Happy mice and cockroaches are looting a kitchen full of goodies. When the housecat goes out for some romance, mice have a party and cockroaches hold a dance. The mice all mount a marvelous musical production of "Little Brown Jug," and then partake of the alcoholic beverage! Then a troupe of cockroaches sing and dance to "La Cucaracha." And then... a giant, mean rat shows up to spoil the fun. The rat decides to make a cute girl mouse his own- until the cat returns, that is, just in time to send him packing. Cat and mouse retire to their separate quarters.
There is a baby contest going on in the barn, but the rooster and hen haven't hatched their brood yet! The rooster is awaiting the arrival of the "blessed event," but he tries to hurry the process by a day because he wants them to appear in the Better Babies Contest. A parade of barnyard animals' offspring compete in a talent contest and do their stuff. At the end of the contest, there's a late entrant that steals the cup!
Bosko and Honey are two black children who have a wild adventure at the circus.
The Captain and The Inspector, and the dog Pluto travel to Africa to find the world's smallest pygmy. The Captain and the Inspector track the pygmy back to his hut where he out smarts them by swapping clothes with the Inspector and escapes to the rest of the pygmy tribe who come after the Captain and Inspector with arrows. They manage to get away.
Night falls in an art gallery. A statue of Nero comes to life and tries to tempt the statuette of the Three Good Little Monkeys (See No evil, Hear No evil, Speak No evil) into helping him set fire to a picture of Rome. Ultimately, the monkeys yield to temptation with disastrous results, and the other paintings must come to life to save them.
On Christmas Eve, two squirrel children ask their grandfather what men are. He describes them, then narrates the story of how humanity destroyed itself by war, as chilling scenes of armed conflict play on the screen. After the last human dies, the animals take their war implements and build homes from them, to live forever in peace.
A black man is lazily fishing on a pier, his jug of moonshine out of sight of the approaching preacher. The preacher tells the fisherman that the fish don't bite on Sunday, then the camera pans down to a school of 'black' fish who perform swing numbers of the popular stars of the era. After all is said and done, the reverend concludes, "And that's why the fish don't bite on Sundays!"
A wolf, starving to death, runs across a cute little rabbit. The innocent rabbit tries to help the wolf, even though the wolf looks at the rabbit as nothing more than a meal. But just as the wolf is about to strike, he gets an attack of guilt and spares the rabbit. The rabbit then rewards him with a hearty meal and friendship.
This sensual adaptation of the old fairy story soon liberates its principals from their cute Disney-style forest and slaps them right in the middle of swanky Manhattan. Grandma's a nymphomaniac swinger, and her rustic cottage home a hip penthouse pad. Little Red has become a red-hot singer-stripper; the Wolf is a model of lupine lechery; and the forest is supplanted by a big-city nightclub as the enchanted place of forbidden sexuality. The Wolf tries to pull the old Red Riding Hood gag in order to meet up with Little Red, but Grandma has other ideas.
Cinderella (played by Preston Blair's Red Hot) must work two jobs, moonlighting at an aircraft plant when she's not torch singing at a nightclub. Her time at the club is spent dodging the amorous advances of Wolfie. Wolfie, in turn, must dodge the amorous advances of Red's Fairy Godmother (played by Grandma), who tries to impress Wolfie with her dubious charms and her title as Miss Repulsive of 1898.
Uncle Tom relates the story of how he saved his land. Simon LeGree wants to own all of New York and threatens to foreclose on Uncle Tom's plot of land. To raise money, Tom and Little Eva (played by Red Hot Riding Hood) turn the plot into a nightclub, with Red providing the red hot entertainment. Red sings a seductive version of "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" that wows the house. Undaunted, LeGree tries to sabotage things. Uncle Tom heroically stops him. However, back in reality, Tom is struck by lightning for boasting.
Against all odds, a little duck matches wits with George and Junior, two duck hunters (who aren't exactly splitting atoms in their spare time), and the gags begin. The hunters do everything that they can to get the duck, but in every gag, they get the short end. One scene has both hunters looking at a shotgun slug. It goes off in their faces, which turn black.
One of Tex Avery's "Tomorrow Themes" which featured the "house of the future" with many custom and adjustable gadgets around the house, such as a record changer that starts throwing the records against the wall. But the accommodations for the mother-in-law (including a medicine cabinet) is the real selling point.
Tom gets killed by a piano, and starts to float up to Heaven. But he doesn't get to go in, because he's been trying to get Jerry all these years. The only way for him to get into Heaven is to have Jerry sign a piece of paper, stating as an apology. If Jerry doesn't sign it.. then Tom's going down under.
An alley cat gets caught painting "I hate dogs!" on a wall by Spike, an angry bulldog. The cat jumps in a storage crate to escape, only to discover a trick "be a Ventriloquist!!" device that can throw your voice. The cat uses it to make the dog think that he's everywhere on the planet, and the chase is on. However, the dog wins the day.
