An older looking Weasel is show sitting on Loulabelle wearing only a diaper and commenting on poetry he had forgotten he had written. The episode opens with Weasel narrating about the old cartoon stars retirement home where stars go to retire, stars such as Cow and Chicken, Dexter, Doggie Daddy, Johnny Quest, Quick Draw McGraw and of course himself. Baboon pesters other old cartoon sidekicks with humiliating stories from his life in tandem with Weasel. Baboon sits in front of an Old Cartoon Sidekicks trailer and stews with jealousy. Weasel rocks in a rocker at the Old Cartoon Stars Home, while senior citizen I.R. The lightning bolt hit also slightly injured him his last scene shows him with a bandage on his stern.An elderly I.M. To much celebration, he then tows the liner into port all by himself, with Big Toot proudly watching. Trying to rush for safety, he is engulfed by one final wave as the storm ends, submerging him.Īll seems lost for the little tugboat, but is not for long when Little Toot miraculously emerges on the surface coughing water from his smokestack. At first, he can't pull the ship out, but is struck by a lightning bolt, giving him enough strength to pull the liner free. Little Toot meanwhile makes it to the stuck liner, which tosses him a tow line. With Big Toot in the lead, the other tugboats race to the rescue, but cannot make headway against the rough seas. Thinking quickly, he puffs a smoky S.O.S. A sudden storm breaks out around him, and to his surprise, he discovers an ocean liner in distress on the rocks. As the sky darkens, the sea grows rougher, and that's when he is taunted by menacing bell buoys and ignored by a lighthouse. He tearfully watches the other boats shun him as a criminal and Big Toot demoted to pulling garbage barges in disgrace.ġ2 miles outside the harbor, Little Toot is left alone. He goes out to the Harbor, and tries to help his father work, but starts to help him tug an ocean liner by accidentally pushing on its rudder, which inadvertentaly causes it to spin out of control, and sends it mistakenly crashing into the city.īecause of this mistake, he is escorted in chains outside the harbor limits by the Harbor Patrol as a punishment for his actions. While his father, Big Toot, works hard towing ships throughout the port and out to sea, Little Toot prefers to play about, but carelessly annoys the big ocean liners with his giant figure eights and smokeballs.Īfter nearly getting into trouble with the Harbor Patrol, Little Toot resolves to be more responsible like Big Toot. Little Toot is a mischievous little tugboat who lives in New York Harbor. Little Toot is a small anthropomorphic tugboat with a handsome pink face, a rose nose, thin black eyebrows, red cap (blue in the short), a small red flag, a gold whistle, a red smokestack with a white stripe, and gray tires. When an ocean liner is in danger, Little Toot changes his behavior and acts like Big Toot. Since then, Big Toot scolds him to act like what a real tugboat does, causing him to reform.
Throughout the short, he is shown to be playful like making figure eights, not acting maturely like his father, Big Toot. Little Toot is described as a playful but mischievous tugboat.