Fables

1939 – 1942 18 cartoons

This series (and the Phantasy series) were spun up in 1939 to take over for the failing Scrappy and Krazy Kat series.

Cartoons

  1. Park Your Baby

    December 22, 1939 No. 3923 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Scrappy babysits two tough twins for double the trouble. There was a time when big-city department stores would babysit your children in special nursery room- as part of their free service.…

  2. Practice Makes Perfect

    April 5, 1940 No. 4006 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Scrappy is engaged in his piano lessons with his mother and for his music teacher. Oppey is making it hard for Scrappy to concentrate. Scrappy gets fed up with Oppey's antics and chases the…

  3. Barnyard Babies

    June 14, 1940 No. 4010 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Mother Hen's kids are aspiring singers and actresses, but Chester wants to become a G-Man. This fantasy of his lands him into trouble.

  4. The Pooch Parade

    July 19, 1940 No. 4013 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Scrappy spends the day at a dog show in this comical newsreel-type cartoon. He tries to crash an exclusive dog show with his little pet mongrel and winds up with a trophy after disguising h…

  5. A Peep In The Deep

    August 23, 1940 No. 4015 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Scrappy is deep-sea fishing when a bottle floats by his boat. In this corked bottle is a secret treasure map. There's a chest of gold on the ocean floor! Scrappy dives for the gold and must…

  6. Farmer Tom Thumb

    September 27, 1940 No. 4018 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Featuring Scrappy, Yippy

  7. Mouse Meets Lion

    October 25, 1940 No. 4021 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    A little mouse is having a great day tramping through the jungle. Seeing a sleeping lion, he pulls his whiskers as a joke and wants to be friends. The lion is angry and starts to eat the ti…

  8. Paunch 'n' Judy

    December 13, 1940 No. 4024 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    A father tries to take picture of his easily distracted daughter, which is made more difficult by an angry group of dogs.

  9. The Streamlined Donkey

    January 17, 1941 No. 4102 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    An exuberant little donkey lives for one thing: the joy of racing at top speed. But his mother, beaten down by a lifetime of servitude, glumly cautions her son to go slow and use care, for…

  10. It Happened To Crusoe

    March 14, 1941 No. 4105 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    A tribe of black African cannibals (with heavy racial stereotyping, such as playing table tennis with their upper lips as the paddles!), send one of their tribesmen, Winchester, out of the…

  11. Kitty Gets The Bird

    June 13, 1941 No. 4110 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Hard-luck Kitty tries to keep a mouse from eating his mistress' roast turkey. The crafty mouse wants the cat to get thrown out into the snow so that he can have the delicious dinner all to…

  12. Dumb Like A Fox

    July 18, 1941 No. 4113 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Pooch the bloodhound wants to go hunting with the older dogs, but is left behind. The puppy is approached by a sly fox who tricks the dog into thinking that Jack Beaver is a fox. The beaver…

  13. Playing The Pied Piper

    August 18, 1941 No. 4114 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    A dopey Pied Piper cat tries to catch a mouse, partly by reading "How to Be a 'Pied Piper in 10 Easy Lessons."

  14. The Great Cheeze Mystery

    October 27, 1941 No. 4118 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    Two mice plot to get by a guarding cat to get the cheese.

  15. The Tangled Angler

    December 26, 1941 No. 4121 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    A goofy pelican fisherman encounters a pesky, heckling wiseguy trout; comedy ensues!

  16. Under The Shedding Chestnut Tree

    February 22, 1942 No. 4202 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    A pelican blacksmith has trouble in his shop.

  17. Wolf Chases Pigs

    April 20, 1942 No. 4206 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    An updated retelling of 'The Three Little Pigs', except in this one, the 3 pigs are sergeants in the Army and the big bad wolf foolishly enlists just so he can get them! "Can I help it if I…

  18. The Bulldog And The Baby

    July 3, 1942 No. 4211 Theatrical Series Columbia Pictures Corporation

    A black maid leaves the baby of the house she works at with Butch. The bulldog tries to keep the rambunctious baby from harm in the city, but all hell breaks loose.