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- The titular birds love one another, but another wants the female one.
- A re-telling of the classic nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built".
- A dying girl dreams of a better place in the next life.
- Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia...in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats, skeletons begin to rise from their graves and form a loosely-jointed band.
- Elves, moved by a cobbler's generosity, work extra hard to help him with his work.
- A poor child is transported to Candyland, where he can eat his fill and the candy perform a carnival.
- A toy soldier asks Santa Claus to make a special visit to a poor orphaned boy on Christmas.
- A mouse and a cuckoo bird, skeptical about the existence of ghosts, are startled by a midnight visit from a sextet of spirits, all men who once wooed a Florador show-girl. The specters do a song-and-dance routine from the gay-90's era of show-business. They all fade away at dawn, leaving the mouse and the cuckoo bird less-convinced skeptics than they were before the witching hour.
- Scrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the dates representing holidays come to life. Father time, in particular, takes Scrappy on a tour of the other holidays, stopping at dioramas representing Christmas, New Year's, Easter, and taking some eggs from Easter over to the feasts of Thanksgiving. Then he wakes up, and has to hurry to get to school on time.
- An obnoxious little toddler boy scares and hits a whimpering puppy in his charge until his mother comes in and puts him to bed and scolds him for his cruelty. Asleep, the boy dreams that the puppy has grown to dinosaur size, bursting through walls, chasing down the brat until retribution looks nigh.
- The king paces back and forth; a knight rushes in with the news: It's a boy! The knight visits the three wise fairies with the news, inviting them to a ball in celebration. The fairies arrive (singing), and bestow various blessings on the child (including dancing the jitterbug). There follows some general merriment and dancing, until the clock strikes three. Everyone leaves to let the baby sleep, but he's not done yet -- a full set of percussion instruments pops up in his bed, and his drum solo brings everyone back for more.
- Ignatz invents various methods for hurling bricks at Krazy who takes this as a term of affection. The only entry of the series to be modeled after George Herriman's original comic strip characters.
- After an elderly toymaker closes his shop at night and goes home, all the toys come to life and have fun until he comes back in the morning.
- This cartoon is basically about a little dog who is a rather bad and cheeky museum cleaner. Not surprisingly, his boss is very impatient with him and urges him to keep cleaning. As the cleaner cleans, some of the things in the museum come to life.
- A group of insects get together to play a game of football.
- Caricatures of many of the stars in Hollywood from the 1930's all playing and eating as best suits their public image.
- The Puppet Murder Case (1935) is one of the more stylish of the series, and has an especially cinematic interrogation sequence. The story here is pretty simple: Scrappy is running a puppet show for the neighborhood kids. Scrappy won't let his little brother see the show, socking him in the face repeatedly every time her tries. Oopy sneaks in anyway and, using a pee shooter, kills a stageful of puppets by breaking their strings. After Scrappy beats Oopy again, then has the 'puppets' put him on trial. This concludes with a puppet jury deciding Oopy is guilty, sentencing him to more abuse.
- A group of puppies chase a grown up fox, and then the tables are turned.
- A little boy pilot tries to get a broken-down plane off the ground. While waiting for the take-off, a little girl air hostess entertains their increasingly impatient passengers.
- Barney prepares a banquet in a upper-classy city home. The guests arrive- all Billy Debeck Characters from the comic strips "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" and "Bunky", including Snuffy, Lowezie, Sully, Spark Plug, Sunshine, Rudy the Ostrich, Bunky, Fagin and others. They all sit down for the big feed, and sing a song "Mister Google's tetched in the haid" based on one of Snuffy's signature phrases. Adding to this insult, they refuse to let Google get out more than a few words of a big speech he planned to give, by bombing him with messy food. The mob eats like wild animals, and all leave with the house a shambles.
- Two rival families of hens (and roosters)are arming in preparation for a battle in a property-line dispute over the division line between their two barnyard coops. After much fighting, squabbling and squawking between the two factions, two peaceful doves bring about a settlement between the two groups. Those two doves should have been toiling their trade in Europe in 1939, rather than in a USA barnyard.
- A Columbia animated short. Oopie is in charge of the lemonade stand at the fair. A drunk pours his bottle of spirits into the bowl to the delight of all the fair goers.
- When Barney invites the whole hillbilly troupe to dinner and acts politely, they don't.
- After driving their mother hen to a nervous breakdown, her chicks realize it is Mother's Day and treat her well.
- A Color Favorites cartoon from the Charles Mintz animation studios featuring a boy and girl comedy story, with music, set in Venice where the gondolas are seen traversing the Venetian canals.
- A Columbia animated short. Things get rather tense after hours when the toys in Scrappy's toy shop wage a battle.
- Working as a sailor aboard a ship, a Chinese cook makes Krazy fish for the despotic Captain's breakfast.
