Farmyard Frolics

Farmyard Frolics is a 1941 Happy Melodies short directed by Fred Quimby

Plot

A Horse whinnies, and a comic triple plays out: The narrator asks the horse to do a trot; the horse obliges. The narrator asks for a gallop; the horse again obliges. The narrator then asks the horse to do a "canter". The horse turns from realistic to a cartoon horse with eyes singing I'm Happy About the Whole Thing

The family dog lazes on the porch, springing to alertness when the newspaper arrives. The dog makes a mad dash to the end of the driveway, gets the paper, comes back to the porch, and immediately starts to read the paper himself, starting with the Sunday comics he says I just can't wait to see what happens to Dick Tracy

A hen lays her eggs and a mean-looking weasel creeps into the henhouse while the narrator frets. Just as he is about to grab the eggs, They all hatch at once and the chicks shout BOO! The frightened weasel says Don't ever DOOO that!" and gasps as his heart pounds.

A group of birds put a little twig, a bit of string, and piece of straw until they make a Nest singing There's no place like home!

A Group of ants is coming and going at an anthill. The camera and mike zoom in to allow the viewer to see and hear as a mother summons her son Hen-REEEE Coming mother

A mouse mentions that he is kind to the cat he's snuggling against, and nods with the narrator's observation they're friends. When asked by the narrator if he has anything he'd like to say to his friends in the audience The mouse yells GET ME OUT OF HEEEEEEERE!

A gag has six piglets eagerly watching an alarm clock. When it finally hits six o'clock The pigs yell Dinnertime! and they dash off to their mother, to the tune of the military bugle call "Mess Call". She braces for the onslaught as the sucklings pile into her side. The mother pig has a rather dejected face and says "Oh, dear... every day, it's the same thing!"

Notes

The ant yelling Hen-REEE! refers to the catchphrase from the radio show The Aldrich Family.

The Cartoon is the first to carry the 1941-45 opening theme for the Happy Melodies series.

The cartoon was featured in the Pee-wee's Playhouse Episode Mystery however the cartoon is cut between the first scene with the piglets and the scene with the cat and mouse