Basically, it’s another just-there imitation Disney fairy tale from the studio with Carl Stalling filling it with songs. The pie man is chasing Simon’s pet goose but gets caught in a fair turnstyle.
Simon rushes up a giraffe and jumps onto a trapeze, sending him somersaulting through the air. (One of the characters that grabs him looks like Willie Whopper’s girl friend. Willie wasn’t doing much in 1935).
Simon lands inside a barrel, which is rolled by two different performers. I like the guy with the Robin Hood hat in the lower left hand corner. If it’s supposed to be Walt Disney, that’s funnier than anything else in the cartoon.
The barrel crashes. Staves come flying at us in perspective.
The impact has Simon imagining harem girls—with curly antenna on their heads! He starts hugging one but she dissolves into the angry pie man.
Much like the recording of Bill Hanna’s yell that was used in all kinds of Tom and Jerry cartoons, the Iwerks frightened warbling yell is heard two or three times in this short, and a number of other Comicolors. Actor unknown.
I believe that sign reads "Hottie Doggie". Somewhat blurred lettering. :)
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