Boyhood Daze

Ralph gets sent to his room for breaking a window. There, he passes the time in Walter Mitty-type fashion, daydreaming that he's a parent-saving jungle explorer, an alien-fighting jet ace and a convict. His fantasies include such lines as "My insurance will pay for the window and use whatever is left over to buy yourself a catcher's mitt" and "You are being pursued by Martians who all got A's in arithmetic." He imagines that he's a great explorer saving his parents from the natives' stewing pot. Then he imagines himself as a jet fighter battling Martians from outer space before fantasizing his being congratulated by the President of the United States.

Ralph Phillips

Contemporary airings of this cartoon edit out a scene in which Ralph is smoking a cigarette while in his prison cell. (If you pay attention at the opening of this scene, you will see him twisting his foot on the ground... this makes more sense when you realize that the original version shows him smoking a cigarette & dropping it to the ground, stepping on it & crushing it to put it out.)