When the boys buy a new hat for Mother’s Day they don’t
expect the problems they are about to have. As they exit the store they trip
and the hat ends up in a mud puddle; ruined. Spying a nearby horse they decide
to swap the ruined hat with the one on the horse’s head. (This is a cartoon so there
is no reason for the horse NOT to be wearing a hat.)
Sensing an opportunity, the boys quickly exchange the muddy
hat for the one the horse is wearing. When the horse figures out she has been
swindled she gallops after them, only to lose the trail. She is left searching
the streets for the scent of the boys, and her hat.
Meantime, back at home, the boys have presented Mama with
her Mother’s Day gift. She promptly goes for a stroll to show it off. And then
she comes face to face with the horse, who immediately begins to chase her in
order to get her hat back. A very frightened Mama leads the horse back to the
house, and the horse actually gets inside to search room by room for what is
rightfully hers.
The boys; knowing that they caused this whole mess in the
first place; decide to do something. So, they sit the horse down and attempt to
mollify her by having her try on every piece of headgear in the house; football
helmet and lamp shade included. When the horse becomes dizzy with all the hats
and mirrors the boys push her into the bathroom, where she finds herself in the
tub with a very surprised, and angry Captain.
The chase that begins in the bathroom reaches epic proportions
in relation to the size of the hat at stake. At one point; through the magic of
cartoon reality; the horse becomes an airplane with the aid of an electric fan
and a dining room table. When they snag the electric line they take most of the
town’s power lines along with them before crashing onto a laundry “tree” in
someone’s backyard with the contested headpiece landing just out of reach.
At this point the fan; which is still stuck to the horse’s
ass; turns the laundry “tree” into a merry go round, with the prized hat
becoming the “golden ring.” The Captain
and the Kids cartoons grew out of the comic strip of the same name; which grew
out of the Katzenjammer Kids series. For a really good article about the
history of that series; with links to the Captain and the Kids strip; use this
link;
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