Sleepy-Time Squirrel

Sleepy-Time Squirrel
Barney Bear series
Directed by Dick Lundy
Produced by Fred Quimby
Music by Scott Bradley
Animation by Robert Bentley
Michael Lah
Walter Clinton
Grant Simmons
Ray Patterson
Studio MGM Cartoons
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Original)
Turner Entertainment (Later via Warner Bros.)
Release date(s) June 19, 1954 (USA)
Color process Technicolor (two-color)
Language English

Sleepy-Time Squirrel is a 1954 MGM cartoon featuring Barney Bear.

Plot

Barney gets ready to hibernate for the winter, but notices he is out of firewood, so he chops a nearby tree to get some. Unbeknownst to him, the tree was the home of a squirrel who was also hibernating, so Barney calms the irate squirrel by letting him sleep in his cabinet drawer. The squirrel turns out to be noisy, breaking crockery, opening a window, and giving off loud noises eating nuts.

When the squirrel does fall asleep, he has nightmares of being chased by an angry purple turtle, waking him up again. Finally, Barney gives the squirrel a sleeping pill to make him doze off immediately, but the squirrel snores loudly, keeping Barney awake. Barney puts a hose onto the squirrel's mouth and puts the other end in a tree outside his house to divert the noise. However, inside the tree, a sleeping striped wild cat is awakened by the noise, and angrily follows the hose, where the squirrel has placed the hose over Barney's mouth. The cat blows into the hose, making Barney inflate into a balloon before flying around the house. As Barney deflates, he shrinks and lands in the squirrel's lap, who happily adopts him as a teddy bear and, cuddling Barney, finally goes to sleep.

See also

References

Sleepy-Time Squirrel at the Internet Movie Database

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