleep, his house on top of a water geyser!

A cat and dog sleep together peacefully. The parrot, seeing this, can't stand it, so he pulls out his copy of Mein Kramp, where the first tip is to sow suspicion to divide and conquer. If that wasn't obvious enough, the parrot does a quick Hitler impression. He suggests the dog bite the cat; the dog just goes back to sleep. Next, the parrot claws the dog and whispers to both - still no fight. He feeds Myrtle the Cat a bowl of catnip and they finally start fighting, until they knock the book down; when they realize what the parrot has done, they turn on him.

A detective in training is about to take his final exam. He is sent to room 13, where his professor befuddles him with a tricky doorknob. Next, he goes to a tea party with his professor loosely disguised as an old lady; the butler serves a pot of "T.N.Tea" even though his back is full of knives. The professor keeps disappearing; the student tracks him by his footprints, even though the footprint powder at one point becomes train tracks and the doors he opens have a skeleton and some card-playing ghosts. Finally, the budding detective phones for the police; when they arrive (driving on the phone lines) and pile into the phone booth, he passes, and is given the first, second and (under bright lights) third degree.

A bill poster encounters a mean bull.

Delilah knits the hair from Samson into a hat. The hat gives its wearer super strength: Hercules, Samson, and in the modern day, the nebbishy Willoughby Wren. Willoughby decides he needs to put this power to good use, and sets about rescuing a fair maiden who is being menaced by a giant evil robot. The problem is, his hat keeps falling off at inopportune moments.