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Cubby the Bear sneaks into the Roxy Opera House on it's opening night and ends up condicting an epic, animal-enacted version of Faust.
Shakespearean-style operetta starring Cubby Bear as the romantic lead. Cubby sings and dances and generally does his best Mickey impression, hanging out with Honey Bear.
Cubby is first seen on a sled, pulled by three squirrels, through the frozen north. On the sled is a mail bag. Arriving in a frontier town he is welcomed, turns over the mail bag to the local postmaster and meets up with Honey whom he calls Cuddles. They dance to a lively tune then it is time for Cubby to head out with the mail. On the trail he finds Honey has stowed away in the mail bag just about the same time a robber raccoon spots them. Cubby defends the mail and Honey but is knocked unconscious. With the help of a “rescue bird” and an eagle Cubby confronts the robber winning back the mail and Honey.
Cubby pedals his bike over to visit Honey who seems to be a lighthouse keeper. She is doing laundry hanging out her “unmentionables”. When she sees Cubby approaching she pulls them back in and hurries down to greet him. Cubby amuses her by producing a pipe and blowing bubbles using her laundry water. One of them backfires turning Cubby into a bubble. He floats away and is spied by a boat load of cat pirates. They shoot at Cubby causing him to fall back to the ground. Honey comes to his aide but the pirates spy her, row over and kidnap her. When Cubby revives he finds he needs to rescue Honey.
Cubby reads about Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, visits Slumberland, and dreams of himself as a Pilgrim settler who proves himself humorously ill-equipped for survival without the comforts of modern life.
Cubby opens a vaudeville booking agency and attracts several unusual clients. One of them, a Shakespeare quoting duck doesn't take rejection easily. This cartoon introduces a “side kick” for Cubby, a kitten. Here the kitten acts at the cleaning boy for Cubby's office.
Sherlock Bear (Cubby) solves the case of the many sets of missing false teeth.
Cubby Bear embarks on a world flight to much fanfare, including the Four Marx Brothers as Boy Scouts. Even Charles Lindbergh comes to see him off. Although Cubby barely makes it off the ground, he crosses most of the conterminous United States before tunneling through the earth to China. Cubby flies over Germany, where he is toasted by President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, and a third Nazi (Joachim von Ribbentrop?) In France, a statue of Napoleon comes to life, morphs into Maurice Chevalier, and serenades Cubby. Over the Atlantic, his plane is repeatedly struck by lightning, but he flies literally by the seat of his pants and lands on the Statue of Liberty, where he is hailed by New Yorkers and King Kong.
In this utterly disjointed musical outing, Cubby and his girl Cuddles encounter a wide variety of very high strangeness in the local park after Cubby and his band get hammered off a keg of beer while giving a concert. Some of them turn into beer-swilling Russians. Featured are strange non-sequiturs and transformations, bizarre flourishes, several very 1930s-style musical interludes and a fish urine gag! While the band takes a break, Cubby has trouble finding a place to be alone with Cuddles. Everyone and everything is making out, and Cubby acts like he'd like to do that as well with his girl. He even tries taking a boat on the lake. He uses a ham sandwich for fish bait. A Jewish fish takes a bite by mistake, then spits it right out, proclaiming "HAM!" Back on land, angry mosquitoes wreck his band. In the end, Cubby gets to steal a kiss from his girl.
Cubby is again featured as a friendly gaucho who apes Valentino while romancing a pretty senorita. She's desired by a tough varmint named Pedro- who's at least four times Cubby's size. Lots of dancing and shoot-'em-up cowboy action.
Cubby Bear is cast as a jockey, and his problems only begin when his steed elopes with the iceman's horse.
When all the high-budget guests have ditched the show, it's up to Cubby Bear to deliver today's live radio broadcast. Cubby's show traverses the globe to stereotype peoples and ethnicities everywhere.