- A dog is tired of living in a house and decides to leave for the fun and excitement of the big city. However, it turns out to be not exactly the way he thought it would be.
- A Kangaroo tricks his violin playing son into a boxing match to try to trick him into being a boxer.
- Barney Google, in a parody of the radio program, Major Bowles Amateur Hour, stages his own version, but uses catch-phrases all through the broadcast used by Bowles on his. Things go well until hillbilly Snuffy Smith gets an early gong and hooked-from-the-stage during his talent presentation.
- Manning a lighthouse is just a music-filled dancing pleasure for Krazy, who engages with fish, birds and a seal in his day's duty. As he spies Kitty in a passing ship, the skies fill with black storm clouds, and a fierce barrage of wind, rain and lightning churns the sea until the ship is (literally) swallowed by a huge wave, leaving Kitty floating on a raft-like scrap of wood. Krazy sets out in a life boat, but it sinks too, but just in time, Jonah surfaces and rescues them in a whale that's reconverted to approximate a ferry boat.
- A glow worm's girlfriend falls into a water pool during a severe storm, and he has to save her from drowning. A spider also wants to save her, but not for the same reason--he's hungry.
- A piano must be delivered by Krazy in his beat up old horse wagon to a skyscraper in the middle of a city. He struggles to set up a winch and pulley, getting caught in it, ending up on a ledge, where Kitty comes out of a window to join him to do a little singing, dancing and make trouble.
- A Columbia animated short. Scrappy is late for class that would allow him to graduate. Locked out he schemes a way in with Oopie dressing up as a school board director.
- Columbia Krazy Kat animated short. Krazy Kat and Kitty enjoy time at the beach and then the beach amusement park.
- A flock of little bluebirds come to the rescue of an abandoned baby. They form a carrying-squadron and transport the babe to Happyland. But all their efforts to entertain and make the child happy are fruitless. Finally they locate the distraught mother and bring mother and child back together.
- Told in flashback, th story explains why one of the bunnies in the classroom is so much bigger and older than his classmates. He devoted his early years to disrupting the class rather than studying and learning his lessons, with the result that he remained behind while the other students were promoted.
- Two tramp crows laze around all year until winter comes and they have to go south. The duo are put to the curb by everyone with sense, until they are caught in the freeze. Friendly Mr. Squirrel graciously takes them in, but have our crows learned their lesson?
- A down-and-out family of pigs wins a sweepstakes, are immediately besieged by reporters and photographers, and then go on a wild spending spree, which soon exhausts their windfall-prize money. Than the tax collector shows up. After paying the taxes, the pigs are right back where they started from.
- Krazy is a dance instructor who is teaching moves to a quartet of clowns wearing leotards and high-heeled pumps. When the clowns are having trouble following his instructions, Krazy puts ropes on their legs to show them how to move. Momentarily, a Swedish girl with a blond spiral hair comes out of a dance school only a few yards away before entering Krazy's studio. The Swedish girl comes to Krazy, and shows him her dance skills. Krazy, however, isn't interested and therefore turns her down as he is expecting a famous soprano to arrive. The Swedish girl then shows her singing skills by letting out a high tone that jolts Krazy off his feet. But Krazy still turns her down. The Swedish girl then demonstrates her acting skills as she goes into a movable balcony, and recites some romantic poems. To keep her away, Krazy raises and sets the balcony to the peak. The Swedish girl screams in horror upon seeing no way down. A fancy car arrives just outside the studio minutes later. Exiting the vehicle is the soprano whom Krazy was waiting for. The soprano comes to Krazy, and sings a few notes for demonstration. The Swedish girl, who is still up on the movable balcony, applauds the soprano's test act. The Swedish girl is also leaning forward too much before falling off the platform and onto the soprano. The soprano is deformed as a result, and even has a distorted voice. The soprano leaves the scene embarrassed. Krazy has no choice but to pick the Swedish girl for the show. Later that night, the scene shows the outside of the theater with a banner of the event called "The Katnips of 1940." The name of the soprano on the banner is also shown being replaced by that of the Swedish girl. The event is started by a group of singing can can dancers. Next it is the turn of the Swedish girl to take center stage. The Swedish girl, wearing a fedora, is at first too hesitant to step into the limelight but thankfully Krazy literally gives her a push. The Swedish girl sings, dances, and plays castanets on the stage with complete fluency. Krazy, also wearing a fedora, joins her on stage seconds afterward. With three flawless performances, both of them receive applause. After the lights move away from them and back, Krazy and the Swedish girl are seen dressed like Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty respectively.
- Ghosts chase Scrappy and his little brother in the forest.
- Told in a musical-comedy format, this cartoon is the story of two department store mannequins who fall in love, become engaged and plan to marry. When the other dummies/manikins/mannequins in the store learn this, they arrange surprises for the couple with nearly every piece of merchandise in the store coming to life.