It's spring cleaning, and Mama has everyone hard at work. Even the Inspector is helping out.... well, his beard is. When Mama finds the Captain slacking, he decides the best way out is to pretend to be sick. Hans and Fritz realize this offers a fine opportunity to torment him.
It's a decent cartoon that owes a lot to the comic strip, but the standout character is a stork who battles Mama to a draw. The question on my mind is whatever happened to the shorts director, Robert Allen. The IMDb has him apparently showing up as an animator in 1934 for Harman-Ising, Fred Quimby hiring him away from them in 1937. Then a few credits, ending in 1945. Other sources call him active through 1955, but nothing else is known.
It's a decent cartoon that owes a lot to the comic strip, but the standout character is a stork who battles Mama to a draw. The question on my mind is whatever happened to the shorts director, Robert Allen. The IMDb has him apparently showing up as an animator in 1934 for Harman-Ising, Fred Quimby hiring him away from them in 1937. Then a few credits, ending in 1945. Other sources call him active through 1955, but nothing else is known.