The Fresh Vegetable Mystery is a 1939 Color Classic.
Summary[]
The setting of this cartoon is a kitchen inhabited by living vegetables. A mysterious figure kidnaps some carrot babies and several Irish potato police officers commence an investigation. They try to squeeze the truth out of an orange and promise an egg that he'll fry if he's guilty. The latter isn't intimidated because, after all, he's already hard-boiled!
Plot[]
Crime strikes the vegetable world when Mrs. Mama Carrot awakens and finds her children have been carrot-napped. She summons the Irish-Potato Police and they are soon on the trail of the culprit. But the various suspects they round up, and grill, aren't the criminals. They finally track down the guilty parties, who turn out to be a gang of mice in disguise. Thrown into a third-degree mousetrap, the mice soon confess. Bleeding Heart Warning: This cartoon contains racial stereotypes (an Irish potato), and cruelty to vegetables...and mice.
Voices[]
- Jack Mercer - Potato cop
- Margie Hines - Carrot
- Pinto Colvig - Egg
Notable appearances[]
- Pee-wee's Playhouse
