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Mickey and Pluto do battle with a horde of insects and bugs that were feasting on Mickey's garden. He sprays them with plenty of insecticide, but that does not deter them (some strong insects to withstand a bug spray). Soon, Mickey gets dizzy from getting the spray onto himself and daydreams of a warped zone where the insects are twice their size.

It's a cartoon that might give you the creepy crawlies and has the usual slapstick action. It's kind of fun seeing how Mickey and Pluto deal with the bugs, but, I didn't find much to laugh about, if not at all. Nothing really funny here. Kids might like it, but there are definitely better cartoons out there featuring Mickey and Pluto.

Grade C-

This Mickey Mouse short finds Mickey at wit's end, as insects are destroying his vegetable garden. To combat this menace, he whips up a HUGE tub of poison* and attempts to spray the insects...but ends up spraying himself instead. What follows is a poison-induced dream in which Mickey finds himself and Pluto shrunken to the size of bugs....and they are all ganging up on him to punish him for using the poison!

This cartoon is simply a delight to watch. It's the perfect combination of fantasy, amazingly detailed and gorgeous animation along with very fitting music. Not to be missed by any fans of the Mouse!

*I anticipate that Mickey will soon need a litigating lawyer, as I am pretty sure he'll contract cancer or some other disease as a result of these pesticides.

In this cartoon, the second color Mickey adventure, bugs and creepy crawlies are eating absolutely everything in Mickey's yard. He and Pluto set out on a mission to stop them with some poisonous gas, so bad the barrel has a skull and crossbones on it.

After an accident, Mickey ends up spraying himself with the gas and goes on a scary trip in which he is thimble sized and the bugs are as big as T-Rexs.

The rest of the cartoon is a chase with him and Pluto being pursued by the creepy crawlies. It's all very visual stuff, played out to various pieces of music. Mickey doesn't even say a single thing until the last few seconds.

A fun cartoon.

Particularly interesting in this short is a sequence where Mickey gets extra-strength bug spray sprayed in his own face and then trips. He thinks the plants and bugs have grown, and tries to escape the terrorizing insects. I love the weird ways the bugs attack him and Pluto! This is a fabulous cartoon. 9/10.

Disney had a fondness for bizarre sequences involving hallucinations, and when Mickey gets a face full of bug spray the screen is soon swarming with enormous insects and giant trembling vines for the rest of the film...