Scribbly #8 (1949)

The neighborhood kids start a fire to get rid of the trash they collected, and Captain Tootsie has to save them so he can lecture them about fire safety.

She goes over to beat him with a baseball bat, but is alleviated when Mrs. Jibbet reveals that that does seem to be the case, since they're leaving for Hollywood shortly as when Colossal Pictures calls you to fly out, you don't ask questions, you fly there! Snoony is equally frustrated by his seemingly talentless brother. Scribbly challenges him on this, packing marshmallows into his cheeks, slips a pillow under his shirt and does something with his nose until he suddenly resembles Oliver “Babe” Hardy with his glasses off. Whipping off his tiny derby hat, he is somehow able to cobble together a Groucho Marx disguise. Clover is stunned by his seeming acting prowess, but Scribbly admits he also doesn't get it, just presuming he has some kind of talent he doesn't understand. When asked about his job at the Morning Bugle, he calls up O'Hara, reminding him of all the times he's insulted him for his injurious clumsiness or his ignorant mistakes and lets loose on him in a tirade. Mrs. Jibbet worries this may burn bridges, but Scribbly insists that he'll be bragging about knowing Scribbly soon enough. Dinky shouts back that he'll be bragging soon that he formerly had a job as Scribbly races off to the airport. Later, Dinky insists that Scribbly isn't in any way a trained or legitimate actor and Sisty agrees to protect him (if at least from himself) by calling up her ridiculous assortment of “cousins.”

Part II:

Gloria Glamour demands to see her new lead actor, Scribbly Jibbet, until they find that his trunk has been delivered, seemingly before him. CD tries to calm her as Scribbly arrives and Gloria begins strangling him in a fit of rage, not realizing he's there now. Gloria soon tears up her contract and says she's leaving to get married to someone in Las Vegas for an easy life of luxury and CD begins dancing and doing cartwheels in celebration, off-handedly mentioning to his aid that they never needed Scribbly there to start with. His aid tries to call him long-distance (not realizing he's there) until CD openly points it out and mildly apologizes. The aid opens “Scribbly's” trunk and finds it's full of Dinky, Sisty & the Hunkel Cousins, who start claiming to be “vacuum-packed talent scouts” and capture CD & his aid, demanding a camera for Scribbly to act in front of, but he chokes. Dinky insists if he can't act, he should sing and he sure did!

We cut back to O'Hara pointing out Scribbly can't sing (and that Widow-Maker was on-set for the film!) as women swoon over the saccharine soprano voice of Scribbly Jibbet that seems to cause an inner-ear problem. Red points out she's wearing earplugs so it won't affect her, although even O'Hara passes out from it soon enough. In Hearts Aflame, Scribbly finds Widow-Maker is woozy from his song too and calls for a horse doctor.

Part III:

Clover is furious that Scribbly is getting the attention of other women on the front pages of several newspapers and writes him a letter encouraging him to forget about her and has a clip of the girls kissing him included. At the Morning Bugle, O'Hara is just as furious, since it means Scribbly is all he gets to publish about! He thinks on how he calls for a copy boy just to see if Scribbly shows up, only to find a portly child who is dressed exactly like Scribbly. He soon finds that the rest of the copy boys have a similar look, because Scribbly is now also a fashion icon (for some reason they also have a dalmatian as a copy boy.) A tired and defeated O'Hara goes to his barber to get a haircut, but falls asleep. Joe the Barber has his assistant Mike go get him some things from the store he's sure will make O'Hara feel younger and less tired… only for 20 minutes later, a furious O'Hara finds that his barber changed his clothes while he was asleep to give him the Scribbly Look. Seeing himself in the mirror, O'Hara goes insane and professes he's not Scribbly, not O'Hara, and that he is a Mexican jumping bean before leaping through his plate-glass picture window, bouncing ridiculously into the street. Later, Red gets a call about his and tells Mr. Birdnest that O'Hara has lost it for good this time as they only got him to the hospital by claiming it was a bowl of chili. Red says the Scribbly Rage has cracked him and Mr. Birdnest decides he'll have to end this Scribbly Rage if it means getting O'Hara back!

Part IV:

A tour guide on a Hollywood Sight-Seeing Bus announces they're coming to Scribbly's house and Mrs. Jibbet gets off there to get there, since she's spending more frugally now. She opens her expansive purse to show off that it's bursting to the seams with money and worries that there won't be any for Scribbly himself! Mrs. Jibbet looks around his house, stepping in his petunias, earning the ire of his butler until she explains who she is, only to find five other insane women living there, each claiming to be Scribbly's mother! A mysterious man in a derby and a clearly fake beard asks which one is Scribbly's mother and says that he has a legal summons, since Scribbly is now *$2,000,000,000.64 in debt, prompting them all to run away in terror from having to pay it. Mrs. Jibbet declares that she's willing to make sure that her son is protected even if he does. The mystery man says he'll take a single kiss instead, pecking her on the cheek and she clobbers him with her large purse, only to find it's Snoony standing on Scribbly's shoulders and they admit they've had to do this a few times. Mrs. Jibbet asks if he's happy and he says he is rich, has a butler and a pool, but Dinky points out he also has a full work day, a full work night on radio and television, then on his day off he has more interviews, can't get an ice cream soda without mobs of autograph hounds after him, Clover broke up with him and, worst of all, his voice is changing, meaning he'll never be able to sing like this again and is losing sleep over this. Scribbly admits to it finally, but that he's also worried that he can't get his old job back. Mr. Birdnest and Clover appear behind him, him saying he's fine with taking him back and Clover promises she'll take him back if it means he's not mobbed by girls. A few weeks later, O'Hara has readjusted to life without the Scribbly Rage in the media. However, when he calls for a copy boy and finds Scribbly's back*, he immediately reverts once more into being a “Mexican jumping bean” again…