The Little Theater

Scrappy runs a marionette theater, but there is a saboteur in the audience.

It's the last Scrappy cartoon, and it's largely uncredited; Harry Love is credited as the writer, but it was at the start of the period of chaos for Columbia's cartoon production, that began with Charles Mintz falling ill and finally dying, and Columbia simply handing over the work to UPA after the Second World War. For the moment, Mintz' brother-in-law was filling in.

Scrappy had changed a lot since Dick Huemer had created the little buy with the huge head in 1931, when cartoons could be weird and frightening as well as funny. For this last one, the humor is rough and slapstick in a Three-Stooges way, as if Jules White were running the department, bound only by the laws of cartoon physics, and the necessity of having a moral ending suitable for small children under the production code.