8.2 /10 1 Votes
3.5/5 Rate Your Music Release date(s) June 19, 1954 (USA) Music director Scott Bradley | 4.7/5 Big Cartoon DataBase Directed by Dick Lundy Music by Scott Bradley Initial release 19 June 1954 Film series Barney Bear Producer Fred Quimby | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Animation by Robert BentleyMichael LahWalter ClintonGrant SimmonsRay Patterson Production company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio Similar Cobs and Robbers, Half‑Pint Palomino, Bird‑Brain Bird Dog, Barney's Hungry Cousin, Busybody Bear | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sleepy-Time Squirrel is a 1954 MGM cartoon featuring Barney Bear.
Plot
Barney gets ready to hibernate for the winter, but notices he is out of firewood, so he chops a nearby tree to get some. Unbeknownst to him, the tree was the home of a squirrel who was also hibernating, so Barney calms the irate squirrel by letting him sleep in his cabinet drawer. The squirrel turns out to be noisy, breaking crockery, opening a window, and giving off loud noises eating nuts.
When the squirrel does fall asleep, he has nightmares of being chased by an angry purple turtle, waking him up again. Finally, Barney gives the squirrel a sleeping pill to make him doze off immediately, but the squirrel snores loudly, keeping Barney awake. Barney puts a hose onto the squirrel's mouth and puts the other end in a tree outside his house to divert the noise. However, inside the tree, a sleeping striped wild cat is awakened by the noise, and angrily follows the hose, where the squirrel has placed the hose over Barney's mouth. The cat blows into the hose, making Barney inflate into a balloon before flying around the house. As Barney deflates, he shrinks and lands in the squirrel's lap, who happily adopts him as a teddy bear and, cuddling Barney, finally goes to sleep.