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The Sultan offers his beautiful daughter as wife to the "Greatest Man in Siam." (A sign reads, "King's Daughter Contest/Also Bowling at 1:10 p.m./Lockheed vs. Kaiser Welders".) A number of contestants vie for her, but the winner is a jazz trumpet player who is "The Hottest Man in Siam."
While Tony Figaro is out to get his physical, Woody Woodpecker heckles the customers in the Seville Barbershop. Woody stands outside the shop looking at the ads and wants a "victory haircut." Woody goes to the shop, but the barber isn't there. Woody decides to take over the operation of the barber shop. The first customer is an Indian who gets a scalping, followed by a tough workman who wishes that he had never run into Woody. All of this frantic cartoon features Woody singing the "Largo al Factotum" ("The Shaving Song") from "The Barber of Seville," by Giacomo Rossini.
At the Sandwich Islands, which includes the "deviled egg" island, the "hot dog on a bun" island, and the "hamburger" island (with a sign, "Hold the Onions"), we see a man on the "tunaville" island surveying the area with a telescope. He notices a crate full of musical instruments wash ashore and alerts the others. The tribe finds these instruments strange and unusual at first but eventually really get the hang of them, particularly one member who plays a hot piano, his playing being somewhat interrupted by a pestiferous crab.
Andy Panda is fascinated by a cute little goldfish in a pet shop window, buys it, and starts to take it home. He's stalked by a mangy, hungry alley cat who tries to eat it. The big tomcat tries to get the baby fish by sneaking up and grabbing it, then by disguising himself as a thirst-crazed desert traveler dying for a drink of water, and finally, by crude by effective brute force. Andy's stuck in the middle of a guerrilla war between the ravenous cat and the goldfish. Guess who's more sadistic? In his haste, the cat loses the fish down the gutter, but retrieves it, only to lose it again. Andy catches the fish and is promptly chases back to the pet shop. The cat's ambush outside the shop is foiled by a big bulldog at Andy's side who disposes of the cat without lifting an eyebrow.
The "Adobe Club" ("Here's Mud In Your Eye," the sign reads) meets somewhere in the sandy Sahara. Classic 1940s animation full of eroticism, mysticism... and camels. When Ben the Turk goes boogie-mad, he becomes an "Oriental rug cutter" like Abou Ben Boogie. A "lovely" in baggy trousers sings "Oriental Boogie Man," and she knocks 'em dead. Even the camels go boogie, and Ben becomes a wolf.
My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean." It seems that Woody, among other things, walked on his face, jammed his face into a nice, big cake, and ran over him with a surfboard, swiping his lunch (including his hot dogs) on the way. Practically choked him to death with smoke from a bonfire, burned his beach umbrella from over him and his beach chair from under him. Almost drowned him with a fire hose. Chasing him to the amusement center, Woody, disguised as a yogi, persuaded him to dive through a plate glass window. Fastening Woody to an anchor, Wally throws him into the sea, but the anchor rope pulls the pier and everything else in after it, and we iris out on Woody swimming into the sunset with the walrus and thousands of people swimming after him.
Looking over some vacation folders, Woody Woodpecker comes across one that offers good food. It's Wally Walrus' exclusive Swiss Chard Lodge ("40 miles as the crow flies, but who wants to fly with an old crow?") in Sunstroke Valley. A blizzard overtakes the train on the way, so Woody takes a shortcut on his skis. Arriving at the lodge, Woody finds that he needs a reservation. Losing an argument with the walrus proprietor, the irrepressible Woody returns disguised as Santa Claus, gets in the lodge by way of the chimney, starts filling his bag with food, and is discovered by Wally and thrown out. They fight over the bag of food, Woody finally getting away with it, only to find Wally hiding in the bag. He gives Wally a good choking for his trouble as we iris out.
Andy Panda is the painter and his dog, Butch, is the pointer, and Andy is trying to paint a portrait of Butch doing what a bird-dog is supposed to do...standing still and pointing to the game-bird. But Butch won't stand still. Andy's solution is to rig a gun to go off if Butch moves a muscle. Butch gamely resists all temptations to move but a couple of spiders carry him off in their web, with the gun going off repeatedly and peppering Butch's posterior.
