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Teased by his son to allow him to shoe a horse, Andy Panda's dad decides to have some fun with the little guy by dressing up as "Charlie Horse," who wants new horseshoes. A riot of fun begins. Mixed up with magnets, a plow, flying anvils and red-hot horseshoes, Pop finally runs for his life. Andy chases him and proves that he can nail on a shoe.
A day of the big bullfight has arrived. The stands are packed. The spectators are in a frenzy of excitement. A trumpeter signals the entrance of the contestants. Woody Woodpecker, the matador ("Woody the Terribull"), enters the arena through a maze of doors and acknowledges the crowd's plaudits by waving his sword and bowing to the delirious mob. The vicious bull is being held by the tail through a knothole in the fence. He's fighting and straining to get into the arena. The starter's gun is fired, and the bull leaps into the arena, dragging the fat attendant through the knothole and into the battle area. The bull's first rush whirls Woody around so fast that he finds himself closely wrapped up in his cape, unable to move. From here on, the bullfight resolves itself into a battle between Woody, the bull and the cape.
Algernon Wolf is about to be hanged for trying to take the lives of the Three Little Pigs. The wolf pleads for mercy. Via flashback, the wolf proves that the pigs actually tormented him! It seems that the wolf is a classical music teacher, but the pigs want to play that jive music. They wreck the wolf's home.
Sight gags satirize famous Mother Goose stories. In one scene, Little Bo Peep loses her sheep on a bad throw of the dice.
Andy has a problem: he operates a tailor shop ("Zut Suits," the sign reads) and has a troublesome moth. The moth can eat a suit in minutes, a fur coat just as fast. Andy hangs a fur coat made of skunk fur in the closet, and it halts the moth. Then, Andy hangs a rubber raincoat on the rack; the moth almost loses his teeth chewing on it.
Andy is trying to build a cabin in the peace and quiet of a primeval forest with new lumber (and the assistance of various woodland friends). The lumber twists and turns, and the cabin falls. A bunch of eager beavers are trying to build a dam. They learn that Andy has some lumber, and they come to borrow some. Andy thinks that they are cute, and, in a generous (and joking) mood, he gives a curious little beaver a piece of beaverboard. The beavers get serious, and they try to carry off all his lumber. Taking it for granted that they can have whatever building materials they can carry away, they also take apart Andy's cabin for their dam. When they steal his lumber, Andy declares war.
Woody Woodpecker is at an Army Air Corps military base, and is dreaming of taking one of the planes up in the air. His enthusiasm in this respect gets him into a lot of trouble with his sergeant. Finally, the sergeant, fed up with Woody's actions in trying to imitate a pilot, throws Woody out of the barracks and into the pilots' quarters. Woody reads a textbook ("How to Fly a Plane From the Ground Up"). In the quarters, he stumbles over a clothes tree and into a flying suit. Woody's attempts to zipper the suit get him into more trouble as he knocks over a box of flares, one of which lands in the collar of the flying suit. Attempting to zipper the suit, Woody mistakenly pulls the pin from the flare, and he's violently projected into the air. The suit swells up and bursts, and Woody floats down by parachute into the cockpit of the plane (the PU-2).
A cute little mouse living in a cafe is awakened from his sleep by ghosts playing the jukebox upstairs. The mouse climbs inside the machine and runs into trouble with an automatic record changer. Falling into a glass of Zowie Alcohol, he gets rip-roaring drunk. Derby-hatted "alcohol spirits" emerge from empty beer glasses. All the inhabitants of the bar come to life and sing and dance. A lobster dinner comes to life in the person of Carmen Miranda and dances a typical Brazilian dance. A big band plays rumbas in the Xavier Cugat style. Brazilian dancers are also seen dancing around a lampshade, and Latin "matchstick men" move to the beat, as well.
Homer, a drawling country pigeon, calls on his girl Mazie, but she gives him the cold shoulder when a squadron of carrier pigeons flies over. Homer resolves to win her favor by joining the Pigeon Patrol. Try as he does, he can't win the grade because he hasn't enough chest. Trudging home, he witnesses an aerial combat between a carrier pigeon and a Japanese vulture. When the pigeon crashes to the ground, Homer volunteers to carry the vital message through. He battles and defeats the vulture, delivers the message, wins the girl, and raises a family of bright young fledglings for the Pigeon Patrol.
Andy Panda and his dog Balmer plant a victory garden, while a pesky rooster eats their plants. Andy wants to plant a new garden with the help of his dog. Unfortunately, everything goes wrong for both of them. Andy finds that the ground is hard as rocks and he can't dig; he has to use a drill. The dog chases a worm and gets stuck in a rake. The worm whacks him and leads him on a merry chase through a garden hose, turning it into a snake which blasts the poor dog in the face with water. Meanwhile, Andy's seeds are vacuumed up by a rooster, which he attacks with a sickle. The rooster lands on the dog. The battle rages with everything in a heap. The garden is ruined... or is it? The super-grow fertilizer is working wonders.
Woody Woodpecker's so happy that he forgets to pay attention to where he's driving, and he crashes his car into a pole. When his car fails, Woody goes to the Sympathy Loan Co. ("You'll Need It") to borrow money for a new car. A loanshark tricks Woody into signing for a loan of $1. Woody finds the sleazy loanshark very sympathetic until he gets his loan. However, the loanshark underestimates Woody's capacity for befuddling anyone.
Big Band swing music from the 1940s combines with some politically incorrect overtones about Arizona Indians. Characters include "Tommy Hawk and His 5 Scalpers." In this madcap musical, an Indian chief fires his rainmaker and hires Tommy Hawk, whose trap drums produce some amusing results.