Reminiscent of 1940's "Busy Bakers" and "Holiday for Shoestrings," an elderly cobbler finds himself steeped in poverty but nevertheless gives his last few breadcrumbs to several hungry birds perched outside his window. Magically, the birds transform into shoe-making elves that comically manufacture enough shoes overnight to replenish the cobbler's store by morning.
An old cab and his wife have a baby boy car in hopes that he'll grow up and be a cab like his old man. But being young, the little car wants to be a hot rod instead. The little car races around against his father's wishes until he gets into trouble racing a train. His life barely saved by his dad but it is not without consequences. His dad gets put in the mechanic hospital. While he is making his recovery, the son shows his dad that he wants to be a cab just like his dad. The only thing is that he keeps all his racing mods.
Spike the dog gets a job looking after a bear's home while the bear goes into hibernation. The bear wants peace and quiet, and warns Spike about making noise. Another dog wants all the comfort and perks that Spike is getting at the bear's home, and so he embarks on a campaign to make as much noise as possible to awaken the bear and get Spike blamed for it so that he can get the job himself. What follows is utter mayhem, with Spike trying his best to secure his job and keep the bear asleep through all the situations and noise that the other dog gets him involved in.
It's nighttime, and a circus train is passing through town. But a baby elephant is sleeping too close to the edge of the car he's in, and tumbles out, rolls down the hill, into a house, and right into Tom's basket. Not noticing out of tiredness, Tom curls up on top of the elephant, who's under the blanket. It manages to make a quick getaway, then sucks up Tom's milk with it's truck. Thinking it was Jerry, Tom marches into the kitchen. Jerry was actually drinking milk, but is wasn't Tom's. Still thinking he did it, Tom prepares to smash his bowl on him, when the elephant comes to his rescue. The two then hide from Tom in the closet, and decide to play a trick on him; Jerry paints the elephant to make him look like a super-sized version of himself.
The narrator tells the story of a waltzing mouse named Johann (Jerry) who lives in Vienna in Johann Strauss' home. Tom tries to catch Jerry each time he's dancing to Johann Strauss' piano music, but when a day arrives in which Johann Strauss is absent, Tom decides to learn how to play the piano in order to raise his chances of catching Jerry.
Butch is going shopping... in an ally. He finds what he can in a garbage cans, and takes them with him. But a bottle of fresh milk on a doorstep catches his attention, and goes over to get it. But Tom opens the door and takes the milk before Butch can. Butch then sees a cooked chicken on the windowsill, and proceeds to takes that, only to have the window slammed shut on his fingers before he can. Determined, Butch dresses up as a hungry baby in order to get into the house and snatch the chicken.
Tom and his alley cat palls are going through home movies, and Jerry wants to watch them, too. But Tom and his buddies don't want him around and toss him out the window. Annoyed, Jerry decides to get back at them by waking up Spike and angering him by showing him how he's depicted as a big goof in those movies.
Jerry gets a telegram from his Uncle Pecos that says that he's going to spend the night with him before his big debut on TV. Arriving quickly, he gives Jerry a demonstration of his guitar skills. But when one of his guitar's strings snap, he fearlessly walks up to Tom and pulls one of his whiskers to replace it. Annoyed at first, Tom soon becomes afraid of Uncle Pecos, whose guitar strings are always snapping, and it's always Tom's whiskers that he targets to replace them.
When Tom is scolded by his owner for always breaking things while chasing Jerry, he decides to get a job. He soon finds one that sounds good to him, but it turns out to be the job of a witch's cat. After a scary ride on the witch's broom, Tom gets the job and the witch goes to bed. Tom then decides to take the broom himself, and ride it back home to give Jerry a good scare.
Tom and Jerry hear on the radio about a bear that escaped from the circus who always dances whenever music is playing. When the bear finds it's way to their house, and music starts playing, it takes Tom as it's reluctant dancing partner. Amused by this, Jerry does his best to keep the music going so he can continue to watch Tom get helplessly thrown around by the dancing bear.
Spike's owner is going out of town and leaves Spike and Tyke in charge. An alley cat overhears the orders, and as soon as the owner leaves, he gets on the horn and invites every alley cat in town. They come in swinging on a rope like Tarzan. While their owners are away, Spike and Tyke try to keep three invasion-minded felines from geting in the house for a party.
Taking place in Spain, Meathead the Cat is ordered by his owner to catch El Magnifico (Jerry) at once, but Meathead says that's impossible because of El Magnifico's world-renowned escaping skills. So the owner decides to call up Tom, the "Olympic, U.S. and World Champion Mouse Catcher", confident that he will be able to do the job.
A bear settles down for his long winter nap, and while he sleeps, the progress of man continues. He wakes up to find himself in the middle of an industrial complex.
A documentary about the life and career of legendary cartoon director Fred "Tex" Avery.