Barney Bear's Polar Pest is a 1944 Barney Bear cartoon directed by George Gordon.
Plot[]
In a very chilly winter, Barney is trying to hibernate in his cabin. Barney is sleeping on his bed filled with his clothes keeping him warm. Someone knocks from the door, Barney goes to the door to answer and opens to be met with harsh winds in which person who knocked to his door is blown inside the house unnoticed. Barney then shuts the door because of the strong winds. Barney then finds out it was his polar bear nephew from the North Pole, who tells him that he'll spend the winter with him. Barney moans in displeasure.
The nephew asks what was wrong assuming he is sick. The nephew figured it was too hot inside, the cub then opens the window to get cool the cabin but Barney tries to close but ends up breaking the glass of the window. The brown bear then tries board the window with his signature which are his pants. As he does, the nephew breathes to the chilly wind from the door. As Barney finishes boarding the window by nailing the pants to entire window. The nephew calls Barney to what seems like the cub throw a snowball at him from off screen. Without knowing what was happening, the pants getting filled up with snow is overwhelmed and the chilly snowy winds gets inside of Barney's night gown, as he becomes blue in chills.
Barney ends up with a cold as he huddles up in blanket on a wooden chair and his feet in a hot water buckle as he is shivering. His nephew has in hold of a fishing rod then asks him if they can go fishing. Barney declines by yelling no. The nephew uses the fishing rod reels in the fish frame. The fish ends up into Barney as he begins to fall over into the water bucket. The nephew then begs Barney to go fishing as he pushes his uncle outside despite Barney declining his request by saying no multiple times afterwards to outside where Barney has on his winter outfit and box to get ready for fishing. Barney shuts the door to get snow falling onto him. Barney shakes the snow and attempts to kick the snow but ends slipping onto himself and sliding on his front. Noticing Barney uncontrollable sliding through the snow, the nephew opens the fence door trying to help Barney out. The brown bear ends up under the snow hitting his mailbox for it to open it causing a block of ice inside to fall into Barney's head.
Despite his dismay early, Barney decides to let him and his nephew fish. Both bears go on a frozen lake, Barney gets out a saw from tool box which contained such as a Rubber mallet and a ice pick. Barney saws a circle of the ice around unknowningly himself under the frozen lake to make a spot to fish in. The nephew looks away as he knows this won't go well. Barney falls through the hole to emerge in a frozen ice block. The nephew sees him frozen, resourceful the nephew uses the ice pick against the ice and hits it with rubber hammer hoping the ice would break but ends up poking Barney in the rear into the air as he yows in pain. Landing back inside the solid ice block inside the water to spring back up to spring up a spurt of water that also freezes. The nephew uses a axe to chop the frozen spurt of water in order to get Barney down. The nephew chops the frozen spurt down which ends up shattering as a frozen Barney sliding down the frozen river as the polar bear equiped himself with a rope and ice fishing spear tries to help Barney by chasing after the frozen block Barney is contained in. The frozen block comes back to the nephew which the polar bear cubs retreats from it coming towards him. The block of ice with Barney heads towards a waterfall. The nephew throws the fishing spear attached to the rope to the block of ice, Barney is trapped in.
Barely reaching the edge, Barney then notices the waterfalls and screams for help. His nephew then tells him that he'll save him as he is ties the rope to a tree to hold Barney. With determination to save his uncle, the nephew trying to saws off bottom of the branch in which the rope is attached in order to fling Barney to safety. The nephew continues saw the branch as Barney continues to screaming for help. Barney nearly falls down the river but thanks to his nephew they both flung out danger.
Awhile airborne, Barney is released out the ice block and ends up sliding on the ice with his nephew landing on his back like he is like a sled. The nephew tries to steers him through the ice avoiding trees to then fall inside the water as both go through under the ice to emerge back to the surface to go into pile of snow down a slope. Barney rolls into a snowball with the nephew on top of the giant snowball. The nephew then jumps down to open the fence door and then front door to inside the cabin for the snowball containg Barney through. The snowball crashes with Barney in it into the fireplace causing him to look a snowman. The polar bear nephew looks at his uncle to then gulp nervously. Seemingly unable to face his uncle's anger, the nephew then tells his uncle Barney that he'll go home. The polar bear nephew then says goodbye to him before fleeing out. Barney sticks his head out after shaking off the snow off his head with the snow melting on the fire of the fireplace as he gives out a annoyed expression as the cartoon closes.
Availability[]
- (-) VHS - Barney Bear Cartoon Festival Featuring "Barney's Hungry Cousin"
- (2017) Streaming - Boomerang (USA 1995 Turner print)
Notes[]
- This is the second of three Barney Bear cartoons to be directed by George Gordon.
- This is the only Barney Bear cartoon written by Jack Cosgriff and Webb Smith.
- The working title of this short was "Bedtime for Barney."
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| Barney Bear Cartoons | |
|---|---|
| 1939 | The Bear That Couldn't Sleep |
| 1940 | The Fishing Bear |
| 1941 | The Prospecting Bear • The Rookie Bear • The Flying Bear |
| 1942 | The Bear and the Beavers • Wild Honey • Barney Bear's Victory Garden |
| 1943 | Bah Wilderness • Barney Bear and the Uninvited Pest |
| 1944 | Bear Raid Warden • Barney Bear's Polar Pest |
| 1945 | The Unwelcome Guest |
| 1948 | The Bear and the Bean • The Bear and the Hare |
| 1949 | Goggle Fishing Bear |
| 1952 | The Little Wise Quacker • Busybody Bear |
| 1953 | Barney's Hungry Cousin • Cobs and Robbers • Heir Bear • Wee-Willie Wildcat • Half-Pint Palomino |
| 1954 | The Impossible Possum • Sleepy-Time Squirrel • Bird-Brain Bird Dog |