Crazy Cruise

Plot

The cartoon opens on a Southern plantation with the Sportsmen Quartet harmonizing on "Swanee River" in the background. A tobacco worm munches on a tobacco leaf, and a rotoscoped hand holds a microphone near it. The worm launches into the fast-talking patter of a tobacco auctioneer, ending with "Sold to an American!" (parodying the Lucky Strike cigarette commercials on radio's Your Hit Parade) and expectorates chewed tobacco into an off-screen spittoon.

A map shows a cruise vessel tracing a straight line from the Gulf Coast to Havana for a stop at Sloppy Joe's bar (Ernest Hemingway's hangout), then meandering in aimless spirals while "How Dry I Am" plays. At sea, the narrator describes a camouflaged warship called the S.S. Yehudi (referencing Jerry Colonna's joke "Who's Yehudi?"), invisible except for its crew, flags, and chimney smoke. Over the Alps, a low-flying airplane skims up and down mountainsides like a skier.

A comic triple shows a St. Bernard with a keg of Scotch, another with a keg of soda, and a pup with a smaller keg of Bromo. An agile mountain goat springs from peak to peak and dives off a cliff with a funny sound effect. In the Sahara Desert, pyramids appear, including stone renditions of the Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939 New York World's Fair. The Sphinx, voiced by Mel Blanc, speaks to the camera: "Monotonous... isn't it?"

An oil well in Europe yields a gusher for an axis of the United States, erupting just one large drop of oil into a spittoon. In the African jungle, an insect-eating plant chomps a bumblebee, then expectorates it with a yelled "OUCH!" (by Mel Blanc), and the bee walks away smugly. A group of African animals lines up at a "water hole" that is a functional drinking fountain, with an adult zebra holding a young zebra up to it. Flying over Africa, the narrator reports possibly-nonsense names, leading to a female-shaped body of water called Veronica Lake.

Two Caucasian safari hunters, led by a stereotyped pygmy guide, search for giant cannibals in the "Brawla Brawla Sooit region" (a reference to "The Hut-Sut Song"). The trio disappears behind trees; a loud clatter is heard, and the pygmy runs out shouting in pseudo African double-talk and words from "The Hut-Sut Song." Pan left to giant cannibals holding the tiny white men, who resemble rolled-up cigarettes; the cannibal holding the taller man remarks, "King-Size!"

Three cute grey-and-white rabbits play in the jungle. The narrator's voice turns to shouting panic as a vulture with a Japanese stereotyped face and Japanese flags on its wings dives toward them. The rabbits run behind weeds, which fall away revealing an anti-aircraft gun and the rabbits wearing Civil Defense white helmets. They fire loud volleys, blowing the bird away.

The rabbit with its back to the audience turns, revealing Bugs Bunny, who gives the thumbs up sign with both hands and says, "Eh, t'umbs up, Doc! T'umbs up!" At iris-out, only Bugs's ears are on-screen, springing into a "V for Victory" sign as "We Did It Before (And We Can Do It Again)" plays.