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This unreleased 1933-34 short opens showing numerous mice eating all the food in Honey's kitchen and ruining everything in her house. She tires valiantly to run them off but they outsmart her. She makes a phone call and Cubby appears at her door. The mice make quick work of him too. Only a fat cat is able to temporarily stop them but they soon turn on him too. Cubby comes to the aide of the cat but the mice outsmart the both of them. In the end the mice have run off the cat, Honey is gone, and Cubby sits dazed on the floor as the mice cheer their victory.
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.
A mustachioed villain fox and suit-sporting yes-men kidnap Cubby's girlfriend. Cubby pursues them to the old sawmill, where the villain has tied her to a log that is soon to be sawn. A classic good guy vs. bad guy battle to save the girl ensues.
Cubby rises and shines with the dawn, and, reading a headline, learns that a "mysterious menace" is attacking farms and destroying crops. He uses his ingenuity to uncover the mystery. Cubby and his girlfriend go underground and create a crop of synthetic vegetables in their underground cave-factory, then force them upward through the soil. An evil clothes-wearing opossum conspires to steal the entire load of vegetables in his pickup truck, but Cubby's worm friend tips them off. Cubby bombs the opossum with a pineapple, blowing him sky-high. Beans, peas, and other assorted objects take on lives and personalities of their own.
A Rube Goldberg-style flying machine transports Cubby to the North Pole, where he ducks an angry polar bear/traffic cop into an igloo/speakeasy which boasts a wild musical floor show. Our hero orders the house specialty, a singing walrus waiter quartet belts out "I Wish I Had a Mammy," and all is hotsy-totsy until the cop gets wise! They take their fight outside, and Cubby hijacks a gigantic mobile snowball, somehow winding up clear across the globe and back in his girlfriend's arms before the iris out.
Cubby Bear leads a safari and, with his native guides, sets elaborate traps to "bring 'em back alive." One ape keeps trying to get caught, but Cubby seems more intent on capturing mice!
Cubby Bear participates in a Roman chariot race for his girlfriend, while Nero (portrayed by a pig) fiddles.
